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Personally, I would NEVER disable ACPI, since that has a great chance of changing your HAL. Can you post some images of what the PerfMon shows you?

It may be possible that you aren't actually booting the OS, rather that it is resuming from hibernate instead.

Change the Extend in CreatePartitions to false and add a size.

How are you installing? Are you using an answer file?

As I find the Finder's finds... I see this in which you mention that it is not typically possible to boot an OS from a Logical (inside Extended) volume. Is this true in this case as well?

Even Windows 7 has a boot.ini but it isn't used. But the one you are looking for (for XP) should be in the root of the volume XP is installed in. By default this file is attrib +System +Hidden... so if you turn on view Protected Hidden System Files in Folder Options, you should then find it.

I'd imagine that Windows 8 handles auto logon the same way as previous OSes... HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>SOFTWARE>Microsoft>Windows NT>CurrentVersion>Winlogon Set AutoAdminLogon to 0

Maybe one of these? Kelly Gruber Kelly Johnson

Today I found my 2nd workstation to be off. Turns out the board took a dive. Built a new system and old HDD booted to Windows fine! Old: - CPU: 6.2 - RAM: 5.9 - Graphics: 3.4 - Gaming Graphics: 5.3 - Primary Hard Disk: 5.9 New: - CPU: 7.1 - RAM: 7.1 - Graphics: 4.1 - Gaming Graphics: 3.5 - Primary Hard Disk: 5.9 +0.01!

Interesting. I've never seen much value in installing that or the mouse software, since Windows can handle those devices just fine.

The Nirsoft app is great. It did indeed fix the problem (removing devices that weren't present) while it did take quite a long time. The worst was when the keyboard and mouse stopped working (no PS2 ports on this system).

I'm not sure where these fanboys are... The only ones I am seeing being "fanboyish" are official or affiliated sources. Surface reviews aside, since that actually seems like it is going to be a nice product.

I've been experiencing problems with USB on my 7PRO32 PC. If I connect or disconnect a USB key, there is quite often a delay (30seconds to 3 minutes) before Windows acknowledges the connection. Here are the two symptoms: Connect USB Key: CPU hits 98% to 100%, with SVCHOST.EXE using about 50%. During the delay, no sounds will play in the OS, for example AIM notifications. Once the delay is up, the Scan/Not Scan box comes up, and then all cached sounds will play at once (AIM, USB Connect) and then the key is usable as normal. Disconnect USB Key: Basically the same as the connect, except the delay is longer, and the drive will still appear in Computer until the svchost.exe process exits and the disconnect sound plays. It doesn't seem to matter what USB Key I am using. The same thing also happens with USB HDD Enclosures. And some devices, such as the Seagate GoFlex flat out won't be detected any more. Safely Remove Hardware doesn't make a difference either. And for the CPU usage, svchost.exe always uses about 50%, but I can't find in Task Manager what else is using CPU to make it hit 98%, since other than System Idle Process (which is ignored) there is usually just a 1-4% on the next item (such as Firefox or IE or whatever I am using. What can I run to determine where the problem is?

I was able to "kinda" get a physical PC to boot into EFI mode... but by forcing all default boot options to use that EFI rom, which results in client lockup. Here are the main problems... the EFI support in Server 2008 R2 (and earlier) is actually the Itanium-based EFI, not exactly the same as the current UEFI spec. So Server 2008 R2 can detect clients with either: -x86 -amd64 -ia64 (efi) But, Server 2012 can detect these (note that Itanium support is removed) -x86 -amd64 -x86x64 -arm -uefi x86 -uefi x64 Note that any client that supports x64 PXE will be detected on Server 2012 as both x86 and x86x64 and may generate an error in Event Viewer. I am not surprised that you can do an EFI PXE Boot using a VM, but then again it is using the legacy Itanium EFI profile. Take a look at these I have posted after much (much) testing:

We have plenty of that here!

I'll bust your bubble... that program ended a while ago... But you might be able to get Vista from a reseller.

You can try looking at Windows 7 Thin Client...

Its not a bug. Either format your list some other way, or uncheck the "Enable emoticons" box inside of the configure post options section.

Announced dates and actual dates are two different beasts apparently... Actual RTM date for Windows 7 was July 24, 2009, a Friday no less.

It could be worse... at a previous company I noticed our RMA forms printed out with each word with the first letter capitalised. Somehow no one noticed it before. The web developer took a look and said it would take too much work to fix. Horrible! Evidently the culprit code was at least 6 years old...

Sorry the correct term is Base Filtering Engine. Look here: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-security/win-7-base-filtering-engine-service-missing-gone/aaed4af9-3624-4845-aecb-0381b08d198e?msgId=170b2feb-3a23-46ea-976d-19e8d779a062 http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-security/windows-7-base-filtering-engine-is-not-running/d440bf07-e9fa-40e4-9344-4651a2214cdf http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itpronetworking/thread/530e05dc-c97c-405e-b961-6bdf613ca443/ I used this search in google base filtering engine service missing

It won't work that way. If you buy a PC with Downgrade Rights, the OEM/Reseller is supposed to give you a Win7 system with Win8 COA and a copy of Win8 OEM version. If the PC has an OEM COA (doesn't have a product key on it) and Win7 installed, they may provide you with a Win8 Recovery DVD or maybe with both! But a lot of companies will work differently. I can only say which different ways I've seen it. That link will be problematic for most users... since that thread is in the Dev testing forum...

Insane beings from the future says it still works. The part I like is that it was really easy to do. Ease of use is always good for things like this. Well that's enough fiddling for today, back to work...