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I have a similar degree, but got it more than 10 years ago...

I have DX9 installed on my Win7 PC at home! Some game needed it and it was fine. However, yes Win7 runs natively in its own DX version, but if a program requires a DX9 library, it can load those if it is installed. As far as Open GL, I did not test it on Win7. I did get Open GL 1.3 to work on Vista however.

WDS does support using an XML, but it cannot be attached specifically to a boot image unless you use something like MDT. In just WDS, you can specify a default XML that will apply to all boot images. You can find this in Properties of your Server name in WDS. Then go to the Client tab. Check the box for Enable unattended Installation and point your path to your XML. So far in my testing, this only will apply to a standard Windows Setup boot.wim, and none of my custom WinPE boot.wims use the answer file at all.

I'd think that HLP was deprecated when CHM became used. And now CHM will soon be deprecated since Win8 help can be built in XHTML and CSS. I am not seeing how this is a big deal unless you are still wanting to run legacy applications that still have .HLP files. But maybe someone will make a Metro app that lets you read them? You can be sure that the final release version of Windows 8 will allow for third-party anti-virus software. That being said, I am sure the anti-virus engine (or Windows Defender) will have some better options in GA. The Beta fish is the boot logo. I wonder what the GA logo will be? I would expect a lot more driver support in the finished product. Besides, how old is this NIC of yours? Even my sound card had no in-box drivers for Windows 7 when it came out. This might be a licensing thing. I wouldn't expect MS to pay licensing fees for Codecs or other inclusions to a beta product.

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You can use DirectX 9.0c with Windows 7.

The product key should not be architecture specific. The only problem I can imagine you'd have is if you are not doing an in-place migration, one of your servers won't be activated.

My last AGP video card I bought came with an S-Video to Composite adapter that I had used to output directly to my 19" CRT from 1988. You can get them separately and appear to be pretty cheap.

Inkscape can export a selected Embedded Image to a path. The version I have only allows for one at a time. if I selected more than one, it only extracts the last one I clicked. I used a PDF from Intel as a test. Program page: http://inkscape.org/ Instructions from online help: http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Extensions-Images.html#Extensions-ExtractOneImage It looks like newer versions may support a batch export? http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/File-Export.html

This DBAN appears to be a Linux application? I know that Syslinux or Grub has no problem launching a WinPE, so maybe if you change your boot loader to that, rather than booting to PE by default, it would work better.

Yes I have already noticed your registration email address, confirming your legitimate representation of Microsoft.

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You'll need to look at 2 things. First on the bottom of the notebook (usually) or maybe in the battery compartment you will find the input voltages and amp for DC. This is what the notebook requires to work properly. You will also see similar output voltages on your power brick. Usually what I do is first test the brick and make sure that the correct values are coming out of it. Make note of them if you want, but then you'll have to plug the brick into the notebook. There are 3 pins on the DC jack (hopefully in your case anyways) that you measure. You want to make sure you get the same values on the board as you did on the brick, presuming the brick is giving the correct values that the notebook requires. Here are some other people's experiences: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/57027-35-power-jack-multimeter-test Or you can look on Youtube for some videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8duphd3oKw

For the user account, you just make a new one. Put it in Domain Users or whatever extra group you need. Then that user (or group) just needs the correct permissions to whatever shares you will be using.

Its how it is programmed. MS obviously uses the same Setup launcher for all their products in the same family. So even if you have an install.wim with 1 or more install images inside it will give a prompt. Using an Autounattend.xml is the way to hide the selection screen. But in the XML you would actually have a setting to tell Setup what image to use, which in effect hides that page.

Great, thanks for telling us how you fixed it. Many people seem to have trouble with Unattend Join, but I've never tried it myself.

Why would you want to delete the default drivers? Are you using a special tool or something? DISM can't even see the built-in drivers.

Well OK Resource Monitor in Win7 is pretty cool. So they just made it look different in Win8 by (basically) adding it into Task Manager.

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Did you test the DC jack with a multimeter?

I always wonder why people try to use the AD root Admin for adding PCs to the domain... Take a look over this thread, maybe it will help:

Honestly, I'm not quite sure what you're referring to here besides the few obvious things. The Copy-To and Move-To are good. Also the CMD/PowerShell from anywhere also. These were always reg-hacks since forever ago, but now built in. Show hidden files/extension on the ribbon (notice it was a lot harder to get to Folder Options in Vista/7) Pause/resume on file copy File replace for media files now has a preview thumbnail instead of the file type icon. Task Manager including grouping processes by user. Analyze Wait Chain. Taskbar properties for multimonitor. Multimonitor that allows for stacking, tiling. Those are basically covered on pages 2 and 3 of the Ars link.

At least that Metro app has an off switch! Anyways, just read a huge in depth article on Windows 8 at Ars Technica. You can see there are MANY improvements that are great for us techies, but it also points out the problems of course. I see that one is that the multi-monitor taskbar is configurable, which I hadn't seen in my tests. I made a complaint about it somewhere in this thread.

If they are MSU files you can add them into the WIM using DISM. This example uses .cab files but you can use .msu as well: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd744559%28v=WS.10%29.aspx

For one, if using PXE, the boot image NIC drivers aren't used but the PXE ROM. Just because you were able to load a boot image does not mean that the boot image has network support. Either way, it would seem that isn't your problem since you are getting a credential error. I would strongly recommend that you do not use the domain admin account to do deployments. Create another user specific for that purpose.