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Yes there are multiple ways to use sysprep. What you will need to do is install Windows to Audit Mode using an answer file. Then in Audit Mode you can install programs and make changes. When in Audit Mode, you are using a disabled Administrator account. So any programs you install, you need to make sure they install for All Users. After you get further along you can go find out how to enable that account after OOBE if you want. So you wouldn't want to set any Theme elements in Audit Mode either. When all finished, you run sysprep /generalize /oobe /shutdown and then capture the image with Imagex or DISM. If using the Setup DVD you should be able to install the image manually, and as long as it works you can make an Autounattend.xml to use with it. Here is a sample Autounattend.xml I posted to get Windows to install into Audit Mode:

The Powershell one looks promising. I have no problem writing the scripts and I already know what the classes are. Typically, I use the WMI Object Browser because I know what data I am looking for, but do not know what class or instance it is in. But I will definately check a couple of those out!

I could use some help on the weekend.

Board: Intel DX79SI. UEFI Boot is disabled. BIOS is latest version. PXE Boot to WinPE 3.0 x64, tested Windows 7 Home Premium x64. AHCI = OK IDE = OK RAID using RAID1 = OK Here are the scenarios that cause a problem. 1. Failure if OS volume is RAID0, BCDBoot returns error: "Failure when attempting to copy boot files" using this command: bcdboot c:\windows 2. Failure if OS volume is RAID0, BCDBoot completes successfully, BOOTMGR is missing error on restart using this command: bcdboot c:\windows /s c: 3. Same as #2 but different command: bcdboot c:\windows /s c: /l en-us 4. Unexpected result if OS volume is on RAID0, BCDBoot completes successfully, Set OS Partition to Active. Result is OS boots but System Reserved partition is assigned a drive letter. I've already got some emails out about this problem, but was wondering what I could possibly try or run from WinPE x64 to test and maybe find out what the problem is? Update: 7PRO64 does not work on RAID1 or RAID0. I have tried getting a new BCDBOOT.EXE as well as building a boot image using WinPE 3.1 x64 from the WAIK Supplemental ISO.

Yes sorry you are missing the switch to tell sysprep how to exit. /shutdown /reboot /quit One of those are needed. I usually use /shutdown just so I can make sure that I don't accidently reboot into the image again.

I can't find a lot of new information on this. Have you see this backup program? http://www.live-writer.net/2009/03/07/windows-live-writer-backup-rc-released/

I'm not sure exactly what Memdisk is, but it looks like a DOS program? If it contains 16bit binaries, it won't run in WinPE. Or have you been able to test it? As far as ISOs, I see that some projects (Make_PE3, Win7 PE SE) use a program called IMDISK to mount ISO files.

.cmd files will only execute with cmd.exe. So as an example, if you have an older OS that has its command interpreter set to COMMAND.COM, a .cmd file will not (supposedly) execute. .bat files will work with either command interpreter. This change came about when NT systems dropped support for DOS' COMMAND.COM and added support for cmd.exe. Typically, .bat files will always work on a current system, but as a matter of practice I always create or rename to .cmd. As for thread location, it depends. Are you having trouble mounting an ISO from within WinPE?

Sysprep is in a folder called Sysprep. Try this: C:\windows\System32\sysprep>sysprep.exe /oobe /generalize /unattended:C:\Windows\System32\Sysprep\Unattended.xml

We keep a bunch of links in this sticky topic: There are multiple ways to use sysprep. By "using" sysprep there is a switch to include an answer file. What exactly do you want to accomplish or think sysprep can do for you? Maybe if we know that we can give you a better answer.

When doing initial research for how to make my programs better, I rely on an old program: WMI Toolkit Mostly just the WMI Object Browser. Well this either does not work with Windows 8 or IE 10. While it is fine for me to manually connect to root\CIMV2, and I can see *some* classes, the values (even for those) do not appear. For example, while Win32_BaseBoard does not show up in the classes list (classes that can have instances) in the Object Browser, I can actually read data from it using a test program. Are there any other WMI object tools that will work on Windows 8 or IE 10?

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I think that's how I found this site too.

I am sure things could be even easier with the tools our users have shared here, but I never get around to trying any of them.

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Well here's a little something you can try. Make sure you don't have anything else open if you do this, as it may cause an error, BSOD or reboot. You'll want to position the Procexp so you can see it and this circle at the same time. For each Thread that has some other thing besides explorer.exe, right click on it (for example MagicTune.exe) and click Close Handle. Procexp may give you a warning but don't worry about that. Close handles on each Thread (also don't close the procexp64 handle either) and see if the circle goes away. Now you will notice that some programs may not like their handles closed and may reappear on you. Don't fight those ones, they aren't worth it. Even if you find a Thread that makes that circle disappear, or even if you don't. Make sure to restart the computer when all finished as Windows may not work as expected after a round of handle closing.

It will do for now. The things to focus on are items listed as a Thread that are not explorer.exe. In addition, there is the Acronis .dll listed as a File early on. Sorry that's the only lead I can give atm unless someone else has an idea.

Does it have to be Win+E (Open Explorer) ? or can you make a new key combination?

Silly question, did you do a reboot?

The OPK is meant for OEMs and it contains a lot of extra information (licensing, rules, etc) that are specifically aimed at those individuals. You should use the WAIK documentation instead, as it doesn't have that extra stuff in it. So you want to add a recovery partition to an existing single partition system that has Windows 7 installed?

Did you look in the manual for the modem? You didn't post a model.

Well try it without any of the Extend objects you are using.

Yes, I can read it in the unattend what you want to do, but you are saying you are not getting the correct results, but do not tell us what results you are getting. Can you post specifics on what results you do get? You can either put in a picture of how it appears in Disk Management, or run Detail Disk/Part/Vol with Diskpart to get some numbers.

Well the tablet/device thing would require a different SKU, but having a choice is just what a transitional product like Windows 8 needs. Or just put that choice in Pro and Enterprise and not in the "home" and RT versions. A little reminder once a month? No way, unless it can detect whether or not the user has upgraded to a touch supported monitor. For example, if Windows were smart enough to detect display capabilities (they can if it has that ID thing I can't remember the name of) and say, well there no ID maybe its a CRT and don't enable Metro. Or if its a 17" LCD monitor from 6 years ago, don't enable Metro. If you want to use it? Go turn it on.

Where is singlepartition.txt? Is it in x:\windows\system32 where diskpart.exe is?