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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?

How much space? Can you show a result?

Its no secret that the consumer market is trending away from everyone having a desktop in the home. This is reflected by the successes of Mac, tablets and notebooks being ever more popular. As even older people get computers, they are going for what is simple and Windows just isn't simple. The trend away from desktops was forcast a few years ago and is definately on track. I agree that Windows needs to be in that market space, but Microsoft would do better to make Windows 8 a transitional product. One that keeps the standard desktop that we are all used to, but has full capabilities to be used in a device. As noted, while the market is ready for moving to the simpler type of computer, the hardware isn't widely available, known or the price isn't right. I wouldn't go so far as to say Microsoft is jumping the shark, but maybe is trying to move too fast. Concerning the RT issues with the different builds, that's really ARM's problem. Somehow they have been able to keep multiple different CPUs in their product line viable that aren't 100% compatible with each other. That's definately one thing that is different than the PC world, architectures aren't as streamlined in those devices, but it is definately a younger market than computing.

http://www.msfn.org/board/forum/147-windows-updates-downloader/

Well the news of these 3 versions are still leaving one out. 8 Enterprise version is different than 8 or 8 Pro. I would expect 8 Enterprise to be just like 8 Pro but use VLK/MAK, and HOPE (yeah right) it lets to disable Metro. Because as I've said before, MS is taking the entire market focus to the retail side and ignoring all the engineers and developers (and maybe stock traders) that won't have anything to do with Metro. So we all will just stick with XP, Vista or 7, or worse case end up (for them) going to *nix based OS. It isn't the same as corporations sticking with old version OS because of compatibility reasons, this time it is usability reasons.

1. Is your file called winpe.bmp? 2. You may need to fully qualify your commands. What version of WinPE are you using?

That log doesn't seem to have any error in it either. Are you getting these log files after a successful migration, or after the first time it fails? I don't know about why it doesn't work the first time. I've not used USMT before so I have no experience with problems people may potentially run into.