Tripredacus

From what I can tell so far, the boot time is "decreased" by moving certain functions to after the desktop shows up. So while full system functionality may take the same amount of time as Windows 7, Windows 8 will appear to boot faster because loading Metro/Desktop is earlier in the order of operations.

There is no harm in creating a second account. He would never end up seeing it unless he did a log-off and saw the welcome screen. Having an extra account can come in handy if the primary account becomes corrupted or has a virus in it or whatever.

I think so. Its is an escape character probably because reg.exe is not smart enough to determine the difference between physical (disk) paths and registry paths.

I can't say about the Account problem, as I never enable the built-in Administrator account. So I have no experience with the OS' behaviour during unattended setup with it enabled. For AutoLogon, I'm not sure why you wouldn't want to use the AutoLogon in Unattend. Presuming you get your account creation thing taken care of, you'll see that it shouldn't be a problem. The only issue you'll run into after that is any user accounts created via Unattend will have their password expire after 2-3 months. Running this in your FirstLogonCommands will fix that: wmic useraccount where "name='AccountName'" set PasswordExpires=false It may also be possible to set AutoLogon using WMI, but I did a quick look in UserAccount with the WMI Object Browser but didn't see it there. Another option may be to write to the appropriate registry values.

Well since you are getting an error, we can start there. When you go into the F8 menu (to choose Safe Mode), choose the Disable Automatic Restart on System Failure. Then when you try to go to Safe Mode and you get the BSOD, it won't reboot automatically and you can tell us what it says.

Well that is OK, if you aren't in a rush then neither am I. Also you can go look in the Task Scheduler to see what it could be. It might show back up because of one of those. Honestly, I never went into there on Win7 until just now and I am surprised how many tasks I have in there.

A lot of the talking points from MS on Win8 are about increased boot time. Tossing around figures and times that remind me of my old Win95 PC as far as boot time. I think I only know one person that shuts down their computer at night. Most people just leave them on since the old days of memory corrupting and PC getting slow are things of the past OS like Win95 or 98.

Enable RDP for Desktop OS: <component name="Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-LocalSessionManager" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <fDenyTSConnections>false</fDenyTSConnections> </component> <component name="Networking-MPSSVC-Svc" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <FirewallGroups> <FirewallGroup wcm:action="add" wcm:keyValue="RemoteDesktop"> <Active>true</Active> <Group>Remote Desktop</Group> <Profile>all</Profile> </FirewallGroup> </FirewallGroups> </component> To do on Server 2008 read these: Sample Server Core installation Networking-MPSSVC-Svc on Server 2008 As far as blocking ports, those are inbound ports. So blocking port 21 will stop clients from connecting to FTP software running on the server. Same with port 80 will block others from accessing a webserver. There would be no reason to block those ports if you had those services installed... If you are not running FTP or Web server on your server install, there is nothing to block!

Your logon count is set for 3, which means it will only log on automatically 3 times. Try using a higher number like a million.

Add the user from one PC to a user group on the other PC. As an example. On the HTPC, go into User Groups, add user. Set the user to Computer1\accountname, where Computer1 is the name of the computer you want to grant access to.

I see you posted on another forum, was this fixed yet? Try this driver? http://www.msi.com/service/download/nbdriver-14917.html

That is still not a lot of info, as your google search leads you to believe. This is similar info that can be read of Firefox. So for now, what is the make and model of the notebook? Does it still have the original OS on it or did you format and install your own? Same question about the desktop. You can also use another program (might be better than Au3info now that I think of it.) It is Process Explorer. It also has a little crosshair you can drag over the program. It would then find what process that program is using. Note that it may pick out a Windows service like svchost.exe or another.

Look up "ProtectMyPC" in unattend.chm to find how to get that protect page to be hidden. You can't add the Administrator account in unattend because it already exists. For wallpaper, look up Theme in the chm. You need to provide background, a theme name and set the default to off. Sorry I didn't post links but I'm going from memory atm.

You can do as I did and (shell)execute the .theme file. This will leave the Personalize window open on first boot but it won't show up again.

I agree on this as well. Yes I can see the Tripredacus animation "better". I think you are right that the various differences in contrast to both the original outline color and the background compared to that of the Primus image are the reason that is true, since I would assume the "red" is the same in both color and dimension in both cases, and the letters themselves are the same color and dimension? (The images I included above are enlarged 400%.) But yet, to me, in the Tripredacus animation the red appears much brighter and the letters very slightly brighter. Against the respective backgrounds, the edge of the letters appears much sharper in the Tripredacus image, while the edge of the letters in the Pimus image appears almost fuzzy or blurry, since it blends in more with the background. I realize that this is sometimes a desired result, but I'm just saying ... When I look at this zoomed in look to the Primus version, I can see that there may be a color selection difference. Primus had used the pink/beige color in their album art, which may be why it was chosen in this example. However different looks may be achieved by using different "pulse" colors, including colors such as white or light gray. Red would work well for mine as I have only presented images which use the white-red-black type images. While these are my favorite colors, that doesn't mean that those creating images or animations need to limit themselves to those colors.

Why would you use an HP OEM key during the WinPE phase? If you want to provide a product key at this point you would use the applicable install key. http://www.cluberti.com/blog/2009/08/11/default-keys-for-vista-and-windows-7-deployment/ You can find the install key master list in the pid.txt on the Windows 7 DVD.

Silly question. Can you see images in the VM if you don't use the XML?

I ran into this exact problem on a Foundation Server, where the BFE service was missing. I did get this same fix done, but never figured out how that service disappeared. For that client, he said it happened to multiple servers (all Foundation) in a period of the last 6 months. I would imagine that it still happens, however since I gave him the fix, he has stopped calling me.

Well I certainly don't care about what you do in your day to day life but Microsoft put in limitations into WinPE for the sole purpose that people don't try to use it as an operating system or thin client. Experimenters will be experimenters, however but my experience with WinPE is strictly on the professional level and as such (being limited by license) I don't go into those areas of non-compliance* Some have managed to come up with some interesting findings with their projects, maybe those would be helpful. Most will agree that the mighty MS Hammer would rarely fall on an organisation that is misusing software, but that situation is definately possible. Maybe we just never hear from those people again. *

Are you using WinPE 3.0 as a thin client in your company?

Are you logged on with an Administrator account or an account in the Administrators group? Is the Base Filtering Engine service started?

Try using the newest DISM in the Windows 8 ADK.

Just a quick glance at this answer file makes me think it is used while the OS is in Audit Mode. Otherwise, a Reseal to OOBE isn't necessary, as a Windows 7 image (from install source) will boot to OOBE on its own.

Did you try using DISM to install those packages offline?