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I was wondering about that. I use that object but never by itself like that. I looked in others example XMLs they've posted and its been by itself, so I presume that it should work that way. I always accompany it with the create the partitions for the System Reserved and OS volume.

I'd say the best advice I could give someone who knows how to use their computer well enough to know about Updates, is to set it to Check for updates but don't install them. As far as the other "tips" it seems you are targetting these to someone who is not using enough RAM or a large HDD. 4GB RAM and an 80GB HDD is all I use and I don't see any of these problems. FWIW, I never set any of my PCs to go to sleep, but I will set display and HDD sleep on non-servers.

Most people can blink with either their left or right eye easily, while people who can blink with either without considerable effect are the rarer breed. So in my case, that setup wouldn't work well for me, it would be like having a Mac since I can't blink my right eye by itself very easily if at all.

You can try putting your command into the winpeshl.ini instead of startnet.cmd. Check the WAIK documentation (WinPE.chm) for the proper syntax for the file.

It is possible that your DVD can't see the virtual hard disk, hence why it can't find any disk to install onto.

I am trying to do some forward thinking about how to image devices that do not have LAN ports in them. We know that WiFi is supported in WinPE 3.x + so doing a wireless deployment should be possible. Some day I'd hope to test that. But my question is more along the lines of what type of wireless devices would be required to integrate into an existing production environment. Do they make APs that will work properly on a LAN that is using Link Aggregation? I'm going pretty blind on this so if you have any insights into what I'm asking, feel free to post it.

It seems that MP3 files aren't universally supported in those speech recognition programs. I did a search on google for wav to text And found quite a bit of results. I have not used any programs like that, so I couldn't make any recommendations.

Startnet.cmd is a failover in the search path of files that tell WinPE what to do when it boots. The first item it looks for is winpeshl.ini. If there is any data in that file, it won't bother looking for startnet.cmd.

"Tile 1.0" is right. I'd think it as Tile 1.1 or Tile 2.0 (1.1 is probably better) since MS already uses Metro in Windows Phone 7 and Xbox 360 right?

You will find it quite unnecessary to use the custom font choices...

Its too bad it is impossible to totally recreate the original experience of an older Windows OS. For example say I'd want to run Windows 95, I couldn't connect to Prodigy using their old software and surfing those old websites. One day I'll try out Microsoft Bob again, and maybe try to hunt down all those old games I used to play, like Corncob 3D and Fury 3.

Tange Sakura - Honey (Sakura Version)

The only ones that do it for me are in the Macromedia MX 2004 suite. Its annoying because it disables Aero, but other older programs like Leetch and CDex don't use Aero and still don't disable DWM. It would be nice if exceptions could be made. Here are some other findings posted on reboot if you are interested in them: http://reboot.pro/16468/

Shizou vs Shizor - Sweat

That all seems to be a lot of work.... Most can be done using unattend. For theme elements, I'll save the .theme file and use ShellExecute on it during first logon commands. Anything that is supposed to be "default" as far as the Desktop icons go, I put them all in the Public Desktop. I suppose it depends on what you need to do.

Only by using a custom shell and playing some tricks, like having the file originally named something ambiguous in the sources folder, then copy it to the Ramdisk and rename it to unattend.xml... then call Setup.exe with the /unattend switch.

Tony Bacala - Planet Cybertron Rock 2004

I would hardly consider this a valid complaint against Windows 7. Halo was released in 2001 with an OS requirement of Windows 98 SE. I recently purchased a DVD of The Wizard of Oz. The movie was released in 1939 and made to run on projectors of that era. If the motion picture industry can re release their classics in original form for modern tech, why can't the software industry? Yes, but using this comparison is to say that you hate a DVD player because your old film reels won't work on it or vice-versa. I did see that Bungie had released a Vista version of Halo... did you get that?

I'm not sure what you're referring to. I didn't see them talk about 4 ARM versions but then again I just quickly glanced. Just like everyone, they looked at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Component Based Servicing\PackageIndex\Product. That does actually list 9 unique versions: Edit: one funny comment from slashdot (out of numerous sites where pretty much everybody hates Win8): OK I looked at the article but didn't see where that list was coming from. Regarding the different WOA versions, it came from the initial press release that MS was going to support ARM CPUs, but that each platform is not 100% compatible with each other. This shouldn't even be a real concern in the consumer market as the appropriate versions would only be made available to the device manufacturers, so to the every-day citizen, there would only be one ARM version. From: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/02/09/building-windows-for-the-arm-processor-architecture.aspx This page also lists 3 of the manufacturers, nVidia, Texas Instruments and Qualcomm. So its possible that there are only 3 ARM versions being worked on.

Windows 8 CP seems to lack the basic IDE driver when using a UEFI enabled boot on the DVD drive. Well that is virtual-UEFI as whatever 2.2TB Infinity is... emulated UEFI. Either way, the motherboard manufacturer only provides AHCI or RAID drivers (not one for IDE mode), I tried Windows 7 x64 and "Longhorn" x64 drivers and nothing worked. However, using a Windows 7 Ultimate x64 DVD works fine in this configuration without prompting for drivers. has anyone been able to install Win8 on a GPT disk using Setup?

Last year?

I installed Windows 7 Starter on an MSI Wind u100 Netbook with 2GB RAM. I then installed VirtualPC and installed Vista Business x86 inside of there.

I wouldn't say so, you are just not approaching it right. My example of using multiple XML won't work for you, as it does for me. Install your programs (like Acrobat) using FirstLogonCommands. I would just ignore Audit Mode/Pass all together since you probably don't need to use it and you seem to be mixed up about how to use it. You should not run an OS in Audit Mode for more than 30 days.

I think all MS Beta OSes are upgrade locked, aka you can't upgrade them using Windows Setup.

Those silly guys. The reason there are 4 ARM versions is because ARM has 4 CPUs on the market that aren't compatible with each other.