Tripredacus

Its typically a bad idea to hotlink someone else's image. I removed it, fortunately it was just showing a placeholder image and not something disgusting. Anyways, we have a bunch of topics like this already in our Customizing Windows section... where this topic now sits.

Hold music!

If you don't want to use Flash player in your regular browsers, think about installing or using a specific browser (with Flash plugin installed) just for that purpose. I currently use 3 browsers, with Pale Moon as my standard one, and then use IE9 and Chrome for specific purposes. In my example, I use Chrome just for Google related things like Youtube, + or Gmail.

Are you specifying a computer name in the XML?

0x7E isn't related to the mass storage controller driver. Last time I saw that it was due to a conflict between the HDMI audio on a video card and a sound card... or at least their drivers. So far we haven't figured out how to resolve that particular issue. What happens if you use the stock XP disc without all those extra drivers included?

Check out this pinned topic, maybe it can help

Hope you do well on going for the MCSE. I never went beyond MCP myself.

PartED Magic (not to be confused with the other "PM" Partition Magic) looks to be used by burning it to a CD and then booting off it?

Is your DC configured to permit an unsecured join?

You can disable the creation of that partition. See this: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itproinstall/thread/58666f3c-ff85-4e19-9237-01e945c8fac6 Looking up that error leads me to think there is something wrong in the XML or there was an error in the capture? Look at these and see if anything makes sense for you: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/mdt/thread/663dac6f-badf-49cf-9c21-d4baf8184cb2/ http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/mdt/thread/1a0b6555-e4b2-40de-bfaf-eb8ff7710d60/ It looks like there is a log file somewhere you can read to find what failed.

Quoted for reference: See the original question is that OP wanted to block those ports (21-23) however blocking those ports would only prevent access IF the computer was a Server. As an example, blocking port 21 would prevent OTHER computers from connecting to this computer if an FTP Server was running on it. And why would you install an FTP server with a blocked port 21? Anyways, I presumed this meant that the OP wanted to prevent the computer from connecting to an FTP server, which would require blocking the outbound ports, not port 21.

I don't think IE9 displays properly with Aero disabled, so its not just your theme.

I use 80GB HDD here with Windows 7 but I install my programs in the OS volume for the most part. Right now it says I have 20GB free on the C: and I think my home computer is similar in those numbers.

Generalize doesn't do anything to user accounts, and Sysprep only disabled the built-in Administrator account. It shouldn't do anything to an account that is already there. It seems to me that your program there would be a perfect candidate for application virtualization.

Yes, sorry. I don't know why the Unattend setting uses different words than what actually shows up on that screen.

On my TS Properties, on the OS Info tab. I press "Edit Unattend.xml" which will open the XML in WSIM. I see that in the OOBE object, the NetworkLocation default value is "Work." Try changing this to Public and try again.

Create a user account in Audit Mode. Then create another account during OOBE. Use the one made in Audit Mode for the program. Am I understanding what you want to do here? Or are you saying Sysprep is changing how this program behaves?

I basically ignored what the OP posted the website was telling him and trying to tackle the basics of the problem. In his initial posts it was made clear he wanted to block FTP (among other types of connections) going out, but was focusing on the inbound (21) port. That was why my focus on the subject changed to stopping the client from connecting to an FTP server. You wouldn't end up blocking the ports, per se. I don't know how it would be done, but even netstat shows the protocol being used as well as the port. I would imagine there was a program that could block protocols. It is possible to block programs using Windows 7 Pro and Ultimate (or was that Enterprise) by using the App Locker, but I don't think that would be any help against a virus which would connect to FTP using an API call.

I'll have to look when I get back to work. Did you use any guides or templates when you created your TS?

Here is a reference. It might be related. Sadly we all wished it would be fixed in SP1 but it wasn't. Maybe SP2 or Windows 8 will have it fixed.

Its been awhile, and I have no accounts still added into my Yahoo Mail accounts. It was designed to retrieve your mail any time you'd also go get your Yahoo Mail, and it would have a different color so you could tell the difference. It seems that the option may be available in the Classic version. There isn't anything I can find about using a non-Yahoo account in the AJAX version. I'm not sure if it is in Yahoo Plus or not. I will note that I was able to find more info about Yahoo's email using google to search for it.

You'll have to forgive because a lot of users here post about many different operating systems than just the one in the profile. It would be interesting to know where that setting is being kept. Is it in an INI or in the registry? And what exactly is causing it to revert on a restart. It would make sense if it was using a temp file for that setting. You might be able to find where it is kept by using Process Monitor. Hmmm wow I was just looking this up and it seems there are a lot of problems with Razer mice.

There should be no problem deploying to a smaller drive, as long as the data isn't larger. I do most of my image building/testing with 40-80GB HDDs.

I have this problem intermittantly when deploying to the Intel DH61AG. Unfortunately, I never got a chance to troubleshoot it.

In your TS, make sure to set your Network Location to Public.