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I went to show hidden devices in Device Manager. This is hidden by default, also are you using Windows 7?

That's similar to how my test server is set up. Its only because PXELinux can boot to WDS and install Linux, but Bootmgr can't install Linux.

It is to be expected that the typed English is not perfect, especially when we require English language and cater to the world.

Check to see what temperature your CPU has. You may need to reseat the fan.

In order to get WinRE to deploy using an answer file, you need to do some things that are not in that document.

Yeah that isn't a bug. In XP at least, at one point I couldn't take a PrintScreen of a video being played to the clipboard. It wouldn't show up. Flash was the same way. It wasn't just WMP, also couldn't capture a frame from PowerDVD. I had to use some sort of capture utility like SnagIt but that only lasted me 30 days. Interestingly enough, Windows 7 has no problem capturing such things.

In that case, use that topic!

Verify that you are still logging into your regular profile. If a profile is corrupted, Windows may automatically log you in using a 'TEMP' profile, in which and profile specific shortcuts may be 'missing'. The TEMP profile is built off the Default profile. An easy way to verify what type of account you are using is to open the Command Prompt (without running as administrator) and see what default folder it puts you in.

Welcome to the MSFN!

You have already gotten your one allotted welcome.

This wasn't particularly my fault. A whiteboard fell off the wall (it wasn't mounted very well) and took out the monitor before landing on me. It was quite a surprise!

Where can this software be downloaded?

You are missing this in oobeSystem: <component name="Microsoft-Windows-International-Core" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <SystemLocale>en-US</SystemLocale> <UILanguage>en-US</UILanguage> <UserLocale>0409:00000409</UserLocale> <UILanguageFallback>en-US</UILanguageFallback> </component> And this too which goes in the oobeSystem pass too, but under the Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup component. <OOBE> <ProtectYourPC>2</ProtectYourPC> </OOBE>

The only thing I can think of is that you'd have to install Windows 7 to Audit Mode. Then get your unattend.xml to use with sysprep /generalize and then capture the image. Then you'd have to deploy the image with Imagex. After that part is done, you'd need to write a program that asks for a computer name, changes the computer name node in the XML on the deployed OS and reboot. It is already known that you can change the XML for an OS that is deployed but before it boots the first time.

Such an amazing tool would just take the fun out of it!

I couldn't even say. Last time I had dial-up was using a defective 14.4 modem I found in the garbage that connected as ISDN speed somehow.

That is to be expected. Windows XP was installed on your computer using the ACPI HAL, and that setting in the BIOS effectively changes your HAL. XP doesn't like when you change the HAL, as you have seen.

Windows 8 is a beta! But that is interesting. I never tried to look at WEI on the dev preview.

Flaw - Payback

BCDEdit can only show you the options of the OS you are currently booted into.

MDT isn't wholly dependent on WDS. You can use MDT to build USB key installation too. Anyways, you can build a Task Sequence specific to what you want the deployment to do.

I wonder if hitting the hard disk in the freezer could be a valid troubleshooting step someday...

See my screenshots here: Has recovery partition = enabled Doesn't have recovery = disabled

How are you deploying this image? There shouldn't be a reason to extend the disk... since you'd run diskpart prior to imaging to set up the partition.

It sounds like you are building installations for a company right? You can use MDT to give a computer name and then join a domain. This works because it asks these questions BEFORE the installation actually takes place, so it has the computer name already when it goes to join the domain. Alternatively, another user mentions the use of a Powershell script to join the domain.