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Do you think it would be possible to either allow CHMs to appear in the Windows 7 Start Menu, or the application used to launch CHMs with an expandable arrow? I know that by default, only executables will show up in the "most used" portion of the start menu, but I open CHMs a lot and it would be great to have them show up too.

You won't be able to change the permissions of ROUTE (or set to run it as Administrator) but you might want to look at AppLocker if the version of Windows you are using supports it. I'm not sure if creating a rule for ROUTE will auto-elevate the program or not. You can try setting whatever program (your VPN software I imagine) that is doing the call to run as Administrator on the Compatibility tab.

I hazard a guess that _ext=%%~xA Which is set during the For above your three outcomes in the IF statement that follows. If that is the case, then it the variable would exist, and not equal .wim, which only allows for the error to appear. I'm not too good at batch so I'll let others check it out.

What about using that component in the AuditSystem pass?

Windows Embedded Studio is for creating XPe installs. If you want to change the behaviours of an XPe system, you would need to load the offline registry hive and make the appropriate changes that way.

How much free hard disk space do you have?

No I think it is safe to use environment variables without quotes.

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Hotfixes are not redistributable. I have modified your post.

What's so special about these? Why not get them from the Catalog site?

Ah I was under the impression that the "rebuild image" option would replace the image in WDS. I will try that and see if it makes a difference. EDIT: replacing the boot image in WDS worked out fine.

I've never heard that kind of message before, but it has been a couple years since I've had to call in an XP activation. Usually if the automated system rejects it, I would get transferred to a person.

You should post the E number of your CPU to be sure, but I am going to guess that you have a Quad-Core CPU with Hyperthreading enabled.

Logs are kept in two different locations. c:\windows\system32\sysprep c:\windows\panther When looking at the log files, make sure to take note of the timestamp. This will help you find the correct files for whatever the problem is you are looking for. I'm not sure it is related to the mass storage driver, since if it were incorrect you would get a STOP 0x7b error instead.

While I am looking into how to automate MDT's Lite Touch pages, I am stuck on the User Credentials page that is used to connect to the Deployment Share. If I fill this out manually, it works and everything is fine. I can't seem to actually automate this process so it connects to the share automatically. I've found solutions to this problem by adding credentials into the bootstrap.ini, then rebuild and replace the boot images, but any time I do this it still will prompt me for credentials. Am I missing a step?

Well we can only guess some things, since you end up using terms like "my computers" vs "customer computer" but it would be better if we knew which OS was on each one.

I am going to hazard a guess that your Main computer was the Master Browser of the workgroup. Shutting it down enabled another PC to become the Master Browser and likely refreshed something. I don't remember exactly how that process works. Was your main PC the XP one?

Does your DC allow an unsecured join? What happens if you try to join the client manually without credentials?

If you need to reload an OS and the customer does not have the media, you should reinstall it using the same type. If they had OEM, you reinstall using OEM, if Retail then Retail. They should always have a COA on their PC. Even if you can't get it to activate online, you can call it in. You can tell what OS type is installed by looking at the COA. If the COA has an OEM's name on it however, I'm not sure exactly what you'd need to do, although acquiring the recovery media would probably be good. Some infos: http://www.microsoft.com/oem/en/licensing/antipiracy/pages/COA_hologram.aspx There used to be a page with all the different COAs but it looks like that has been replaced, or I can't find it.

I can see that being reasonable. I will look into seeing how I can change it. EDIT: This was happening because I had a partial install. I hadn't waited for MDT to open that yellow screen saying it was done. After you click on that, it deletes the files on the HDD that were causing a problem, which then lets me do a proper reload without having to format the drive each time in between.

When I do testing, I use actual hardware. I am currently testing some LTI with MDT 2010 right now and am running into an error "LiteTouch has encountered an Environment Error (Boot into WinPE!)" I know WHY this error comes up, the HDD is not blank or it has existing deployment files on it. And I know a workaround is to boot up WinPE, and use Diskpart to wipe the drive. It can't be that this is the only way to stop this error from coming up! Tell me there is a way to configure my LTI to just format the drive during boot so this error doesn't come up!

bookie32 I was referring to the production MDT server at my company... I agree with this about XP. I had only used WIMs for XP, making an image for each system that was locked down to HAL, BIOS version and Video Card type. There was no "updating" of those images, if anything needed to be changed, I just made a new one. This was not really my decision, but it became way more important once the news broke that HP got caught making universal images and blew up because they had some AMD driver in there. Play it safe, especially if you are doing this in a company rather than for personal reasons. It was a lot of work but you end up documenting it and getting SOPs for the image creation process to follow. Its one reason why I'm glad I don't have to deal with XP (besides XPe) anymore, plus servicing 7 is way easier. Regarding the process of deployment of XP images... Its in my sig. And I was incorrect when I said I had no OS loaded in my Test MDT Server... I do, but its not an install source like yours. I just see the Windows 7 Enterprise WIM in mine and you can't expand it out like your picture has for XP.

I use a separate computer that is off the domain (and no internet access) to do my servicing. Also, I recommend you edit your topic title...