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Did this program come from a CD or from a Microsoft download? There may be different types of installers that use different commands. Being able to look at the actual installer would be helpful. Also, those instructions are for Intellipoint 5, which might be a bit different on an install.

Haven't been able to listen to music all week while at work. Has something to do with this noise maker in my office:

I don't think FreeNAS (its some kind of Linux) cares about that so much... Although I can partially relate it to that time I had to take a tech call about a mouse... But it turns out a Serial mouse won't work in Windows 7... Great picture! My new wallpaper! Its also another thing about that screen. You'd figure it would ask you if you had one of those, but notice its only a Yes or No option. Its not one of those types of screens that will enable mouse support if you choose yes, since it is already enabled and you can move the cursor around. After you choose yes it doesn't ask you any more questions about the mouse.. although I bet it would disable mouse support if you choose no.

Of course I knew of that bus mouse... also found something about a Cat Driving a Schoolbus... However I am guessing this is a typo in the program, rather than expecting someone installing the x64 version of FreeNAS to actually have a real Bus Mouse connected to their system. Might say something about a working jaclaz but...

Thanks FreeNAS...

I think ALL! is a typo. The ! (exclamation point) is used as a "NOT" operator. It seems perhaps a parsing error that WLSETUP will actually do something with this as you posted: /AppSelect:ALL!,Messenger,MovieMaker,silverlight I would think that the above arguments wouldn't do anything. Take this one as an example instead: /AppSelect:ALL,!Messenger,MovieMaker,silverlight The above example would instruct WLSETUP to install ALL included packages except for Messenger. It is possible that WLSETUP may read this command as install ALL except Messenger, Movie Maker and Silverlight. You'd have to test it out.

Did you have another account?

When using Promoted Icons in NotificationArea, you need to specify a GUID. How can I go about finding the appropriate GUID for a program to put in there? <NotificationArea> <PromotedIcon1> <Path>%PROGRAMFILES%\Fabrikam\Application1.exe</Path> <GUID>{d8742dcb-3e6a-4b3c-b3fe-374623cdcf06}</GUID> </PromotedIcon1> <PromotedIcon2> <Path>%PROGRAMFILES%\Fabrikam\Application2.exe</Path> <GUID>{a1bc23cb-3456-bcde-abcd-feb363cacc88}</GUID> </PromotedIcon2> </NotificationArea> GUID on TechNet

I've never used that setting. I'm not sure how you can disable sounds, but you could specify a desktop background image that is a solid color square. Windows should stretch it.

Yep that's what I saw. I'm going to presume that it did indeed work for RTM since I had seen it in other people's XML posted here, and is also in maxXPsoft's examples.

You need to create the file. People usually put it in the root of their install media, or you can put it on a USB key. The first thing you should get is the WAIK, it has the XML builder and the help files to walk you through how to use it. Also, most of those topics are mirrored on Technet. WAIK info is here. General examples and questions about making the XML is here:

Aero is disabled in Audit Mode even if you have video drivers installed. You can enable it and create a theme, however this theme will be saved into the Administrator account and you won't see it after sysprep. To use your theme elsewhere, look into creating a ThemePack or even a Theme from scratch: http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/How-to-Make-Your-Own-Theme-Pack-for-Windows-7

If you are still using Thunderbird, try playing with your Account Settings. The Outgoing Server will show up on the bottom. Try changing the Connection Security and Authentication Method drop downs. JFYI I had used Thunderbird for years on my old companies Exchange server, but new company doesn't allow Thunderbird to authenticate on a send, just like your error. However I do not know how to fix it so it works.

It looks to me that the GUID for the powerplan is not the same every time you import it. I had it on two different machines with different GUIDs. In any case, having it installed and being the active plan while in Audit Mode survives the sysprep process and is active on a deployed image. I just find it strange that it was deprecated for SP1 but not RTM.

I have exported a Power Plan on another system to a .pow file. I can use powercfg to import the .pow file onto my Reference Computer. I take the GUID that is then displayed and put it in my unattend in the specialize pass: <component name="Microsoft-Windows-powercpl" 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"> <PreferredPlan>552a37f0-e021-43b4-aa92-b7149486156e</PreferredPlan> </component> After sysprep, Balanced (the normal default) is selected as the active plan. Any reason this wouldn't work? EDIT: looks like this option is not supported in Windows 7 SP1? PreferredPlan

Well in that case, I'd recommend you use some other type of editor to work with your HTA file. I can see WinPE may have a lot to complain about with code like that.

Found a bug with the custom partition values option. HOWEVER this will only work if you put a value in the first box, but leave the second box zero. In this section: '**************************************************************************** 'Two values '**************************************************************************** Suspect line ObjFile.WriteLine " ElseIf form.Custom2.Value = 0 Then" Should be ObjFile.WriteLine " ElseIf form.Custom2.Value > 0 Then" Here is a Beta Beta version - NOTE: Does not work in WinPE4 RTM x64 For Server 2008 R2 deployments and support for GPT. You cannot PXE boot to this and expect it to work. It can only work if your WinPE boots from a UEFI enabled CD/DVD or USB key. You can still use the non-GPT options with PXE, but if you choose the GPT Disk option when you PXE boot, you will have a 2TB C: drive. I have a separate boot.wim that uses this "Server" class files. Here are those instructions. 1. Need to change the x:\windows\system32\misc\diskpart.txt so that it will do a default deploy of Server correctly. sel disk 0 clean creat part pri size=100 sel part 1 active format fs=ntfs label="System Reserved" quick create part pri sel part 2 format fs=ntfs label="LocalDisk" quick assign letter=c exit 2. I have modified the HTA to run a program called GPT check, which checks for the presense of the MSR partition. In my test boot.wim, I have the EFI components saved into the ramdisk, however the appropriate method would be to have a WIM to deploy the appropriate EFI files. And that will get tricky as well because any UEFI deployment is HDD size dependent. I have not yet been able to test same size drives among different manufacturers! GPTCheck.exe (autoit) src here: This program is called during the reboot MsgBox, which means if you elect to do the other option, it won't run the prorgram. So if you choose to do a shutdown, next boot will result in an error. 3. The second option for the Diskpart.hta "Make one primary partition" now says "use GPT Disk". 4. Changed it so the custom partition values will work and create the System Reserved Partition. This only works with having 0 in the second box. ALSO this does not allow you to do a custom partition on a GPT disk either. You can test it out. Hopefully I modified the file appropriately. Server_ImageX.7z

I'd recommend either using Cable Select or make the HDD the master. If you are going to use the SATA drive, make sure the DVD-ROM is set to master if the ATA HDD is not present.

I'd be scared to see the source of an html file made in Excel. Your first step is to start with the script error. What does it say?

Its hard to figure out how you have your things connected. Are you saying that your PCs connected to wireless can't see the PCs connected via ethernet? Post the model numbers of your network hardware.

You can run netstat to tell you what processes are connecting where netstat -b

My installs don't have that box... Did you see the switch list here? http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/12657-application-switches-contributions-only/page__view__findpost__p__917084

By default, Google Chrome installs for the current user only. Did you use the alternate installer when creating your reference image?

Mike the Pod - Starscream

I must have missed this post. Thanks!