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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!

There are multiple ways to make it run only once. In your bat file, you can write to the registry before performing your commands, then also check for the presense of this value before running those commands.

You are likely battling network permissions. I never tried to run an HTA from a network share. Use a USB key (or WDS) to have your boot image on, so you can easily mount and edit it.

For order #2 (your IE9 install) you have the path in description. Windows can't find your IE9 exe.

What OS are you working with?

On my 98 I have no antivirus either, but just a firewall. Of course I don't use a web browser on it either. For a newer OS, I agree most AV are resource hogs. The lightest ones are MSSE and Avast.

If you boot and press F8 you can get the boot menu. Choose Safe Mode to see if you can get there. Or in F8 menu you can choose "Disable Automatic Restart on System Failure" so that you can read the Blue screen.

I've not used this HTA before, but I know I had to make some VBScript changes in mine to work with WinPE 3.0. I'm not sure what would need to be changed in this one.

Well I certainly can't leave this topic in the wrong place... but to Office or Win2k?

It looks like you are battling your hard disk and using workarounds to make your PC usable for a period of time. What HDD do you have? Have you run the appropriate HD Tool (SeaTools, WD Tools, etc) on it?

Are you using WinPE 2.0? Some code changes may be needed for 3.0. Also, did you build your PE using the HTA and Scripting packages?

Driver authors being lazy still exists today. Either they make a "Windows 7" driver using the Vista version (because Windows 7 will install a 6.x driver) or using generic sections instead. Its concerning when I encounter such drivers as I often do not even want to use them. Of course, by "driver authors" I don't speak specifically of companies, as even companies that have nice INFs can also have ambiguous ones too! This is a 32bit mesrle: [Intel.NTx86.6.0] Oh but let's be lazy with 64bit [Intel.NTamd64] Some things never change.

There could be many reasons why this file is becoming unusable. I'd recommend choosing to open it, and do a Save-As and save it as another name. Simply renaming the file does very little as far as Windows is concerned. Also, depending on the size of the file, you may choose to save it somewhere else besides the Desktop.