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Quake II works on Win98. As does Return to Castle Wolfenstein, I'm Going In, Quake 3, Quake, Max Payne, GTA III, Heroes of Might and Magic and Heroes of Might and Magic II. Diablo. I'll try to remember what else I had on my Win98 PC.

Its usually a bad practice to build a website like this. The reason you are getting this is because there are fonts on the webserver and the page's styles say to use those. Unfortunately, a client browser can't use those fonts without installing them. I'd choose the NO option and email the webmaster and complain about it.

That works! How did you get that list? When I run with 'command' param it just opens the program.

This notebook is a rebranded whitebook model. From what I can tell it is an Inventec w14, however the shell design looks to be an HP. I have seen this notebook before but I can't remember what it is. So BenQ S41, Acer Aspire 9800, Inventec W14, zepto 6214 are the same. But they have different shells. here is a pic for reference: http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/2023/laptopopenij1.jpg S41 and S42 use the same shells. I give up trying to find the manual for you! But there are only so many ways to get the keyboard out. Try looking at this: http://www.laptoprepair101.com/laptop/2007/08/30/removing-replacing-laptop-keyboard/ Look for buttons too, some you just need to press a couple of clips to get it out.

Uninstalling the drives in Device Manager isn't going to do very much anyways. You may want to try to update chipset drivers. What kind of drives are these? PATA or SATA? What motherboard do you have? Can your PC boot off a CD like a Linux Live CD, Memtest or anything? Do the drives work in Safe Mode?

Explorer is not likely causing a problem. After shutdown is called, Windows will begin ending processes. There is a timer for how long after the end is sent and Explorer will force close the process. There is a registry setting that determines this. Explorer won't close until all of the processes it has under its "umbrella" has been closed. If you open up Procexp (at any time, not during shutdown) you can see the parent and child processes to get a clear idea of what I mean.

I never have seen the reason to specify anything in the Audit Pass. You'd only want Reseal to be used to go to Audit system. You would only use Reseal with oobeSystem in an answer file using sysprep and the /unattend switch. For best examples, look at the sample files here:

I've had this happen before but I don't remember what causes it. Deus Ex is a great game, it and only SoF had great ways to screw with cut-scenes. I'll use an example you can try out to see for yourself. In Deus Ex, you will occassionally have to go talk to someone in the office. Go pick up a plant and then go talk to the person. JC will drop the plant once the conversation starts, but it will be in the cut-scene. Soldier of Fortune was similar to this, by using the actual game to do the cut-scene. Usually it would be triggered by entering a door-way. The NPC actors would be in the other room and they were able to be killed. So you could open the door, toss a grenade in and close the door. There would be a big boom and some people would be killed. Then enter the room and the cut-scene starts. Last time I did this, I was having a coversation with 2 people, but one was "dead" so when it was his turn to talk, both my char and the NPC look at the space where the guy is supposed to be while he is supposed to be talking. Because this actually worked, I knew it was possible to actually snipe Saddam Hussein at the end, but never could get the timing right before the cut-scene happens. Sorry for derail...

I gave up trying to figure that one out. I could never get a VM to do a PXE boot, so I do all my work on actual hardware.

I've got a doozy here, it is Intel's Always Aware software, packaged by ASI. If you want to check out this software yourself, it is located on their FTP: ftp://65.106.72.164/Notebook/SP_Series/SP15-DIS(UMA)/ASI_Driver/Win7Vista_32(64-bit)/05_Intel-AA_(DIS)_1.6.0.75.zip It consists of 5 folders, which each contain a setup.exe and an .msi file. In the root is an Intel-AA.exe which does not use any switches. You can pass them but it always will open in interactve mode. I checked the .exe and can't find any switches in it. The installer has the standard MFC icon and is called "SetupLaunch version 1.0" which Google knows nothing about. So to another angle, maybe I can just silent each of the setup.exe by themselves. Starting with the Accelerometer, using any of the following results in error: /S /S /v/qn /quiet /q /s /WHYWONTYOUINSTALL The error is: MSIInstallProduct returned '1639' So I checked the ResHack on it and there is a 41\SETUPCFG item in it that makes it appear to be a multipackage MSI installer. Check the spoiler for the code from that. Any idea how to silent this type of installer? I only need silent and no-restart. The app's vendor (ASI) does not know how to do it either, and frankly they told me they've never been asked this question before? Give it a shot, I'm out of ideas.

Your piparms.cmd has an option to go to :ntOsok but there is nothing in that section. Also, not sure, do you need to actually define something for :EOF or is that a built in function?

I usually see a lot of older games at thrift and second-hand stores. I usually don't buy them most of the time. Those stores don't usually pay enough attention to the fact that they are games (unless they are in the original box) and are "hidden" away in the music CDs. You should check that idea out. As far as NT4, I know you can play the Quake II demo on it...

It doesn't have to be a network share to use this. As a standalone, you just need to change the drive letter (see the post before yours) to point where the images are located. Even if you don't do this, you can use the Browse button to select the correct drive.

I'd put ShowWindowsLive in oobeSystem pass, but if it doesn't work, then try Specialize. You can ignore the other two passes.

I'm not sure how you "deleted" the other image indexes. The best bet if you want only one image in the WIM is to do an Export with Imagex. imagex /export d:\sources\install.wim 4 c:\images\install.wim That will give you an install.wim with only the Pro image in it.

What is the model of notebook you have? I might be able to find the manual (no garauntees tho)

It does look to be that virus. Here is more info http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/Threat/Encyclopedia/Entry.aspx?Name=Backdoor%3AWin32%2FBifrose.ACI Other user reports online have found problems removing it fully, as MSE and Kapersky (from March 2011) only would do a partial quarantine. Moving to AV forum, as I can't find a good set of removal instructions that doesn't involve downloading some weird removal tool.

You should do the BIOS flash from a DOS disk or USB key. AFUD4310.EXE A7668IMS.140 AMI BIOS can require a specific flashing utility to work properly. Not sure why. I've got about 5 different flashers for MSI boards. Otherwise, try out MSI's support forum.

Yeah, don't bother setting visual styles in Audit Mode. You need to set those with an answer file. Anything done in Audit Mode (try installing Google Chrome for example) is done to the Administrator account. That account gets disabled when you sysprep, although technically it becomes partially disabled within minutes of logon to Audit Mode. So those visual settings get saved to that account only! And yes, Windows is going to pull those drivers out when you sysprep if they do not meet certain conditions. As I said, to get around this, you need to inject them into the image with DISM before deployment to Audit Mode. Then they won't be removed.

Technically, newer (faster) CD drives would be louder, but not at the levels you are talking about. CD drives have a pretty lame lifespan as they often move into the "loud" or "won't eject without a paperclip" phase fairly quickly. In fact the CD drive in my PC needs the paperclip to eject. Fortunately they are fairly cheap (new) enough to not worry about spending money on a new one. The only thing is that most companies are phasing out PATA which could become a problem for people with older hardware. In my experience, Lite-On drives seem to have the shortest lifespan. Usually, once the drive won't eject with the button it is only a matter of time before it goes completely.

I looked at your second picture again. Usually, this type of behaviour can't be captured in a screenshot because the problem occurs while rendering the video. This is because Windows doesn't actually "see" what you are seeing. Have you run sfc /scannow

Also, post your exact Win7 version number. You can find it if you run MSINFO32 under the "Hardware Abstraction Layer" value on the first page that loads up.

I'm sure you are making it correct in the BIOS right? I've noticed that sometimes you get an hour difference on some systems, but not sure why. You could set the BIOS time wrong.

There is a different key used for installations. That one cannot be activated. If you are capturing an image based on an OEM install, it already has the product key in it, and you shouldn't have to do anything about product keys.