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If you have Windows 7 installed, press F8 at boot and select to disable automatic restart on system failure. This will let you see the BSOD if you are getting one.

We can't help you with Hirens because it is warez. Please read the forum rules.

I am going to guess you are using MDT or SCCM for this?

If you want to capture it as a WIM you need two things: 1. A WinPE with Imagex on it 2. A place to put the image. There are some WinPE builders out there that can make it for you, but you'll still need to download the WAIK. As far as the place to put the image, it doesn't have to be a network share. You can store it on another drive like a hard drive if you want. Other free programs that make images are Ping and a version of Acronis.

It is in the properties of the User Account in the Local Users and Groups CPL, on the General tab. On a Domain Controller, it is on the Account tab

Conficker/DownadUp was one of the viruses that is known to create hidden recycle bins. Usually has a GUID on it that does not match the any of the user GUIDs of the host OS. Easier to spot that way.

Yeah the first thing I found while searching (it was on Social) was probably a corrupt user profile. Now you have to figure out how to migrate the data over that you want, that's always the hard part.

Does this PC get updates from Windows Update or WSUS? I remember that some configs of WSUS will reboot a PC without user interaction. It was very annoying.

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I haven't found a use for it to be honest. Its an interesting idea. Soon (maybe) google can just do everything... are fantasy sports next for them?

You can also get started on the basics of running your own forum, if you want to try it out before jumping into the full thing. There are forum hosters out there, like invisionfree. They do not have all the options that the full version software has, but it works for some people just fine. The other boards have similar services, but I don't know any of their names.

Its not encrypted at all, but it is Javascript, as first part of the code block says.

I've used that before. Did you check to see if Pandora has something like that? Irene Cara - Fame

Hmm yeah that's definately not an error you want to get. Did you check the setupact.logs to see where Setup is failing?

You'll need to have a program do this, probably on first logon. For example, you can have a program write to a txt file (formatted properly of course) then it will put the data input and save to the text file. Then after all the data is collected, you can use netsh -f location.txt to set the network settings. I don't know if there are any programs out there that can do this already.

Well that link talks about the GUID of the icon, is it the same as the GUID for the program? Anyways, for a program, you can find its GUID for sure by finding its Uninstall string in the registry. They should be the same every time, but do a test install on something and check it out.

Try go there in Safe Mode?

Do this as a test. Log into another user profile. If no other user exists, create another user on the system and log in with it. Then try to go into the Printers panel.

FYI, this was resolved On Social.

What kind of logs are in Event Viewer when you try to do this?

Does this card reader also plug into your PC's power supply? After a restart, go check out Device Manager to see if maybe the driver got flagged. Also, post the make and model of the CR if you know it.

I am experiencing a similar issue with my PC locking up as you. Only rarely do I lose picture. I am not certain what my issue is, but I'm going to guess video card as well. Do you run two different resolutions on both displays? Does your video card support those heat/health monitor programs I've heard about?

Starting with SP2, XP can change from UP to MP HAL during first boot on a sysprepped image. Supposedly it can also do this on an image that is in Factory, Audit or OOBE mode but may not be entirely supported that way. However, if your sysprepped image already has MP HAL set, it won't be able to go "backwards" to the UP HAL if you are putting it on UP systems. The standard practice for XP is to create all images on UP HALs and not MP HALs unless you can confirm that particular product will also have at least an HT CPU if not multi-core. A possible fix may be found here: I don't use XP anymore so all I have left is memories.

In the new test, I have set to stop the WinDefend service. There are a lot of different events now (some errors and warnings) that were not in the last test, but likely due to WinDefend being stopped. Fortunately, nothing prompted it to start again by itself. So the new time frame of events (last program to install to MSIEXEC exiting) is: 15:42 - 15:52 FYI these times are just for reference only, the BIOS time is still set to its factory time. Checking through the logs, CBS is still the same, but WindowsUpdate.log is indeed different. There is nothing logged during the time period above, so stopping WinDefend did definately have an impact there. However after checking all the log files and everything else, the total time savings is about 15-20 seconds. So that isn't it. I would settle for cutting this time in half... I'll relook over the ProcMon log and see if I can come up with any other ideas. Well I did find some information regarding Windows Installer and this 10 minute period. It appears that this is NORMAL. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/heaths/archive/2006/12/08/the-windows-installer-service.aspx So now my next task is to try to stop the service, after waiting about a minute after the last program is installed. Hopefully this will also work when installing Windows Live Essentials... we shall see. Update2 Well I've got this all fixed up now. It would appear that you can't end the msiserver service if it is actively installing something. So I have altered my program to wait 1 minute, then attempt to stop the service. So far this is working out and everything is fine. I did try to research changing the msiserver service's idle timeout but came up empty on that. This will have to do for now. I also gave up trying to figure out how to check for msiserver's mutex it creates while it is installing.