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.Net Framework 1.1, 2.0 and 3.5 SP1. Or you can just wait until a program complains about it being missing.

We have replaced all legacy Matrix software for Intel based desktop boards with the newer RST software. Of course testing needs to be done first, but I haven't had any problems. Remember this about Intel drivers, just because there is a new driver package version, it doesn't mean the driver for your device inside has been updated. This confuses our customers sometimes (and even our techs ) because they will think the newest driver is not installed, when it actually is. Case in point, the Intel Chipset v 1025 has v1016 files in it.

Some BIOSes (like Award) will accept a special CD at boot for an update. Its an annoying process and Its tricky getting it to fire. Is it an Award or AMI BIOS?

Just as it says in the Unattended Windows Setup Reference CHM that comes with WAIK, use DisableAntiSpyware. The link is for Vista but the value is unchanged for Windows 7.

This script seems to be overly complicated... Isn't there switches for this installer? You may also find one that creates a log during install, a must for debugging why AutoIT isn't running the app properly.

Do you mean changing it in Computer Properties or other similar locations? You can do some in the registry, some by editing files.

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DISM /MOUNT-WIM /WIMFILE:d:\images\install.wim /INDEX:1 /MOUNTDIR: C:\winpe_x86\mount to unmount... DISM /UNMOUNT-WIM /MOUNTDIR:c:\winpe_x86\mount /COMMIT or /DISCARD if you make a mistake.

Couldn't you, in your script first stop the service? If it is set to automatic, you won't need to re-enable it after running your programs, as it should start up by itself after the next reboot.

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There's always been a move to switch to the "do it yourself" method of making the recovery media, but that has been compounded by other things. Most recently, a number of Authorized Replicators had closed up shop, leaving only a handful of ones to choose from. This caused the price per disc to jump up considerably! An example is that the price-per-disc cost went up at least $10. So consider how HP or Dell used to use the model to create model specific recovery discs, the never ending product price war and the increased cost to produce recovery media. You can see why systems are coming out with the "do it yourself" method!

They seem to have more forums that you can imagine! I found a list of them here: http://www.mozilla.org/about/forums/

To service Windows 7 images, you should be using DISM. Using Imagex as the primary mounting program is deprecated. Also make sure you run your WinPE Tools Command Prompt as Administrator.

Working on some new layout ideas, and can't figure out why there is a gap in the div arrangements here: http://tripredacus.net/chars/b/beta.php They are appearing in the correct order, but I cannot figure out why two "spots" are skipped before the fourth item is placed, and then continues as it is supposed to. I've checked both in IE and Firefox. You should be fine seeing code generated from your browser... It almost looks like there is something in the way, are they conflicting with each other since they have no height attribute set? If so, what is the best way to get past that? This is still in progress but I wanted to get the general idea down before playing with additional spacing and coloring of the individual boxes... Update: Yes, the height property needs to be set properly otherwise the box height varies too much. Also needed to clear some two of the divs inside the container itself.

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Yes we noticed that returning members became Anonymous users for some reason.

I can see it in some situations, but no one is going to want confidential data on those things. Maybe this is viable at the SMB level. Or maybe something for use in the sales force, but not anything that has to follow any sort of regulations like HIPAA.

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I'd be highly surprised if Google thinks they can make a dent in the corporate IT market with that product.

I think its because you can't move the + tab away from the end. In Firefox 3, there was an option to prompt about tabs being open when you close the browser. I had always turned that off so I am not seeing any difference with Firefox 4. Under options\Tabs there are some settings you can try: - Warn me when closing multiple tabs I don't see a way to turn on the browser closing warning. It might be in about:config. Also don't forget to check the add-on site for anything, maybe someone made a mod for tabs or the warning?

This occurs with a Windows Installer package in Audit Mode. Testing in normal mode isn't really within the scope of how my software operates. It doesn't matter if it is done with 32 or 64bit OS. I have noticed it happening with multiple different installers, from notebook SCMs, Windows Live and Bluetooth software. The setup program will exit when "it is done" but it won't wait for the MSIEXEC it spawns to finish. So originally I had problems when my installer app would want to reboot the system before the install was actually finished. After adding in a "please wait" screen, it became obvious that MSIEXEC was taking a really long time to complete its task. So I went about debugging it. I ran a Procmon on it, and found that after the main installation was done, MSIEXEC would just kinda sit around and not do much of anything. Or if it was waiting on something, I can't see what it is doing by just monitoring MSIEXEC. The time is off in the log because the deployment test has a reset BIOS. Here is a timeline of events using Windows Live as an example. It logged over 1,000,000 events so I'm not posting the log file. If you want I can try putting it up on SkyDrive. @ 7:08:55 msiexec.exe creates its thread and begins the install @ 7:13:15 the install is (for all intents and purposes) finished, but msiexec does not exit. @ 7:13:23 Thread Exit @ 7:13:29 Thread Exit @ 7:13:56 Thread Exit @ 7:14:22 Thread Exit @ 7:15:02 Thread Exit @ 7:16:25 Thread Create @ 7:16:25 Thread Create @ 7:17:25 Thread Exit @ 7:17:32 Thread Exit @ 7:17:32 Thread Exit @ 7:18:53 Thread Create @ 7:20:00 Thread Exit @ 7:22:13 Thread Create @ 7:22:13 Thread Exit @ 7:23:15 Thread Create @ 7:23:15 Thread Create @ 7:23:15 RegCloseKey HKCR At the point of the RegCloseKey, the normal msiexec events show up and the process exits in less than 0.001 seconds. But you can see above there is a period of time, about 10 minutes of NOTHING being logged by MSIEXEC. So what is it doing during this time and what can be done to speed it up a little? Note: if the install is cancelled due to a reboot occurring at (say) the 7:13 mark, msiexec will rollback the installation! Attached is the msiexec.exe process info from ProcExp at about 7:15, during the "nothing doing" phase. Any ideas? msiexec.exe.txt

Ah I know a tool that can do all of that... but I think its more expensive than SCCM... Altiris: http://www.symantec.com/business/theme.jsp?themeid=altiris I have not used it since Symantec bought it tho, so it must be better now than then I hope!