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It sounds like you are wanting to create a starting point for a reload, or a gold image. Moving this topic to Windows 7 Unattend forum.

All support for Make_PE3 is in the project thread:

Certainly, the toolkit is quite expensive, however you can grab the 180 day trial for free. At worst you would need a Live account, or you can apply to be a Microsoft Partner.

Are you trying to automate Audit Mode? Use auditUser/Mod = Audit and ForceShutdownNow = false. See the documentation on the use of the Mode object.

In addition to AD permissions you also need to set NTFS permissions on the folder. Can you confirm that this user has (at least) read permissions to the folder?

What version of Internet Explorer is installed? Also, do you have .Net Framework 3.5 installed now, just no SP1? There is a hotfix or update for SP1 as well since when it was originally released it broke certain parts of Windows, notably remote desktop.

1. Is this or was this computer ever used on a domain? 2. Was the install of this OS slimmed with a tool like vLite, rt7lite or a similar tool?

If you use WSUS, as long as you do not make that update available to your users, it won't show up for them.

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Are you required to use DOS programs, these are 16bit programs? What is your OS, is it DOS or Win9x? If it was XP I'd wonder why you didn't try using the Task Scheduler.

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There are a couple things I can think of. Windows 7 by default will use 128-bit encryption on file shares. There is an option for 40 and 56bit encryption. Also, starting with Vista there was a technology called the Link Layer Topology Mapper and Responder. These will cause slow issues on XP clients that lack this, and be fine with Win7 or Vista. I've run into this in the past and back when hybrid network populations were more common (we rarely have XP clients on the network anymore) I would disable this on the server side. Basically Server 2008+ sends extra SMB traffic that XP doesn't necessarily know how to respond. It is possible to install the LLTD for XP but I've never done it. More info here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922120 You may also look at this: Now those settings I made on the 2008 RTM server. Since then I've deployed 2008 R2 servers onto networks without making those changes, but our networks use Layer 3 switches now. So I am not certain which of those changes (switches or R2 version) solved that particular issue with legacy versions of Windows.

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I wanted to post some photo references but I had to wait until our GoFlex drives came back from other locations. Here is a picture of the drive with the base removed:

There won't be an official document out there with a fixed number. The Best Practice values people cite are the average ones. So basically if the best practice value isn't working you have a couple options: - do memory performance testing on the system to find out its current requirements - just set it to a higher number http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2267427 http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/WindowsGeneralWeb/RAMVirtualMemoryPageFileEtc.htm

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You failed to mention the OS you are making this image of...

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I was able to compress using your suggestion, however it would appear that mediafire does not work on any of the browsers I have at home. It outright didn't work in Chrome or Firefox, and in IE it at least started the upload, however its been sitting at 0% for over 12 hours. I will bring the SP1 symbols home, install those and wait until the next time to try it again. Maybe by then I can figure out a way to upload those to mediafire.

I had previously installed SP1 (which seemed to have removed my environment variable for the RTM symbols) and hadn't had a problem in awhile. I had followed some good advice to set it up to enable USB keyboard to generate a manual crash dump. So I had locked up about 20 minutes ago, and generated this great 3.5GB MEMORY.DMP file. I tried to compress with 7zip Ultra (as noted elsewhere) but 7zip kindly informed me that it could not allocate enough memory to complete the compress operation.... Then my PC locked up again while trying to find this thread again.... I will see what I can do to upload this file. Worst case scenario I can burn it to a DVD and take it to work to compress and upload. But even so, is it even worth it until I can get the SP1 symbols installed?

Some say another (newer) one showed up today. Honestly, these other sites, I wonder how they can stay afloat sometimes...

This topic originated in the Unattended Windows 7 forum. The shadow topic should still be on the first page.

Yes, every pc in my house has Win7 lited, in different versions and different levels of personalization. But I never removed Windows Search services... This should be mentioned anytime you make a new thread about something not working, as most people will attempt to approach troubleshooting this type of problem like it was a normal install. As as we all know, normal troubleshooting steps rarely can solve a problem for a lited OS. Which tool did you use for the computers with this version? Someone will eventually want you to post your last session.

I do not know of a way to force disk numbers, since they change based on what the mass storage controller tells it to use. Meaning they can change at any point in the future.