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It isn't required to be run. I'm sure there was just something else involved that happened you aren't aware of. I have set up networks with XP clients before and I've never used that Wizard before.

I'm not sure what IDM is (Internet Download Manager? ) but have you tried to run it as Administrator? Also can you install other programs?

Heh, I remember one Major Manufacturer of CD's that installed a rootkit. Go figger.**cough** Sony **cough**

winpeshl.ini does work. However if your shell program has the ability to launch a command prompt, I do not know how to hide it. I've only written custom shells that have the ability to launch a password protected command prompt.

For version control (including use of spreadsheet) I only inject 1 driver at a time. I may batch up the injection tho, but I never inject all drivers in a release, only the ones I know I need.

If using dos, likely need batch. Move to correct forum.

Did I make you do the bold thing on the band name? I've been doing it that way for years! SEAT BELTS - Piano Black

This isn't so much a Windows 7 question, rather a business question. Since we don't have a place for that, it shall be in general. But to be honest, no one can know if your message is correct (unless you want to know about grammar) without knowing your network...

1. The only time I have seen two entries show up, its because there was an OS on the driver before and an image was applied overtop. For example, first boot after WinRE is run will do this, but the other option goes away after sysprep has run the first time. Are you doing multiple partition installs? I have noticed that the multiple partition option does not always assign the appropriate drive letters. 2. Unfortunately no. You can add an answer file directly into the image. All my images that use answer files have them in the image already.

You can't add a folder into the image with DISM like that. If you want to add a driver, you need to specify the driver file. If you do not know the INF name, use *.inf instead.

Put your commands in winpeshl.ini instead. Then the command prompt won't be displayed.

It may also be possible to ghost the image onto the drive, then boot of an XP CD to do a repair install which would fix the Mass Storage Controller driver and potentially HAL problem. In the Safe Mode boot, it is not stuck on MUP.SYS. You need to do a step-by-step configuration boot to determine what it tries to load after MUP.SYS. In my experience, Windows generally wants to start loading drivers at that point.

Have you disabled UAC at all? The Protected Desktop can make the screen go black as well, or could appear that way based on color settings.

You can initiate a recovery from Windows, if you are having trouble booting into it, by going to Backup and Recovery and choosing Advanced Recovery options in Control Panel. Base.wim is a non-standard image name for use in system recovery, which means that there is an underlying software application that you'll want to figure out before just applying that WIM to your PC. It is possible that WIM is actually a WinPE and not an OS.

For some strange reason, I have no idea was 99.999% of the members here do for a living.

We try to keep a level of professionalism here, as such posting in bright colors is discouraged.

Go into the BIOS and post the BIOS ID string. I might actually have some of those boards here. An example BIOS ID string is like this: IDG4510H.86A.0127.0209.1609 You can also get this information from the "Bios Version/Date" item in the System Summary when you run msinfo32 from Windows.

I found a KB article here that mentions the need to use the WinPE 3.0 SP1 in order to accomodate 4k physical/logical sector size for large size volumes. Has anyone done any work with the new WinPE yet and large volumes? It is something I'm going to have to get into one of these days for sure.

The cheapest I can think of would be Adobe Photoshop 5.0 LE. The LE version was usually an add-in product with scanners and cameras. LE is Lite-Edition, which means it doesn't have as much stuff as the regular version. Photoshop Elements is the newer name of Photoshop LE.

You should use .bat files for DOS and .cmd for Windows. The security warning will appear depending on where your script file is located. Is it on a CD or on a network share? If so, it probably should be copied to the local disk before executing.

Have you specified any Group or Local Security policy options? These can override your selection.

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