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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.

Puddle of Mudd - Sydney

I don't get this error when I go to look at the new posts (or click that link)

Wouldn't it be funny if you (physically) could get a (real) virus if you stole software from a store?

I gave up on trying to figure that out myself. Then again, Make_PE3 didn't work for me when I tried it anyways. Might have been the hardware I was using tho.

My Windows images deploy to Audit Mode, not to OOBE, but to include Office in the recovery partition it is installed with the OS. Do you create the Windows 7 image too? If you are using OA, you should be consulting your Partner rep to get the supported method of deploying Office 2010.

I have done both preinstall to the image in Audit mode before capture and also install after deployment. It depends on what your install source is, and how you will be activating it I suppose.

The rectangles appear because the program does not have the character support that the original document is using. Either it doesn't support your display font, or the default encoding type does not have information for those particular characters. The website doesn't specify an encoding either, so the PDF plugin likely defaults to an incompatible setting. See if you have the same issue creating PDFs from other websites in german, or using other browsers.

Can you post some of the commands that give these errors? Also what is your OS source you are working with? Is it a stock install.wim or what?

Look up setupcomplete.cmd both here and in the WAIK help guides. Here is an example:

Well they did say they got it cheap. Its either a "you get what you pay for" or "it didn't cost that much so who cares" type of situation.

I can understand part of that story but not about the movie example. I do not know any movie players that will read a video file missing its header information...

Epica - Montagues & Capulets

The update it appears it is on is KB2482017. Did you run the PE Tools Command Prompt as Administrator?

What about the FSMO objects? When I did a 2003 to 2008 migration, 2008 wouldn't let me more one of the FSMO objects over, so we ended up having to leave the 2003 on the network. It wouldn't let me transfer the Infrastructure FSMO role. Does the "Change the operation master role in AD to the new 2008R2 server." part you posted resolve this issue?

RAM speed doesn't mean anything to Windows (usually) and if both CPUs were MPs then that would make sense. The reason Aero wasn't available likely was because you didn't have the correct video driver installed or the video controller didn't have enough memory or support that feature.

Windows 7 sound manager (by itself) is a little different, and less PnP than previous versions. But we don't know what sound manager you are using. For example, if you are using a Realtek sound chip, you should have that software installed. What is your sound controller?