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Oh I see what you are saying. You need to be able to set profiles for mouse settings, and then some way to trigger them. I want to say an "OnFocus" type thing for the mouse controls but that may be taxing for the system... A way to toggle that would be best.

My best bet right now is next time it locks up (since WER does open) to not touch anything and see if it does something instead of just resetting the system. Here are my specs: OS: Windows 7 Professional x86 MB: Intel DQ35JO CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 2.5GHz RAM: 4GB DDR2 800 Video (onboard disabled) : nVidia GeForce N220GT 1GB Sound (onboard disabled) : Creative SoundBlaster Audigy Gamer PCI OS HDD: 80GB WD SATA PSU: 460w

I'm still having this problem, so I took my PC into work to have time to look at it and found nothing wrong. There is no pattern to the lockups, but there is a pattern of behaviour prior to and during the lockup. 1. This always happens when running a Mozilla browser on websites both with and without Flash content. Browsers it has done it with: Firefox 3.6, Firefox 4, Pale Moon 3.6, Pale Moon 4. 2. When the computer "locks up" it is actually running. If I wait a couple minutes from doing a hard reset or shutdown, EventLog will log the correct time of shutdown, not the time of supposed lockup. 3. The keyboard stops working first, even if I am not using the keyboard. The mouse cursor will still move around but will eventually stop. 4. The HDD activity light will be active (not solid, not off) during the time of lockup. (NOTE: I haven't waited to see if it unfreezes) 5. By checking event logs, there is a pattern in the SYSTEM log that appears EVERY TIME this happens. Here is an example. EventLog (from after reboot): The previous system shutdown at 9:36:47 PM on 4/5/2011 was unexpected 4/5/2011@9:36:23 Windows Error Reporting Service entered the running state 4/5/2011@9:36:00 Multimedia Class Scheduler service entered the running state Now every lockup I have experience show the WER and MCS services starting less than a minute before the reported shutdown time. Of the 7 times my system has locked up, this has been constant each time. Not sure what that means.

Or the VBS file is in the same location as the app. Or you set an environment variable.

Oh no. If you go into the BIOS and set up the RAID it may not tell you anything. RAID is an advanced feature and most BIOSes are written with the idea that the end-user knows what they are doing. So for example, on the Intel Desktop RST, if you took your drives and decided to go make a RAID1, you'd end up (not technically) erasing both drives.

Right, the only time you would need to remove a driver is if you are switching video controllers. For example, if you were going from an nVidia to an ATI, you would want to remove the nVidia software or vice versa. Otherwise, you can just install the drivers you need to later.

You hadn't posted your OS version. Have you tried to install the mouse software for you mouse?

I'm just a regular poster over there. While I use AutoIT on a daily basis, I rarely have questions to ask so I mainly hang around in the chat section. Also, when I used Projector, I didn't have sound but I hadn't modded WinPE to allow for it either.

Definately use WinPE 3.0. Make sure that your clients meet the minimum requirements for deployment WinPE 3.0 x86: 512MB RAM WinPE 3.0 x64: 1GB RAM* * actual value is likely somewhere around 600-700MB RAM however haven't been able to test this as all systems I work on use 512MB sticks or greater.

You can pull the currently logged in account from WMI, in the Win32_ComputerSystem you can get the UserName object. You'll need to do an LTrim on it because it will return COMPUTERNAME\USERNAME as part of the data.

Honestly, it is a bad practice to run vbs from a network share. Yes you can make some changes to the Local Security Policy to allow those types of things to run, but I would research into other ways to do these deployments, as opening up those settings can be a big security risk for your network.

Take a look at this example: Sub Append Dim Answer Answer = MsgBox("Do you want to calculate?",1,"calculate") If Answer = 1 Then objshell.run("calc.exe"),0 Else Exit Sub End If End Sub So you need to determine what all the return values are and put them in the else if you want something "else" to happen if you click Cancel.

Not all motherboards will allow you to do a RAID after the fact. Intel boards for sure. Say you wanted to do a RAID1 and you wanted to use an existing drive and build a RAID with it. Intel Matrix or RST can't do it, but their enterprise cards can. Not sure about other boards. Here are the best recommendations I can make about the different RAID levels: RAID1 - two drives (obviously) RAID5 - 3 drives + hot spare RAID10 - 8 drives Of course there are other ways to do RAID5 and 10, but those are the arrangements I am most comfortable with in knowing that my data is safe. Others may have different opinions tho. Always make sure to install the RAID software so you can see when the array breaks. Also make sure you label the SATA cables as to what ports you are connecting to, and also label the drives/enclosures. You want to be EXTREMELY sure of which drives you are swapping out for when a drive fails. If using a 5 or 10, use enclosures, but it doesn't necessarily need to be a hot swap. And lastly ONLY USE RAID EDITION DRIVES! Here is an example of a setup I am currently working on that has a RAID1 for OS, and RAID5 + HS for data:

You should be able to do a board swap without doing a full reinstall of Windows 7. My PC at home went from an 865GBF to a Q35JO without reinstalling. You may need to reactivate Windows tho. Make sure you aren't going from IDE mode to AHCI tho.

Hmm I have not tried incorporating Flash (SWF) files into the PE before, but it may be interesting to you that Flash Projector projects work fine in PE without adding anything into it. So if you can get away with running a Projector that might be the way to go. I had once made a recovery partition that loaded a Projector app to do all the work.

Even so, I barely noticed the "cousin" part, but the "Corporate Edition" part. Since most people will call the VLK or MAK version of Windows as the "Corporate Edition" when it is a warez release, because for some reason no one ever calls it the VLK edition like it really is. Just something weird I've learned over the years.

There could be any number of reasons. First thing you may try if you are using a batch file (you should use .cmd not .bat) is to run it with a wrapper, such as: statup.cmd > c:\users\public\statup.log To see where there may be a failure. Also you can try look in Event Viewer to see if something shows up there. I use EXE for all my deployment scripts because sometimes a .cmd will not run at the correct level I would want it to. Also with EXE it is easier to do a runas if needed but you might be able to do with .cmd.

I am not certain where the issue is, maybe you mistyped something? Anyways, here is an example of how I handle multiple OS versions. As we know, the startup folder is a different path between Windows 7 and XP. In my deployment program, I have a single EXE that goes into the appropriate startup folder. When the OS boots for the first time, the program detects the installed OS and sets variables or runs commands as are appropriate for that OS. This is (at least) important for when you need to have the app delete itself so that it doesn't run on the next reboot.

Is Windows sharing options not working for you? You can do this by removing the "Everyone" or "All Users" access to the share and assigning user accounts to the share instead. Create the users in the host computer's Users section, then assign the share and NTFS permissions to the folder. EDIT: Oh what OS versions are on your computers? This may be important.

Well you will need to know how to manually kick off either of those two options. Choose your own progamming method, batch or something more advanced. Then in your WinPE, use the winpeshl.ini (or startnet.cmd but not both) to launch wpeinit, then your program.

Sure. There is a bat file already that starts WinPE, it is startnet.cmd. Make sure your winpeshl.ini is blank or it will ignore the startnet.cmd. Here is one of my old startnet.cmd files: wpeinit wpeutil initializenetwork ping 127.0.0.1 -n 16 -w 1000>null net use z: \\7SERVER\images ZarleyZalapski33 /user:kdineen regsvr32 /s misc/gimagex_com.dll mshta.exe x:\windows\system32\imagex.hta So you probably just need wpeinit as the first option, then your other two commands right afterwards. This file is located in x:\windows\system32

It is definately possible. As long as the HAL and Mass Storage driver are the same (or compatible) you can replace a board and not have to reinstall XP. I've even had such luck with Windows 98.