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I actually own a "laptop" computer. There is a distinct design difference for sure. The reason for the name change was that laptop's got a bad name because while they were portable (like how the Apple II C was portable yeah right) they were heavy and caused discomfort. Notebook was an obvious choice since it looked more like a paper notebook. Of course one thing neither type can get away from is how they both can burn people's legs. My laptop ways between 5-10 pounds. I have not weighed it, just a guess. Not something I'd like to put on my lap. The only times I've used it was on a desk, so you would think it was a desktop. The laptop I have is the infamous "space shuttle" model (being used on the space shuttle) and a member of the urban legend that it can survive being dropped out of a helicopter and still work. Behold the GRiDCase! http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=1054 The one I have is not the one in the picture, but you can see that a laptop's screen folds up from the middle of the chassis, rather than on the outside edge like in a Notebook. Obligatory Jaclaz smiley: Obligatory Jaclaz links: http://www.sinasohn.com/cgi-bin/clascomp/bldhtm.pl?computer=gridcs3 http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/gridcase-2/index.html

I cheaped out and now just get $10 USB keyboards. Even the one I am using right now is some cheapy I scavenged from my old company when they went out of business. It doesn't even have the Num-Lock key on it.

Also do not forget that Firefox is just one version of the Mozilla browsers. There are other distros out there that may be better for you too.

That is app specific for the most part. I have some apps that remember the last used location, and others do not.

The F8 option is available only on Windows. That meaning you use the Windows BCD to boot into WinRE. So if you do not want to have Windows, you need another option to be able to selectively launch the WinRE partition. Also, the first thing WinRE does is look for an OS installed elsewhere. If there is no OS, I'm not sure what would happen. It reads from that OS to find out the user accounts and you have to log in to WinRE using an account username and password from the OS. You may want to just use a modified WinPE to do this install rather than WinRE, as RECENV may cause you more trouble than you need.

Well let's take a look here. I happen to have one download already for the Quick Launch Button called sp38266. It is for the DV6000 series. I can open this EXE using WinRaR and get the files out of it. Now of course WinRaR cannot open the CAB files inside. If you have InstallShield professional, there is a program in there called InstallShield Cabinet File Viewer that will let you extract the files out. I don't think you need the version of InstallShield that created the installer, for example this sp38266.exe was created with InstallShield 12 but I have InstallShield 10 and it worked. Otherwise you will have to use InstallShield switches to do a file dump with Setup. I can never find the correct syntax for Setup, but you can try /extract_all. Or you can try recording the setup, or install the product on a system not using the silent and look to see if the files are extracted to a temporary folder.

It seems the Compatibility tab isn't determined by the binary itself, but where the file is located. If you copypasta the DISM.EXE from c:\windows\system32 to another folder, you will find you can use the Compatibility tab.

Certain file types are not allowed to be uploaded to the forum. You can either put it in a ZIP file or you can upload it to another place like SkyDrive on Windows Live.

Well, yes I stated on the presumption that you aren't using it for anything. But even if it becomes corrupted can you restore it again? Originally I had tried to image the System Reserved partition but re-deployment never seemed to work properly.

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A lot of things work that way. New ideas and products almost always start in the "high-end" (read: big money) organisations like those who can afford things like that. How many ideas have come from big business and the military? Who would have thought that Servers would end up in the home, or GPS in the car? It still happens to this day, where features in server class products make their way to the desktop such as memory interleaving and U/EFI. I found my favorite keyboard to be the one that came with the Mac G3 and it worked just fine on a PC, even on Windows 98. Of course one major problem is that they aren't serviceable. Meaning, once you spill your drink into it, you can't take it apart, and because it is clear you will never be able to forget what you did, even on your way to the trash bin. If it wasn't so expensive to replace I would get another one! I've had two, one lasted 6 years and the other less than 1 year, and both ended up as mini aquariums...

There are different versions, x86 and x64. I found these both on Microsoft Downloads. PlayReady PC Runtime v1.3 (x86) PlayReady PC Runtime v1.3 (x64)

You do not need to backup the System Reserved partition. See here:

Offices are so much quieter now that modern keyboards lack the clackiness of the old IBM keyboards.

I was doing a deployment test when I saw this thread so I had to wait until it was all done. I installed Windows 7 Professional SP1 x86 with drivers for about 12 boards, Office 2010 and Windows Live Essentials 2010 installed: So 30GB with a stock OS should be enough to hold the OS, but I would recommend an 80GB personally.

Yes you can't set compatibility options with the DISM in the Windows folder because it is marked as "coming with the os"... However wouldn't your option still work if you set a pre-requisite that the user installs the WAIK, and then have it run the DISM that comes with the WAIK?

You can try adding an install key to your XML. What type of license is your OS using?

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Well if you want to get technical, the short version of "Hard Drive" is HDD (Hard Disk Drive), as it related to FDD (Floppy Disk Drive) and ODD (Optical Disc Drive)... Also, PS2 (aside from Playstation 2) isn't the short for the input device, that is PS/2 which is the IBM Personal System/2. The reason why PS/2 is used for keyboard and mouse input is because those ports first appeared on the IBM PS/2 systems. Even the laptop to notebook terminology isn't just a change of words, but the entire portable system designed had changed. Laptops and Notebooks really are two different things.

Oh I wish I could.... My motherboard is the Intel DQ35JO, no legacy I/O ports. I will try to build a CD at work tomorrow that will initiate a bugcheck.

Added link to WDS F11 Server Selection: http://www.deployvista.com/Default.aspx?tabid=70&EntryID=99 Basically you add additional WDS Servers into your main WDS screen. The only thing you should configure in the additional servers is to specify the AD Server to make things faster. Then when you PXE boot a client, you are given the option to press F11 to select between deployment servers, or press F12 to boot off the primary server. This only works on Server 2008 R2. I have tested it out and seems to work.