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No you don't. Not here. Board Rules Besides, if you have to reboot other hardware (such as modem and router) and rebooting the computer itself doesn't do it, I would jump to the conclusion that the NIC is the issue.

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If you have a PXE server or want to change to a CD boot, you can see the HTA in my signature. Or you can just run Setup with an answer file... example: - Make a WinPE that runs setup /unattend:path_to_xml - Put your image on another drive, like an external usb hdd or anywhere, even a network share would work - In your answer file, specify where the image is located. For some reference, here is a post I made where you can use WinRE to apply an answer file to reinstall Windows. However, it was not done the way you are trying. Even still you might figure something out anyways even if it isn't supported.

The article you linked to is to do a recovery with an existing OS partition, not for a clean install. As noted in my post above, RECENV will look for an existing OS install. WinRE is meant to do recoveries, not an install. You should be using WinPE instead of WinRE (which is just WinPE with the recovery program in it) to do installs. Also, you can ignore the methods for using SetAutoFailover.cmd as this is for Windows Vista recovery. Windows 7 does not use the same process. The problem of offering this type of information comes from the fact your original post (before you edited it) did not specify which version of Windows you were dealing with. I recognized it with the mention of Reagentc, which Vista did not use, but sometimes posting in non-specifics can lead to being offered incorrect or incomplete responses.

I had an uptime of just over 3 months on my Windows 98 Server multiple times. Does that count?

Yes of course it won't boot. But since you would be restoring an image into a different configuration, you would need to update the BCD as necessary. Same thing would happen if you took an XP image from a dual-boot system and redeployed it to a single partition without updating the boot.ini.

Disk enumeration is not equal along all hardware, this I have seen. Mostly on notebooks and desktops with card readers. I remember a specific case of a Compal notebook that wouldn't always detect the HDD as Disk 0. When the WinPE boots, it takes the first "disk" returned by the BIOS as Disk 0. Some hardware may have delays or different enumeration orders during the boot process. In some cases the card reader would enumerate before the hard disk would. Also some systems may enumerate a USB key before the SATA port. I remember a case in point where I booted up 5 notebooks at the same time, and 4 had the hard disk as Disk 0 and one had the card reader as Disk 0. I was so happy when we stopped using those.

Yes it has been confusing to me when you can actually index the entire drive, but some folders still come up with that "add to index" banner. Sometimes I just use the DIR in the DOS window too.

Its not really just Apple that is doing it, they are just taking advantage of it and marketing it better. Its been a trend for awhile and probably started with the ability to do mobile computing. But even back in the olden days of portable computing (this could go all the way up until 2005 actually) mobile pc like notebooks and laptops were JUST like desktops. Well for the most part, but PCs were still better in some areas such as graphics and the ability to go online. And we all know that Tablet PCs are not necessarily new, but aside from the ability to write on the screen, they had the same limitations of other portables. It wasn't until portables became more streamlined to what people actually would want them for. Sure you could be typing up your spreadsheets or documents on a train, but a lot of business folks found they could use it to store their contacts and appointments when not in the office. What if you were out on the road and needed to call a dude, obviously you don't bring your rolodex in your luggage! So things such as the PalmPilot, Blackberry and Clie became hit items in the business world. Yes there were personal organizers before those, but they were more like advanced calculators. I'm not forgetting about the mobile phone either. Again not something that was particularly new. There were some important advancements in mobile "computing" that led to what we are experiencing today: 1. Cell phones had the ability to send text messages 2. Personal Organizers (Blackberry, etc) had the ability to access the internet. 3. While you could say MP3 players had the ability to play video (this is important) however it was the Sony Clie that first had this ability, ableit only sold in Japan since Sony was not making money in the US market. 4 .Notebooks could go online Now the reason why you could say the desktop will get wiped out is simple. There are many people who currently own a computer but only need the functions that the business people of 10 years ago needed. Regular folks only need a computer to go online, do email for the most part. So do they actually need a computer for that anymore? We've already seen the merger of cell phones and personal organizers. Next MP3 players will go away as we will get Phones with that space and options. Already we can see Microsoft is axing the Zune, so this is happening. Tablets are going to end up just being large versions of phones, and eventually I would imagine that they will drop off. Size may be the only issue, but they will end up being competition to phones. Who needs an iPad if you have the same thing in a cell phone? And e-Readers will end up being a fad.

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.