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It depends on the OS. In Windows 7 you can do this with Explorer without apps. I haven't tried to add fonts into Vista so I am not sure if that feature came out with Windows 7 or not.

I understand what you mean. I know that NICs exist out there that are PXE capable but you cannot access their boot menus OR select them as a boot device in the BIOS. However, I am not experienced in Grub (only when it goes grub grub grub grub x grub) so I did not know it *could* do a PXE boot. I wanted to make a joke about Novell in my previous post...

Microsoft doesn't make updates to things like the WAIK except possibly for documentation. But then again, all the documentation is on TechNet as it is. If there is any update to the WAIK binaries, expect to see it after Win7 SP1 releases. For now I'll close this thread.

I'm not too fond of the Windows Search either. There are many things it can miss if you don't tell it to index the folders. So I usually still use the dir /s from CMD to do my searching.

You are confusing technologies. You can't boot a system twice without a bit of programming and a bunch of testing. Or maybe I have that backwards. What do your PXE clients normally boot into? If it is a WDS you can use a WinPE CD.

Is this not documented in the help files that come with the trial? The unattend is different for W7e. Unforunately I don't think you can get official help without getting in touch with an Embedded Partner. They are not always helpful in my experience.

I have no learned how to merge WIMs only extract separate image files.

Not too bad, but I can't speak for everyone!

Well with most that use RF it may not necessarily be the system. It could be the TV or a misunderstanding of how they work together. I do not have a PSX RF adapter (I only have the composite ones) so I can't see but look to see if there is a switch on the converter box. This is for channel. Typically channel 3 is the one to use. Then you must make sure you set your TV to that channel. However, not all TVs are the same. It is possible that the TV has a special "channel" to use the port you are using. So if you set the RFA to 3, and channel 3 doesn't do anything, try going below channel 2. Some TVs will have an "input" channel to use instead. And lastly, when you turn the system on, do you get any reaction from the TV at all? Is there a flicker or the sudden appearance of snow or artifacts on the screen when you turn the PSX on?

The timings should matter. The first three values are the most important. I think I'm running my home PC with two different speeds. Just make sure they are running at the frequency (the MHz) of the slowest. Since all of yours appear to be 400MHz I don't think you need to change that.

By default you should have a 32MB Ramdrive. If you want to put files into the X:\ then you want the Ramdrive. Unfortunately, I think you can ignore the buffer overflow and Name Not Found "errors" that you see in ProcMon. They happen on every system I've ever ran it on.

Not using DISM I don't think. If it is anything similar to Vista, you can't add SP1 in offline servicing. DISM can only add CAB files. Even OCSetup can add MSI files but only on a deployed OS. With Vista there were 2 programs you had to use after installing SP1. One was a cleanup tool and I forget what the other one is. I do not know if Microsoft made these available in RC or not. Anyways, you can try deploying Win7 to a system. Then install SP1. then do a sysprep /generalize /oobe /shutdown. You can then capture that install to a WIM file and build a new Install DVD and use the captured WIM file as INSTALL.WIM in the sources folder. Of course then this DVD you would make could only install 1 type of Windows 7.

Welcome to the MSFN!

Fixing a hal.dll error on XP can be complicated. I ran into this once with my old system (because I replaced the motherboard) and got down to just doing a repair install to fix it. Fortunately, a repair install of XP should keep all of your previous settings.

If this is a Windows 7 PC, it will not have Outlook Express but instead Windows Live Mail. Works SE is the equivalent to the Office Starter. Basically you get a couple apps (for example with Office you get a stripped down Word and Excel) that will either be a 60 day trial or an ad-based product that does not expire. This version of Works may give you the ability to upgrade to the full version, but I'm not sure. Office and Works are separate products, but I am not entirely certain why Microsoft keeps Works around.

There are 2 steps you need to do before trying to get an app to work. 1. Determine the memory footprint. WinPE x86 will require 512MB RAM and x64 requires somewhere over that, but let's just say 1GB RAM. In my experience, even a PC with 4GB RAM using WinPE 2.1 x86 cannot properly run on a 2GB boot.wim. You also need to consider how big your Ramdisk needs to be and/or if VirtualBox will want to write cache files somewhere. 2. Now that you have VirtualBox in your PE, run Depends (Dependency Walker) on it FROM the PE. Do not bother running Depends on VirtualBox from a normal OS, you will get back too much information.

A Smart Card can be used for various things since it is programmable. To sum it up, think of it as a hardware key similar to how some high-level engineering applications use. Microsoft sums it up well with this: From: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd277362.aspx

Update: You can specify a wallpaper with DesktopBackground, but that object will not be used unless a ThemeName is also specified. For my purposes, I use "aero" as my ThemeName. So for example, this DOES NOT work: <Themes> <DesktopBackground>c:\wallpaper.jpg</DesktopBackground> </Themes> But this DOES work: <Themes> <ThemeName>aero</ThemeName> <DesktopBackground>c:\wallpaper.jpg</DesktopBackground> </Themes>

You need to sysprep /generalize an image for deployment. Why can't you do it? Its because Microsoft made Windows 7 deployment more versatile in comparison to XP Deployment. XP was dependent on hardware, Windows 7 isn't, providing you do it properly. And by "properly" I mean you need to generalize the image.

My question was, that if you disable the showing of icons, does it still search for them anyways?

If anyone is having this issue, posting a full crash dump may be a good thing just to verify it is not a problem with the update and perhaps some other program/driver that uses win32k.sys as a dependency.

I wonder if we should consider this a "beta" product as far as conversation goes...

I wonder if I ever get banned, if I will never be able to "know" anything anymore, or I will endlessly search the internets for places to go to "know" but not "know" how to get there...

Interesting use of "IT"...