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Actually that is also the reason I can read (some) German...

Ah OK, so we're not talking about "sysprep" as much as the OOBE process on the reboot. I think there is a different setupact.log that is in C:\Windows that we need to see and not the one in the Panther folder.

What's wrong with QBasic? It comes with DOS 5 at least.

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You should repost this question in a new thread in the Hardware Hangout

AMEN! This exact idea is also present in the web design community. Us "old schoolers" were taught that you needed to make your code as small as possible so that the page would load fast because most people had dial-up. Now that most people have broadband, no one cares that their code is all bloated because no one is going to notice.

Here is one thing right off the bat: 2010-07-21 21:45:16, Error SYSPRP SPPNP: Error 0x2 setting SDDL on driver file C:\Windows\system32\igfxsrvc.exe! 2010-07-21 21:45:16, Error SYSPRP SPPNP: Error 0x2 enumerating locked down files! This is the Intel Graphics service for controlling the onboard video. Sysprep is having a problem reading this file because either it can't close the service, the service is not responding or any other sort of reason. Do you use a video card in this system or are you using the onboard video? But this error shows up at 21:45, but the log starts at 21:43 so definately not a long time according to the log file. So it looks like it only takes 2-3 minutes for sysprep to run, as it shuts down the log file AFTER the error with IGFX, so the slowdown might actually occur after the log file stops. So suffice to say, Panther logs aren't really showing anything. Just for fun, try turning off the IGFX service before running Sysprep. You will still have video, but if you are running multimonitor the other display will turn off. Then run sysprep and see how long it takes.

What actually happened when you got that error. For me, the screen suddenly got filled up with random characters, resembled the matrix movie kind of thing, and after a second the BSOD popped up. And once i was watching a movie, that time i heard a static noise before BSOD. It was a long time ago (2002) and it was on (Shiva) a Windows 98 system. One of the sticks of ram, a 128MB was showing up as 67MB at POST.

I've been playing with this so I can learn how to do similar things. I have had a couple problems with it, maybe you can help. 1. The HD Audio drive installs and is not shown to have a problem in Device Manager but it cannot play any sounds. 2. When you plug in a USB drive after boot, you can see it with the command prompt but not from My Computer/Windows Explorer.

The startnet.cmd file should be in mount\Windows\System32. If it is not there you can create it but it should be there already. As far as the selection menu goes, you could get away with using a Batch file for the menu and have the startnet.cmd open that. Or you could use an HTA or other tool. A similar question was asked the other day: I personally use the Gimagex HTA (link in my sig) but you can use whatever you would like.

I did some quick searching but didn't come up with anything. Your best bet is to find a modding community for the game and ask the question there. I noticed that the server component is based off X-Server, which is going to be your limiting factor, not the fact the game runs on the Unreal Engine. Also modding this limitation might cause problems if, say, you are trying to do this on Xbox 360.

Hehehehe, I think you might be right And you're right as well Cluberti, I must have read over the "Direct connect to inet"-phrase Of course, you always have the chance that your ISP will filter out most nasties coming in/out, so keep that in mind as well. Is this chance greater than winning the jackpot in the lottery?

You **could** do this in the startnet.cmd file, but personally I'd have it load a program where you can manually select to apply the image. The reason for this is that you'll basically make a PC killer if used improperly. Of course I have a Server that does a similar thing, except if you PXE to it, it automatically boots into WinPE and formats the hard drive. Fortunately, this server is on its own network and has no communication with the outside world. But you can imagine how bad it would be if someone were to accidently bridge its network, or someone tried to PXE boot on its network! Some user intervention would be better than automatically imaging at boot. There are several methods, such as booting into an HTA or a GUI made in AutoIT.

I'm not sure if it is supposed to. All the documentation I've found is that the silent or unattended install of Office 2010 is only supported on Windows 7 (probably Vista but no one likes that anyways) and say to do manual install on XP.

This partition is likely the same type as these. Unfortunately you won't find any sort of tools to hide the partition again and be able to gaurantee that it will function. You CAN change the volume ID with some programs such as DiskPart but no promise that you'll be able to boot into it if needed. There is no real way to make this partition appear and get a drive letter unless you had changed the drive ID or installed a program that can read Non-Standard/Windows volumes. For example, have you gotten any program lately that lets your PC read Linux or Mac drives?

Sounds like you have a stick of memory going bad. I had a parity error (personally) once where a stick of memory showed the wrong size than it was supposed to have.

Its not a problem. At least now you know about it and when you have the opportunity to use it in the future, you will have a head start.

Actually, here is a sure-fire way to get a trojan. You need: a computer with a NIC and NO anti-virus installed (or disabled). Then you connect it directly to the internet and TURN OFF the Windows Firewall. Then just go to a website, although you probably will get something withing 5 seconds if you are lucky. Also you can open Outlook Express and add an account into it. A lot of viruses (botnets) like to send emails through Outlook Express. You can STOP your PC from actually sending out said emails by setting the SMTP server to be an invalid address, so then the spam emails will just sit in your Outbox folder.

Basically anything you can do with ASP and Flash you can do with HTA. HTA is basically ASP (HTML + VBScript) so possibilities are endless. You can read from WMI, access network resources and more. I have tested Flash Projector apps and they work, but I actually use AutoIT for advanced scripting and have the HTA launch those programs.

Some people use BS Explorer, but I haven't seen it before. Here are some other projects: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=126411 http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=95507 http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=99148 http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=139083 These all come from the WinPE FAQ Thread: And if anyone finds anything else I can put in that topic, let me know.

You can do it with FirstLogonCommands if you run a program to pull info from either the system or the server. For example, you could put the computer name in the BIOS into the Asset Tag or Serial Number field, or you could do something like this:

Right, so create a user account ON THE SERVER with a password. Use that account to access the share from the client. You also need to set NTFS and Share permissions to that user.

Well are these folders very large or do you just want them to go away? You could just hide them so that you can't see them. You can do this with Attrib and set them to +A +H and you won't be able to see them again unless you uncheck the Hide Protected System Files box in Folder Options.

I have just been setting the crash dumps up on my machine using your post here I was able to get the 3rd item setup (full system crash). I downloaded and installed the tools you linked, but in the Memory dump from an application/process that is HANGING (not crashing) step 3, I can't find adplus.vbs to run the cscript. The path I installed is c:\program files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\ after that there are a number of other directories, Bin, Include, Lib, License, Redist, Samples and Setup. I did a search for the afore mentioned file, adplus.vbs Input Error: Can not find script file "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v 7.1\adplus.vbs". Did I do something wrong in the installation? Or am I just doing this wrong? I believe the instructions posted on MSFN are for the older versions of the Debugger and not the newest one on Microsoft.com. You need the 6.1.x version and not the WDK 7.1.

I can move it. In addition: