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Why would you want to rename the Sources folder?

Which WE are you using WEE (Windows Embedded Enterprise) or WES (Windows Embedded Standard) ?

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I pulled a prank similar to that on my friend. He never really paid attention to his desktop icons before I did this. One time I was at his house, I renamed his My Computer icon to Your Computer. Well a couple weeks later he had to call his ISP tech support when he couldn't get online. We've all heard stories about the My/Your Computer thing with people, but it works a whole lot better if the icon is named Your Computer. Too bad you can't rename it on Win7.

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I am working on an unattend.xml for Windows Web Server 2008 x86 and have just about everything figured out. The main issue I have is that I do not seem to have the ability to specify the Computer Name in the XML. You can see it if you highlight the component in WSIM: However, once you add the component, the Computer Name option is not there anymore: Is that just the way it is? Also I have questions if any of these can be done via the XML. I couldn't find any way to do them: 1. Turn of UAC: the Disable LUA option is not present for Server it appears 2. Disable screensaver: the Screensaver option under themes does not carry over when you add the component. 3. Customize what options appear in the Start Menu, such as the Run or Logoff buttons for example. 4. Set Visual Effects Performance Settings 5. Set Virtual Memory sizes 6. Set Windows Explorer options like View Details, full path display in address bar, show hidden files 7. Set the Event Viewer log file size limit 8. Add exceptions to Windows Firewall. 9. Set Local Security Policy settings 10. Add MIME types to Application Server Right now my answer file works properly except the Computer Name prompt comes up. Those additional things I'd like it to do will end up having to be scripted if the XML can't do it, and I'm cool with that.

Did you look at the sticky?

jaclaz I know, I remember that and also remember rebuilding the poll later.

The check for the recovery partition is when the program looks for a string in the MBR. If the string is not there, it will say that. I do not know what the MBR string is for this model. I am also not familiar with seeing this Ramdisk settings option, unless this is a translation.

What source folder? Sources?

What happens if you try to manually run it from the Tasks screen? I am betting you are getting an access denied when it tries to run. Can you try changing the account that it runs from, to say SYSTEM or something else just for testing?

I was going to say...

I figure I'll just make this thread all about my random image modifications and musings... Latest example, I got an email from Acronis asking "What face would you make if you lost all your data?" and I knew exactly how to handle this situation... The image came in an email, this isn't the exact original image but it gets the point across: http://www.acronis.com/i/promo/2010/WPBestPractices/header.png Here is my version:

OK so obviously these are the boot images. What is the error you are getting?

I compared your XML to my working Vista unattend I used on WDS and found you do not have a WindowsDeploymentServices object. Info here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc722103%28WS.10%29.aspx See my Vista XML I attached. Unattend.xml

Did you look at the Application Event Log as stated in the error? You usually get this message if you are missing a VCRedist.

Its easier to create your install DVD without an unattend file in it. Then if you want to run it unattended, you put your XML file on a USB key and insert it before booting off the DVD. If you don't want it to be unattended, don't insert the USB key. I think you could use a floppy disk too, not sure.

I have no idea what happened to the poll.

I don't see how this is news. Even the link says April...

When capturing a sysprepped Win7 image, I only capture the volume the OS is on. I do not capture the system reserved partition. It should work that way, even if you do not create the system reserved partition. I'm not really sure because all my images have WinRE partition in them. You should run bcdboot regardless.

You might need to run Outlook as elevated. I researched this error and it appears when Outlook can't do something its trying to do, similar to an access denied, port not open, etc.

Well not seeing a picture, but here are my questions: 1. How much RAM on the Technician PC? 2. What is the file size of the WIM? 3. What compression type did you use when creating the WIM?

Your local spellchecker here for you! On page 13, your 2 partition diskpart script, you have the second partition (the one with E: ) to get drive label="CDRIVE" the same as the first partition which actually is the C drive! However as an alternate script to deal with the CD-ROM drive letter being there, you could also do this: sel vol d assign letter=e As with deploying a stored Windows 7 image, you do not need to give the system reserved a drive letter. Since a Windows 7 WIM is stored sysprepped, it will automatically take care of the System Reserved partition on reboot. So a good scenario to redeploy a Windows 7 image would be to NOT assign a letter to the system reserved partition, and make the OS volume get the C drive. Also, the OS volume should be active, not the system reserved partition. But obviously your example will put a System Reserved partition and the rest of the drive a Logical Volume... Can Windows boot from a Logical Volume? Here is my (modified) Windows 7 example: sel disk 0 clean create part pri size=5000 format fs=ntfs quick label="system" create part pri sel part 2 active format fs=ntfs quick label="OS" assign letter=c exit A couple notes. After creating the first partition, you do not need to do "SEL PART 1" because it will be selected automatically. This is only for the first partition. If you do a LIST PART after creating the partition, you can see it is going to be selected already.

Nero doesn't make a shortcut either... You can create shortcuts in C:\Users\Public\Desktop for them to appear after setup.