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Look for an IR window on the PC then. Here are some pics. Second picture on this page shows you an IR port on a notebook: http://www.tomsguide.com/us/compaq-nc8230,review-488-4.html All they are is a dark red square of plastic, like on old TVs and remotes. Here is a picture of one on a desktop (in outer space apparently) http://www.jdresearch.com/irdrive/icon/irdrive2.jpg

Can you just use the command to shut the machine down instead? It is: wpeutil shutdown

I confirmed that USB Drives are running at 2.0 speeds. Also installed a Logitech USB gamepad with no problems and even worked without rebooting or having to configure it first!

I can see this coming in handy one of these days.

I've seen this happen on notebooks that are over-heating and/or the wireless cards are failing. This was a known issue (for example) on the HP DV notebook series.

If you are getting a "MEMORY_MANAGEMENT" STOP error 0x0000001A, last time I had this happen, memtest revealed the memory was bad. I'm no pro at reading these dumps, just an idea.

Looks like someone forgot to pay their bills!

Welcome to the MSFN!

IRDA = Infrared Data Association. So the PC is reporting an IR device is accessing the computer. It isn't likely another user. Most PCs do not come with Consumer IR support, but some notebooks certainly do. You say it does not have network support, then later you say it can't access the internet. How does this PC connect to the internet?

I have used WireShark and Microsoft Network Monitor

Exactly, that hasn't stopped people from using Win 9x.

Yes, but I have spent hours looking over google results, and haven't found anything useful. I have no idea what "VM Additionals" is. VM Additionals is for another VM Program (I forget the one, I don't use it anymore) that gave additional functions to the VM. For example, without it you could not access network shares, etc. Have you checked dependencies?

This error is all over google. Is VMWare Tools related to say VM Additionals?

From First To Last - Ride the Wings of Pestilence

You can add the site into the trusted sites section. Here is a general example (only go to step 3), obviously you type the domain name in the field, not the entire contents of the address bar. For example, http://www.msfn.org/ http://www.share360.com/supportcenter/s360v2/manuals/manualbyvolume.cbml?volumeID=053&chStart=8&prodName=Share360%20Outlook%20Sync

Here are some questions (before you give up) as I've experienced this a long time ago... 1. What other roles does your WDS Server hold? 2. What is the OS version of the WDS Server? 3. What is the OS version on the DHCP Server? 4. Are either of these servers running DNS? 5. Are you using hostnames or IP Addresses for your DHCP/WDS Server options? 6. How much RAM is on the WDS Server? 7. What speed are the NICs set for on both servers, any switches in between and the client? Note: I am asking about the OS version. I know you said 2008 R2 but there are many different versions it could be. Make sure to include architecture.

If you open that little shield that is telling you may have a problem, somewhere in there you can find notification options. Unfortunately, my Windows Defender is not turned on (I think MSE disables it) so I can't see those settings.

So you are trying to have the WinPE be the host? Make sure to disable its firewall. Also do you get any errors?

Unless you are using a plug-in (I do not know of any, sorry) I do not think a browser can do that for you. There are some search engines that do index FTP sites, last one was Lycos but I don't know if that one even exists anymore.

I've been going about my Office 2010 training (self-paced) and came across some interesting info. Of course I can't tell you it verbatim, but fortunately there is some info on Social with a hint: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/officesetupdeploy/thread/4615d7bf-27f6-4b5d-b2ec-1480ef8a5214 Basically, if you have a computer with Office 2010 Starter installed, you will have an option (via Office To-Go) to install portable Office apps on a USB Key. I figured someone here might like that idea.

My only complaint about Hibernation is that there does not seem to be a good hardware support for letting you know a PC is in Hibernate vs being off. This has caused many headaches for me as I move computers around a lot. Some do not like being unplugged when in Hibernate and plugged in again and woken up. But I agree, Hibernation is better than sleep, but for my own computers (except my netbook) I do not use Hibernation or Sleep, only on displays and disks. The netbook doesn't seem to care if it gets unplugged while hibernating but that may have something to do with the battery. I remember my first experience with Vista hibernating (it did it by default) but I thought it was off. Boy does it act funny when you replace hard drives or memory in a hibernating PC that you think is actually off!

To put it simply, Sysprep prepares Windows for the end-user. If you install your OS and when it is done you have the sysprep box on the screen, it means you are in Audit mode. Unfortunately, you wouldn't want to use your computer in Audit Mode as some features of Windows are disabled. Some of which include Aero and it will also hide some pop-up messages, although they still get logged to the Event Viewer.

Right, the only reason why you'd ever need to "clone" a volume is if it has specific boot data that is kept on the hard disk outside where the file system resides. Otherwise, if its just data, you can use anything even a copy/paste.

Well I'm going to try out this USB thing tonight. I do not need additional USB ports, My board has 4 on the back already and I am not using any of them. If I manage to get the wireless installed, I'll see how the transparency works out! Oh, I forgot to add, I'll look into any flip video settings too. Update I followed the link you sent me Dencorso, and got USB installed. There was about 5 reboots involved. I then plugged in my Wireless and the drivers appeared to be installed, as well as the software. But the software would not open. It was then I found the NIC flagged in Device Manager with a Code 2: However, that did not stop me from playing around. Oh and you can tell by the following screenshots that USB drives do work for me! It shows up in My Computer, but besides that, it was how I got the screenshots to my W7 PC to upload them! So you can see, almost 10 years later I can still have transparency in Windows 98 FE. As noted above, my resolution is REALLY low so I can read the text on my TV, which is a 20" CRT... Some people might notice I'm "cheating" with the transparency... yes it is with some old version of Windowblinds. Do not ask me where I got it, it is from 2001 and got it in 2001.... Here is another: