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You can try running ProcMon on the game's process and see why it exits. That would be my next step. It is possible that an assembly is missing that it requires, like from an older VC Redist or some older programs needed the Common Controls patch.

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I think it is. I only used FP2000 once and couldn't stand it. Never learned too much about it. Newer FP and Impression uses FTP in the background but as "Publish" option. For some reason Microsoft made it have to use an Extension to be put in IIS for this to work. Its also a good idea to know how to use DOS FTP, which you may have to in emergency (you are not at your own PC) situations.

OIC you got the audio working using the generic driver... I might play with this later. Putting it on my list! Well I'm stumped about it. I must be missing some steps. For one, where is this pnputil.exe come from? I can't use your program for this, I am wanting to enable audio for one of my existing PE, which people will freak out because I labelled it as "Virus Installer" in WDS.

Make sure your port is still open for the mail coming in. Telnet to it. Do you get any errors anywhere? Event Viewer? If you send an email from a gmail (or whatever) do you get a response from the mail demon? Also I think you should check to see if your domain got blacklisted... It does happen.

I suppose you could be right, except for the Hyper Threading part. The P4 used in three of those examples was the same CPU, it did not support HT. I was going to buy one that did but then I came across the Core 2.

that url doesnt work i hope to see this thread continuing I'm not sure what link it was supposed to be, here seems to be a start I found on TechNet: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd919179%28WS.10%29.aspx

If these games are the DOS versions (since you mentioned W98) you are going to have problems. For example, the DOS version of Warcraft II (Tides of Darkness) will not execute under Windows 7. However they made a different release (Warcraft II: Battle.Net Edition) which WILL work in Windows 7. The difference is that the BNet Edition was a "Windows 95" game rather than ToD which was for DOS. You can try using an emulator to run them if they are DOS Games. For example I used DOSBox to run WC2:ToD, which worked (even the sound) but had to configure it to detect the CD Drive properly. Some problems you may encounter running DOS programs in Windows (even with the command prompt) is it can't find the sound card, video plays in a resolution/refresh rate you can't see, or the program pins the CPU at 100%. Ah, Mr Snrub, I did not know about turning off DEP for making games work, I'll have to remember that one.

Is Windows smart enough to hide that program if it does not think you have a DVD writer drive in the computer? I haven't tried burning a DVD at home yet, but I do know that 7 sees my DVD-RW as a CD-ROM (which means I can't burn CDR with Explorer), but at work my PC sees DVD-RW Drive. If your Explorer sees your drive as something other than what you have (it could also say DVD-RAM Drive) you may have a generic driver installed. Just an idea.

I have an awesome printer that I've printed maybe 5 pages ever with. The ink is probably all dried up. I don't really have a need for printing, almost a waste but it has a scanner on it too, which I use all the time!

I do not see a problem with it being in Customizing Windows. While your method does involve unattend technologies, it would leave a bad example by keeping a Customization topic in the unattend forum. People already post way too many custom topics in the other forums, I think its best to keep it where it is. If your responders are asking too many unattend questions, you can edit your first post to put in a disclaimer to see other topics relating to DISM or WAIK or whatever.

Some notebooks use their cameras differently. I have tested cameras on MSI, Uniwill/ECS, Intel and Asus. Here are possible things that can cause this problem: 1. The Camera option is disabled in the BIOS. Some notebooks (Asus, some MSI, 1 Uniwill) will not fully disable the device if set in the BIOS and Windows can still detect it but not make use of it. 2. The notebook requires a firmware update to enable extra button features. For example, original MSI notebooks made for Vista needed a special update to use the buttons in XP, as HotStart was a Vista only endeavor. My brain wandered (aka i went away from this post to eat lunch) and I forgot what else I was going to say. Hopefully this is a good start.

I have no idea how you'd even "evaluate" that in the first place (swap RAM for some faster clocked in the same computer, and then see if something in flash somehow works better?), and I don't see how memory speed would affect it in any perceptible way. It's usually either network bandwidth bottleneck (wait for it to download before it does anything), or otherwise a mostly CPU-bound process (i.e. decoding HD H.264 streams and the like). You got me curious on how you got to that conclusion. Once a flash is loaded, it runs from the computer, not from the server. I'm not talking about watching videos like Youtube or JTV or something. Say we take a flash game (which I play on Facebook) and talk about the animation speeds. I've run 4 different configs in the past year and can see these differences in how Flash works. These results may seem strange but I can see the difference! Here is a list of configs in order of fastest to slowest: 1: Core 2 Duo 1.8GHz with 1.5GB DDR2@533MHz (7) 965 chipset 1: Pentium 4 2GHz with 512MB RDRAM@800MHz (xp) 850 chipset 3: Pentium 4 2GHz with 1.5GB DDR@333MHz (xp) 865 chipset 4: Pentium 4 2GHz with 1.5GB DDR@233MHz (xp) 865 chipset Flash speeds between the RAMBUS and DDR2 is basically equal. Although the Core 2 seems to make up the difference between the memory speed with the RDRAM vs the P4 CPU without HT. I went from the RDRAM system to the DDR and it was horrible. I didn't have a choice because my board died. It was an upgrade on the Motherboard side, but a downgrade in the RAM. Going to 333 from 233 was a HUGE difference in speed on Flash. Not as fast as the RDRAM, as noted in my little chart.

Do these products use MSI like the older versions do?

Putting drivers in the BOOT.WIM is for installation only. Put drivers in INSTALL.WIM if you want them to be installed in Device Manager. If you use your BOOT.WIM over a network, you need to put the NIC drivers in it, if you are not (like a custom DVD) you don't have to put in the NIC driver. If you look at the unattend.xml file, there are 2 main stages. The WindowsPE passes are the install portion, like formatting the drive and copying the image onto the drive. After that phase is done (all the stuff is copied), then it boots up and does the install from the hard drive. The same basic process was in XP as well it just looks a bit different now. You remember when you install XP, it copies everything off the CD to the hard drive, then it reboots and does not use the CD anymore, it uses the files on the hard drive. Its the same principle

You got it right. I love how it will find the XML automatically. Its a lot easier to fix a file on a USB Key than having to reburn CDs every time you want to change something.

Have you tried mapping a drive in the command prompt, and use copy or xcopy, what error do you get?

If you find an easy way, without adding a bunch of stuff to PE, to get audio working, let me know. I've been getting requests lately to put a sound in one of my PEs, specifically the Atomic Bomb. As far as DRM, I think that is handled by Windows Media Player. .NET isn't a service I do not think. Some DLLs might need to be registered. I had tried in the past to get either Audio or Video drivers to attach properly in WinPE. The problem I observed was that while I could put the driver in the WIM, after it boots it still would use the generic one that is built in.

This is likely more of a software problem than a board problem. Have you tried another browser yet?

Even that would hardly make any difference, about 1% or so for most applications. More RAM would likely give more of a boost if you use apps that need it (i.e. not just "surf, office apps and nero burn"), otherwise there is very little gain to be made either. Totally not worth the expense, when a modern $50 low end CPU (E3300; would cost about the same as new RAM) is about 550% faster, or something a little nicer, a $100 Athlon II X4 630 would be a bit over 1200% faster (not that they would fit on the old board admittedly). Jus like puntoMX said, if it ain't fast enough then you're looking for a new computer (doesn't have to be expensive). I can tell the difference in memory speeds mostly in the current version of Flash used on websites. Otherwise, you are right, I wouldn't be able to tell very much.

OK Let me put things into perspective. My WinPE 3.0 is 168MB and requires minimum 1GB RAM to function properly. This is considering that my PE does more than load itself up, in fact it will boot on a client with 512MB RAM but not do its job properly. For example, it will fail most of the time when deploying Windows 7. With 1GB minimum there is no problem. The larger your WIM gets, the more memory it requires. Remember, the WIM is compressed when you look at the file size, when it boots it all becomes uncompressed and will take up even more space. When you boot WinPE, it loads everything into a RAMDRIVE. So, as I stated before, increase the amount of memory you are using.

Anything you can think of using HTML will work in the HTA (of course) and also you can use Flash in there too if you have access. I'm not sure about Flash embedding (I never tried it) but Flash Projectors work in there just fine.

What is the size of the WIM file and what size did you set the RAMDISK for (default?)

use DISM to inject e1k6232.inf. I found it in this driver package: http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&ProdId=2530&DwnldID=18388〈=eng Yes I know this is for Intel Server boards. That HwID is in that INF.

If you are interested in working with unattended installs, then the WAIK is not a bunch of garbage. Anyways, we have an unattend forum, which I am moving this topic to.