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I hope you don't end up like that one guy whose PC grabbed a landbased wireless once in port (instead of the ship) and got a ginormous internet bill...

Ah, its a good diet food then! You eat one of those, maybe something else and then some water. You'll lose weight real quick. No cheating!

Look at the last post in this thread: http://www.msfn.org/board/autorundll-corrupt-t130381.html

Malwarebytes is not an antivirus replacement. It is an anti-malware application. I use it strictly as a cleaner, ie only used on an infected system. I also often rename it before running. I like it a lot, and it may be good to run once in a while, but definately do not recommend you have it do an active scan. Microsoft has a free antivirus program that is less resource hungry than Panda. Also, MSE is not only free, but it is not a "limited" free version where you have to pay to get the real version. Only drawback is that MSE will NOT run if you have Windows Updates turned off. If you can live with them turned on (I have it set for download but let me choose what to install) then this should work out for you. http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/

I often use notepad to make replies if I'm going to be using a bunch of quotes. There is no built in function for that if that is what you are asking, or if there is I am not aware of it.

What specifically are you doing that imagex can't handle with XP? Are we talking about using the Ghost software to make backups that you're restoring (aka, not sysprep images)? Recovery partitions!

I'll leave this open for now. I also wanted to point out that Google did make a change "recently" where their page doesn't show the links at the top or bottom right away. They fade in and honestly, its annoying and has slowed their page down.

This was brought up here: http://www.msfn.org/board/suddenly-heavy-site-traffic-attack-t143021.html I tried to explain possibilities of this behaviour.

It sounds like you have malware on the system. What do you mean IE is weird, do you get an error? What is the anti-virus you have on the computer?

It has to do with the timing the motherboard enumerates the drives to the OS. You will need to find out what the disk numbers are from the Server 2008 install. You can find this info by running the install without your AUTOUNATTEND.XML file, so that it boots and wants input. Then you can get the command prompt open (CTRL+SHIFT+F10 I believe) and run DISKPART to see how it sees the drives. Then use those values in your file.

How are you installing? From the DVD? You will probably need to make a custom install, I don't think you can make this change with just the XML itself.

You don't necessarily need to skip creation of a user. I recommend you still add the LocalAccount, but then you can also specify AutoLogon afterwards to log into the PC as a different account than the one you created.

Yes this thread is old, if Offler is still here, I have some input. - some of the games listed in Group 1 were available when Win98 was out. They include: Diablo Command & Conquer Dungeon Keeper Starcraft Age of Empires Dune 2000 Commandos Civilization II Tomb Raider Tomb Raider II Need For Speed Need For SPeed 2 MotoGP - some of the games listed aren't full games, but mods. If you count these, why not have a separate listing for Oblivion (pre-Shivering Isles) patched with Oldblivion? Here are the ones that are mods: Starcraft Broodware (mod) Quake III Team Arena (mod) Half Life TFC (mod) Half Life CS (mod) If you are going to list Starcraft Broodwar, why not list Diablo Hellfire?

Well when we use Ghost, its not coming from the 2008 server. The host for Ghost is 2003. So Ghost "Multicast" is emulated, and 2003 doesn't do multicast. The end result is that 2003 Unicasts the image to all interfaces, which is why the entire network slows down. I summed it up today in discussion, one of my underlings said "i'll wait until later to run this Ghost because I don't want to slow down the network" and I responded no go ahead, the more it gets slow and breaks, maybe we'll get lucky and management will open the wallet for the right hardware for us.

I'm not too certain about this. Was this language pack installed with the OS originally or added later? The only way I've ever installed a language pack was as an Office add-on and it appeared in Add/Remove Programs. I never tried to remove one before and also never changed my default locale, only had it installed to see the appropriate characters for Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Arabic. Not that it matters, I can't read any of those languages.

Hey, how come Zxian... Xzian whatever gets a special day on the MSFN calendar? Who's in charge of that, Dencorso needs a special day too.

you should try copype.cmd without using call. What error do you get with oscdimg?

I have resolved this problem as well! However I now need to automate the process. Here's how it went... I started out just imaging a machine and putting the AUTOUNATTEND.XML file in a folder, and then run recovery. It always ignored it. After about a week of head scratching, I finally decided to do a little research. Google and MS Social were basically dead ends, likely because I was approaching it from a different angle as those guys and the OP here. I then did a couple of things: 1. I mounted the winre.wim from my workstation with DISM. 2. I looked at the WINPESHL.INI and found it uses RECENV.EXE as the shell. 3. I opened RECENV.EXE in a string viewer 4. I saw that it looks for x:\unattend.xml, there is no XML file in the offline image. 5. I boot a PC to WinRE and open command prompt. Sure enough, the XML file is there. 6. I replaced the file with my custom one and ran recovery. It worked! However I used Notepad that is in WinRE (and WinPE) to replace the file, but that is not a good automated way of doing it! These next steps, I have not tried them yet, I will tomorrow... First thing you want to look at is this link: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd744576%28WS.10%29.aspx What we can do here is use FactoryRecoveryTool to reinstall the image for us. You will need to use the info from the unattend.xml that RECENV created when you got there, because it uses pathing and such. Then we can just call setup as such: X:\SOURCES\SETUP.EXE /UNATTEND:X:\SOURCES\UNATTEND.XML So if we use the /UNATTEND switch, you can put your unattend file anywhere you want and name it anything you want to. If you look in the WinRE.WIM you will find 2 setup.exe, one in Sources and one in the root of X. If you look at the manifests in a program like ResHack, you will see that the one in Sources is the one that installs Windows and not the other one. Alternatively, you can use FactoryRecoveryTool to run any app instead of running Setup. Man, I was so happy I got this to work!

I see you opened your XML file in IE and copypasta it into your post. We can't use this code very well, its better to attach your XML to your post (edit out your product key first). Does your XML validate in WSIM?

Also don't forget to change your "About" page, it still has the WordPress template wording in it.

Yeah I left the "loop" part out as I wasn't sure how to word it politely... We still are just using the old switches, except now the plan has been upgraded to getting managed switches as well as patch panels. Yes we just have Cat6 running through the ceiling and under tables. We do not need VLAN or anything crazy. This network has is isolated, we only want to be able to have switches that allow 100Mbps clients to run at 100 and the gigabit to run at gigabit at the same time. Currently, if a 100Mbps client is running (which it will if we use DOS Ghost client) the entire LAN drops to 100! Then what happens is that the gigabit clients end up timing out and the server will eventually cease to see that particular segment or the entire network. This wouldn't be such a big issue if we didn't have to use Ghost, but we still must use it to image XP machines with HD based recovery, since Imagex can't do it. And all the DOS NDIS drivers for Ghost run gigabit NICs at 100. Also, some onboard NICs (not Intel, but moreso Broadcom, RTL, etc) do not run at gigabit speed unless Windows is installed. So for example, a gigabit NIC will run at 100 during PXE or will if its just sitting in the BIOS or any pre-OS installed state, it will report to the switch its 100, make the light orange, then put Windows on it, install the driver and the light turns green/gigabit. Really annoying.

I hope these words don't make you famous!

The issue has been resolved. We replaced one end. Also found out that we only get 1% download speed when not teaming the NICs. Also the Team is for failover only, no aggregation.

XPH? XP Home?

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