Tripredacus

There are two options to set for allowing RDP. One is the legacy and one is the more secure mode. Which do you have selected? Are they both the same on both machines? You can also try adding each computer's account (that you use for RDP) into each other's Administrators group as COMPUTERNAME\USERNAME.

Just a question, since there are few programs that react to running procmon.exe (or other tools from MS SysInternals) but one I know is SecuROM. If you have any games installed, see if they still open too. Of course, a reboot nullifies SecurROM's behavioural oddities...

Protected OS files are kept elsewhere as a backup. For example, if you deleted logon.scr, it would re-appear again. If you want it totally removed, you need to remove it from where the backup is kept.

You can't do this while logged into the system. First, you would be using Explorer.exe to replace itself, and this is denied because the program is open. Even if you closed the explorer.exe process and used some other method (like cmd.exe) to do it, this won't work either because there is an underlying explorer.exe you can't see. Additionally, explorer.exe is a protected file, if you were to replace it, Windows will restore the correct version! If you want to do this, you will need an alternate method to access your OS volume. You can do this with NTFSDOS, WinPE or other programs. First you need to backup your regular explorer.exe just in case you need to restore it. Then you can overwrite the explorer.exe in (WinSxS I believe? I haven't done this in Win7) and the one in system32 OR just delete the one in system32. When the PC boots up off the OS volume again, it will restore your fake one from its backup (if you just deleted the system32 one) or use the one you replaced. This was the method I used for replacing files in Server 2003. If you use WinPE, you may need to change the permissions on the files or folders or change ownership to replace them. NTFSDOS isn't free I don't believe, but there may be alternatives or it may be abandonware by now. Or if you don't want to go through all that hassle, rename your custom one to something else, drop it in system32 and change the SHELL registry key from explorer.exe to your filename.

The slowness *may* be related to Usher's post, however that has nothing to do with member counts. Also, DDoS attacks are focused on the actual servers and network links themselves. Additional connections to the server would not register as Guests. A Guest is generated (to the best of my knowledge) when the server generates a session for that person. The newer versions of IPB can also detect spiders and other bots that identify themselves when they visit the site, so this large number could also be those types of "users" aka bots. You will also notice that the member numbers are over 30 minutes, not the exact time you loaded the page. You can also tell the actual amount of "real" traffic here by looking way at the bottom of the main index. As of this moment it says 7 queries, which is related to requests to the database for information. Since everything is kept there, every time you click on a link it will do a query. Since this number is so low (as of this moment there are 7000+ in last 30mins and 26 registered users) you can tell that many people are not posting or moving about the forum, and that no one is trying to slow it down by doing so. However, it may be possible that the board may also register a guest if someone has hot-linked a file or picture on another site. I do not know enough about how the engine works to know if that is true or not.

At home, I have the main forum index bookmarked. However, if I am at work, I have the main site (msfn.org) as my bookmark. When I go there, it also shows that I am not logged in, however it is just on that page. If I were to click on a news item, it will then say "Welcome Tripredacus" as it should and I could comment on a news post if I wanted. Now if I just click "Enter the Forums" link on the left, when I get to the board index, I am logged in. While the main page of the site may not show you logged in, and is an actual problem or bug, it doesn't (for me anyways) appear that any time I would need to use my account I am not logged in. Try not logging in from the main site and see what happens. Now if you go to the board url (msfn.org/board) and you are logged in as someone else, that would be a big problem! Also, in my case, if I choose to log in from the main index (not the board index) and it refreshes and I am still not "logged in." At this point it would appear to be just a display issue. The main index is not showing you as being logged on when you actually are.

You can either have your unattend execute the installer packages silently after install, or you can recreate your source and use DISM to inject the drivers.

Unfortunately, as far as current product goes, no current Intel boards are going to work with 533MHz DDR2. Everything is either 667 or 800. If you want to use your current RAM, you're going to need to look at other brands. Otherwise if you are looking for new RAM, definately get something with DDR3. Good examples would be any of the Intel X series boards which use DDR2, and can make use of a Quad Core or Xeon CPU. Here are a few boards I've dealt with: http://ark.intel.com/Compare.aspx?ids=41162,42486,36888,33394,

I got it working in the end, turns out I had to drop a copy of Autounattend.xml into boot.wim image #2, and it works now, along with my custom backgrounds et al That is interesting, but I don't think it will help me.

OK thanks. Currently I am now in info collecting mode. My company decided to sell off the machines I was using to create the image! This is a common occurance lol. So I'm in waiting mode until I get another machine to test on.

The C: is the leftover System partition from Win7. You need to FDISK or remove all partitions with the XP CD. However, just because your XP is in D: (or the second part) it shouldn't make your HDD louder or slower.

Well if you want to do it for your own stuff, that is fine. If you want to make the information available to others, you can post it here. However you cannot redist .NET Framework on MSFN (or anywhere) so you can only post instructions of how to do it, and where to download the required files from Microsoft.com and/or where to get other files from the OS.

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I am also having problems getting WinRE to "install" with an unattend. The only difference is that I am approaching it differently than you. When I figure it out, I will try to help but I cannot gaurantee anything. PS: by "help" I mean anything found on technet or social.

I'm not sure about your question. WinPE 3.0 does not support .NET Framework, similar to the previous versions.

Your command is missing a bit. You need to specify more information in order to mount a WIM. Example: DISM /MOUNT-WIM /WIMFILE:C:\WINPE_X86\ISO\SOURCES\BOOT.WIM /INDEX:1 /MOUNTDIR:C:\WINPE_X86\MOUNT

I do not get a Toolbar option under View either. I do get a Toolbar option if I right-click on the taskbar tho.

I think the OP is thinking of old SCSI where if you put a SCSI 2 drive on a FAST SCSI 2 controller, you could smoke the drive because the (cheap) cards back then weren't smart enough to know the device couldn't support the write speed of the controller. I think most tech nowadays is a little smarter than back then.

I was going to ask this! Network share always prompts you as it is an Untrusted Zone. What I end up doing (to get past this issue) is to copy the installer files to the HDD and then have the installs run from there. The local machine is a trusted zone, and should not prompt you to run the programs. Of course, I copy the installers over before the machine boots and write a registry key so the programs load when the Desktop loads.

You should be able to boot a WinPE 2.0 partition with just the boot.ini and not have to worry about BCD. However, I am wondering why your PE is running as FAT32 and not NTFS... Anyways the only other problem might be that the WinPE partition would need to be marked as Active in order for it to boot. I believe I ran into this problem a few years ago, however I was using Terrabyte Lab's MBR programs to unhide a WinPE partition, mark it active and then boot to it. And then later, after rebooting from the WinPE partition, you need to mark it as inactive and mark a different volume as active. At least that is how I did it, but also only with 2 partitions.

I've seen it both ways where you get the on-screen warnings and when you don't. You get the Event Viewer warnings in both cases. If you want to keep using Windows 7 on this PC you should Activate it. Otherwise if you encounter any problems and need help with them, we may be less inclined to help you because the machine is not activated. This is because there is no real way to determine if any programs are malfunctioning because of the limited state that Windows is in. I am going to wager to say that most of us are less experienced in a non-activated Windows 7 system than an activated one.

Right, if it is off screen, try opening Notepad first. Then if you use ALT+TAB, you should see it in the switch list. Select it, even if you can't see it, you can use keyboard shortcuts to move it. Off the top of my head it would be ALT+SPACE (which opens the root window menu), then press M (the Move Windows option) and then hold the LEFT ARROW (<-) or RIGHT ARROW (->) down for about 5 seconds to see if the prompt moves to where you can see it. All that courtesy of me using a Windows 98 PC for 6 months without a mouse.

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Welcome. This is the intro forum. No technical posts here. I'll leave your other one in the intro forum, but moving this to XP unattend. Make sure to read the forum rules, and do not make more than one topic for the same thing.

Welcome. This is the intro forum. No technical posts here. I'll leave your other one in the intro forum, but moving this to XP unattend. Make sure to read the forum rules, and do not make more than one topic for the same thing.