Tripredacus

Haha this thread reminds me of when I went to college to learn to repair and maintain mainframes, oddly enough that ciriculum was dropped in the last semester of my schooling, so I learned a bunch of stuff I've never had to use before!

Well what you use is totally up to you. I just use DISM and imagex for everything, but I can't use some of the other tools like vLite or such because I use this at a business. I just learned to do it with DISM and it is what I know best.

I imagine you have already disabled the IE protection service? By default Server OS will not let you access the internet, however Windows Updates should work (outside of IE) and even so, IE will tell you that the protection is turned on if you try to go anywhere. This protection will also stop you from going to "internal pages" of hardware devices such as 3Ware or Routers.

You can try restarting the Wireless Zero Configuration service. However this may be disabled if you are using a program instead of Windows to manage your wireless. If this doesn't work, maybe try using the software for your NIC to do it instead.

The stop error was not consistent from the XP CD. Your suggestion unfortunatly of creating an image for each different peice of hardware would take me back 5 years of development . I currently have 1 single image supporting 12 different laptops from various manufacturers and over 20 desktop models. Your suggestion would mean I would be supporting nearly 30 different images instead of one. In a corporate environment this is resource suicide for someone managing images. I guess it depends on how you approach it. I currently manage well over 200 XP images without a problem. Its up to you in the end how you want to do it, If Windows 7 comes out for you soon, I agree going back and redoing your XP work will be a waste of time.

Yes you can feel free to read through that topic, however we will NOT help you if you are using a pirated version of Vista, as your post says.

Some service is likely trying to use that file. First thing to try is create a txt file with that name and put it in that folder. Then mark it as read only. Maybe that will make the error go away. However if the file is blank you may get a new error, but maybe one with more info to track the exact cause. If this program came on a disc, you can try looking for an INI on there and copy it to that location and give it that name.

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Too many emoticons for one post! Here's some others. = Says phear, but originally was "Ninja" in old IPB versions. He's doing something behind the scenes. = this is when you see something you don't get. If you try to figure it out, it may lead to

Woot = think another version of "Whoo Hoo!" or "Yay!" = sticking his tounge out at you = this guy is confused to the point his eyes are spinning around. = this guy sees something wierd, shocking or surprising. Can also be expressed as a "double-take" = this guy is winking at you, nudge nudge, say no more = This one is not like the ascii symbol. The picture is like a "ho-hum" or "i tried it but it didn't work"

When searching for programs that work without installing, use Google to search for "portable" which is the common term for such a program. When I searched for "portable iso mounter" I found this place, which lists a few different ones that other people have used: http://portableapps.com/node/7201

It occurred to me today that I never tested playing a DVD in my computer since upgrading to Windows 7 Pro x86. So I tried it out but I only got sound out of the subwoofer and the front speakers. Nothing out of the rears or center at all. It isn't a real big deal, since I have a PS3 I can watch DVDs on there instead, but it was annoying me that it wasn't working. Here are some details: Soundcard: Creative SoundBlaster Audigy Gamer PCI Drivers: SBAX_PCDRV_LB_2_18_0011 The first thing I noticed upon setup of 7 initially was that the Creative Audio Console did not allow me to control the surround sound like in XP. I had to use the Windows Sound Setup to select 5.1 speakers, and I DO get all the correct sounds out of the correct speakers when I run the test. As an example, Winamp plays music through all the channels but won't play a DVD. I did a little research already, but mainly found beta or RC related topics. One option was to choose the "enhancements" option for WMP but this option is not present! Another was to download the shark's codecs but I don't want to do that. I've tried setting the Creative software to use CMSS 3D but that did not change anything. Any other ideas?

VMs for testing until you re-test on hardware? Seems like this would be something that would be perfect for VM testing. While I agree that such generic things like this could be tested without the correct hardware, because it is a custom image I'd rather wait for the correct config to rule out any problems. And I haven't ever tested in a VM as I have dedicated testing computers as well as the ability to request in-house systems.

From what I can tell, any driver you inject into a Windows 7 install.wim only gets installed if the hardware that uses that driver are present. There is only one caveat, as DISM does not check to see if you have support for that device already, aka you can inject multiple versions of the same driver into an image. To test, what I do is install 7 on a PC, then take note of what devices are not installed, and if Standard VGA Controller or High Definition Audio device are present, and then put those drivers into the image. I use hardware IDs as my control so I do not put the same drivers in twice.

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What is the STOP error you get when installing with the CD? I'd recommend you use different images for XP per hardware config, especially in a corporate environment.

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.