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Answer found here, unfortunately... So I need to find another way to dynamically add drivers and run a program during WDS Unattend. Any ideas? I didn't really want to have to put drivers into the INSTALL.WIM...

It might be easier to just use the PE that comes with the WAIK. Check IcemanND's guide that is stickied for info.

Does your images or GP use the Domain Logon welcome message? This is typically contained in the registry: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc939716.aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc939712.aspx There is another key you can set too but I can't remember what it is.

Rick James - Super Freak finally I know the name of one of these blasted songs on the radio.

Its always good to salut the admin on your first post.

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Is there a difference between the 7rc PE and the 7 WAIK PE?

Wow - and I'm sure I'd choose the sound of server fans over Rod Stewart every time! Has radio in Buffalo gotten that bad? Yes, I have found other cities radio to be better for the most part. I don't usually listen to the radio except for talk or sports radio. But at work we have to have the easy listening station on or else the older women that work there start complaining. Recently I got back at them and put Yakety Sacks on loop and they flipped out! KMFDM - Lund end Eled

What size video files, what before and after formats, how much RAM on PC? Using XP Home or Pro? In Device Manager, how many processes?

Such programs are often known as bots. They are mostly common in MMORPG and other RPGs like Diablo II. A lot of people use AutoIT to create bots for games, because of its pixel identification ability. And these tools are available free or as open source in most cases. However, since using bots or third-party programs (primarily) in multiplayer games is against the terms of the license agreement, forums even like AutoIT are usually blacklisted as being related to warez/cracks by popular groups. For example, on the Barracuda web filter appliance, the AutoIT forum is blocked by default. Getting yourself known as being in the botting industry may affect you adversly in this way also. So be careful.

My first suggestion is that you need to verify that your slowness issue is actually being caused by the network, and not by applications running either on the clients or the servers. Also, you want to make sure your Server OS can handle multicasting, which will help immensly, if for example, your servers are running Server 2003, which are unicast only. Second, you need to verify that all of the interfaces (clients and servers) are all using gigabit NICs inside them. And if you upgrade to gigabit, you are going to want to upgrade all your cabling to Category 6, as its likely you are still running Cat5 or Cat5e.

Normal testing is complete at this point, as I may have found the cause of the problem. Our regular XP unattend (which I used to create the recovery image) uses a WINBOM.INI file that OOBE may be processing incorrectly. I cannot post this file, but I have my two log files that I have been compiling. Full statistics report of recovery partition behaviour. Product: MSI Wind Netbook MS-N0111X-044US OS: Windows XP Pro SP2 sysprepped partition: Windows PE 2.1 with custom apps RAM: 1GB SODIMM HDD: Toshiba Mobile 160GB Different scenarios outlined below: Situation 1 - Windows does not error out before welcome - the system partition size is correct - the recovery partition is not hidden and is assigned a drive letter - I then hide the partition and reboot into recovery Situation 2 - Fatal Error: Windows is unable to start because the registry could not be updated. - Recovery partition is hidden - System partition is 61GB in PE/Diskpart - WINBOM file is created in sysprep, see winbomfiles.txt Situation 3 - Windows does not error out. - the system partition is 61GB in Windows - the recovery partition is hidden ### Timeline of events. 06-09-2009 (earlier) reflected situation 1 06-09-2009 15:45 - situation 3 06-09-2009 16:04 - situation 3 06-10-2009 08:55 - situation 3 06-10-2009 09:10 - situation 2 06-10-2009 09:57 - situation 2 UPDATE: modifying recovery image to remove information from the WINBOM.INI file. and winbomfiles.txt so far: WINBOM FILE #1 WINBOM FILE #2 Factory is using the following WinBOM.ini file: C:\sysprep\WINBOM.INI ERROR: Factory state "Preparing for automatic logon" failed. Application ".NET Framework 1.1" returned exit code 0. Application ".NET 1.1 Framework SP1 Update" returned exit code 3010. Application "NDP1.1sp1-KB886903-X86" returned exit code 3010. Application ".NET 2.0" returned exit code 0. Application "NDP20-KB917283-X86.exe" returned exit code 0. Application "NDP20-KB922770-X86.exe" returned exit code 0. Application "Malicious Software Removal Tool" returned exit code 0. Application "WindowsXP-KB885835-x86-ENU" returned exit code 0. Application "Windows-KB913433-x86-ENU.exe" returned exit code 0. Application "WindowsXP-KB923789-x86-ENU.exe" returned exit code 0. Application "Updates" returned exit code 0. Factory is using the following WinBOM.ini file: C:\sysprep\WINBOM.INI ERROR: Factory state "Preparing for automatic logon" failed. Factory is using the following WinBOM.ini file: C:\sysprep\WINBOM.INI ERROR: Factory state "Preparing for automatic logon" failed. Factory is using the following WinBOM.ini file: C:\sysprep\WINBOM.INI ERROR: Factory state "Preparing for automatic logon" failed. Factory is using the following WinBOM.ini file: C:\sysprep\WINBOM.INI ERROR: Factory state "Preparing for automatic logon" failed. ERROR: Could not locate WinBOM.ini on any removable drives or the system drive. WINBOM FILE #3 At this point, I will have to totally reimage the drive because I can't copy the WIM off the recovery partition. Its too big (1.3GB) and I didn't enable networking in the PE.

I had once, out of necessity, switched careers from software to sales. Working in sales didn't work too well for me, while I was good at it, I am not a person that is motivated by money. So I have been back in software again, but that short time working in sales (it was aggressive outside sales, no telemarketing or sitting behind a desk) helped me gain leadership and business intelligence skills I didn't have before. So sometimes you just need a short vacation!

If by time limits and WGA giving you problems, and the fact that its very difficult to understand you, I can only think of a couple of scenarios: 1. You need to reactivate Windows 2. You are using a demo or RC version of Windows 3. You are using a pirated copy of Windows and you were tricked into installing WGA If you are sure it isn't a case of #2 or #3, you can run this command. It will either step you through activation or tell you it is already. You do not need internet access for this command, but if you don't then you'll need your COA handy and have to call the Microsoft phone number it shows you on the screen. oobe/msoobe /a

Now that you turned off everything, you can go into msconfig again and put checkmarks in just the things you want to load, or any Microsoft item. It may have a checkbox that hides Microsoft items.

Here are some related articles. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/818171 I can't see how this could be related. For one, I am not using RTM, but SP2. Also this only happens 33% of the time, so it doesn't explain the times when it works. And most articles about this error seem related to sysprep, however the actual problem is definately in the (re)deployment phase.

I like to add "-lofiversion" to the end of the search. It gets rid of a lot of dupes.

IDk it had my site at #4 on bing and #6 on google. Maybe if I still had content on it still I could get it back up to #1 where it belongs. Oh and I think Bing Crosby with this name.

We recently upgraded our Oracle server and replaced the HDDs with SSD. I think it has 2 32GB SSDs from Intel. I don't know the cost, but I think they are pretty expensive. The first one we got for free. X25-E: http://www.intel.com/design/flash/nand/extreme/index.htm X25-M and X18-M: http://www.intel.com/design/flash/nand/mainstream/index.htm

Windows is giving you the error. A startup program or registry entry is in place that tries to use that file but it can't be found. Since searching for this file on google makes zero results, its possible for it to be a random generated filename. Conflicker, for example, would make random DLL names so it would be difficult to find it on the system. Disable all statup programs with Ccleaner or msconfig and reboot and see if it comes back.

it certainly is.

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Are you using a translator? I don't understand the part about "going out on the boat"...

Actually, diskpart has the ability to capture and replace an MBR also. I don't get why you are complaining that there is no tool in the Vista PE to handle XP volumes...

WinPE 2.x is designed for Vista and newer operating systems. They do not use MBR but BCD. You can run BCDedit to fix a boot issue. You'd have to customize your PE to run a program to fix the MBR at some point in deployment.