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What video card are you using? Try to run the game as Administrator, and also change your video settings to low or off for everything to see if it still freezes. Yes the game will probably look like crap if you do this. Or if the game has a safe mode option, try that.

I do not have the ability to test this, but you can try removing the following files from your PE and see if it still works. usbehci.sys usbhub.sys usbport.sys

Is there a way to disable the account and free up the license? It usually isn't a good idea to delete an account of an ex-employee, but to assign them to a group that can't do anything. Maybe I'm not understanding how licensing figures into it tho.

It wouldn't hurt to go into the system restore to see what options it has. I've never seen one of those just go and start without having to click something. I have also seen system recoveries that provide a non-destructive repair type option as well. You might be able to find this info out online first before actually running the recovery in case you are worried about it taking off on you.

I just got a machine in that has a copy of Windows Embedded SP2 on it, and it is unfortunately the evaluation copy. All the Embedded images we create use a license key, but this one was made by another company. I need to find out when it will time bomb so I can inform the customer how long they can use it for. In Vista, you can use SLMGR to view current activation status and evaluation expiration date/time but this is not available in XP Pro or XP Embedded. Is there another way to view this information?

1. Do you have SP1 installed for Vista? 2. How much RAM on the clients that you boot to the PE? I am not going to rule out ISO corruption. I've had to reburn the OPK3 for Windows 7 3 times and I can't even get it to install because the Windows PE folder fails a CRC check. After I get it installed myself I will see if I get anything similar.

Sony had stopped shipping their recovery media about the time they started selling desktops with RAID in them, so around 2004 or 2005, when I was still working there. They also weren't shipping manuals either, but came with instructions on how to make your own recovery media. HP/Compaq is similar in this as well, as long as you leave their preinstalled software be, there is (should be) an option in the Start Menu to make the recovery media.

First I dealt with my old host closing up shop and being serverless for a few months. Then I got webspace up again but nothing to put on it. Any time there is any server change I always like to redo things again and start fresh. I went through and got a web server up and running on my computer at work (my production pc, not any of the servers) and began testing out systems. In the past, I had always created everything from scratch, because in said past, most products just didn't offer the things that I wanted, or I couldn't get my head around them. I tested out Mambo, Xoops and other CMS. I did not want to write my own CMS (I've done this before) because it takes too long to do it, and it isn't as secure as ones out in the open source community. After not being satisfied about any of the CMS I tried out, on a whim I tried out MediaWiki, which is the software used for WikiPedia and also Wikia's sites. I got it all up and running at work but wanted to make it better. Playing around with different skins and I found one that I liked but I needed to change it around. I got everything the way I wanted it and saved the files that I needed and emailed them to myself... Old fashioned! Then came the task of getting the Wiki installed on my server, and getting it to work, which took nearly a month. I finally got it all working today! And also got my custom skin to work as well. There are still a couple tweaks I need to do to make it perfect, but it feels good to have gotten this far already. Check it out and tell me what you think! http://tripredacus.net/ And yes, user registration is disabled at this point.

In a simple method, although it may be time consuming, is that you could use Imagex to capture the partition to a WIM file. You can store this WIM file anywhere that you would like, on the client's hard disk, or upload it to a file server, etc. Then you would need to take the files from the WIM and put them on the SAN, however I am not certain I understand how they work well enough to come up with a method of deploying the image onto it. Let me throw out some ideas and you can tell me if this makes any sense or if it gives you an idea. Typically, you would redeploy an image with imagex to the client you booted into the PE. However, imagex does not really care where it is being deployed to, you just need to specify a path for it to go. So let's say, for example, you have a mount point you can make available, and be able to map a network drive to it. Then you can have imagex apply the image to that drive letter instead of the local disk's drive letter. The only concerns I have about this idea is: 1. Make sure that the image will write only to the specific destination, and have enough space allocated to allow it to be deployed. 2. A likely considerable network load if the WIM is located in a place other than the local disk, or even the fact that you would be uploading the image over the network... I haven't attempted this method at all, but its what popped into my head atm.

FYI to anyone looking at this thread. THis device is an HBA, here is a spec sheet for example: http://www.dell.com/content/products/produ...;l=en&s=bsd I definately have not had any experience with this type of device. Have you already tried to use this device in your PE?

The Megaman guys are animated gifs added via Active Desktop.

Unclesocks has been transformed from Server 2003 to XP Embedded. It is still 2003 tho. Changed the larger images and start menu item. Also replaced the logon.scr so that the screen saver says Embedded instead of Server. This was difficult because DEP kept reverting to the original version. It took a bit of trickery but I got it to be replaced. It still says Server 2003 during boot and in Computer Properties, but I do not know how to change those. I uploaded some screenshots to show how it looks now. I edited this one to take out a word. I had forgotten that I had previously changed some of the string tables when I was bored a few months back. Next up, installing OPK for Windows 7. Last ISO burn failed to install, now waiting on another one. Also need to check out the new HTA version, haven't gotten a chance for that yet.

How to load? Open Regedit. Then click the [+] next to HKLM. And then highlight HKLM. Click File, and Load Hive. You get to name it, I always give it a name with an underscore, like TEST_SYSTEM or something. Something that stands out. So you navigate to where the registry is kept, C:\WINDOWS\system32\config And your regular registry files are here, they have no file extension, and then old copies are here as well, the have the extension .SAV. So you would choose SYSTEM.SAV, which is the backup of the SYSTEM tree. The other files here you can see have similar names for the other branches of HKLM. This is also where you go if you use the Recovery console to edit the registry offline. Now, your SYSTEM.SAV might not be very large depending on various settings for Windows that prompts it to make backup copies. For example if you didn't make a Last Known Good config. After you are done looking through the Hive, you highlight it on the left side, and then File, Unload Hive. Don't forget to do this part! As with any other time using regedit, all changes are made automatically, there is no save or undo. Back up anything first if you are concerned about working in there. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc759303.aspx

I have a Windows 98 PC still. Welcome to MSFN.

My favorite, IE5.5 is missing from your list. Also, Maxthon is hardly a browser, more like IE with skin support.

I've only used Virtual PC 2007, but the concepts are similar. The VHD is your "Virtual Hard Drive" or where your VM software saves your session data. When you start, you open your VM program and tell it to use the VHD. Then it should boot up like a computer inside the window, but it won't be able to boot into anything. If you can tell it to read from your real CD drive then you can put an OS install disc in there and install Windows (or whatever) into your VM window. Then it saves that as the VHD file you made earlier. I recommend you use your VM in a window and not full screen until you get used to it. The version you have is from before Connectix was bought by Microsoft. I can't find a website with documentation for this version.

Here is a lead: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?s=&amp...st&p=801210

It does not appear there for Server 2003. Unfortunately you can't browse to it but you can launch it from the Run box via: %SystemRoot\Tasks\SchedLgU.txt Obviously if you view the Tasks folder you will only see your tasks. You can also view it by opening the Tasks folder and choose Advanced, and View Log. If you get an error at this point or it is blank then yes there may be an issue with it creating the logfile. You can change the location of where the logfile is kept by modifying this: Key: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SchedulingAgent Value: LogPath (REG_SZ) So you can clearly see it if you put it in another folder.

Have you loaded the SYSTEM.SAV Registry Hive to see if you have a backup of the keys you are missing?

I think what the OP is saying is that he wants to make sure it will work before trying to do it, because obviously the HDD isn't crashed yet. I recommend trying out these steps and test it in a VM session to see if it unlocks for you.

I do not know what the Vista Anytime Upgrade cd is. Also, we are more busy during the week than on the weekend.

We have sections about customizing installs and also about customizing how Windows looks. You should find this a good place to learn new things for sure!

It usually depends on the product. I do try to stick with the company that makes the product I am having a problem with. I also use DevShed if I have problems with programming.

Right, he's thinking software support likely. I got to give it to you Starcraftmaster, making that computer last. Its different tho because while I could get the Crysis demo to run on my PC, I didn't bother posting about how to make it better because I knew I was well below spec. But at least you are learning something from these experiences of yours. It reminds me of my olden days of making things work that just "shouldn't" have.

Did you install the software on the client with Add/Remove Programs or the software's own installer? You may get better methods if you use Add/Remove Programs to install. There is a button there to do it.