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I got 25 out of 69. The thing at the top said no expansions, such as Sega CD, 32x, etc. Virtual Boy is on there, but Wonderswan wasn't. Neither was Neo Geo Pocket, CD System, etc. Pretty fun game tho. I forgot about the 3DO...

I wanted to update on this thread. I had opened an SR with Microsoft regarding the Server 2008 and its upload speed. After much testing and debugging and uploading ginormous files, the issue has been resolved. The resolution was as follows: Change the following registry keys to 0 from 1: HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Lanmanserver\parameters\EnableSecuritySignature HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Lanmanserver\parameters\RequireSecuritySignature Overall network speed seemed to have been increased by this as well. Even transfers up and down to the file server are much faster.

I am now at the stage, when determining what to do with my next computer, that I am thinking about RAID options. I usually like the idea of RAID1 for OS and RAID5 for storage. My next OS will be Vista Business, and I have questions regarding 32bit vs 64bit. The motherboard I've settled on is the DP35DP, which has onboard RAID support. I would use the onboard for RAID1 for the OS, but I am concerned about the driver support for Vista. Also I would like to look into a card to do RAID5 and yet again more concerns about drivers. The RAID card that I would be interested in getting would be a 3ware, but I do not understand their definition of connectors, being Discrete or Multi-Lane. Are these typical server board slots? For example, here at work I use the 9550SX and 9650 but they are 64bit cards (using 64bit slots in Intel server boards). I know that the motherboard I am going with does not have these slots. Also, 3ware's cards do not seem to have Vista driver support, but do have Server 2008 32 and 64bit driver support. Can these be used in Vista? Then again, I may not even use RAID for storage at all if this becomes too troublesome. Perhaps instead I can put together a low cost server to run as a NAS instead. The ability to use 64bit Vista will determine wholly on driver support. I might not even make that jump as of yet, and deal with 3.2GB RAM in Vista 32 for a while. Tell me your thoughts on this.

Ah this is true. But not all functions of a 32bit app will work properly in 64bit, even if running under the wow64. Is there a way (in those OSes) to force an app to run with just the 64bit system and not use the 32bit system?

You need to sysprep, even if bringing down to the same machine. Sometimes a standard sysprep will not redeploy to the hardware it was captured from and you need to do a generalize. You can only do a generalize 3 times, unless you extend the activation period. If you do a generalize, you can create custom sysprep.inf (or whatever it uses now) to reinstall the drivers again when you go through the welcome.

It is possible that your antivirus searches for batch files that may be viruses?

I came the way of AutoIT from another app scripter called KIX. AutoIT is way better but now that I think of it, without having known KIX before AutoIT would have been harder for me. http://www.kixtart.org/

Try booting into Safe Mode to see how that reacts. If it works, then run msconfig to change the startup programs (not the services). and then try booting into normal mode. Make sure to do this when plugged in. Most notebooks have a program that is for the battery, so if you disable it you won't see your charge amount.

Uninstall the nVidia driver package from Programs and Features. Do not restart like it wants you to. Then remove the display adapters from Device Manager. Then restart the computer. When it comes back up, your resolution may be different, but then go check Device Manager and see what name it has in Display Adapters. It should be Standard VGA.

It comes down to how you use it. And it also depends on who makes it. I think that Apple makes the Mac OS so that people can't break it. THey accept that most PC users are idiots and they wouldn't know how to get to the bash to screw things up. Of course if you use Vista properly you won't have any problems either, but that's not to say that will hold true for you. As far as choosing between the two, it really comes down to what programs you want to use. And you have to accept the fact that if you choose a Mac, then you aren't going to be able to run all PC apps, since the XP emulation isn't going to be 100% reliable.

They do for me up to a point. I typically only run test for CSS and against IE. I've done XHTML before but I find that standard is too wordy to follow properly, like there needs to be less code or to make it easier. Example, why is it required to have alt text for all images? Even ones that are background elements, and especially if you use spacers or slices, it gets annoying.

I recommend first that you read and understand MySQL (or MSSQL) table structure. Then figure out all the tables you will need and pre-design them. And make sure you have your database all figured out BEFORE you go about creating any of it, or the PHP code to handle it. Alternatively, you could look into trying out Altiris Inventory Solution, which can log all this stuff for you, and its front end is a website anyways. http://www.symantec.com/business/inventory-solution

I prefer the Group Policy Editor and the Windows Registry editor myself.

Does your application run on a true 64bit OS like XP x64, Vista or 2008 or 2003? Make sure your app works in a 64bit OS before you try to make it work in 64bit WinPE.

This is where I started: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=101383

Basically, as you increase your BOOT.WIM file size, your memory requirement on the MININT increases. Right now, our PE image works fine on machines with 512MB or higher. Machines with 256MB RAM do not load the PE properly or generate script errors, anything lower will give this error. Also, I will note I have also received this error when using a PXE server that did not support multicast (ie 2003) and attempting to deploy to more than 4 clients at once. I do not attempt to put everything into the PE image, only what is needed to get the drive ready. All OSes and software are kept on the network.

What is the command that you are running? Invalid parameter usually appears when you make a typo in your command.

You can script mouse clicks using AutoIT, and it is based on screen coordinates, however there are some compatibility concerns dealing with multiple resolutions. If you can confirm that only 1 resolution is to be used (or script for detection first, then action) you can easily create a script. It actually has a macro recorded (like back in the day) where you click record, then click your stuff, and then stop record and it will generate the code for you. http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/index.shtml

I also haven't had any experience deploying any version of Windows beyond XP with ADS. I am probably not entirely getting your request. Your Install source files should be in the Distribution Share you set up. Am I to guess you do not have a Support Agreement with Altiris. I understand they can be expensive. Have you tried contacting your tech rep there (if you have the SA that is) about this to see if they have any leads?

It does not work for all drivers. I've had mixed success, sometimes it works sometimes not, even with the same driver set. I raised this question to MS but they said it should work in all cases. I didn't pursue the issue further but I am sure there is a bug concerning XP WIMs and the PEIMG. When it works, it works fine, when it doesn't, it says "not a valid Win PE Image."

Try looking at this thread. http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=115243 edit: forgot to paste link lol.

If all of your machines are ACPI compliant, use the uniprocessor HAL. It will upscale to support multiple cores. That is XP SP2 and higher. Lower versions or OSes do not support this. If you use the ACPI_APIC_MP HAL on a UP, it is going to think you have a multi-core and you can potentially cause crashes if Windows tries to assign transactions to cores that do not exist. So use the UP HAL for all machines if in a mixed environment, use multiple images, or do something similar to this: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=115243

Since you have Vista installed, you should probably handle all your boot loader actions with the BCD. Can you still boot Vista?

Don't get mixed up like I did! I did this awhile back and found out something interesting. That account that is Administrator.computername is actually the account you are using now, not the old account! The old account is the regular Administrator.

In addition, if you limit the use of web browsers to IE, you can add sites you don't want users going to in the untrusted sites section under security.