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Well to start, it would appear that someone forgot the Administrator password or someone was trying to guess it. Windows had attempted to lock out the Administrator account because the total number of logon failures determined by your Group Policy settings had been exceeded. This was likely to have been done via an outside method. It may be possible that AD was denied locking out the Administrator account if it was actively being used to run specific services. So that being said, here are some questions... 1. Is this referring to the domain or local computer Administrator account? 2. Have you recently changed the password for either account? 3. Does any of the clients, or server applications use a static method of connecting to the server, by way of a script or program or any remembered password methods? 4. If 3 is correct, are any of those methods set up to automatically connect to the account every x amount of seconds, for example if you have an email client that connects to your mail server to access the Administrator email account but the password was changed or the client is configured wrong. 5. Does your network have the ability to be connected to by outside your domain, such as a VPN? 6. Try to map a network drive from a client to the server using the Administrator account to see if it works or gives you an error. And lastly, please post the "Data" that the event is referring to, which is located in the textbox (the hex info) below the Description field.

I'm not sure I understand the behaviours that the clients are experiencing. Are they receiving errors, or are they logging into the wrong domains?

I believe that this is in the Start Menu as Firefox (Safe Mode).

Also make sure you didn't run any cleaner tools since you installed them, such as CCLeaner. These programs like to remove uninstall temp and temporary files which the installer might have needed to uninstall properly.

My standard Vista Business x32 image is 9.7GB. That is without drivers, but does include SP1 and dotnetfx 3.5.

By "not on any map" do you mean that we do not have your country as an option in the User CP? BTW I hope you can learn many things here like the rest of us.

I am like that too. But since cell phones are pretty popular now, I know a few people who have their old phones after they got new ones. So sometimes if you know someone who is getting a new phone, maybe you can get their old phone. That's how I got my current phone, it was someone's old phone. It was better than my old (first) one anyways. Most times I can get one for free or for cheap from people that I know like relatives, etc.

I forgot, I'm pretty fierce on the air guitar.

It is not likely a driver issue. You may also check to see if you are using any Domain Group Policies that are rejecting the MININT. Or perhaps you need to pre-qualify the PE if your server is set up to only accept certain connections, such as Trusted computers, etc.

I've also had difficulty getting an unattended XP from running off the hard drive in this way. I am not sure if I had the same error as you, but I tried multiple different steps. In my case, my "OS files" were a WIM capture of the C drive after the Text Mode reboot. I didn't research the issue any further, but I figured that this idea would work. Where did you get your OS files from and/or how did you prepare them?

You do not need anything extra. Verify that you can use this same net use command on another (non PE booted) client to verify that you have access. You may also try re-arranging your syntax, although from what I understand the order does not matter. I use the following command: net use \\server\share Password /user:user While the domain\user may work, you can also try without putting the domain\ or computername\ part in there to see what happens. The error you are getting means that you are in-fact getting a response from the server, but it doesn't like that account, that password, or that account doesn't have access to the share path, or that account doesn't have NTFS or Domain permissions set properly, etc. So try your command out on another Windows client to see if you get a similar error.

It appears that Cisco has methods to protect you if you have their hardware. I'll try looking into other options next week if this is still an active topic.

Also, which version of IE8? I could not open IE8 Beta 1 on my computer after I installed it. But indeed, you need to post more info, including: IE version Firefox version XP version total RAM free hard drive space amount

What happens when you have it do a restart? Does the computer turn off? I would imagine that if this is indeed an issue with the boot sector, it wouldn't matter how the computer was booting up.

I heard that Starter Edition (the one that would be most available in SEAsia) would be released earlier... Not sure about that though.

Hello max from MSFN!

Is this Mobility or a video card?

My first question was if my reply or the reply with the links helped you at all. I have not attempted to use 2003 with WinPE yet but I doubt i will get that chance. I have not yet had the opportunity to streamline our server deployments, and time constraints make me think this is far off for me. Rest assured, I will try to remember this issue in case I get this chance.

Was either of our posts helpful to you?

No this is new to me. My first question is whether or not the user saves their files in their profile (%user profile%) such as My Documents or on the desktop. I have seen profile corruption occur where files disappear. So here are some questions to get you started: 1. Does the user save his files in the profile directory? 2. On the Vista computer, is the UAC enabled? 3. Is the user in the Administrators group? (you might want to make his account a Limited-User account) Maybe I can think of more questions later.

SNo Serial number Result Action 1 9VS0SP4G Drive is not affected. No action required. 2 9VS0Q09B Drive is not affected. No action required. 3 9VS0K7M5 Drive is not affected. No action required. 4 9VS0SFQ4 Drive is not affected. No action required. Sorry, don't have more info than this.

Yes it should also stop it during the apply. The difference is that you will still be left with files on the hard drive, unlike the capture process which will delete the file. So you are still going to have to format the drive again if you put the wrong image on it. Is your image time very long? My worst case scenario it would only take 4 minutes to image a machine, so if I used the wrong image I could easily redo it.

I chose Windows 2000. I seem to remember it being cool when it came out. I never really cared that much otherwise. I don't use icons on my desktop or anything.

I agree with this sentiment. I would much rather work on Vista related projects. Right now, Vista deployment is pretty low, so I have the time to put extra work onto them. The process right now is ridiculous, but it comes down to time. After 6 months (or July) the only XP we will be doing is images supplied by other companies, or for repair and hard drive replacement.

I think I'm going to have some extra time tomorrow, so I might be able to test out your new version.