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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.

What are the errors you are getting? You probably took out a dependency that you didn't know about.

Is this XP here? I am wondering because you have PowerShell in your path var.

LATE RESPONSE. You are going to have to check your Event Viewer to start. Typically, I've found that, rundll32 is used by third-party programs to do *whatever* they need to do. In my experience, as long as no other programs are open (games, apps, installers, etc) killing rundll32 is just fine and it won't affect Windows. As to exactly what rundll32.exe is handling (while it is open) can be determined by using either Process Explorer or Process Monitor, which are available from SysInternals (Microsoft) for free. However, be wary of what other games you have installed before attempting to run them, as simply running these programs can cause some of your games to cease opening, for example Electronic Arts (and EA Sports) games like to use SecurROM, which is a wrapper that won't let the game open if you have run these kinds of apps. I am not sure about MOHAA, but it originally did not have any sort of DRM short of requiring the CD to be present. Not sure about any newer releases or other sources like Steam or D2D. You can also launch ProcMon, then open your game and then look at the results afterwards. Programs will typically close following many FILE NOT FOUND errors, as was the case with a bug I found in Heroes 5. The results might be scary to look at, be warned.

Yes there are actually 2 start up sounds, even XP was like this, or at least mine is. I was also unsuccessful to find the "other" startup sound. Lucky for you then, when you boot up it only plays the one sound, on my computer, it plays both!