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There are a couple other ways I can think of. One can be in the image but one may be more trickier. 1. You can edit the startup screen, the one with Windows and the animated progress bar. You can change the Windows logo (its just a BMP) and put words on it if you want. You can learn to do this here: http://www.msfn.org/board/Customize-boot-screen-t606.html 2. The second option is that you can add a custom message to your Master Boot Record. For example on Sony, Dell or HP/Compaq when it boots up it might say "press key to run recovery". Well you can put these kinds of sayings in your boot, which will appear before Windows is even called from the MBR to load. Some programs let you get up to 10 seconds for this message to appear. Its a tricky process and some programs may work better for you than others. I know of these specific programs: MBRInst mbrwork mbrwizd

When you boot it up, press F8 to get to that menu where safe mode is. Instead, choose 'Disable automatic reset on system failure' or something like that. Then when you get the BSOD, it won't reboot and you can post what it says here.

What version of Vista are you using?

I also do not understand this requirement to reinstall XP. I figure that if you keep having to reinstall it every x months, then you obviously are doing something wrong and not learning your lesson! My computer at home is using an install of XP that is over 6 years old.

Well newsid supports batch scripting, so there's a start. Then you can modify your boot process by changing the default logins and calling runonce scripts. Not sure how to join a computer to the domain using a script tho.

I am not able to understand what you are seeing. Can you post all the words that appear on the screens?

Can you post this information you found?

This is usually caused by either a configuration problem with the browser or it (or a plug-in) is out of date. What browser are you using? The My Assistant uses a Javascript pop-up. Thread should be relocated to here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showforum=23

You can find this in the registry: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\LegalNoticeCaption HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\LegalNoticeText http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechn...3.mspx?mfr=true

If it says it is looking for a particular file, but then says the file isn't there, insert the second CD and open it with Windows Explorer. Then look to see if the file is there or not.

If you have a SATA or RAID/AHCI controller, you need to put the Vista driver for it in your install.

I checked your specs in your other thread and I think it said 800MHz was the max. Look it up on their site. You need the exact model board tho, which may only be able to read off the board itself.

Why 2 F12? You press one the first time to do the network boot? Don't you get a PXE error?

Did you add the new computers to the domain? I mean, can you confirm they are listed under Active Directory Users & Computers?

I'm not sure if you can switch after installing it the first time. You can still deploy XP the way I listed above. That question was asked here before but I forget what the answer is. Make sure to check the Unattended XP and Vista as well as the Windows PE sections, as these areas usually contain more information on WDS.

I'd love to take it but its blocked by the firewall...

Also, I wouldn't recommend using two different specs in your RAM. Either you are over-clocking one of them, or under-clocking two of them.

x7b means that you do not have the mass storage controller in your installer. It cannot find or properly make use of the hard drive.

I don't understand how AMD numbers its processors equal what they are, but your RAM should be at least 2GB. Basically, think about what game you want to play, and then go to this site: http://www.canyourunit.com/ If it won't work, not only will it tell you that it doesn't, but it will tell you what you would need. Some games aren't listed and it is also true that some games may still run on your computer even if the website says it can't, but it's a good guide.

I use Thunderbird as well. One con is that if used to connect to an account on Exchange, while you can still get mail, the following does not work: 1. No calendar and any meeting requests or confirmations sent do not prompt for addition. 2. Priority flags coming in from non Thunderbird clients do not appear and flags going out do not appear in Outlook or MSIMN. 3. You cannot access the online address book, so you have to create your own. There may be work-arounds for the cons I listed but I haven't come across any. I am one of 2 people who use Thunderbird instead of Outlook on our Exchange server. Pros: 1. Thunderbird is better at giving you errors for Exchange. Example, my email stopped working and I reported it. Of course the admin first said "well use Outlook and you won't have this problem" but it was good because there was actually an underlying problem on the Exchange Server that wouldn't have been found if Thunderbird hadn't stopped working. Also, the problem was severe enough that if the server had been rebooted, email would not have worked at all!

I think you need to do a repair install. A normal reinstall will do just what you are saying is happening.

How I image XP with WDS: 1. Boot to winpe.wim via PXE 2. use imagex to capture image ie. imagex /capture c: z:\xp-pro_standard.wim "boardname Drive C" /compress fast 3. boot new pc to winpe.wim via pxe 4. use diskpart to format drive 5. use imagex to redeploy image ie. imagex /apply z:\xp-pro_standard.wim "boardname Drive C" c: 6. reboot For native-mode WDS, it can see an install Image for Vista or 2008. If you want XP to be an install image you need to run WDS in mixed mode to have RIS support which you can make install images for XP. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums...1-d149bc90f498/

The only main difference between a restart and shutdown is that a shutdown totally removes power from memory, erasing it 100%. On a restart, the system is supposed to empty out memory. You might have some lingering memory issues but this is the only thing that comes to my mind.

What gets authority, users over computers? Perhaps these 20% have users that over-ride the computer policy?

I looked into doing this when trying to install the latest iTunes. The registry hacks do not work, as described after the reboot they get changed back. I determined that (iTunes installer at least) checked the version info in winlogon, kernel32 and another file. You'd have to reshack those files to update the SP2 version. I tried it but since my computer at home can't boot off USB (to use NTFSDOS) i didn't bother trying to do it.