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If you call the activation hot line and tell them EXACTLY these things you have posted here, they should activate it for you. I can say no more.

Or if you want to have some files always near the top of the list, I use an underscore ( _ ) and if near the end of the list I use ( z_ ) prefixes.

Sometimes games are picky about wanting to run. Some games try to run on anything, while other will check for file versions or supported hardware before trying to open. One example of checking hardware is Oblivion, which only checks your video card against the supported card list. If your card is there then it will open. It doesn't matter if the game will actually run properly or not. If you card isn't there then (if you are lucky) it will tell you that you can't run it. But some developers are slackers and maybe the game just errors our wakes up Dr Watson instead. So video card detection can be a blessing or a bane for you. Another example is that Crysis will actually open and play on my computer even though it is way outdated because my video card is supported, and that is the only thing Crysis checks before attempting to run. When I say that Crysis works, you must know I put it all on the lowest settings and it takes an hour to load into the level where you can actually do something. I remember going to make dinner while waiting for the cutscene to play because it doesn't work right, but the actual gameplay part was fine. So you might want to see if you can pick up a cheap video card to stick in your computer, an ATI or nVidia that is DirectX 9.0c compliant. Most games only check the video card, very few check the CPU or RAM.

I don't know... I don't think Minesweeper is hard enough to warrant using cheats. Its like that Freecell cheat lol.

Your computer is below system requirements, that is if you are using the same computer that you have already posted about upgrading. Minimum CPU speed is 1GHz, I believe you posted your CPU is 800MHz. This may have something to do with it.

Cross post! http://www.msfn.org/board/opening-world-t1...737#entry806737

You can try to enable the Guest account on Windows 2000. Also found this idea on another place: http://my.brandeis.edu/bboard/q-and-a-fetc...g?msg_id=0001S8

Actually... as of version 9.5.1, Vista and Server 2008 are supported on all 3ware 9650SE cards. http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=14928 It is unfortunate at least for 3ware that they bury their 2008 support info in their site, and its not really on their card info pages. We use the 9650 here in our 2008 servers and have no problem. I should also note that while the 9550 is not (and won't ever be) supported in 2008, it works perfectly fine with the default drivers. As far as the slot goes, most motherboards with a PCI-Express x16 slot is autonegotiated. Meaning they will go to a thinner bandwidth depending on which type of card it detects is plugged into it. Be warned, however! Not all boards or cards support this ability! For example, Creative's first PCI-E 1x card would NOT work in a x16 slot as it only supported auto negotiate up to x8. I found this out the hard way. The money situation, yes I wouldn't think I would want to spend so much for a RAID card. There are cheaper alternatives. Add in the confusion of matching the firmware and software versions, where the numbers don't really match up. I let someone else do that part for me. I will admit that the 3ware cards we've used are very stable. On our oldest computer it still has a 3ware card that survived longer than 2 of the hard drives attached to it.

You could apply different GPOs, since all of the things you have listed are located there under Administrative Templates\System\Power Management or so.

Do you get errors when trying to run it? Are you using x86 or x64 WinPE? Which WinPE version are you using?

You need to do a registry import that puts in that the EULA was accepted for the SID Changer, or else it won't be unattended. You can info on how to do that on MS or technet forums, which was where I found it. Here is a line from one of my batch files: newsid /a /n http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinte...s/bb897418.aspx

That is definately an interesting read. Unfortunately, we won't be supporting XP long enough to warrant me to try out this method.

While FTP is an option, you can also set up IIS and disable the default index page option. Then just secure your root with the .htaccess file and you are all set. This would use port 80 (http or https) instead of 21 (FTP).

You have failed to mention the operating system on the server where the database is stored. I am not sure if any of the following information is relevant: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143432.aspx Basically I am thinking that the server is in fact fine, that the client is being rejected. You may wish to check on the server for any errors regarding credentials, authentication or connections in relation to MSSQL. I am thinking that you may be reaching a connection limit on the server, whether with MSSQL or another service.

I am not aware of such a feature or tool. That would be nice, as I like docs, programs/patches and images sorted and displayed differently as well.

I know what you mean. I wish I could remove some items from Firefox's context menu as well. I always end up accidently emailing things to people, which is bad because my computer gets all retarded because I don't have any email clients installed.

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