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I am not certain if this file is redistributable, however you can extract the original from your Vista DVD.

If you are using an IP address, and it gives you this message, it means your computer is not able to connect to the host. Basically it isn't really worded that way, but it basically can't resolve the path. Ideas: 1. The IP Address on the PC has changed. 2. Make sure you added the NOTEBOOK_COMPUTERNAME\USER account to the Everyone (or Administrators or whatever) group on the Home PC. 3. When you log on to the notebook as local, is it still joined to the domain or is it set for workgroup.

98 has floppies. I believe the number was around 35. I've done a 98 install with floppies. I think it was 33 but you had two extra disks. An emergency boot disk and something else. So ya, 35 does indeed sound right. The problem with 98 on floppies is that maybe disk 32 was bad and you'd be screwed because it would be 2 hours in that you'd find that out. Also Windows NT 3.51 had a floppy install as well. I wanted to revise my previous statement. NT 3.51 had a 5.25" floppy install..

I have recently come into the "possession" of a computer at work with three hard drives. I wanted to see if I could install 3 OSes on it, but not sure which ones I should put on it. How about some recommendations? I also want to make sure that the three I pick will be able to work from a boot.ini or other bootloader. The computer isn't overly powerful, and was designed to be used as a security video recorder. One of the OSes I would like to install is Windows NT 4 (probably server) but not sure about the other two. OSes that are not to be considered: - Vista - Server 2003 - Server 2008 - Windows XP - Windows 98 What do ya think?

OK so you are using an XP computer as the network share, so you aren't using WDS then. You should be able to break the wpeinit process (Ctrl+C) when it is running in the startnet.cmd after you feel that it isn't doing anything anymore. I would say it should complete within 2-3 minutes before moving along to the next item in your startnet.cmd. After you break it, you should be able to launch notepad by just typing it at the prompt. Notepad is included in the default WinPE that comes with the current WAIK and OPK. Afterwhich, you can view the wpeinit's logfile to see if it has any interesting info in there. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc748941.aspx I use the OPK and not the WAIK. It is basically the same thing, but due to licensing reasons, Microsoft requires us to use the OPK and not the WAIK.

I had this problem today when trying to deploy a known-working Ghost image of Vista Home Premium. I chalked it up to being a hardware issue or incompatibility and just installed it from an unattended CD.

I will definately check that out then. The server that actually has the speed issue is running 2008 x64 and uses an Intel S5000PSL board. I am not going to think (of the bat) that it is a driver issue in this case, however our main theory is that there is an issue with the method we are transferring data.

At work I just got a firewall program. It is built into the Trend Micro CSA. I think I am the only one in the company that is using it. At home I have the XP Firewall turned on and use a hardware firewall for real protection.

The PE will use whatever network speed that the Vista drivers you injected into the WinPE is set for. You should know other things that will force slower network traffic. Also, make sure your NIC on the server is set for the speed you want, or if you are using 2008, check the WDS speed setting. I think the default setting is 100Mbps.

Only time have seen WPEINIT not complete or take a really long period of time is on certain motherboards that don't seem to fully support the PE, or I didn't put in the correct drivers. If your CDs haven't changed, has your hardware? If you are actively deploying using the WinPE you might want to look into doing a network boot. Or you can try reburning a disk. Are you using the latest Servicing update (Vista 1.1 Package) in your PE?

Network Auto Detection was not an option I could find. I did change the link speed to Auto-negotiated/1000 and that changed the Network performance tab to 1Gbps. I will have to see how it performs perhaps tomorrow. We have an underlying issue that isn't actually with this computer. It is with our 2008 WDS Server where the network utilization is very low on incoming traffic and very high for outgoing. Since this 2003 WDS Server is way slower and using worse (unicast only) software support, there shouldn't EVER be a reason why it runs data over a test network faster than the 2008, but it does. Tomorrow I will now be able to do some side-by-side tests. Both servers are connected to their own private gigabit "LANs" aka a switch with one other PC on it.

How does it appear in Device Manager?

I use the finaly slipstreamed version that is shipped from microsoft (orignally vista sb version with sp1). What OS is installed on your Technician PC? Some OSes do not slipstream properly. If you look in the Unattended Vista forum, you may find similar questions and perhaps answers. Your problems sounds familiar so I am going to guess that someone has posted about it here before.

Oh neet... I think... we just got some of these ID boards in and downloaded all the drivers. We might get to test them soon.

Could be your key is hosed up. Does it still work in Windows?

Google to the rescue. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=S...amp;btnG=Search http://www.bioticaindia.com/trution-twc-1200.html The other one you posted is just the company name, not a model number.

OK I gots a question. My test server runs Server 2003 Standard 32bit. It has an Intel gigabit NIC, and connected to a NetGear gigabit switch. Yet in the Task Manager, Network tab, it only shows up as 100Mbps. Our other server which has the same OS, NIC(s) and Switch(es) shows up as 1000Mbps. What am I missing?

Yep I am not having any functional problems anymore. The only issue is that it seems to reject any legit security certificate it comes across. For example, the one used by our Trend Micro webinstaller intranet site. Our IE7 clients accept it but IE8 outright rejects it, although it does allow you to proceed. Since its a beta I can forgive it.

I could probably get a faster boot up if I could figure out how to switch to that non-CCC ATI display driver. I didn't know about that when I installed so I have like 5+ services for ATI...

How do you install software if you are a limited-user account without installation priveledges? What program are you using to assign keyboard shortcuts?

Which could be the cause of right-click causing a several-seconds-sleep while system "thinks" about what to do...? I think the virus some days ago attempted installing on my system (a trojan contained in a.exe and immediately detected and stopped by Avast) actually had time to do something malicious.... There is a registry setting that determines the amount of time between the right click and the appearance of the menu. They use a time delay to compensate for the eventual case of having too many items in such menu. But you can certainly change this value and get the menu to appear faster. I don't actively use this tweak so I can't tell you how to do it, but you should be able to find it in a tweak guide. Besides, that is a cool name for a program... a.exe...

Are you manually installing the SP1 redist or did you slipstream it into your install?

Its usually the motherboard for me. I typically try to get the newest one out there at the time, although by the time I actually buy it, it might be a 2 months old.

I tried this out. I installed it, and it ended up hosing up my explorer where it would crash every now and then. The search feature didn't work at all and I kept getting occache.dll errors in the event viewer. I had to reinstall it and so far I have no errors but we will see how it goes. All this and I haven't even tried to open it yet!

The normal install method is: - insert cd1, start install. it prompts for CD Key. - after GUI Mode is complete it prompts for CD2. it does not prompt for a CD Key. Did it prompt for CD2 or did you just try to install it after the fact? I am pretty sure that if you cancel the prompt after GUI Mode that it hoses up the install, which happened once for me. I have never tried to manually install the contents of CD2. EDIT: sorry, I have also used CD2 when Add/Remove Windows Components prompts for it.