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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.

Oh ... uh... ewww you use a universal XP image...

Don't forget about deleting your temporary internet files AND temporary files. Most of your temp files are located in c:\documents and settings\profile\local settings\temp. Also if your profile is larger than the amount of physical memory (RAM) you have in your computer, that will make things slow as well. And besides, a year isn't an old install at all.

How does it reappear? I've never had it re-appear on me before and I have multiple languages installed on every computer I use...

For me, its hard to answer this question. My computer (at home) takes between 2 and 3 minutes to boot. There are a few snags. Part is due to me having an older Intel board which takes 20-30 seconds with the Intel splash screen at POST, then the 30 second menu from the boot.ini, and then I have the welcome prompt where I click my username because I don't use automatic logon. But it's my professional opinion is that if you have to keep reformating your drive and reinstalling Windows because it is getting too slow, then you aren't doing something right or learning your lesson from the last time. Keep tabs on your services and startup apps (yes it is nearly impossible to stop the QuickTime app from loading), remove old drivers for hardware after you stop using it and don't save files in your User Profile (My Documents, My any other folder name or the desktop).

Hacked internally, yes, but the same would be true if there was a virus or other malicious program installed on the computer.

Wow, we have some old-timer here , I bought one in 1997 and loved it with Hexen .I go with ATI too these days, just for their better Vista drivers a while ago. I like my 2600XT as it does the job well without giving me some DLL error from time to time. ah Hexen... aka Heretic II or do I have that backwards... You try nowadays to spend $200 on a 6MB video card... But I bought it to play GL Quake, I didn't play Hexen on the PC only the Nintendo 64. I liked Hexen II tho.

I'm pretty sure you are supposed to use a relative path to the drivers from the location of sysprep.exe. So ..\..\..\nt\drivers\network\winVista presuming sysprep is located in c:\windows\system32\sysprep. Also you are already using drivers on teh C drive, I imagine you are copying them there during install? How does this differ than putting them in the image? Have you compared deployment time with this method vs injecting them in the image?