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I'm reopening this discussion because of my own experiences. I am getting mixed results with this result. For versions that allow it, I disable these mapper and i/o drivers with group policy. In other versions I disable it using the registry. Say for example, in Home Premium (which has no GP support) the discovery mapper is the only service that is enabled, and the i/o driver is disabled, while both services are set for manual AND enabled on the NIC itself. However, our current LAN is set up in two segments or IP ranges. All vista machines on one range work properly once my settings are applied. But all machines on the other range do not! They operate as if the i/o and mapper are enabled, even if I were to manually unselect them. I can also confirm that the policy is active and have forced a gpupdate. Now these machines are communicating with a 2003 Std server, and say the next station to the vista on this "slow" range has XP. the XP has no problem accessing network resources. As an example, a Vista business PC has taken over an hour to install Realtek Sound drivers off the network, and the XP machine next to it took 3 minutes. And a Business PC on the other range takes 3 minutes. Since it would appear that perhaps there is a cfg problem with one of our segments, what could possibly cause Vista PCs to be slow on it and XP to be not? I can also verify that if I take the "slow" Vista PC off the "slow" segment and connect it to the other one, network shares open very fast and network speed is normal.

I'm actually encountering problems with the silent install. It works fine from a USB key, (actually faster than) hard-disk install but does not work from the network. I recently updated my installer for v8.3.2.2, which was basically use the same batch file with different files. I verified all paths were still correct also. But when I run from a network, I first get an error saying it can't find data\directx\directx.exe even tho I can manually go to it. Should I be using full paths for the network install you think? Right now we are left with copying to the desktop to run it until I update the images.

Sorry I spaced when I replied. I was referring to XP and forgot this was in the Vista forum.

I couldn't think of why you'd want a server to hibernate...

OK I am guessing the DRM is applied to songs bought from the iStore and MP3s that you make with iTunes then. I never used iTunes for any of those purposes, just as a method of getting playlists xferred to an iPod, that is before I downloaded the plugin for Winamp.

While you CAN abort a shutdown this way, Windows will have already started stopping services by the time you see this message. I do not recommend aborting an AUTHORITY shutdown because Windows will become unstable. It is a problem I encountered when battling the Blaster worm when it first showed up. I had the idea that I could abort the shutdown and then run the cleaner, but it wouldn't work because some services were already stopped before I could get into the cmd and type the words. So my solution was to not have the network connected, which of course meant that Blaster wouldn't trigger.

That is interesting because my autoit app can install the font but it won't work with the 3d text screensaver until the computer is rebooted.

I skipped on the power settings for Home Premium and will also for Home Basic. I did finally find the registry entry for the networking option and that seems to have solved that as well.

I keep hearing these complaints of itunes encrypting music but I have the latest version and it never did anything of the sort. I can't figure that out.

Ow common, you must be kidding me. Never got it smoking here... Well I got a Jaz 2GB Fast SCSI-2 drive on a Ultra SCSI-3 to start smoking... I think some controllers let you control the speed with jumpers or dip-switches.

Yes, It does indeed seem like a better way, but I like having the command prompt there. If you put your custom app in the startnet.cmd, it will open on top of the command prompt. So if your app is full-screen you won't see the CMD anyways. But you can still get to it if you alt+tab there.

As a workaround, I've started to look toward the registry to make those settings be remembered in the Home Premium image. I downloaded the VistaGPSettings.xls from microsoft, but none of the keys are present for the things I want to change. For example, to disable "Turn off the hard disk (plugged in)" the spreadsheet says this setting is stored in HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Power\..... except there IS no Power folder under Microsoft... So I am again stumped on getting these settings to work with VHP.

Please ignore this thread. I was not recognizing how the GPOs were working. They are in fact working and they are not destroyed or reset during the sysprep process. My problem now is that there is no Group Policy Object Editor snap-in for MMC in Vista Home Premium...

I looked into this option when trying to write a program that installs a custom desktop settings and screensaver. The screensaver was 3d text, and I installed a font from a network share. Yes indeed the problem is that you ultimately need to reload explorer so it recognizes the new font. Otherwise it just show up as your system default (ie Arial) font until you reboot. I struggled with this process for a long time before I just made my program reboot at the end. I looked into making Explorer refresh itself, which is the process that happens after you load a new color scheme, or switch from XP to classic. When that "please wait" box shows up and your desktop turns grayscale, also this happens when you logoff. Here are the things I wrote down in my notes. I don't know exactly what they mean now. I think I was trying to call the system command that triggered the "Theme Change" so it would re-read the font. Anyways I was doing this through AUTOit but like I said I couldn't figure it out. So unless you can get Windows to recognize a theme change and redraw the desktop, you'll need to reboot. Not even restarting explorer.exe (the existing process) allowed the change to occur. Or perhaps there is another way to automate the installation of a font.

iTunes now supports gapless and crossfade, but it seems to determine how to mix tracks all by itself.

I definately DO NOT recommend using a slower drive on a faster controller. Who cares if you can get an adapter or it fits in the plug. You could possibly damage the drive by doing so. I've seen drives actually start smoking when put on a faster controller.

Make sure the hardware ID is listed in the INF file. Otherwise, you'd be telling Windows to install a driver for a device that doesn't exist on the system, and it will definately complain about that.

Wait, I am confused here. Are you saying that your startnet.cmd doesn't automatically launch when you boot the PE? If so it sounds like you skipped a step! The default PE setup doesn't even use the winpeshl.ini and the startnet.cmd opens by itself.

I don't see a setting for that either. You could look for a cross-fade plug-in and then set it to 1-2 seconds, or something greater. I prefer using a 15 second crossfade but that's just me.

I am having some difficulties getting Group Policy Objects (GPO) in Vista Business 32bit. I have changed the following: Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Power Management Hard Disk Settings - Turn off the Hard Disk (Plugged In) = Disabled Sleep Settings - Turn on Applications to Prevent Sleep Transitions (Plugged In) = Enabled - Specify the System Hibernate Timeout (Plugged In) = Disabled - Require a Password When a Computer Wakes (Plugged In) = Disabled - Specify the System Sleep Timeout (Plugged In) = Disabled - Turn Off Hybrid Sleep (Plugged In) = Disabled - Allow Standby States When Sleeping (Plugged In) = Enabled Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Network Link-Layer Topology Discovery - Turn on Mapper I/O Driver = Disabled - Turn on Responder Driver = Disabled After changing these policies, I've rebooted, forced an update and rebooted again and so far, the only setting that appears to be taking is the "Require a Password When a Computer Wakes" power setting. I wanted to make it so my master Business image has these settings because of problems we have already experienced. Also the LLT settings which I am hoping will disable that service when the image is put on different hardware than it was created in. So my other question is, what will happen to the GPOs when I generalize the image? Will these settings be preserved? The computers are NOT being used on a domain, however that may end up changing in the future. All the settings I am setting are for the local machine only, regardless of what user is logged in, although the Administrator account will always be the one logged in because Vista will be running in Audit mode for the entire time I will be dealing with it. This was the cmd I ran earlier: gpupdate /force which completed without error. Any ideas why this isn't working?

I had this problem also, but I switched over to using the startnet.cmd only.

We were recommended to use managed switches with 2008.

Where does your DNS get its updates from? Have you checked if that source has the records for those urls? You could always add those records yourself, or get a secondary DNS source.

However, it should be no secret that many of the people who illegally use a VL version of Windows likely don't know how to bypass WGA. Most of the people I know who have it, got it from a friend or a co-worker and aren't tech people at all. So I brought up WGA as an example because said people called me and tell me their computer doesn't work anymore after running Windows Update. Then I find they have an illegal copy of XP and find out how they got it.

You need to post what appears on this bsod.