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Hmmm we don't use server side anti-span protection here... we've got some hardware device that acts as a mail-filter/mail-exchanger before the messages get delivered to the exchange server.

We are currently testing WDS on this computer, and I had started using it before 2008 was made available to us. We now have it and are also testing that separately (or so I am told). The plan is to have a REAL server running 2008 that will be running WDS at some point in the future. I am using the version of WDS that comes with 2008 so the transition will be easy once we get that thing running. So in essense I am running 4 unicast connections from the same file? When our MS guy came to visit, I was disappointed to learn that WDS doesn't manage anything... It would be nice if they gave it some management capabilities in a future version. It has 1 80GB SATA HDD as the OS and 1 160GB SATA HDD as the fileshare.

Does your board have an 8x slot? I bought an 8x AGP card recently, but I run it at 4x because the slot in my computer is 1x2x4x.

You can research most processes by name online. There are a bunch of websites that tell you what processes are. I haven't had trouble finding anything online yet. Just type in '"process.exe" process'. But of course use your app name and no single quotes.

Have you tried the volume up and down function keys? Also you could consider using headphones if your job allows it.

THat thar sounds like Hybernate instead of sleep. How are you putting it in that mode? Are you clicking the red button, or try clicking the arrow next to it and choose sleep instead. It might say Suspend... I forget the term it uses.

Besides working with WDS I also have a hobby of modifying computer games. The current one I am researching for uses a modified Glide engine (OpenGL really) and I have been able to figure out all the files except these GLD files. It is a 3D game and I have already learned how to change the textures and the models and what not, but I'm now looking for the texture map, which I am betting is in these GLD files I have found that have the same filename as the base models that the game uses. But I am at a loss as to trying to find ANYTHING that can make, import, view, etc them. The only thing I have to go on is that the file header (in hex) says BILG, but I'm still not able to figure it out. If anyone has any ideas, let me know.

As a recent example, we had a couple MP965 units running non-stop for the past two months, both in Windows. We didn't get around to do anything with them until yesterday when I reimaged them. They both were sitting on the cardboard box they come with, and the Driver CD inside was HOT... Could've burned the place down lol.

I tried updating to the current (non-beta) version instead. I was on 1.0.7 previously, and while it may have been profile related, the update fixed it. In addition, I noticed that Facebook changed the domain their javascript functions come from, which was why it didn't work for me even after the update. It's all working fine now tho.

I've got a computer that has Windows Server 2003 Standard installed on it. It is also my WDS Server (testing) and it seems to have a limit of having 4 open connections to it. I am not sure why it is acting this way so maybe one of you could tell me some things to try. Specs: 3.2GHz Pentium D, 1GB RAM. Gigabit NIC (CNET) and Netgear 24 port Gigabit switch. I set up 8 computers and had them all boot to the network (loads a WinPE image) which all loaded at once in the normal amount of time. I start having them apply an image (WIM) and after the 3rd one, the 4th PC had a problem and I had to reboot it. I set the 5th one to start downloading the image. All are imaging normally (albeit slower than if I did one). PCs 7 and 8 were already booted to the network, but 6 had a problem and I rebooted it. When it went to boot to the network, it sat at the "loading files" screen until after the other 4 were imaged. Also, I couldn't get any more than 4 to start imaging (they gave network errors). Basically here was the result at one point: PC1: imaging PC2: imaging PC3: imaging PC4: network error (1231) and (85) PC5: imaging PC6: loading PE files PC7: booted into PE PC8: booted into PE Now I know that the WDS doesn't actually manage the imaging at all, so I don't know if this is because of the amount of RAM, a limitation of Standard, or some setting I can change to allow more connections. In addition, after those 4 finished and were shut down, the remaining four were set to be imaged and worked fine, even the one that got the network errors.

O is OpenType (preferred) and TT is True Type. The ones without a symbol before it are SYSTEM fonts. Check out Character Map (charmap.exe) to see if the correct symbols show up there as well. Some applications cannot make use of extended character sets or entire fonts and can show the incorrect character or in most cases will show a square. Don't worry about uninstalling any fonts. The common cause of this is that documents were created in one encoding format and decoded incorrectly in the one you are using. This page explains this issue among different distros of Windows: http://www.firstobject.com/dn_markansifile.htm http://www.mihai-nita.net/article.php?artID=20051030a I can't find anything to try atm, but I remember this type of a problem happening in a support call 8 years ago. I'll have to think about this for a bit to see if I can remember what to look up.

Don't bother calling Microsoft, it isn't a problem with their software. OK this installation, when it is looking for that file and you have it look in system32, what comes up after that? Does it say that it can't find the file?

How did you install SP1?

OEMs get a few options when they sell an OS. Technically, it is not required for an OEM to provide recovery media, its just a nice thing to do. But in your case, Acer probably put the recovery software in a hidden partition on the drive that you *might* be able to run from Windows (not access tho) or press a key at boot to do a recovery. When I worked for Sony, the VAIOs were slowly going to this method of not providing a recovery CD because it became cost prohibitive, since drive images couldn't fit on a CD anymore. And at least then, DVDs weren't all that cheap compared to CDs. So they put a hidden partition on your hard drive that you can run a recovery from. It is possible to get recovery media from the OEM but if they don't seem to be cooperating it may be because they a) don't have enough to just give them out to everyone or B) they didn't make any and c) they tell their support reps to not give out the media because they probably want to get away from that practice. It is similar to the switchover from paper manuals for PC parts to manuals on CD-ROMs... which is really annoying (especially if its a motherboard manual and your computer won't turn on) but its a business move and you just gotta live with it.

I don't have a Vista machine to look at right now but see if the registry entry in this article exists in Vista. You might have to do a reboot after you set it. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307729

Its really cool that you brought this up, I never tried using Imagex in this way. Here are my results (I am a domain admin) and of course I got no errors. C:\Program Files\Windows OPK\Tools\PETools>imagex /capture c:\data\bios c:\apps\test.wim "BIOS" "BIOS" /compress fast ImageX Tool for Windows Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp. All rights reserved. Files/folders excluded from image capture by default: \WINDOWS\CSC \RECYCLER \$Recycle.Bin\* \System Volume Information \pagefile.sys \hiberfil.sys \$ntfs.log Progress: 100% Successfully imaged c:\data\bios C:\Program Files\Windows OPK\Tools\PETools>cd c:\apps C:\apps>dir *.wim Volume in drive C has no label. Volume Serial Number is B4F4-FF22 Directory of C:\apps 04/17/2008 03:35 PM 27,002,056 test.wim 1 File(s) 27,002,056 bytes 0 Dir(s) 38,194,384,896 bytes free C:\apps> Also perhaps there are some ownership issue? I will play around with this tomorrow if you're still having a problem. I'm in the process of moving my deployment server (which is running on a domain in which I can attempt to recreate the situation) so its not even on at the moment.

I understand these specs that come from online, but our Microsoft rep says 2GB minimum for all Vista flavours to get optimal functionality out of it.

Are you using some super exclusion list? If that usergroup doesn't have file permissions for something, and ImageX attempts to copy that file first, it is possible that it would skip all the other files as well. I'm not sure but that's my first idea.

Unfortunately, there is no setting to play system sounds at a different level than any other sounds that your computer makes, like from DVDs or CDs or what have you. You could use an audio editor (like Audacity) to amplify the sounds so they are louder than the other sounds, or change them to a louder sound alltogether. What kind of speakers do you have? I always have my system volume at 100% and dictate the actual volume with the dial on the speakers.

I believe 2GB is a minimum for Vista. I haven't had the chance to test out gaming on Vista but it is definately a concern for me as well.

I've had some dealings with SecuROM when I was helping a friend diagnose why his NHL08 game wouldn't run. SecuROM also doesn't like SysInternal's Filemon or Procexp, both of which I attempted to use to find a solution but came up with none.

I'm not sure about the HDD size as we've only used 60s and 80s I think. It might be because of the drive type, it basically has a SATA notebook drive in there. The only thing I'm not too keen about with these is that they get a little warm. There are definately HDDs that are bigger than 160GB using 3GBps. Toshiba makes a 320GB for that type. I used that as an example because my last ticket I sent to AOpen had a Toshiba 60GB Mobile SATA drive in it, so I looked on their website for their other drives. This particular one fell under their "2.5 inch" section of notebook drives.

At home I use Firefox for all my browsing. it is not the default browser, that is still IE, but I don't use IE for much of anything. About a week ago, some Javascript portions of websites have ceased to function. This includes things like collapsable list menus, among others. The places where I have noticed this is on Facebook and Ebay. On eBay the "Save this search" link is what isn't working. I haven't installed any plug-ins or ran any updates in over a year so I can't figure out why some of these functions aren't working. Any ideas?

I don't think its related, but is there a reason why you are not having diskpart format the drive?

I just found it weird because our Vista installs put the driver in automatically. We only have to script drivers for Broadcom and RTL8168/8111 nics.