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I wasn't aware that WMP had the ability to play Flash movies... The stand-alone Flash Player gets installed when you install Flash (not Shockwave and not the plug-in) or you can get the new version called Adobe Media Player: http://www.adobe.com/products/mediaplayer/

I believe you are referring to the Site License version of XP.... "Corporate" edition is the term for pirated versions of Windows and probably isn't allowed to be discussed here.

Thanks Cluberti, Its the Barracuda that we use. I was trying to remember it earlier but kept getting it confused (in my head) with a device I had used at a previous job... Which was the ADC Cuda 1000 CTMS.

I like them actually. I learned a lot by looking up those hex codes and errors and whatnot. Its better than getting a bomb or a question mark on a Mac where your fix is to reboot and hope for the best, or run the repair with the CD. I like getting in there and fixing those things. I remember when Windows 2000 came out, Microsoft used to run 2 page (gatefold) ads with a BSOD on it. I remember cutting all those out and covering my cubicle with them at the time.

As great as the reviews of their previous Raptor drives were, I couldn't get over the amount of noise these drives generated. Hopefully these smaller ones will be quieter.

I think the switch I'm using is unmanaged. It is a Netgear ProSafe 24 Port Gigabit Switch, model JGS524. There is another server in the environ, and it is also a 2003 Server Standard. Its primary function is to act as DHCP, as I set this up the same as the tutorial I wrote a while back in the WinPE forum. It isn't anything close to being reliable, which is why it only does DHCP. It was our old Ghost server and we kept it around because it locks up when you try to copy anything off of it in large numbers. It also has a RAID array (i forget which number... the one that takes multiple drives and creates one volume) but its currently missing about 1/4 of a TB because at least one drive had fallen off the array. I am not sure if this other computer is capable of being a "transport server" as I am not entirely certain what that entails. I can't make any changes to this environ ATM because I am deploying an image to machines we can't otherwise image.... Ones with those garbage software controlled by the BIOS Broadcom 57 NICs that aren't compatible with the version of Ghost we use.... When that order is finished then I will try to get my hands on a PC to put 2k8 on.

I've never actually used My Documents to store anything. All of my experiences using profile storage at companies ALWAYS had some sort of rule or regulation that data be kept somewhere else. Either on a network share, or with one company, in c:\data. So I only keep my stuff in c:\data if I am keeping anything on the C drive. Other drives just act like a big data folder to me. I've had to learn the hard way of keeping stuff in the profile storage, or at least not me but users I had supported.

Unfortunately, I live in an old house that doesn't have a lot of power outlets, so we can only have 2 PCs set up... and a port for a third (notebook) if needed. Verizon DSL | Linksys BEFSR41 | | | XP Pro PC XP Pro PC So we don't have much going on there. I've got about 8 other computers I'd like to at least try using but like I said, the power situation is pretty lacking.

I don't see a place where there is a list of the supported CPU models like that. You are using the NL site which is a little different than what I am used to. We never used a Yonah CPU before, and frankly this was the first time I'd heard of it! Is there a big difference in those two CPUs?

and This is from the WinPE doc under ImageX Command-Line Options.

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.