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The game should not be doing that. Does this happen with all games you are using? This sounds like the game is not exiting properly. You can write a script that will kill a process, and just run it every time you exit the game. Or troubleshoot the problem you are having.

I use Firefox 1.07 at home for almost everything except website development and some shopping, in which I then use IE 6. I refuse to use IE7 because of the fact that MS deviated away from the CSS standard which worked better in 6.

I see what you mean. That article in particular is aimed at the Windows Setup process. You can also use the Sysprep method if you are going to be adding these drivers onto a machine before it reaches production. I have done that before also, but I do not use a virtual machine for working with images, I use a physical machine every time. I do it this way because manufacturers (such as Intel for example) are notorious for changing hardware components within the same model number but the old drivers not working. For example, how later 945 boards magically started coming with the IME and SOL on them when before they didn't.

You can manually install drivers using the Devcon CLI app from MS SysInternals. Its only failings is that it doesn't like installing drivers for secondary virtual devices. By that, I mean devices that Windows doesn't find until after the first driver is installed. For example, where I have encountered this problem. Using a PCI 2 Port Serial Card, that only has 1 physical port but is designed to use an adapter to handle 2 ports. Windows detects it in Device Manager as Unknown Device\PCI Serial Port. I use Devcon to install the driver, it then creates 1 known device called "Serial Port (COM4)" and an unknown device called "PCI Serial Port". Althought I have the correct driver file to handle both hardware IDs that the physical and virtual port use, Devcon cannot seem to install the driver for the second device. So if you are supporting any hardware that does something like this, you may run into this problem also.

Seems to me like you need to limit from the AD or Client side. There is no built-in permission you can change for a file or folder by itself. The actual copy procedure is done by the client machine by using the read function.

Yes, thanks a lot.

The typical rules I try to follow are: 1. No IRQ sharing with the Video card 2. No IRQ sharing with an I/O controller (like the HDDC) that will perform a DMA. Sometimes you don't get an option to change them.

It's enabled for my primary monitor, but it cannot be disabled. It's greyed out. Right, you can't disable the primary monitor. In the Display Properties/Settings tab, you will see monitor 1 and 2. Click on 2 and you should have an enable option. It may be in the context menu. Yeah, we tried both options there. It projected nothing. Also, check to see if it is actually projecting nothing or not. Sometimes, if you have a wallpaper, it will only display on the first monitor. Have you tried moving a window from the first screen and see if it appears on the second one?

The IP address certainly can, never tried specifying a port before.

It's enabled for my primary monitor, but it cannot be disabled. It's greyed out. Right, you can't disable the primary monitor. In the Display Properties/Settings tab, you will see monitor 1 and 2. Click on 2 and you should have an enable option. It may be in the context menu.

I am tasked with changing the HAL on a Windows XP image. Here is what I have encountered so far, and do not know if Windows is lying to me or what. First we start with a computer that has Windows XP Pro, SP 2 that has had some software installed on it by a customer. Unfortunately, all of the software was installed in Factory Mode rather than Audit Mode. This computer has a Celeron CPU and uses the ACPIAPIC_UP HAL as according to Device Manager. We send this image up to the Ghost Server and then I did a test by putting this image down on an identical Computer except it has a Dual Core in it. Another thing to note is that Sysprep is NOT run before the image is sent up generally, so the computer is in Factory Mode after it is deployed. I rebooted the computer after the Ghost was dropped and I went into the Device Manager to check the HAL. The HAL was now set at ACPIAPIC_MP without me making any changes. Am I to believe that Windows has automatically changed the HAL for me? Shouldn't it still come up as UP after ghosting it? I had also prepared a new SYSPREP.INF that would change the HAL but it seems that I do not need it. What are your thoughts on this?

In the old days, this meant that someone wrote their website wrong. It is much better nowadays. So it is usually an issue with the browser's settings or you have a helper app (like a pop-up or script blocker) running and that can cause this message. This of course means you are using IE.

Compare the Hardware ID from Device Manager with the ones listed in the INF.

1. Try deleting the files in c:\documents and settings\%username%\local settings\temp and c:\windows\temp if that folder exists. If there is a read only file in the temporary folder, it could make the installer fail to install. 2. Make sure you have administrator rights 3. Install using Add/Remove programs.

You can set the spindown of the drives in the Power Scheme in Windows. THe state your computer goes into when it goes into standby is determined by the BIOS Setting. We use Intel and MSI boards and their default is S1 but we change them to S3. So see what your BIOS says and if it doesn't say, then only the manufacturer would know.

I first need to have access to the source image, which totally depends on what orders placed. I did not think about a boot manager... In related testing, I have a PC that I successfully create a C drive NTFS with the size posted above, and a FAT32 ID12 hidden partition with no drive letter. I then dropped a WIM onto the C Drive, but it is the WIM for that machine and not the one I use for the test. The problem I encounter now is that after the image dropped, on the reboot, it gives the "Cannot find boot media" error. I booted back into PE and checked things out with diskpart and all the partitions are set up correctly. I also checked the boot.ini and it is correct. Since it is possible that the recovery partition requires additional files, I will have to look at one of the completed builds to see what is different. Any suggestions on files to look for besides the boot.ini?

On a testing machine I was able to use the command SET ID=12 To get the desired effect. No additional software required. I will get to do a full on test next week. Then I will have to learn to script a .cmd to do it all for me!

ive intergrated the nic (broadcom) into a custom PE build and its detecting the network just failing at step 4 do you have workaround ?? We get this problem only on about 5% of the machines we set up. In those cases when we have to "work-around" the issue, we put a Kingston NIC in there which uses the ndis driver.

You can restrict the Users group from opening it, and also have it hidden from the start menu. But you will be hard pressed to stop people from using other methods to opening a command prompt of another type. Let's start this way, what other methods would someone use to get a command prompt on the computer? 1. a USB or floppy drive 2. Download from the internet For option one, is using an external drive or disk ever a necessity for the target machine? You could say, limit opening executables from drives that aren't the C drive, and do not allow people to save files to anywhere on the C drive but a certain folder. Then have it set that they cannot run executables from that folder. You could also just rename cmd.exe, and put it into some folder where the users group does not have the ability to access. You could even ResHack to change its icon. But it sounds like you are targetting a specific person, and not a possible action a group of people could do. I am sure a disciplinary action is necessary in this case!

Doh! I forgot to mention this! All of our computers do this by default.

We know the history of SysInternals, being one of the countless companies/groups all by themselves and gobbled up by Microsoft. At first glace we could say the failings of NEWSID is caused by the fact it was third party software. NEWSID changes the Security Identifier in Windows that is not in Factory Mode. Well it changes it in factory too but why would you bother? Anyways, it does not regen the SID used for the account(s) specified in the Task Scheduler so tasks always get broken. Has a newer version of NEWSID even been released that fixes this problem? Or will we be relegated to running schtasks batch files?

Hmmm... so I have to change the type before imaging... Is there any tricks for getting a USB key to be detected in the PE? We could just launch a program that way. Unfortunately, I do not have the computer with the AIK on it, so I can't recreate my boot CD... :\

OK as I am understanding things, I need to find the command that changes the disk type. Ghost shows me this information about both volumes. Ghost is our current app for imaging this build but it runs really slow. Disk 0 61177MB ID=07 15139MB ID=12 So when I originally captured the second partition, I had assigned it a drive letter after selecting it. On deployment is the problem. I can do the C drive just fine, but as for the extra partition... Create Extended Partition Create Logical Partition Then what? I know how to image now without using the drive letter. Format the partition? Drop the image then change the drive type? Before or after I drop the image onto that partition? I have read elsewhere that you can't change the partition type in diskpart, and Microsoft's site makes no mention of such a thing. It does say that Partition Magic can do it but I need to make this totally automated.

Do you have a password for your Administrator account? If you have no password, do not have a DefaultPassword key in the WinLogon section!

I wonder if any OEMs will have problems about this!