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All I did was open a video strored locally with no connection to the internet. Shut down computer properly. I go to start it up and start up repair kick in. I have let the thing run on startup repair over night and a total of 12 straight hours. It reboots once, maybe even twice. Then it just sit...

I have set up a main administrator account on 7 Pro. This was done when installing the o/s, however I would now like to change the user account name and all folders/directories etc., computer name relating to it. What's the best way to remove all traces of the old name?

Hi Guys, I have a problem with homegroup that someone I hope can help. I reinstalled my main PC, a total wipe etc. When it came to name the PC I took the offering of DAVID-PC, however the previous install I had called the PC DAVE-PC. Now when I try to create a homegroup it tells me that...

Hello: trying but unable to do: -w7pro to connect (cat 5e not wireless) to my home C/S w2K network, so that I can access files at a wXPproSp3 pc. I can connect to that same XPproSP3 PC from another XPproSP3 PC, and from my OS X.5 mac (using smb). I can connect from the w7 laptop to a shared...

Guys please help! I have to create autounattend which would automate among others time zone and license key. I am a complete newbie and mine doesnt work as required. Could you please rectify this? My deadline at work is on Monday and I am really desperate. This is what I managed to create...

Hello, I've tried searching the plentiful problematic posts, but I cannot find my exact dilemma. When it comes to networking, I'm as lucky as the man who played Russian Roulette with a loaded glock. Nothing ever goes my way. I have an XP laptop set up, I used to disable sharing because I...

When running the following script it will not display the results in a pop up window. This is only happening in Windows 7 Ent. The scrip does work fine from the cmd prompt. Some lines are commented out on purpose. Just want for the user to run this from the desktop and then tell me what the...

The following are Environment Variables in Windows 7 which can allow you to get to system locations more efficiently. What are Environment Variables in Windows? Well, if we understand that "variables" are things that can be changed, and if we also understand that the environment that variables...

I am a novice so please bear with me. I have a desktop running XP and a laptop running windows 7. I have them connected to the internet through a dlink router. I had them networked by reading how to's on the web. Everything worked as it should. Due to an unrelated problem I had to restore...

:(:( I have been trying to log on remotely from a Windows 7 Professional machine into my personal machine that is also running Windows 7 Professional on the same network. Following is some setup points. 1) My personal/host computer is assigned a static IP address 2) I can ping my personal...

Hello all, My name is Tommy and I am new to the forum. Hope everyone is having a great day and I look forward to reading posts and sharing advise and issues with you all. I have a interesting issue that I hope someone can help me with. I am logged into my Windows 7 machine and I have...

I've created a reference win7 pro pc with all applications and settings configured for our company. I need to capture it as a .wim image so I can create an answer file for it in wsim. Should I capture it with imagex before or after I sysprep it with sysprep /oobe /generalize? All I need is for...

I'm running Win7 on my laptop (Pavilion), wireless; have access to internet & my home server. My desktop (Acer) is running Vista; network printer is connected to desktop; the desktop machine can access the internet, and my laptop, and my home server. From my laptop I can ping my desktop by...

I am having problems with running sysprep on some new Windows 7 64-bit machines that we just got in. Here is what I have: Dell Optiplex 780, Windows 7 64-bit operating system. We do not have a volume license; we just use the product key that is on the machine. Here is what I want to do...

Help with Windows 7 Deployment - Best method to take and deploy an image I am hoping someone can steer me in the right direction. I apologize if its lengthy. For the last few years I have used the following for creating images and deployments. 1. install XP and the custom software needed...

I just upgraded my home office computer to Windows 7 (from XP) All went reasonable well, given the age of my system. I had some difficulty getting it to play well with my graphics card but other than that I was happy...until I started setting up the home network. I got it to work, but...

Im having problem with my network LAN.I've managed to detect the computer in my LAN but cannnot access all of it.But they can easily access my computer.Please someone give me any useful idea how to solve this??

I usually work form home and NEED to connect to a server at my work location. While at work, I sucussfully configured my remote desktop connection to my server. A task I had to verify before I spent the next week at home. Well, when I got home and tried to connect - it did not work?? I get...

Doing some preliminary work with W7 final release. After connecting to a domain is there an XP-style login screen option that will allow my users to chose username and computer/domain from drop down? Or Switrch Users all there is? Im a little suprised they neglected this simple feature if...

We have an issue here at work. We changed storage servers and as a result, we changed the computer name of the servers. Offline Files with XP are enough of a headache, but now I cannot figure out how to adjust each user's computer accordingly to synchronize to the NEW storage server and NOT the...