Bobo

I've found that several of my sites in the last few weeks have had the same problem, some of the credentials work and some dont, in fact the majority dont. All the licenses have a few years yet of updates but they do not work standalone. On laptops that cannot update I have used other credentials and they have updated, I hope the suggestion above works but I worry it may be an updating/license issue.

Does anyone use TS clients and ranger software? One of my clients has ranger lockdown security and is thinking about thin clients and a terminal server and I want to check whether this is possible or if anyone knows of any issues in it's working. Any help on this matter would be supremely appreciated, ta

You need to inject the drivers into the winPE image, you will need to get hold of WAIK and use imagex to mount the boot.wim to inject the drivers.... plenty of detailed guides online, for instance: How to: Inject drivers into a WDS | WinPE Boot image. Belgium Windows User Group Edit - or are you having problems even getting to the choices of boot through PXE?

Also I don't know if you have changed the settings from 9 points to 20 points for orientation? I find with 9 points after a certain amount of time certain areas of the smartboard are all over the shop.

First thing I would do is try a lead from a different smartboard if there is one to hand, they don't oftem go but they do go from time to time and throw up all sorts of weird behavioural disorders

This error can be caused by a number of things after WDS.... but it is always hardware related. You are correct in assuming it is a hidden partition. I assume you, like me, always delete all the partitions before installing a WDS image? If you then install an image that had a seperate parition the boot.ini file will point to an incorrect partition and stupidly the Hal.dll error is the one that shows. All you need to do is rebuild the boot table. If you have a number of machines I advise you to either rebuild the boot table and resend the image to the server, or open up the image and put the correct boot.ini file i nthe root of your system drive. To rebuild: Boot to your windows disk, press R for recovery console, type in bootcfg /rebuild, agree to replace, Identifier "Windows XP Professional" and then leave the options blank after. Beware this can often leave traces when loading windows so edit your boot.ini once in Windows and remove the old line. That should do it

I agree with you Sammy completely, nearly everyone knows how to use windows to a certain level... they press the start button, go to programs and their stuff is there, also there is a my documents on the desktop where all their stuff is, the music is in the music folder etc etc For a home user it is that simple, they want a CD to come with their printer that will make their printer work, they want to buy games that work out of the box, OS is obviously a direct competitor but still hasn't the simplicity that Pc seems to have, and a lot of people need that simplicity. Also not everything is Mac compatible whereas nearly everything is Windows. Also agree with what people said about cloud, when I firt heard about it I got cold sweats in a "bugger, I'm out of a job" kind of way, then looked into it further and am less intimidated by the concept, time will only tell where our jobs lie.

Does anyone use fast reconnect? I have been using Cisco 1200 APs for a few years and when setting up, The ultimate wireless security guide on techrepublic said not to use fast reconnect as it has problems. I don't know whether this was just with old firmware, but, is it worth testing out? Thanks Bobo

So is it still possible with USB?

I know firewire would be the best call, but the customer may use it on various machines, many of which will not have firewire

Have just looked more about what you mentioned, did not realize WMM could extract video like that, I assume it is the same with all models of cameras?

Surely USB2.0 would do the job, no? But wouldnt the film be saved in an unsupported format?

Hey guys, was looking for some help as my own searching is long. Right, a customer is looking for a camcorder to make some simple videos with the kids. They want to use Windows movie maker and they want to buy a camcorder for around the £250 mark, they also want to be able to buy it from an actual shop (think Currys, argos etc). Very awkward really as most camcorders only record in MPEG2, so in essence I need: Camcorder for £250 from a shop that can record in mpeg4/avi or another format that is compatible with WMM. Thanks Bobo

I have found that trying to get 64bit AMD and 32bit intel be it the same HAL to talk to each other with various different methods almost impossible!

When you say with it on or off the domain, do you mean you have literally removed it from the domain, given it a couple of reboots and it still has the problem, or do you mean when you log in locally? If it is the latter you should check your GPOs in the computer settings/administrative templates/system/logon and see if the "wait for network connection...." setting is enabled, as with this setting enabled it will always take 30ish seconds to start up.... a useful setting though. Just in case.... you have updated to the latest drivers for your network card? Have you tried starting up with the network card disabled, just in case it is something wrong with the image?