AndyCan

I've since found out that you can only send images to the projector through the LAN source, not project so i was wrong and it won't do this unfortunately

yep on same subnet and like i said i can ping the projector address successfully, just doesnt discover it when i use the search function. But i wasnt sure if this was a windows or networking shortcoming as ive never used this particular windows feature so dont know how reliable it is before i start blaming the network side of things

the one ive tested it on is a Epson PowerLite 92 H384A and it has all the network menu items such as password and LAN is one of the source options

So i've been trying to get this feature working for our projectors as we have Apple TV's setup so i want a solution for our Windows laptops. I've got to the screen on both Windows 7 and 8 where you either Search for your projector or enter the network address. I can ping the projector fine from the laptop but if i do Search for projector, it finds nothing and then if i try entering the address, nothing. But then im not totally sure how i should be entering the projector address. I've tried \\192.168.1.58 \\ \\192.168.1.58\ \\192.168.1.58\projectors\ but no luck. I don't know if its something i am doing wrong or if its a networking issue going on here. Anyone with experience of getting this feature working?

ive found an answer. Someone scripted an exe that basically pulls the key from UEFI and prints it to a text file. For anyone interested it can be found here: UPLOAD.EE - ReadKeyFromUEFI.zip - Download

I've been deploying a Windows 8 disk image to my desktops this week using Acronis. I sysprep the image and tick Generalize when i sysprep. So when i come to install the image on my desktops, it asks for a Windows key. However when i deploy the image to some of my Win7 desktops which came with a Win 8 Pro license built in to the bios, i get prompted for a Windows key and if i choose skip and go into 'change key' it shows as trying to use the key i used on the desktop i used to create the image. I noticed that if i run the Windows upgrade assistant on these Win8 bios machines that it automatically picks up the key from bios and installs fine. Is there a way that i can install Win8 from an image but force it to check the bios for a key??

the registry key above did it, thanks! I see its disabled by default in Win 8 though compared to 7

UAC was disabled in windows 7 yes, and until just now UAC was enabled on Windows 8, however i disabled UAC and it still doesnt work like it used to. And yes all computers have the same local admin and password account setup. The account is fine, i can log on using that account no problem and i can \\machinename\c$ to all my Windows 7 machines fine, even do it from Windows 8 to a Windows 7 machine, just not to Windows 8 machine. Using the IP doesnt change anything, i can connect to the machine fine, it just wont let me access c$ unless i explicitly share the C drive. If i just do \\machinename it shows me all the default shares available, which currently is just the 'Users' folder.

Thanks, although can i ask, is this a change in Windows 8 because this worked without having to do the above in Windows 7 and i even did a in place upgrade from 7 to 8.1?

I'm starting to install Windows 8 but noticed that now, Media Servers are populating the Network Locations heading when in My Computer. Is there any way to either not detect and display these on the Win8 machine or if not turn off the Media Server broadcast from machines. I want this off as the more computers i upgrade i dont want a huge list of every computer in the computer there. Anyone help?

This is not in a domain environment, just a workgroup

I am about to start upgrading my Win7 machines to win 8. Where previously i've been able to simply \\machinename\c$ onto the C: drive of all computers in the office using the local Admin account on each computer, i've noticed i now can't do this on Windows 8. It prompts for the password but wont accept my credentials, even if i choose machinename\localadmin as the username. I did an upgrade from 7 to 8 so thought it would keep the same settings in place. i Believe in order for this to work you just need to have Password Protected Sharing enabled in Advanced Sharing Settings, which is enabled. Can anyone point out what is wrong here?

I have a plugin that i am using with Chrome that i know is 100% legit, however the latest version of Chrome disables it and the only way to enable it is to click the shield in the top right and select 'load unsafe script'. Does anyone know how to disable this security feature either in general or for this one plugin?

I am on the lookout for an ultra portable projector that i can connect to a microsoft surface tablet via HDMI. I want something as small as possible but that is still perfectly fine for projecting during a presentation and that the whole has to be in darkness for anyone to see anything (i'm not sure at what size point they start to become more of a novelty) I wondered if anyone had any experience with using any small, portable projectors and could recommend anything? Thanks,

I'm looking at purchasing a server with Server 2012. I intend to run 2 VM's on this server so what is the best approach? -To install Hyper-V straight onto bare metal then run my 2 VM's from there OR -Install Server 2012 with the Hyper-V role and then run my 2 VM's? What are the pluses and negatives for each approach? Thanks.