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[Halo_2]

Nevermind maher its required for ie10 so just have to uninstall each time and live with ie9.

[scarface]

To Halo2: Can you even say why you have to stick with ie9 as kb2670838 is a prerequisite for ie10?
By the way you expect sth from maher but what did you give in exchange? Even if maher was Almighty God, the rule is not to count on others. Myself I couldnt even count on my family. By definition the people are not kind. They are individualist and more and more materialist. They dont care if you are sleeping in the street or if you are starving. So you will quickly die if you are not responsible of yourself. Thats why in case of economic collapse the people will turn out to be extremy brutal and egoist. In this sense my solution could be the solution for those who needed to have their iso modified. Of course it requires you to become a sysprep specialist and make your own research eventually with the tutorial made by the specialist harkaz.

[rodtsuka]

to halo2 and scarface - I use maher´s release since the middle of last year and never had problems with non-licensed windows. I even use maher to do some pre-formatted windows xp and 7. Last year and the beginning of this year i had some problems with this pre-formatted windows and windows loader, but after the release of Acronis True Image Home 2013 16 Build 6514 i have no more issues. Let´s try to give you some advice - pickup a 775 system (i3, i5 or i7 doesn´t work) install windows, install office and other programs do you like it and in the end use windows loader 2.2.1 (last version); backup the whole partition with acronis. In the new system put the new hard drive in the master computer, divide in two partitions, copy the file that acronis create, create a folder with the drivers (unzipped) for the new system, restore the primary and system partition with acronis plus pack, after the restore put the hd into a new system, boot and reinstall the drivers presented in the drivers folder - and voila you have a whole new system already prepared to use. I only have problems with this route when i am going to do this in a notebook - i always have to do by ground zero (mean install windows, drivers, office, etc from the beginning). I had some problems before to use IE10 in some of banking (financial) sites but i solve the issue using compability mode. Sorry for my bad english.

[scarface]

To rodtsuka. its your method, its working for you. ok. I didnt read a lot about you but it seems you are not a complete beginner. So you will understand my point and why I dont care about acronis or maher iso (no matter how good it is, I never tested it). Acronis can save an exact image of your system. for a unique system of for a network of identical system it can be a good solution. ok.
Now imagine you can modify any iso (and not only win7, xp and windows 8 also have sysprep with particularities, like a different number of rearm). Thats what sysprep can do. sysprep is not a separate software to install, its an element in system32, probably for the developers and for the windows administrators! Anyway it requires knowledge and most of all experience if you want to install a little more than patches. In fact the process of syspreping windows is "rather" simple but it requires to manipulate extra software like gimagex to capture  the wim image that are not really easy for debutants (specially because the procedure requires to be done under winpe because sysprep 'breaks' the installation and generalize it-in audit mode no account is created anyway). Moreover I put on the forum (a long time ago) a link for my modded winpe iso that contains gimagex, dism (for win8) and a modified startup to automatically launch the desired program. to launch gimagex It requires to press 1 (even a monkey could do it).

-I dont know how maher updates his isos, probably with an integrator that is the easiest and fastest solution (I dont expect an answer). Neverthelss with this way you cant remove files, patches or add software as easily as it can be done with sysprep, logged under windows.

For the ones who are interested in modifying maher's iso, here is the tutorial of the specialist harkaz: http://www.nomaher.com/forum/index.php?topic=991.msg7730#msg7730

[Halo_2]

To Halo2: Can you even say why you have to stick with ie9 as kb2670838 is a prerequisite for ie10?
By the way you expect sth from maher but what did you give in exchange?

When you install ie10 it installs kb2670838 aswell even if you have it hidden.
If you have ati card or hybrid graphics card that's affected (no downloads in ie or movies on wmp) need to go back to November 2012 release without ie10 because latest release reverts back to ie8 on a fresh install then once updated to ie9 it wont download anything at all.

Maher is doing what M$ wont do, it be handy for him if he knew what some updates affect. This also helps other users if they have the same problems.

Maher doesn't have to do anything anyone asks.

[rodtsuka]

to scarface - The peole i provide support doesn´t consider me as a beginner but the forum put´s every new user as a beginner or even newbie, i don´t consider me as a god or an expert, i work with computers since i´m 10 years old (old basic computers made by sharp - remeber when you need to put your programs in a cassete tape ?) and i´m now 44 and I think the curve of learning in all areas never ends, and you can learn things from even old a new peole (new i mean really new like you nice or your nephew). I´m using acronis method like 2 or 3 years (or more - i didn´t remember) in xp systems and windows 7 and a month I tried on widows 8 and worked too, always in a completing different systems (different size of hd, motherboard brand, chipset and processor). As I mentioned in last post the only system doesn´t work as a notebook (or laptop if you prefer) I think because this machines uses an specific kind of bios. I tried to use sysprep but i give up because it´s too complicated and in this kind of work we need to get a fast solution. As I mentioned too you need to work in an old plataform (like 775) to do a "mirror" one in new plataforms didn´t work (I already tried) - in the mirror only install lan driver - don´t install any other one - if you install other ones the chance of success is going to be zero. I do this kind of work as daily basis and the percentage os success is like 90% - I use the mirror created in 775 plataform in a 1155 (i3,i5.i7) , in old sempron (462), celeron (775), P4 (775). Again sorry for my bad english - it´s not my native language.

[scarface]

to rodtsuka: sysprep is not hard, but the tutorial of the specialist harkaz makes it hard.
I call him specialist but he deserves this appellation according to what Ive seen. he's not a would-be expert because I consider everyone coming here as an expert.
With your mirroring you obviously have some problems of compatibilities. Once again with sysprep thats not the case.
you wont do anything without my revamped winpe: http://www.nomaher.com/forum/index.php?topic=1015.msg8546#msg8546

Unfortunately the forum is like every forum, a small minority of valuable users and the vast majority will only stay the time to download what they want.



I want to add for the specialists using sysprep, me and the specialist harkaz have found a way to have an unlimited number of rearm in windows7 to sysprep your system indefinitely and not only 5 time (its not possible and not needed in windows8 ) using these cmd under winpe (not possible under windows):
reg load HKLM\MY_SYSTEM "%~dp0Windows\System32\config\system"
reg delete HKLM\MY_SYSTEM\WPA /f
reg unload HKLM\MY_SYSTEM
it reset the wpa. Then you have to put your product key again under windows.

[Christopher]

Update on previous post issue, moved to the Win & forum
Originally: "Problem after install of Maher XP Pro (May 2013) - BSOD 0x7b after restart"


I went ahead and made the decision to install Windows 7 Ultimate on my 80 GB Mirror (RAID 1) setup.
I mirrored 2 80GB older SATA drives via BIOS as a test. I installed Windows 7 Ultimate (64 bit) Maher (May 2013) without incident. Later I added a 500GB SATA drive and was unable to boot Windows. I removed the drive but the boot error still exists.

I get:
\BOOT\CD
0xc000000e

Hardware
MSI Z77 MPower LGS1155 (Intel chipset), i5 3.3 Ghz processer.
8GB DDR3 1600 Mhz RAM

I tried recovery but no luck. Do I need to re-install Windows AGAIN? Is there some other way to fix the issue.
In regards to questions concerning why I am mirroring, it's just some I want to do at this point, mainly because so I can comprehensively understand the mirroring process and it associated problems.

Do I need to look at using a Boot repair too? If so which one is recommended?
Other ideas?

Scarface, I did try Repair from the Windows 7 disc several times. no luck.

Christopher

[rodtsuka]

To christopher: download Hiren's Boot 15.2 Rebuild and put in a pendrive - instructions in http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd-on-usb-disk - don´t use other methods because you are going to have a problem. Boot with hirens in windows xp mode and run MiniTool Partition Wizard - check if you doesn´t have two boot partitions instead of one. I think when you added a 500gb the system modifies the mbr and consider 3 drives in a not raid mode. Advice - keep the hiren´s updated and don´t use the pendrive for another thing than this - it´s worth a lot. You are going to need at least a 2gb pendrive.

[Maher]

Updated: June release..
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