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How to rip a Windows 7/8 Image using WinPE4.0 and DISM

To begin with, you need downloaded and installed: Windows ADK. WinPE4 & DISM make this sooo much easier now, and support such a large variety of machines out of the box that it made me less Raging for the first time in a very long time. No need for 3rd party tools or guides (unless you get extremely fancy), straight from Microsoft (all of this material is straight from MS infact.) Guide to WinPE USB Creation: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh825109.aspx Once ADK is also installed, you will want those deployment tools from its folder on the External. They... read more

Repair Start-Menu Right Click

SO, you have configured Win7 or Vista (32 or 64-bit) JUST the way you like it, except one small catch, you can't seem to right click inside the Start Menu?   Really simple fix, its just a setting change, and yes it CAN get turned on itself as I discovered.   A lot of suggestions said do a system restore, scan the hard-disk, but this is where you should go to first before deciding Windows has packed in and needs a reformat/repair.     Problem / Symptoms: Unable to Right Click icons in the Start-Menu. Unable to Drag/Drop icons in the... read more

AppV Management Console Crashing Repair

Symptom: AppV (App-V) management console begins crashing post startup, after selecting an individual package/software (for example: Photoshop.) Type of error is a runtime exception and no matter what you do, seems unable to be fixed. Re-installing has been reported to work (why it works is related to the fix) but the issue re-appears soon after that. System & Version: Windows 7 (x64) - All Versions AppV Management Server 4.5 SP1 - Management Console specifically. Note: Client is 4.6 SP1 and this should work for all 64-bit versions of Windows, might be in a slightly... read more

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