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Zapp Brannigan
Well after a couple of days trying to get XPe to do what we want, I am
almost there.... I do have some weirdness to report thou...
1/ Our problem installing Visual Studio 6 onto XPe (only our
engineering machines)..
Regardless of the configuration of XPe, the VS60WIZ.EXE refused to work.
But get this, there is a really bizarre workaround, that works 100%
for us. When the Visual Studio Setup Wizard starts, use the keyboard to
navigate to the README button, and use Enter to open the readme, then
use Alt+F4 to close the IE Readme page, then use the mouse to select
Next, for us, this always works correcty, however, and deviation
(however minor) from this process causes the Wizard to crap out when
Next is pushed. How weird is this?? This alone has severly undermined
our faith in XPe, as this all works fine in XPPro and XPHome (We tried).....
2/ STOP: Errors and virtual memory...
Today, I wasted a fair few hours building installs that did nothing but
generate a STOP as soon as the FBA runs, (I forget the STOP code, it may
have been 21). It turned out that happened as soon as I enabled a
pagefile in the "Standard PC" component (128Mb fixed size pagefile), as
soon as I switched this off, the problem went, as soon as I switched it
back on, it came back. What gives??? I needed the swapfile during FBA,
as I was getting Out Of Memory errors during component registration. As
it happens, I managed to remove some stuff to make the image smaller,
and I therefore don't need the pagefile at this stage (will enable it
after FBA, before ghosting)...
The whole process is very frustrating, as XPe TD is so slow (P4 2.2Gig,
with 1.3Gig of RAM), it takes 10 minutes at load and save
configurations. Is this Normal? My boss had a fit when I showed him
TDesign.EXE consuming 650Mb of memory is Task Manager!!!
almost there.... I do have some weirdness to report thou...
1/ Our problem installing Visual Studio 6 onto XPe (only our
engineering machines)..
Regardless of the configuration of XPe, the VS60WIZ.EXE refused to work.
But get this, there is a really bizarre workaround, that works 100%
for us. When the Visual Studio Setup Wizard starts, use the keyboard to
navigate to the README button, and use Enter to open the readme, then
use Alt+F4 to close the IE Readme page, then use the mouse to select
Next, for us, this always works correcty, however, and deviation
(however minor) from this process causes the Wizard to crap out when
Next is pushed. How weird is this?? This alone has severly undermined
our faith in XPe, as this all works fine in XPPro and XPHome (We tried).....
2/ STOP: Errors and virtual memory...
Today, I wasted a fair few hours building installs that did nothing but
generate a STOP as soon as the FBA runs, (I forget the STOP code, it may
have been 21). It turned out that happened as soon as I enabled a
pagefile in the "Standard PC" component (128Mb fixed size pagefile), as
soon as I switched this off, the problem went, as soon as I switched it
back on, it came back. What gives??? I needed the swapfile during FBA,
as I was getting Out Of Memory errors during component registration. As
it happens, I managed to remove some stuff to make the image smaller,
and I therefore don't need the pagefile at this stage (will enable it
after FBA, before ghosting)...
The whole process is very frustrating, as XPe TD is so slow (P4 2.2Gig,
with 1.3Gig of RAM), it takes 10 minutes at load and save
configurations. Is this Normal? My boss had a fit when I showed him
TDesign.EXE consuming 650Mb of memory is Task Manager!!!