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I’m one of the Program Managers working on the Windows Embedded team and am investigating the various deployment/boot scenarios that we would like to support moving forward. CD boot is something that we released for XP Embedded to satisfy some of our
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In my screen cast debut I will walk you through how to add registry keys to RegFilter, both in Target Designer and also on a deployed runtime. I will also discuss some of the "Do's and Don'ts" associated with using Registry Filter. In this example I am
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In order to utilize SMS to service your Embedded device in a corporate or enterprise environment you would need to make sure the SMS client was installed on the device. This means that the image builder who uses the Embedded toolkit to build the XPe image
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It's that time again! Time for another MSDN chat with the Windows XP Embedded team. The team will be available in the MSDN Chat room on Tuesday, August 21st at 11am PST . We're going to try something a bit different with this chat -
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Now that FBWF has been out for awhile there has been some feedback that has come through as to what directories and/or files should be added to the Write-Through list. As apart of a "good practices" article I'm going to try to keep this article up to
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Some EWF-based embedded systems occasionally run into a problem where CHKDSK insists on running each time the system reboots. This can cause issues with breaking the system's branding (if the developer has taken steps to hide the Windows splash screens,
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Windows XP Embedded Service Pack 2 Feature Pack 2007 introduces the new Embedded Enabling Feature Registry Filter that persists certain registry keys, for example, those for Terminal Services Client Access License (TSCAL) and Domain Secret Key. Since
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Information on troubleshooting USB Boot is available in the xpehelp.chm file shipped with Feature Pack 2007 RTM. Here is some additional information on the subject. Notes: 1) Always safely eject your USB DOK after using the UDFPREP utility, and after
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HORM does not stand for “Ham On Rye (with) Mayonnaise”. It is an acronym for “Hibernate Once Resume Many”. Why would you want to “hibernate once, resume many”, you ask? Well….allow me to tell you. This feature allows a rapid reboot and return to the same
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XP Embedded Feature Pack 2007 introduces the new USB 2.0 Boot component, which makes it possible to boot a fully operational runtime from a USB thumbdrive, disk-on-key, uDOC, etc. So far, it appears to be working very well for quite a few people, and
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Alexander has posted a FAQ on HORM (hibernate once resume many) at his blog. These are some of the questions raised during his MEDC presentation last week. - Andy
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At the devcon this week, during Lynda's session on "Take a deep dive into Device Update Agent", a question came up which migrated to a discussion on servicing HORM and the need to dismount other volumes on the system when the hiberfile is created. Here
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Aaron Stebner has created a sticky article you can always go to now for the latest info on the DUAScriptGen tool. If you use (or are thinking of using) DUA to service your embedded device you owe it to yourself to check out this PowerTool, it simplifies
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Here’s an interesting topic I came across recently: Say you have a standalone, non-networked machine with a CompactFlash (CF) drive serving as your boot partition. This machine runs a program that needs to periodically update and persist a single data
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Having trouble getting your El Torito runtime working? Admittedly, the instructions on MSDN for building an El Torito runtime can be a little confusing at times, so here’s a condensed run-down of the process. If you're using SP2, simply pull in the "
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