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Works great, nice job!

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Ah yes, good point. Additionally, a few 32-bit apps might have 16-bit installers.

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I honestly can’t think of a single thing that XP can do and R2 cannot.

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There’s a couple of features that are still unavailable (in that there aren’t any tweaks or hacks that can enable them yet). Mobility Center, WinSAT, Games Explorer and ReadyBoost/SuperFetch are a few that spring to mind.

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Affirmative, Calender has been integrated into WLM.

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The way I see it, the guide linked to in the original post violates at least three points of the DreamSpark license (mostly section 3a):
1) All licenses are for qualifying high school or college students only. If you do qualify, there’s no need to follow that guide. Using proxies and credentials that don’t belong to you is essentially impersonating.
2) One license per person. The suggestion for creating fake accounts to get more licenses goes against this.
3) The software on DreamSpark is meant for educational use only. Any other use (from commercial to just plain dicking around) is prohibited.

Most people probably won’t care, but I thought I’d throw this out in case someone didn’t realise that what the guide is describing is essentially piracy.

For what it’s worth, I got my R2 (and Visual Studio) keys from DreamSpark by being a qualifying student and having an ISIC card.

[Indrek]

Go for 64-bit, unless you have a specific reason not to (incompatible hardware or software, for example).

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@Sevener wrote:

I mean, is this legal or what?

Unless and until the topic author can provide an explanation, you should assume it isn’t.

[Indrek]

Game: Fallout Tactics – Brotherhood of Steel
Compatible?: Yes
Issues: None

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Avira reports trojan TR/Crypt.FKM.Gen in gameexplorer_setup.exe.

Edit: tried the installer, but no dice. I noticed it doesn’t set the owner on the keys it creates to SYSTEM, like the guide for R1 says; I changed that, but it didn’t make any difference. I also tried running Shell:Games and Shell:{games-guid}, but the first one just brought up the search window and the second did nothing.

[Indrek]

R2 doesn’t have Mobility Center.

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Thanks for the reply. I don’t have any tweaking utilities installed.

@moosh101 wrote:

Check out the Administrator settings in both the Computer Configuration and User Configuration sections of the editor.

Do you mean the Administrative Templates sections? I checked them in both Computer and User Configuration, and didn’t see anything that might affect the availability of power options. Pretty much everything there was set to “Not Configured” anyway.

Edit: I checked all settings under both Administrative Templates sections? The only setting that’s not “Not Configured” is the one to display the shutdown event tracker (which is disabled).

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@hanpedro wrote:

How to configure power scheme?
I’ve tried, but I could not find Sleep or Standby in power scheme.

Go to Power Options (either from the control panel, or type it into the Start menu search box), and in the left-hand column click on “Choose what the power buttons do”. From there you can set the action for pressing the Sleep button.

Edit: do you have Hyper-V installed? If I recall correctly, Hyper-V disables sleep mode.

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Have you tried asking in the R1 subforum? I quickly checked the games list there, and apparently Fable works fine under R1, but at any rate you’re more likely to get advice there than here, seeing as most people here run R2.

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Or, if you have a laptop, it probably has a special key combination (like Fn+F4 or something) that activates sleep mode. You might have to configure it in power scheme settings first, though.

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