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Hi,

Isn’t telling you at every boot up that your copy of W2K8-R2 isn’t genuine annoying enough?

Besides that it tells you it will stop working after 30 days. So what do you do?

Obviously MS gor wind of our clever little trick… Can’t really blame them.

Easiest workaround is to dump an image containing the older version of MSE and block the upgrade. Works for me.

Cheers,

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Hi,

Thanks for your answer about the blunt axe method + registry cleaning but I don’t know what blunt axe method is.

Ask a New Yorker or an Amsterdammer and I’m sure they’ll explain the expression to you. 😎
In this case it just means delete the files MSE dumped on your HD and search the registry for orphans and kill those too.
That said, you must have the oddest copy of W2KS8 I’ve ever heard of….

@AsciiWolf:
Some of us need catching up, yours truly in particular.
So, if you don’t mind, Sir, could you be a little more explicit when replying? TIA. Sorry for my abysmal mindreading…

Cheers, 😉

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Hi,

Not sure if I understand the problem correctly.
The setup routine from MSE tells you the copy of W2K8S isn’t genuine, goes on to install itself regardless, yet now you want to uninstall MSE anyway?

The MSE uninstaller does the same version checking as the seup routine would do so it will return an error code.
I think you’ll need to run the uninstaller through the debugger as you’ve done for the setup to get that to work out successfully.

If that doesn’t work there’s always the blunt axe method + registry cleaning to get rid of it I suppose….

Cheers, 😉

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Hi,

@joepublic wrote:

I did a little more digging & found that on my Windows 7 PC I have these 3 dlls from Microsoft that are not on the Win2008 R2 PC:

msmpeg2adec.dll
msmpeg2enc.dll
msmpeg2vdec.dll

Strange that Microsoft ship these on Win7 but not on Win2008R2. Why bother to make Media player different? I doubt you can just copy & register them to make these codecs work. I checked in Media Player on Win7 & these dll’s appear under “MPEG/DVD” filters, but are missing on Win2008R2.

The version number for these dlls is 6.1.7140.0 as opposed to 6.1.7600.16385 for most other dlls. I haven’t installed any other software (not even Windows Live) on the Win7 PC, so I know these dll’s didn’t come from anywhere else.

Those files are just the tip of the iceberg.
I spent an afternoon with my nose stuck deep into the W7 and W2K8S R2 registries and came to the conclusion that short of forcing a full install of WMP12 on W2K8S R2 no porting over of files and regkeys from W7 is going to cut it.
Just one look at the hidden winxs folder is enough for one to give up on the entire idea…

So, while I haven’t actually delved into it, I think mounting the install WIM and searching for the WMP install routine could be a step in the right direction.
It may still need some extra stuff from DirectX to get it kicking though provided the setup would run correctly on the OS which I very much doubt…

I vaguely recall a similar situation with W2K3S R2 but getting that to work was pretty easy compared to this one….

Cheers, 😉

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Hi,

No idea what’s causing your problems with MSE but I installed it on several occasions without a glitch.
I used both the method as described here and the one described on vspug. They’re essentially the same anyways.

Furthermore, I did installs on non-activated machines with and without updates, used the MSE I had since a few months and an updated version and all went fine so honestly, I don’t have a clue what’s happening at your end.

I’ll try uinstalling MSE on one of my machines and report back.

Cheers, 😉

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Hi,

It appears TS is confusing R2 with SP2.

The only thing you may regret installing it on that machine is probably not having enough RAM for it to run smoothly.

Cheers,

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Hi,

Well, let me be the second one ….

Just like yourself, I’ve used XP-X64 for a couple of months.
Found some issues with it that bothered me and dumped it for W2K8S-R2 which IMHO is still the best thing since sliced bread.

The problem with the X64 version of XP is that it’s a bit of a mixed bag, it still came with too much stuff that wasn’t integrated the way it should have been.
One example was Outlook Express which I’ve been using for many years but had the habit of opening embedded urls in the 64 bit version of IE which is kind of a nuisance.
IE-X64 is still lacking third party support to this day but the problem got somewhat circumvented by the omission of the venerable OE from the new OSes altogether.
Windows Live now serves nicely as a mail client with plenty of options just in case and without the overhead of a hog such as Outlook.

I used to deploy W2K3-S as a workstation as well and so I turned XP-X64 into a W2K3-S lookalike much like the W2K8S WS conversion routine that’s being touted nowadays.
You know, classic desktop, explorer etc. All of which made it faster and much more the “Porsche” style I like so much.

I must say I never, ever had a BSOD since W2K3-S, be that the X86 version or the X64 one but all in all the X64 version sure does “feel” faster and steadier given the right hardware and plenty of ram.

All in all, straight out of the box, it isn’t all that impressive but once SP’ed and stripped to the bone, yeah, it can fly alright. 😎
The same observations go for the X64 version of W2K3-S as a WS wich should come as no surprise.

Vista was everything I really do not want so, no comment other than SUX.

Truth is, if it weren’t for W2K3-S I wouldn’t have bothered with XP either. W2K3-S just showed what XP was trying so hard to hide….

Cheers, 😉

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Hi,

Has anyone tried to disable Superfetch in W7 to see what the impact on performance is?

The reason I’m suggesting this is simply because I’m not noticing much of a difference in favour of SF. Then again I’m running both OSes with ample ram and CPU power…

Cheers, 😉

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Hi,

@yashau wrote:

I confirm the workaround for MSE works great. Kudos!

Absolutely brilliant. 😎

Thx to whomever sweated it out. :ugeek:

Cheers,

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Hi,

Hard to tell without having anything to compare it to, really….

Trouble is, I’m a bit spoiled when it comes to image quality being used to big CRT’s which to my mind provided a more natural, more three dimensional color balance compared to my current setup.
The monitor I am using at the moment is a decent but not exceptional Dell Ultra Sharp 19″ affair at a native resolution of 1280×1024 @60Hz.

I realize just changing the graphics card won’t bring all that back but I thought I might at least try.
So, I wonder what other non-gaming guys would advise given the envisaged new Iiyama etc.

Anyways, thx for the input.

Cheers,

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Hi,

A little late to the topic but it’s safe to leave the battery in while the laptop is plugged into the powergrid.

It won’t overheat as the power charge cycling is actually electronically monitored.
Some cheaper batteries need the occasional deep discharge (just like an electrolytic capacitor would) but modern Lithium ion batteries don’t need that.

Should you use a battery that does require a deep discharge then there maybe software tools around to achieve that. Some manufacturers supply these on HD, others prefer to have this done on site.

Cheers,

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Hi,

Noticed the same thing when toggling from Custom to Performace, Appearance etc.
Must be a hidden feature, must be…. 😛

Anywho, just check custom, reboot and it should be back to where it was before.

Best,

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Hi,

Having run W2K8S R2 Standard and Enterprise side by side along Win7 Enterprise for the past months I feel you’d get better results by stripping Win7 to the bone rather than running W2K8S R2 as a workstation in most situations.

Back when W2K3S was king it was a different story as even though you could make it’s WS counterpart XP-PRO look like W2K3-S you were still stuck with the 3 to 4Gb (at most) memory limit of the XP kernel for 32 bit computing among other things.

Still, to my taste at least, Win7 still comes with a ton of stuff no one really wants on a true workstation but it’s still early days to say exactly what can and can’t be thrown out. Contrary to XP and family, Vista and now Win7 are so tightly nit that hacking bits and pieces off may well have disastrous consequences to the unwary.

In case you hadn’t noticed already, I’m a bit of a “form follows function”, Porsche kinda guy 😉 which is why I tend to prefer the no nonsense approach of the server dev teams in general.

Also, you’ll always have to keep in mind that a server kernel is written with that particular role in mind. For home use it’s much easier to turn a desktop version into a (sub)entry level server than vice-versa.

While I haven’t done any benchmarking on either I still have a slight preference for W2K8S R2 for the reasons explained above but as far as mere speed goes I think the difference between the both of them as a workstation is negligable a few exceptions either way nothwithstanding.

Best,

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Hi,

Thx for the welcome.
You know where that nickname was “nicked” from, don’t you?

Have been on Server 2003 since it became available.
Done some dabbling with XP (both X86 and X64) late last year. Skipping Vista allogether (not my cupper). Much impressed by W2K8S and even more so by W2K8S-R2.
Running W2K8S R2 Standard and Enterprise along Win7 Enterprise on a tripple boot as I write.

Looks as if we’re neighbours. 😎

Later,

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P.S. Just to impress the ladies: (You never know, right?)

W2K3S on a dual Xeon Dell PE 4600.
Ditto on an old Intel Astor Dual PII, W2KS on an even older Asus Dual PIII and finally a Dell Optiplex 745 MD with Q6600 and 8 gig of Ram as a scratchbox.
All but the Dell 745 are full SCSI machines, of course. 😉

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