kurbycar32

your right about the unattend.xml file not helping on start up. the settings for many of those features are queued to happen on start up as part of the sysprep process, meaning it executes those commands before shutdown and before you extract your image. your problem seems simple though. instead of using the sysprep process to create your accounts write a script to create them on first startup, that would be easy enough to edit and you could guarantee that it ran after the first boot. also depending on your environment you could manage accounts using group policy

It turns out my mistake was that I was trying to think for myself. The solution was to create the local admin account as part of sysprep. I thought this was redundant because the account already existed but I guess that’s just how it works. it appears that you must create a local account but you can make that account the local administrator, which you would have anyway

im saying you wont notice the difference between having the 4 or 6gb so use only the faster ram for a total of 4gb at DDR6400. your actual usage even with encoding videos will be less than 2gb. hook it all up and check your memory usage. if im wrong send me a screen shot of the performance tab of your task manager. my vista machine idles at 658mb ram usage. no real tweaks, i just shut down the sidebar and turned off a few annoying "features"

I have vista Business 32bit using the WAIK to create the unattended.xml file. i have everything figured out except on initial boot it asks me to create a new local user. i dont want any local users except the local admin account, everything else is handled by the domain. I searched the MSFN before posting and didnt find anything.

im assuming your talking about mixing and matching using dual channel mode. as long as the banks match each other you should be fine. all memory will run at the slowest speed and windows XP32 bit will probably only recognize 3.25gb but i think you already knew that. i doubt you will see any performance difference unless your actually using more than 2gb of ram. my vista install consumes about 1gb of memory on idle, leaving 1gb for programs to hog up. gaming doesnt usually consume it and neither does encoding/decoding videos. if your like me though and you want the memory anyway (i have 8gb and use less than 2) i would pull out the 2 slower chips and just run the 4gb of faster memory, then sell your old stuff. since your not going to see a performance gain in capacity you might as well get the speed increase from the faster DDR.