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Installing Games in Windows Vista Business using Scripts

posted on September 16, 2008

I needed a way to install Windows Vista games by script so I could further automate my MDT installations. Windows Vista business does not install games automatically, I think Home versions do though. Really you wouldn’t want them in the office, but these computers are for library patrons and some like to play solitaire. I did some searching the internet and found somewhere along the line this command line – pkgmgr.exe /iu:InboxGames /quiet

To make this work in MDT, you go to applications, create a new one, tell it that this is an application without source files, fill in the information on name, publisher, version, etc, put in the command line then click finish.

Filed Under: Deployment Tagged With: Games, pkgmgr, Windows Vista

Windows SteadyState 2.5 Beta and Vista

posted on March 31, 2008

Just a word of advice, don’t turn on only allow programs in the Windows or Program Files folder to run. Well you can turn it on and see what happens.

What I found was happening was Windows would say logging in, then turn around and say logging out and never log in. Turning this off fixed the problem.

I definitely have more fiddling around to do with Vista and SteadyState, as I just got working with this combination last week.

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: Group Policy, Windows SteadyState, Windows Vista

Get up to Speed on Windows Vista

posted on September 12, 2006

Damir, over on the Canadian IT Pro Blog on Microsoft Technet pointed out there are new Step by Step guides for various topics on Windows Vista. His post can be found here -> http://blogs.technet.com/canitpro/archive/2006/09/11/455386.aspx

I have downloaded them, printed a few but I haven’t made it much further with them yet. I hope to have them read by the end of the week.

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: Guides, Step by Step, Windows Vista

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