Hi, I don't get it, am I doing something wrong, I run the tool and select things like disable complex passwords, it just does nothing / does not work. I even make sure to "Run As Administrator" and reboot afterwards, but if I then issue:
net user Administrator 1234
to change password to 1234, I simply get

C:\Users\Administrator>net user Administrator boss
The password does not meet the password policy requirements. Check the minimum password length, password complexity and password history requirements.
More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2245.

Am I doing something wrong here ?

I do love that the guys have take to do this, it's fantastic, but I'm curious:
could we also have the modifications as cmd batch scripts and/or vbscripts please ?

This way, makes it easy for people to take what they need/want to do and apply instantly. GUI’s are very pretty and all, but if you (or me) has a customised script that they can modify to our own particular needs, and more quickly that clicking in GUI's. it’s a win-win-win-win situation for everyone if these mods are available as cmd batch / vbscript etc I would greatly appreciate that ! will be great if these scripts can be posted up ! thanks in advance for this great tool (and also hopefully for the raw scripts that we can use).

In order to make the "Disable Password Complexity Fix" to work, if you see on tool it says that a reboot is required.

It does work 100% as it's the same one we use for our OEM packs and Workstation releases.

Now in what concerns the scripts, batches and fixes they are already available in current version, please feel free to play around with them.

Should you wish to use our scripts and batches to fiddle around with them to make your "own" tool is fine for us.

I am not certain that we will post a topic with all scripts, fixes and whatever else is in the tool, because that would demand some work keeping it updated, but most of all it would be more a "Please fix my script, I don't know why it does not work........." topic.

Don't misunderstand me on that, it's just that we have been working since nearly a year on this project, including also the side projects such as the OEM folders and making every 6 month nearly a new release, all this takes time and lots work.

I'll talk with the 4 Horsemen Team to see what they think about it. We'll let you know.

TY for your interest in our work.

Regards,

The 4 Horsemen

Hi there guys. You have done a tremendous work with WIN2k8r2 conversion. I'm using now the conversion GUI v2.1 and I would like to know, is it possible to uninstall it and install the new one R2ConvGUI 3, when will be ready, or v3 will be installed on v2.1 without no problems.
Keep up the good work!!!

It will not be possible to "uninstall" previous version as basically it was a copy/paste of W7 files to R2 OS folders with some regs and fixes.

So should you wish to use the uninstall option that we plan to add to the new version you'll need to have a fresh R2 install and then use R2Conv3.

Sorry about that.

By the way credits to R2 Conversion go to all members of this forum. We only gave it a GUI and added some extras to it.

Regards,

The Horsemen

I am currently testing an updated version that is fully operational.

It does not include yet some features that we wanted to implement.

We may release it over the weekend.

It will be an application as promised, we'll work from there on.

Regards,

The Horsemen

I updated 1st post.

All files were updated for the last time in it's current form, as we did now develop an application for converting R2 !

Please check here :

viewtopic.php?f=21&t=1924

Regards,

The Horsemen

Hey neige,

I have got another tweak you can integrate into the next version of you R2 Conv GUI. It's the Windows Media Player plugin for Firefox that allows you to play Windows Media content on websites that support it. For example I found this site that streams my local police scanner through Windows Media Encoder 9 Server. Useful on those sites that use this technology. Firefox does have a plugin to support WMV but it only works for client desktops by default. I just simply extracted compressed file and editing the MSI with ORCA and dropped the client OS dependancy. The attached file below is the tweaked one compatible with Windows Server so its already ready to go.

Here is an example of Firefox BEFORE and AFTER Windows Media Player plugin support.


BEFORE:



AFTER:




As you can see the Windows Media stream now appears.

For those with Nehalem and Sandy Bridge generation Intel processors such as i7 920, core i5, etc... you can further increase the performance of the desktop by disabling core parking and enabling turbo boost.

To enable turbo boost on the current power scheme type in the following command into command prompt:

1st line: Powercfg -setacvalueindex scheme_current sub_processor 45bcc044-d885-43e2-8605-ee0ec6e96b59 100

2nd line: Powercfg -setactive scheme_current

To disable core parking type the following into command prompt:

1st line: Powercfg -setacvalueindex scheme_current sub_processor bc5038f7-23e0-4960-96da-33abaf5935ec 100

2nd line: Powercfg -setactive scheme_current

Yet another tweak to add to your R2 CONV GUI from yours truly. I see in the CONV GUI that you have the ability to show or hide files and folders but you don't give the option to actually hide/unhide them. I have added the ability to hide or unhide files and folders to the right-click context menu. I have attached the registry files to be imported into your registry below.