Comments on: Windows Server 2008 Workstation Converter

By: Van

Van — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:53:40 +0000

Same problem as Jetboy above,not able to use because of the following error:

“Application attempted to perform an operation not allowed by the security policy. To grant this application the required permission, contact your system administrator

Tried downloading SDK for Dot Net 2.0 and could not configure .net permissions. Help.

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Windows Server 2008 Workstation Converter « John Glisson’s Blog — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:06:42 +0000

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By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:42:39 +0000

Broke my computer due to the uxtheme.dll. You should probably remove that function until you find out a way to implement it without destroying windows.

By: Zagnut

Zagnut — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:00:54 +0000

Wish I would have seen this before spending the time to do it all manually!
Great job though!

By: Tekblang

Tekblang — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:20:39 +0000

Will it work on the Server 2008 “R2″ version? That O’S is very attractive-NOT and costly. But I prefer Debian now. Its free and power efficient.

By: amok

amok — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 02:17:40 +0000

same thing for me – could you please post again the reg info for the speech reco? The link points to nothing to download. Thanks a bunch!

By: Krun

Krun — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:22:26 +0000

Hey Mile,

Is it possible to publish your registry entries again? The link you post directing to mediafire isnt valid.

Thanks

By: Krun

Krun — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:21:40 +0000

Hey Mile,

Is possible to publish your registry entries again. The link you post directing to mediafire isnt valid.

Thanks!

By: Mile

Mile — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:27:29 +0000

For anyone looking into making Speech Recognition work with Windows 2008 server, this topic explains it all (be sure to thank Jason) => http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.speech_tech.sdk/browse_thread/thread/615fce70bd01a21d/5d341d6dcc891ddf?lnk=raot

The guy behind Windows 2008 Workstation Converter automated good part of that. What you need:

1. Speech Recognition DLLs from Vista machine (Windows/Speech & Windows/System32/Speech folders)
2. Windows 2008 Workstation Converter, download it from this site
3. Additional registry entries; I made this one after failing to activate Speech Recognition with just steps #1 & #2 => http://www.mediafire.com/?zn5jzzfvyzz

After you have all that:
1. Copy Vista DLLs to Speech and System32/Speech folder (WITHOUT overwriting existing dlls).
2. Then start Windows 2008 Workstation Converter, on Other tab click on Enable Speech recognition.
3. Finally, by double clicking import all .reg entries.
4. Control Panel -> Text To Speech -> Speech Recognition -> check ‘Run Speech Recognition at Startup’
5. Restart machine

And Speech recognition should work… I’m using it from C#.NET on my server now.

One final notice – this only works on 32bit version of Windows 2008!!!

Arris: Looks good, thanks for your comment!

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By: toxidas

toxidas — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:19:17 +0000

great work! saved my day thanx

By: sagopa kajmer

sagopa kajmer — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 02:28:22 +0000

Thank you again!

By: Brian Gillham

Brian Gillham — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 12:41:36 +0000

Thank you so much for a really neat utility that did EXACTLY what I was spending many hours trying to achieve. Your tool did almost everything perfectly. The only thing that did not work was the Sidebar did not load automatically. CONGRATULATIONS!

By: sandrar

sandrar — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:38:32 +0000

Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog. Cheers! Sandra. R.

By: fredcadet

fredcadet — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 15:57:58 +0000

I have a feature request for the 2008 workstation converter, I would like it have the option to set the local computer password policy to not require complex passwords and have no password expiration

When setting up the systems I sometimes keep forgetting to run
gpedit.msc

Maximum password age 0 days
Password must meet complexity requirements Disabled

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 04:48:18 +0000

I cannot figure out “change directory to %windir%\System32 and rename the UxTheme.backup file back to UxTheme.dll” with the command prompt. What is the exact command I have to enter? The OS is on my c drive. Thanks!

Arris: Here are the commands you need:

cd %windir%\System32
rename uxtheme.dll uxtheme.patched
rename uxtheme.backup uxtheme.dll

Good luck!

By: hussain

hussain — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:25:59 +0000

sounds gr8…cheers buddy

By: r0b0

r0b0 — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:17:25 +0000

Hi, is it possible to slipstream these updates to a custom installation ISO? Like in vlite or something? Thanks

By: KveRa

KveRa — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:11:28 +0000

Will there be new version of uxtheme64 for Windows X64 Servicepack 2?

someone have it ??

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