The problem is that the theme manager is looking for certain file types and if they are not correct it tends to ignore them. If the file extension is .bmp it needs to be in that format. The only other one that can be different is the User810 it can be a .png - but it makes the oem's.7z larger by quite a lot as you cannot compress a .png any more and the way compression works it actually increases the 'compressed' size of those files. The User810 is BMP in the archive but is renamed to User810.png within MRP, there is a check that will use a User810.png if present and ignore the BMP version. I did at one time convert all User810 to png (with transparency effect), however it increased the size of the archive by about 10mb+ at the time for all the brands! So i reverted them back to bmp, (sadly loosing the transparency). I try to keep the oem's.7z as small as possible as some people may not have unlimited data plans, it all about compromises.
How do you find all these wallpapers of all the unheard of ( just a few, not all) computer companies? Is there some sort of list you use? Thank you.
Using the ei.cfg, as mentioned, it will be 'universal' for all OEM editions, for Editions such as Enterprise's then the VL part would be 1 not zero. MRP is now intelligent enough that if the MSDM key is not for the Edition being installed it will not auto insert it. So for example, if the MSDM is for Core and you install Pro then the MSDM will be ignored and saved in a text file on the root of the system drive ie C:\ for your reference. If the device has a HWID (Digital License) for Pro when connected on line it will be activated as Pro. Windows 8.x MSDM keys will also work on Windows 10 provided the Edition installed matches the MSDM key's Edition. The Query Tool will give you more details if needed.
Do you or did you work for google or are you some sort of a professional programmer/ computer user? I can't imagine the "prep search query" you use. I would just like to know how you find a computer company, practically, no one has ever heard of. Thank you.
@vze2mp9g, Re images. The first port of call is looking in the brandname.theme file for any website information, if the site has logo's etc to see if they changed from what was originally in the brand folder, (some have changed colors or even design due to changes/mergers/takeovers of the company etc). If the brand website is no longer available, to then look on Google images, most times you can find some images or better/clearer ones. Failing that to edit the current ones for a fresh update. This part i am not great with and it shown in some of the brands i tweaked or added in which i had to create the theme from scratch.
Currently Hello, After testing different things I found out the problem was not Ei.cfg related and managed to get it working. And I can confirm that MSDM activation for Windows 8 works with Windows 10 install on MRP. MRP also don't need an Ei.cfg file to do everything correctly. The problem I got with MRP was because I also used NTLite to modify some settings which had conflicting issue. Another question, how can I disable MRP to creat 2 log files in root drive? I disabled Debug logging but that doesn't affect it.
The project.log will always be created when MRP is used and runs, that will not be an option to disable. The debug1.log can be disabled if required, make sure you are using the latest MRP Creator 5.8A as provided as a separate download (due to a glitch in that the flag was set incorrectly for the disable debug log). If the logs are not required then simply delete them from the system drive. I have mentioned on the first post that edited wim/esd's or using 3rd party ISO's such as Gen2 etc may cause the MRP to malfunction!
If the computer does not have a MSDM then the ei.cfg isn't needed as Windows setup will show the Edition selection and run oobe stage automatically then. The ei.cfg can be used to auto select a certain Edition such as Core, CoreSingleLanguage, Professional etc, that is not part of MRP, so you would need to research how it is adjusted to your needs.
that would probably be controlled via a unattended xml script, sadly that is outside the scope of this project and i cannot help you on that.