Rearm Wizard - The Premier Rearm Solution for Windows 7 and Office 2013

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  1. timesurfer

    timesurfer MDL Developer

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  2. cmlohff

    cmlohff MDL Novice

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    Whenever I choose to install I am not brought to the Recovery Environment, and subsequently nothing is changed. I am actually not sure if the recovery environment is locally installed on my computer. What can I do?
     
  3. Carlos Detweiller

    Carlos Detweiller Emperor of Ice-Cream

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    #583 Carlos Detweiller, May 20, 2013
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    OPen an admin command shell. Then type

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    RecAgent /disable
    followed by

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    RecAgent /enable
    At least for me, that restored RE which got lost somehow.
     
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    #584 cmlohff, May 20, 2013
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    Thanks for the advice! But sadly I am given a message that states that "RecAgent" is not a recognized command or program.
     
  5. Carlos Detweiller

    Carlos Detweiller Emperor of Ice-Cream

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    It's odd, every Windows 7 I've seen so far has installed the Windows RE. If you press F8 at boot to get the Advanced boot options, do you see the ''Repair your computer'' menu entry?

    Note: IR6 only works on Windows 7.

    Of course you can boot the Win7 DVD and launch the Repair environment from there. The drive letters might be different, if c:ir6 doesn't work try d:ir6 etc. It is slightly inconvenient but you'll need it again only after 180 days (5 rearms+30 days).
     
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  6. Humphrey

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    Could be an infection, I just fixed a computer that had this as well.
     
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  7. cmlohff

    cmlohff MDL Novice

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    I don't see that option which confuses me as well. I have that option on my laptop.
     
  8. cmlohff

    cmlohff MDL Novice

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    I was planning on doing a clean install in the near future anyways so I am going to do that today. How would I ensure that the Recovery Environment is installed properly?
     
  9. Tito

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    Use a clean media.

    Don't make a weird partition layout.
     
  10. cmlohff

    cmlohff MDL Novice

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    Okay, so I did a clean install of Windows and now have the recovery environment. Though, when I try to install Duality 420 I cannot get past the first screen of the program. When trying to select option "a" I receive an error message pertaining to "FINDSTR".
     
  11. Humphrey

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    What you need to do is not install duality in the Windows RE but while on the desktop where you'd actually use the computer to perform task. The computer will reboot after you install Duality. Once it restart, it will be in Windows RE- there you open a command prompt and type C:IR6 (Replace C with other letters such as D:IR6 E:IR6 F:IR6 and so on if you receive a not found error)
     
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  12. timesurfer

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    Thanks guys for supporting. I have been too stressed to follow posts or comment

    :eek:
     
  13. shatkar

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    Good Day,

    Is there a particular Office 2013 VL edition that must be used for IORRT to work? I downloaded the x86 Office 2013 Pro Plus VL edition (only edition that was available) from my partner site, installed on a Win 7 x64 OS, ran Duality420, and tried to install IORRT.
    It came back with Office 2013 VL edition not installed.
    So, I was wondering if there was another VL edition not available to me that would be required to use Duality420's 2013 IORRT?

    As a side note, I really like Trilogy, and Trilogy's 2010 IORRT worked with my VL edition of 2010 Pro Plus. So I am hoping to be able to use Duality420 as well.

    Thanks for any advice or info!
     
  14. Humphrey

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    I have sent you a PM. Download and used that copy of Duality and get back to us.
     
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    So is this "Win7 and Office 2010" or "Win7 and Office 2013"?
     
  16. s1ave77

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    "Win7 and Office 2013".
     
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  17. shatkar

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    That copy worked like it should, just like I am used to.
    Appreciate the fix.
    Thanks.
     
  18. timesurfer

    timesurfer MDL Developer

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    I think when we copy/paste the code into batch file for some reason the IORRT part gets borked but the first post DL should work fine with the 2013 links provided. Also with our latest build we have direct download links for 2013

    :biggrin:

    I would support 2010 but 2013 is so much cooler I guess I kinda let 2010 go

    :biggrin:

    Glad it worked and thanks everyone for supporting D420

    @Team D420

    I am overwelmed and need some "time" and space right now

    Here's my thoughts though is anyone is curious?

    Because the check.bat is not hidden we need to deal with this! As far as I know the the autorearm/theme concepts are working!?

    I'm not too happy about it but I think we need to do a GUI at least in an experimental sense

    PMR had written a service for IR6 and I"m sure IORRT can also be done with service

    All the code and the way it's organized must remain the same however as IR6 and IORRT have been intensively designed/developed in an precise way so no adjustments just transfer of functions to GUI. (I say this cause it's so easy to have these programs not work if any thing is changed or altered)

    Unfortunately we will loose the color customization but maybe we can have have custom color thing for GUI with custom button colors and background, I dunno o_O

    I believe these things are our next step. I really like .bat code and all we've done but perhaps we need to do an API/GUI for IR6/IORRT?!

    I'm keeping an open mind and if someone want's to join in with Team D420 and do an GUI let us know

    It is ok for all of Team D420 to post links of new code or work with new ideas but for right I'm keeping the D420 thread and first post link as it is

    I can put our latest code but it still bothers me that the check.bat pops up at logon

    I know that s1ave77 and Humphrey put they're whole heart into the check.bat code but it defeats the whole purpose of wanting things to run hidden and I must make a change for the better to improve D420

    Again we're not needing to do anything to IORRT unless we want to support 2010 also and the IORRT tasks could be run in an service like PMR did with IR6

    These are ideas and I hope we keep going forward with my rearm concept perhaps with a service to do what all 4 tasks do right now?!

    Hope I've expressed my concerns and again thank you so much everyone for helping me everyone

    TS

    :shisha:
     
  19. s1ave77

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    Premised the rearm check should be done via batch script, there is no other way, as in case the task would run as system, it would wait infinitly in background for user interaction.

    Tested this with different switches, but it only works when running as user, and in this case it will show the CMD window for a short moment.
     
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  20. timesurfer

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    I understand which is why as a last result I mentioned the possibility of someone doing a GUI for us with a service(s) to do what the 4 tasks do now

    We'll wait for what to do next and thank you so much s1ave77 for doing all you did and entertaining my ideas to improve my rearm concept

    :shisha: