Disable charms in windows 8.1 using answer file.

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How to disable charms in windows 8.1 deployment using answer file.

Hi, Thanks for the reply.
We don't wanted to add this setting in domain we wanted it within the image is there any way of disabling charms for all users
within the image as we are on the process of deployment of Windows 8.1 Tablets & they can be domain or non domain joined.
Making Copy Profile setting True in answer file is not working.
Thanks,

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    Status:
    Today, using the Intel controller to boot Windows 7 with the Marvell controller enabled is just BSOD.  What am I missing or failing to do or set?
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      -John
    Solved!
    Go to Solution.

    Update:
    I replaced the 500GB Seagate disk with a new 500GB Seagate.  I ran the Marvell BIOS verify disk utility on the new disk drive and it passed with no errors.  Following the steps given in the Marvell MRU online help, I rebuilt the virtual disk.  Upon completion (which took a little more than an hour to complete), I rebooted.  Before the Seagate disk went south yesterday, the Marvell virtual disk contained one primary partition (C, and four NTFS drives (D:, E:, F:, and Z.  Now it contains three primary NTFS drives (C:, F:, and Z.  An extended partition contains D: (an unformatted volume of size 199.30MB) and an unused space of 199.30GB.
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    One second later, UserPnp logs:
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    Questions:
    Is it possible that UserPnp corrupted the Marvell virtual disk after an intermittent physical disk unplugged/plugged-in event that happened when the Seagate hardware went failed.  It looks to me like my D: and E: are toast despite RAID 10.
    Any ideas?  Is there anyway to recover the Marvell virtual disk configuration to the state prior to the hardware failure?  If not, what good is RAID 10?
    My apologies for the long posting, but I am an old software guy who does not understand the intricacies of RAID and disk management.
    Thank you in advance for any leads toward a solution,
      -John

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