Windows Embedded 8.1 Industry Pro in mode shell launcher ?

Whether it will be possible to have the WEI 8.1 pro in mode shell launcher like in WES8 (black screen without desktop) ?

Yes. Shell Launcher is supported in WEI8.1 -
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn195623%28v=winembedded.81%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396
As bagira520 points out, you can set shell launcher up in ELM. You can also enable it in an answer file via SIM, but to actually enable it automatically during OS install, you will have to run a power shell script. Discussed here:
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/3d524364-2c55-4cb1-9623-9cf5651564e1/shell-launcher-has-stopped-working?forum=WEIndustry and in my book:
http://www.annabooks.com/Book_SGSIM.html
Sean Liming - Book Author: Starter Guide SIM (WEI), Pro Guide to WE8S & WES 7, Pro Guide to POS for .NET - www.annabooks.com / www.seanliming.com

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Hyper-V as User on Windows Embedded 8.1 Industry Pro

I believe I'm having permission issues when attempting to use Hyper-V on Windows Embedded 8.1 Industry Pro. Hyper-V seems to install cleanly, and from an admin account I can use the Hyper-V Manager without issue and connect to a running VM. However
if I attempt to use the Hyper-V Virtual Machine Connection application from the same account, it reports "You do now have the required permission to complete this task..." And attempts to run either the Manager or the Virtual Machine Connection result
in the same on a standard user account.
Standard wisdom seems to be to add the user account to the "Hyper-V Administrators" group but when I've looked in the Computer Management utility and the group "Hyper-V Administrators" does not exist. I've tried manually adding full
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-Matthias

Your question might be more general to Hyper-V and not specifically embedded. WE8.1 is Windows 8.1 with lockdown features so there is nothing special. Account level (Administrator vs. non-administrator) does effect what permissions are granted to access
certain OS features.
Maybe the Hyper-V forum can address the account level -
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/home?forum=winserverhyperv
Sean Liming - Book Author: Starter Guide SIM (WEI), Pro Guide to WE8S & WES 7, Pro Guide to POS for .NET - www.annabooks.com / www.seanliming.com

Windows Embedded 8.1 Industry Pro - Start Screen Layout Deployment GPO

We have recently finished signing our Microsoft Customer License Agreement (CLA) for reselling Windows on a diagnostic tool for our industry. We developed our software with Windows Embedded 8.1 Industry Pro from an MSDN source. Installed from MSDN, configured,
put 20 mobile devices in the field for testing, and pushed updates to them. As a part of this we were able to remotely modify the start screen and add new icons for the newly installed software. Now that the MS CLA is complete we have received the official
Embedded 8.1 Industry Pro OPK from Microsoft Ireland and recreated our setup. So far all but one function works as expected. We are finding that we are unable to modify the Start Screen Layout via XML file or any other method as we did with the MSDN setup.
I have reviewed HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows NT/CurrentVersion for build and product ID information to find the MSDN install and the OPK install both show the same information other than install date. The DigitalIDs are different though.
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searching to find: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/71f0be7a-43af-4ca3-a068-f99b92217e2a/windows-81-start-screen-layout-gpo?forum=w81previtpro Which plainly says that 8.1 PRO is NOT able to do this.
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If so why might our MSDN installation have worked while the OPK installation does not?
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If this advanced and highly modifiable version of 8.1 pro cannot do this then how might it be recommended to accomplish this goal?
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Hi HVACjoe
For general system start screen control is supported in the Windows 8.1 Enterprise operating system, the Windows RT 8.1 operating system with sideloading enabled, and in all editions of the Windows Server
2012 R2 operating system. Start screen control is not supported in the Windows 8.1 Pro operating system.
As Tripredacus mentioned that Windows Embedded support is not typically handled on the public forums and Microsoft Developer Network distributes special editions of Windows for testing and development purposes, those are not general purpose licenses and
the validity of the key has a time limit, we could not access resources from MSDN for test.
We suggest you look for help from your Embedded Partner or MSDN forum
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home
You could get more information from following link about start screen lay out.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn467928.aspx
Regards

Windows Embedded 8.1 Industry pro's FilterAdministratorToken setting affect SQL Builtin\Administrator access

I have an SCCM built Windows 8.1 Embedded Industry Pro image which will be used to deploy multiple Point-of-Sale (POS) platforms.
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The issue can actually be manage within iE so I do not have to change Windows security settings.
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Windows Embedded 8.1 Industry Pro Application Launcher Remote Desktop Services Feed VDI with Windows Store Remote Desktop Client

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Can someone please confirm categorically what version, if any, of SQL Server 2012 will work satisfactorily on Windows Embedded 8.1 Industry? Also is there a SQL Server 2012 Embedded version?

Hi,
The answer appears to be NO for both of your questions as per http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143506.aspx
Let's see if some other member has more info.
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What is the different between various version of windows embedded 8.1

Hi,
I found the following various Windows Embedded 8.1 OS names:
Windows Embedded 8.1 Industry
Windows Embedded 8.1 Industry Pro
Windows Embedded 8.1 Industry Enterprise
There is also some OS with "retail as its suffix.
Is there a comparison table to clarify the issue?
Thanks in advance
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Really? Having been dragged kicking and screaming into the 8.1 Industry Pro nightmare.
I have 2 different product keys from oasign.
Windows(R) Embedded 8.1 Industry Pro (ESD)
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Not helped by the fact that I need to have several of these in production next month -.-!
=^x^=

Anyone heard about Windows Embedded POSReady 7 Pro?

Has anyone heard about Windows Embedded POSReady 7 Pro? We manufacture ATMs and were forced to switch from Windows Embedded POSReady 7 to Windows 7 Professional FES last year due to changes in the additional terms (ATs) which stated that
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I have never heard of a Pro version for POSReady 7. It is not listed in the life cycle:
https://www.microsoft.com/windowsembedded/en-us/product-lifecycles.aspx
Nor is there a download for it:
https://www.microsoft.com/windowsembedded/en-us/downloads.aspx
Sounds like someone is doing some funny business. The successor to POSReady 7 is Windows Embedded 8.x Industry, which comes in two flavors - Pro and Enterprise.
www.annabooks.com / www.seanliming.com / Book Author - Pro Guide to WE8S, Pro Guide to WES 7, Pro Guide to POS for .NET

Export H264 pass-through movie with embedded text track QuickTime Pro 7 Windows?

Using QuickTime Pro 7 for Windows, I add a text track with closed captions to my H264 .mp4 videos.
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Im trying to create a "standard" image for Windows Embedded 8 Industry Enterprise in MDT 2013 but for some reason when i click through the wizard i can't choose the language pack.. Please see the following image:
http://i.imgur.com/ppTEPsa.jpg
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http://i.imgur.com/xgNHJK6.jpg
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OEM version of windows purchased legally and genuine microsoft logo in system dashboard.
Intel Core I5 -3330
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Windows 7 Pro - 64bit OS
Service pack 1
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Secondary storage disk a D:
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I have the Optical drive setup as O: and a Daemon tools virtual drive as drive E:
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Anyway I can get the 'pending state' removed.?
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Hi, I've rebooted into Repair mode (Console), (because repair said windows is installed on E:) run dism.exe /image:E:\ /cleanup-image /revertpendingactions
This gave a message about small scratch space but did say something out a fix. Upon reboot into safemode with console I received the same message
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Its all in the title. I am trying to use bootcamp to download windows 7 on my macbook pro mountain lion, but I keep getting this error. I tried going to Disk Utility, and my active volume already is formatted under Mac OS Extended (Journaled), so I don't know how to fix it. I already backed up the volume on an external harddrive. Also, everything under the volume I wanted to edit is greyed out, and when I try to restore the backup that I created via time machine, it pops up with another error that says "Could not unmount volume "/" (Resource Busy).
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When you started and titled "will boot in safe mode" that sounded like you could boot and login.
Using external wired keyboard and mouse is what some people have had to do until they got proper drivers.
Would be nice if:
Windows had more drivers and Apple would ship a set to be included in Windows 7 SP1; drivers worked! And could be downloaded and installed directly into Windows, and no need for old 3.0 and then 3.1 but go directly to latest (and new Macs do have improved 3.0 drivers, which are on 10.6.4 DVDs).

Deploying Windows 8.1 on Mac Pro's Late 2013 model

Hi!
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Disabled the default Format and partiton step with the property DONOTFORMATANDPARTITION=YES just to get rid of errors at the end, i have alos tried to remove the Volume entries in this step with out the above mentioned property.
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Instead of booting windows it boots into OSX.
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Solved it!
It's not nice, but hey it works.
Here is how i did it.
I scrapped the idea of using any form of script (Applescript) or other custom stuff.
Instead I just fooled Boot Camp Assistant to think inserted a "BootCamped" USB even tough I inserted the LiteTouchPE_x64 based USB. The only files/folders Boot Camp Assistant looks for seems to be.
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BootCamp\BootCamp.xml
setup.exe
autorun.inf
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copy autorun.inf from the Windows media. (Might work with an empty txt file renamed, havent tested)
Start Boot Camp Assistant, uncheck the first 2 boxes and leave the one about creating a partiton.
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