Windows 7: modifying ei.cfg

HannibalUK · 19 Oct 2010

Quote: Originally Posted by deaconfrost

i edited a bit more in after you quoted me, apparently. It should be obvious what we all thought of it, because who wants to carry around a stack of dvds, which are slow to install, when you can use one single flash drive. The very basis of the flash drive method involves deleting the ei.cfg file. Of my entire network of it friends, not one of us uses a dvd to install an os anymore, and i would assume the enthusiast crowd is just the same.

We're clearly in favor of it, and probably can all agree that your banning from the forums, is....an extreme over-reaction, at the very least. That's one of the reasons why i avoid any and all manufacturer forums, unless i have to ask a very specific question that they can't find any issues with. Now you see why forums such as this are so popular (and often better) for asking advice.

what you thought i was told!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Forget it im done!

DeaconFrost · 19 Oct 2010

Hmmm, you were afraid of a heated debate, yet you get riled up at a person who's agreeing with you. Life's short, man...relax. I just got back from London and the UK two months ago. Awesome, awesome place. Too nice to be riled up in!

HannibalUK · 19 Oct 2010

Quote: Originally Posted by DeaconFrost

Hmmm, you were afraid of a heated debate, yet you get riled up at a person who's agreeing with you. Life's short, man...relax. I just got back from London and the UK two months ago. Awesome, awesome place. Too nice to be riled up in!

LOL

Not riled just seemed like it was a bad question to ask.... from a couple of replies i got.

well at least i got my answer

Yes london is great place isn't it.

DeaconFrost · 19 Oct 2010

Quote: Originally Posted by HannibalUK

Yes london is great place isn't it.

It honestly was. My wife and I took 5,000 photos, and we got to see just about all the touristy things. I'd move there in a heartbeat, if I found a job there. I stayed in the Hilton on Edgeware Road, and was blown away at how well I could get around using the buses and Tube. We bought Oyster cards that covered us for the week.

HannibalUK · 19 Oct 2010

Quote: Originally Posted by DeaconFrost

Quote: Originally Posted by HannibalUK

Yes london is great place isn't it.

It honestly was. My wife and I took 5,000 photos, and we got to see just about all the touristy things. I'd move there in a heartbeat, if I found a job there. I stayed in the Hilton on Edgeware Road, and was blown away at how well I could get around using the buses and Tube. We bought Oyster cards that covered us for the week.

I find its a very fast paced place some people compare it to New York, dont know never been to the US.

Bare Foot Kid · 19 Oct 2010

I just hope if it's getting too much attention, MS won't decide to change it in the up-coming SP.

HannibalUK · 20 Oct 2010

Quote: Originally Posted by Bare Foot Kid

I just hope if it's getting too much attention, MS won't decide to change it in the up-coming SP.

I think if they were going to change it they would have done by now, besides you could always go down the long root to make a universal dvd so there would be no point in changing it, they are more worried about folk who are using loaders for activation.

DeaconFrost · 20 Oct 2010

Quote: Originally Posted by HannibalUK

they are more worried about folk who are using loaders for activation.

Exactly, which is why your banning was ridickerous. You weren't asking anything about bypassing activation. If anything, the only industry it huts is the blank disc market, because we don't need to burn several discs now.

gregrocker · 20 Oct 2010

If MS is truly riled up at the way factory bloatware installs are weighing down Windows 7, then they should encourage Users to clean reinstall to enjoy unhindered Windows 7. Now that computer maker's no longer provide an Install DVD (so that they can enforce sponsor's bloatware) Users have no choice but to borrow or find an installer and if necessary unlock all versions.

It's no longer necessary to do the surgery yourself. Just extract the ISO using ImgBurn, run the ei.cfg removal tool which leaves the ISO intact and ready to burn an all-versions DVD. Then install with Product Key on COA sticker, which sometimes requires a robocall to MS during activation to sort your key from batch.

DeaconFrost · 20 Oct 2010

Quote: Originally Posted by gregrocker

Then install with Product Key on COA sticker, which requires a robocall to MS during activation to sort your key from batch.

I've clean-installed ten OEM laptops that shipped with Windows 7, and I haven't had to call in anoy of them using the keys on the COA stickers.

Windows 7: modifying ei.cfg

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