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After trying to restore an old XP dell image to VM using windows deployment services, the computer hangs on a black screen.  When booting to safe mode, it appears to hang on "agpcpq.sys".  I suspect this is due to a video driver locking up the device on boot. I'm using VirtualBox so I suspect a "clean reinstall" will do the trick, but I'm persistent to use this image for testing.  I also tried all of the applicable recommended work-around from this link .  They weren't much of a help either. Instead, I powered off the VM, changed video memory to 4MB, and now I receive the message "Please wait while Windows prepares to start...". (this took quite a while). The computer was very sluggish with such little video ram, but eventually responded, avoiding a complete re-install of the app. Once booted, I installed the VirtualBox Guest Addons, powered off, bumped the video ram back up, and the workstation was booting just fine again. Worth no...

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This should have been more obvious than it was. The application was trying to install the distiller driver from Adobe on a Windows 7 machine.  Windows 7 blocks Kernel Mode print drivers (apparently they cause blue screens, etc). Luckilly, I was able to find out the printer name the application was using.  In this case it was "Sybase DataWindow PS". I installed Ghostscript 9.02, which contains a driver that behaves exactly like the Adobe Acrobat Distiller.  The driver is located in  "C:\Program Files\gs\gs9.02\lib\ghostpdf.inf".  It can be installed manually using the Add Printer Wizard, or by using these commands: REM Install "Sybase DataWindow PS" for generating PDFs rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /dl /n "Sybase DataWindow PS" rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /if /b "Sybase DataWindow PS" /f "%PROGRAMFILES%\gs\gs9.02\lib\ghostpdf.inf" /r "file:" /m "Ghostscript PDF" The "/q" swit...

Background For an unattended installation of a well known ticketing application, I ran into a application requirement of Ghostscript 7.05 for certain report functionality to work properly. Unfortunately, GS 7.05 cannot be installed silently due a bug in the installer. To work-around this, I installed Ghostscript 9.02 using the silent installer switch, but the ticketing software would not generate PDF reports as it was unaware of the new GS version with error "GhostScript version 7.05 is required..." Steps To remedy this, we added the registry keys for 7.05, but pointed them to the 9.02 installation directory.  This is how we did it (using a batch file): REM Silent install of Ghostscript 9.02   C:\gs902w32.exe /S REM Import Ghostscript 7.05 registry hack regedit.exe /s "C:\gs.reg" Here are the contents of "gs.reg": Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00   [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\GNU Ghostscript] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\GNU Ghostscript\7...