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Which ones are you referring to as "the 2nd method" and "the 3rd method"? The /integrate method probably won't work because a RIS image i386 folder is slightly different than a CD one, but the svcpack.inf method should do the trick. Hotfixes can't be installed through MSI files due to Windows File Protection restrictions.

Through the "Background" value in "HKCU\Control Panel\Colors". It's a string value, consisting of three integers representing the red, green and blue levels, separated by spaces. The default XP value is "0 78 152". Set as desired, export to a .reg file and import from Cmdlines.txt. The value will then be entered into the HKU\.DEFAULT hive so it will be the default value for all newly created users.

Don't take this the wrong way, but if you don't understand the basics you probably shouldn't start fiddling around in the registry just yet.

Same issue as *this one*.

Nothing... Quick Launch shortcuts aren't kept in the registry, but in the "%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch" folder.

Even better

To add the Control Panel to your Quick Launch menu, create a shortcut pointing to "%windir%\system32\control.exe" and drag it to the Quick Launch bar.

The NTFS file system is not a file, it's a table that's used by the operating system to keep track of where on the disk each file is, what its name is, its size, its creation and modification dates, etc.

The information is kept in the NTFS file system. You could use an export program to transfer the data to Excel. One example of such a program is SysExporter, but I'm sure there are others.

Source: Windows Service Pack Road Map

Absolutely, and I think that's what's happening here. For instance, on my laptop the HKLM ThemeManager DllName value says "%SystemRoot%\Resources\themes\Luna\Luna.msstyles". However, when I export it using RegEdit, the .reg file looks like this: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ThemeManager] "DllName"=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,\ 74,00,25,00,5c,00,52,00,65,00,73,00,6f,00,75,00,72,00,63,00,65,00,73,00,5c,\ 00,74,00,68,00,65,00,6d,00,65,00,73,00,5c,00,4c,00,75,00,6e,00,61,00,5c,00,\ 4c,00,75,00,6e,00,61,00,2e,00,6d,00,73,00,73,00,74,00,79,00,6c,00,65,00,73,\ 00,00,00 So there's your answer: enter the correct strings into the REG_EXPAND_SZ values in your registry and then export them to .reg files. You can combine them into one afterwards using a text editor.

http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/26/

Sounds a bit like this: Logging off or restarting the computer after switching users may cause Windows XP to stop responding

Have you tried to boot the Last Known Good configuration?

At the very least you'll need Set Value permissions, and probably Query Value, Enumerate Subkeys, Notify and Read Control permissions as well. But if your account is a member of the workstation's Administrators group you should have all necessary permissions.

Like I said: when one user is logged on, the user hives of the other user accounts aren't available. Just log on, run regedit and open the HKEY_USERS hive: you won't find the other user hives there (except a few default ones, such as S-1-5-18 - Local System, S-1-5-19 - Local Service and S-1-5-20 - Network Service). As you can see users are identified here by their SID, so you wouldn't know the correct SID in advance anyway. You can load another user's hive manually by selecting the HKEY_USERS hive, selecting File / Load Hive and then browsing to the user's NTUSER.DAT file, but AFAIK this can only be done manually.

I don't think you can do this by editing the registry directly. When one user is logged on, the HKCU hives of the other users aren't available. You could try creating a .reg file for each user and then making each account import their own registry tweaks file, for instance by adding a script to their startup folder (or the AllUsers startup folder), but I'm not sure that will work.

I have no experience with this scenario myself, but I suspect you'll need to include an oobeinfo.ini file with the correct settings to achieve this.

Import them to HKEY_CURRENT_USER from Cmdlines.txt. Because there aren't any users present at that time, the settings will end up in HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT, so every newly created user will receive the settings as well.

AFAIK, Group Policy templates can't be opened in PolEdit. Some of the XP templates even can't be opened in the Windows 2000 Group Policy Editor.

Are you sure you have the required permissions in the HKLM and HKU hives?

Via Group Policy: open User Configuration \ Administrative Templates \ Windows Components \ Internet Explorer \ Internet Control Panel \ Security Page \ <desired zone> and set "Allow File Downloads" to Disabled (requires at least IE 6.0 on XP SP2). For downlevel clients, it's possible to achieve the same result by setting the security zone configuration on a reference computer and then importing it into User Configuration \ Windows Settings \ Internet Explorer Maintenance \ Security \ Security Zones and Content Ratings. You may well find disallowing all file downloads to be too restrictive. In that case you'll need to implement some form of Internet content filtering.

Right, that's what I was afraid of... So the script starts and runs itself under an administrator account. Then that script again runs itself, and that script runs itself, and... You see where this is leading? Go back to using two scripts, or find a way to run the script with the required permissions. You could for instance run it as a Group Policy computer startup script.

*bash* Search the forums for "change program files folder": *click*.

Some suggestions: "System Cannot Log You On to This Domain" Error Message When You Try to Log On to a Windows NT 4.0 Domain Client, service, and program incompatibilities that may occur when you modify security settings and user rights assignments Resetting computer accounts in Windows 2000 and Windows XP