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I disabled System Restore in my install, i think it was with nLite rc 2. Now, at the midle of the installation, the setup stops to pop-up a message saying that system restore is disabled, and it is recommended to return, enable it and upgrade to windows media player 10, and i don´t even use windows media player. is there a way to avoid this message, so the installation can get going really unattended?

@Shark007 I know about the appdata folder, witch contains my entire profile. But my intend is to do, in each new wiindows install, a "new fresh" install of every extension, installing all together with Firefox. But i don´t know if they´ve changed something in Firefox 2, but the -MS still makes it stalls sillently, so i wonder the -install-global-extension would work too. All i want to know is that how do i make it? I put in one line all the extensions?

i used the tweak to disable msi roolbacks, for faster msi installs, and i got an error on installing .net framework 2.0. i says it need roolback to be installed, and it did not install. (not sure if that already was fixed, but... i´m using v1.6 of the collection. just downloaded this one now)

i saw somewhere that, to install a extension with firefox, i just had to use this: anyways, i downloaded Ff 2.0 RC 3 and prepared it to silently install in my XP cd, with the extensions, many of them. here is what i tried: but it didnt work. each extension simply opened the installer again, and it would just install firefox again, not the extension, and not silently, ´cause i had to cancel all the windows to bypass this part of my setup and continue with the rest. witch mistake i made? is all extensions supposed to go on one line only? and i have to put the path to each extension, right?

i´m already looking for all the hotfixes in brazilian lang on windows update catalog, but MS leads me to a site only guiding to turning on automatic updates. and after i download the service pack, is it extractable? do i have to translate any ini of lang file?

there it goes again, mazin. you are the man, dude! thanks for the hint of "not creating the 'Sys Vol Info' folder. i´m gonna apply that with cmdlines.txt, and if not work, i´m gonna test from svcpack. so i´m gonna apply my reg twkeas all-in-one, and see what will not work. it will take me some time, in a way or another. thanks for all.

but what can go wrong? serious stuff?

@ jcbrief new problem, man. nlite 1.2 RC now isn´t coming with the rename admin account option. how do i rename it know to my nickname?

I´ve read at MSFN Unattend Guide Aaron saying that is not recomendable to import HKEY_Local_Machina entries using the cmdlines.txt method, ´cause some entries might not be "sticky". So he says he recommends only to import HKCU entries with cmdlines.txt But i´m using the Regtweaks colletion, to avoid using the Tweaks sections on nLite, and customize my own personal tweaks. But appearently, some tweaks witch i´d like to use requires both keys, HKLM and HKCU! Did anyone here ever had a problem at importing HKLM entries with cmdlines.txt? ´Cause i´m sincerilly thinking in, instead of making two files for my tweaks, hkcu.reg and hklm.reg (witch would be imported only at first logon), to use all entires into one reg file, tweaks.reg, and import all my tweaks using this file with cmdlines.txt My only concern is that what if this does not work? so, please, again, help!

so i´m gonna have to use the User Creation tool, as well the registry entries?

hmmmmm. sounds really interesting. thanks, jcbrief! gonna try it. and you export these reg entries with cmdlines? or in a before-time at setup part?

mazin, i ´ve read your post, but none of the answers there solved your fist question as well, witch was the problem at logging at first time with a different admin account name. since i renamed it to gugutz, windows won´t do the fist logon unless i press the OK button. After that, it works fine, but then i´m i little bit of perfectionist, and i would like to solve this. What did you do to get this problem solved?

Hi. I used nLite to rename the admin account to gugutz. so now, when i install windows xp with my unattended and gets to the part to the 1st logon, witch is the part the runonceex begins to run, appears this message box saying it was unable to logon because of the username. and i can see a logon box, like in classic style, but i can´t do anything, unless press ok, then it logs on. is there a way to keep the admin account renamed to my nickname and avoid this error msg at first logon, or windows is configured natively to first logs on (if UnattendSwitch is set to Yes) with an account named Administrator?

then i just rename the wmidx.dl_ to wmidx.dll and put it under the system32 folder? okay, then. gonna try it now. thanks again.

thanks for the kindness, gentlemen. i will test those. thanks for now.

Hi. My father has a company, and unfortunately, the system they use to make their things, and depends on it, run on DOS. so i have to install windows 98 se everytime on their computer, and, as usually is on windows 98se, about 1 format per month. so i was analyzing, and their sistem need some files to be loaded on autoexec.bat and config.sys. and winxp has this files, but i tried to make the system work under winxp and i got nothing. so i had the idead, that if someone knows how can i solve this problem, it would be here, at msfn. anyone knows if there´s a way to make their DOS system program run under winxp, so they can have a more stable OS??? thanks.

in nLite, i remove WMP ´cause i use media player classic witch comes within the k-lite mega codec pack. so, i don´t need WMP 9 or 8. wonder if thats why i´m getting this error? if that is the problem, can someone upload this file and give the link for me to download? oh, and in what folder shall i put the file?

29 views and no anwsers? this wmidx.dll is really getting annoying. help!

thanks. really apreciate.

1 - does ROE recognize the %programfiles% parameter? ´cause i was trying to use it to unninstal the eMusic program with comes within winamp 5.3. so, in my language, "Program Files" is called "Arquivos de Programas". even so, the variable is the same, and i use it for batch files, but when i tried with ROE it didn´t find the way to the folder. 2 - in my install (witch is mostly cuztomized by nLite), when comes to the part when i install silently winamp e WLM, and both programs opens, i´m getting this erros saying the program was unable to open cause a file was missing: wmidx.dll Does anyone knows why is that happening, what does that file do, if it is something related to nLite, anything?

Hi. I´ve come here to ask for the permission of ALL THE MSFN MEMBERS. I´ve downloaded the Registry_Tweaks collection you guys made, and kept some days translating it to my language (portuguese- brazilian) So i´m planning to use my file now to create a brazilian community to help people who don´t know much about english, and to introduce them to this WONDERFULL collection of tweaks. I´ve added some lines with info about the translation by me, and made it clear that ALL THE CREDITS go to the MSFN members, and that my file is entirely base on your guys file. All i did was translate it. So, if i may, i would like to use it now in my (still in project) unattended brazilian community. Since now, thanks. gugutz.

REALLY? thanks, man! i didn´t realize it. gonna test it, now. really, really, thanks. btw: another problem is happening now. before, k-lite 2.72 nsane was installing perfectly. Now, when the setup ends, it asks for a reboot!!!??? how come? before it didn´t need a reboot, now, suddently, it asks if i want to reboot my system, witch is interrupting the unattended installation process. any sugestions?

i didn´t forget the run32.dll line and i don´t have a second cmd i use only 1 RunOnceEx.cmd to configure the whole thing, then all i would need is one reboot to complete the entire installation here goes my RunOnceEx, runned from GuiRunOnce: the red part is the one witch isn´t working, but it is all set correctly, isn´t it? why would i have to set key to HKCU instead of using the already key HKLM, witch is working for all the lines above this one?

1 - Disabling the creation of the Thumbs.db files affects in any way my windows? 2- EVERYTHING nLite does it is possible to do using registry entries? i know some of them are, like MenuShowDelay and others. but i´m not sure if ALL the optimizations and components removal and everything nLite does can be done mannually. The purpose of this is that in that way i can mantain a whole structured folder, with everything set, all the reg files done, folder options, file associations and all, and use nLite only for integrating hotfixes. 3- how many windows does ROE supports to open? i use 9 windows, one for each type of install (Antiviruses, Multimedia, Reg Tweaks, Progs, XP Powertoys, and so it goes until it gets to the last one), but when it comes to the final window, the one who calls cleanup.cmd to shutdown computer and make the final adjustments, it doesn´t open!! so when i restart my PC and, there it is, the window witch was supose to be openned before, right at the first logon. Anyone knows why is that happening? that´s all, for know. i guess

1º - I have been seeing in some topics samples of ROE files, and they put this line at the beggining of their files: what does that mean?for instance, i have 3 partitions in my HD. C:, D: and E: for personal files. so my 2 cd-rom drives are given their drive letter by windows automaticly. So, sometimes one cd-rom drive are G:, othertimes (if i disable from BIOS), the other goes H:, and so on. And i use my CD to install windows in other people computers, whos not always have three partitions at their HDs. I usually create 2 partitions at the HDs of people i install my winxp cd, C: for sys and progs files, and D: for personal files. And i wish to know how this works, so i can put it on my ROE.cmd file to set CDROM drives, and then some apps can be executed from the cd, instead of copying them to the hard disk. so if i want my xp cd to "find" witch cd-rom drives are available on the computer, and detects witch one is the XP CD, how do i do? -------------------- 2º - For running two ROE windows at 1º logon, to install different types of apps, like multimedia, antiviruses, and so, i have to add this line in the part i wish to open a new runonceex windows: and then re-begin the numbering sequences from zero, right? but, since my ROE is executed from cmdlines.txt, and i insert this line, the ROE windows opens right at windows install at T-12, and NOT at first logon, as i desire. So i´ve been reading, and the secret is to make a second RunOnceEx.cmd (witch i already did, to use cleaup.cmd and other tweaks), and insert that line at the beggining of the ROE2 file, right? EX: THEN, my runonceex2.cmd must contain right at it´s beggining the rundll32 iernonce.dll,RunOnceExProcess line, so it opens and beggins to install the apps defined at the RunOnceEx2.cmd file, right?So, for instance, my RunOnceEx2.cmd file has to be something like this: Is everything i wrote here right? ----------------------- 3º question: How do i save avast viruses updates? I observed that when avast tells me that there is a new version available, it´s update program downloads lots of files with the extensions .vpu. so i looked-up to find these files, and found that they are stored at the "..\Avast4\Setup" folder. So i let avast update itself, then i created a SFX file with winrar, containing the entire setup folder, so when avast install within my Winxp unattended install, the sfx is supposed to set avast up-to-date. but even so, everytime avast tells that there is a new version available, even if i JUST made the backup of the Setup folder. How come? is there other files to be included on my SFX, and i´m forgetting? ----------- that´s it for now. as always, thanks for all the ones who helps this helpless newbie that it is me. gugutz.