cyberchicken

I'm sorry. I irritated everyone. I've even irritated myself. But please understand that I get irritated when I discover that software that I rely on deletes wildcarded files. I mean sif, inf and log are the things one works on to make a setup disc. I risked to loose all my work. You arleady told me. I'm sure it would be nice to discuss programming techniques with you, but time is never enough and there's plenty of nice things to do. Therefore I agree with you and have nothing to add.@BeenThereB4 You are right.

IF EXIST *.SIF DEL /F /Q *.SIF IF EXIST *.INF DEL /F /Q *.INF Also this is very nasty! Why didn't you use the temp folder and variables for filenames!?

IF EXIST *.LOG DEL /F /Q *.LOG Thi is very UNPOLITE from your xpc! My log was getting deleted halfway :\ I used to mantain a variable holding the names of my temp files to do garbage collection at the end of procedures. Anyway, I'll rename my logfiles. (I do have variables to hold their names )

Ehm, please sensei, can I use the 4nt to accomplish the task? I just found how to use it w/out installing it! geez I was really bored of cmd! anyway, about "the right way", I wasted so much time in my life trying to do things in the right way, with the result of completing very few things... now I seek a therapy of doing things "un po' a cazzo" which means ehr... as it comes, more or less I'm unoccupied these months, but I wonder where do people who produce so much for the communities on the net find the time to do so many things! You are one of them for example!

This also works: DetachedProgram=CMD.EXE Arguments="/C START %SYSTEMDRIVE%\install\T39.CMD"

@edomncu my cmd contains: SET KEY=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup REG ADD %KEY% /V SourcePath /D "%systemdrive%\Install" /f REG ADD %KEY% /V ServicePackSourcePath /D "%systemdrive%\ Wich seems to work (i detach the vmware cd and the setup continues without asking) so possibly runonceex should also work @jazz winmine is a pleasure (I stole the idea from someone else here around!) setup sometimes steals focus but that's not an issue

Agree Ok, I'll do the things the right way

I always value your opinion. actually some slipstreming changes sysoc.inf plain cd and after xpc are different the newer one has DriverVer=07/01/2001,5.1.2600.1106 instead of DriverVer=07/01/2001,5.1.2600.0 and WMAccess=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,wmaccess.inf,,7 OEAccess=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,oeaccess.inf,,7 WMPOCM=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,wmpocm.inf,,7 TabletPC=tabletoc.dll,TabletSetupProc,Tabletpc.inf,HIDE,7 that the original doesn't have. I'll save the HIDE the modifications in a file and inject them in the source before XPC runs. We'll see if it works. Thank you

woa! it finally worked with these DetachedProgram=CMD.EXE Arguments="/Q /C START %SYSTEMDRIVE%\install\T39.CMD" still something escapes me I'm gonna try again without /Q and other modifications after all it's not that different from my original maybe the file case? Anyway thank you all I suggest that this should be pointed out in the official guide t-39 is a conveniente place to do some things

Ok I'd expected that. I'll try to do it before xpc and remove. You lazy boy! BTW do you like my new avatar? The other one was too aggrssive. This one's much more like I feel

Could you be clearer please? Do you mean that cmd starts but can't do anything else than issue "start"? If I press Sh-F10 at the very start of gui setup cmd is fully functional! If I comment Arguments I'd expect to have a visible console waiting for input but doesn't happen. Why is that for you? thank you (I'm making tests while we talk anyway, but they're slow things)

do you know it for sure that this works? is it becaus it lacks the qoutes around the executable? Is it neccessary the start?

I was going to add an I386 copy at T-39 to continue the setup simply reading from hd. (Also a local copy is useful to install the cmdcons and for everyday generic driver loading.) you know: [GuiUnattended] DetachedProgram = "c:\install\cmd.exe" Arguments = "/c c:\install\t39.cmd" I've been able to run winmine.exe and XPlode.exe from DetachedProgram but cmd.exe refuses to run. I tried different sintaxes, and the one I'm reporting seems to me the less error prone. I put a copy of cmd.exe in c:\install via $oem$ to be sure. But nothing. Anyone do know why? Obviously if I press shift F10 at t-39 cmd.exe works flawlessly. I get crazy when things don't work without a reason. Thanks

I talked about help files because they're basically chm. Hmm maybe forcing the help system to parse my html would allow me to "launch" instead of "download"

I was going to make a little reminder pager like this (to launch ad GuiRunOnce) "Welcome to your new XP remind to: add a password to your user change machine's name change hd name another thing i don't remember now" now that's very easy and works. But I had the idea to put directly in the html page the links to the panels that are used to accomplish that task, just like in xp's help Specifically I found that "control.exe userpasswords" is the users control panel and "rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL C:\SYSHOPE\WINXP\System32\sysdm.cpl,,1" opens the computer name under system properties. Do you know if it's possible? Where should I ask? It seems that javascript is absolutely protected from reading/writing/launching anything. Thank you.