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Thanx Wraith, who knew I was using entities already with the &. How would adding entities differ from adding elements under xplodes environment tag, it seems to me like the #SOURCEDRIVE# variable is not being expanded when it is part of a string?. Thanx again for the help and I hope you get some chill time soon

I am having problems trying to create variables that contain variables and text. I am trying to create a variable #APP# that points to my applications folder, it is made up from the #SOURCEDRIVE# variable and Applications <APP>#SOURCEDRIVE#\Applications</APP> to cut down on the old Carpel Tunnel , the trouble is whilst it works when running in Windows it does not work running from cmdlines or GUIRunOnce. The same is said for other variables that are created the same way, i.e #IMG# created from #XPLODE# and images <IMG>#XPLODE#\images</IMG> the variables inside the variables are not expanded they are used as a string, so the log file reports Is there a way to accomplish what I want to do?, xml and logfiles attached. xplode.rar

The easiest way would be to use WinntbbuED by The Mad Guy here

A few months ago, I upgraded from DrinkingMates 4.2 to Girlfriend 1.0 which I had been told for years wouldn't give me any trouble. However, there are apparently conflicts between these two products and the only solution was to try and run Girlfriend 1.0 with the sound turned off. To make matters worse, Girlfriend 1.0 is incompatible with several other applications, such as LadsNightOut 3.1, Football 4.5, and Playboy 6.9. Successive versions of Girlfriend 1.0 proved no better. I tried a sharewareprogram, Slapper 2.1, but it had many bugs and left a virus in my system, forcing me to shut down completely for several weeks. Eventually, I tried to run the new Girlfriend 1.2 and Girlfriend 1.0 at the same time, only to discover that when these two systems detected each Other they caused severe damage to my hardware. I eventually upgraded to Fiancée 1.0, only to discover that this product soon had to be upgraded further to Wife 1.0. Whilst Wife 1.0 tends to use up all my available resources, it does at least come bundled initially with FreeSexPlus and CleanHouse 2005. Beware! These programs's are Demo's only and after 1 year normally will function at a reduced slower rate or just freeze up completely. I have also found that Wife 1.0 could be very unstable and extremely costly to run. Any mistakes I made were automatically stored in Wife 1.0's memory and could not be deleted. They then resurfaced months later when I had forgotten about them. Wife 1.0 also has an automatic Diary, Explorer and E-mail filter, and can, without warning, launch TurboStrop and Whinge 2. Worse still, these latter products have no Help files, and I have to try and guess what the problem is. Additional problems are that Wife 1.0 needs updating regularly requiring Adobe ShoeShop, HandBag Searcher and Hairstyle Express, all of which need to be reinstalled every other week. Also, when Wife 1.0 attaches itself to my Audi TT hard drive, it often crashes. Wife 1.0 also comes with an irritating pop-up called MotherInLaw, which can't be turned off. I've recently been tempted to install Mistress 2005, but there could be problems. A friend of mine has alerted me to the fact that if Wife 1.0 detects Mistress 2005 it tends to delete all of your money before uninstalling itself.

When creating the ISO image did you use loader,bin as the boot sector file? or did you use bootfix.bin?.

you have set the ProgramFiles=D but the variable you use in the cmd is %programfile%.Change start /wait %programfile%\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe -silent -nosplash -setDefaultBrowser to start /wait "%ProgramFiles%\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -silent -nosplash -setDefaultBrowser and try it. You could use goto %ComputerName% and add a label matching the individual computer names, then add the code there to install firefox.

Under the files section of your script type Source: {app}\AVICodec\*.*; DestDir: {app}\AVICodec; Flags: recursesubdirs createallsubdirschange AVICodec to your folder name and all the files and subfolders in that folder will be added on compilation. The only problem is if you want to assign certain flags like Replace on Restart or Register Server these will apply to all the files added with the wild card

Well I have lost the use of my eyes but I have managed to do it. In the attached file are 2 bmps, one has a pink (transparent) line and the other doesn't, the one with the line shows as transparent and the other shows the pink background, go figure Because of the tree shapes instead of cutting out I used the background eraser tool and went as close as I dared to the picture, then after saving the image as described in a previous post, manually went around the image with a brush of 1 pixel size and painted over all the odd pixels that were not tranparent with the pink colour whilst constantly saving the bmp and checking the look of it on the system properties page. Files Here try for yourself and see if you get the same problems I did.

This is wierd, I hve been messing since your last post and still cannot get the full picture to be transparent, I can select half of the picture and it is transparent but when adding the other half the pink is no longer transparent I will continue and let you know my results, it is probably something obvious but I cannot think what.

Lets hope hakeem5454 is still subscribed to this topic, he was the one who wanted to know.

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You will have to go into the bios and disable it, usually F2 or delete to enter the bios, then scroll through the options until you fid the option to disable the graphics.

No just provide a link to the drivers on the Creative website, if you know where to get them, just want to make sure that you are using the same package so if I can help with any info it should be the same for your package.

I have seen this before with the constant installing, Paint Shop Pro did it when I installed from cmdlines, I think it may be something to do with missing registry entries. Most of the programs I used to install from cmdlines worked ok as the registry entries are supposed to be added to the default user key but,PSP didn't work and when I tried to open an image the msi would run again, maybe discover did not capture all the registry settings. Maybe you could provide a link to the creative drivers and I'll see if I can help, do you just want a silent install?.

Nope the WininstallLe link is one I have uploaded, the other was a link to Softpedia.For the Installshield I normally monitor it with Installrite or use the -R switch to make an iss file

I have looked in the registry and the culprit looks to be opshel32.dll, I tried unregistering the dll but it is not self registering, so the program must put the reg values in. The key that controls the context menu is HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{77880BA2-2852-4E78-BA25-42F31E6EDD3C} and the file extensions relating to the options on the context menu all have keys pointing to this under the ContextMenuHandlers and PropertySheetHandlers keys. I found that if you delete the CLSID value with this [-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{77880BA2-2852-4E78-BA25-42F31E6EDD3C}] the context menu options disappear, this may affect the program but I have not come across any problems but do not use the program much. Backup the above key before deletion and if you have any errors you can always import it.

What I do to remove the favourites is in the winnt.sif file add [Branding] BrandIEUsingUnattended = Yes and [FavouritesEx] if the FavouritesEx is blank no links are created, I don't mind the links folder, that is still there but empty unless I move my favs there. I still have to delete the Windows Marketplace url but that is it.

Well I could have if I still had it, when I went to post it I found I had saved the resized image over the hoooge one , anyway I found a similar picture and made it again, the size may vary slightly. It is on a white background as the original one was oemlogo.zip

WinInstallLE here is a link to the version I use, and here is a link to a pack containing Inno Setup, ISTools and Innounp, these can be used to edit exes created by the Inno Setup compiler. There will be entries added to the context menu for (exes only), to enable the extraction of Inno Exes, a template for a creating new iss files will also be added to the New context menu which you may want to edit if you use it. Get them while they are there.

WinInstall Le is a good program for monitoring installation information.

PM Sent! I have commented the tweaks which are in a file called PASSTHRU.LST and located in the Common Folder of the installation pack, open with a text editor ; Hide splash screen when starting the program HKCU,"SOFTWARE\Portrait Displays\WinPortrait","CTRL_SPLASH", 65537, 00, 00, 00, 00 ; Disable the system tray icon HKCU,"SOFTWARE\Portrait Displays\WinPortrait","CTRL_SYSTRAY_ICON", 65537, 00, 00, 00, 00 ; Disable the desktop context menu ;HKCU,"SOFTWARE\Portrait Displays\WinPortrait","ALLOW_CONTEXT_MENU", 65537, 00, 00, 00, 00 ; Dont Show the floater bar option on the sys tray context menu and stop the exe from running HKLM,"SOFTWARE\Portrait Displays\WinPortrait","AllowFloater", 65537, 00, 00, 00, 00 All the tweaks are set to disable the options just edit the ones that you want. The lines after 65537 are the ones that need editing, 00, 00, 00, 00 = a dword value of 0 and 01, 00, 00, 00 == a dword value of 1

It seems to me like a bunch of technophobic old farts who want to p*** on everybodys chips and start taking control, the U.S created it let them keep control. If the British government is anything to go by there are to many old twats who know dick about I.T, wasting taxpayers money implementing new computer systems like the N.H.S and Inland Revenue and falling short of something useable, UN stick to finding landmines, war criminals and helping people who need there help, how much are these new groups and jobs going to cost different nations to set up and run, sounds like China to me. </rant>

Yep sorted it this am after posting, if you want the exe I can upload it for you to download and PM the link. The exe is a SFX archive with latest version, all the multi lang, extra bitmaps, helps file and stuff ripped out, dll hacked so as not to display the pivot bmp if you wanted to have the desktop menu active and the settings (for me) posted previous already added, tested on a machine with a fresh install and everything I tested worked.

size doesn't matter eh? Did the reg tweaks work?

From what I have read Setup.exe /s c:\setup.log should work with the exes created by the Package and Deployment Wizard but I haven't tested it