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I use WAssociate for changing the associations before backing up the relevant key and adding it to my default tweaks file. I have created a shortcut in my send to menu and all I do is right click the file and send to WAssociate.

Is the drive or the full size of the drive displayed in the bios?, you may need to check for a bios update to support the larger drives.

I to have placed the i386 folder in $OEM$\$1 and $OEM$\$$ but when I checked the file size of the folder if was 750mb, same number of files.I tried it with the -o switch and without it to see if this was affecting anything about the copy, but the same thing everytime. I manually copied the i386 folder from the dvd after setup and it was 406mb WTF, anyway bollox to this I have other problems p***ing me off

You could check the read only attributes on the pol files in C:\WINDOWS\system32\GroupPolicy\Machine and make sure they are not read only.

Thanks for the info, I added a few things to mine cmdow @ /HID set file=%systemroot%\system32\oeminfo.ini if exist %file% del %file% /s goto %computername% :Batcave echo [General] >> %file% echo Manufacturer=Wayne Enterprises >> %file% echo Model=%computername% >> %file% echo [Support Information] >> %file% echo line1=Your Installer Today Was >>. >> %file% echo line2=Benners >> %file% echo line3= >> %file% echo line4=Vocation .............................. >> %file% echo line5=Supreme Unattended Overlord :-) >> %file% echo line6= >> %file% echo line7=Windows Version ..................... >> %file% echo line8=XP Professional with Service Pack 2 >> %file% echo line9= >> %file% echo line10=Support Link ................. >> %file% echo line11=Email addy here >> %file% echo line12=Before Mithering Me, STFW @ http://www.google.co.uk >> %file% echo line13= >> %file% echo line14=Installation Date >> %file% echo line15=%date% @ %time% >> %file% goto end :Batcave2 ; different details here goto end :Batcave3 ; different details here goto end :Minky ; different details here goto end :Stacey ; different details here :end

Here's a file I made to auto register it, pretty self explanatory. Twice out of the many times I have used it there has been a problem copying the serial but straight after it works again The FlashFXP exe should be in the same dir as register.exe, then just run register.exe register.zip

You can always uncheck enable third party browser extensions in Advanced Internet options, this disables Browser Help Objects so they shouldn't appear.I am not sure whether it stops all the s***e from being installed though.

@ThatGuyPSU Just out of curiosity is the directory size for the i386 you copied over the same as the one on the cd?.

I thought he wanted to change his setup routine and run from CD?. **** my bad eyes, 18 hrs infront of the 'puter, I deleted some extra text from the code and missed that, Thanks

in your winnt.sif file goto [unattended] and add Factorymode = Yes like below [Unattended] Factorymode = Yes After the GUI mode of setup has completed this will be run by the winnt.sif file, no extra additions are needed

@Incroyable HULK Thanks

nice one! never thought of that.

You could create a theme with the wallpaper that you want, place it in $OEM$\$$\Resources\Themes on your cd and add this to winnt.sif [Shell] CustomDefaultThemeFile = "%SystemRoot%\Resources\Themes\benners.theme"This way if you want to change your wallpaper again just update the background on the cd (keeping the same name), saves keep cabbing

As far as I know if the exe is in the same dir as the cmd file you dont need to supply the absolute path, but if you know it I can't see any harm in being cautious

I use Factorymode = Yes under [unattended] in the winnt.sif file. After setup it attemps to run %SYSTEMDRIVE%\Sysprep\Factory.exe (part of sysprep) but cant find it so continues. I autologon but dont know if it works this way if you want to add users manually.

The %systemdrive% variable points to the drive windows is installed on, you will need to add a line that gets the cdrom letter. FOR %%i IN (D: E: F: G: H: I: J: K: L: M: N: O: P: Q: R: S: T: U: V: W: X: Y: Z:) DO IF EXIST %%i:\win51ip.SP2 SET CDROM=%%i: then use the %cdrom% variable. (I think), swap win51ip.sp2 for a filename that you have on the root of your CD

If you use cmdow.exe you can add cmdow @ /HID to the top of the batch which will hide the window. As for the reg.exe if not exist %windir%\system32\reg.exe copy "path to reg.exe" %windir%\system32 /q should work.

Participated in a campaign of misinformation Has a creative relationship with the truth Ah who cares no harm done.I downloaded a trial of easyboot , and may not have given it enough time but, personally, if I had spent a while creating another masterpiece to use as a background I wouldn't want to use the single colour menu systems as they display on their web page.I like CDShell its free and relatively easy, for clowns like me. @Incroyable HULK Is it possible to use seperate pictures to build up the graphical interface and incorporate the buttons into your background?.i.e use my bitmap as posted above but still retain mouse\cursor key functionality to advance though the options. @evilvoice are you the same evilvoice as frequents the 911cd.net forum?.If you are thanks for your Acronis tutorials.

No external module, in the cdshell.ini file I have if $vesa == 1; then script xp.cds; else script textmode.cds to check if the graphic can be displayed and if not a text mode version is run. Then show image graphics\xp.csi in the xp.cds script. As for the resolution they are 640 by 480 pixels in size , and true-color (ie. 24-bit; approximately 16.7 million colors), is easyboot 1024x780 max?.

You can use graphics with cdshell, here is one of the screens that I use. I dont know how graphical easyboot can be, I might give it a trial and see.

I have copied the Lavasoft directory from Progam Files to $OEM$\$Progs on the UA cd, the directory gets copied during setup and an sfx containing the files in C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Lavasoft\Ad-Aware runs through xplode. This works for me and whenever a new ref file is out I replace the one in $OEM$\$Progs and it is up to date

Ironically I use it the opposite way, I use the Flashget Bar and it was never added when I installed flashget so, I added it through IE, View - toolbars and searched for Flashget Bar in the Registry as well as monitoring the changed with Regsnap, thats what I found to work. The same might be accomplished by unregistering fgiebar.dll in the Flashget folder.

This works for me, Add this to a reg file [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar] "{E0E899AB-F487-11D5-8D29-0050BA6940E3}"=-

If you use the same boot files and settings all the time, save the compilation to say XPCD.nrb and double clicking the file will open nero with the options you want, just refresh the compilation to update\remove changed files.