Wraith

Or make a multiboot CD, with one source with a WINNT.SIF, one without a WINNT.SIF.

You're missing an </item> after <item display="Creating Start menu Items">.

1. Because as far as I know, doing a wire transfer incurs a fee of around $35. SO effectively, XPlode will cost you $45 instead of $10. If you still feel like going that route, fine. Send me an email. 2. It's my view that competent people are more likely to have their own email addresses, rather than free ones. It's "protection" from people that decide to act like idiots. I'm not crying that it might get pirated - I'm not making any money off this anyways. If anything I'm losing money due to hosting costs. And to anyone who may be thinking this, no I don't want a new webhost, so don't bother offering. No I don't give you permission to crack the software. However, I don't think my telling you not to do so is going to stop you, is it? You've all but said "I'm going to crack it." I don't remember if older versions had full transparency working properly, I know at least that 4.1 had a large memory leak issue regarding the GFX plugin. So it's your call.

I've been planning to move back to a wiki form, I just haven't had the time. That said, I can't sleep tonight, and can't be bothered doing any more flight mechanics for a while. I might set up a thing quickly....

1. No, there is no way of paying other than credit card. Bank transfer is only available to corporate environments that need to follow protocol. 2. Yes I'm serious. 3. No changes at this stage - there are a couple of things that are planned that are unrestricted-only, but they won't be merged for a few weeks.

Executing tag: 'XPlode4(0).items(0).item(2).item(0)' Error during execution: Command 'item' not found. Executing tag: 'XPlode4(0).items(0).item(2).item(1)' Error during execution: Command 'item' not found. That says you have an item inside an item inside an items tag. Your XML says you have an item inside an item inside an items tag. I say you have an item inside an item inside an items tag. I also say that it can't be that way. As for shortcuts.... can we have a logfile snippet of just that section?

.... you can't nest items? the <items> block needs to be in <XPlode4>, so: <XPlode4> + <items> etc. <item> blocks need to be inside <items>, so: <XPlode4> + <items> + + <item> You see why yours isn't working?

You can't nest items like that. Your fileio-shortcut is within and execute tage, but the example is within an item tag. The way XPlode4 works requires them all to be at the same level. I've had plans to change this functionality, but due to time contraints from other projects, this has been on the backburner for some time. For the moment, you'll need to move the shortcut outside the execute tag.

I'd guess that those programs are launching child processes themselves, and thus, they aren't told to be hidden by XPlode. As for the vbscript, I'd guess you should use cscript to run it. Not entirely sure, I think that's what it'd called.

Don't use start. As far as I know, start is build into the command prompt - there is no executable for it. And since XPlode doesn't use the command prompt to launch them, start does not exist. Just put the program itself, and make sure <wait>true</wait> is in the execute tag. (It should wait by default, but hey, doesn't hurt to make sure.)

Check that there aren't any ampersand's (&) in the code. They are used differently in XML, and if there are, you'll need to replace them with & .

Not a problem, anytime. Put it down to the incompetent people that decide to abuse me when things don't work.

errr... that shouldn't be happening.... what plugins are you using, and is it reproducible at a certain time?

So essentially, beforehand you were running cdswitch from XPlode, and when i tgets to the end, it complains? Did you test it so that you needed to reinsert the original disc that XPlode was on in the first place?

Tell me how you're switching CD's and I'll see what the problem is.

All updates are included - pay once, you'll get a username/password, and that will be valid for all subsequent versions of XPlode. At the moment I can only accept Paypal, but it has a credit card facility, and I can send invoices if required.

If you put through a request on the site, then I'll send information. That's why the form is there....

Corporate license request form fixed. Site redone a bit to make stuff a bit clearer. If you had requested a corp license before 2005-05-26, you'll need to resubmit it - it was not received.

Very perceptive. I must admit, I don't generally read the XML syntax outside the offending tag.

Don't. Unless you're testing for yourself. XPlode automatically adds Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 to the start of the file before running it.

If you can just copy/paste it into a *.reg, and run it that way, then I have no idea why XPlode isn't working. All XPlode does is write the registry stuff to a temporary file, import that into the registry using regedit /s X4xxx.tmp, then deletes the temp file. If doing it manually does work.... then perhaps you're going to have to do it manually, because it *looks* okay. Well, XPlode syntax does.

I think he's getting at the fact that the boot sector seems to be unable to tell if an SATA controller has a bootable drive on it. The bootsector will skip the "Press any key to continue..." prompt if it does not detect a bootable drive, and I get the feeling that this was what he was describing.

Of course, setting the bios to boot off SATA first, or ejecting the CD before the CD boot phase is out of the question, isn't it?

I haven't replied yet, because I didn't want to... bias... the results in any way. I figured a couple of days would be enough to get a "decent" set of results - I was essentially looking at a broad structure of XPlode's userbase - I figured that voting for the first two meant that you were skilled enough to work things out yourself, and voting for the XML creator meant that you have no inclination toward doing anything yourself. I guess the results won't change *too* much from what they are now, so I'll say what I have been thinking all along. There is no chance there will be an XML creator for XPlode 4. There *is* however, a chance that the other two will make it in at some point. I had said that the XML creator will be with XPlode 5, and while I had hoped it would be out by now, there are other, more important things to do. Like go to uni. *looks at the time* Ahhh crap, I was supposed to be there 20 minutes ago... *runs out the door*