drscouse

How...??? I have a reboot command in the middle of my ROE script, so it rebbots half way through, then carries on with the rest of the script... How can you make multiple instances of this for different install requirements?? I would be very interested to hear... Thanks

Getting to the latter stages of finishing my UaCD... got a guery about applications and their settings... Got most of my apps to install silently, however very few allow for any configuration via switches, or very limited. What I have decided to do is Instal the app and configure all user settings, then export the rigstry keys... to be imported when app installs from UaCD. Should I be exporting ALL regkeys under Current User for the application folder.. including all sub folders.. or should I just export the keys where the user settings are held (which could turn out to be a lot and tricky to loacte). Am I likely to encounter any problems if I do export the entire set of reg keys for a particular app, rather than just specific keys?? I know if I use keys from Current User and install them from cmdlines.txt, they will install under all user profiles... however, the apps have not yet been installed at this stage, so would any entries be overwritten by the app install, and settings defaulted?? I will prob experiment anyway.. and see what happens, but I though Id ask for a few thoughts.. or advice..

Just atarting to finalise my Unattended disk, which Ive been working on for the last couple of weeks... I installed something today, which required me to put my XP disk back in, which has not happened before, or not for a long time anyway. I currently use a Ua disk to install XP, drivers and hotfixes via RunOnceEx, and then point to a local drive to install other apps. Ideally I would like to put the i386 directory in the same place... Is the i386 necessary, Iven never encountered the need for it to be accessed after an install before today, which lead me to thing maybe it would be good to have one locally... save time copying it from disk, if I cuold make neccessary changes to the registry to point to its location on another drive... As the i386 comes off the original disks.. may there not be out of date files, which may have been replaced my hotfixes, patches etc... and wojuld not be found in the orignal folder??? Is it just a simple matter of adding a regkey to point to the local i386 dir? Any tips.....?? Cheers

Sorted The usual place... http://unattended.msfn.org/intermediate/me...s/runonceex.htm

Available switches... My entry in RunOnceEx is: Now Im sure its because of all the "" eveywhere, but the commandline instruction says personal details must be in ""... I have tired various combinations, with no success... Anyone help?? EDIT: I will try exporting/importing regfile.. that may work...

lol.. forget it... I really should try to remember switches could be case sensitive!! /S instead of /s!!!!

At last a basic explorer that provides folder sizes.. just what I was after!! Anyone know the silent siwtch.. have tried the usual... with no joy Or if anyone could suggest an alternative..?? Thanks

Thats the one thing I like it for!!... most others only show filesize, which is no good if you want to see how much space is taken up within folders/subs etc... Ive not noticed any real speed issues... Each to their own, I suppose

New CD.. why.. do you not use VMWare for testing Ua's??? I know there are some things hardware specific you cannot test out, but all the scripting etc... can be tested in vitual environment..?????

Who would this apply to??

The best place to start is here: http://unattended.msfn.org/intermediate/users.htm You will have to change the Autologn from Yes to No in winnt.sif, this is for the default Admin account. Disabling this, means the info in the above link for NET USER will create your own account, and autologon to that instead. http://unattended.msfn.org/global/referenc...m#guiunattended GuiUnattended] AutoLogon = No AutoLogonCount = 1 There are also a few other things you may want to look at, as I have customised my Unattended disk to work in the following way, as I to did not want to apply regtweaks etc to default admin account. http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=56184 http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=56128 I am assuming you are talking Unattended, as this is the approriate sub-forum? What I have managed to do is: Install XP First Boot into my own Admin account Install hotfixes, drivers... Reboot Log back in to my own Admin account Install apps/tweaks etc... Reboot back to login screen Will be happy to help if you need it.... Good luck!

This is for the default admin account... I had to chane the 'Yes' to 'No' to allow me to logon with my own admin account, so software/regtweaks are done under my username, and not the default admin account. I have already created the necessary files to do so, I just needed to get the scripting right to allow the pc to login to my account on first bootup, install hotfixes, reboot and log back into my account, and install apps, cleanup etc, then reboot back to the login screen This works fine, quite simple and abvious really.. Ive just been getting a bit bogged down and off track, and needed to be put back on it again...!! All is working as I wanted it now.. thanks to you all!!!

That makes sense... cheers I can simply change the regkey in my cleanup, after everything else is done!! Thanks

Hmm... suppose I could implement this, and try to solve the DVD issue with a manual script... I ve put my current Ua build on hold, as I would really like to use this script to automate drive letter reassignment. Especially since it took me ages to find out how to move my pagefile unattended.. I now need to reassign the drives, before I can move the pagefile, and others...

I was using that... I just got a bit confused with the AutoAdminLogon=1, I thought this was telling the system to auto logon one time, so I changed it to 2, cos I wanted to logon, reboot and logon again automatically, and then go to logon screen on subsequent logins... Is what I want to do possible?? Can I not have an wutologoncount for the above script, like the default admin account defined in the winnt.sif? Cheers

Ive spent the last few days learning about the finer parts of UaCD building, scripting, how things work... etc... since testing my new disk, my PC always seems to auto logon to my admin account. I had set it to "autoadminlogon=2" in a reg file, so my account would logon rather than the defualt admin acccount, install stuff, reboot, and then logon again. However, it just keeps auto logging in.... Is this because the default admin account has never been activated/used, or do I need to change another setting I am simply overlooking??? Cheers

I believe you need to change Yes to No.. this disables the auto logon to the default admin account... Ive just spent ages trying to do this myself, and succeded!!!!

that hit the spot!!Thanks for all your help everyone.. got there in the end... I think originally I did have a pause in there, but I had put it in there to see what was happening, and didnt know it was vital for it to work in that way. I removed it when I had finished seeing what was going on, but just didnt realise that was why it stopped working!! The penny never dropped!!

Had it working once, after a slight modification.. since then, the -f switch does not seem to be terminating the current process, and the next app is still installing... I swear it worked fine on my test system, before I tried it on my UaCD!! Driving me nuts!! Its getting late.. maybe some fresh eyes in the morning will help!!

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU Works like a charm!!

Excuse my noobiness... this is all new territory for me... Getting this far was a bit of a learning curve...lol... Any chance you could expand a bit more? So, I need to write a shutdown.bat (shutdown -r ?)and call it from RunOnceEx, like another app??, ok.. where do I put the pause??? Thanks

Ive been testing with 2 progs, to see if it will install one, reboot then install the other. However, it just wants to install the second one, after it has started the shutdown procedure... I may need a hand with the scripting, as Ive just been copying/modifying the commands to see if they will work, and I may not have them right. I dont know if I should rename 003, back to 001, or need to alter the sutdown command... Can you help at all???

Never really knew "how" it did what it did... I monitored the regkey, and stuck pauses in the runonceex.cmd and saw how it worked... Makes sense now!! Thanks alot for that bit of info, its given me an insight in how the script/command worked.. Cheers

Thanks.. I didnt know that you could simply interrupt the process by rebooting half way through it... and it would carry on from the next item after the reboot command. May have to test that out.. Cheers

Im having trouble trying to figure out the best way to get RunOnceEx to run again after its inital completion, and reboot. During the first run, upon first bootup, I install drivers... and all hotfixes... I then want to reboot, auto logon again, and execute RunOnceEx again, to install all my apps... cleanup etc... I think easiest way would be to move the 2nd RunOnceEx into my account statup folder... and at the end of this script, delete itself (although I dont know if this is possible - to delete a file that is running, I would think not?), so it would not run again, or each time pc rebooted. If so, how would I write the command to copy this file?? Anyone got any advice, or tips to accomplsih the same end result..?? Thanks