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@just - Thanks for clarifying and pointing me to look at the right part of the resultant xml. I looked at the incorrect section. The xml looks very good. I was having some probs removing various drivers (e.g. using a "-k prn" for printers and a "-k mdm" for modems). Obviously I tried different variations but I can't get these strings to work right. It seems to start creating a log file but create never finishes. Maybe it's looking for too many things in the registry? Is there a switch to avoid parsing the registry for valid entries?

just - This is a great program, kudos for taking the inititive in creating this!!!! Just wondering, is it possible to update the create program to auto-create the wildcarded manifest filenames instead of manually fixing them? Here's a hint, if you take the manifest filename and use an underscore as a deilmiter, the 6th string of characters can be wildcarded, maybe the first string can be wildcarded too. On a sidenote, when the program is finished running, I get a message that says "'perl.exe' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file" but the program runs fine with the correct output.

That's weird. I only have it copying over once. Right after swflash is extracted, the dlls and exes are renamed on the fly. Not the move command. My txtsetup looks like this: HFSLP903.INF = 1,,,,,,,998,0,0 msimsg.mui = 1,,,,,,,1009,0,0,msimsg.dll.mui swflash.exe = 1,,,,,,,1003,0,0,FlashUtil10h_ActiveX.exe swflash.dll = 1,,,,,,,1003,0,0,FlashUtil10h_ActiveX.dll flash.ocx = 1,,,,,,,1003,0,0,Flash10h.ocx iertutil.dll = 1,,,,,,,,3,3 urlmon3.dll = 1,,,,,,,,3,3 no other flashutils are part of txtsetup. I prefer to not have the script reposted, there's too many corporate users out there.

Bad words? I could not type in f l a s h i t in one string of characters.

Is the DLL file *really* needed? All prior verions of flash did not have this file. Not sure why this one does. Does it really matter if the dll is in sys32 instead of sys32\Macromed\Flash? Probably not. If it really bugs ya, you can modify the INF file so it uses the sourcediskfiles from sys32 and moves them to the macromed\flash folder where it can be registered. Hardcoding into the main script is not a good idea. Trust me. Chances are, if the dll is in sys32, hfslip registered it for you already. Something tells me the flash player update is in response to some bad news about major security vulnerabilities of flash. It was pretty good headlines too. Late last week, Steve Jobs made a point that his iphone doesn't use flash because of security issues. This week, flash security issues came to the news. Then Jobs said "told ya so" to the press. edit... this could probably work, but I haven't installed on a VM. Step 1 processcabs section move [the proper callout can't be displayed, I guess there's a bad word in there ] IF EXIST WORK\CABS\flash*.ocx CALL :FLAs*** so it happens right after IF EXIST WORK\CABS\legitcheck*.dll IF EXIST ...... Step 2 FLAs*** section [note that this appears to be a bad word too ] Add this code just before the last echo command of that section. IF EXIST WORK\CABS\FlashUt*.dll FOR /F %%I IN ('DIR/B WORK\CABS\FlashUt*.dll') DO ( MOVE/Y WORK\CABS\%%I WORK\I386E\swflash.dll ECHO>>SOURCESS\I386\TXTSETUP.SIF swflash.dll = 1,,,,,,,1003,0,0,%%I&ECHO>>SOURCESS\I386\DOSNET.INF d1,swflash.dll )

I totally agree with FDV on sourceforge. HFSLIP isn't meant to be repackaged with a new license and redistributed. It's against the terms and conditions. Thank you for pointing that out, 5eraph. Let me be bold enough, and honest enough, to say that Hu$tle has not donated a single dime toward the project/service. He never thought it was good or helpful to him I guess.

I totally agree with FDV. As far as just making HFSLIP an open source utility, please re-read jaclaz's post a few just above this one. He nailed it right on. Yes, that means you Ancheron. Open source and other licenses have been beaten to death on this hfslip subforum. It's been beaten to death on the nlite forum too. Usually it's people who want to use it for corporations/businesses. HFSLIP was written for the normal home user, who wants to reload his PC in a quick manner. The target audience usually does not care about licenses, because, well, he's just using it for his own use. The program was not written for the lazy sack of sh!t IT guy wants to cut time of reloading OSs. He's paid to reload OSs to proper way in accordance with Microsoft standards, which is the "legal" way of installing the OS. For such a popular piece of software as everybody says, can you say not a single dime was donated in well over 2 years. Maintaining this for users who demand fixes for free just isn't fair. Hell, would anyone out there donate 20+ hours a week to help someone they don't know without? And do that without getting paid? Forget it! I'd rather do things around the house or continue building my home audio equipment.

Torture I must. Nuhi tortures his followers with Nlite. The next time you manually install a msft update, take a look at those terms and conditions. Live with it dude. I think that a malfunctioning OS is a far cry from a malfunctioning program you would install afterward. A fix for an HFSLIP'd OS is a complete reinstall. It's not as easy as you think. Why should I continue this hobby as a non-paying job, huh? Let's see.... 2 years strong and not a single donation. I suppose it's not as helpful as I thought. Tell me, would you write a some code that some business would use against terms and conditions and then when something is at fault they would turn around and sue the pants from you? It could happen, but I'm protected by terms and conditions specified. And yep, they could have done so without even donating a single dime. Try asking the same question on the Nlite board about using Nlite for corporate use. You'll get far more friendly messages from the nlite users. Edit - on second thought, you bring up a good point. There is no need to look at a cake and lick it through the window. The cake is thrown away. I've discontinued support and any related downloads of the program. Have a nice day.

When I ran with 2k, I slipped the WM codecs without the WM9 installer. The WM codecs required a subset of the WM9 hotfixes. Stephan mentioned all the updates needed for the codec portion. I'm still getting dx9 cab probs. I'm using the current filesets.

It's not unfrieldly to give donations. All you gotta is email me, sorry if that's not straightforward enough. As far as corporate/business use, suppose an IT person used the software to load up all the machines at his place of employment. Then, under some strange circumstance, something doesn't work 100% correct. I'd be responsible and the corporate legal hawks will be flying to my front door. Besides, anyone working as an IT person will certainly have some MSCE training and certificate, for whatever it's worth. I'm sure slipstreaming is part of the class as opposed to 8 weeks of double click this and double click that. Then again, in the business and if anyone is actually a person, there is something called ethics. HFSLIP displays that it's for personal use all over the place. The user has to have the software terms and conditions file in order to run it. I'm sure a majority of the programs here on msfn aren't for business use. Nlite isn't and nlite is a supurb piece of software. There's lots of topics on this same thing there. The topic was beaten to death on several topics here as well.

Are you using this for personal use?

I have my dx9 extracted in hfcabs. Is there a switch to show that?

Here's some pointers... a - make sure that your hfslip folder doesn't have any spaces or weird symbols. good - d:\hfslipxp bad - c:\documents and settings\username\desktop\hfslip. bad - d:\!hfslip*\&hfslip. b - Make sure your HF folder has properly downloaded hotfixes. c - for troubleshooting's sake, don't use hfcabs or try to slipstream WMP11 or HFAAOs or Replace. Once you get the pesty stuff resolved, then you can add that stuff back in.

Please visit hfslip.org and review the instructions listed for what goes where. It's pretty detailed on what's needed and where to get them.

Let's not get into licensing. There's pages of threads of licensing. For some reason, most people can't understand that personal use does not equal business use which is told again and again when running the program. I'm keeping the licensing the way it is.

The activex killbits is typically an update that has a bunch of registry edits. Typically no binaries are added to the OS. The killbits updates do not come out every month, but the latest update should be the only killbit update you will need. I think the latest one is KB978262 which was released earlier this year.

This is a cool tool. Thanks guys. I have a little prob with it though. It seems as if I'm getting everything is missing from my hf and hfcabs folders (probably others too). I know that their not up to snuff, but the 2k update rollup and ie6 cabs should have been detected. I'm not sure how I can help. I used the current fileset as of apr 30th.

The error was isolated and new beta posted. Sorry about that.

I wish I had time to test, but time isn't on my side. Can you try out using windows update instead of microsoft update? Try this, do another clean install and manually install WMP9. Visit WU and see what happens. Tell me if it reports that WM9 or WM6 are missing. Next, rerun hfslip with all the wm 6 and wm9 hotfixes that you initially reported. Do a clean install and visit WU. Report what WU finds.

New beta is up that fixes the french xp home file copy issue. Known issue - when slipstreaming ie8, the user can't enter in a user password at the logon ui. I'm not sure how to fix it, but I'll glady accept inputs on how to fix it. Apparantly this issue was around ever since IE8 was introduced.

Most excellent. I'll roll that change in and post a new beta in a few days. Thanks for diagnosing and fixing the problem.

So this prob only affects the french home versions of xp only? What if this is done, find this line (it's around line # 3760): IF "%V2%"=="Home" SET SUBTAG=ic add this line right after it. IF "%V2%"=="Version" and IF "%V3%"=="familiale" SET SUBTAG=ic Do a run, see what happens and report back.

Can you do a "from" "to" change and I'll roll it in.

There are too many variables for all the hotfixes released since day 1. Lets say you have some old IE6 updates AND IE8 updates. The end result is bad. Same for mixing and matching various WMP updates. There were even some updates that where mistakes by MSFT that caused systems to continuously reboot. I'd assume you'd not want to include the "mistakes" that msft made. Whatever the case, hfslip needs to use a virgin source. I suppose if you are in a bind, you can extract each hotfix manually and replace the appropriate cabbed dlls. You'll be on your own for that though, extracting and creating your own modified installation disk is well beyond the scope of this forum.

Maybe I can interject a dumb idea. Perhaps have a total of 3 files. One file can be the FC "engine" and the other two files are the look up tables. Maybe automate the table downloading from the fc engine too. I'm not sure how to do all that stuff though.