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Nope. It's not an internal command of cmd.exe. It does not exist on a Win-XP CD. You add it yourself. However, I did some attempts in the past to run it on XP. It works when explorer shell is loaded. There's a mess with the order of GOTO or SET under XP. SET /P is good enough. The only problem is taht there's no default answer that could be set after some designated time. @ spacesurfer You can use an application installer like W.A.I.T. or KTOOL. There are may apps for this purpose, however.

Thank you for the input.

@ Cygnus Thank you for the link. The main advantage of this installer is that it's supported by silent switches. That's indicated in the help file as I haven't used it yet. Is that true, practically? And, how do you use use it to install HotFixes? I mean, can the files inside a package be given switches, individually? Thanks.

@ ashrafzia /VERYSILENT /SP- is not a valid switch for WMP package. I used to use this with the orig EXE: start /wait %systemdrive%\Install\WMP10\mp10setup.exe /C:"setup_wm.exe /Q /R:N /NoPID /DisallowSystemRestore"

@ ashrafzia This message is not related to the SFX.

@ hp38guser Wanted to say THANKS!

They are protected, then.

You cannot change this in the window... how DO you change it?You don't need (nor have) to change that in the window you're referring to. Let it be there and go with the flow. But you change it on the command line to: TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb- given that Unattended.MST is placed in the same folder where Office setup files are. In which batch file to put Office setup commands: You put them in any batch file used for installing other apps during windows setup. I'm not sure about SVCPACK, however. But, start.cmd is a good place.

No need for this mess. It should work the way I mentioned.

Try this: attrib -r -a -s -h /S /D "E:\0a3a0735a1d330754d6447" rd /S /Q "E:\0a3a0735a1d330754d6447"

That's it... BUT WHERE DO YOU PUT THIS!!??!?!!?

You either need CreateUser or WISCON.

Apply this at T-13:

That's true.

I, also, want to know!

Apply this reg file. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\ClassicStartMenu] "{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}"=dword:00000000 "{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}"=dword:00000000 "{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}"=dword:00000000 "{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}"=dword:00000000 "{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D}"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel] "{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}"=dword:00000000 "{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}"=dword:00000000 "{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}"=dword:00000000 "{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}"=dword:00000000 "{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D}"=dword:00000000

I don't know if my answer could be useful in your situation. If you install WIN-XP using WINNT32.exe, add this switch to your command line: /tempdrive:D:\ If you install WIN-XP using WINNT.exe, add this switch to your command line: /t:D:\ Those switches are supposed to make Drive D be the place where SETUP extracts its files to.

Why should you SFX yahoo. I use this in a CMD file to install v7.5:

@ ironside It looks like there are different packages for the same version. It's no problem as long as we can get rid of GTB. I also got rid of FGTB.

regsvr32 /u /s "%SYSTEMDRIVE%\Program Files\FlashGet\fgiebar.dll"

What are those /qn /s /v spread everywhere in your CMD? Each app has its own silent switch. For WMP9, WMP10, or WMP11, I extract the original EXE then create a SFX with these arguments: I, then, run the SFX from anywhere starting from T-13 and down.

Yes, there's also a FGTB in IE.

This is my cursors part in a .theme file. It works I had to install the cursors first.

And, in your SVCPACK.INF, you MUST change Signature=" NT$" to Signature="$Windows NT$" Also, using Win-XP-Sp2, you don't need to run QCHAIN.exe!