Martin Zugec

Btw dont use capital letters, it means angry attitude. It is above \... Usually it is shown as TWO lines on keyboard, on screen it is one line.

First try it Maybe it wont work (I am using w2k right now and the script is designed for XP, so I wasnt able to try it here)

You could create little "database" consisting two files Processes.bat If "%1" EQU "" goto :EOF If /i %1 EQU /start goto StartProcess If /i %1 EQU /stop goto StopProcess Goto :EOF :StartProcess for /f "usebackq" %%i IN (`type Processes.ini`) DO ( cmd /c start %%i ) Goto :EOF :StopProcess for /f "usebackq" %%i IN (`type Processes.ini`) DO ( wmic process where name="%%i" call terminate ) Goto :EOF Processes.ini name_of_process.exe If you run processes.bat with parameter /start, it will launch all processes from processes.ini, if you start it with /stop, it will kill them all

You must use piping - e.g. type cmos.txt|more

Other: SUS and preparing to deploy WSUS server right now...

Well, I think it should work - like using linux it MS infrastructure during deployment. How to use linux PXE/Etherboot server as opposite to RIS? How to use Samba as fileserver for unattended application installs? and similar questions.

I am using this for a long time, beginning with NT boot mediums, when I noticed w2k is loading much faster using XP ntloader and ntdetect...

Every process can create its handles - if there is handle, you wont be able to delete that file. You need program, that can close processes handles - for example handle.exe or process explore - both is available on www.sysinternals.com

cmd /k reg.exe /? Google little bit next time...

Well, why not using SUS/WSUS?

Well, for Power Users it is probably better to use something else... But Power Users are minority - most of users are home/corporate users.

GDI detection is distributed through Windows Update. Screen resolution - did you include resolution settings in unattend.txt? E.g. [Display] BitsPerPel=24 Xresolution=1024 YResolution=768 Vrefresh=85

Dont think so it is possible - because you need to load driver. I dont want to look pesimistic, but you will have to wait till Longhorn

It is really worth reading! http://www.jellyslab.com/~bteo/hacker.htm

Using RunOnceEx: REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon" /v AutoAdminLogon /d 1 /f REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon" /v DefaultDomainName /d "DOMAIN" /f REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon" /v DefaultUserName /d "Domain_Admin" /f REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon" /v DefaultPassword /d "password" /f BTW you should use GP to autoconfigure administrator group globally.

WinPE and BartPE are both preinstallation environment - they are designed to start windows installation from network. They provide you with basic tools of Windows XP/2003, like native APIs or WSH support. You can work around MOST of their abilities using dos, but a.) it is designed for future, I mean changes will be made to them instead of dos (for example WMI support in WinPE 2004). So if you are beginning with network installation, it is better to use them instead of creating dos boot medium. You can also began with installation without restart, which is impossible in dos (you need to create install partition, restart and run installation) b.) it is much easier to create scripts in WinPE than in dos environment.

Please post HijackThis log with this question...

Well, you can - it is called rootkit BTW interesting piece of code..

Have a look at command NetDom

Nope I will make a series of presentations for Microsoft and publish few articles in ComputerWorld about it now, but both in czech language I would recommend Desktop Deployment Resource Kit from Jerry Honeycutt, it is really impressing book (I found out he uses almost same method as me, except WinPE as initial medium). Even it is book from Microsoft, there are link to many tools from different companies (BartPE is considered to be better than WinPE, SysInternals etc.)

1.) P2P not compatible with MS standart (e.g. every P2P ) 2.) network scanning tools 3.) viruses Thats all...

Yep, I LOVE multiplayer coop options

It is quite important for beginning programmators - lightweighted Visual Studio, and the best is it is free! (but still beta) http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/

Nope, it is not - there are two workarounds: 1.)If you use WinPE + diskpart, you can run winnt32 with parameter, so it wont need restart. 2.) You can (I use this solution) use gdisk and automatically check the name of partision - it it will be different from HDDReady, then you will delete + create new partition with name HDDReady. If you would like, I can post a code here.

BTW I said more than 2k...