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has anyone figured out how to disable the Office 2003 style GUI (the menu bars) ?

I don't understand why would a registry entry need to be only 8 characters?

Interesting method for viewing NFO/DIZ files - I use a similar method: Add a "Command Prompt" option to the right-click menu: CMD.EXE /K TYPE "%l" Or, if you don't want it to display all at once CMD.EXE /K TYPE "%l" | MORE Then it doesn't have to open with EDIT.COM and it's easier to scroll...

SetupDVDDecrypter_3.5.2.0.exe /S That's the only switch I know of.. does a silent install.

Oh, guess I didn't understand your question oh well.

To put REG.EXE in the system32 directory.. don't think anyone mentioned this method (what I use): Put REG.EXE in $OEM$\$$\system32\ So it will be copied to system32 during the text mode portion of setup.

Yes.. In fact I include this on my unattended CD - the installer is Inno Setup. http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/setup.html Hint for the future:

MHz, I did Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195] (C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp. C:\>REG ADD HKLM /v TEST /t REG_DWORD /d "0x00000018" /f The operation completed successfully C:\>REG QUERY HKLM /v TEST ! REG.EXE VERSION 2.0 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE TEST REG_DWORD 0x18

Afterdawn, I do something pretty similar myself. In my $OEM$ directory I have: CMDLINES.TXT: [Commands] "CMDLINES.BAT" CMDLINES.BAT contains: @FOR /F "tokens=*" %%i IN ('DIR /A /B /S "%~dp0INSTALL.BAT" ^| FIND /V "$1"') DO START "" /MIN /WAIT CMD.EXE /C "%%i" (List all files matching "INSTALL.BAT", but we don't want to go into the $1 directory for stuff we're installing during the GUI portion of setup, so exclude it using FIND /V. %~dp0 comes in handy, it points to the directory where the BAT file is being executed from, so CMDLINES.BAT will work properly no matter where its called from.) So basically I never have to modify CMDLINES.TXT to add new programs and whatnot. All I have to do is make a directory for the program, and make an INSTALL.BAT with all the commands to install it silently, etc. The main batch file does the rest. And for GuiRunOnce it's pretty much the same thing: WINNT.SIF: [GuiRunOnce] Command1="%SystemDrive%\RUNONCE\RUNONCE.BAT" RUNONCE.BAT: @FOR /F "tokens=*" %%i IN ('DIR /A /B /S "%~dp0INSTALL.BAT"') DO START "" /MIN /WAIT CMD.EXE /C "%%i"

REG ADD %KEY% /V FLAGS /D "dword:00000018" /f MHz - You don't need to convert the hex into dec. the syntax needs to be 0x REG ADD %KEY% /V FLAGS /T REG_DWORD /D "0x00000018" /f

Well after a bit of messing around I came up with a method to do what I wanted, this may help others out. I wanted to add the "/sos" switch to my Windows 2000 entry so this is how I did it. You need "CHANGEINI.EXE" which you can get from http://www.thorprojects.com/files/chgini02.zip BOOTINI.BAT @PUSHD "%~dp0" & ECHO OFF @SET BOOTINI=%SystemDrive%\boot.ini ATTRIB -A -H -R -S "%BOOTINI%" COPY /Y "%BOOTINI%" "%BOOTINI%.old" FOR /F "tokens=1 delims==" %%i IN ('FINDSTR /I /R "Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" "%BOOTINI%"') DO ( CHANGEINI.EXE "%BOOTINI%" "operating systems" "%%i" "\"Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional\" /fastdetect /sos" )

I need a way to programmatically add a switch like "/sos" to my Windows 2000 entry in the boot.ini. The entry can vary depending on what drive/partition its installed on, so I don't think just copying over a pre-set boot.ini is a good solution. [boot loader] timeout=1 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect

I need this too

For IntelliPoint Extract the files from IP5_2Eng.exe START "" /WAIT msiexec.exe /i "IPoint\SETUP\IP52.msi" MM=7 /qn REBOOT=ReallySuppress The MM parameter provides the mouse model. http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=20283 http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...83entry140181

You actually can use environment variables in the registry. Make the registry value have a type of REG_EXPAND_SZ. Can't do that with REGEDIT.EXE but you can with REGEDT32.EXE. As far as doing it with REG or INF files, you can do it with REG files but its less than desirable considering it shows up as hex and isn't exactly human readable. That's why I prefer to use INF's if I have to use an environment variable. Example: HKCR,"CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}","LocalizedString",0x00020000,"%USERNAME% / %COMPUTERNAME%" 0x00020000 is REG_EXPAND_SZ This will store, literally, "%USERNAME%" and "%COMPUTERNAME%" and won't expand them until they are actually used. And if you were wondering, that entry I used as an example will display the current username and computername as the text for the "My Computer" icon rather than just saying "My Computer" Hope this helps.