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probably because not enough windows has loaded for it to install properly...depends on when your running your batch...at guirunonce, detached?

@edmoncu yea, my last statement was about using txtsetup.sif and this program together, I just never said why...

I hate to be bothersome (im trying xplode out for the first time...I always wanted to move to xplode, but wanted other things working first), but could we start a "what does not install (programs) at t-12" thread? that was new users to xplode dont have to sit there and try to install a program that someone else knows wont install at t-12...just a thought...[in reply to BAM and big_gie, so I guess this is ok in this thread] also, I am using someone on this threads xml as a base for mine (benners, i hope thats ok, but if not, its cool, I think I understand most of it now), but I have some questions and some issues (yes I tried searching, to no avail). Ok, I could have sworn I saw somewhere where it said that the copy dirs command changed, but I cant find it anymore...so in the xml I have, it has dircopy but the log says there is no plugin to support that, so what is the real command for it? [does not belong here, but didnt wanna add a whole other post for something that might be answered by someone visiting this thread] And has anyone made custom pngs to use with xplode...benners is nice, but im looking at having up to 3 xplodes running at roughly the same time...and itd be nice to have the main one (using benners now) and itd be cool to have some nice ones to run the other 2, but I didnt want those 2 to be the same, theyd run half-window-height, so the main would be background, then one would open at bottom, then when it gets to the end and the second one is to open, that would open at the top...I just notice noone is posting any custom pngs for their installs, nothing against the ones that come with xplode, mind you...just looking for some more graphically appeasing... Or how do people make their own would be another question. [this belongs here since the post is talking about posting screenshots, and im asking for screens, just without the actual xplode stuff going on] [] edits done by me, just so I dont get yelled at LOL

I havent used it, but from the screenshots, WOW...it looks really nice.

hmmm BAM, I have a question for you, since youre going to run it at t-12...are you running multiple xml's? or can you install apps at this stage...I just dunno...Ive always thought software needed to be installed after windows is installed (first boot). If you can install programs at t-12, thatd be cool...Im just wonderin and havent really heard anyone talk about it...im sure they have, but the threads Ive looked at dont. Or...what exactly cant you install at t-12? cuz I do some reg tweaks at the end of runonceex, other than that, I think I only install programs...your help is greatly appreciated.

the reason I do, or would, would be size...I have undone my ntoskrnl and never did get into logonui, but the reason I replaced system files was to not have 1mb added (I dunno the exact size after expanding)...I know, it seems silly, but that was always the reason I did it.

I have a question...where does the winnt.sif computer name get put into registry? is it the key that IcemanND gave us?

actually, you could, but youd have to install on a hard drive...and itd prolly be a lot more complex...youd just set up a script to install to hard drive using the expand command (or what ever you use to zip the files up) change some things to make the hd bootable and it should work, but for booting on cd, no...this is because windows needs to be able to access the files uncompressed...if you had enough ram, you could even uncompress to memory, which would give the appearance of booting from cd (since nothing is saved on cd nor ram), but youd need a lot of ram...then you could uncompress the files there too...it can be done, just not the way I think youre talking about.

thats what im thinking...but no idea how to get for to count...and using set i=1 wouldnt work with for because for will run its command on everything without stopping, so again, everything would get put into the first key...

if youre gonna create all these start.bat in each folder, could you just use a for command to put it in runonceex? I believe you can...im gonna look at for and see if I can come up with a way...the biggest problem is going to be how to count in for, because you cant use runonceex if they all get put in the first key...so ill check it out. After rereading what you wrote, it sounds a lot like barts modboot design...why not take a look at that and translate it for what you want it to do...www.nu2.nu

it will work for raid/sata...the thing about txtsetup is that the drivers you use for that do not get used by the GUI...or at least in my experience, it doesnt...you would have to use a combination of txtsetup raid/sata and this guide.

just a quick ?, would this work on w2k? or does this method have any limitations...im unsure if w2k allows detachedprogram, but maybe someone else knows, then the ? would be is there anything in the files that make it only work for wxp?

hmmm, since I was talking about MYSELF, how am I being insulting to anyone...you really should learn to read ALL of it before you post...but its ok

youre sure? make sure you have it delete the key, then recreate it and set it locked...there was another reg tweak that someone posted that did only one of the 2 steps...either deleted and didnt recreate, or erased the value but didnt delete the key first...

ok, has anyone booted into recovery console after doing an unattended install with oempnpdrivers set? Everytime I try to run recovery console, it spits out an error saying it cant find a driver that i set in winnt.sif...does anyone know a workaround for this, because it WILL NOT let me in...I have relied on cmdcons in times that the system just decided to crap on me (granted I messed up) but I dont wanna be sitting there when it craps on me again with no way to fix it. It relies on txtsetup.sif I believe to run cmdcons...cuz I just looked at it and sure enough I have the drivers in it, but they arent copied to cmdcons...does anyone know what switch signifies that it will be copied when installing cmdcons? Honestly, I dunno if this is a problem anymore since I started brand new, and there is a new method for installing drivers...but it would be nice to know how to get files to copy to that folder.

well, you can boot into a full dos environment, there are a couple of ways...1 is to just run the bootdisk...honestly, its just as capable as the full environment...I never install dos anymore, I just run the bootdisk...now there is another way, i dunno what it is, but it requires some work. you make a dos dir on the cd and edit some files, but honestly I dunno more than that. Personally, Ive always chosen bootdisks, unless youre trying to run something IN dos, and not just troubleshoot would be the only reason to go with option 2...as for running programs that come with the dos setup disks, compression utils are great.

The place where people are messing up is understanding what critical and suggested hotfixes are....net,highmatcd, journal viewer are not looked at as "needed" hotfixes because it depends on the person...So for everyone responding to this thread saying there are hotfixes available, please keep in mind that mods here dont consider those to be hotfixes. And as someone already said, dont just install a hotfix for no reason...I think a IE one came out a couple of days ago, but it specifically says, if you do not have this problem, dont install it. You may end up screwing something else up... hope this helps both those people saying there are hotfixes, and those saying there arent.

;Disable links folder in explorer favorites so it never appears again. [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar] "LinksFolderName"=- "LinksFolderName"="" "Locked"=dword:00000001

%1 tells it to open the file...basically, its like this, from dos batch days, you enter say winrar.exe blah.rar...blah.rar is %1...if you dont use %1 then you will just open winrar.exe and not blah.rar. well, rack another point for me on the stupidity scale...if youre adding a shortcut to the start menu, you dont need %1, cause youre not opening a file, youre opening the program...man, anymore stupid points and I think Ill need to go back to high school. Is there a D'oh smiley LOL

well stupid me...ya know, I even read that statement, wow i feel REALLY dum now

if you look at it, i think windows is naming drives based on size, seeing that e is smaller than d, e becomes d and d becomes e since it smaller than f

here is a question i didnt see an answer to, when cab/7z ing your drivers, should you compress the sound folder that contains all folder for your sound... Sound\Creative\SBAWE32 Sound\Creative\Live so forth and so on or should you compress the creative folder, or compress the Live folder...I just dont know how the autoit script is going to do all this, so I ask questions, I guess I could get autoit and look, but since you are already doing this, I figured Id ask

well to take this batch again and this should work TITLE WindowToClose ( ECHO CMDOW.EXE @ /HID ECHO ping -n 120 127.0.0.1 ^>nul ECHO CMDOW.EXE WindowToClose /CLS ECHO EXIT ) > %WINDIR%\CLOSE.CMD call common.cmd If /I %computername%==Computer GOTO Comp1 ELSE GOTO Comp2 :Comp1 call Comp1.cmd GOTO END :Comp2 call Comp2.cmd GOTO END :END START %WINDIR%\CLOSE.CMD set /p Install="For a 2cd setup, Press Y" If %Install%==Y CALL 2cd.cmd ECHO Done EXIT

VERY NICE!!! have been waiting for a way to bypass the oemdrivers thing since there is a limitation.

just noticed your reply...ya beat me...its really 6 to 1 1/2 a dozen to the other.