evilvoice

during svcpack.inf can you run "control folders"? This brings up the folder options control panel item. The reason I ask this is I built an installer using [to be filled in later] post about reducing the size of acrobat. It removes wisptis, but I install journal viewer in svcpack. The installer also runs a vbscript that allows me to open pdf attachments (you have to mess with file types to be able to do this) and I need to know if the vbscript will run without errors, or if I need to run it at first boot. It just lets me know if I need to redo the installer.

hehe understandable, like you said, people can customize this to their own liking...

sorry for askin another question, but I notice you delete shortcuts from the desktop after every install, couldnt you just delete all *.lnk from the desktop at the end? If you dont use runonceex except to run start.cmd, you shouldnt have any .lnk files on your desktop on boot...just a thought. This really is great, I never would have figured this out myself..great job

this is great, but there is one error...url_list has 2 extensions in your example, the wget code uses .txt and the file on the server uses .cmd...I think the file on the server is supposed to be url_list.txt according to wget. Also, how are you running start.cmd? as runonceex, runonce?

the first post in this thread, while it works with 6.0.2, it breaks OE being able to open attachments, does anyone know the fix for this? I would like to use the first post instead of installing ar6 because it does save space, while 15mb isnt a lot, its something...so please, anyone know what causes oe to be able to open pdf attachments, so I can add it to the reg file?

actually, as stated, it was the spaces causing the errors...if you notice in your first quote they have spaces between the seperator and the address, in your second quote there are no spaces. Therefore you should not have to use wildcards, for whatever you want to set as wild, just leave off the first part (usually www.)

sweet!

well it could be the AutomaticUpdates = 1 for sp2...you have to set that to bypass some page about security

what gets put in the regtweak? all 4? or just HKLM. have you tested this on a new install, im just wondering because everyone has been saying its the HKCU key.

you forgot unattendswitch=yes under unattended I assume userdata actually contains info and is not blank?

jdoe is sorta correct...what I did with mine was to leave the string ChikkaIM and delete the executable...if anyone has removed msn Messenger from startup, they would know that if you remove the entire string, msn will just put it back, to actually get it to stop running, leave the value in there, and remove the data, not knowing if ChikkaIM did the same thing, I offered a true way to get it to stop running...while deleting the key is fine, if the program checks to see if it is to run on startup, it will just put the thing back...mine solves both.

reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run /v ChikkaIM /t REG_SZ /f reg add HKCU\Software\GameHouse\TextTwist /v FullScreen /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f I believe is how you would remove it., wrote it so you can use it in your cmd file, from this you should be able to figure out how to do the other one

I guess, but then whats the purpose of having an unattended install if youre gonna sit there for every program to type yes or no? Just seems to be defeating the purpose of runonceex

well, you make a batch file that prints a list on the screen... 1. blah runonce 2. blah2 runonce 3. blah 3 runonce which one do you want to run? (1,2,3) type 1 it runs blah's runonce type 2 it runs blah2's runonce (blah is just a name or computer name or type of install I just use it for lack of anything else) and have 3 different runonceex.cmd's all named differently...like blah.cmd, blah2.cmd, blah3.cmd I would actually write more of the code, but right now its only a thought and I dont wanna sit here and create it right now as Im testing my cd...tho I guess I could...I should have one made up later

actually, ive thought about this...why not run a batch in cmdlines.txt that asks you to type the number of which runonceex.cmd to run...thats what im gonna do cuz I want to be able to use this at some friends houses and they dont use all the programs I do, like perl...

i believe this has been talked about and dont think it is possible

ok, mr no longer anonymous...sorry couldnt resist, but what do you mean by tit? or is that a mispost by vortex?

would this still work for the rtm?

you say rip off, i say whatever...use yours, but it was pointed out as to certain times when yours would not work...but whatever... PS i think a rip off has to do with me stealing something...as I listed the site, I dont think that constitutes stealing...I just posted what i had because if you have 2-3 cdrom drives, as I do, then youll need to make some changes so it only finds the first one... If you think I stole your idea...try again...I can even show you how long ago I found out how to do this...but believe what you want If you didnt mean to come off as an a**, you should choose your wording better.

here is a batch, it is not mine, but I did change a little thing...first, this is only for 2k/xp instead of the whole batch consisting of 98/nt/2k/xp. I also have it set instead of all cdroms, to the first one it finds...this means that if youre not using the master cdrom drive to install or whatever, then you need to change this... it came from http://www.robvanderwoude.com/amb_cdrom.html @ECHO OFF :: For Windows 2000 :W2K SETLOCAL SET CDROMS= SET Temp1=%Temp%.\%~n0%Random%1.reg SET Temp2=%Temp%.\%~n0%Random%2.reg START /WAIT REGEDIT /E %Temp1% "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices" TYPE %Temp1% > %Temp2% TYPE %Temp2% | FIND "\\DosDevices\\" | FIND /V "\\DosDevices\\A:" | FIND "=hex:5c," > %Temp1% FOR /F "tokens=3 delims=\:" %%A IN (%Temp1%) DO CALL :ParseW2K %%A SET CDROMS DEL %Temp1% DEL %Temp2% ENDLOCAL & SET CDROMS=%CDROMS:~0,2% GOTO:EOF :ParseW2K IF DEFINED CDROMS (SET CDROMS=%CDROMS%,%1:) ELSE (SET CDROMS=%1:) GOTO:EOF see where I use , if youre not using the first cdrom, change it accordingly.

i really believe it has to do with that persistent handle, cuz I dont use that in my reg tweaks, and it works fine for me.

could be because he has a space between the first " and %windir%

hate to do this, but im just trying to bump this up...changed my reply...does anyone have any idea why Im getting this? this is my code. ".\hotfixes\dotnetfx.exe /q /c:""msiexec /I netfx.msi /qn""" ".\hotfixes\DX9NTOPK.EXE /Q:A /R:N" ".\hotfixes\MDAC_TYP.EXE /C:"dasetup.exe /q /n" /q:a" ".\hotfixes\REG_MDAC.CMD" ".\hotfixes\MM20ENU.EXE /Q:A /R:N" ".\hotfixes\mpsetup.exe /Q:A /R:N /c:""setup_wm.exe /Q /R:N /NoPID /DisallowSystemRestore /P:#e""" ".\hotfixes\MSJVM.EXE" ".\hotfixes\MBSASE~1.EXE /Q:A /R:N" ".\hotfixes\MSXML.EXE /Q:A /R:N" ".\hotfixes\MSXML3~1.EXE /Q:A /R:N" ".\hotfixes\SETUP.EXE /Q:A /R:N" ".\hotfixes\HMTCDW~1.EXE /QN" ".\hotfixes\322011.EXE /Q /U /O /N /Z" ".\hotfixes\327979.EXE /Q /U /O /N /Z" ".\hotfixes\810217.EXE /Q /U /O /N /Z" ".\hotfixes\810243.EXE /Q /U /O /N /Z" ".\hotfixes\811114.EXE /Q /U /O /N /Z" ".\hotfixes\814995.EXE /Q /U /O /N /Z" ".\hotfixes\815021.EXE /Q /U /O /N /Z" ".\hotfixes\820291.EXE /Q /U /O /N /Z" ".\hotfixes\821253.EXE /Q /U /O /N /Z" ".\hotfixes\822603.EXE /Q /U /O /N /Z" ".\hotfixes\823182.EXE /Q /U /O /N /Z" ".\hotfixes\824105.EXE /Q /U /O /N /Z" ".\hotfixes\824141.EXE /Q /U /O /N /Z" ".\hotfixes\825119.EXE /Q /U /O /N /Z" ".\hotfixes\826939.EXE /Q /U /O /N /Z" ".\hotfixes\826942.EXE /Q /U /O /N /Z" ".\hotfixes\828026.EXE /Q /U /O /N /Z" ".\hotfixes\828035.EXE /Q /U /O /N /Z" ".\hotfixes\828741.EXE /Q /U /O /N /Z" ".\hotfixes\829558.EXE /Q /U /O /N /Z" ".\hotfixes\832353.EXE /Q /U /O /N /Z" ".\hotfixes\833407.EXE /Q /U /O /N /Z" ".\hotfixes\833998.EXE /Q /U /O /N /Z" ".\hotfixes\835732.EXE /Q /U /O /N /Z" ".\hotfixes\837001.EXE /Q /U /O /N /Z" ".\hotfixes\837251.EXE /Q:A /R:N" ".\hotfixes\837272.EXE /Q /U /O /N /Z" ".\hotfixes\839645.EXE /Q /U /O /N /Z" ".\hotfixes\840315.EXE /Q /U /O /N /Z" ".\hotfixes\840374.EXE /Q /U /O /N /Z" ".\hotfixes\840648.EXE /Q /U /O /N /Z" ".\hotfixes\841873.EXE /Q /U /O /N /Z" ".\hotfixes\842773.EXE /Q /U /O /N /Z" ".\hotfixes\HU1002~1.EXE /Q:A /R:N" ".\hotfixes\JS56NEN.EXE /Q:A /R:N" ".\hotfixes\Q831167.EXE /Q:A /R:N" ".\hotfixes\Q832894.EXE /Q:A /R:N" ".\hotfixes\KB8324~1.EXE /Q:A /R:N /C:""DAHOTFIX.EXE /Q /N""" ".\hotfixes\KB823353.EXE /Q:A /R:N" ".\hotfixes\fm2paste.exe /Q:A /R:N" ".\hotfixes\QCHAIN.EXE"

Ok, i did a lot of searching for a way to find adapter ID's and there really isnt a clear way to do it, at least not with the current reg.exe If you can find a xp-compatible program that will search a little better than "reg query" then I can actually create a little batch file that can find the adapter ID...I may take a look again today as I have had some time off and will go at it with a clear head. lpl??? I would remove the persistent handler part also if youre trying to get it to say "Windows NT Command Prompt" you changed its name to cmdfile with the first part of the code. did your notepad script work before?

Ok, had some time off, think im gonna retry this...