Ghostrider

Run the internet connection wizard, you need to supply the mail server address and make sure authentication is also configured to allow you to send email. I presume DNS ilso configured and setup with forwarding to your ISP DNS servers.... BTW, check the exchange logs it should show any error messages.

I agree, it was an install of the intel chipset drivers initiated at 2120hrs on 23 april 2005, might even be an automatic update from windows...??? BTW... this driver will only install if OS supports it and if native support is not already available. in other words it should not break an OS because if it's the wrong driver or not needed it wont install, it would be interesting to see the final part of the text showing whether the driver aborted or completed successfully.

Yes it is indeed supposed to be this way, you can of course select not to keep the drivers and the DPack will remove the folder..

Yep... it all helps..

The Winnt.sif file should have nothing to do with running or not running the cleanup command, BTS has implimented the option to use his cleanup from the RunonceEx command. If you use your own and delete his command file like i do then you can change the Run_Me command and add this instead. :KtD :setting2 ECHO. ECHO. ECHO **** setting 2: choose to keep the drivers or not **** [EXPERIMENTAL] ECHO. SET Choice= SET /P Choice="Please press Y to keep the drivers or N in the other case. " ECHO. IF /I '%Choice%'=='Y' GOTO KtD_activate IF /I '%Choice%'=='N' GOTO Cleanup_Q IF NOT /I '%Choice%'=='Y' IF NOT /I '%Choice%'=='N' GOTO setting_1 :KtD_activate DEL /Q %DPDIR2%\BTS_DPs_cleanup.cmd ECHO. ECHO _ drivers won't be removed after the installation is complete. ROBOCOPY "%CD%" %DPDIR2% SetupCopyOEMInf.exe /MOV %RS% > NUL ROBOCOPY "%CD%" %DPDIR2% WatchDriverSigningPolicy.exe /MOV %RS% > NUL ECHO. ECHO _ Windows will detect the drivers. GOTO Complete_Overview :Cleanup_Q ECHO. ECHO. ECHO **** Do You have your own Cleanup.cmd.? **** ECHO. SET Choice= SET /P Choice="Please press Y or N " ECHO. IF /I '%Choice%'=='Y' GOTO Cleanup IF /I '%Choice%'=='N' GOTO Complete_Overview IF NOT /I '%Choice%'=='Y' IF NOT /I '%Choice%'=='N' GOTO Cleanup_Q :Cleanup DEL /Q %DPDIR2%\BTS_DPs_cleanup.cmd ECHO. ECHO _ BTS_Cleanup.cmd file removed. GOTO Complete_Overview You must have your own cleanup command in the $OEM$/install folder. like this CLEANUP.CMD

This is exactly the problem, more people need to realise that all these settings should be input for login to be optimised. 5 mins+ is not normal and each domain setup is different, some are nodes on the net, some are behind routers etc, it all makes a difference.

Sorry for the delay in replying.. and I apologise if i seemed hostile, it was not intended to be.. I use Dark Bevel and Aikon 2 skins, and your right, the rest are not so hot, having said that the 3.x versions don't smack me in the face either... I will of course keep and eye on the progression of 3.x but i'm staying with 2.x for now.

30 secs is good, i usually find about a min is average, try the lmhost file entries too. Here is a handy tool to help create a hosts and lmhosts file Hosts file editor

What time are we talking for logon to complete...? 30Secs, 1min, 2mins etc. Anyway i have noticed the same thing, i made sure that each workstation had an entry in lmhosts file pointing to the domain, also that each workstation had 1 DNS entry selected to point to the Domain BTW... is it a W2000 or W2003 Domain server and is DNS setup correctly on It..?

Ok, slipstreamed worked great, now back to installing on computers.. I changed the run_me.cmd near the end to suit my install :KtD :setting2 ECHO. ECHO. ECHO **** setting 2: choose to keep the drivers or not **** [EXPERIMENTAL] ECHO. SET Choice= SET /P Choice="Please press Y to keep the drivers or N in the other case. " ECHO. IF /I '%Choice%'=='Y' GOTO KtD_activate IF /I '%Choice%'=='N' GOTO Cleanup_Q IF NOT /I '%Choice%'=='Y' IF NOT /I '%Choice%'=='N' GOTO setting_1 :KtD_activate DEL /Q %DPDIR2%\BTS_DPs_cleanup.cmd ECHO. ECHO _ drivers won't be removed after the installation is complete. ROBOCOPY "%CD%" %DPDIR2% SetupCopyOEMInf.exe /MOV %RS% > NUL ROBOCOPY "%CD%" %DPDIR2% WatchDriverSigningPolicy.exe /MOV %RS% > NUL ECHO. ECHO _ Windows will detect the drivers. GOTO Complete_Overview :Cleanup_Q ECHO. ECHO. ECHO **** Do You have your own Cleanup.cmd.? **** ECHO. SET Choice= SET /P Choice="Please press Y or N " ECHO. IF /I '%Choice%'=='Y' GOTO Cleanup IF /I '%Choice%'=='N' GOTO Complete_Overview IF NOT /I '%Choice%'=='Y' IF NOT /I '%Choice%'=='N' GOTO Cleanup_Q :Cleanup DEL /Q %DPDIR2%\BTS_DPs_cleanup.cmd ECHO. ECHO _ BTS_Cleanup.cmd file removed. GOTO Complete_Overview

Did a complete rebuild using 5052, method 2, exisiting runonceex and winnt.sif, all appeared to go well but my winnt.sif file was erased and left with just the BTS entries. Edit... Tried the same UWXPCD files in OEM Home and Pro and Retail Home and Pro clean slipstreams and this time Winnt.sif was Ok...?

Maybe i should have said that version 3 is completly new and not an upgrade from version 2 as non of the old skins are compatible, but some will work, some of the older plugins will not work either. As yet there does not appear to be an abundance of upgraded skins or plugins and as i use both then version 3 will not be added to my puter. could i recommend it to a new user looking for multi IM software, of course..!! will i be using it... No.!! not for some time yet as i can't use skins and plugins i use now. BTW, my version 2 doesn't crash so version 3 crashing every 3 days to me means NOT STABLE. <snipped>

Well advertised garbage...!!!! Try ultravnc... http://sourceforge.net/projects/ultravnc/

i have my winnt.sif file set to fullunnattended but because of certain settings i have in the winnt.sif file it is actually a partial anyway so just tell it to be unnattended. B) Bor3d's util will do the job too...

This link should be a good place to start... http://www.911cd.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=8032&st=0 B)

I use Trillian, but i stuck with version 2.035 as it is stable, you need to download the new msn.dll but otherwise it's great. For anyone interested, 3.1 is not stable at all, would not run my older skin properly and crashed repeatedly on my puter so i took it off and wont be going back anytime soon

I redid my cd... again.. Method 2, used full Dpacks (exc wlan), runonceex and deleted BTS cleanup as i have my own, integrated the roe.cmd to use a number part way through my existing runoncex and promtly made the mistake of using 31 instead of 031 so it added it to the end, after my cleanup command... duh..!! Anyway fixed that and did 2 installs without problems... 1 on a Nvidia nforce2 system with integrated Nvidia geforce4 video and nforce2 Audio and the 2nd was on a Asus p4p-x with Ati 9250 and broadcom lan and soundmax audio. EDIT: Sorry, Spoke too soon... I noticed that the 9250 ATi does not have a control panel applet in taskbar but the Nvidia does, was that supposed to happen...? EDIT2: I realised the ATI 9250 is a powercolour Gamefx HWID is PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_5960&SUBSYS_2094148C&REV_01

Mailwasher is Pretty good too, there is a freeware version for one account and Pro for multiple accounts. www.mailwasher.net

Only if you unmount and remount the volume, however, i recommend you just reboot.

Look for the deploy.cab file on your XP CD use the setupmgr to create a Winnt.sif file, you can make chnages to settings without having to manually edit the .sif file

this is the important section as input in my Winnt.sif, always works for me.. [GuiUnattended] AdminPassword="whatever" EncryptedAdminPassword=NO OEMSkipRegional=1 TimeZone=35 OemSkipWelcome=1

Try Xplode, it will create user accounts http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showforum=86

Don't forget you have to still ad the " /f" inside of the code I posted earlier. The missing " /f" is what is causeing the hang. The order in cmdlines.txt will assure that the correct title is given when the execution on first bootup happens. ← i used my own code so maybe it was something else missing, ive changed it since and it works ok...

Wrong.... nice idea but i already tried it and it still hung.. True but the idea is to automate and slipstream based on default settings, ie Winnt.sif file created by setupmgr, RunOnceEx etc etc Sure is...

This is great for the 1st time my slipstreamed XPCD is almost fully automatic, the only thing i change now is to delete the title heading in BTS_DPs_Roe, everything else is already completed.... Awesome Job Bashrat.... Of course i have to then create the multiboot CD's manually but that's Ok... P.S is it possible to put a IfExist check for a existing RunonceEx, if there is then dont write the title heading in the BTS DP Roe file...???