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You doing a good work. There always be bugs to sort out. Unfortunately I can't seem to post in www.ryanvm.net been waiting for over 24 hours for them to approve me Have patience. Each new member is approved personally by RyanVM, IIRC. Cheers and Regards

I still don't see what purpose or benefit can be had by recreating an "original" Win2K CD. No matter what one does it still won't be an "original" since the original CD's are stamped and not burned. Wouldn't it be better/easier to just purchase a Win2K CD on eBay or something? And I'm also missing why this particular version of CDIMAGE is "required" anyway in this case. Is it required to produce the Win2K CD or is it required to install Win2K from the CD? And if you are trying to create a Win2K CD to install and run today, why make an "original" version rather than an updated one? I know, recreate and not create, but I can't see why. I'm just totally lost and don't see the point of this thread at all, and the fact that the OP hasn't offered any clarification or responded at all in several days hasn't helped. Cheers and Regards

According to this: XP x64 and 2003 is 5.2, but to make absolutely positive you could always include an extra test: SET "_MyArch=x64" & IF %PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE%==x86 IF NOT DEFINED PROCESSOR_ARCHITEW6432 SET "_MyArch=x86"IF "%_MyArch%"=="x64" GOTO:NOTXPEDIT: See posts below about missing "%" marks but it shouldn't be necessary. Test it for sure yourself, of course. Cheers and Regards

Which was the reason I suggested checking out this: since, once completed, you will be able to add SP4 the same way you currently add SP3 with HFSLIP. Even though, as I noted above, it seems that there will continue to be more unofficial updates for XP for quite some time. But since you are using FDV's fileset, I guess that SP4, as it is currently implemented, includes features that you don't wish to use. Whether harkaz, or anyone else. will eventually make a different version of SP4 that would be more appropriate for you remains to be seen. So I agree that the list at http://xdot.tk/ seems the most promising for your needs at this time. Cheers and Regards

Since Windows version number 5.1 indicates XP, then I believe you should be able to simply change this: ...SET SYS2K=1IF EXIST %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\reg.exe ( SET SYS2K= FOR /F "DELIMS=" %%I IN ('%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\REG QUERY "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion" /v ProductName') DO ECHO>DNFWIN1.TXT %%I FOR /F %%I IN ('FINDSTR/I "2000" DNFWIN1.TXT') DO SET SYS2K=1)IF DEFINED SYS2K GOTO:SYSTEM2K...:SYSTEM2KECHO This version of dotnet cannot be installed on Windows 2000.ECHO>%SYSTEMROOT%\DOTNET5IO.TXT This version of dotnet cannot be installed on Windows 2000.to: SET "_OSV=" & FOR /f "TOKENS=2 DELIMS=[]" %%G IN ('VER') DO FOR /f "TOKENS=2,3 DELIMS=. " %%H IN ("%%~G") DO SET "_OSV=%%H.%%I"IF NOT "%_OSV%."=="5.1." GOTO:NOTXP...:NOTXPECHO This version of dotnet can only be installed on Windows XP.ECHO>%SYSTEMROOT%\DOTNET5IO.TXT This version of dotnet can only be installed on Windows XP.EDIT: See posts below about missing "%" marks Cheers and Regards

I agree. Do you really want what was originally shipped with XP, or do you want the latest version of the features you are asking about that will install and function correctly on XP? ie, on your latest installed Win2K system have you been using what was originally shipped with Win2K? Cheers and Regards

EDIT: I almost cross-posted with NoelC who explained this better than I did, but I'll leave this post as is to reinforce the point. I don't think any of us are necessarily against that. What you seem to be missing is that AFAIK because of the way that Aero Glass is implemented, Aero Glass cannot make the taskbar blurred by itself, it requires the "help" of another app. You can make it transparent, but not blurred. If you are asking why Aero Glass cannot add the "missing" piece that the other apps provide so that it no longer needs the help of the other apps, that is because bigmuscle has decided to keep the function of Aero Glass focused on doing one thing and one thing only, and MS decided that the blur of the taskbar is handled slightly differently than the blur of the app windows. (My description might not be exactly true, but it effectively is, and it is the best way I could come up with to convey my understanding of the situation.) I personally like the idea of a single "User Interface Customization" app that would combine the functions of Aero Glass, StartIsBack, Classic Shell, Modern Mix, OldNewExplorer, and perhaps others, to allow you to customize your UI using a single app where all the app interaction problems are taken care of for you. But others prefer a more minimalist approach where they only add the apps/functions they are going to use. Cheers and Regards

Haven't tested them yet but you should be actually able to slipstream them with HFSLIP directly without making any changes I was going by what harkaz found and apparently -X- and dencorso confirmed - http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/171814-posready-2009-updates-ported-to-windows-xp-sp3-enu/, but I don't think any of them have tried using HFSLIP to do this. I don't have an XP system anymore to test myself. Cheers and Regards

If we believed that was true, then we wouldn't bother using Aero Glass. Cheers and Regards

They are XP based and are still supported and so are still getting updates from MS, and those updates can be ported to XP to allow XP to continue to be updated beyond the XP EOS of April 2014. Cheers and Regards

pos2009 == Microsoft Dynamics Point of Service 2009 WEPOS == Windows Embedded for Point of Service Cheers and Regards

FWIW - POSReady 2009 updates easily ported to Windows XP post-EOL. Cheers and Regards

And you posting this will not speed the eventual release even one day. Don't worry, I know for a fact that it is actively being worked on and tested and I'm sure that nuhi is glad to hear that folks are anxiously waiting the release of his app. Just be patient, and quiet. Cheers and Regards

Hmmm Seems to work fine for me, but then you and I have had a couple of other web differences as well, such as access to mim0's site. Maybe this is another symptom of a bigger problem? Cheers and Regards

And I think that could possibly be further optimized as: @ECHO OFF & SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONSSET "_OSV="FOR /F "TOKENS=1* DELIMS=[" %%A IN ('VER') DO (SET "_OSV=%%B" CALL SET "_OSV=%%_OSV:* =%%" & CALL SET "_OSV=%%_OSV:~,3%%")IF %_OSV% LSS 5.1 (GOTO :EOF) ELSE ( IF %_OSV% LSS 6.4 (GOTO W%_OSV%) ELSE (GOTO :EOF)):W6.3Win_81.cmdGOTO :EOF:W6.2Win_8_2K12.cmdGOTO :EOF:W6.1Win_7_2K8R2.cmdGOTO :EOF:W6.0Win_Vista_2K8.cmdGOTO :EOF:W5.1Win_XP_2K3.cmdCheers and Regards

@ghosttracer, as a new batch programmer, you should absolutely thoroughly test each batch, and each line if necessary, until you understand what is happening and why as jaclaz suggests. The beauty, and the curse, of batch, and most other programming languages for that matter, is that there are many, many different ways to accomplish the same thing. For example, to find the OS version, these 3 lines give the exact same results for me running Win7x64: :: from YzöwlSET "_OSV=" & FOR /F "TOKENS=1* DELIMS=[" %%A IN ('VER') DO SET "_OSV=%%B" & CALL SET "_OSV=%%_OSV:* =%%" & CALL SET "_OSV=%%_OSV:~,3%%":: from jaclaz from http://www.robvanderwoude.com/files/appcompat_w7.txtSET "_OSV=" & FOR /F "TOKENS=*" %%A IN ('VER') DO FOR %%B IN (%%A) DO FOR /F "TOKENS=1,2 DELIMS=[]." %%C IN ("%%~B") DO SET "_OSV=%%C.%%D":: my personal favoriteSET "_OSV=" & FOR /f "TOKENS=2 DELIMS=[]" %%A IN ('VER') DO FOR /f "TOKENS=2,3 DELIMS=. " %%B IN ("%%~A") DO SET "_OSV=%%B.%%C"You should also do as Yzöwl asked and confirm if your script operates correctly if it is run as an administrator. If it does, then a solution something like this might work for you: @ECHO OFF:: Ensure ADMIN Privileges - from http://www.robvanderwoude.com/clevertricks.php:: adaptation of https://sites.google.com/site/eneerge/home/BatchGotAdmin and http://stackoverflow.com/q/4054937:: Check for ADMIN Privileges >nul 2>&1 "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\cacls.exe" "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\config\system"IF '%errorlevel%' NEQ '0' ( REM Get ADMIN Privileges ECHO= Set UAC = CreateObject^("Shell.Application"^) > "%temp%\getadmin.vbs" ECHO= UAC.ShellExecute "%~s0", "", "", "runas", 1 >> "%temp%\getadmin.vbs" "%temp%\getadmin.vbs" DEL "%temp%\getadmin.vbs" EXIT /B) ELSE ( REM Got ADMIN Privileges PUSHD "%CD%" CD /D "%~dp0"):: END - Ensure ADMIN Privileges:: PrelimsSETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION ENABLEEXTENSIONSSET "_OSV=" & FOR /f "TOKENS=2 DELIMS=[]" %%A IN ('VER') DO FOR /f "TOKENS=2,3 DELIMS=. " %%B IN ("%%~A") DO SET "_OSV=%%B.%%C"IF %_OSV% LSS 5.1 ECHO= This requires XP or greater & EXIT /bSET "_Arch=x64" & IF %PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE%==x86 IF NOT DEFINED PROCESSOR_ARCHITEW6432 SET "_Arch=x86"ECHO PLease specify if the following programs needs to be installed. y for yes and n for noSET "AVG=N" & SET /p AVG=Do you want to Install AVG(Y/N)SET "LIBRE=N" & IF EXIST "%PROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft Office\" ( ECHO Microsoft Office Detected & SET /p LIBRE=Do you want to Install Libre Office(Y/N)):: Begin work:: Installsecho Installing Firefox & ffox29.exe -msecho Installing Ashampoo & ashampoo.exe /sp- /verysilent /norestartecho Installing C-Cleaner & ccsetup.exe /Secho Installing K-lite & klite.exe /verysilent /norestartEcho Adding Reg Key for No Autorun & NOAUTORUN.regEcho Installing Adobe Reader & adobe11.exe /sPB /sAll /msi /norestart ALLUSERS=1 EULA_ACCEPT=YESEcho Installing Adobe Reader Update & AdbeRdrUpd11006_MUI.msp /qp /norestartIF %_OSV% LSS 6.0 ( ECHO= Installing Internet Explorer 8 & IE8-WindowsXP-x86-ENU.exe /passive /update-no /no-default /norestart) ELSE ( ECHO= Internet Explorer 8 Not Required & ECHO= Disabling Hibernation & POWERCFG -h off)IF /i "%AVG:~,1%." == "Y." ( echo Installing AVG%_Arch% & avg%_Arch% /UILevel=silent /InstallToolbar=0 /ChangeBrowserSearchProvider=0 /SelectedLanguage=1033 /InstallSidebar=0 /ParticipateProductImprovement=0 /DontRestart /KillProcessesIfNeeded) Else ( echo AVG Installation Skipped)IF /i "%LIBRE:~,1%." == "Y."( Echo Installing Libre Office & LibreOffice_4.2.3_Win_x86.msi ALLUSERS=1 /q /norestart) Else ( echo Libre Office Installation Skipped):: TweaksEcho Renaming Icons...Ren "%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\CCleaner.lnk" "Run Weekly.lnk"Ren "%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\Mozilla Firefox.lnk" "Internet.lnk"Echo Renaming Doneecho Disabling System RestoreReg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SystemRestore" /v DisableSR /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /fsc config srservice start= disablednet stop srservice:: CleanupFOR %%A IN ( ffox29.exe ccsetup.exe adobe11.exe klite.exe IE8-WindowsXP-x86-ENU.exe NOAUTORUN.reg Install V1.1.bat ashampoo.exe avgx64.exe avgx86.exe LibreOffice_4.2.3_Win_x86.msi AdbeRdrUpd11006_MUI.msp ) DO ( ECHO Deleting file %%A ..... & DEL %%A)echo Operation Completeexit /bI tried to include everyone's suggestions up till now where I thought was appropriate. I also changed your detection of the OS architecture slightly to make it more robust and then utilized the result to simplify the AVG installation. I changed your AVG and LIBRE tests to only check for the first letter of the responses given so that any response that starts with the letter "Y" is interpreted as a "YES". Other tips-- You should make the capitalization you use and the indentation and the rest of the program syntax consistent throughout the program to make reading it easier and make typo's stand out more when you make them, and you will make them. Also, you should probably rename "Install V1.1.bat" to "Install_V1.1.cmd" or something, because batch files are now usually named with a .cmd instead of .bat extension as jaclaz mentioned, and it is also a safer practice, especially when dealing with batch programs, to not have any whitespace in the file name or path. When you use pieces of code you get from someone else, you should be should be sure to give credit where credit is due. That will also give you someone else to blame if it doesn't work. I have not tested the above code as a single unit, but only parts of it at a time, so be sure to test it thoroughly before use on a real system. Cheers and Regards

@ghosttracer, unless you want to risk Yzöwl's ire, PLEASE always surround your code with code tags, like so: [ code ] your code here [ /code ] but delete the extra spaces I included in the tags after the "[" and before the "]" so that you could see them here. Then it will look like this: your code here You can edit your post above to include them. Cheers and Regards

Sorry, I see now. Thanks. Cheers and Regards

Yes, I'm afraid he was mistaken there as well. Cheers and Regards

???? The diameter of the earth is ~12,742 km, and according to monroe's quote: so that seems to be "only" 1.57% of the diameter of the earth, and nowhere near 50%, unless my math is waaay off. Cheers and Regards

FWIW, I just got to http://hfslip.altervista.org/ with no problem. (Apparently last updated 2014-03-05.) NOTE: Explorer09 has posted the essential necessary updates to Mim0's list here - http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/140336-the-file-checker-hfslipfc-for-hfslip/page-63#entry1077494 Cheers and Regards

vinifera might have been referring to Abandonware, ie software that is "ignored by its owner and manufacturer, and for which no product support is available". But even so, as the referenced article states, copyright still officially applies, even if it is not tracked. - "Although such software is usually still under copyright, the owner may not be tracking or enforcing copyright violations." Cheers and Regards

Dissentient, it might help if you also posted a similar image showing what you expected the image was supposed to look like it had worked correctly, with the differences highlighted. Cheers and Regards

in an actual Court (in any of the countries that do have such Laws). In other words Flasche, also with respect to vinifera, AFAIK, the part above in bold is unfortunately just not true. I believe that unless the software has been specifically released to the public the EULA will still apply. Whether it would be enforced might be another matter, but that would make no difference here. MSFN is a stickler about such things, so if you, or others, choose to pursue this approach you would be on your own and it could not be posted or discussed here. At least that is my understanding, which I'm sure will be corrected by a mod if I am wrong. Cheers and Regards

HTH == Hope That Helps Cheers and Regards