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Hu$tle - If you hope to ever get any response, much less help from fdv, you're going to have to learn to be a lot more polite and patient. It is perfectly OK to remind someone that you had understood that they had said that they intended to look into something, so you were assuming that either you had misunderstood or that real life had gotten in the way, and you were hoping they were OK, because you really appreciate all that they have done for everyone in this forum, for free, out of the goodness of their heart, and you acknowledge their brilliance, and you know that you are not worthy to even be bothering them about this trivial thing, and Gee, you were wondering if you might be able to do something for them to make their life easier, but you do NOT, under ANY circumstances be as rude as you just were. Now apologize! And mean it! Cheers and Regards

Many Thanks for the Pointers! Cheers and Regards

jaclaz, sorry to be dense, but would you mind pointing to a more specific thread? If I understood the OP, he wants to put all the install files for XP, Vista and 7 on ONE USB-stick simultaneously, and then have some kind of boot menu to choose which one he wanted to do. This thread's title - Install Windows from ISO after booting to WinPE 3.0 from USB HDD Installation of Wndows XP, Vista, 7, Server 2003/2008 from same drive seemed real promising, but unless I missed something, all the discussion is about adding the XP ISO. I very well realize that this is not a task for beginners and much reading should be done before attempting, such as: but is there a thread somewhere where someone has already done exactly what the OP asked about and has graciously put together a step by step how-to for others to follow, hopefully utilizing Driver Packs to make it more "universal"? Thanks for your willingness to advise us newbies. Cheers and Regards

Check out this link - http://www.ryanvm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8232 for a fairly comprehensive list of various .NET options, from strel's excellent build your own tool, to several pre-built options, many of them can also be found on this forum. Most of the pre-built need to be installed at run-once. I also admit that most, if not all, of those options are intended for use with 32bit versions of Windows. I have not used any of the 64bit versions myself, so someone else will have to comment whether they can be used with 64bit versions or not. Good luck and keep us informed with your progress. Cheers and Regards

cluberti and gunsmokingman, just curious if these two methods will work for other versions of Windows besides Win7? I think they should? Cheers and Regards

@PROBLEMCHYLD Were you talking about SCRIPTEN.EXE or wordpad.exe being in the dllcache folder? Cheers and Regards

Just an off-the-wall thought, it might help if you utilize an externally powered USB hub rather than just plugging the drive into the computer directly, if that's what you are doing, to make sure the drive gets enough power. Beeping doesn't sound good, and this might not help at all, and I admit I'm not familiar with this particular drive so it might already have sufficient power, but at least it would eliminate one possible source of the problem. It's fixed issues with external USB drives for me in the past. Good luck. Cheers and Regards

So to be clear, the ONLY difference between your post #22 and post #24 is: 1) in #22 you let HFSLIP slipstream wmfdist95.exe and wmp9 didn't work, 2) in #24 trial 1 you didn't install wmfdist95.exe and wmp9 worked (after running the ActiveX), and 3) in #24 trial 2 you added wmfdist95,exe post install and wmp9 worked (after running the ActiveX). ABSOLUTELY NO other differences? Everything else works perfectly? I'm not sure what the implications are of having wmfdist95.exe or not, but maybe this will trigger recognition by someone more knowledgeable than me. I've read that it might enable recording in Windows Media Audio format. There was also an exchange between Tomcat76 and tommyp here - http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/63802-winxp-wmcsetupexe-and-wmfdist95exe/ about different versions of wmfdist95.exe being installed for a particular installation Tomcat76 was working on (back in 2005), so maybe the functionality of wmfdist95.exe gets added through another Add-On or Hotfix whether you specifically include wmfdist95.exe or not? Keep us updated with your progress. Cheers and Regards

I use a surfboard now, and have for the last 10 years or more, and I think your most flexible solution would be to get an inexpensive router as Video Ripper suggests. I've used the Cisco/Linksys models, various ones, but Netgear or most others should work just fine. New they can be gotten for as little as ~$40 or so. Most have an ability to "clone" your PC's MAC address so that as far as the surfboard and your internet provider is concerned, you still have just the desktop PC it already knows about plugged in, regardless of which computer you're using. And of course it would allow you to have both computers plugged in and use them simultaneously. Cheers and Regards

The problem, as I understand it, is trying to come up with a solution that is able to be put onto as many different types of computers as possible. Without this type of tool, ie sysprep in general, you can't just copy an image from a computer with one type of motherboard, BIOS, processor, etc. (ie HAL) to another and always have it work. And, NO, I'm NOT promoting this to be used to make multiple installations off the same license illegally. I mean that the purpose of this, as I see it, is primarily for use in an enterprise environment with multiple computers from different manufacturers. Or you could make a backup of your installation and if your computer dies, not be constrained to only being able to put the image onto another very similar computer. I mean the old one broke, so you don't want to have to get another old one do you? You want a new one. I see both of these examples as legal and valid uses of this type of tool. Cheers and Regards

Maybe I'm not understanding. Have you narrowed it down to this? Is this true no matter what else is installed, or is the problem that somewhere between "e" and "everything" it breaks? Since "e - Run hfslip with main updates only: SP3, IE8, WMP11, RDC7" works as it's supposed to, I guess the next, extremely laborious step would be to start adding everything else back in until it breaks. Mathematically inclined, I would try something along the lines of: Put half of everything else back, if that doesn't work as expected, take that half back out and put the other half in. Now you know the problem's in one of those halves. Put the good half back in, and split the other half in half. Continue the process until you can narrow the issue down to what's causing the problem. Very time consuming I know, and if the problem is caused by the interaction between several items you might not ever narrow it down. Good luck! Cheers and Regards

No one will help you as long as you shout and plead. Also more details are needed besides it's not working - What did you do, what errors did you get, so what else did you try? The more you try to help yourself and then provide details of what went wrong, the better and quicker we can help you. Cheers and Regards

Have you tried again without having any version of the XPtsp addon by dougiefresh, since he acknowledged that it seems to change the version of explorer so that it is identified as Vista? Cheers and Regards

Just an idea. Can you try changing the install order so that .NET is installed before the MCE/7MCE addons? I think this is possible by renaming, since the install order is generally done alphabetically. Also, just curious. What specifically are the MCE/7MCE addons that you are using? Ricktendo64's, or what? Cheers and Regards Edit: Removed previous edit.

Agreed. Cheers and Regards

Unfortunately, their answer to his question there, (yesterday), was "Hi, This forum is only for personal products ...", ie "Go Away". So I'm confused what you were trying to tell the OP. Unless it was to say that if he has a valid, licensed version of the product, that he would be eligible for free support? Any other suggestions? Cheers and Regards Edit: You might find some ideas to try in this thread - 111891-how-can-i-make-avira-antivir-silent-install-what-is-switch/

Don't want to steal Mim0's thunder at all, or Geej's either since he was the one to call attention to this problem and offer the first published solution! After all - I would think Mim0 would welcome your experience and assistance in this matter. But I'm curious. Why were you using your batch file? Did you also discover this same problem? Why use this on ini, sif, and inf files? Do you use this on ALL such files in your SOURCESS? Does it fix a problem, speed up processing later, just make things neater? Do you still use it? Cheers and Regards

The porn industry has always been on the cutting edge of the delivery mechanisms they've used and pushed for standard adoptions for VHS, DVD, etc. That doesn't make those mediums evil. Don't blame the tool. In a way, the fact that warez makers use some of the tools provided here spreads their use and pushes us to improve them even more. I VERY much hate to admit it, but it's like the gun control argument - guns don't kill people, people kill people. Cheers and Regards

Well, tommyp's opinion is to keep this as an external command. So between Geej and Mim0, can we get this finalized, spiffed up, and made as easy to use as possible such as a single exe or cmd file, so we can at least get this "officially" sanctioned and maybe listed under "User Contributions"? Maybe then after enough people learn about it and use it tommyp might change his mind. And who knows, we haven't heard fdv's opinion yet. Cheers and Regards

Sometimes having extra stuff can confuse things during install so that things don't get installed correctly, Other times extra stuff can cause something to be installed that then replaces something else. Anyway, when there is a problem, it's always best to go back to a known working state then add things back in slowly till you find out what's screwing things up. Cheers and Regards

Just curious, will the file-checker correctly recognize the files for either option, and not give an "unknown file" error? Just as I assume HFSLIP will process either option correctly. Cheers and Regards Never mind - I just check your list and it very plainly states what happens for the 2 options. Thanks, Mim0. Cheers

Sp0iLedBrAt: Cheers and Regards

Go here, and read for about a page. It involves a bug with the install of IE8 that MS has known about. The version of shdocvw.dll is not correctly installed, which causes problems - "When Organize Favorites is selected from the Menu Bar (Favorites > Organize Favorites) in any explorer window (except IE), I just get a blank window. This does not happen when IE8 is installed manually using the installer after XP is installed." In addition to Mim0's suggested fix, you'll also find an alternate fix by tommyp. You'll also notice that Mim0 suggests using a particular version of KB978207. Cheers and Regards

tommyp and/or fdv: In case you haven't had a chance to check out Geej's thread, Defraging sysoc.inf in your SOURCESS, there might be something there worth including in the next test release of HFSLIP, or not ... You guys are definitely the experts, but we'd appreciate your thoughts when you get a chance. Cheers and Regards

No comments by fdv or tommyp? Cheers and Regards