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tjhart85 A+ job! Thanks

AntonP i use sleep.exe as a timer to give the sfx enough time to setup. Why? RunWait and WaitProcess are not working for sfx? ironside That seems to have fixed my problem. There was bug in program.

Only packages that support advertising (/j switch) can be installed that way. Office supports it. Most of other packages don't. Repackaging is not going to help you much. It's not that simple Better just install it normally.

ironside Try this version: http://www.freewebtown.com/kenedy/kTool/kTool-1.0c.zip

Launch file without /qb switch, see if it gives any error message.

AntonP why are they not automickly removed? I suggest you to try new beta version (link is in first post). It works without making temp file.

You can use AutoIt function "RegEnumKey" to retrieve key names and "RegWrite" to change DNS. netsh command may be able to do it too.

If I remember correctly setup uses folder where it resides as current directory. Try like this: Start /wait Office11\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb- Start /wait FRONTPAGE\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb-

Yes, this is the right place to change path to profile.

You need to use .bat file for that. Something like that: net localgroup administrators domain\username /add Of course computer already needs to be in domain when you launch it.

You can't. Windows setup can automatically create only one partition on 1st drive. If you need different partition configuration - you have to use other programs.

There is no error checking (currently). Error is "can't find file specified". See at which item it happened (kTool is still running, just move error message) and check if all commands for that item are correct.

& the specific size I want the drive to be No, it's the size by which EXISTING partition will be extended.

So, in fact, you are installing Windows from HDD? Is it really that much faster?

nARkwS What's the second phase of text-mode?

nARkwS Have you tried it on multiprocessor and older PC's? I thought things like BIOS type (APM,ACPI) and number of processors is detected in text-mode phase. And what about SATA/RAID drivers?

Astalavista These files are probably not that important at hardware detection phase. Best that can be done is examining .log files in Windows folder. Setuplog.log last lines should show where it stopped. Have you integrated any drivers or used nLite?

What's there to discuss - it requires experiment. I think that there will be no speed improvements. File copying (and extraction) is only 5-6 minutes long anyway. Even if you gain 20-30 seconds, it's just not worth it.

MHz Both commands are the same. "\..\" - moves one level up in folder structure.

There is no environment variable for default users profile. Add this line to your .bat file, then %DefaultUser% will point to "Default User" set DefaultUser = "%Allusersprofile%\..\Default User"

sleepnmojo All 400 megabytes? mirza Use GuiRunOnce for copying i386. Add commands that are described in topic you are reffering to (copy and reg file)

>>would all the selected drivers been compressed in a rar self extractive archive put on the CD ? Yes. And they will be automatically extracted in DetachedProgram >>All differents drivers in a single archive or if i select 5 different drivers, they would have each one an SFX archive ? One archive. >>The selected parameters would be added to the default WINNT.SIF in files\Windows2000 ? No. It's not using winnt.sif. It creates files wi001.sif, wi002.sif etc >>just small change to Windows 2000 WINNT.SIF : default TargetPath=\WINNT rather than WINDOWS I like "Windows" better But you can change it. This file contains default values for any answer file created.

When are sound card drivers initialized?

Replace WaitForReboot="No with WaitForReboot="No"

Try this http://www.freewebtown.com/kenedy/Misc/RESTART.exe Syntax: "restart.exe seconds" Example: "restart.exe 60" will restart computer after 60 seconds