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I believe their is a utility called NETDOM in the Resource Kit that can do this from the command line.

Wow, that's a tough one. While I don't have experience with this, you did say that typing the command directly in a command prompt window works? Maybe you could try calling cme.exe with the paramaters you need, i.e.: start "Adding Mamá to Power Users" /wait net.exe localgroup "Power Users" Mamá /add /just a thought

(let me rephrase the question for Vietfobster) Anyone know of a registry key or group policy that will disable NTFS compression?

The 1st set of quotes are expected to be a description. Use this: START "Office Setup" /WAIT "\\servername\smspkg\MICROS~1\Source\SETUPPRO.EXE" START "Citrix Install" /WAIT "\\servername\smspkg\CITRIX~1\WXP\setup.EXE"

Try flipping the CD over (shinny side down). Sometime you can still get Windows to install shinny side up, but it will install backwards.

Edit your winnt.sif [userData] Computername=* If the ComputerName entry is empty or missing, the end user must enter a computer name. If the value is *, Setup generates a random computer name based on the organization name specified. If computer_name is longer than 63 characters, the string truncates to 63 characters.

Hey Hey - I know.. I know.. Why don't we use Hard Disks instead of CDROM's! Or USB Keys, OMG what a great idea! USB Keys! And.. and.. we can put every Operating System known to man on ONE USB key. It could even have bluetooth so can autobuild our PDA's! Any guru's out there that can slipstream updated drivers into Windows CE? And we can put Sun Solaris on it and even OS10 so can build Macintoshishes. And we'll use a menu system! What a great idea a menu system! A front end menu system that comes up when you boot. And this front end menu system can stear you to the operating system you want to install. Just like a cars front end stears you down the road.

Have you tried integrating it into your source? That worked with the GDI detection tool for me, I didn't use a registry hack.

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Or you can just use the Microsoft Java Virtual Machine that older version of windows use. It's not supported anymore, but I find that it still works great for 99% of the sites out there. It's faster than Sun's version, and you control it via Internet Options/Advanced. See this for more info

You need a "Latest" area where we can quickly see what's new. Like THIS site (which I love).

Use registry monitor to find stuff like this. Set the filter for "SetValue" (without quotes) - make changes and apply and look at what was modified. Then use common sence to descern which key is the one your looking for. I just did this and found the following binary registry key changes when I toggle the "Hide underlined characters..." entry you were wondering about. Here is the registry key that will turn OFF the checkbox: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop] "UserPreferencesMask"=hex:be,3e,05,80

I've had a couple AIW Radeon 9000's. I also have a WinTV card by Hauppauge. The Hauppauge card gives a FAR better picture. Plus the Hauppauge card has the mpg de/encoder in hardware where the ATI card does most codec'ing in software.

IMHO the Hauppauge TV cards are the best. They're not the cheapest, or the most expensive. But they have outstanding support and are always on top of their drivers. For under $200 you can pick up the awesome WinTV-PVR-350.

you want IE-SPYAD

prathapml, You are planning on sharing the final product with us now arn't you? I spent a good year perfecting my old Win98 autobuild boot-cdrom. Sadly, I seldom use it anymore, but it's been used to make literally over 1000 installations (yes legal ones, well mostly). I'd be interested to see what you come up with.

prathapml, With what your doing you're not going to get Win98 to install seemlessly without rebooting. Not if you plan to repartition the install drive. Windows XP will repartition/format and continue with installation without rebooting. You will not get away with this in 98. If however you are in aleigance with the ancient dark DOS Gods and get this to work - I will be very impressed. Very impressed.

Oh I know what you need, I've been using it for years for the exact same purpose. The answer is gdisk.exe! This is a free version of gdisk put out by the people that made Ghost (before symantec bought them and screwed them up like they do everything else). Run it from a real DOS prompt (with /? for instructions). Example: Wipe out all data on the 1st hard disk: gdisk.exe 1 /mbr /wipe Create a 1GB partition and quick format it FAT16 gdisk 1 /cre /pri /for /-32 /v:DOS622 /q The nice thing is you can put both the above commands in the same batch file. With fdisk you had to repartition, reboot, and then format. It handles multipule drives and partitions, can set active partitions, does ntfs, does extended partitions -etc etc. Expect to loose all your data playing around with it though - oh and it works fin in VMware.

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Whoops, nevermind. Just had a look. The ADM files don't seem to deal with cookie management.

The IEAK can do this. Download the latest version and install it. Then do a search for the work "cookie" in the ADM files. ADM files are text files, when you find one with the word "cookie" in it - investigate it. Open it up in notepad and see what registry entries it references. You'll figure it out after poking around.

Ummm, you probably want to add that they need to install all critical updates from windowsupdate. That's kind of extremely important for a "clean" system.

Well dictionary.com defines a wen as: As for a Host for this wen, well I don't really know. You probably want a adolescent just comming into puberty. This is where I see most wen's being hosted.

AutoIt could do it. You'd have to write a script that launches on startup. Then waits 30 minutes, and closes the MSN window. Then loops and rechecks every so often. It wouldn't be hard to write. The problem is it would require admin rights to run properly. And it would show a tray icon next to the clock while it was running. It could easily be killed by user.

PM cant change boot (%SystemRoot%) drive letters. Even if they said they could I wouldn't trust it. There are too many binary registry keys and settings all over the place that are hard-coded. PM would never catch them all. if you tried it may seem to work off the bat, but I guarentee you'll run into problems in the long run. just rebuild it, it really is safer, and in the end it's easier.