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Ya the registry setting to turn on and off the proxy is easy. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings] "ProxyEnable"=dword:00000000 Save the above as ProxyOff.reg Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings] "ProxyEnable"=dword:00000001 Save the above as ProxyOn.reg Simple. You have to make sure IE isn't running when you load these files. Otherwize they work on the fly.

Well, if your user accounts are on a domain you can use Group Policies to do this. If these are local accounts you may have a tougher time. What I do in cases like this is: 1. Create a new user account called "template" with admin rights. 2. Logon as that user. 3. Run RegShot and take a initial snapshot of the registry. 4. Run gpedit.msc and set the user group policies as I want. 5. Close gpedit.msc 6. Take a final regshot and do a compare. 7. Using regedit, investigate the change changed registry keys and save them to reg files. 8. Edit the crap out of the reg files so they only have the changes I need. Now you have a registry file that will load the policies you want. You just need to apply it to the default user profile. The best way to do this is during the cmdlines.txt portion of windows setup.

Nope, you need to start over. But rest assured, you're not alone. many of us have done this same thing.

Or make it really simple and configure options/programs in the client to run a command. bet you didn't check it did you

What you need is a utility that you can call from the batch file that can tell if your remote or not and pass a errorlevel. Like a hypothetical program called chkrmt.exe - i.e: echo ... welcome to my PC echo ... determining status chkrmt.exe if errorlevel=1 goto REMOTE echo ... welcome local user <bunch of stuff here> goto :EOF :REMOTE echo ... wecome remote user <bunch of stuff here> goto :EOF

Keep in mind one thing when using this technique: The cmd file will run under the users context. If the user does not have admin rights don't try and do something like install drivers, it will fail.

Not to belittle your work bobby100 but give us a break. I know I'm not the only one to scratch my head and say, "WTF is "The GUI""?! So throw us a bone or something - tell us what your program does, it took me literally 5 minutes (I'll never get back, mind you) to figure out it's a front-end for a ISO image creator. Maybe a front-end for cdimage.exe? I'm still not really sure.

There's a screensaver you can setup that logs off the current user instead of being a screensaver. I think it's called logoff.scr That would be perfect for you. Just setup a group policy (gpedit.msc) that forces the use of this screensaver and BAM - when the screensaver activates - the user is logged off.

Forget using runonce. Runonce is a machine setting (HKLM) - not a user setting. If there was a user level (HKCU) runonce registry location you could just load up a registry file during the cmdlines.txt phase of setup. Just create a CMD script (batch file) to do all the things you want. At the very end of the batch file have it delete itsself (this is easy to do, and supprisingly - it works). Then, simply place this cmd file in the default user startup (%ALLUSERPROFILE%\..\Default User\Start Menu\Programs\Startup). When new users logon for the first time they will get a copy of the batch file from the Default User profile. The batch file will run - and delete itsself - never to be seen by that user again. The same will happen for any new account logons to that PC. Just what you wanted. And besides - batch files are a hell of alot easier than runonce entries

Nero PhotoShow Express I figured out the correct link for Nero PhotoShow Express 1.0.0.62 in case you guys were having problems downloading it like I was: ftp://ftp3.us.nero.com/nero_photoshow_express_setup_full.exe

Yup - Nero 6.6.0.1 is out. and it comes in 6 Pieces! Arrrgh. It looks like Piece #6 [PhotoShow Express 1.0.0.62] is a bad download. Anyone able to get this file? Also I noticed that in 6.6.0.0 I got before from MSFN the Nero MediaPlayer wouldn't take my key - it should have. Anyone else have that problem with the Nero Mediaplayer? Is their any chance we'll be able to get a single installer for all the programs?

Yes RyanVM - I really like the way you handle your repackaging of applications. Great job. I'd like to be able to duplicate these myself sometime. I have a couple questions: Could you direct me to some information on using 7-Zip to SFX. For example - how do you tell it the executable and paramaters to run? How do you find all these cool parameters to pass to MSI files... For example, the MOZILLA=1 in the JRE package you just did. Here's my goal: I'd have manually install those **** VMWare Tools on my virtual test builds. But I need to custom install it everytime because I have to disable the "Shared Folders" (it interferes with my NFS Client). I'd love to be able to silently install VMWare Tools without the "Shared Folders" feature from a re-packaged SFX. If you were me, and be glad you arn't , where would you start?

Regardless of the legal issues, there's the internal issues - I would fire your a** in a second for allowing this to happen! Secondly, you should always - always encrypt your VLP CDKey on ANY CDROMS you create. I guard my company's VLP CDKey closer than my ATM PIN number. The last thing I want to happen is my traceable VLP CDKey end up in some astalavista search crack engine.

OK, I can't stand it. Like some kind of masochist I couldn't help but to read this whole thread. That's 8 minutes of my life I'll never get back. You guys are being way too nice to this clown. He doesn't have a clue, he's writes and has the ideas of an 11 year old. He has no clue about the real world and thinks that customizing XP makes it a whole new OS. Please don't encourage him. Who in their right-mind would want to "beta-test" the obovious illeagle crap he's about to put out. English may not be his primary language and you always need to make allowances for that, especially on these forums. But in his case his idiocy passes all language barriers. (my first flame)

evilvoice Tweaker is right, that's how you turn on the status bar in XP[sP2]. It works. If XP see's the "StatusBarOther"=1 then it turns on the statusbar. Your way probably works too. Keep this in mind with working with the esoteric parts of MS products - there's often numerious ways to do the same thing.

IMHO, your idea is bassackwards. The Zip and Cab file support offered by Windows XP is a horrible peice of bloat. Everytime you open a directory containing zip or cab files Windows processes them even if you have no intention of opening them. It's another stupid idea implemented by MS Marketing people. If you really want to streamline your system disable Windows support for Zip and Cab files: regsvr32 /s /u %windir%\system32\zipfldr.dll regsvr32 /s /u %windir%\system32\cabview.dll Then install WinZip or WinRar or PowerArchiver or 7Zip. Trust me, you'll notice the improvement in speed.

Awww man, Thanks prathapml! There gos my project to re-skin notepad.

I thought I'd let you folks know about an awesome little freeware PDF creator program I found. It's an opensource program called PrimoPDF you can download it here. (I aplolgize if it's already been discussed here, I didn't check) It works just like Acrobat Distiller, in that it creates a printer on your system. Then all you have to do is print from Word, Excel, IE, whatever to that printer and it will create a PDF file for you. After extensive testing I found it to work very well. Best of all it can be used without fear in a corporate environment. Very nice. This little program will save my company tons of money liscensing the Adobe Acrobat program (around $300). It doesn't do everything Acrobat does - it just creates simple PDF files, it doesn't edit them. If anyone know of a freeware (corporate useable) direct PDF editor please let me know. Also, it doesn't create hyperlinks in the PDF files it creates, which is no big deal for me. PrimoPDF uses the old InstallShield program for installation, so to install it you will have to create a setup.iss file. I've included my setup.iss file at the end of this post. Just cut and paste it onto notepad and save it as setup.iss in the same directory as the setup program. The command for a silent install is: PrimoSetup.exe -s /f1".\setup.iss" /f2"c:\primopdf.log" Note: there is no space character immediately after /f1 and /f2 Now there is another issue with the program. It creates temp files in its installation directory. This works fine for users with admin rights, but it errors if someone without admin rights tries to use it. To fix this I use SetAcl.exe to open the rights for the PrimoPDF installation directory. The command is: setacl.exe" -on "C:\Program Files\ActivePDF\PrimoPDF" -ot file -actn ace -ace "n:S-1-1-0;p:full;s:y;i:so,sc;m:grant;w:dacl" The above command is all one line. It opens up the rights to the PrimoPDF directory so "Everybody" has full control. Now PrimoPDF won't error when a non-administrative user tries to run it. You can find a shockwave tutorial on how to use PrimoPDF here. You can access the PrimoPDF support forums here. Give it a try. The price is right SETUP.ISS [InstallShield Silent] Version=v7.00 File=Response File [File Transfer] OverwrittenReadOnly=NoToAll [{0100A64F-7650-4580-9717-12F26CFF23CB}-DlgOrder] Dlg0={0100A64F-7650-4580-9717-12F26CFF23CB}-SdWelcome-0 Count=5 Dlg1={0100A64F-7650-4580-9717-12F26CFF23CB}-SdLicense2-0 Dlg2={0100A64F-7650-4580-9717-12F26CFF23CB}-SdRegisterUser-0 Dlg3={0100A64F-7650-4580-9717-12F26CFF23CB}-SdStartCopy2-0 Dlg4={0100A64F-7650-4580-9717-12F26CFF23CB}-SdFinish-0 [{0100A64F-7650-4580-9717-12F26CFF23CB}-SdWelcome-0] Result=1 [{0100A64F-7650-4580-9717-12F26CFF23CB}-SdLicense2-0] Result=1 [{0100A64F-7650-4580-9717-12F26CFF23CB}-SdRegisterUser-0] szName=CAX Services szCompany=Xerox Corporation Result=1 [{0100A64F-7650-4580-9717-12F26CFF23CB}-SdStartCopy2-0] Result=1 [Application] Name=PrimoPDF Version=1.00.0000 Company=ActivePDF Lang=0009 [{0100A64F-7650-4580-9717-12F26CFF23CB}-SdFinish-0] Result=1 bOpt1=0 bOpt2=0 [{53257D98-0CCA-4BB0-94E7-2508B98A9614}-DlgOrder] Count=0

LOL - I got it. I edited my post too

Intertesting

NO IT DOESN'T! %USERPROFILE% = the location of the currently logged in users profile. I.e. C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator or C:\WINNT\Profiles\joe. The only time that %USERPROFILE% points to the Default User profile is during setup (cmdlines.txt) or before anyone has logged in. If you're writing a script and need a variable to point to the Default User profile - you have to make it yourself like this: SET DEFAULTUSERPROFILE=%USERPROFILE%\..\Default User

No no no... He's talking about Wired Equivalent Protocol (WEP) in his 802.11x wireless network. MushuWeb, WEP is handled differently on different wireless cards - every manufacturer has a different way of implementing WEP. There is a "Microsoft Standard" way to implement WEP - but not all manufacturers implement it. You'll just have to compare some registry snapshots and figure out where it's putting the value. Nasty work. Good luck.

What's the $s1$ directory off of the $oem$ directory for? I never heard of that.

Ummm... COPY AAA C:\programs\AAA You should have figured this out on your own. Perhaps I'm missing something here.

Testify! Me too, and all other Systems Administrators I know remove this crap. It's the first to go. It's entirely un-needed on any modern network that uses switches. And they install it by default... amazing.