sleepnmojo

Yes, I know why the problem occurs. It occurs when the directory is already in the Documents and settings folder. This can happen if your Doc & settings folder is on a different drive, which won't get erased in a format for a clean install. So yes, I do know what I am talking about. I have proven your method not to work, as well as others on this board. Do a search, or read back from before you came, and you will see. This is why I go with my archives.

There may be valid reason to change a retail to a VLK. I know I needed to after I lost my VLK disk. Considering you have both keys still, Why that site lists the other values, I don't know, but they are wrong. You can do a search on this, and more sites follow what I am saying. Just because you change that value though, doesn't make it VLK. There are other files you will need that make it VLK. That I won't go into.

Or you could load the registry hive from a different user, and import the keys.

My information is correct, and is the reason why I use the archives. Your method works fine, except it will put it in the Hunter directory, but when the os is looking for a file, it will be looking in the Hunter.CustomPC directory. Same with All Users, and Default User. My method works, yours doesn't, so get your facts straight.

This is the one I use, it does both inf and reg files, and recurses down the directory. I have the same install.cmd in each directory. I could probably make it better, but it does the trick. @ECHO OFF CMDOW @ /HID TITLE Installing Reg Tweaks SETLOCAL & PUSHD %~dp0 FOR /D %%d IN (*) DO CMD.EXE /C %%d\install.cmd FOR %%I IN (*.REG) DO REGEDIT /s "%%I" FOR %%I IN (*.INF) DO RUNDLL32.EXE setupapi,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 128 %%~fnxI POPD & ENDLOCAL GOTO :EOF

This wouldn't solve his problem. It would still exist if he had the All Users folder or Default User profile. It would append Machine name to the end. The only way I have found around this is, create an archive, and extract it. Somebody wrote a batch file to automate all this. You have to do a search, but I believe it worked.

Got this one off the frontpage. Hadn't seen it posted. KB884020

Well I'm glad to see you aren't using variables Jito463 . I pretty much do the same thing. I compress the contents of each of the folders, and expand them using the provided variables, or ones I make.

Yeah it should work. When used in conjunction with ftype, this can be a pretty powerful tool. Look at ftype /? and assoc /? to get a better idea of the two. However it does have its limitations, such as you can't specify icons, which you'll have to go into the registry. I started off with the ftype/assoc way, but ultimately went down the registry path. As for your REM question, REM is a comment. Do a REM /? for more information.

Try importing this reg file Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}] @="Recycle Bin" "InfoTip"=hex(2):40,00,25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,\ 6f,00,74,00,25,00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,\ 00,53,00,48,00,45,00,4c,00,4c,00,33,00,32,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,2c,00,\ 2d,00,32,00,32,00,39,00,31,00,35,00,00,00 "SortOrderIndex"=dword:00000060 "IntroText"=hex(2):40,00,25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,\ 6f,00,74,00,25,00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,\ 00,53,00,48,00,45,00,4c,00,4c,00,33,00,32,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,2c,00,\ 2d,00,33,00,31,00,37,00,34,00,38,00,00,00 "LocalizedString"=hex(2):40,00,25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,\ 6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,\ 00,5c,00,53,00,48,00,45,00,4c,00,4c,00,33,00,32,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,\ 2c,00,2d,00,38,00,39,00,36,00,34,00,00,00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\DefaultIcon] @=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\ 00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,73,00,68,00,\ 65,00,6c,00,6c,00,33,00,32,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,2c,00,33,00,31,00,00,\ 00 "Empty"=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,\ 00,25,00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,73,00,\ 68,00,65,00,6c,00,6c,00,33,00,32,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,2c,00,33,00,31,\ 00,00,00 "Full"=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,\ 00,25,00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,73,00,\ 68,00,65,00,6c,00,6c,00,33,00,32,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,2c,00,33,00,32,\ 00,00,00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\InProcServer32] @="shell32.dll" "ThreadingModel"="Apartment" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\shellex] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\ShellFolder] "Attributes"=hex:50,01,00,20 "CallForAttributes"=dword:00000000 This is based off my computer, which allows renaming of the recycle bin. If you don't want that option, I can fix it.

If you aren't using the tool, you can do it this way. Under [Options] SourceFiles=SourceFiles Then this is where you add directories. ;directories here [SourceFiles] SourceFiles0=D:\tmp SourceFiles1=D:\tmp2 SourceFiles2=C:\winnt\system32 ;files in the directories here, make sure none are duplicates ;ie, no picture.jpg in SourceFiles0, and another in SourceFiles1 [SourceFiles0] porno.mpg= porno2.mpg= [SourceFiles1] picture.jpg= picture2.jpg= [SourceFiles2] uxtheme.dll=

It does. You will probably want to repack the dotnetfx.exe file so it is "more" silent. Do a search on the forums about how to do this. If you aren't integrating the SP1 of the framework, then look up greenmachine's iexpress tutorial.

You need to have it wait for runonceex to finish before adding the next group of keys. easiest way, add a start /wait start /wait rundll32.exe iernonce.dll,RunOnceExProcess

The variables exist as soon as you log in. The following should work REG ADD %KEY%\000 /V 2 /D "cmd.exe /c %%Install%%\app.exe" /f This wouldn't however REG ADD %KEY%\000 /V 2 /D "%%Install%%\app.exe" /f This is because cmd.exe will interpret the variable, while runonceex won't. Note: I didn't test the cmd.exe way, but it should work in theory.

I would expect that from the CEO of Microsoft

try to run it again with the /saveinf=C:\moo.inf switch. I can only assume you have a bad inf that you tried to make yourself, this should fix it.

From the welcome screen if you hit ctrl-alt-del two times, it should go to classic login screen. Type Administrator for user, and its password, if any

Saw this on bink, pretty funny stuff. http://www.energyradio.fm/content/ballmer.asx

My guess is either you don't have makecab and modifype in your path, or something goes wrong in them. You can modify makecab.cmd and take out the del statement, and add a pause at the end to see whats happening. @jdoe - you might want to do a errorlevel check before going on to the next step. modifype -> makecab -> del

Not sure if this affects it, but maybe you need to set the Dir= line to something.

Are you able to log in under one account but not another? If you are able to get to an admin account, I would copy the Default User's NTUSER.DAT file over top of the affected user. She will lose her registry keys, but not her files. If that doesn't work, try deleting the profile, and have her log in. The problem should be gone.

The search button would have probably revealed this thread http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=24857&hl=adobe which would have your answer.

Nice batches. You might want to not have it prompt the user for the modifype. Could just have it check for certain files, since not all are executable. Plus the programs need to be in the path, which not everyone knows how to do. Something I did learn which I didn't know before is how you use modifype. I could never get it to work with the full path. Never tried making it short like you did. I always just did a pushd, then popd back. Still can't get the > NUL to work on it though. One more thing shouldn't IF %FSIZE%==0 GOTO ENDbe IF %FSIZE% EQU 0 GOTO END

Is there an error message? Most likely she didn't run the activation software. Which would cause this.

You need to remember that he might not be installing this on XP, it could be 2000 or lower. Just food for thought. If it is not XP SP2, then I would look for the directx removal tools posted on the web. Try google. Then install it.