sleepnmojo

Make sure the computername is not sh33p. If it is, then your adding him to the Administrators account command should fail.

I only nit-pick about cmd files because I find the parser inconsistent in so many cases. Of course most of this will change in longhorn, if they give us the new shell they have been talking about. I would join you in that corner, but the chairs are over here

It would have to be in your path somewhere. I generally throw it in system32.

it does not seem to work...what does the %~d0 stand for? i use a DVD rom..so how to configure the variable to match my own CDROM? It has to run in a cmd file and on the CD/DVD. I put this command in my runonceex.cmd file, which i call with command lines. You can put it in another cmd file if you wish, but it has to be on the cd. %~d0 is a variable. It says give me the drive of the first arguement, which is the script.

I should at least be able to make a copy. If I have bought the song, then I should be able to get another copy of it. Let's say my original cd got scratched. It is in an unusable state, and I have no way of getting the music, unless I buy another cd.Technically, we do not "own" the music, we own the media it is printed on. We are licenced the music. No comment If the issue was piracy, I would say the government has a role to play. The issue, at least with the RIAA, is that it is copyright infringement. Two seperate things. That is why all the cases for the RIAA have been in civil courts, not criminal. Look at the music first. I'd have to say I haven't seen much decent music coming out in the past couple of years. Also you have price, people are finding that online music stores are sometimes cheaper, and more convienent. Top that off, if there was a boycott going on, then no one would know, because the blame is placed on P2P. Depends on what I am in it for. If it were me, then I would be doing it because I love my music. I would rather share my music, than make money. I know that if people like my music, then they would support me, by buying an album. Music is meant to be free, otherwise we wouldn't have ears and a mouth.

on mine, it is under support\tools\support.cab look for setx.exe

I was actually referring to your \"\" at the end, but since you wanted to teach me something, I'll correct you. If D:\EFG\ didn't exist, your command wouldn't work. You would need to use XCOPY. Copy gives an error saying it can't copy the file, thus you would have to make one. XCOPY doesn't have that limitation.

I use the following two lines in my runonceex.cmd file. They are two variables I find useful. SETX CDROM %~d0 -m SETX DEFAULTUSERPROFILE "%USERPROFILE%" -m You can get setx off the xp cd, in the support folder. The CDROM one is only useful if you plan on using the xp cd for installations. Otherwise, using the if cdrom, blah blah works.

close, you have an extra \ at the end there

Good find

If you don't mind a command prompt, use set SET /P MOO="what is the name You want to use?" Then you can run useraccounts.cmd. It would have to be in the same session. I would add that line to the beginning of the cmd file, and just call that. I would drop the autologon.reg, and use the REG command. It will allow you to put in the variable.

think he wants it the other way zippy. Check on the xp cd, under support/tools/support.cab file for setx 2) Registry Mode: setx variable -k hive\key\...\value Optional Switches: -m Set value in the Machine environment. Default is User.

Try adding. REG ADD %KEY% /V FLAGS /D 0x00000030 /f

Did you burn the cd, or is it on an iso. I've gotten these on burned cdrws. I guess part of it went bad. Try it on a cdr, and burn at a slower speed.

If you have a program with the codecs builtin, then I don't see why you couldn't. If it will need a codec, such as ogg, I don't see someone being able to play the file at the detached program stage. A wave file should play, but then you would be limited on quality. If you aren't sure what you can do, try the shift-f10 trick to see what you have around the detached program stage.

use search, I believed this was covered in another thread. I think the way he got around this, was playing the file in his prepare.cmd file.

There are also a couple more that you won't see there. type set /? at the bottom of all that info are a couple more.

nice catch, must have been a brain fart on my end.

It should work. Maybe the 7z archive is messing it up. I made an NSIS installer for mozilla. You could do the same, and make a shortcut with the variables.

A useful tool i have found on this board is "netuser" (no space). It allows you to change usernames, and set the must change password.

I'm not sure if this makes a difference, but your autologon in your winnt.sif may conflict with the one in your useraccounts.cmd. Either remove the one in your winnt.sif, or call useraccounts.cmd in your start.cmd. Also in your cmdlines.txt, try surrounding the commands in quotes. See if that works. As for the missing files, are you burning the cd, or using an iso? I've had problems with cdrws doing this, but not the iso. For the profiles directory, try using the default, or at least moving it to C: (since you don't have a d) to see if it copies the $doc folder over properly.

If you are making one for the first time, I recommend you use the SetupMgr.exe in the deploy.cab file on your xp cd. Then go through them and add to it. The deploy.chm file will have all the options for you, if you want to add something later.

have you checked the unattended site? Most of your questions will be answered there.

boot from the cd, and go to your recovery console. If it is the boot.ini, you can make one. Type Help for the list of commands.