sleepnmojo

true it does add a lot of stuff, but you can remove the network adapters, and disable the services. When it takes VPC 30 mins to show display properties (happened at a demo for .NET I went to) thats when you have to draw the line.

Open up a command window, and type them out. Check to see if the program installed. If you are afraid to try that, us VMware, or VPC. Install on one of those. To see if your runonceex.reg file runs properly too, I just run it on my machine. Check the registry, and delete it if everything looks good.

I just got a my copy of VPC a couple days ago. I've been using VMware for a while. I can say that VPC runs fast in the bios, and of dos, but running windows is definately a lot slower. When it comes to windows, I recommend VMware all the way. I still have yet to check linux on VPC, so I can't comment on that. VPC does have some features I like, that aren't in VMware, but I will keep testing VPC some more, to see if I would switch permantly, but as of now, I won't.

http://unattended.msfn.org/xp/officexp_advanced.htm

What did you use to compress the files? Also, if you open the zip files on another computer, do they open correctly, or is it a bad zip?

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You can't do this as a logged in user. If you are logged in, when you log out, it will overwrite it with the current values. This should be done in cmdlines.txt, or if you don't want to worry about a clean install, then load the hive, and do it that way.

Sometimes this gets tricky. If you only have one user, when logging out, it logs you back in. If you do windows key+L then try the three finger salute twice, it doesn't work (bug?). The only way I can do this is log into a second user, then log off, then do the three finger salute twice. That only happens with the welcome screen, if you have it use the ole 2000 login, then you shouldn't have a problem.

subst w: /d Don't worry, it is just an alias.

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turn echo on, and post what it says. You may not have REG, which would stop the cmd from adding to the registry.

The SP1 cds have a DOTNETFX folder on them. When you click on the option from autorun, it would install from that folder. A slip stream won't add this folder, you would have to do it manually.

if you want realtime chat, you would need a language like java, or .NET. If you want something like this forum, you should look at PHP, Perl, CGI, etc. As for just HTML, that wouldn't work.

A pro or con for cmdlines is that it goes to the default account. A con for the runonce technique is that it installs under the logged on user. For me this is administrator. So I have to move shortcuts, and modify the ACL so it works for everyone on some programs.

yes

It would be fine to include that if he actually used the cdrom variable, which he doesn't. This is the advice I would follow. Does anything happen to run also. If not, check your cmdlines.txt to see if it has the runonce cmd file in there.

Add an AutoLogonCount=1 to the GuiUnattended section for the Administrator, otherwise what big_gie said should work.

I copied what you had, and it works on my machine. Try turning on echo, to make sure the commands are working properly. The only other think I can think of is that you have XP home, and that might not work.

DetachedProgram=CMD.EXE Arguments="/Q /C START /MIN %SYSTEMDRIVE%\MOO.CMD"

Only time I have seen this error, is when username == computername. See if that is the case.

I'm sure you can, but I don't know if there would be problems. You would hex edit the boot image, and look for the i386 and change it to something else. should be 4 letters.

Not to clear which command isn't running, but I will try to answer the both I see. what is happening is it runs 1, then 10, then 11, then 2, .... You could add a 0 in front of the single digits, or you could make you taskkill command a lil smaller. taskkill /f /im cfgwiz.exe /im ccApp.exe /im ...... If the runonceex.cmd is not adding any registry entries, then post the rest of the file. What you have posted looks fine, but if you put quotes in the key value, then I can see why this would cause a problem, ie set key="HKLM\......"

Where does it extract the files? Not sure it runs the installer, but I would assume you would extract it to a directory, which would be strPath. Since I don't see where that is declared, I would assume something like c:\install. Check your not extracting to c:\install\office2003\, because then your setup wouldn't work. If it isn't working, then it would skip that command, and go on to the next one, which is why cleanup is going.

Faster way is look for a DOTNETFX folder on the root of the cd. If it is normal XP, then it should not be there. SP1 contains this.

If you are just doing the JRE, then you don't really need to have the sdk installer. This should save a couple megs. Following maxXPsoft post, you should have a silent install command.