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The target should be between double quotes. Replace your code with the following. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] "LClock"="%ProgramFiles%\LClock\LClock.exe"

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The most essential software which I have such as operating system, office software and anti-virus are properly licensed through my work. For the rest I use freeware where possible. If paid software does the job better, chance is big that I'll download an illegal copy of it. I produce my own music and a lot of the software which I use costs a fortune, which I simply can't afford. I used to be active in the warez scene ages ago, but now I'm on the other side, only downloading.

I started with some Basic and Assembly ages ago, writing my own slot machine. Once we had a 286, I wrote hundreds of Batch-files. Ah, the memories! From there on I learned some Perl and Visual Basic. Around the same time I learned HTML, CSS, JavaScript, VBScript and later ASP. And of all this, I believe that I use my Batch and HTML knowledge most

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I've been using Diskeeper for a few years now, but recently switched to JkDefrag. The price which you pay for Diskeeper is quite high. Yes, it offers more functionality and has a nicer UI than JkDefrag, but the last one is freeware, fast and does the job perfectly. Also, the screensaver function is quite handy. Besides JkDefrag, I still have Contig in my system32-folder too.

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I didn't need it and by heart I even believe that I couldn't use it because it didn't recognise my Office 2003 version, which is a corporate release Professional Edition.

If you make an image of a computer, you can't always restore it to a different computer due to it having different hardware. The advantage of an unattended installation is that it isn't simply an image which you restore, you really do a full setup, which means that it will work on all systems basically. As for configuring, both can be configured the same really. Restoring an image is faster, so if it's only for one machine, just make an image. For me, I prefer to have an unattended installation which works on basically all machines and besides that, it's also a bit of a sport to create an unattended installation disc which contains everything you want

This other installation CD is probably a different version of Windows XP and with version I mean that you have a Retail serial and this is perhaps a Volume License disc or perhaps an OEM. But it could even really be a different version of the OS itself, so you might have a Home serial and the disc is Professional. I don't know how these things work as I always use corporate editions which work with a Volume License Key. My Gold key works on my SP1 disc and also on my SP2 disc, so I wouldn't know why it wouldn't be the same for you, unless Microsoft blocked your serial in SP2, which would mean that you need to contact Microsoft and ask for a replacement. Hope this helped a bit anyway.

Same problem here. RunOnceEx.cmd doesn't start. Problem is that I don't quite understand how you solved it, as I have both patches in my HF folder this whole time already and still RunOnceEx is broken ;( Help! /Edit Might have the fix; added REG ADD %KEY% /v Flags /t REG_DWORD /d 128 /f to my RunOnceEx.cmd. Will test it this weekend...

At the top of this screen click on "Unattended Guide".

Regshot monitors your Registry. When you make a snapshot of your Registry, change your visual style, et cetera and then make another snapshot, you will see which entries in your Registry are changed. Regshot is freeware. Download it and you'll have your answer in less than a minute.

Use Regshot, make a snapshot, configure Windows, make another snapshot and compare the two.

... so did you create a MST-file? It looks now like you simply copied the sentence quoted above, but you didn't seem to have made a transform file to use with the installation; you're calling on a transform file now then which does not exist Let me know if you made a transform file.

Outlook Express can be deselected from being installed. For an unattended installation, add a section called [Components] to your WINNT.SIF file and put the proper name there for Outlook Express followed by = Off. Look through the web site, there is a full Components list there which you can use to find the proper name for Outlook Express. As for MSN Messenger, which is now Windows Live Messenger, this is an additional install, so simply don't install it.

I've made a fully functional, unattended Windows XP installation. When the part of the installation starts where you get to see a kind of GUI, where the installation states how many minutes are still remaining, I get a install windows asking me to click "Next" to install. The "GUI", as I don't know how to call this properly, starts after the text based portion of the setup, after all the files are copied. First I get to see the DriverPacks.net files being unpacked, then the normal "GUI" install screen kicks in as it should. But with about 40 minutes on the clock still, I get this strange install screen which I didn't see before integrating DriverPacks.net, asking me to click "Next". I hope I've explained my problem a bit clear The question is, why does this install screen pop up since I've integrated DriverPacks.net and more important, how can I get rid of it again, because I want to keep my installation fully unattended as it was before the integration. Help!

Possible, but it will give you a lot of work to figure all the traffic out. You could start by proper filtering, then perhaps exporting the whole dump and do a search on that. But like I wrote, it will give you a lot of work, even if you would only do this occasionally. Stripping down your whole dump could be best done using some sort of script, but writing a proper script will also take plenty of time. Anyway, best would be still to put a proxy in between for instance.

I can't see the screenshot. Perhaps you can upload the screenshot to another server or type it out in full.

You can run the MSI-file with the /? switch to see all supported parameters. For parameters not listed, search the documentation of the supplier of the MSI-file. I'm unaware of an application which easily scans for all allowed parameters for a specific MSI-file. You could use Orca to read through the contents of the MSI-file, but it's not always very clear. Documentation is always best.

Doing this by heart. For numbers 3 and 4 download Regshot and make a snapshot. Make the changes and make another snapshot. Compare the two and voila. For number 6, download ToggleQL and pass 1 as a parameter. For number 7, see number 3 and 4. Number 8 can be found in HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services. Look for the right entry and change the Start dword value to 4 to disable a service. For number 10 search through the Registry for MaxConnectionsPerServer and MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server and change their dword values to 40. For most of the other numbers, see numbers 3 and 4. Remember, Google is your friend.

... which works the same way Follow the steps as I wrote them above, but instead of "Adobe Reader" read "Adobe Acrobat".

You can remove the link through the "Taskbar and Start Menu Properties", as you probably know. The easiest way to integrate this into your installation process is to leave the link where it is, run Regshot 1.8.1 (freeware, Google for it) and make a first snapshot. Remove the link through the "Taskbar and Start Menu Properties" and create a second snapshot. Compare the snapshots and you will see which registry key is responsible for displaying the link at the top of the left column of the Start Menu. Export this key from your registry and have the REG-file imported again during the installation via your SVCPACK-file.

Didn't read through this whole thread due to lack of time, but here is how I did it only last week: - Download the Adobe Reader 8.1 EXE-file from the Adobe web site - Download the Adobe Customization Wizard 8 from the same web site - Extract the Adobe Reader 8.1 EXE-file using Universal Extractor 1.5 - Use the Adobe Customization Wizard 8 to create an MST-file for the Adobe Reader 8.1 MSI-file which you extracted - Create a self-extracting file of the installation files using 7-Zip which executes the command: AcroRead.msi TRANSFORMS=AcroRead.mst /quiet /norestart - Include this self-extracting file in your SVCPACK.INI file, or place it in your SVCPACK folder if you're using HFSLIP.

You could use QCHAIN, which you can download from the Microsoft web site, to install all updates at once. If you want to just click one file and then have all updates install automatically, you'll need to do some batch scripting in combination with QCHAIN.