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    How to disable format drive support?

    in Windows XP

    Posted

    Not sure of the answer to your format-disable question, but if the drive is a fixed drive / partition on your PC, you can remove the drive letter of the unmounted drive, using Computer Management -> Disk Management.

    Right-click on the unmounted drive, choose to change the drive letter, then click the 'Remove' button. This will stop it appearing in explorer or otherwise. If your encryption software supports mounting by device / partition instead of drive number (eg Truecrypt) this will work fine. You can always add the drive letter back again using the same option.

    From memory, it will work for removable drives also, though things may get funky if a different drive letter is assigned.

    I do this all the time for my Truecrypt partitions.

    I too would like to know how to disable format for individual drives ;)

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    [Question] My Dad Won't Leave His PC Alone

    in Windows XP

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    Since it is your dad's PC, he can do whatever he wants to it, including blocking you completely.

    I certainly know that if any of my kids tried to modify security settings on one of my PC's it would be the last time they ever used it (or their own for a while too ....)

    He may put them there to limit your access, so as to protect you - that is his perogative as a father, and shows a quite responsible attitude, imo.

    And i agree 100% with net_user too.

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    Question: Pay for AutoIt?

    in Application Installs

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    hmm nLite, Driver Packs, are a few big ones that ask for money...they are still here so I would say its safe to ask for money here.
    nLite, Driver packs, Ryan's packs etc, hell even the forums themselves - they all ask for donations.

    A donation implies an optional no-pressure gift.

    Maybe it's just me, but your topic title "Question: Pay for AutoIt?, Scripters for hire :)" does not imply an optional payment, but more a compulsory payment for services rendered.

    That is the way that most people will take your question, and (purely personally) while I will consider donating for work done by others that I find useful, I would not pay a compulsory fee for an autoit script unless it was personally written for me, to my specs, with the code becoming my property after payment - as I would do in a normal commercial situation (and I write code both for commercial and freeware markets, have for years).

    If you had just mentioned having a repositry of scripts with a donation button, you would probably have made more than you were expecting already, and this thread would be a lot shorter.

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    iTunes 5, Localized with no quicktime...

    in Application Installs

    Posted · Edited by seapagan

    yeah, i don't want to be pushy at all, seeing as seapagan has done so much great work already, but v6.0.3 wouldn't hurt :rolleyes:
    Been pretty busy with more important things, but I made a 6.0.3.5 installer today, and modified the silent install version so that it may fix the problem people were having (something that is actually badly designed in the official installer). I'll upload tomorrow after more testing.
    is there anyway to bypass having to accept the eula stuff for the first start up?
    I seem to remember people talking about copying the configuration files from an already installed version after installing the silent one, to keep all your settings and such, that may work. Not sure exactly which file it was since I'm not too fussed at pressing one button, but if you search the forums you will probably find what you are looking for.

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    iTunes 5, Localized with no quicktime...

    in Application Installs

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    Any luck thus far? Anything I can do to help you out?
    Sorry, I've not been following this thread for a bit, it expired in my tracking and I have not had time to browse the forums regularly.

    However - I have reinstalled 4 PC's over the past 2-3 weeks, all with this iTunes on it and have never had any of the problems mentioned. iTunes was at all times installed from RunOnceEx. I have instaled and uninstalled many programs on all these PC's with no sign of this error (Incidentally, I used to get the same error but looking for lclock installer, from the RVM integrator addon of the same name.....)

    I'm gonna be busy for a few days again, but I've not forgotten. I'm sure that this would be fixed by getting the silent installer to unpack (and not delete) the installer files into the directory that iTunes official package uses - you can use the features of WinRAR SFX or the Hacked 7z SFX for this. i'll have to redownload the iTunes installer to get this info, since I've deleted the original.

    Perhaps if people posted their configuration (ie which RyanVM pack and addons, nLite yes or no etc etc) was used to create your XP installation it may be easier to narrow down a problem area ......

    It's worth pointing out that the official itunes msi is pretty badly written in the first place, and this is just a hack of that installer.

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    Add IE7 Beta 2 to main site

    in Site & Forum Issues

    Posted

    Would not want to cross anyone of you.

    But IE betas are only for testers and not the Public. So maybe we should wait for the public beta release? :blushing:

    But exactly the same can be said for Vista(Longhorn), Live Messenger, Live mail etc - and we have forums or discussions for them?

    Many people here are in the betas, so yes, as long as there is no NDA then forums to discuss them are relevant.

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    Temporary MMC fix for normal install

    in XPize

    Posted · Edited by seapagan

    XPero sended this to me yesterday with the request to post it... so here it is a Temporary MMC fix for normal install.
    And it works perfectly. Tested by installing XPize on top of a Ryan 2.0.2a installation and applied the patch. This was the only outstanding item for my uA CD :thumbup (todays version anyway, *sigh*)

    Thanks XPero, Martin.

    Edit : Should have said - this was using the live-system patching, not the i386 so not tried it on that yet.

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    Silent installs for iTunes 6 and Firefox 1.5

    in Application Installs

    Posted

    Thanks for the response. I tried to read through your iTunes topic. Guess the information was is buried somewhere in the 20 pages of replies.

    Not to critisize, but I think something that would be really useful would be a section or set of stickies dedicated to the switches available for each application. Repackaged installers are great (and appreciated), but info on how to customize it for yourself in a dedicated area would be superb.

    Look at the stickies in this forum - lists silent switches for as many progs as we know ... this is not enough?

    Though, it's a bit more useful when the forum search is working :(

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    Silent installs for iTunes 6 and Firefox 1.5

    in Application Installs

    Posted

    Well, For iTunes it's pretty easy. Unpack the installer using winrar into its own directory. The command line you need is :

    iTunesSetup.exe /S /V"SILENT_INSTALL=1 INSTALL_DESKTOP_SHORTCUTS=0 ASSUME_QT_DEFAULTS=0 ASSUME_MEDIA_DEFAULTS=0 ALLUSERS=1"

    You can change ALLUSERS to 0 if you only want to install for current user, and ASSUME_MEDIA_DEFAULTS to 1 if you want iTunes (not Quicktime) to be default player.

    Btw, i know the forum search is down, but the post below yours "iTunes 5 blah blah blah" would have given you all this info.

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    Windows XP Updates Downloader

    in Unattended Windows 2000/XP/2003

    Posted

    @RogueSpear:

    We are actually talking about the same thing here i think! I was pointing out that there is no need for an integrator (please note that word - this means like slipstreaming sorta thing, source integration) and said I would love the 'hotfix on a CD downloader and installer sorta thing'

    [The other point. There TONS of smaller outfits where running WSUS is simply not an option. I simply cringe everytime I enter one of these offices, but there are indeed still a lot of small offices running on an NT4 domain. Or a small outfit that has one single server that does everything (usually SBS) and adding one more thing to the server would not be a great idea.
    Agreed 100% and was sorta the reasoning behind my original post you replied to ;)

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    Windows XP Updates Downloader

    in Unattended Windows 2000/XP/2003

    Posted

    To be honest, the slipstreaming of hotfixes is pretty well covered by RyanVM's packs, and I dont see the need to add another tool into the mix.

    Sorry I have to disagree dude. Not everyone uses XP, not everyone wants to wait a few days/weeks for a new RyanVM pack release after patch day, and some don't use English. HFSLIP does it all: 2K, XP, 2003 (all languages too). Nlite can't do "all" of 2k. I'd like to script this into HFSLIP, but I don't have the mental capacity to do it.... or the time.

    Not really sure what your point is here - this topic is about a hotfix downloader for XP. My point was that we dont really need another tool to integrate these. Sorry for using Ryan's packs as an example instead of your tool ;)

    I also stated that I would like to see this tool be able to install the missing hotfixes for you. None of the tools you mention, including yours, have that functionality.

    Besides, 'waiting a few days or weeks' is a trivial excuse - use the windows update! Not everyone reinstalls windows every time microsoft releases a patch (sorta defeats the purpose of hotfixes hmm?). And before anyone says it, if you are in a corporate enviroment and are not using some form of server-based update then have a word with your IT dept....

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