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Check out www.appdeploy.com for information on how to do silent installs for various applications. As for starting everything off I would just run a batch file from the [GuiRunOnce] section of winnt.sif. If you put the batch file in the $OEM$\$1\Temp folder it will get copied to the local hard drive. [GuiRunOnce] "%SystemDrive%\Temp\run.bat" Since you are installing off a CD you may want to look at 7-zip. 7-Zip is freeware and it can compress your installs into self-extracting executables.

I had a similar problem with the QuickTimeInstaller.exe installer. I found that this was actually a self extracting executable compressed using rar. I was able to uncompress it using 7zip and then the install using "start /wait QuickTimeInstaller.exe /S /v/qb". The file downloaded and the extracted file both had the same name but one was about 20MB and the other was about 30MB.

Under Windows XP SP2 I am having a problem installing activex controls from web pages. The basic problem is that a user needs administrator rights to install the control but once installed anyone can use them. I would like to be able to pre install the activex controls from the command line instead of having to go to each systems and open the web page to download and install the control. I was able to download the cab files and extract the content but not sure what to do next. I tried using rundll32 and the inf file extracted from the cab file but no luck. I also tried to copying the files to the C:\WINNT\Downloaded Program Files folder and registering them.

UPH is a good idea I run it on all my systems at work. If it doesn't work I would suggest trying the following. Download autoruns from www.sysinternals.com. Go to the logon tab and disable anything you don't need. If you don't know what something does go to http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_index.htm and download Start_ups.exe. This program list many startup apps, what it does and if it is safe to delete it. This may sound strange for the problem you are having since it is a startup issue. However, I had a system where one program running at startup wasn't working correctly and it prevented the rest of the programs from running. Once that program terminated (when I shut down the system) the other programs would try to run and I would get the program can not open because windows is shutting down error message. After disabling the entries try shutting down the system twice. The first time you will still get the errors because the changes you made won't take affect until after you reboot.

You can try putting the following in a batch file. reg.exe add "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server" /v fDenyTSConnections /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f reg.exe add "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server" /v AllowTSConnections /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f rem disable Remote Assistance rem reg.exe add "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server" /v fAllowToGetHelp /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f If your running SP2 you will need to open the ports to allow remote desktop users to connect to your system. Im not sure of the exact syntax but you can use the netsh command to open TCP port 3389. netsh firewall add portopening /?

Xcacls.vbs is an updated version of xcacls.exe which is written in vb script. It adds new features and improved support for inheritable permissions.

If you are running Windows XP or 2000 and the script you are trying to run is on the key. %~d0 expands to the drive letter of the script which will be the same as the drive letter of the key since the batch file you are running is on the key. xcopy /y "%~d0\LessonMaterial\TrainingData\Shortcuts\*.*" "%userprofile%\desktop" xcopy /e /k /i /c /r /y "%~d0\LessonMaterial" "%userprofile%\Personal\"

Not sure where you have the batch file stored. If you put it on the USB drive you can use %~d0 to get the drive letter or %~dp0 to get the full path to the batch file. Example batch file D:\Temp\t.bat @echo off echo %~dp0 echo %~d0 Output D:\Temp\ D:

I usually create the shortcuts when I install an application so I'm not sure if this is going to do what you want to. There is a program shortcut.exe which lets you create shortcuts from the command line. Note this program will create shortcuts even if the destination file doesn't exist so it can be used to create shortcuts before an application is installed. Example: script that installed autoruns (www.sysinternals.com) and creates a shortcut. @echo off set dest=%~1 if "%dest%"=="" set dest=C:\Program Files\Admin\SysInternals\autoruns if not exist "%dest%" md "%dest%" unzip -o "%~dp0autoruns.zip" -d "%dest%" if not exist "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\Admin\SysInternals" md "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\Admin\SysInternals" "%~dp0..\shortcut.exe" /F:"%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\Admin\SysInternals\Autoruns.lnk" /A:C /T:"%dest%\autoruns.exe" /W:"%dest%" If the example above shortcut.exe is located in the parent folder. You could put it in your $OEM$\$$\System32 folder and then call it directly. The program also uses unzip.exe which is part of unz552xN.exe. I use this command so much that I've included it in my $OEM$\$$\System32 so I know it will always be available. The example script is fairly simple. I want to be able to specify where to uncompress the archive but have a default if I don't specify the path. %~1 is the first parameter passed to the script with the surrounding quotes removed. %~dp0 expands to the path of the batchfile. To create a shortcut on the Quick Launch bar use the following (assuming that shortcut.exe is in you path) shortcut.exe /F:"%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\Autoruns.lnk" /A:C /T:"%dest%\autoruns.exe" /W:"%dest%"

Have you tried upgrading the firmware on the D-link 502T?

Dell quality has gone down the tubes and the only way they could get an award for their service today is if they give it to themselves. We have Dell Optiplex GX270's and Dell Latitude D600's at work. The GX270's have a problem with the capacitors on the motherboard (http://news.com.com/PCs+plagued+by+bad+capacitors/2100-1041_3-5942647.html) and we have had a lot of hard drive failures on the D600's. I had one D600 laptop that started having problems from the first day I got it. The video would just stop updating and the only thing you could do was reboot the system. After installing SP2 I started getting errors that the video had stopped responding or something like that. The first thing I did was swap the hard drive with a different system and the problem stayed with the original system, which clearly indicates a hardware problem with the original system. I worked on this issue with Dell tech support for the better part of two days before they would dispatch to replace the motherboard. During this time I reloaded the system and tried several software fixes. The big problem was that I couldn’t make the system fail on demand so every time we did something I’d have to wait for the systems to fail before calling them back. Note replacing the motherboard which I wanted to do from the start fixed the problem. Even though there is a known issue with the GX270 motherboards they always want to follow a troubleshooting flow chart. I finally started telling tech support "I need a new mother board and I don't have a spare system I can used to swap parts with" and "if the capacitors on the motherboard are leaking it needs to be replaced". I had to call Dell tech support yesterday and they have some new voice recognition system where you speak the information instead of using the buttons on the phone. Note that "fu@K you I want to speak to someone" doesn't work. When you dial in you have to enter your express service code. However once you get a tech the first thing they ask you for is your express service code. Then they keep put you on hold while they set up a parts dispatch. I think it's funny they have a POS (parts only service) option when ordering parts. I always thought that stood for something else. Also the spare parts come in a box that states "may contain the equivalent to new parts". What the hell is this it’s new or it's not. If all this isn't enough they use DHL to ship replacement parts. This company must hire the mentally handicapped as our driver continually delivers the part to the wrong location. When you call them they give you the name of the person who signed for the part. I have to point out to them that first we don’t have a person by that name working here and second DHL didn’t make any deliveries to us on that day. Once they figure out they delivered the part to the wrong place they have to do a package recovery. Thus my next day parts service turns into the next few days’ parts service. I let this go the first few times but one time they lost an important package and couldn’t recover it. I had to wait almost a week before they finally said they couldn’t find the package. Now I use the tracking information to track the parts. If it gets lost I call Dell and have them ship me another part and complain how bad DHL sucks. The funny thing is that I got a call and several emails (which I ignored) from Dell stating that they didn’t receive the broken part back. When they called me I explained to them that I never received the replacement parts and they could take the issue up with DHL. The lady said this happens a lot.

Eraser works good if you want to erase the blank space, slack space or specific files. To wipe the complete drive try Dariks Boot and Nuke (DBAN) http://dban.sourceforge.net/

Also try PC INSPECTOR File Recovery 4.x http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/download.htm

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Enterprise Deployment Pack for Windows Media Player http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsme...deploypack.aspx http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:5yV2Q...upedp.msi&hl=en http://www.appdeploy.com/packages/detail.asp?id=151

I haven't read through all the posts so it may have been mentioned but Microsoft that a program Print Migrator 3.1. during the runonce use printmig.exe -r printer.cab

Yes editing the LAYOUT.INF file was a big mistake as the install crashed. However I made a backup copy before I changed it so that was easy to fix. I tried editing the TXTSETUP.SIF and DOSNET.INF but this didn't work. The wups2.dll wasn't copied to the system32 but I may not have done it right. I simply searched for wups.dll or wups.dl_ and added another line below it using wups2.dll. The method of copying wups2.dll to the system32 folder and registering it using regsvr32 should work although I didn't test it. I had previously copied the missing dll to the system32 folder and registered it using regsvr32 and that worked. Using the latest au client works for me. Since I will only be installing it on english systems I extracted all the files, removed nonenglish files and recompressed with 7zip. This reduced the size to under 2MB. I haven't tested it on a new install but it worked on my existing Windows XP system. I would like to thank everyone for there help on this issue.

I am trying to integrate windows update v6 into my silent install for Windows XP SP2. I downloaded the following cab files and extracted them using 7zip. http://download.windowsupdate.com/v6/windo....cab?0506211651 http://download.windowsupdate.com/v6/windo....cab?0506211651 http://download.windowsupdate.com/v6/windo....cab?0506211651 http://download.windowsupdate.com/v6/windo....cab?0506211651 http://download.windowsupdate.com/v6/windo....cab?0506211651 http://download.windowsupdate.com/v6/windo....cab?0506211652 http://download.windowsupdate.com/v6/windo....cab?0506211652 http://download.windowsupdate.com/v6/windo....cab?0506211652 http://download.windowsupdate.com/v6/windo....cab?0506211652 http://download.windowsupdate.com/v6/windo....cab?0506211652 http://download.windowsupdate.com/v6/windo....cab?0506211652 http://download.windowsupdate.com/v6/windo....cab?0506211650 http://download.windowsupdate.com/v6/windo....cab?0506211650 http://update.microsoft.com/v6/windowsupda....cab?0506211650 http://update.microsoft.com/windowsupdate/...b?1119372653197 I then compressed all the files by opening a command prompt in the folder where I had the files and running the following command. for /F "eol=; tokens=1 delims= " %i in ('dir /a-d-h /b') do makecab %i Next I copied the the following files to the i386 folder. wuauclt1.ex_, wuaucpl.cp_, wuaueng.dl_, wuaueng1.dl_, wuauhelp.ch_, wucltui.dl_, wups.dl_, wups2.dl_, wuweb.dl_, cdm.dl_, iuengine.dl_, wuapi.dl_, wuau.ad_, wuauclt.ex_ This worked for Windows 2003 SP1 but Windows XP SP2 doesn't have the wups2.dl_ file in the i386 folder and simply adding it doesn't do anything. I tried to modify the LAYOUT.INF but I don't think I did it right. I got a error 800b0100 signature for Windows XP is invalid when I tried to install XP .

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It depends on how you have security setup. If you have the admin shares enabled you should be able to map a network drive using the following command. net use z: \\computer\c$ /user:computer\administrator password You can then upgrade the netfw.inf (c$\WinNT\inf\netfw.inf) file with the desired firewall configuration. Once this is done you need to run a single command on the remote system "netsh firewall reset". This can be done several different ways. Copy a batch file containing this line of code to the remote system and schedule it to run using soon (w2k resource kit) or schtasks (Windows XP). Another option is to use PsExec from SysInternals to run the command on the remote system. Finally use "net use z: /delete" to delete the drive mapping. Reference: Using the Windows Firewall INF File in Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 There is a major drawback to this method in that any manual changes you have made to the firewall that aren't included in the netfw.inf file are lost. The better solution would be to dynamically generate the netfw.inf file based on the current firewall settings and applications installed on your system but this is a lot more complex.

Apply Predefined Security Templates in Windows Server 2003

I am updating several web pages I wrote years ago and am looking for a replacement for RDS. These web pages are standard asp on the server and use javascript on the client machine. I need to be able to pass information to the asp pages and retrive information back from the asp pages without reloading the web pages. I have some success using a hidden iframe but am looking for a better way. Also some links to example code would also be nice.

A simple batchfile to determine which network you are in. Note that the goto :EOF isn't needed here as you don't return to this script after executing the InstallX.bat batch file. If you need to return use "call InstallX.bat" in place of "InstallX.bat". @echo off ipconfig | find "IP Address" | find "192.168.1." >nul: if not errorlevel 1 ( echo In 192.168.1.x network InstallA.bat goto :EOF ) ipconfig | find "IP Address" | find "192.168.2." >nul: if not errorlevel 1 ( echo In 192.168.2.x network InstallB.bat goto :EOF ) If you are installing the same software but from a different location you could replaxe the InstallX.bat with a net use command to map the network drive. @echo off ipconfig | find "IP Address" | find "192.168.1." >nul: if not errorlevel 1 ( echo In 192.168.1.x network net use z: \\server\share goto :Install ) ipconfig | find "IP Address" | find "192.168.2." >nul: if not errorlevel 1 ( echo In 192.168.2.x network net use z: \\server\share goto :Install ) :Install rem install softeare here rem delete mapped drive net use z: /delete

With 7Zip the files are extracted to the temp folder, the setup.exe is run and then the files are removed from the temp folder. The SMS option prevents setup.exe from returning before all child process have completed. This way your files aren't deleted until your install finishes.

Try ising the /SMS switch with the setup. Note this switch should be upper case as shown. RunProgram="Setup.exe -s -SMS -f2\"%systemdrive%\avk.log\"" Install Shield Command Line Parameters http://zacky.cleverits.com/IT/is_cmdline.htm MSI Online Commandline Generator ("CleverMSI-OCG") http://zacky.cleverits.com/IT/MSI/msi_cmdline.htm