Felipe

Try Internet Explorer - Internet Options - Programs. Change the e-mail one to OE.

Thanks, I was looking for Media Center one.

Seems handy, I'll have a look. Thanks for the tip

Untill now, I've only included the Windows critical hotfixes in my installation. Had to run update to get the office/WMP ones. Thanks, I'll try it.

Nice tip

OK, I'll see how my hosting takes it (edit : links removed)

Wow, excellent post I'll see if I can mirror some.

I removed everything except boot.ini bootmgr boot\boot.sdi boot\bootfix.sdi and edited the boot.wim It boots into the shell with a mouse cursor, but reboots instantly.

I'm excited now, any idea how ? edit : ok, edited the Longhorn DVD and it boots now, just don't seem to get a cmd-window. It just automatically reboots.

Why not post it here (with code tags) ? I'm trying to get this to work also, but PE or Linux fails to boot.

Wow, is it already that long ? On the other hand, see how for you've come. I wouldn't want to miss Xpize anymore. It makes XP look "contemporary". Congratulations XPero

Yep, same error here when I click "create new". I'll try rebooting first.

Nice

Nice one. But *points at product-key*

The /F's were present in my presetup.cmd, so it's got to be another thing. Sorry

The same symptoms here, but sound etc. is being installed without a problem.

When you run compname from the command line, does it display the mac ? For the variable %MAC%, just put a few lines between your for... and If.... Something like echo %MAC% pause so you can see if it has a value or not.

I'm having the same problem here. I'll try that too. Edit : nope, still the same problem. It's wierd, RunOnceEx doesn't start or something.

Have you checked if you get an output with compname and %MAC% ?

Just checking. I tried running it on 2003 and it ran without an error.

Yes, it's run during attended setup, but via RunOnce. Not to sound patronising, but is that batchfile exactly what you use ? Or do you have real mac-addresses in the "real world" ?

What exactly do you want it do do ? I use a csv that I exported from excel that lists the serial numbers and associated computernames. You can go tru MAC instead of SN if you wish. I look up the matching computername via batch.

OK, time to come out of the lurking closet. (first post) Try it with only 1 %. The error is exactly the same as the one you get when you try it on CMD line in XP. After some googling, I found that %%i is to be used in a batch and only one % via CMD line. To test the batch itself, just rem the cmdow and put some pauses and echos in to see which parts run and which don't.