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you might want to check out this page: http://unattended.msfn.org/xp/drivers.htm And also the Drivers Forum here at msfn. I'm not sure what differences there might be between 2000 and XP but the Drivers forum would be the place to go...

Your OemPnPDriversPath needs to point to the folders where your INF files reside. If an INF file is in Drivers\Audio\folder1 then your OemPnPDriversPath should look like this: OemPnPDriversPath=Drivers\Audio\Folder1;... That fact that your INFs are in sub folders may mean that you have files that are not needed in parent folders. Executable setup files and such. Unless you have multiple drivers for different hardware in those sub folders. In that case you need to specify each folder separately in your OemPnPDriversPath.

That's cool. I was looking at ref.chm and it had this to say about UnattendSwitch: I figured there must be some other reason your unattended wasn't working. I haven't looked at my winnt.sif in a few weeks. I forget what some of the entries are actually for.

Another thing ank, make sure that Winnt.sif isn't named Winnt.sif.txt. That can happen easily if you save it from notepad as a text file. you wouldn't notice it if you have 'hide extensions for known file types' enabled in folder options.

Can't hurt anything by being there. That would be useful if you wanted to keep all of your oem files on another partition/drive.

That's only needed if you place your $OEM$ directory somewhere other than the root of the CD.

[Unattended] UnattendMode=FullUnattended OemSkipEula=Yes OemPreinstall=Yes TargetPath=\WINDOWS UnattendedSwitch="yes" <---- That should be UnattendSwitch=Yes

It shouldn't matter where your batch file is. If you have setup.iss in the same directory as setup.exe, setup.exe /s should work fine. No need to specify a path to the setup.iss. The /f1 switch is used if you use an alternate path or filename for setup.iss. http://platinum.intersystems.com/csp/docbo..._Silent_Install %systemdrive%\UTILS\SWATCH\DISK1\setup.exe /s That should be all you need.

It's can be pretty confusing. All you need to worry about are the keys in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT. Any changes made there are mirrored in [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes] and vice-versa. No icon information is found in the other key you listed. If you want to edit the default icon, follow these steps. 1] Find the extension in question. .txt for example. 2] Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.txt 3] Look at the default value in that key. Usually it will be 'txtfile'. 4] Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\txtfile. That is where you will find the key which holds the value for the default Icon. That's where you would need to make your changes. Sometime applications change things around. I use Crimson Editor as my default text editor. It changes the default value of HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.txt to CrimsonEditor.txt. So I would have to navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CrimsonEditor.txt to change my default text file icon. Changing the settings in txtfile in this case would not work. Basically you need to look at the default value of [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.ext] which points to the key which holds the icon information. Good Luck. You should always backup your registry when making changes, just in case something goes wrong.

You could put this in you WINNT.SIF: [Shell] DefaultStartPanelOff = Yes DefaultThemesOff = Yes You can also disable the themes service by disabling it in the registry: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Themes] "Start"=dword:00000004

Actually, boot sreen images can only be 4bit (16 color). At least for images in the ntoskrnl files...

Those numbers are used as the key names in the RunOnceEx Registry key. The numbers aren't important in themselves. You could name them whatever you want but numbers are very convenient in this case. They will determine the order that your apps get installed. REG ADD %KEY%\050 /VE /D "WinZip V9.0" /f REG ADD %KEY%\050 /V 1 /D "\"%programfiles%\Winzip\Winzip9.exe\" -y" /f REG ADD %KEY%\050 /V 2 /D "\"%programfiles%\WinZip\winzip32.exe\" /noqp /notip /autoinstall" /f REG ADD %KEY%\050 /V 3 /D "REGEDIT /S \"%programfiles%\WinZip\WinZip.reg\"" /f REG ADD %KEY%\060 /VE /D "Diskeeper 8.0" /f REG ADD %KEY%\060 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\Install\Applications\diskeeper\Setup.exe /s /v/qn" /f REG ADD %KEY%\065 /VE /D "Nero 6.0.0.0" /f REG ADD %KEY%\065 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\Install\Applications\Nero\Nero.exe -y" /f REG ADD %KEY%\065 /V 2 /D "%systemdrive%\Install\Applications\Nero\Setup.exe /SN=xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx /WRITE_SN /SILENT /NOREBOOT /NO_UI /NOCANCEL" /f Here's part of my RunOnceEx.cmd. /VE will set the default value of a particular key. /v {value name} just sets other values for a particular key. Again, numbers are used for convenience. It's common to group tasks that are related in the same key instead of making separate keys for every single thing that needs to be done. If you look at my winzip section, there are three values not including the default: /V 1 -Extracts my winzip archive, /V 2 Installs winzip and /V 3 imports a reg file with my serial. /VE will be used as the title in the RunOnceEx window that you see when you log on. Here's a Screen Shot of my registry with the RunOnceEx Keys added. Typically, people will count by five or ten to leave room to add things in between two keys. Oh yeah, What he said

lol. I figured there would be a more than one responding at the same time. The version we linked to is 1.61e5 final. The version I have on my computer is 1.7. I'm not sure where I got 1.7 though... Wait, here's a page with v1.7.2 http://k3nny.wz.cz/

Regshot http://www.snapfiles.com/get/regshot.html

From ref.chm:

Basically no. When you right click on the Start button and select 'Explore', you are exploring the Start Menu which resides in Documents and Settings\user name. It will expand the start menu folder as well as all of its parent folders. You could right click on 'My Computer' and select explore.

If they are Installshield setups, the /SMS switch can be used to prevent that problem. http://www.installshield.com/news/newslett...nchIS5Setup.asp

[GuiUnattended] AdminPassword="xxxxxxx" EncryptedAdminPassword=NO AutoLogon=Yes AutoLogonCount=1 OEMSkipRegional=1 TimeZone=20 OemSkipWelcome=0 Set OemSkipWelcome=1

Commnunion sure would be interesting...

Go to tools > Folder Options > view tab. uncheck 'Hide protected operating system files'. You will see a file called desktop.ini inside my documents, my pictures, my music... Desktop.ini from My Pictures: [.ShellClassInfo] InfoTip=@Shell32.dll,-12688 IconFile=%Systemroot%\system32\mydocs.dll IconIndex=-101 Change Iconfile to the path of your icon. Set IconIndex to 0 if IconFile points to an .ico file. Set it to the proper index of the icon if you are using a DLL or other icon library file.

Console is pretty sweet. Thanks for that. I use 4nt as my default command interpreter and Console works great with it.

That information resides in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT. Look for the extension of the particular filetype. To edit the default actions for a text file, for example, you would want to find HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.txt. Look at the default value for that key: [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.txt] @="txtfile" <--default value "PerceivedType"="text" "Content Type"="text/plain" You would then need to find HKEY_CLASS_ROOT\txtfile\shell. This is where the default actions for text files are kept. Just do the same for other file types. Here's a visual aid: Screen shot Your best bet is to export both the key for the file extension- all you need is the default value- and the key that the default value refers to. These might vary depending on what programs are set as default. Basically, the default value of HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.ext refers to the key in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT where the default actions for that file type are kept.

A link would help, wouldn't it?

There's a couple of links in this thread that may be of some help. http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...=0entry156093

/silent - displays progress bar /verysilent - Completely silent install.