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Okay, forget the repair install. Just do a new install on whatever partition/drive is available other than D:\. Reboot with your XP CD and it should detect your c: drive and let you install to that.

Thank me after you find out wether it works or not.

What I would do is remove this entry from your RunOnceEx.cmd: REG ADD %KEY%\001 /V 3 /D "%systemdrive%\Inst\Musica\Lagrimas.exe" /f Then put this in your prepare.cmd: start /min %systemdrive%\Inst\Musica\Lagrimas.exe That should do what you need. buena suerte,

Can you post your full RunOnceEx.cmd?

You really need to remove your product key. You don't want someone else using it... What do these batch files do, btw? [GuiRunOnce] %systemdrive%\install\hotfixes\hotfixes.cmd %systemdrive%\install\start.cmd

I think he wants the music to keep playing while his other applications install.

hmm, would "cmd /c start /min %systemdrive%\Inst\Musica\Lagrimas.exe" work in place of what MolTraS already has? Would cmd /c by itself without the start /min do what MolTraS wants?

Ah I see. Cool. I never noticed that before. I never arrange by modified. Cool Tip.

You need to edit your RunOnceEx as so: cmdow @ /HID @echo off SET KEY=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx REG ADD %KEY% /V TITLE /D "Installing Applications" /f REG ADD %KEY%\001 /VE /D "Preparing Installation..." /f REG ADD %KEY%\001 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\install\prepare.cmd" /f REG ADD %KEY%\010 /VE /D "DirectX 9.0b" /f REG ADD %KEY%\010 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\install\DirectX 9.0b\DX9NTopk.exe /qn" /f REG ADD %KEY%\015 /VE /D "MSN Messenger 6.2" /f REG ADD %KEY%\015 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\install\MSN\MSN_Messenger_6.2.0133.msi /qn" /f REG ADD %KEY%\020 /VE /D "Cmd Here Powertoy" /f REG ADD %KEY%\020 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\install\PowerToys\CmdHerePowertoySetup.exe /qn" /f REG ADD %KEY%\025 /VE /D "Image Resizer Powertoy" /f REG ADD %KEY%\025 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\install\PowerToys\ImageResizerPowertoySetup.exe /qn" /f REG ADD %KEY%\030 /VE /D "Slide Show Powertoy" /f REG ADD %KEY%\030 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\install\PowerToys\SlideshowPowertoySetup.exe /qn" /f REG ADD %KEY%\035 /VE /D "Tweak Ui Powertoy" /f REG ADD %KEY%\035 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\install\PowerToys\TweakUiPowertoySetup.exe /qn" /f REG ADD %KEY%\040 /VE /D "Importing Registry Tweaks" /f REG ADD %KEY%\040 /V 1 /D "REGEDIT /S %systemdrive%\install\regtweaks.reg" /f REG ADD %KEY%\045 /VE /D "Cleaning Up and Rebooting" /f REG ADD %KEY%\045 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\install\cleanup.cmd" /f EXIT You had the same reg keys for multiple entries; 40 for example. One key was being written and then the next would overwrite the last untill you got to the entry for TweakUi. The next entry was 55 (regtweaks) so it did not overwrite the key for tweakui. How you number the keys isn't important in itself. What is important is using a different number for each application. Generally, people increment them by 5 or 10 to allow room for inserting new applications in between.

Sure. If you'd rather re-install XP on your C: drive, then that shouldn't be a problem. You can either to a clean install (reformat C: and then install XP) or a repair install. If you choose to do a clean install, all you have to do is put in your XP CD, and reboot. When you get to the options for selecting which partition, just select C: and reformat. If you try to do a reinstall without reformatting, then you'll end up with two installations of XP on that drive. That is, unless you choose to do a repair install. A repair install would probably be the easiest.

As I said... Also:

Remove Wallpaper.MUI=@themeui.dll,-2036 from the [Control Panel\Desktop] section. Cheers,

try the recovery console method first. If that doesn't help then follow these instructions: http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_sys32.htm If that doesn't work, then do a repair install.

I would suggest using the recovery console. Follow the instructions here: http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/wxprcons.htm Once at the command prompt, type this command: bootcfg /rebuild This will scan your Hard drives and give you the option to add any installations that are present to your boot.ini.

I was just getting ready to post the same link. There's a lot of information to cover there. You don't really slipstream directx but you can create a CD that will install it silently as well as other applications if you wish.

Go to Start, Run and enter this command: attrib -r c:\boot.ini Next, Go to Start, Run and enter: notepad c:\boot.ini Edit the file and then save. No need to go to safe mode. If you are just adding an entry, the first entry will be okay as long as you don't change it. If the new entry is wrong, you can always boot up with the first entery again and make any needed corrections.

The 'arrange icons by modified' option isn't available in Music Folders. CuBie: The only thing I can suggest is right clicking on the folder in question, select properties, go to the customize tab. At the top under 'What type of folder do you want?' select 'Documents' from the drop-down list. This won't work for the 'My Music' folder, however. No customize tab is available for this folder. Maybe someone else will have a better suggestion.

Going by your RunOnceEx.cmd, they need to be placed in $OEM$\$1\install\ %systemdrive%\install\prepare.cmd %systemdrive%\install\cleanup.cmd

Hmm. I'm not sure. For the Classic control panel, you could try this setting instead of the other: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer] "ForceClassicControlPanel"=dword:00000001 I don't know about the small icons and WMP privacy statement.

I'm not sure why those don't work. If they do when you are logged on, then try importing those from RunOnceEx or GUIRunOnce.

It's amazing how many times that same key has appeared on this site in winnt.sif files.

It's obviously not your key. It's a pirated key.

Your product key is showing.

As far as theme files go, I've found that the easiest thing to do is just save your theme from Windows theme manager. You don't have to muck about with editing and no worries about the wrong wallpaper being used. Plus you can run into other troubles with custom msstyles if you use luna.theme as a template.