[BM]Crusher

regsnap is shareware... there are freeware alternatives but i find regsnap to be easiest (it actually makes working REG files for you too)... if you want to keep using it after the trial period expires just buy it I would have done the reg-snapping for you, but... I only have IE6 installed so I cannot use 'Program Access and Defaults' to change that icon (nothing to change it too it just greys out the option for me)

that error is usually hardware associated... strange you don't get it without the $oem$ directory though... with the $oem$ directory is your ISO big enough to require overburn? overburn won't always work for xp install disk mainly because the cd drive won't copy overburn with the default text mode cd drivers make sure your OEMPnPDriversPath isn't more than 4096 characters i doubt that it is, but, it is pretty long no idea... remake the iso?... try a different cd drive?... get a new computer?

did you try using regsnap? take a snapshot with the nothing icon... then use 'Program Access and Defaults" to set the icon to be Opera... then take another snapshot it will tell you what was changed in the registry

should make this a sticky about different CHM files people can download (like deploy.chm etc)

if you read the xp sp1 deployment tools deploy.chm you will find most of your answers there in your case, you could use a cd that boots a 9x boot floppy image containing an autoexec.bat which, firstly, runs diskpart, then secondly, runs winnt.exe or winnt32.exe off the cd with the /u:answerfile or /unattend:answerfile settings

i must have mis-understood you... the winnt.sif settings only apply to windows after installation is finished... during installation you are stuck with 640x480 @60Hz

that would be the 'ClassicViewState' setting I believe

i'm using sp2 rc2 atmo... i found it to be only slightly bigger than sp1 once you remove garbage using nLite

if the monitor hasn't been installed properly yet that won't work... try setting it to 1024x768x32bit @ 60Hz but then of course you will have to change it once windows has booted do they actually install the drivers correctly?

if you find it let us know

yeah those settings are for winnt.sif @MCT -

wouldn't it be a case of finding the cursor in on of the cab files and changing it? maybe it's even called the same filename as the default windows white cursor? search compressed files for "arrow_*.cur"

if you have your $OEM$ folder in your I386 folder and have specified OEMPreinstall=Yes then your $OEM$ files will be copied to the hard drive... if you have your $OEM$ folder in your CD-Root and haev specified OEMPreinstall=Yes then your $OEM$ files will be copied to the hard drive also... (this only works for XP Home/Pro I believe.. if it is 64bit or .NET server you have to also specify OEMFilesPath="..\$OEM$" please correct me if i am wrong) you should put your files in $OEM$\$1\install then you can run %systemdrive%\install\start.cmd

anyway, howcome you can't fit all your stuff onto one CD? my disk has SP2 2149, Office2003PRO, PowerDVD, Nero, plus a tonne of other programs... and it all fits into 650mb i used nLite and officeshrink (available through these forums)

I think the solution was: 1) in RunOnceEx, after everything from first CD is finished, run a CMD (batch) file that has: @echo off echo Please insert second CD . . . pause exit then the commands after the CD has been changed to the second CD in RunOnceEx have to make them also CMD (batch) files that have: for %%i in (D: E: F: G: H: I: J:) do if exist %%i\Win51ip.SP1 do set CDROM=%%i start /wait %cdrom%\apps\app1\setup.exe /S if you get what I mean? That way it will pause after first CD is finished... then everything afterwards that gets installed it works out what drive the CDROM is and runs the installations off the CDROM drive...

we've covered this topic many times before... do a search on the forums

you can use WINBOM.INI to automate partitioning and formatting of a hard drive any way you like... but you can only use it if you are installing windows through WinPE

recentdocs is annoying.. but the MFU list is good... stupid microsoft should have put an option in unattend.txt/winnt.sif to set the predefined MFU listing 10 isn't that big if you are using small icons...

oh hahaha i didn't understand you properly you can leave it there if you want... just that it doesn't matter if it exists or not... definitely doesnt matter if it contains the same settings as winnt.sif your cd should have worked fine before you edited the unattend.txt file

Adobe Reader 6: REG ADD %KEY%\015 /VE /D "Acrobat Reader 6.0.1" /f REG ADD %KEY%\015 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\install\Applications\AdobeReader6\AR6.msi /QB" /f working and verified (used instructions from MSFN unattended)

I just gave you one reason If you are booting from a CD, it WILL NOT use a file named unattend.txt it doesn't matter if it exists or not it will not use it

so let me get this straight if I want to have 10 frequent programs listed on start menu, I set "Start_MinMFU"=10 if I want to clear the frequent programs list during windows setup, I set "StartMenuInit"=2 ?

it shouldn't be using the unattend.txt file at all.. .just delete it...

yeah like I said: I think on the ABIT NF7-S v2.0 it is called "Onboard Device" for the SATA controller...

does it use any of the winnt.sif settings? if it uses nothing from there it isn't your cd key doing it... if it uses most of the settings but not the cd key, wrong cd key... still.. you shouldn't have to delete the unattend.txt as that file is only used when booting from a floppy (from dos).. when you boot from a cd it checks for the existance of I386\winnt.sif and if it exists it will use it... one thing to check... go Tools->Folder Options->View - untick the 'hide extensions for known file types' and make sure your winnt.sif file isn't called winnt.sif.txt