[BM]Crusher

i downloaded a dvd iso image which is a multi-boot windows disk... it had tonnes of windows versions on it... i extracted the 4.35gb ISO file onto my hard drive to look at how they made it... it took up almost 10gb of space!

having an open internet connection during setup isn't tooooo bad... mainly because not many services are running at all.... less services running equals less surface area to attack i don't think any of the super vunerable services run during setup

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\BrowseNewProcess] "BrowseNewProcess"="yes" what does that do? with that program you are talking about, what stage does it crash at?

no idea but i did copy a bunch of your reg tweaks into my own file hehe... now maybe i will get the same problems? i was thinking it could be something to do with service pack 2 if you have it on your disk?

i use the post install wizard it works good

i've seen this covered before try searching the forums for "automatic format", "network installation format" or even "multiple partition format" i've seen it covered a number of times actually

when I installed this update on a Win2000 box today (windows update automatically downloaded it) the description it gave me when I clicked on 'Details' is "this update fixes a problem in DirectX 7.0 that could allow blah blah.... sounds like there could be 3 different versions of the same update (dx7, dx8 and dx9 versions) ???

i think there's another topic about this hotfix already... some quotes from that topic so... lots of people have had difficulty installing this update through svcpack.inf and cmdlines.txt by the look of it... just install it through RunOnce

if you reaaaally wanted to integrate a menu system where you can choose what drivers to install... why not use WPI to do this? personally i believe in the $OEM$\$1\Drivers install method for all hardware is definitely the best... but... if you desperately wanted a menu, use WPI you could have tick boxes for the driver software... you could make one tick box that does multiple installs too so it would be easy

offer to buy it from one of your local computer resellers... (i know that we have about 10 of them here microsoft sent us that we never use)

you usually get Username.Computername when existing Documents and Settings folders are already named Username if it is on a fresh hard drive, it should not have named it Username.Computername

it actually starts processing the RunOnceEx settings while the 'Welcome' screen is displaying... if you disable the welcome screen altogether it should fix it.. with mine i have the welcome screen, and by the time i get to see my RunOnceEx list it is already on the 5th or 6th item (I have programs that take a long time to install as well, so yours will probably be all done by the time the welcome screen dissapears)

just open any .theme file in notepad to see how it is done.. i used the luna.theme and modified it... just make sure you remove the line near the wallpaper that has something.dll, -2096 or similar written there... modifying the theme, you will end up with something like what I have here (sets corona.msstyle, wallpaper and icons) obviously, you have to have a modified uxtheme.dll file, so that you can use non digitally-signed theme files use the winnt.sif theme setting to enable it ; Copyright © Microsoft Corp. 1995-2001 [Theme] DisplayName=Corona ; My Computer [CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\DefaultIcon] DefaultValue=%SystemRoot%\Resources\Icons\MyComp.ico ; My Documents [CLSID\{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}\DefaultIcon] DefaultValue=%SystemRoot%\Resources\Icons\MyDoc.ico ; My Network Places [CLSID\{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}\DefaultIcon] DefaultValue=%SystemRoot%\Resources\Icons\Network.ico ; Recycle Bin [CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\DefaultIcon] full=%SystemRoot%\Resources\Icons\Full.ico empty=%SystemRoot%\Resources\Icons\Empty.ico ; Control Panel [CLSID\{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}\DefaultIcon] Defaultvalue=%SystemRoot%\Resources\Icons\CPanel.ico ; Printer [CLSID\{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}\DefaultIcon] Defaultvalue=%SystemRoot%\Resources\Icons\Printer.ico ; Find [CLSID\{2559a1f0-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\DefaultIcon] Defaultvalue=%SystemRoot%\Resources\Icons\Find.ico ; Help [CLSID\{2559a1f1-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\DefaultIcon] Defaultvalue=%SystemRoot%\Resources\Icons\Help.ico ; Run [CLSID\{2559a1f3-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\DefaultIcon] Defaultvalue=%SystemRoot%\Resources\Icons\Run.ico ; Folder [HKCR\Folder\DefaultIcon] Defaultvalue=%SystemRoot%\Resources\Icons\Folder.ico ; The Internet [CLSID\{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D}\DefaultIcon] Defaultvalue=%SystemRoot%\Resources\Icons\Internet.ico [Control Panel\Cursors] Arrow= Help= AppStarting= Wait= NWPen= No= SizeNS= SizeWE= Crosshair= IBeam= SizeNWSE= SizeNESW= SizeAll= UpArrow= DefaultValue=Windows default DefaultValue.MUI=@themeui.dll,-2043 [Control Panel\Desktop] Wallpaper=%ResourceDir%\Themes\kenshin1.bmp TileWallpaper=0 WallpaperStyle=2 Pattern= ScreenSaveActive=0 [VisualStyles] Path=%ResourceDir%\Themes\corona\corona.msstyles ColorStyle=NormalColor Size=NormalSize [boot] SCRNSAVE.EXE= [MasterThemeSelector] MTSM=DABJDKT ThemeColorBPP=8

your cmdlines.txt has to be in $OEM$, so does installs.cmd you dont need the .\ before installs.cmd either when installs.cmd calls the other batch files, are you sure they are on the E: drive? maybe use a variable like %systemdrive% just to be sure RunOnceEx is way more difficult to set up than that what video driver? what chipset driver?

for the workgroup name, just use the winnt.sif settings? I searched my registry and there is nowhere the workgroup name is defined?

did you try office shrink? also, check the msdn directory, theres a 70mb file in there you can chuck

yeah i've seen a few other people talking about this saying it will work ok... i've tried it myself and it worked fine.. check that it didn't modify your winnt.sif.... when i did mine it removed the DriverSignPolicy=Ignore line :/

i had good luck with the older 4.3 slipstream radeon2.ru installation... but their new version it doesn't work for me... i just tried it on 3 machines (9600xt, 9800pro, 9800xt) and on all 3 i had the same problem = when install is finished it boots to windows first time, ati control panel error's saying no ati driver is installed....

i've got an xp2 rc1 v2096 unattend disk as well.. i haven't noticed any services not starting (i havent checked, but the machines are working perfectly) what services don't start?

yeah it works good... i got my 167mb of drivers down to 32mb! add that on top of nLite and officeshrink, everything fits on one disk for me - xp pro sp2 rc1 ; dx9.0b ; mp9 ; office2k3 ; nero ultra ; pdvd5 ; clonecd ; clonedvd ; anydvd ; acroread ; cdex ; adaware ; lansearch ; winamp5 ; tweakui ; daemon3.46 ; isobuster ; k-lite mega ; winrar3.3 ; windows themes ; backgrounds ; boot screen ; 163mb worth of drivers == 684mb iso file

i usually put up to 720mb (overburn) depending on the brand of blank's... most blanks will only overburn to 710mb safely

that's more than just the critical updates... umm... maybe some of the updates you are doing aren't supported by svcpack.inf method? did you check on the "Critical Hotfixes for Service Pack 1" to see what updates won't work through svcpack.inf? this is my svcpack.inf for SP1a [SetupHotfixesToRun] q330994.exe /Q:A /R:N js56nen.exe /Q:A /R:N mdac.cmd q823182.exe /Q /O /N /Z q824105.exe /Q /O /N /Z q824141.exe /Q /O /N /Z q825119.exe /Q /O /N /Z q826939.exe /Q /O /N /Z WMP9MM2.exe q828026.exe /Q /O /N /Z q828028.exe /Q /O /N /Z q828035.exe /Q /O /N /Z q828741.exe /Q /O /N /Z q831167.exe /Q:A /R:N q832894.exe /Q:A /R:N q835732.exe /Q /O /N /Z q837001.exe /Q /O /N /Z q837009.exe /Q:A /R:N q840374.exe /Q /O /N /Z qchain.exe DX9NTopk.exe Note: I only have the 'critical' updates, plus the OPK installs of DirectX9.0b and MediaPlayer9/MovieMaker2 (silent installers) although, usually the mdac doesn't install properly for some reason but i don't care about that one hah

paste a copy of your svcpack.inf (or your batch file that installs the service packs if that is how you do it) obviously not if they didn't install

just right-drag the driver installation program, should give you an "Extract here" option? that will make a directory with all the installation files... just find the folder that contains the *.inf files (might be called WinXP or similar) and put everything from that folder (containing the INF files) in your $OEM$\Drivers\IntelPro directory and then in winnt.sif add "Drivers\IntelPro" to OEMPnpDriversPath anyway, winXP auto installs intel pro 100s adaptors? if so, you won't get much improvement (if any) from installing later drivers

compress your "Drivers" folders and make it self extracting (with silent extract mode).. make it extract to %systemdrive%\Drivers test it to make sure your drivers get extracted to "%systemdrive%\Drivers" so your driver paths will still be "Drivers\001_chipset;Drivers\002_GART" etc etc... put the Drivers.exe in your $OEM$ folder and in winnt.sif, set DetachedProgram=Drivers.exe