[Which sata drivers?]

Follow the tutorial at the driverpack site. Nlite will not install the driver packs. There is a utility built into Driverpack DB that does all that. Check it out brfore you try to add the driver pack.

[Which sata drivers?]

Driver Packs is a good place to start. That being said I must say that using the SATA Drivers for your particular Motherboard is best. Ya know the one on the disk you got with your mobo, unless you have a Dell, HP or any other brand that you don't get an actual install disk. I slipstreamed them in with all the others using nlite, and haven't had a problem with the SATA drive at all.

[Re-installing Windows XP Pro using new CD?]

You can install with your sp2 disk and upgrade to sp3 via windows update (Slower), or slipstream sp3 into a new install disk and install from that. (Faster). Look at the unattended thread here for advise. This is provided you can keep your machine up long enough to do it.

[alternate source for DX9c]

It turned out I had a dns changer trojan on my computer. I went to Spyware behave: http://forums.maddoktor2.com/index.php?showtopic=9590

and followed the instructions. I sent my logs and such to the folks at What the Tech malware forum: http://forums.whatthetech.com/HijackThis_L...emoval_f27.html

They will look at you logs and work with you on removing all the nasties on you machine. Do as they say and Do Not!!!!do anything on your own.

[alternate source for DX9c]

I got it fixed Thanks to all who replied

[Does anyone else have trouble connecting to Microsoft update]

Well All I got it fixed I followed the advise from the Spyware Beware website. I am happy to report that all is well

@extruckie, if you have that DNS changer trojan then you're in for a wild ride of desperation. no matter what you run, malwarebytes, hijack, av of any sort, spybot, reading on many of the forums that provide a handful of diff tools, etc...that **** thing wont leave. If you check your dns settings and you have an address that just wont go away then you have it.

I cleaned up a computer like that about 2 weeks ago. After fruitless tries, the best way to get rid of it was to take the drive and plug it to another computer (make sure that other computer is clean with AV & antispyware software up to date) and then perform a FULL scan of that drive with all the AV/antispyware software that you might have on it.

That's the only way that I got to get rid of it.

good luck

[Does anyone else have trouble connecting to Microsoft update]

Reinstalled Windows got reinfected by Firefox browser backup. Ran AVG and malwarebytes. Antivirus caught and killed all the viruses and 3 trojans. Malwarebytes caught 3 more trojans.

Everything seems ok with the exception of not being able to go to windows update or mcafee update. I can live without mcafee since I got AVG. but not windows update. I cant even install netframework3.5.

Below is my host file

# Copyright © 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.

#

# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.

#

# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each

# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should

# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.

# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one

# space.

#

# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual

# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.

#

# For example:

#

# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server

# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host

127.0.0.1 localhost

I deleted the localhost line and retried to download from MS and it times out.

I dont know what else to do.

[Does anyone else have trouble connecting to Microsoft update]

I have Malwarebytes and ran a scan on the whole computer. It found 1 thing. I removed it and restarted, no change. I do recall a file called that, several days ago and it was removed. I guess without success I have one other thing I can try before I do a total wipe and reinstall of windows. no time to explain. Will post back results.

[Does anyone else have trouble connecting to Microsoft update]

not only ms sites it also like mcafee too

I use firefox

[alternate source for DX9c]

I get msn whenever I manually enter the url for the update site. I also cannot update my antivirus either.

It looks like I am infected in some way.

I also can't get into my hd with my windows install on it

Looks like a complete wipe of all hard drives to make sure I got it

Is there a way to do it thru regedit??

also it affects Google Chrome too

[Does anyone else have trouble connecting to Microsoft update]

ok thanks then it is me

[Does anyone else have trouble connecting to Microsoft update]

Whenever I try to connect to Microsoft update page I get redirected to the MSN page this occurs both in IE7 and Firefox.

Any suggestions?

[alternate source for DX9c]

As You requested

I get no dropped packets

I got Comcast coming out due to a slow connection issue tomorrow. This all started over the weekend.

[alternate source for DX9c]

Yes it is however all i get is this

See Attachment

[alternate source for DX9c]

I am looking for an alternate download site for DX9c. For some odd reason I cannot get it from Microsoft, even though I have a "Real" copy of XP. I get a message like the server is down when I try.

Thanks

[How do I change the font color of the shutdown window]

I want to make the color of the font on the shutdown window darker so it is a bit easier to see.

How would I go about it?

[RunOnceCmd advice]

Well I did as you say and all is well. I got everything coded and tested. Thanks

[RunOnceCmd advice]

You need to change the `location of all the items I wish to have RunOnce install`. That location means that all the installation software will be copied over to your Program Files directory and ran from there.

to Changing the location "E:\XP Pro SP3 Upd WMP11 + XPize\$OEM$\$1\Install" will match the "%SystemDrive%\Install" location you have SET as variable `PP` in your example script.

So if I understand correctly the coding is fine. "E:\XP Pro SP3 Upd WMP11 + XPize\$OEM$\$1\Install" is where everything lives on my hard drive. The programs also reside in \$OEM\$1\$progs on the cd/dvd. I should have stated that in the first post.

[RunOnceCmd advice]

I have a question on setting up my RunOnceCmd file. for my unattended install cd/dvd. This is the location of all the items I wish to have RunOnce install:E:\XP Pro SP3 Upd WMP11 + XPize\$OEM$\$Progs. This folder consists of 20 programs I made into 7.Z Switchless installers (all work as they have been tested) This is what I have so far

cmdow @ /HID
@Echo Off

SET PP=%SystemDrive%\Install\

SET KEY=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx

REG ADD %KEY% /V TITLE /D "Installing Programs" /f

REG ADD %KEY%\009 /VE /D "7Zip" /f
REG ADD %KEY%\009 /V 1 /D "%PP%7Zip.exe -y /q /r:n" /f

REG ADD %KEY%\019 /VE /D "WinXP Image Resizer Power Toy" /f
REG ADD %KEY%\019 /V 1 /D "%PP%ImageResizerPowertoySetup.exe /s /v/qn" /f

REG ADD %KEY%\029 /VE /D "dotNetFx35setup.exe" /f
REG ADD %KEY%\029 /V 1 /D "%PP%dotNetFx35setup.exe /qb" /f

REG ADD %KEY%\039 /VE /D "TweakUiPowertoySetup.exe" /f
REG ADD %KEY%\039 /V 1 /D "%PP%TweakUiPowertoySetup.ex /qn" /f

REG ADD %KEY%\049 /VE /D "McAfee Security" /f
REG ADD %KEY%\049 /V 1 /D "%PP%DMSetup-Serial.exe /silent /noreboot /NO_UI" /f

EXIT

This is all I have attempted so far. The above was created with RunOnceEx.cmd Creator. I also will not include this in my cd/dvd disk until I get it working.

The programs do load as I watched them just yesterday do so. It was quite impressive seeing something I created with people like yours help work.

Am I on the right track?

[How to make a 7-Zip Switchless Installer]

Thanks that did the trick

[How to make a 7-Zip Switchless Installer]

In other words run the installer then archive the extracted files along with the following in the config.txt

Thanks

Since I posted I redownloaded the open office installer, and redid the steps and I get the same error box

Run the downloaded installer and use the extracted files.

The .cmd file should look like this:

@echo off
msiexec /i openofficeorg24.msi ALLUSERS=1 SELECT_WORD=1 SELECT_EXCEL=1 SELECT_POWERPOINT=1 ADDLOCAL=ALL /qb! /norestart
exit

or

 @echo off
 msiexec /i openofficeorg24.msi ALLUSERS=1 SELECT_WORD=1 SELECT_EXCEL=1 SELECT_POWERPOINT=1 ADDLOCAL=ALL /qn /norestart
 exit

The second does not have the progress bar.

[How to make a 7-Zip Switchless Installer]

Thanks

Since I posted I redownloaded the open office installer, and redid the steps and I get the same error box

The new installer did not have the instamsiw.exe and instamsia.exe files

[How to make a 7-Zip Switchless Installer]

This is way cool

However when I try to make a installer for Open Office. Everything goes fine until I try to run the installer. Then I get an Unspecified Error Box. I have a folder with the following files in it: 7zS.sfx, config.txt:

;!@Install@!UTF-8!
RunProgram="OOo_2.4.1_Win32Intel_install_wJRE_en-US.exe"
;!@InstallEnd@!

OOffice.7z and OOo_2.4.1_Win32Intel_install_wJRE_en-US.exe . The last one is the installer created.

Open office Looks like it has 3 installers included in it. instmsiw.exe, instmsia.exe, and OOo_2.4.1_Win32Intel_install_wJRE_en-US.exe. If i click on the file of the first 2 I get an, wrong os or os version for application, error box.

What am I doing wrong, I created several other installers using this method before stumbling onto this problem.

Again this rocks

[Alternative RunOnceEx]

I just tried to download Alternative RounOnceEx and I get a 404 error. Is the site down??

[Win xp pro installs in Italian or Portuguese when set for US Eng.]

Well I finished the latest unattended install disk. The problem was the Itl. update pack. Now I have an Eng. install so all is well