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ok i take that back - it wasn't a GPO - at first glance it seemed that way but after i left work last night i was thinking and i realized that it was McAfee VirusScan 8.0i Enterprise...part of its advanced virus "protection" features is to disallow the remote creation of autorun.inf's. Once that box was unchecked, problem no more Thanks again.

ah ha - i've done some more tinkering and it seems that its a GPO thing with our Active Directory which, of course, i have no control over (**** HQ tyrants ). Thanks for the help anyway guys

did you do this through a network? Like from a CD-Rom on your computer to a remote share somewhere else? Cause if i stick a CD-rom in the server2003 box itself, it will create the autorun.inf just fine. Through the network however it just gives me access denied errors. Its definitely not in use anywhere cause I just extracted it from an ISO, and that exact file moves perfectly fine to a 2000 share...i can't figure this out..so strange... EDIT: Also - to totally eliminate the "file in use" thing, even if i try and create a text file and rename it "autorun.inf" it will give me access denied error, yet i can create autorun.ini's, autorun.ing's all day long - just not a .inf. All other .inf's transfer fine. Its very odd...

Hey guys - got a quick question regarding server 2003. I've tried transferring "autorun.inf" files through the network onto a share on a Server 2003 machine. It promptly gives me the error that "Cannot copy AUTORUN: Access is Denied.". Thinking it was possibly just a weird ACL thing with the share, i tried to drop it right in the root with the administrative share (c$). Same error. I also tried all the other Server2003 boxes we have, same error. Also, happens with the different versions too (i've tried Datacenter, Standard, and Enterprise) and all get the same error. Yet i C$ into one of my 2000 servers and it copys the exact same file without a problem. Is this something specific to 2003? If so how can it be fixed? Any help is appreciated!!

thank you! yes, my original question was just to bundle it, however, i'm glad now that i know how to change the default wallpaper as well...so thanks everyone!!

Hey guys...i'm wondering if its possible to pre-bundle the Royale theme with the XP install...does anyone know of any tutorials about bundling themes or has anyone done it that could point me in the right direction? Thanks!

ok, advice taken, version 2 of the site will be up soon and will sport a new, non difficult to read font with a normal background...this is my first attempt at creating a website so i need the assistance Thanks for all the help!

Hey Guys! I'm developing a website on tutorials for Windows/Linux, and other random stuff, so for my first tutorial ever, i have created one on Slipstreaming Windows XP SP2 RC2. Please go to the site and let me know what you think! Bullets' Tutorials Thanks!

right civil, thats the same problem i'm having...i have 3718 working beautifully, but the other ones just keep rebooting my VM...hmm...

and still no luck..that file, despite my changing the location of install.wim, did not solve the issue...it continued to simply reboot after "pressing any key to boot from cd..."...anyone else have some ideas?

Gosh, One other thing...i was reading through your "analysis of longhorns winpe" and i realized something...(oh, fyi, the pics on that page don't work)...you said that the .sys file in the boot folder is what accesses and then unpacks the .wim file...so i thre it into hex editor and sure enonugh there are several references to install.wim...so im' going to play aroud with that for a while...anyone else wants ot jump in and try too they're welcome see ya.

Thanks alanoll, let me know how you make out. In the meantime...anyone else have any ideas?

ok, i'm having minimal success here...i tried exactly what you said Gosh and only a few things happened...on my first attempt it launched bootfix and said "press any key to boot from cd" and then i pressed any key and it instead of booting winPE it rebooted...the next attempt, i copied the ENTIRE unpacked boot folder into the boot folder on my AIO dvd. 4053 folder, for reference to the previous article. Now, i pressed any key and it booted into the winPE. Soon as its supposed to start do look like "Windows Longhorn" with the orange bar underneath, i got a blue screen saying "A problem has been detected, etc." with error code 0x0000007B. So, it seems to boot the setupldr fine...but i'm not sure whats happening after that. Any insight is appreciated. PS Nothing in the Sources folder had to be changed to say Src4053 intead of Sources...i checked every file in hex editor...and came up with nothing... PPS One other ting, when i replaced the words BOOT in longhorns setupldr it replaced it 114 times...quite a lot more than the 4 from the xp-like install..lol...perhaps there are some things changing that shouldn't be? Thanks again

wow, thanks gosh, i'm going to give that a shot today and i'll post back and let you know how i made out. Thanks for all the help!

Hey Guys, i'm new here and i've been trying to make a multiboot DVD with two of the 400x+ builds of longhorn. Therefore, they both have their own boot folder. The guide i'm using (flyakite) says to rename the cdshell folder and leave the longhorn folder as boot because its easier, however, i am assuming i would need to rename the longhorn boot folder to something else and leave CDshell alone. Does anyone know where to find a guide on what to change so that the longhorn boot folder can be successfully changed to another name? Thanks. PS Any other suggestions on how to do this are appreciated. Thanks