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Why is NDP20SP2-KB976576-x86.exe downloading as ndp20sp2-kb976576-x86_8e8121a8bddfb2095453335c593ffa22ef8e95ec.exe? And when I Google for it, I get what I think is strange. I get pages coming up in different languages, no pages linking to Microsoft about the update.

I do not want to use autologon. So far RunOnceEx will not run when I logon manually. I do not now if this is because I have to use autologon or not. Do you have to have autologon to run RunOnceEx? Thank you.

Took a harddrive out of 1 computer that had XP Pro in it and stuck it in another computer. I took out the original harddrive and just left it out. The original has XP Home. I moved the jumpers to Master and it worked. Then I decided I was going to add the original back to the computer. I moved the jumper on the XP Pro harddrive to slave and just added the XP Home harddrive. The XP Home booted up fine, but the XP Pro did not. I edited the boot.ini file so I could choose which OS I wanted. I had to eventually repair XP Pro. XP Pro would start to boot then just crash and flash a blue screen. Why just changing the XP Pro harddrive to slave make it unbootable? What files could have been changed edited etc... to avoid doing a repair on XP Pro?

Oh ok I see now ty. If I encrypt it, I have to use the setupmgr.

No. I just put in a password.

? I don't get it you have to put the Administrator password there right?

The install stops and complains about the admin password. Looking at the log file it reports this error "The Unattended Setup parameter "adminpassword" in section "guiunattended" is missing or invalid." I searched but could not find anything. I tried editing my WINNT.SIF file and change the AdminPassword line but nothing helped. Here is what I have tried [GuiUnattended] AdminPassword="xxx" EncryptedAdminPassword=Yes [GuiUnattended] AdminPassword=xxx EncryptedAdminPassword=Yes I am not using autologin.

Does it matter if the whole word or the first letter of each word is capitalized? I see some people use all caps and some use no caps and some only capitalize the first letter of each word.

This is what I am trying Start /wait %systemdrive%\install\ff2.0.0.12.exe /S start /wait "%PROGRAMFILES%\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -silent -setDefaultBrowser" When I do I get Windows cannot find '-silent' and then some more. Any idea whats wrong?

Thank you running "%PROGRAMFILES%\Mozilla Thunderbird\uninstall\helper.exe" /SetAsDefaultAppGlobal works final test is installing windows again.

I used the cmd file Doc Symbiosis gave. When I started Thunderbird everything was checked but newsgroup so that was left out and I still had to choose. I am looking over the cmd file and going to add entries for newsgroup.

I know for Firefox you can use %PROGRAMFILES%\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -silent -setDefaultBrowser to set it as the default browser is there a similar command for thunderbird?

Why bother with "Create/acquire DNF11.exe and DNF20.exe" if .NET Framework 3.5 Full Redistributable Package contains 2.0 and 2.0 SP1?

Lol it is sorry. I just wish MS would release one package that would be good for all 3.

With .NET Compact Framework 3.5 Redistributable I do not think any other package is needed is it? Not sure if you still net version 3.0 though.

They got a petition now or you can tell Microsoft what you think by going here. Look at this post jcarle. You could always ask on the topic in the forum in the link I posted originally. Everyone should spread the word about the petition. I would check back at Neowin they have some updates on the story, Microsoft Remains Silent on AutoPatcher. What is the deal with MSFN showing ZDNet Australia as having the full story. Neowin is the first place to report it and Autopatcher used them as their forums and where all the latest updates and news are at for this.

Look here and here is the topic on the forums. I cannot believe this. What will happen to all the other projects like it.

Thank you for all your help. I got it now. I now have 3 RunOnceEx lol. They all work fine and that error was a timing issue.

I am using vmware. I figured out why the title does not show on the 2nd runonceex, it did not like the space between SET KEY=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx and REG ADD %KEY% /V TITLE /D "Installing Applications" /f. I removed the space and now it shows the title. I did not think the space between them mattered. I forget to mention something and maybe it makes the difference. I change the restart time from 60 seconds to 2. Do you think changing the time to only 2 secs is to fast and that is causing the error?

Finally got a look at the error. The error is regsvr32.exe - DLL Initialization Failed The application failed to initialize because the window station is shutting down.

Yeah pretty much. Allot better results than what I got before. I think the title on the RunOnceEx2.cmd needs to be changed because the title does not show it only show Windows Update. Think I need to put the restart command before the command to run RunOnceEx2.cmd because I get the same error I did in post 10. I do have a question. You cannot use the same title over and over right? If you do they wouldnt get added to the registry right?

after executing runonceex during installtion, -->restart-->execute runonceex2

You can use nlite to remove components but that is about it. I would suggest you get a dvd burner you can find them cheap.

That did work but once the first RunOnceEx got finished it immediately tried to start the 2nd and got a error of course. I added start /wait rundll32 iernonce.dll,RunOnceExProcess just before REG ADD %KEY%03 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\install\RunOnceEx2.cmd" /f but instead of installing at login it installed at T-12. No errors though. I tried this REG ADD %KEY%03 /V 1 /D "start /wait rundll32 iernonce.dll,RunOnceExProcess" /f REG ADD %KEY%04 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\install\RunOnceEx2.cmd" /f That did not try to install at T-12 but the same thing happen at first login, it installs everything then tries to launch RunOnceEx2.cmd with errors. I tried your way darafat and it did nothing or it freaked out and the numbering was wrong. I tried to play around with your way but could not get anything working.

Here is what I have so far and what is not working