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i didn't take any chances so i specified it in autorun.inf(i made a post on autorun.inf sintax and managed to figure out how) besides i had to put the floppy as 3rd boot device(i could.ve even take it out of the boot process[bIOS]) cuz it kept asking me if it were before HDD -- my guess is that my BIOS option BOOTFLOPPYSEARCH=disable doesn't work -- i might need a BIOS upd although its only a year or two old.

i made a whole bunch of tests and the actual sintax would be: [AutoRun] OPEN=\i386\winnt32 /unattend0:A:\winnt.sif or [AutoRun] "OPEN=\i386\winnt32 /unattend0:A:\winnt.sif" i dunnow what difference makes the quotes do (""). excuse me at the actual boot "winnt" would have to be used instead of "winnt32" and the sintax would become: [AutoRun] OPEN=\i386\winnt /u:A:\winnt.sif

Actually is much easier -- i install it during cmdlines like this: I got separated driver and control panel setups downloaded instead of the whole bunch then extract them to dirs (cuz they are archives soewhat) and then use: ECHO Installing ATI driver 8.01-040421a-015419C-ATI START /WAIT E:\PostInst\video\setup -s ECHO. then i leave an app installing space before installing control panel so the driver finishes installing properly(i had some errors while installing cpanel right after) ; like this: ECHO Installing WinRAR3.3 START /WAIT E:\PostInst\WinRAR330\winrar330.exe /s COPY "E:\PostInst\WinRAR330\settings.reg" "%ProgramFiles%\WinRAR" START /WAIT regedit /s "%ProgramFiles%\WinRAR\settings.reg" ECHO. ECHO Installing ATI Control Panel 6.14.10.5103 START /WAIT E:\PostInst\cpanel\setup -s ECHO. does any1 know the tweak that disables [Display properties > Settings > Advanced >options(From Ati contol panel) > "alternate DVI operational mode"] ???

so what are u saying allanol is that i can't simply rename the administrator account but i have to make a user member of administrators and delete\disable or something the administrator account somehow?

I try to start with answer file from floppy but i can't seem to get the autorun.inf sintax corectly; i try it like this and it didn't work: [AutoRun] OPEN=.\i386\winnt t:c /u:A:\unattend.txt if i change to OPEN=.\i386\winnt32 /unattend0:A:\unattend.txt so i can test with autoplay while in windows i get ["program not found > windows cannot find winnt.exe > This program is needed for opening files of type "File""] message with a browse prompt and path. can some1 help me on this one?

OOPS! Sorry to come up with this but i forgot one major detail for me: Where do u specify the path to winnt.sif? -- in autorun.inf??? Please confirm this code: autorun.inf : [AutoRun] set AnswerFile=A:\winnt.sif .\i386\winnt /u:%AnswerFile% ??? this is how i set it to run with answer file from A:\ ???

the effect on me is that i receive an error message that it cannot log under current user/domain or something with the password when i rename the Administrator account and the reg tweak doesn't work either i guess i have to do the setup w/o setting password and set passworf from batch in GUIRunOnce. \/\/ well no if u rename the admin somehow the path stick allthough the dir names doesn't change from admin to username(u have to set that name in cmdlines so the dir will auto change too\/\/

wow i this is my exact problem the workstation simply dissapears from services list and registry also totally howe is this possible ??? just cuz i added the [NetServices] empty entry in answer file??? how did u solve it / whats the solution ???

10x for all u're help guys esp Jotnar i have a lil problem: i rename the built in administrator with renuser in t-12 and use it but at first logon it tells me that he can't logme with that account name i push ok and just log in (administrator yet i renamed it only!).

final word : pskill works taskkill doesn't

u could put an entry in the answer file: [Components] msnexplr=Off and u can even disable the messenger seervice via registry ;Messenger [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Messenger] "Start"=dword:00000004 deleting it the usual fashion way would result in an error message at startup i think -- u might want to consider that

could some1 please tell me what setting is that cuz workstation just dissapears on a random basis lthough i use the same settings like disable documents sharing, simple sharing and all the vulnerabilities hotfixes i could get from autopatcher. i disabled all that resembles remote anything desktop, sharing etc. but i still want to set and see my services -- besides if alerter is on disable on my config workstation should always be on auto ... this is too strange especially cuz i read about every thing i did on my computer. could some1 jut come in my computer and change that setting?

I just obeserved that since i've entered the network i'm on now my workstation keeps dissapearing w/o trace and i dunno if here is a hacker or a setting i use. I look in the registry and in the services windows IT JUST ISN"T THERE how can this be??? Now i've made an unattend and the same thing happens right after i install but no side effects that i could notice ... allthough i want to see it and disable it myself if it just dissapeared Only thing that comes close is that i removed hyperterminal from installing from unattend.txt and i use autopatcher to run a defined update(all in cmdlines.txt) and disabled error reporting and used a "noupgrade flag". Of course along with workstation alerter and a bunch of other stuff i don't use dissapear too i want to see them and keep 'em on disable till i decide to put them back on ...

Then whats with the admin account i rename cuz i check with the regs and see that default user has been made wolf anyway w/o the tweak(renuser method) so all i have to do is add the pass and autologon flag --so obviously it wont work! cuz its the same thing.

hmmm this still doesn't work ... it still tells me that he can't autologon(he can't logon me under this account)although it doesn't prompt me for anything afterwards and it logs me as wolf. i used this: ECHO Setting account COPY "E:\PostInst\renuser.exe" "%SystemRoot%\system32" renuser administrator wolf ECHO. and the reg tweak like this: ;Setting password and autologon [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon] "DefaultPassword"="10101980" "AutoAdminLogon"="1" why doesn't the setup like renaming the admin and setting pass and autologon like this? lemme get this straight : "DefaultUserName" is really the admin account? then why it doesn't accept renaming instead using tweak to overwrite?

10x maybe i just have to set the right boot order in my BIOS. The $OEM$ folder must be paralel to i386 dir unless! u specify its path as in the bolded text below. parallel: windir\$OEM$ windir\i386 windir can be CD path of course eg: F:\$OEM$ ; F:\i386. That path style(below bolded) works for me cuz i even tested it w/o wanting when i copied whole kit from E: to D: i forgot to modify that path w/o wich it won't run for me and he took $OEM$ from my first kit As u will see below u can point the batch from cmdlines.txt literarry anywhere. cmdlines.txt has the batch sintax but its not actually a batch(setup acts on it as such) If some1 could locate the path thats given to setup so he can find cmdlines.txt then we can set path-to-cmdlines anywhere, but that would prove a lil hard i dunnow where -- and it might not be in a an .inf file or cfg for easy pickins so it could get really complicated. As for u're problem here's what i use: cmdlines.txt(E:\winxpsp1\$OEM$):these are exact in my install: [COMMANDS] "E:\PostInst\cmdlines.cmd" ...and in the answer file: [unattended] CrashDumpSetting=0 DisableDynamicUpdates=Yes DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore FileSystem=* Hibernation=1 NtUpgrade=No OemFilesPath="E:\winxpsp1\$OEM$" OemPnPDriversPath="drivers\00_chipset;drivers\01_LAN;drivers\02_audio" OemPreinstall=Yes OemSkipEula=Yes Repartition=No TargetPath=\Windows UnattendSwitch="Yes" UnattendMode=FullUnattended WaitForReboot=No 1.But the thing is i still start the setup from HDD while in current XP so setup will be able to see my NTFS partitions. 2.I think if i would run this from CD, format c: >> then the setup won't be able to copy the $OEM$ files from the other NTFS partitions cuz they aren't mounted yet. 2.1. As for cmdlines.txt, they will be run(parsed from path\$OEM$) cuz its the T-12 stage of the setup and at that point NTFS partitions are mounted(visible) so u can keep u're batch file that is called from cmdlines.txt on floppy or HDD. In conclusion when run from CD, format c:, setup won't see and copy $1, $$ etc. dirs from other NTFS partitions cuz it won see them(at least this is what i think correct me if i'm wrong) but when setup reaches T-12 stage the setup will see NTFS partitions and be able to parse cmdlines.txt from $OEM$ and go to the batch file wherever it would be(specified in path of course). Sorry about the long explanation but i think is required. This can be fixed by putting $OEM$ and contents on a FAT partition even a floppy(if u say setup doesn't nag u for removal) cuz FAT(16 or 32) are visible from start to finish. But on the other hand u can't keep but 1.44MB on floppy and my drivers wich i keep them in path\$OEM$\$1 so they will be copied to HDD alredy have 3MB so if u plan using $OEM$ on floppy(so u could have cmdlines run from there) u might want to give up the predriver install(in case u have NTFS) cuz predriver install happens right in the middle of the setup and again NTFS might not be visible to the setup(yet again this can be fixed and the OemPnPDriversPath can point anywhere on FAT. As i made an example earlier on this post if u just want batch file ready for editing at anytime jus remember u can run batches from another batches so u're cmdlines.txt(CD) will call a batch from the HDD or floppy and from there u can go anywhere:) w/o problems.

i have idman 3.8 and its clear to me that its made with WISE INSTALLER so the switch is "/s" like it saiz on site for wise installer installing softs dunnow for u're version cuz i don't have it and didn't get to that part yet(nor updated) but i found half the job done on msfn at least for every soft i made silent.

i didn't try it too i'm waiting for final hmmm... there is an app called renuser in the sticky:threads of interest for download and u can do this :renuser administator "username" although u might know it: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=18439

10x [bM] Crusher u're da man ... the site seems to be working fine ... i rather stick to c++ for now

Devil_666 why not read the rest of the post and learn that this is about instaling from cmdlines.txt and killing the app right after it begins nagging like u P.S.:I will make a test using pskill but i'm too tired now to stand by and watch windows intall again so i'll post result later. I'm not gonna test this but there might be a flaw too cuz i try to "taskkill" it right after i install it but yahoo opens after a second or so ... so it might not find it at the times taskkill attempts the kill(although it doesn't explain the "Critical error" it returns) \/~\/ Oh yeah and 10x for the backup MCT \/~\/

I posted something here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=20499

i found this stuff from Jotnar in the early days: @echo off echo Renaming/Creating Accounts net user guest {s2J234OPH} renuser guest notguest net localgroup guests notguest /delete renuser Administrator admin net user /add Administrator /active:no /passwordchg:no /passwordreq:yes netuser Administrator /pwnexp:y net user Administrator {s2J234OPH} net localgroup users Administrator /delete all i need is the /pwnexp:y switch???(password never expires) P.S. i don't get the batch for at all ... i got an example in a recent quicklaunch post but i just didn't get the "options" bit nor the other flags ... have to do more research.

10x mct pskill: http://www.sysinternals.com/files/pskill.zip pstools: http://www.sysinternals.com/files/Pstools.zip u might want to check http://www.beyondlogic.org/consulting/proc...processutil.htm

10x a lot ... the Autologon stuff doesn't work cuz i rename the admin and setup isn't informed of that(strange) ... it works if i leave teh admin alone while i use a pass on it. ...so i need a tweak or something to autologon w/o prompting me for pass i didn't find anything so far ...oh i remember (allanol) that u didn't understand the "for" sintax, just type "for /?" i wouldn't ask ppl here if i weren't a noob

Hmmm the problem is that i'm NOT in the OS while installing from cmdlines.txt so how do i fetch the YPager's PID??? If i can do that then i can close it by specifying PID to taskkill in the batch right after i pass the PID from the fetch(it would req a var). In short i need an util that fetches the pid and a way to transmit it to taskkill. BTW where can i get pskill?