wolfshade

Wow u must ne a batch god -- i tried to understand the for /? data but its just too much. So in concluzion all one has to do is copy the content of [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams\Desktop] "Default Taskbar" into this one: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams\Desktop] "Default Taskbar (Personal)" ??????? for the quick launch to run? NICE! I tried it in a batch just about now and it did copy all the hex from first to second as far as i've seen it. oh BTW 10x for quoting the whole tweak over again bucketbuster

I install Yahoo Messenger from T-12 stage(cmdlines) and i use this code: ECHO Installing Yahoo Messenger 6.0.0.1643 START /WAIT E:\PostInst\ymsgrie\ymsgrie.exe /s taskkill /F /IM YPager.exe /T START /WAIT regedit /s "E:\PostInst\ymsgrie\settings.reg" ECHO. While it works while i'm logged on this taskkill entry gives me an "Critical error" and obviously doesn't close YPager.exe but the yahoo messenger opens anyway Is it posible that at the cmdlines stage the services aren't started or something? Do i have to use a PID? How do i do that?

nm i found it under [unattended]:

I use these lines in my cmdlines: ECHO Setting account COPY "E:\PostInst\renuser.exe" "%SystemRoot%\system32" renuser administrator wolf ECHO. What i need now is a way to set a password for this account automatically and make it boot automatically too( w/o prompting for password ) I want this to avoid the fact that if i set pass in answer file for admin and rename the admin the system give me a warning that he can't log it on (obviously since i changed admin name). I have to do it this way cuz i want the dir for "current user"(me) to be called "wolf" as well and if i change name from GUI it won't happen.

I tested an answer file on floppy but it won't work cuz it seems the floppy must be from the beginning 'till the end in the floppy drive and it always asks me to remove floppy during setup wich i did after a few nags then only the answer that got through went in my unattend and the ones that didn't were obvoiusly from the point i removed the floppy in the midlle of setup when asked(ip settings werent there when i logged on)... My BIOS settings for this are: 1st boot device:floppy 2nd boot device:HDD 3rd boot device:CD-ROM FloppySearch:Disabled I have to replace 1st boot device with something else?(so it would stop asking about booting from A: (not bootdisk) )?

What command do i need in my answer file to make clear to setup that i am not running an upgrade unattend? Or how to disable warning messages during unattend too? I'm using nLite and i receive warning "Ugrading won't be available" and that defeats the unattended install i have to push ok.

10x guys the thing is i'm not shure of what i'm sure and i'm not sure about any tweaks i extract with InstallRite except the ones that ussually do it in a dword. As for installs i'm very confused on what i should keep and what not (i estimate i know 90% of what to keep and what to delete but some programs are sensitive and mess up at the first mistake i do) besides i don't want an install kit to go on deleting inexistent MRUs and modifing regs as the snapshoter saw fit. Oh well i'll excuse my noobieness this time for not knowing how to repack exactly manualy(i never tried it) P.S. thanks for the info on WinInstall LE i'll look into it as soon as i can find it:) ...and yes i looked over on those in the site but i just don't like to tangle upanymore my head hurts already cuz of the brand-new-shiny-information i pierced through my skull since i came here they are kinda messy and require specific scripting(AutoIt i think)

Oh i didn't tell you there are tons of tweaks in "reg tweaks" sticky in "unattend" forum where this post was before it was moved. It is a tweak that sounds something like enable desktop icons(my computer, my network neighbourhood etc.) -- they are comented so look for it i'm sure i saw it there. If not ask for a reg tweak for xp for it i'm sure some1 uses it ... it might not be so hard to adapt it to 2003 -- u could locate that reg with regedit and make your own tweak by exporting it -- u might want to get InstallRite(freeware) - make snapshot and enrich u're tweaks. Oh and dunnow why u would have that grayed out i find what u said in xp so if u figure out whats graying it out u coud make u're own tweak using a snapshot soft like InstallRite to see before/after effect(works better than in teleshoping ). My first guess anyway is u have a messed up tweak somewhere. I would be carefull what tweaks i add if i were u -- the first time i added some tweaks allthough i thought i knew what they were doing the fact is i trusted that they were made correct and that resulted in a pretty bluescreen and the fact that i couldn't logon to that os nor repair it in anyway so i had to reinstall it I recall now that there is a tutorial somewhere to make 2003 behave like XP so u might want to check that out. My experience with MS products made me believe i want to be a technician cuz nothing i how it seems with MS and i would have a job for life OOPS! Seems i replied/edited while in unattended windows forum and the post moved again here allthough it was moved in nt/2000/2003

Seems logical to keep winnt.sif on a: cuz i think sometimes myself that when i will want to install a networkless windows i will just remove the driver path to the driver files and [Networking] entries from answer file(OEMPnPDriversPath) or even better replace it with an "networkless answer file" and disable from BIOS (cuz i have it onboard). Anyway i had a problem starting cmdlines from HDD(my whole stuff is on HDD) and i added the OemFilesPath="E:\winxpsp1\$OEM$" and it worked ever since ... now i dunnow why it won't work 4 u on A:\ ... go figure MS out U might want to test u're batch sintax first and make sure it works then add it to cmdlines and remake paths. (cmdlines is on batch sintax too except for the fact that setup parses it so u need [COMMANDS] and "batchfile.cmd" -- yes quote marks on batch call and u can make it a *.bat too. I'm not sure of this: It might be that setup absolutely ignores drive A: from a certain stage till the first logon -- I remember that setup would specifically ask removal of floppy if it found it on floppy drive on 98se so it might be that XP simply ignores drive A: at certain stages of setup and thats why it won't find any cmdlines to execute -- besides the answer file might be copied first thing into the temporary files made for setup, thats why the winnt.sif works and cmdlines doesn't.

i get the same thing in XP cuz the first thing i do in cmdlines is rename administrator and the setup can't autologon no more i hope some1 answers this cuz i want a fix myself

Hmmm beats the hell out of me. Some1 should help u make a tweak for enabling My Computer or whatever on your desktop. There are some tweaks for that somewhere if u search but i only saw XP ones (cuz thats what i've been looking:) ) and dunnow if those will work for u. U might want to disable the "Remove Shared Documents from My Computer" and others that u're not shore of cuz the majority of them are obvious per name and see what happens.

Of course u tweaked the registry ...try to understands where the teaks go i don't recommend copy/pasting tweaks w/o checking and customizing themand most importantly unserstand what and each of them do. I can't help u to specific "my computer" tweak but it shouldn't be too hard to pin-point it if u just added the tweak for dl. P.S. hive tweaks might be dangerous cuz u just can't keep track of everything they do.

One more thing i would like to add ... what if i export the whole "streams" hive and use it will it have side effects beside the setting i would use ? e.g. all entries under this key/dir [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams]

I did add empty [NetClients] and [NetServices] and it just installed Client for MS Networks again besides my tcp/ip protocol. Can't i prevent the Client for MS network from installing? Since there a waste of space i will add a tweak too: ;Show network icon in notification(systray) area when conected [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Network\{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\{434B3168-F119-48EA-8490-AA220C9A4B01}\Connection] "ShowIcon"=dword:00000001 i dunnow if the serial stuff will change if i install windows again...what do u think?

SolidasRock... Most of the tweaks need a reboot. As for the hex i mention earlier ... [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams] "Settings"=hex:09,00,00,00,04,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,00,77,7e,13,73,35,cf,11,ae,\ 69,08,00,2b,2e,12,62,04,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,43,00,00,00 I made an educated guess so i need someone to confirm... I think the bolded flag(the only one that changes during repeated applying of same settings) is the cascading pozition flag if u know what i mean ... the poz the window takes on a diagonal on your desktop device context.

yes well i need the DefaultGateway=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and the DNSServerSearchOrder=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -- i don't think it has anything to to with the components. I will test again and post result.

I've been searching high and low but i didn't find a solution for this problem : I only want TCP/IP on my adapter but setup also install MS Networking, Qos and file and printing. I use these entries in answer file: [Networking] [Identification] JoinWorkgroup=WORKGROUP [NetAdapters] Adapter1=params.Adapter1 [params.Adapter1] INFID=* [NetProtocols] MS_TCPIP=params.MS_TCPIP [params.MS_TCPIP] DNS=No UseDomainNameDevolution=No EnableLMHosts=No AdapterSections=params.MS_TCPIP.Adapter1 [params.MS_TCPIP.Adapter1] SpecificTo=Adapter1 DHCP=No IPAddress=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx SubnetMask=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx DefaultGateway=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx DNSServerSearchOrder=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx WINS=No NetBIOSOptions=2 Do i have to use "[Networking] > InstallDefaultComponents=No"??? It didn't seemed to work in my previous tests. Any1 know if nLite project will solve this problem?

no i don't expect anything but to behave logically and the thing is that flag is going upwards in steps of two every time i apply the same exact settings so i'm not sure wich number to put in there!!! I cannot be sure of exporting any of that entries until that number stays fixed as my settings are. [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams] "Settings"=hex:09,00,00,00,04,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,00,77,7e,13,73,35,cf,11,ae,\ 69,08,00,2b,2e,12,62,04,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,43,00,00,00 That bolded number first jumped to 02(its the only one thats changing) when i apllied the settings manually on explorer then it had gone in steps of 2 ever since although i applied the same settings every time in a row After i tested it a couple more time it has gone from pair numbers to unpair numbers again its curent value its 09. Isn't there somewhere a documentation on these flags? I didn't tested the others although i trust allanol for the quick launch hope i get wich one it is:)

First of all HKEY_USERS entries won't work cuz the serial S-1-5-21-1935655697 etc. is different from one install to another. I want to know if i set the settings in an explorer window then "reset all folders">apply then "like current folder">apply then look in the regs at the [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams] "Settings"=hex:09,00,00,00,04,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,00,77,7e,13,73,35,cf,11,ae,\ 69,08,00,2b,2e,12,62,04,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,43,00,00,00 u see there is a "01" if u look from the last to the first number ... i got a 02 or a 04 instead allthough the settings are for statusbar and detailed view so i guess htis isn't to acurate -- whats the corect solution? Is this the right way to extract a correct binary for yourself (my method)??? That number seems also to grow in steps of two now its 06 what kinda flag is this?

lemme get this straight will the setup see my other NTFS partitions during T-12 stage(cmdlines)???

Dang not the cmdlines again i have to mke a new test righ about now with [COMMANDS] instaed of [Commands] and "installs.cmd" instead of ".\installs.cmd" cuz the last time cmdlines didn't run at all. What i read it has something to do with sysprep.inf wich doesn't exist in my unattend at all.

i use renuser app to rename the admin user created by default but the dir in C:\Documents and Settings stays the same name "Administrator" -- at what point and how can i rename this dir too?

I tested the shutdown and delete itself section here's the test: ECHO Restarting the PC shutdown.exe -r -f -t 0 ECHO Deleting itself del c:\test.cmd Put this test.cmd on c:\ or modify the path. U might want to test this on your machine first -- maybe its slower and won't initiate the del itself part in "-t 0" but "-t 1" (check out flags for shutdown.exe /?).

10x all of u but i downloaded the version 4.5 of VMWare and it works fine. The iso i made with de cd image kit found on unattended.msfn.org.

I dunnow if this helps cuz i'm not sure miself about things but here's a important note i found in ref.chm : Commands that make changes to an end user's preferences are not replicated to end users if they are run from Cmdlines.txt within Mini-Setup.