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good point

CMDOW canNOT hide the batchwindow completely, you will see a black window flashing! Personally, I find it an ugly solution. Hide.exe hides it completely, no need to add code or use VBS (some people remove VBS with Nlite). I couldn't find the official website or topic, but here is HIDE.EXE use hide.exe /? to see the options. dito for BATCHRUNNER.EXE use batchrunner.exe /? to see the options. But I would recommend HIDE.EXE

why not just leave it like it was... what's the difference between Program Files and Programs? If there is a difference, is it worth it? if you want program files to be on %systemdrive%, no problem its standard there. and renaming program files can also be done with tweakui.

thanks, I know AutoIt as well, in fact I use it a few times for my uAdisc. But for this it isn't really necessary.

You can hide batchfiles (.cmd or .bat) completely by using HIDE.EXE or BATCHRUNNER.EXE batchrunner you can find on msfn, there is a topic.... hide.exe... perhaps google. I use hide.exe for a batchfile, the final thing the batchfile does is start a PDFfile, nice thing is, the batchfile is completely hidden because of hide.exe, but the pdf file is shown. exactly what I wanted. I'm not sure if this is what you mean.

Yzöwl thanks for the response and the nice examples! Seems some nice things can be done with VBS and INF. Djé, actually that is just what I wanted and it is not that complicated at all. I've seen some .cmd files and experimented with them. I have had some Java courses in college... actually still have to do 1 java course for my bachelor. the FOR / DO thing is very familiar to me I don't really know what the "skip=4 tokens=2* is for but doesn't matter. If needed I can figure that out myself. Thanks a lot! I know some people remove VBS with Nlite... I prefer the method you suggested. But INF might also be nice. I will experiment with the methods! also thanks for the link. I couldn't find any good source for more info about batchfiles. IT WORKS! I figured out the tokens/skip thing a little bit, because it wasn't working instantly. The usual trial/error gave me a working test. I made a batchfile and edited/runned it untill it worked: FOR /F "skip=4 tokens=3*" %%I IN ('REG QUERY "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders" /V "Common Programs"') DO SET menustartprograms=%%J DEL "%menustartprograms%\WinRAR.lnk" PAUSE(used pause to see if the command was running well.) Now I will use it to copy an extracted folder with shortcuts to the correct location. Thanks A LOT! I will use it in my DVD-ReBuilder Easy Installer. It has become very popular since I created an English website for it. But my method of creating the shortcuts didn't seem to work for other languages then Dutch. Now with this method it will work flawless

uhm, either I don't understand or you don't. 1 rarsfx file, when executed it runs a batchfile that will create shortcuts. How can this batchfile 'know' for wich folders to build the %menustartprograms%? it could be for menu inicio, start menu, menu start... I think you want me to prepare the pc first by creating this, but thats not possible... otherwise I wouldnt have the problem of languages. but thanks for the idea

uhm, i'm sorry I thought the answer to your question was simple but then I read the reacts I'm still gonna give the simple answer: after every line that runs a setup in RunOnceEx, you place /f. this /f means it will first finish the command before proceeding to the next one. no need for sleep.exe or ping trics.

Your topictitle doesn't say anything, you could leave it empty.. most people here want help and/or share knowledge... it makes the forum a bit blurry... can you imagine a forum with all topics named like yours?

You might think this is a stupid question, well it is not: 1 method, must work for ALL WinXP languages! Why? I have created a small rar SFX, that will run a .cmd file that will extract some software to %programfiles%. Now I want (this .cmd to create..) shortcuts for these apps in the %allusers% Start Menu\Programs. (rar sfx cannot create them in allusers, only for current logged in user). This would be soo easy, but here is the tricky part: I want to be able to run this one rarsfx, wich will start a .cmd file, on ALL languages of Windows XP and create shortcuts. The problem is, Start Menu\Programs has got different names in the different WinXP versions. EXAMPLE: Start menu (English Windows), Menu Start (Dutch Windows), menu inicio (Spanish). It would be easy if there was something like %menustartprograms% but this doesn't exist. WHO knows a way?? I post it in uA Windows because I believe there are some experts on this area here.

I have build 2 shrinked & silent versions of Office 2003 with Service Pack 2 integrated, Dutch language. The first installer is for installing at T12/13, why? Simply because my RunOnceEx (with all apps) is started at this time instead of after the Setup restart, the whole Unattended process is faster this way. But Office needs a workaround to get installed at this early stage. It works flawless. Also made a second installer, without this workaround. So that means it can be installed at any moment. PLUS I have made a very very tiny .exe, it contains my .MST file, if you run it from the Office 2003 SP2 NL version it will install SILENTLY. I have shrinked office, keeping the following: Word, Excel, Powerpoint. VBA support (necessary for excel) FULL Dutch and English spelling/grammar/synonyms checker no stuff no one ever uses like Binder etc.. If anyone is interested I am willing to share both packages and the MST/.exe file. Ofcourse WITHOUT serial. PM me. Why am I offering this? Because it takes A LOT of time to update, shrink and get everything working. I did it twice (before SP2 existed and after) and can imagine no one wants to do it! I am absolutely not going to create it for other languages... to much time and boring.

Just wait a little longer... try to make the best of it with WinAMP.. soon, you will be relieved... and happy again: http://www.songbirdnest.com/

I am sorry but this topic is superconfusing, you are having trouble with Titou2k's pack, so you decided to use WMP10Lite (=Titou2k's pack!) again? Titou2k created WM10Lite, because of the following: You removed WMP9 and WMP6.4 with Nlite. Now you want to play WM Video with an alternative player like Media Player Classic. You also want to watch WM Streaming in your favourite Internet Browser (IE, Firefox, Opera) or directly in your player. check his topic: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=40707 It works for everyone so far, and it works GOOD! His website is the one mentioned in the first post: http://ksphere.free.fr/site/codecspackage.php if it didn't work for you, perhaps because you installed some other pack first or did not remove WMP and WMP6.4 with Nlite. There is another pack out there.. http://www.codecguide.com/download_other.htm Titou2k about this pack: I have used his pack (with Quicktime and ReaLite) for a long time on several pc's and laptops, with MPC and FFDshow, works fine, also streaming in Firefox is no problem.

The best app to make websites, for beginners and pros: Nvu (Nview), it was based on the Mozilla editor, have a look at www.nvu.com it has a very intuitive interface! and it is free.

personally, I do not see the advantage of making an add-on and integrate with Nlite, it will still go through the install proces... so actually it makes no difference if you just install with RunOnceEx? uhm, can't you just use the language packs?

mpui is far from an alternative, it only plays moviefiles. you can change color options in MPC to.. I like the simple user-friendly and intuitive GUI from mpc better.

isn't this poll and topic a bit useless? a Defragmenter can be tested by objective methods and has been tested, for as far as I know, Perfectdisk was the winner. (whuaa sorry for the double thing* )

Please make a new poll, this one with the different P2P networks instead of programs: Edonkey2000 Overnet Kademlia Gnutella Gnutella2 Ares OpenFT Fasttrack(Kazaa) or Torrents if you don't want a new poll, uTorrent and KCeasy should be added to the old poll. For music etc. I use Kceasy, because it is a fast and light program and uses the network that Limewire uses, plus Ares, plus OpenFT and as a small bonus Fasttrack. As extra I have Shareaza because it uses Edonkey and Gnutella2. But I am considering using Kceasy+Emule instead of kceasy+shareaza. for movies: Torrents, Usenet (Dutch users, for a starters guide that will make you download in 15min, check www.binaries4all.nl )

This IS Nero Lite, meant as a burning program... not a program that makes your dvd's play. kinda strange if dvdplayback would depend on the burning software.. the DSFilters have been removed since they are not neccessary and just steal associations from already installed filters/codecs. there are lots of better dvddecoders (free) out there.

Please don't, and pleeease don't ask him for such things.. Do you REALLY need StartSmart? Try using Nero Express for a week or 2. In my opinion it is more user-friendly and looks cleaner then StartSmart. I never actually used the WaveEditor... I thought is was a useless thing, but it is nicer then I thought and a basic waveEditor can be very handy (did use CoolEdit few times for some basic editing).

@Hp38user, after installing ( I did not restart after installing), Nero 7 asks for serial number in Dutch language, after giving the serial, it starts Nero in English! When I go to Options>Languages I get an error message, clicking OK doesn't help, had to use Taskmanager to shut Nero down. So it does work, but in English and I get error message if I go to the language tab: "An invalid argument was encountered." Using Dutch Winxp SP2+ your Ryanvmpack. BUT I must say, I removed an earlier shrinked version of Nero 6.6 (did restart).

in my opinion, Nero Express is a lot more user-friendly and more 'clear' then SmartStart... try it yourself I did like the previous Nero Express layout better (Nero 6.6), but perhaps just have to get used to this new one.

Superb work! Thank you! But what do you mean with "Updated Anti-Virus included" ? I already have AV It is bigger then normally stripped Nero versions but this one has all the Helpfiles guess that makes it bit bigger. I do appreciate the Helpfiles, otherwise the entire help option was useless.

hmm I will try TClock, but I use Lclock for a while now and it works fine, actually don't really need anything else, but I will see if Tclock has some benefits

Ooh boy, I suppose the Installer will now be delayed Hp38user? Ahead must be one stupid company. Suppose you are a big software company, and your software bundle is very popular. You bring out a new version of this bundle Every Month! What would you certainly implement? An AUTO-UPDATE feature! just like an AV. What is the use of bringing out new version every month without it. Besides, just make up some bugfix story, give your software a new number and voila, next month again a new version. BTW what is the difference between Trial version and Update version? They are identical in filesize, so I suppose for Update you only need a serial, not a older version already installed and for Trial you don't need serial (for 30 days). Correct?