DarkPhoenix

I don't really think this is the place to ask. You should ask the author of the program or their customer serivice about it.

Yeah, it works, it diskparts my partitions correctly, and then formats them. My only worry is how it'll go when I begin involving the XP installation... since I have a C: disk, a P: disk and an S: disk for different purposes.

So use BartPE! I just got that working.

First, define this API in a global area: (such as in the top of a form or in a module) We'll use it to execute external files (Don't use Shell(), it is horrible) Public Declare Function ShellExecute Lib "shell32.dll" Alias "ShellExecuteA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal lpOperation As String, ByVal lpFile As String, ByVal lpParameters As String, ByVal lpDirectory As String, ByVal nShowCmd As Long) As Long You must reference the "Scripting type library" for the following to work. I haven't installed VB now (Since I've migrated to VB.NET) but I think you'll find it in Proejct -> References or something. The list should be alphabetically sorted, so just put a checkmark on "Scripting type library". (File name: "scrrun.dll") Then, do something like this to find and exectute files: Dim FSO As FileSystemObject Dim File As File For Each File In FSO.GetFolder("<path-to-folder-containing-exe-files").Files ShellExecute Me.hWnd, "open", File.Path, vbNullString, "", 1 Next This piece of code does no filtering for you though. I'm sure you can figure it out from here, and in case not, do not hesitate to ask more. I'll do my best to help. Oh, btw, the place that I put vbNullString you can replace with for instance "/S" or something, it's the parameters you pass to the file.

Thanks. I think I have figured it out now. I'll give it a try once I get to make the ISO and have booted up my VMWare.

Um, yeah, I don't have an OPK license or whatever it is you need, so I'll go for BartPE. I know this forum is called Windows PE, but heck, there's no BartPE forum, and this was the closest call, right? OK, onto the question. I want to do something similar to what Vann is doing in this post. The problem is, however, after searching and searching for a while, I could not find anywhere, how to configure BartPE to suit my needs, so I figured I'd go ask instead. Bad practice, sure, but hey, I did search first. All I really need to do is to get BartPE to use the install.bat file as mentioned in that post instead of the nu2menu, which is standard in BartPE. Vann said he's done it, so it's gotta be possible, I just can't figure out how. Vann, if you're reading this, please be kind and share your method.. and you others, if you know how, I'd be glad to hear it from you too. TIA, DarkPhoenix

What you're trying to do is quite easy, however, I am not sure what you mean by launch exes in numerical. Could you maybe give an example of some of the exe files you'd have (and thus need to launch) and I can try to help you.

I just tried the xanspc.no-ip.info address, and got to some "Attention: You have just entered the Demilitarized zone on line 13" or something like that, and then there was a link to some board. Not sure if I was just lucky, or something.

I might be dumb as a doorknob too.. -- but there's something I don't understand about something that is said in the clip. Somewhere, "Bush" says "You have more waffles than a house of pancakes". What does that mean? Why is that fun? Ehm.. yeah. I think the clip as a whole was very funny, but that part I don't get. Enlighten me, please?

Like mine has. (Yeah, rite... )

Download the file here, it works just fine. You just put it in the AVG antivirus folder together with the AVG Setup file, and run it instead of the actual Setup.exe AVG Antivirus AutoIt script

The only one I follow (and even that is partially) is WRC, if it is what I think it is. (World Rally Championship) One of their best racers is our very own Petter Solberg, who won the whole thing in 2003. That's prolly only why I watch, too.

@MCT - That won't work unless you're not using NTFS (and who's not using NTFS, eh? )

Stop yelling, dude. We can read ya.

Since you posted this in the unattended section of the forum, I assume it is actually unattended. OK, here's how I would do it: On the root of the installation (next to the i386 folder) make a folder called $OEM$. Inside this folder, you make a new text file called cmdlines.txt. In that file, you just paste [COMMANDS] "REGEDIT /S regfile.reg" and either rename your reg file to regfile.reg, or change that filename to your file name and put the regfile into the $OEM$ folder as well. I think this is the easiest way. I'm not sure if this requires you to add/change a line in your winnt.sif file or not. If it does, here's the one: [Unattended] ... OemPreinstall=Yes ...

it would be more faster if the matches are colored as if google do. They are... They come out with red text and a yellow background... I have never ever seen that. heh. All my searches are just plain colored no matter what.

@prathampl: Indeed I do. And such a thing helps morale a lot. I tend to put many programming projects that I start on a shelf, but I promise to get this thing done. *heh*

@gunsmokingman: That is sort of what I am doing. Although my method to check for an update is a little different. Your method would be somewhat impossible to do. By your method, how would I know that a program has updated? I would have to program a highly intelligent web-page parser that would look for keywords and the like, as well as locating the download link. It'd be hard.@Bâshrat the Sneaky: I cannot promise that I will keep it completely fresh. That would truly have me looking around all day. I will try to update it at least twice a week, as well as have a mail address where I sign up to any newsletters by these software companies and authors, and put in these updates as soon as I see them. In any case, unless you update your CD every day (and thus you won't need this prog... ) my list will be more updated than your CD. How, mirroring? I do not have the web space nor the money for bandwith to do such a thing. It will download from the actual sites of the programs. I do have some future plans for the program though, (things I won't implement in the initial version, but which I would like to implement later) which would boost the download speed to the max. First of all, like my config file explains, the program will do its best to reach a certain dl speed by downloading more than one file at once. (This will be implemented initially) I also plan to act like the download accelerators, and make it possible to use mirrors and more than one connection at once to get files (will configure itself automatically of course). I plan to make use of filemirrors.com, for instance. Yes, this program will have little use for those with slow connections, unfortunately. Not because I want to, but because of the nature of the program. It is a very good idea, and I could implement it later (likely). Like, you run BeUpdated in Network mode () which downloads the files to a folder you decide along with a file list. (which tells the BeUpdated client that it is a network install, and tells it to just install files directly off there, instead of downloading them through the web.) Then, the BeUpdated clients will just run the programs off the network share (or eventually download them from the network share and then install them)

Yes. I plan to include absolutely everything that people could use... with help from people here, in case I miss out something.

I just added a little command to your style sheet.. row4 img { float: left; } and to make the Source/View link appear under the image, just encapsulate that part in a div that has this style set: clear: both;

It looks nice. It does use methods I don't think highly about, but since nobody cares about that anyway, I'll just comment on the design. I just thought up something I think would make it look better -- if you let those images on the top of posts float, so that text would be starting on the right side of the picture and then when it's become longer than the picture, start below it. I've put together an example for you, so you can see what I mean: One of your newsitems 'fixed' the way I meant Your current design is wasting that space for no reason, don't you agree?

Does anyone here know about these guys? Heard of them? Heard their music? I discovered them not too long ago, and I became a fan quite instantly. I haven't heard too many of their songs, (though I don't know how many songs they've got) but all the songs I've heard rule. The songs I've heard are Birdhouse In Your Sould Istanbul Not Constantinople Letterbox Your Racist Friend Clowntown Experimental Film To get an idea of how much these guys rule, I recommend you go listen to the last of these songs, Experimental Film, on Homestar Runner's site. (A little OT: H*R rules too, be sure to hang about there too, if you haven't yet) Then, if you like them, you can hear more songs through their Dial-A-Song service (only in the US I believe) at 718-387-6962 or you could go to the online version of Dial-A-Song, and listen to some songs there instead. So, what do you think? I love these guys.

Because... that wouldn't make it unattended, now would it?

@mdes: I understand the first part of your idea, but the Level n and Level n+1 and so forth escaped my comprehension...

The switches the programs will need will always be a part of the file list, so that it will always run smoothly. In any case, there's been someone who wants me to do it, so I guess I will, after all. Maybe more people will use it once it's done. heh. I am allowed to hope, right?