anil_robo

Greetings all! My name is Anil and I'm from Texas. Born and brought up in India, I'm in Texas for Public Health education. Though eventually I want to become a doctor, computing remains a passion for me. I have used all my spare time in the last ten years to get myself some computing knowledge. I like gaming (Planeshift is one of my favorites). I also attended Taekwondo classes last year, hopefully the instructor will return from Vietnam to give me a belt this year I love photography, see some pictures clicked by me here. Sorry the site may be slow because I'm hosting it from my home computer using a slow 64kBps line. I have spent the last seven days like zombies trying to make an unattended DVD, hoping to gift it to my sister in India - it'll simplify her life a lot! I'm still a beginner, but I can learn quickly. Hopefully I may even be able to answer other people's questions on this forum one day. A tip to fellow users: I found Autohotkey much easier to learn and use than Autoit. I love that program! Bye for now!

When I do not want to install certain updates (there is one that always breaks my PC's sound), I select "custom" from the automatic updates installer menu, and disable the update. Windows asks if I want to disable that update only for that session or permanently. I choose permanently. Any idea how can I do that in an unattended CD? To make it more clear, this is what I want: I make an unattended CD and integrate all updates except one update (let's call it KBXXX) I install Windows using that unattended CD Windows update is set to "Automatically download and install" Windows should install and download all future updates except KBXXX. Is it even possible? Thanks!

Thanks a bunch, everyone here is so helpful! I spend three whole days and nights to learn how to use RunOnceEx, and now I come to know of another tool! Well I may not have that much free time in the coming few days, so let's try to work with what I have learned so far - let's go the RunOnceEx way rather than WPI way. While browsing through these forums, I came across a tool called "Autoit" - I think it may be used to close the window when Dropbox tries to launch itself. I'm still trying to know what Autoit is, and what it can do for me. In the meanwhile, can someone make a little script that will close the active window that has "dropbox" in its title? Also where to place this script on the Unattended CD? Edit: Nevermind, I downloaded Autohotkey, and "recorded" the install using the "script recorder" that came with it. Works like a charm!!!

Added this to RunOnceEx.cmd: REG ADD %KEY%\050 /VE /D "Dropbox" /f REG ADD %KEY%\050 /V 1 /D "%cdrom%\Apps\dropbox.bat" /f Put the Dropbox batch file in the Apps folder, along with Dropbox_0.6.402.exe (setup). Contents of file dropbox.bat: @echo off start /wait Dropbox_0.6.402.exe /S ping -n 02 127.0.0.1>nul taskkill /f /im Dropbox.exe exit The batch script works on my working computer, but not when I install through unattended CD. The error dialog box says "Dropbox_0.6.402.exe not found" And it's a pain to rebuild the whole ISO and rerun through entire windows reinstall just to check a batch file worth few bytes, if you feel what I mean

This is a relatively new program, Dropbox beta. You can download it at www.getdropbox.com . It's a free program to keep folders in sync on many computers over the internet - I use it everyday and it's free. I added these two lines to RunOnceEx.cmd to try if it'd work: REG ADD %KEY%\010 /VE /D "Dropbox" /f REG ADD %KEY%\010 /V 1 /D "%cdrom%\Apps\Dropbox.exe /S" /f The /S switch makes the install go silent. However, once the installation is complete, the program launches automatically and wants me to answer some questions. How can I suppress those dialog boxes? Sorry but this is my first attempt to create an unattended install.