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XPe is designed to run on thin clients. We use them in the field, mostly kiosk setups. The thin clients have a 256mb flash drive where XPe runs from, and it also has 256mb RAM. We build the thin clients with bootable USB sticks that are batched to drop the XPe image, then change the boot order back to the built-in flash. The thin clients have no moving parts and are very small. I've never seen an installer or setup disks for XPe; as far as I know it's only available in image format from the thin client vendors. It is definitely not a version of XP designed to be customized by OEMs, and is not performance-oriented either. The only use at home that I could think of would be to use it for more secure web browsing via a thin client, as most flavors of XPe come with a "write filter" that forgets anything saved to it upon reboot of the thin client. Why would you want to use this instead of XP Pro? -Corey

My problem was ridding the desktop of the Media Player icon that shows up again after sysprepping. I did the following...the 2 files below are part of my sysprepped image... RunOnce.bat (located in C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\Start Menu\Programs\Startup) start %windir%\NoMP.bat NoMP.bat (located in C:\Windows) Del "c:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Desktop\Window*.lnk" Del "C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\RunOnce.bat" /f /q exit RunOnce.bat gets copied into User A's startup folder and executes. It calls NoMP.bat, which removes the icon then deletes the RunOnce.bat from the currently-logged-in user (User A). The original RunOnce.bat in Default User's startup still remains for anyone new who will logon. -Corey

Did you try putting it in the "startup" folder of the Default User profile? You need to show hidden & system files in order to even see the Default User profile.

OK so none of what I did worked. I ended up deleting CMDOW as part of my SAV install...it deleted just before RunOnceEx calls the Symantec msi. This still keeps the RunOnceEx hidden but my cleanup.cmd is NOT hidden...its only up for maybe 5 seconds though so I don't mind.

OK so the method above failed...rtvscan.exe respawned and during Cleanup.cmd the virus warning pops up. I just changed to method #2, using a vb script instead. I'm calling cleanup.vbs (instead of cleanup.cmd) from runonceex.cmd, and that vb script is calling cleanup.cmd to start minimized. Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") WshShell.run "cleanup.cmd", 2, true I have preclean.cmd delete cmdow.exe just prior to starting the Symantec AV install from RunOnceEx. Just using preclean.cmd without the vb script will work, but the window is not minimized and it looks "ugly". if the cleanup.vbs fails I'll just resport to keeping the window in view for the 5 or 10 seconds it takes to run cleanup.cmd.

I just noticed this problem too bacause I updated my install DVD so my SAV installer has the definitions current as of July 2006. Here's what I did... I just modified my RunOnceEx.cmd to run something called PreClean.cmd. PreClean.cmd ends the rtvscan.exe (display name=Symantec Antivirus) service prior to running Cleanup.cmd, so Cleanup.cmd can execute with cmdow.exe so it remains hidden. If anyone can show me how to do a NET STOP from a REG ADD in RunOnceEx.cmd, so I don't have to resort to that extra file, that would be great. Here's what I included in it... NET STOP "Symantec Antivirus" EXIT This should let Cleanup.cmd run unhindered and the last few lines of Cleanup.cmd deletes cmdow.exe prior to reboot as seen here... cmdow @ /HID DEL "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\Spybot - Search & Destroy.lnk" DEL "C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\Start Menu\Programs\Remote Assistance.lnk" DEL "%AllUsersProfile%\Start Menu\Set Program Access and Defaults.lnk" DEL "%AllUsersProfile%\Start Menu\New Office Document.lnk" DEL "%AllUsersProfile%\Start Menu\Open Office Document.lnk" DEL "%AllUsersProfile%\Start Menu\Windows Catalog.lnk" DEL "%AllUsersProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\Windows Movie Maker.lnk" DEL "%AllUsersProfile%\Desktop\Adobe Reader 6.0.lnk" DEL "%AllUsersProfile%\Desktop\Java Web Start.lnk" DEL "%AllUsersProfile%\Desktop\Nero StartSmart.lnk" RD "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Java Web Start" /s /q RD "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\PrintMe Internet Printing" /s /q DEL C:\addUsepmtimer.exe /s DEL C:\agrep.exe /s DEL C:\ATICCC.ins /s DEL C:\devcon.exe /s DEL C:\DPs_fnsh.cmd /s DEL C:\fnsh_log.cmd /s DEL C:\cmdow.exe /s DEL C:\Windows\System32\cmdow.exe /s DEL C:\Docume~1\AllUse~1\Desktop\MSN*.* /s net user aspnet /delete shutdown.exe -r -f -t 60 -c "Windows XP will restart in 1 minute..." EXIT I just burned the change and my laptop is building, should know in an hour or so if this worked. If so, it's a better solution than adding hacktools to the SAV exclusion list.

This works for me with Ad-Aware 1.05 SE Pro... ECHO. ECHO Installing Lavasoft AdAware 1.05 SE Professional ECHO Please Wait... start /wait %systemdrive%\Install\Applications\AdAware\aawsepro.exe /s taskkill /IM hh.exe /F taskkill /IM Ad-Aware.exe /F

I was able to perform a silent, automated install with the following batch file: ECHO. ECHO Installing Zone Alarm Professional 5.0.590.015 ECHO Please Wait... start /wait zapSetup_50_590_015.exe /s /noreboot ECHO. ECHO Registering Zone Alarm Professional 5.0.590.015 ECHO Please Wait... start /wait ZoneAlarmPro5.msi ECHO. ECHO Restarting the PC in 30 seconds... shutdown.exe -r -f -t 30 -c "Windows XP will restart in 30 seconds" EXIT The 1st part is the install file direct from the Zone Labs website. I then ran WinInstall LE (this is found in the "ValueAdd" folder on a Win2000 CD) to create the BASE snapshot. Once the base snapshot completed, I rebooted and Zone Alarm asked for the registration info, went through the config, etc. I entered my serial and then re-ran the WinInstall discovery to create the POST-INSTALL snapshot. It created the MSI referenced in the 2nd part of the batch file. This MSI only contains the changes to the system from before I entered the serial to afterwards. Basically, the 1st part installs Zone Alarm and the 2nd part registers it from the snapshot created with WinInstall LE. Once all was done, I ran system restore to bring XP back to it's original state and ran the batch file and Zone Alarm runs fine. After rebooting (from the last command of the batch file) it only asked me to identify the new network it found. I'm planning to test this on multiple machines this weekend to see if there's any machine-specific stuff in the package I created with WinInstall. Hopefully it will run smooth.