iamtheky

It was my understanding I had to wipe all boxes clean in order to reinstall with the VLK assigned (even moreso with KMS if we jump to enterprise 7). This is more a question now rather than dispute, how would an entity specify they need a blanket 500 licenses, not 500 upgrade licenses? http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/existin...activation.aspx VLKs can be used only with Volume Licensing products; they cannot be used with retail software or software that is preinstalled on a new computer (original equipment manufacturer, or OEM, products). (happy thanksgiving)

Wait. If you have 10,000 Licenses of XP, you can make an unattended install with that key and install it on the 10,000 machines of your choosing. It does not matter what the system has on it when they buy it. They are all 'whiteboxes' if you are about to format and load them from scratch.... If I am not mistaken, Clu's scenario would apply if they are currently using all of their Volume Keys and the 'OEMs' are using the OEM o/s load it shipped with.

maybe set the windows installer service to disabled, reboot, and see if the culprit is nice enough to throw an error?

RTMPE is Adobes protocol that is restricting most common flash rippers from being able to grab Hulu and MTVN (which owns southparkstudios) content. They must have pictures on somebody because they somehow got circumventing the encryption to be classed a violation of DRM, thus why you find no legit rippers of the content. You need to look into 'screen video capture'. There are many utilities that will make avi's out of what is occuring on screen. If you queue up a bunch of southparks and make them full screen, you essentially will be accomplishing your goal of acquiring episodes at no cost, other than having to watch the advertisements. Again I am sure there are many web pages related to "download movies from southparkstudios" and im sure many are full of malware or redirects to marketing websites, but I am sure if you scan those forums you will find related threads. I would restrict your search for screen video capture to known good sites (i.e. CNET, Sourceforge, etc...)

does this cmd have any effect? Net Stop Msiserver Also, have you checked your run/runonce keys? HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce and msconfig (the startup tab) to make sure nothing was executing semi-surreptitiously.

How about not driving the OPs question into the land of BitTorrent and "whether or not you are authorized"..... Chances are if you are acquiring Southpark from anywhere other than southparkstudios.com, or DVRing them when comedycentral or MTV shows them, you are not getting legitimate copies. I imagine you are on a site with a bunch of flash embeds and thus offering no method of download. southparkstudios.com however, has nothing in the legal I can find that says using a capture tool is a violation of the TOS, they just ask you nicely not to make the content available to a 3rd party or profit from it. there are far too many free download managers to pay for one, and im sure they have enough roadblocks you will have to find a specialized utility or dedicated capture application to grab anything worth replaying. I recommend buying their work (or watching the ads, same thing) and then sending a gratuity for being the most hilarious people ever.

It was the image I had as the background. apparently it was in front of the buttons, but I could still bring focus with tab blue border (and execute with enter key). but the shifting of the blue border to gray was not it responding to clicked on, but rather the left click of the mouse anywhere in the form giving focus back to the image. This behavior was peculiar because eventhough the image had the focus the buttons would remain on top. I am glad I had the issue though as your reply has given us hope for scaling down the au3 and making it a little more user-friendly.

Thats a fantastic amount of information. Your functioning examples will probably prove more fruitful than an explanation of why mine was behaving poorly. Thank you sir. I will reply with results.

So, made a pretty form with buttons with the Koda FD tool. Worked spectacularly until we decided to have the script learn the CD drive letter so we could call items directly off the disc with the resulting variable. grabbed @Mhz's .au3 (http://www.msfn.org/board/autoit-find-drive-letter-virtualclonedrive-t44991-pid-312233.html&view=findpost) That piece works nicely; however, when combined with the form it renders the buttons un-clickable. You can still tab down and hit enter and it will execute, but left clicking the boxes does nada. #AutoIt3Wrapper_Icon=app.ico #include <ButtonConstants.au3> #include <GUIConstantsEx.au3> #include <StaticConstants.au3> #include <WindowsConstants.au3> #Include <AviConstants.au3> ;Find CDROM variable $CD1 = _FindCD("STA_Rollup.exe", 0) ;FindCD function Func _FindCD($name, $option) ; e.g. _FindCD('Setup.exe', 0) or _FindCD('CD Title', 1) ; $option: 0 = Filename in CD Root; 1 = CD title Local $cddrive While Not $cddrive $drvs = DriveGetDrive('CDROM') If Not @error Then For $i = 1 To $drvs[0] If DriveStatus($drvs[$i] & '\') = 'READY' Then If $option = 0 Then If FileExists($drvs[$i] & '\' & $name) Then $cddrive = $drvs[$i] Return $cddrive EndIf ElseIf $option = 1 Then $cddrive = $drvs[$i] If DriveGetLabel($cddrive) = $name Then Return $cddrive EndIf EndIf EndIf Next If Not $cddrive Then If MsgBox(21, 'Warning', 'Please insert CD into a drive now') = 2 Then Sleep(1000) If MsgBox(36, 'Important', 'Are you sure that you want to exit') = 6 Then Exit EndIf Sleep(2000) EndIf EndIf WEnd EndFunc Dircreate ("C:\Temp1\") fileinstall ("sta2.ico" , "c:\temp1\" , 1) fileinstall ("combosmall.bmp" , "c:\temp1\" , 1) #Region ### START Koda GUI section ### Form= $Form1_1 = GUICreate("STA Rollup", 653, 251, 194, 132) GUISetFont(8, 800, 4, "Times New Roman") GUISetBkColor(0xFFFFFF) $Pic1 = GUICtrlCreatePic("c:\temp1\combosmall.bmp", 0, -6, 652, 256) $grpSa = GUICtrlCreateGroup("SA", 8, 80, 273, 161) $btnSam1205 = GUICtrlCreateButton("12.05 WS", 80, 96, 123, 33) GUISetState(@SW_SHOW) #EndRegion ### END Koda GUI section ###

Maybe i am missing something... Where do you establish the variable? set programfiles=?? *yeah imatard.

nothing. Keep all the fun stuff on an external, browse in a sandbox, and reload from scratch every 4-6 months.

I think forums attract very focused communities or none at all. Lacking a field of fire is detrimental, imho.

msfn is crawled well, why not throw it in your signature or something. Unless that or your site is frowned upon, I dont see why offering it up for evaluation would be horrible, maybe im not schooled on proper netiquette. I just dont know how much you will gather other than very generic answers without at least some screen shots.

Have useful, and or interesting, content? *nobody goes to my site, but my music may very well not be appealing

An install is an install, whether its an update or 'other applications'. I drop the actual executables into the install folder on the root of the disc then just put all the silent install commands into the setupcomplete.cmd. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library...314(WS.10).aspx

I apologize, i had misread your earlier post and thought you were indicating that what you had posted had an error. The one I posted is one my coworker made by throwing my .xml into WAIK and adding the second partition. I always thought the thinking was 1 primary partition per OS. Then again, I just re-learned that an extended partition is just a container for logical partitions, so I could be wholly incorrect

indeed the above code is for machines with a single disk split in 2 partitions. -fixed the above to post to reflect as such.

**for a system with a single hard drive** This makes a C drive of 20GB and a D drive that occupies the rest apparently you have to have a logical partition to extend or vice versa, im still hunting that down <DiskConfiguration> <Disk wcm:action="add"> <CreatePartitions> <CreatePartition wcm:action="add"> <Order>1</Order> <Type>Primary</Type> <Extend>false</Extend> <Size>20000</Size> </CreatePartition> <CreatePartition wcm:action="add"> <Extend>true</Extend> <Order>3</Order> <Type>Logical</Type> </CreatePartition> <CreatePartition wcm:action="add"> <Order>2</Order> <Extend>true</Extend> <Type>Extended</Type> </CreatePartition> </CreatePartitions> <ModifyPartitions> <ModifyPartition wcm:action="add"> <Active>true</Active> <Format>NTFS</Format> <Label>Winblows7</Label> <Letter>C</Letter> <Order>1</Order> <PartitionID>1</PartitionID> <Extend>false</Extend> </ModifyPartition> <ModifyPartition wcm:action="add"> <Active>false</Active> <Extend>false</Extend> <Format>NTFS</Format> <Label>DataTest</Label> <Letter>D</Letter> <Order>2</Order> <PartitionID>2</PartitionID> </ModifyPartition> </ModifyPartitions> <DiskID>0</DiskID> <WillWipeDisk>true</WillWipeDisk> </Disk> <WillShowUI>OnError</WillShowUI> </DiskConfiguration>

Do you see this behavior on the summary page for c:\windows\clock.avi?

No worries, a coworker got one functional today I will post that to this thread.

Thank you sir. I will reply with a result in the morning.

Thats what happens when you let spell check fix everything, it should have been.

[unattended] FileSystem=* UnattendMode=DefaultHide I have UnattendMode=FullUnattended and with FileSystem=* it still stops and waits, maybe that difference alone, but I can find no supporting documentation (cant find any to the contrary either, but it could still be very wrong)

I would imagine that .avi files got associated with another program (vlc player is my guess), to get your summary page back: open Windows media player go to tools go to options go to file types check the .avi block or download something that does a decent job and keep your current associations: http://avicodec.duby.info/

You can see this behavior running the install from the HD that you are attempting to reload. Can you confirm this issue occurs when running from bootable media? And you should really look into virtualbox or virtualpc, it will save you from the whole "i lost all my data" action.