Dustinwmew

I am doing this so I don't have to spend days editing the reg to move all the programs to P:, and the users to D:. And the program don't just use the key value! thay sometimes will make hole key that I have to del and make new keys! it is painful.

is microsoft having all the fixes from the 1st SP in SP2 like thay did for windows 2000 SP4? (SP4 had the SP 1-3 fix part of it so you would not have to do all 4 one at a time.)

I have drives setup on my computer like this: I have 7 partisons of drives C Windows: D Data: E A^2: F Free: H Han: P Programs: S Swap: but in windows setup it sees the drives like this: c: d: e: f: g: h: i: so in the donoted link scp made a program that would chage one drive to the right letter I like it to be, but I need to know which drive is which to do it. add one more thing to 100 and 1 resouns I wish I had time to set up linx ones more...

...We have a EVIL parent in the house, Joe User 99. Ever one wave at the evil one . P I remaber the late nights at the keyboard...that is about ever day from now to when I had my old Apple 2gs I think it was called. the only computer in the home was in my room, but the Apple did not start me staying up late. I stayed up all night becuse I never feat tired, they would keep me up all day, then put me to bed and I would lay there thinking, look at clock, think, look at clock, over and over till my dad's mom came in to tell me to get really for school. I tryed many beds some soft some hard, but the only time I could sleep was while looking at TV, or laying on the cocah with my head betren the cuschings (I always had a head acke, I later fond out that little new air was coming in there, so I was passing out), or the times in pre-K for the napes, and last after about 4-5 days of being awake, but it was till I was out of 10th grade before I could sleep relible in a bed, so I was asleep in class a lot, but I still got A's and B's mostly even in houners class's, and I still fell a sleep in class after having more thing 7 hours of sleep or less then 2. ....while that was way off topic.... password as a habit is ahead!

now the top resun to password or not is if people live with you, or not or it is just a habit.

with things like this it is hard sometimes to think where to put this in what form... Ok I did made a post for me to set drives, now I need to find which drive a drive really should be. I am going to put a file on each drive but C:, so I can use "if EXIST" but I would like a to not be doing a A-L "if EXIST" for every drive drive I have. I would like to have it look to see what the file is then set a %L% to it. if it help the post to chage drives letters is here. I have a lot of useless posbo code below so maybe you should not read it, and just read what is below it. I will do some posbo code in Java LIKE! way with some DOS, I need something thats like this but NOT java, and NOT VB; it is for the a [string] in a .inf: char[] y = new char[/* there will be a value for this */]// letters are set char[] x = new char[/* there will be a value for this */] //letters are set for(char letter = y[1];letter<y /*this will not work!*/; letter++) { for(char letter2 = x[1];letter2 <L /*this will not work!*/; letter2++) { if EXIST (letter:/letter2) { letter2 = letter; //ones more this will NOT work!!! remove letter 2 from x[], and letter 1 from y[]; moves back one in the arrays // if you know java you know why break out of the x loop; //if you think that work, lol!! } }} .... the above made 2 char arrays: one for the real drive letters, one for what I would like it to be referd as. .... then I did a loop that looked if the a drive that is of the 1st letter had a file letter from the 2nd array. ... if not tryed the next in the 2nd array of letters. if true it gives the 1st drive letter a letter of the 2nd that it has. then del the 1st letter and the 2nd letter from the there array. ... repeat with the next in the 1st array, then next after that, on, and on... if you can understand what I just said... you are a great one.... this is to only find out what a drive in setup should be

now I need to be able to find wich drives are named what in setup, and I will do the higher drives 1st (ex. P S) so not to have a confilt when I run this program. (I don't wont 2 drives with the same letter...) to do that all I have to do it run the command for the later ones 1st. thinks!

it is a list of command. (the type you put in a DOS pompet) http://www.computerhope.com/batch.htm look on google for more there is better ones then that one.

I was reading up on microsoft.com and read that users who do not use passwords can only log on local, if that is true then it would be better to not use a password if you are not afread of people in your home/office being on your user. So what do yeh people say?

I am haveing a hard time understanding that. I know some Java so I know that it is looking at the 3 char's one the 1st letter, 2nd a " ", and 3rd the 2nd drive letter. and you are saying to do a test on all 3, you are looking at all letters and see if there is a Volume for that letter then test if it is the 1st letter, I think. then you are doing something to swich the 1st to the 2nd, but I don't understand the way it works. am I right on all that? would this work becouse it would need to be done before windows puts any programs into the programs folder? I could maybe put a file into ever Drive named "Drive#.txt" and in the unattend.inf file have a [string] that test for the file, so it would put the programs into the right drive, but I would still need to chage anything in teh reg that does not use the %ProgramFiles% to refure to something in the program folder...I hate the ones that do that.

so, you say that I till it at setup that so and so drive is also so and so, then when I get into widnow I del the 1st drive ref for the drive? does anyone known if that will work?

I need to be able to make setup look at a drive and letter it the way I wont. I have the letters set now but when setup starts it orgs all the drives the way it wonts. (I have 7 partisons of drives)(C Windows: D Data: E A^2: F Free: H Han: P: Programs S Swap:) (2 CD's)(K: L:) (1 USB pin drive)(it sees the USB)(I:) I have setings in the setup to install programs on P:, Swap file on S:, and the users on D:, but the setup sees the drives as: Harddrive's C: D: E: F: G: H: I: CD's J: K: and USB's L: is there a way for the setup to see the way I wont it?

what were can you use to chage the drive leter? edit :: I installed on the v-comper, then set up the partisons (C: D: P:), then tryed to install ones more, the XP installer reads them as C:, D:, and E:)... is there any way to make the installer see the light (that E: is P:)?

has anyone made a form like this for the XP home? I would be intrested CuBie in that if you made it so you could use it for home or pro.

you can remove the drivers from the database but you can't remove the driver cagrey from the list, it just have not drivers to pick from.

thanks!

on the 1st page is a link from Nephilim that i think is a old verson of the program. anyone that starts reading this post will d/l that verson 1st and not get the newes verson of the program. If he is still around it would be nice if he could up data the link.

I tryed that but got a lot of regedit'ing sites and how to make a alto run CD.

there is things out there for .bat, and .cmd, but I can't find any thing on .inf but regedit's. and the search on this forum does not subport less then 4 letter perword searches. (.inf is less then 4)

edit the link on the 1st page so it does not refur to a older program

I have a prb with it. when I chek one box other box's unchek. and if I hit the chek all box, i unchek one box then if i unchek a 2nd box the 1st box is recheked. edit:: the untimed 1 does not do that

if the program uses installshield as the installer then I think that what you setup when making the setup.iss file is how it is setup. how to make the setup.iss file for installshield is at: http://unattended.msfn.org/xp/applications/installshield.htm

I have a .ISO of my unattended XP and like to test it before burning it, but I have the unattended set for files to go to difient drives (C: windows, P: programs, D: data) how can I set VMware up for that. This is a FULL Unattended XP. My computer is setup with the above drives (and more), so it will work when I get in to the real setup but i need help on the V-setup. do you think I should set the unattended so the user can chage things from in side setup. (I am only useing a unattended so to not have to do a lot of regedit, and setups)