Radimus

nope there is not enough BIOS support for USB for that yet. You either boot from it or you use a DOS disk with USB drivers or you use WinPE None os which will get you in at textmode

it says that it includes flash, but it apparently doesn't so I got it here: http://www.download.com/3000-6676-10001055.html and this one wants /Q:A /R:N another link for shockwave http://www.download.com/Shockwave-Player/3...8-10279961.html

I DLed it from here: http://www.softwarepatch.com/internet/shockwave.html Shockwave and Flash Player 10 (Complete Standalone Installer) It is a WISE package so /S installs it

using shortcut.exe (I think from a wintendo CD) called from cmdlines.txt [Commands] "REGEDIT /S RegTweaks.reg" "apps.cmd" "Shortcuts.cmd" just keep adding additional ones as necessary @echo off rem set t= FULL PATH TO EXE rem set n= FULL PATH TO LOCATIOON OF SHORTCUT rem set d= WORKING DIRECTORY OF SHORTCUT rem set a= ARGUMENTS OF SHORTCUT rem set i= ICONFILE rem set X= ICONINDEX rem start /wait shortcut.exe -t %t% -n %n% -d %d% -a %a% -i %i% -X %x% -f set t="c:\program files\netmeeting\conf.exe" set n="%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\Accessories\Communications\Netmeeting.lnk" set d="c:\program files\netmeeting" start /wait shortcut.exe -t %t% -n %n% -d %d% -f set t= set n= set d= set a= set i= set X= start /wait shortcut.exe -t %t% -n %n% -d %d% -a %a% -i %i% -X %x% -f

My biggest peeve with wintendo is that it is unmanagable. the time and effort to maintain a win9x box in a corp setting is a HUGE waste to time and money This is an issue of a cheap company... win2k is the minimum OS any company should have. P2 400mhz machines a gettable for about $100 from ebay or ubid or surplus companies. You want to run wintendo at grandma's house, that is fine... and an unattended CD with win98 se, openoffice, firezilla, and some non-outlook express email prog would be wonderful... and pretty secure from general virus BS.

it is a bad idea... I just ran into this. slipstreaming is for admin install points and you can't use local install source if you install from an admin install do a silent install from the original CD source, utilizing a LIS and then silent install the updates

in the most basics if it is INF files and SYS files That being said, many video and audio cards come with so many extras that is not as easy as extracting the files to a folder and then pointing to the folder. There will need to be some experimentation... and probably a lot of research here.

XP (duhhh) mso2k3 (word excel outlook publisher visio frontpage) Adobe Photoshop & Acrobat Pro McAfee Internet Security Suite nero burning ROM google toolbar (to be replaced by XPSP2 IE update) download accellerator spyware blaster winrar MSN Messenger messenger Plus daemon tools acrobat reader microsoft reader overnet divx quicktime alt real alt flash & shockwave players Swiff player

No... the Dell Latitude laptops are business class, and the 'recent' recovery disks are pretty clean... OS, drivers, and little else... none of the AOL crap and such that shows up on consumer machines

it is @ http://www.wheelerfam.com/kixtart/001_network.zip Let me know if/when you get it...

I know what you mean, and in many cases you are right... The US has supported one regime or another either with money or weapons or training, throughought the past for many reasons... and many administrations. At one time the Roman Catholic church's Pope turned a blind eye to Nazi germany in the 30's and 40's and to human slavery during the 1800's and so on. Russia supported Cuba, until we proved enough of a hindrance to the Soviets that they abandoned Castro and took back their missiles Take Osama for instance, trained as a guerilla fighter by the CIA and provided weapons and money... why? He was fighting Russia then and that was the important thing at the time. The US supported Saddam as he was a military/secular leader at the time and would oppose the religeous administrations in Syria and Iran. Now the US has turned against Saddam and toppled that government that they helped to bring about and hopes to build a more democratic government. for many reasons. to relieve fanatical islamic extremists of a source of money, to hope that a free government would pose a positive influence in Iraq, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia Needless to say all these policies change from administration to administration, Some try bribery, some resort to supporting insurgency/radicallism in a country, and recently it was militarily. The US has the luxury of making these rules... we have the money and military to make the rules as we go. At least for a while, as China is about the only remaining nation on the planet with the possibility of becoming a superpower to replace the Soviets Hopefully the results of such meddling doesn't cause too many deaths (it always has and always will) and that the future purchased is worth the cost. Germany is a better place now than it was 50 years ago... and the differences between east and west germany 20 years ago was unbelievable... the Europe side vs the Soviet side. If in 50 years such a difference is apparent between Iraq and Iran, no one would question the justification of what the US did. As a side note, just for thought. The whole middle east economy is basically tied to the export of oil. With the efforts into alternative fuels(hydrogen and ethanol) and more efficient combustion engines (hybrids) and new sources of oil, what would happen to their economy if there was a 20 or 25% reduction in their exports over the next 20 or 30 years. (even though plastics manufacturing is the #1 use of raw petroleum). Answer, International business insourcing. Everyone knows (and hates) that Dell and HP moved their helpdesks to India.. It will be hard to provide services to other nations if you have Jihads with your biggest prospective business customers So to sum this all up: Islamic extremism needs to be dealt with Catholic priests need to stop molesting young boys The IRA needs to ensure that Sinead o'Connor doesn't make another album Toyota needs to get on the ball and make a Prius about $5,000 cheaper and Michael Moore needs to go on a diet.

It isn't just that... It is a given that anyone that WANTS political power is by defination power-hungry and corrupt. The real problem is Moore himself. While his can direct movies and such, he has cornered himself into "mock-umentaries". They may LOOK like the truth, but have enough 'artistic license' and 'assumptions' and in the worst case 'fabrications' to have little more substance than his personal opinions. His skill in directing and story telling make it look like fact. If even a 1/10 of his stories against Bush were true, he'd have charges or congressional investigations against Bush. This hasn't happened, because the allegations are either false, misleading, or not a matter of law. I am glad to see people watch the movie and get 'fired up' over it, the more intelligent or dilligent or even curious; will look into the stories, will read more news, will learn more of what is going on, and will form their OWN opinions... not just be lemmings following along whatever band wagon they get sucked into. Back to Moore... It is easy to blame leadership, when you possess none of your own. It is even easier to do when by doing so you make a fortune. What would he do in the same place? He should show a better way if he has one. On politics in general, and the middle east in particular. In for a penny, in for a pound. Now that the world in in the position that it is now, it only makes sense to carry on. If we are to blame America for 'Nation building" or whatever, at least we can say that at some point these countries will go their own way. Germany was let loose from the imperial control of Nato and the US after WWII and they are a leader of Europe now... and have no problem standing against the US or others as they see fit. A similar story for Japan... a bankrupt economy in the 30s and 40s and now they have a HUGE economy and is a leader in international business. The US also had a hand in the fall of the Soviet Union... and the Eastern Block countries are looking to a better future than what the USSR had for them in the 60s and 70s. There may be concern over the passing of an older or more established way of life, but nothing lasts forever. One day the middle east will grow out of the pain and fear they are experiencing now and will celebrate their newest nationalism. There will always be malcontents (see the IRA and neo-nazis, and some christian fundalimentalists) but the future of the middle east will be better than the past, even if it takes 50 or 60 years... at least we can all hope so. America may not have the perfect nation, and there may be concerns and internal conflicts, but I think the US has made more positives than negatives... at least are trying to.

have you called dell support? all you should need is the service tag number and possibly a few bucks for shipping

This handles all the NICs for all the compaq deskpro (since deskpro 400) through evo d530 and dell latitude laptops CP through d505 and many of the pcmcia cards that dell shipped (to us anyway) and several Optiplex models drivers\001_Network [.] [..] ANSMW2K.INF ANSMW98.INF ANSPW2K.INF ANSPW98.INF b57w2k.cat b57w2k.inf b57w2k.sys b57xp32.cat b57xp32.inf b57xp32.sys bcm4sbxp.inf bcm4sbxp.sys CBCOMBO.EXE Cbmodem.sys Cbmodem.sy_ DIAG100.EXE DIAG1000.EXE E1000.cat e1000325.cat e1000325.din E1000325.inf E1000325.sys e1000msg.dll E1000NT4.SYS e1000nt4.sy_ e1000nt5.cat e1000nt5.din e1000NT5.INF E1000NT5.SYS e100b.sys E100B325.SYS e100bnt.sys e100bnt.sy_ e100bnt5.sys E100bodi.com E100BW2K.CAT EL556ND5.sys EL90XBC3.SY_ EL90XBC4.SY_ EL90XBC5.SY_ iANSNdi.dll IANSNT4.sys IANSNT4.sy_ iansw2k.cat iansw2k.sys IANSW98.sys IANSW98.sy_ intelnic.dll M556NDI.DLL NET556N5.CAT NET556N5.INF NET8254X.DIN NET8254X.INF net82557.din NETi557x.INF PROUnstl.exe Setup.exe UNM556.EXE w9x90xbc.cat W9X90XBC.INF 60 File(s) 4,615,808 bytes 2 Dir(s) 6,959,981,568 bytes free There look to be a few of the *.98.inf files that could be removed... but they are pretty small

What I am looking at doing is something along those lines (well, not really) I was going to do a 3 CD set Disk 1 (WinXP + SP + hotfixes + drivers) unattended Disk 2 (MSO2k3 + updates) unattended Disk 3 (install.bat, winzip, shockwave, etc) unattended While each disk would have to be recut whenever changes need to be made, it would be simple changes... add additional files, edit the install bat, ISO it, and burn. If Daemon tools was installed, disk 2 and 3 wouldn't even need to be burned (if on LAN)

add the driver install exe (with it's silent switches) to the guirunonce section

3.0 is new... I didn't have it either. Cool

yes

not to be a kill joy, but have you seen the setupmgr.exe tool in deploy.cab.

I tried and tried myself... It looks like it will have to go into winInstall to repackage into a MSI

this seems to make it work... http://www.911cd.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=3817

I used that tool, and have pretty much determined that it is useless... unless loading it with USB drivers or netdrivers is what you plan on using it for. I've booted from a win98 bootable USB drive and once I start ghost or drive image or partition magic it fails to run and looses the usb drive. ... unless it can tell the difference between a flash drive and a HD

funny thing about my usb HD version of PE... every 2 or 3 boots I'll get corrupted usbstor.dll files. I have had to chkdsk it and occasionally replace the files. (pe 1.1) I am now working with 1.2 to see if it is any more reliable. BTW, I am running PE 1.2 with progman as shell... all the extra crap from barts and effort to get explorer in is overkill for a basic diagnostic platform and imaging tool. freecell is necessary to provide something to do while drives are defragging http://tjb.xgameservers.com/WindowsPE.html (with some slight modifications...)

favorites(URLs) are just little text files (INI format)... with only a few lines in them... they can easily be made with a batch and echo statements... echo c:\MSFN.url > [DEFAULT] echo c:\MSFN.url >> BASEURL=http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?act=idx echo c:\MSFN.url >> [InternetShortcut] echo c:\MSFN.url >> URL=http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?act=idx echo c:\MSFN.url >> Modified=E00313B3D64FC40193 echo c:\MSFN.url >> IconFile=http://www.msfn.org/favicon.ico echo c:\MSFN.url >> IconIndex=1 you batch writers can easily modify the above example to use variables for the file path

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=14316&st=0