Radimus

at some point my unattended CD (xpsp2+ hotfixes) is blowing the profile. When I look in docs & Settings there is administrator administrator.<computername> all users all users.windows Any ideas on what I screwed up? It just started doing that one day. It is not joining domain, only workgroup I didn't see anything in the reg tweaks that deal with the shell folders...

why not use for? FOR /f %%f in ('dir/b/s %HFSOURCE%\*.exe') DO Start /wait "" "%%f" /PASSIVE /INTEGRATE:%XPSOURCE% that will do every exe in the hotfix folder

regsvr32 /s "path"

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splitting page files can help by allowing the OS to chose which drive to access, etc... however, it isn't that big of a deal, you'll get most of the performance by placing the page file on a second physical drive I usually min/max my pagefile at 128mb if I have 512mb or more.... unless it is a photoshop or video editing box... some apps choke if there is no pagefile at all, so I force a small static sized one

http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=2679

I don't want it run at logon, I want it to run BEFORE the user logs on, at the "Press ctrl-alt-del" screen.

I'm sorry, I don't understand the question. However, post the question as best you can in english, but then followup in your first language. There is a very international group here.

I need to run a command (or a bat) only one time, but I need it to run at startup (before logon) OR I need to add a domain useraccount (and a domain group) to the LAdmin group BEFORE it becomes a member of the domain. 'net localgroup' will not do it until it reboots after joining the domain

you may end up doing so, since Symantec is killing it off

http://unattended.msfn.org/xp/reference.htm

sounds like blaster... :-)

no

you don't need to partition the second drive, just move the pagefile to it. It is obvious that you are trying to optimize the performance of the machine, as you went to the trouble to create a seperate partition of the pagefile to begin with... Problem is, that the partition you are place it on is on the same physical drive as the OS, therefore any performance you are trying to gain is lost do to head seek time. You may be doing it just to eliminate some fragmentation, but that can be offset by just fixing the pagefile to the same min/max size XP + ms office + 2 or 3 apps will use up about 4 gb of space, being that stingy with a few GB is going to bite you in the butt later on... assuming XP is your primary OS. Quite frankly, if you are going to 'play around' with linux, you can use VMWare or VirtualPC and not worry about all these partition games. When I was doing Multi drive PCs, I would do: drive 0 c: fat 16 50mb (dos and recovery tools) e: fat32 2gb (win98) f: ntfs 2gb (winnt) drive 1 d: fat32 3gb (progs and docs) g: fat16 1.5gb (pagefiles for NT and win98) Since then I quit screwing around with all that and have average size HDs in my PCs and HUGE ones in old PCs working as file servers. If you don't actually screw around the the NT or 2k OS, they run VERY stable, and my roaming profile and home drives mean I can pretty much rebuild my home desktops at will and not worry about losing documents and such... And my desktops have 1 single partition and I cannot remember the last time I saw a working/running PC with 95 or 98

how about giving XP about 5 gb more... and move the pagefile to the second drive. That would also be a good idea for Linux. Put the page file on a seperate drive, not partition on the same drive

I'm working on this as well, and in my environment all my PCs are ACPI Uniprocessor or ACPI, so it is pretty easy. install XP via unattended CD (DO NOT PROVIDE 3rd PARTY DRIVERS), install apps via script/batch (runonceex, is fine) apply reg tweaks and batch files to customize environment copy in SYSPREP folders copy in drivers defrag the drive reboot once or twice defrag the drive run sysprep use boot floppy or PE cd to run ghost or driveimage I haven't tried removing all the chipset drivers and the ide controllers.. I'll test that out a bit later. most difficult issue is finding a compatible HAL for all your PCs... worst case, since the PC is created mostly unattended, spinning another PC image with a different HAL, isn't too burdensome. worst case you could always FORCE "Standard PC" but you'd lose some features...

So you wouldn't even look for the answer that I gave to you... Reading is an integral part of using a computer 2nd issue, why do you not create a user account that only has the privledges of join computer to domain, and use that in the sif file and let the machine join itself...

see netdom... http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=298593

did you put in the updated setup.exe?

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/...deployment.html

most likely it is the built in firewall

see this link http://www.google.com/custom?domains=www.m...ID%3A1%3B&hl=en

take the original CD and boot from it, have your winnt.sif file on a floppy inserted while it is booting. See what you get.