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  1. Okay, then they are double quotes... However the issue stay the very same. Win2k SP4, adding the WINNT.SIF file with the product key, either within the double quotes or naked, as it is, have no impact at all. Always user are asked to provide the product key again and again. Hence my complain is, that the suggested metod are not working. It just did not do anything. When I had the UnattendedInstall="Yes" line there, then it at least are detected and the install is different. However not the way I wanted, so I removed that line, trying my WINNT.SIF file to look like this: [Data] MsDosInitiated=0 [UserData] ProductKey=xxx [Identification] JoinWorkgroup=xxx_home [Networking] InstallDefaultComponents=Yes [Components] AutoUpdate = Off Certsrv = Off Certsrv_client = Off Certsrv_server = Off Chat = Off Deskpaper = Off Dialer = Off Dtcnetwork = Off Fax = Off Fp_extensions = Off Fp_vdir_deploy = Off Hearts = Off Hypertrm = Off IEAccess = Off Licenseserver = Off Media_clips = Off Media_utopia = Off Pinball = Off Pop3Admin = Off Pop3Service = Off Pop3Srv = Off Rootautoupdate = Off Spider = Off Templates = Off TerminalServer = Off TSWebClient = Off Zonegames = Off Yet no luck or even difference. Is there are any other, working way, to supply the product key to the install and nothing else to be changed?
  2. -X- and submix8c - commas surrounding the product key. When I have them there, I have to enter the product key, so I claim that it does not work. That it is. All the other stuff is irellevant. There are so many things that can be changed, however I wanted ONLY the product key. And that failed to be used from the WINNT.SIF file the way I did it - with commas at beginning and end of the product key: "product-key" maronpatsy - I did not see a thing... sorry.
  3. Thanks, but all these only dealt with the options in the unattended mode. None of then deal with the fact, that the product key in Win.sif just did not work. I try remove the commas to see, if that did not help. Also deleting the options related to the unattended mode... possibly adding the options what not to install :-)
  4. Oh, that option: makecab /D CompressionType=LZX /D CompressionMemory=21 setupapi.dll setupapi.dl_ This is nice, thanks a lot!
  5. So, is there are other way that works... to do it? And not with the automatic mode, that suxx
  6. Thanks, yep, I using the TCP Optimizer already. However it did not looks like that I can change the IRQ used by Win at all: changing_IRQ_impossible
  7. I must admit I did not even like that makecab produce a bit bigger files that are in the original Win install, when talking about differences. However I did not find any switch that change the compression rate, so, I'm stuck with the default bigger files. The main thing is, that it works now. I can remove the "_x" to check and tweak the files for install, witch is tad faster then...
  8. Well, the nircmd.exe have only 40k, so adding these two small files in the system32 win dir is a good price to pay for easy access to any demo of choice! And it works just great! Purrfect, thanks a lot, mate! It is maybe not the most cleanest solution, but sure as hell it WORKS Thank you very much, you are a good inspiration for all! ...now what two files to delete in system32 dir to make it even...
  9. Thanks a lot, -X- Will that still let me choose my network settings and such...? PS. It does NOT work. It show a little less options on the "where to install" (no format, change to NTFS or FAT... nothing... I did not like this, I would rather choose... not just "choose drive" and that it is) but then it come again with the product key after the reboot. There is additional message to make me agree with the EULA (not F8 as before in "DOS", but after the first reboot in Win-like enviroment) and then after the HW detection the enter product key pop up... Any other solutions, witch bring back the install options, preferably? PS2. also it now need complete user-installl the network components (client M$ network, sharing files, TCPIP service...) ... that is also definitively worser
  10. I would like to ask, how hard it is to enbedd the Windows 2000 registration CD key into the install, so it just do not ask about it anymore again. I tried searching a little, but looks like either the whole HFSLIP or nLite is recommended, but either I'm blind, or it was not on the first two pages of search results, but it did not looks like as there could be any description or guide about this little operation. I want nothing more, just this Can it be done and how?
  11. Yep, as you quessed it, neither of the suggested works Using shell it always works, but never using normal windows explorer. And that is the desired effect. Click on demo and make it PLAY. Nothing else. Using shell is kinda... ehm... errr... NO. I did not want to go there. Things should work by clicking and not by typing things, especially when we are supposedly in windows! Oh, well. Sorry, I looking only for a way to make things work easily, not hard way...
  12. Well, that will be just the start of things, so I better patch :-) However the problem is found. My old machine, when stressed, it "tend" to create bogus HDD writes. Case in point - that was the problem. I re-did everything when the machine is only lightly used and - voila! The Windows install worked like a charm for the first time! Now I'm in the middle of optimizing the TXTSETUP.SIF file... First optimalizations are passed and install is going on... so now MORE! My apologies to Fred, my old crap PC is up to the blame :-( Yet I stand by my opinion that working on semistable machine IS challenging )) However that have nothing to do with Fred Vorck amazing work! PS. you did not answer the question, is polishing the enters, removing empty lines and such cleaning in the syssetup.inf file could cause any problems. I found out now that it not cause any problems
  13. Dear jaclaz, if this works, then I won't be struggling with this for years, would I? Of course I did noticed the address 3887 and did the change there and only there. I did run the modifyPE -c on the file then. And I makecab it and put into install. And the install won't work, even this and change in the syssetup.inf are the only ONE changes I ever made. So, unless you want to tell me, that with hacked setupapi.dll I cannot remove unnecassary empry lines from syssetup.inf (my main aim is to tweak the LAYOUT.INF and TXTSETUP.SIF files to strip the unnecessary bloatware loaded at the startup of the install), then the guide just does not work at all. PS. send the link the the syssetup files by PM... so you can see for yourself if it does or does not go.
  14. When adding new filetype to Windows, there it is possible to define the operations with it. I choose usually the "open" operation and choose just the executable it should use and that it is. Fairly simple, huh? Windows itself add after the full path of the executable file the "%1" variable, witch should pass the full path and filename of the file user clicked on. So far, so good. However a nightmare begin, when this don't work and the application refuse to accept anything EXCEPT the filename. Then it looks like it is IMPOSSIBLE to setup in Windows, because no-one of the variables listed that I found seems to pass the much desired filename only: %* - replace with all parameters %~ - replace with all parmaters starting with and following the second parameter %0 or %1 the first file parameter. For example “C:\Users\Eric\Destop\New Text Document.txt”. %<n> (where N is 2 - 9), replace with the nth parameter %s – show command %h – hotkey value %i – IDList stored in a shared memory handle is passed here. %l – long file name form of the first parameter for win32 apps, win16 get short file name. Specifying %L is preferred. %d – desktop absolute parsing name of the first parameter (for items that don’t have file system paths) (this won't work either) %v – for verbs that are none implies all, if there is no parameter passed this is the working directory %w – the working directory http://superuser.com/questions/136838/what-is-the-list-of-special-variables-available-when-writing-a-shell-command-for http://networkadminkb.com/KB/a192/how-to-determine-possible-context-menu-parameters-class.aspx I was not managed to find anything usefull. The app in qestion is eDuke32... When starting demo as by shel command: eduke32 -nologo -Ddemo8.dmo ...then everything works just fine. God forbid you expect this works as when you click on the file in windows... Or can it be done? PS. looked there: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/percent.mspx?mfr=true ...and find things like "%~n1 - Expands %1 to a file name." or "%~nx1" - Expands %1 to a file name and extension." ...however neither "%~n1", "%~nx1", "%1%~n1" or "%1%~nx1" works... That suxx.
  15. In order to "play" with the Win2k SP4 install files is necessary to disable the checking in setupapo.dll file, right? Replacing the SETUPREG.HIV worked w/o this change to get the LBA support, but that is probably different stuff...? Anyway, according to this guide by Fred Vorck: http://www.vorck.com/windows/edit-setupapi.html I should look for "55 8B EC FF 75" and replace it with "33 C0 C2 30 00" ... That is so simple that nothing can go wrong, right? Well... wrong. It is simple when come to unpacking: expand -r setupapi.dl_ modifype setupapi.dll -c makecab setupapi.dll setupapi.dl_ ...and fixing and packing the file again. However the real challenge is in the search for "55 8B EC FF 75" itself. The file have FOUR INSTANCES or the "55 8B EC FF 75" sequence. First at address 1CCF, second at address 3887, third at address 2620E and fourth at address 33653. Now since the screenshot shown that the previous byte sequence, leading the the 55 8B... is "C9 C2 14 00", then I looked up and in the second case (and only in the second case) it match exactly. Also it is at the address 3887, witch is also shown by arrow on the screenshot. So I did the change, used modifype, makecab, burned the image with slight changes to the syssetup.inf file to check that this is working... and very soon the install end claiming that "can't load setsupdd.dll file..." so it does NOT work for Win2k SP4 cz ... Suggestions what to try to finally overcome this problem? I never even managed HFSLIP to work, perhaps because of this...
  16. I must admit that I never managed the full HFSLIP thing to work. But I did managed to just: 1) using WinISO rip the Win2k SP4 cz install I using to ISO file 2) using WinISO in the i386 dir fing and delete the SETUPREG.HIV file and then drag&drop the new file I get there into the install: 3) save the image and using Nero burn it to CDRW 4) try installing this on 320G drive, where previously it can't even format the HDD first 2G partition... ...and as I type this, the W2k on testing machine just finished its install! :-) Hooray! It works, LBA support is now "enabled by default"... Install done, everything works just great!
  17. Dear red2k - to keep things simple, with my W2k SP4 czech install I just replaced the SETUREG.HIV and hooray! It works and now I can install on 320G HDD, witch was impossible to see/format before this change. Many people in the thread claim, that it can be done "after" or use install just on small OS partition to make it work. WRONG! I use 320G HDD and only 2G OS FAT32 partition (rest NTFS data) and Win2k SP4 refuse to install on the 2G partition, because they claim it is "damaged" and they have to format it. However the format run VERY slow and at the end it just say that it cannot do the job, because HDD is damaged! Now, after your fix, it all run just PURRRRRRFECTLY! Thanks a lot!
  18. I would like to ask if anyone know, from where originate the latency setting, that after installing Windows use/set for certain devices. For example a latency setting for PCI NIC card. If I know where they originate, I can hope I can change them to something reasonable w/o using another program (and I just like to know what is this about...) Also I'm dying to know, from where the Windows/mainboard get the idea to use IRQ 7 for all the intensive tasks like GFX, SFX and NIC: WTF?! And how I can change / edit that. I keep the "Allocate IRQ for USB" enabled in BIOS, but also USB are on IRQ 7... And I did not see used IRQ numbers 2, 3, 4, 5, 10 and 11. I know that IRQ 2 are for some "cascade interrupt for IRQ 8-15" (whatever that menas) and IRQ 3 and 4 are mostly for COM 2 and COM 1 respectively, but I did not use either, so I can find a better usage for these IRQs. But most importantly, the IRQ 5 is typically used by soundcard and I would like it to be used JUST for that! So, how?! IRQ 7 is typically for parallel port, but when disabled it seems that all the hardware end up there... Yet it still leave the IRQ 10 and 11 free to be used by GFX card and NIC card respectively, witch will leave on IRQ 7 the USB controller. ( http://www.webopedia.com/quick_ref/IRQnumbers.asp ) Now all that sounds good, but how I can re-arrange these IRQs? (Windows 2000 SP4, JetWay V266B, AXP 150x12.5, 1024MB 2-2-2-5 ram, Realtek RTL8183(A) PCI NIC card, AGP GF2MX400 graphic card)
  19. I must bump this interesting theme, because I tried the GrofLuigi suggestion about the service "Protected storage" and it works. Sadly only untill one choose to reboot/power off the machine. Then it wait for like 2-3min before it start actually doing something AND I do have the services timeout much tighter than that: ;stop not responding services faster [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control] "WaitToKillServiceTimeout"="3000" (default value is 20000) So Windows obviously want something with this particular service on shutdown/reboot and unless we know what and where to disable this, the absolutely uneed service must still run in our computers Any suggestions where to look?
  20. MDGx - thank you very very much for help with this new codec! Your guide is working like a charm on Windows 2000! (there it need the reg file to manually register the DLL) Keep up your good work, mate! COKEDUDEUSF - I would say that GSpot will show ya... look:
  21. Interesting findings, doswind! I did not want to go THAT extreme, but I still want to ger rid of the last IE cache files, so... You say that when the wininet.dll is no present, then flash did not work? Hmmm, that is a problem. Puting the wininet.dll into the Firefox/Plugins near the NPSWF32.dll, NPSWF32_FlashUtil.exe and flashplayer.xpt do the trick? That would be good then Now just how to hack the winlogon.exe to not load wininet.dll
  22. To be able modify the Windows install CD files, one need to hack the setupapi.dll file. There are well explained and documented where and what to modify for Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP SP3 and Windows 2003 SP2, thanks to fdv: http://www.vorck.com/windows/edit-setupapi.html However the guide cover only the there mentioned Windows versions, not the one I want to use. Searching for the "90 90 90 90 90 8B FF 55 8B EC 8B 45 2C 33 C9 3B C1" as Fred Vorck suggested turn out of no result in my version of the file. You can check it for yourself: [Link removed.] So, what I need is some help how to do this. I cannot find the byte sequence for the XP SP3 version - 8B FF 55 8B EC - but I can found the byte sequences (4 cases of them) as for the Windows 2000 SP4 setupapi.dll file = 55 8B EC FF 75. When I changed the second one of them (as in Win2kSP version of the file), at the offset 4F17D (not same as for Win2k SP4 version of the file) it does not work at all. The install went file, but hand on on network components, at about 60% forever. I did use the modifyPE -c on the file after I modified it to make the setup working... When I pushed harder to make sure it is the modification fault, then I tried remove the "_X" that cause the setup to check the files: So I did and the setup immediatelly after the first reboot started to complaining about modified files that are "serious problem" and setup "cannot continue". That means the patch I made to the setupapi.dll is not working So, I asking if anyone know the correct byte sequence or have some ideas to try on my file. Thanks!
  23. Problem found and there it is - the [scsiClass.Load] I have done this way: cdrom = cdrom.sys disk = disk.sys,,noload floppy = sfloppy.sys,,noload ramdisk = ramdisk.sys,,noload ...and that is WRONG. The disk = disk.sys must NOT be noload. Weird, in Win2kSP4 that worked w/o loading it, but now there it does not... XP will find my IDE HDD properly after I allowed the "SCSI" disk.sys to be loaded...
  24. Well, I have the installer and installing DX9.0c after Windows install. What I asked about is how to integrate the DX9.0c into windows XP SP1.0a Czech install. Too many files? Come on. It is just TWO files. Register? Sure regsrv32 dx9.dll is no that hard, is it? Somewhere in the HFSLIP must me code that do this, right? Inf files? Something inside the BDANT.CAB and DXNT.CAB...? Hmmm, I probably can try HFSLIP the Win2k SP4 install with DX9 and THEN apply my install speed-up fixes... But what about the WinXP SP1.0a Czech ...?
  25. I wonder, since I having a issues with HFSLIP, if someone can help me and explain me, how to integrate the DX9.0c into the Windows 2000 SP4 and Windows XP SP1.0c install CD's. Fred explained the HFSLIP way well in there, step 6: http://www.vorck.com/windows/2ksp5.html That is rather easy and as I tested, this perticular proces end well and Windows boot up with the DX9.0c. Now the question is - how to do it by hand? Anyone know?
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