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I was a bit hesitant how to write this, without looking stupid, but I have a basic question: The driver integration in nLite goes great, and they are found in a folder I386/NLDRV, but during the last test install in VirtualPC (10th in these past 4 days thanks to all the addons I want to try out) I couldn't find the audio (Realtek) and Graphics (Intel) Drivers on C:\. I still haven't tried finding the others. SO, my "stupid" question is: are drivers copied onto C:\Windows\System32 only if the mainboard actually supports or requires them? I got this idea because I put the Intel Chipset exe through RunOnce and it didn't install, just unpacked. Thanks for your patience

Thanks, I do remember having that hotfix. Поздрав и до тебе :-)

Every time I make an nLite session, in my partition D:\ I get a folder titled 68fd9f06b55fffaabe and inside is an executable file called fixccs.exe. I did some search and found out it was a file by Microsoft, but why is it activated duting nLite sessions?

I don't know if I should start a new topic for this, but I just wanted to ask if it was OK if the code looked like this (looking through the forum shows a lot of different ways to do it, making me a bit confused on what to use): start /wait %Source%YourFolderNameHere\Directx\DXSETUP.exe /SILENT As you can guess, I'm trying to avoid multiple installations at the same time, which causes errors. Thank you in advance. BTW johnhc, I don't have timeout.exe on my system or the XP CD, but I downloaded an NT4 version (I barely found it) and am looking through it at the moment. Regards, Sp0iLedBrAt

Hi mofirouz, in the previous Last_Session.ini that you enclosed I didn't see any drivers attached. Are you maybe doing a new procedure now? If so, could you send that Last_Session.ini or a screenshot of the nLite screen where you add the nVIDIA driver ? This is an example of my [Drivers] section in Last_Session.ini, while yours was empty: [Drivers] D:\My Documents\DOWNLOAD\drivers\Intel GMA Driver for Mobile\Graphics\igxp32.inf,0 D:\My Documents\DOWNLOAD\drivers\Intel GMA Driver for Mobile\HDMI\IntcHdmi.inf,0 I usually unpack the driver package in a folder (with WinRAR, but I guess you can also use others), and on the "Drivers" page in nLite point to that folder; it finds the corresponding .ini file and imports it. For me, that's all there is to it. Sp0iLeDBrAt

This is strange, my nLite 1.4.9.1 is running on the plain old .NET Framework 2.0, no service packs required and no errors so far. Is this some issue of compatibility for tcruiser?

I just might have it all figured out :-) I have succeeded in creating a fully unattended setup (although I was there all the time observing hahaha). The timezone isn't causing problems anymore, and I resolved the Administrator issue; it seems it was a matter of clicking: you choose the Administrator on the left in the list of users, but NOT on the right where you enable auto-logon for users; you choose "None" there, and you enter the password. I think I will now play with the .cmd file (saw that /qb /f doesn't work for windows messenger 5.1). BTW johnhc, it seems I am not careful with details, as I just copied your proposed code where the batch file was named "COM.bat", when it was actually called "COM.cmd" and was dazzled when nothing happened hehehe. What is the purpose of the line "TimeOut /T 40"? It wasn't recognized by Cmd prompt (screenshot "batch file.jpg"), or maybe the order was wrong (screenshot "runonce.jpg")? You guys have been really helpful and you have my sincere thanks :BOW:

Thanks for your prompt reply. The matter of fact is that I DID specify a password, namely "qaqa", just for test purposes, and was amazed not to see it in the Last_Session.ini. I also clicked the "Reveal/Show just here" box to check it was true. When the setup screen showed up, I entered the same password again, but since it's autologon I guess., I'm not asked to input it in VirtualPC. Thanks a lot for the cmd lines, and I must tell you that I've seen unattended CD's where %OEM% is copied onto C:\. That's why I put %systemdrive% instead of %source% in the batch file. Also, in my first install on VirtualPC, the $OEM$ folder copied onto the system with over 4GB of software setup. I guess strange things DO happen to everybody, not just OTHER people. I'm considering giving up. Thanks again.

Hello again after some period. Johnhc, I tried to apply your advices, and luckily, I managed to get some things you asked for, but some other things went wrong this time Let's go one at a time: 1. I did manage to avoid the regional settings setup screen, although I don't know what I did different from last time; I'm sending a screenshot, as you required, of the nLite process - Regional tab. Last_Session.iniS are attached. 2. I added a password and autologon for the Administrator to avoid the screen during XP setup, but unfortunately, I got it again; I've got a screenshot of that, and I was using Hide Pages. Furthermore, after the installation was over, I experienced autologon under the Administrator account, and NOT my personal. 3. THis is the strangest, the $OEM$ folder did not copy to C:\ during XP setup; I'm also sending the .cmd file in hope of confirmation from your vast experience. That's it. Thank you and I hope I'm not giving you long sleepless nights

you could have at least provided a link if you were going to make two posts about it in two separate topics http://www.winaddons.com/internet-explorer-80/ Yes, I could have posted the link, but I'm too lazy to read the rules, and in some forums web links are not allowed before a certain number of posts. On the good side, someone else already did it, so... -)

Hi, the problem is that you have to copy the files for making an Add-on into an empty folder, or else it will include all the files from the folder into the addon.

There is an add-on for the final version of IE8 at WinAddons website.

IE8 Addon now available from WinAddons :-)

IE8 Addon now available from WinAddons :-)

Uhhh, we knew that - reported in other IE8 RTM thread(s)... Yeah, I saw it later myself. Sorry maybe the next version of nlite can support ie8 I'm hoping the same thing myself; I actually started the thread wanting to ask when a newer version of nLite would be available

Just to officially confirm that the official release of IE8 does not stack up (slipstream) into nLite 1.4.9.1. It shows a screen with CMD install options and then it reports an error.

Thanks for the advice, I will soon make an XP installation on Virtual PC and add the screenshots and Last_Session file. I guess I owe you an explanation on the "Administrator" issue. As far as I know, the Admin. account is not always enabled, it's just present within the system. When you enable it (through Classic Logon or Device Manager), a separate user folder (not present by that moment) called Administrator appears in the "Documents and Settings" folder, containing basic logon info, such as desktop theme, shared shortcuts etc. That's what I was aiming to avoid, as well as to skip input of info from my part, since it's supposed to be "unattended" :-) Any way, I appreciate your devotion and your quick replies very much. Talk to you soon in case of...

HI again, I'm attaching all the Last_session files so you can see the different things I tried. You will see that I have assigned a correct time zone for me, but during setup I am still asked to input it. Concerning the Administrator option, maybe I wasn't clear enough: I don't want to activate the Administrator user, but I want to stop/avoid the screen during XP setup where I am asked to enter an Administrator password. Is this possible with nLite? These two screens prevent the XP setup from being fully unattended. If it makes any difference, I'm using a P4 ASUS A3H notebook with Windows XP SP3. Adding drivers, programs and addons hasn't caused me a problem yet. If you have any more questions about my procedure of nLite setup, I will be happy to answer them. Thank you in advance.

everybody, I'm new here and some of my answers may be here, but I wasn't able to find them. When I test an XPSP3 installation on VirtualPC, during setup I always get the 1. Timezone settings page during the install (although I have manually entered it during nLite process) and 2. the page requiring Administrator password. A possible solution was, I quote from nLite homepage: "Why does Timezone setting doesn't work? This happens only if you choose ProvideDefault as Unattended mode, it's not an nLite issue, that's a Windows bug. Quick fix would be to use one of the other Unattended modes, like DefaultHide." But I have tried with DefaultHide mode and one more (I can't remember which, sorry, but it was full unattended) and I still got a page during XP setup to enter them again. The second problem is the Administrator password; I know I can add it during the nLite process, but doesn't that mean that the Administrator will log on automatically with the given password? I would like, if possible, not to activate/enable the Administrator user for the time being since I have an admin user which I add to nLite. Any help much appreciated. Thanks