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If you don't mind me asking, why do you use NOD32 if you believe Kaspersky is the best?

[quote name='crahak' date='Oct 17 2004, 03:28 PM']Ok, name anything firefox is missing then. Also, look at the extensions. There's nothing I can think of that it cannot do. If you mean opera's mouse gestures, there's a plugin for that too... Once you try most nice plugins for firefox (there's lots of them), then opera feels featureless [/quote] Actually, I don't use the mouse "gestures" (have it disabled in options), but there is a mouse function that I use that I miss in FireFox. Hold down the right mouse button and left click to go back a page, visa versa to go forward a page. Opera will also forward you to another forum topic if a newer one exists just by going forward a page (also works for web-based mail). As for extensions, they're nice but with Opera it's ready to go out of the box. I don't have to download any 3rd party stuff to get it running like I like it. Running Opera 7.60 Preview 1 here and I love it. I've completely replaced 7.54 as I haven't found any issues with 7.6 that would make me need to revert. Been using Opera since v6 and I'm a proud registered owner (registering gets rid of that annoying ad banner ). One other nice thing about Opera is, that while it has a seperate address bar for searching Google and the like, you don't need it. Unlike FireFox, you can simply time in the address bar: [b]g <search phrase here>[/b] and it will search Google for whatever search phrase you entered and bring up the results. I tried that in FireFox and it tried sending me to various different websites. No clue why. Unless it was searching with the "I feel lucky" search option and sending me to the first page found (which is rather annoying). My 2 cents worth. P.S. Oh yeah, and Opera is a whole 1MB smaller download than FireFox

StarForce is the toughest protection I've seen to date. It's primarily designed to protect game CD's though. And it has some downsides. Number 1, like the password method mentioned it can only be run from within Windows because it has it's own drivers for accessing the IDE drives. Number 2, those drivers have been known to cause conflicts with the system leading to BSoD's. Especially when installing SCSI devices, or faux SCSI devices like Alcohol's virtual drivers. Sadly, I think Crahak hit the nail on the head. The most reliable protection is to make sure they don't get their hands on it in the first place.

Did you forget to reburn with the Win51, Win51IP and Win51IP.SP1 files? (Win51IC if it's XP Home)

Fuzzball: Is there a reason you can't set the IRQ in the BIOS? I assume this is a PCI device (or onboard) which means you should be able to control what IRQ it uses - or at least what IRQ the PCI port it's in uses.

Just make sure the drive you want to install on is the Primary Master (very important) and make sure you don't have any removable media drives plugged in like Zip drives or USB Card Readers (believe it or not, Win2k/XP setup gives them drive letter priority).

Yes, add repartition="Yes". Autopartition means it should automatically create the partition for Windows. Repartition means even if there's an existing partition table on the drive to overwrite it.

I think the problem is (and I could be mistaken) that you can only load two images if the first one is loaded as NOBOOT. Is it possible to modify the Linux loader to call the tweak.exe program from the first image?

Try putting \WINNT in " ". In your first post, you had it with " " around it, so I figured you had it that way in your winnt.sif, too.

Post your winnt.sif (minus your CD key of course). Maybe something in the order is hosed.

*scratches head* Did I miss something here?

Not possible. The Windows setup is designed to ask for the key at one specific time. It is not possible to change when that time is.

Well, I don't know how to do this with entire hard drives, but for individual folders you can right-click, properties and click Advanced then select Encrypt from the options. That will encrypt the contents of that folder so only that user can access it. And if you're running XP Pro (don't believe Home can do it) you can enable Quota management, so one user has an unrestricted quota on the partition/drive, but the other user has a 0 KB quota (meaning, no ability to write to that drive/partition at all).

What's your UnattendedMode= line set to?

Just to contribute a little to this discussion, I'm using NAV 2005 and my pagefile (on C drive) is not affected. It's set to 1.5GB, and that's the actual size. As for an alternative AV, have you looked at NOD32? I've been playing around with it and I like it. I switched to it initially when 2004 was out because of the extra overhead that 2004 had on my system (soooooo slow), but 2005 is out now and doesn't seem to have the same issues that 2004 had, so right now I'm testing them both (yes, at the same time on the same PC ) and neither one seems to be any worse than the other. I'll probably just stick with NOD32, but we'll see.

Where did you find BCDW 2? I still only see v1.5 on bootcd.narod.ru.

If you hex edit the file, it shows the major revisions (2.0 or 2.1). If it says 2.1, it's probably 2.1.3. If it shows 2.0, it's probably 2.0.11 already. Otherwise: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=27074 and scroll down to the bottom

What version of CD Shell are you using? If it's 2.1.3, some others have reported having the same issue. The only fix was to downgrade to 2.0.11.

here is my ini file for CDSHELL, hope it explains it self One suggestion (unrelated). Add this line at the bottom of each submenu: else goto <menu> Where <menu> = whatever menu option you're under. This way, if any key is pressed that is NOT defined, it won't exit out of the script.

Well, it did say that Ultra *CAN* run on AMD 64's, just not the Intel 64-bit if I understood it correctly.

Well, what I finally ended up doing was to create a directory structure like so: \ |_1OHO <-- OEM Home Setup |_1OPR <-- OEM Pro Setup |_1PHO <-- Preinstall Home Setup |_1PPR <-- Preinstall Pro Setup |_Setup |___XPHome |______$OEM$ |______I386 |___XPPro |______$OEM$ |______I386 Then, in my 1OHO, 1OPR, 1PHO and 1PPR directories, I either placed or did not place a winnt.sif to do a preinstall. However, regardless of whether OEMPreinstall is set to yes, the cmdlines.txt is parsed, so I added this command at the top of my batch file: IF NOT EXIST %SystemRoot%\DITOEM GOTO END blah, blah blah, blah :END EXIT Where DITOEM is a file that I had it copy from the $OEM$\$1 directory if OEMPreinstall was set to yes. If set to no, it would not be copied, so the batch file would just exit without trying to run the installers. Not quite a "single" $OEM$ directory, but as close as I'm going to get without straining myself.

Perhaps post the contents of the VBS file you're using?

Why can't you just.....activate it?

A) I was quoting Crahak. That wasn't my post B) I use /Q.