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Guys, thanks for the help but it did not help much I did try your super easy way of doing things already but just copying the installation and user data directories over did not work with the installed extensions. They did not get initiated or something else goes wrong everytime I do this because none of my extensions will work that way. They only work right if the extensions are installed and Firefox then creates a new user directory when a user starts Firefox for the first time. So your suggestion did not help unfortunately. Also ... The installation is almost working. I just need a solution to the problem that copying the dummy user profile to the %APPDATA% folder during installation is not working correctly. An alternative solution would be a working way to turn the IE Import wizard of/on during Firefox first run. Thanks, Alex

Yeah, it did work one day, I am sure about that. I know because I specifically checked HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH variables after you introduced that feature in Wihu. However, I don´t remember when it stopped working, it may be related to SP2 but I am not sure. Any chance you might find a way to make Windows adapt to the changed HOMEPATH ? I changed Office installation by means of an MST to always place the default pst inside the HOMEPATH so I could certainly make good use of that feature Thanks ! Alex

Well, the SSE checking works but %CDROM% is not working in that bat file although it is working fine in runonceex.cmd Any other way to fill the %CDROM% variable with the correct drive letter during installation except for placing text files into the DVD root directory as explained in the FAQ ? I don´t like that too much, it´s kind of cheap I would prefer to have all my code in runonceex anyway ... Thanks, Alex

Hi guys, after working for 2 days and more than 14 hours on this I am really desperate. I read quite a lot about Firefox unattended installations by Simon and others but since I wanted complete control over what gets installed and I am also using a German Firefox installation, I decided to make my own installation instead of using one of the many setups offered in this forum. I managed to get where I wanted, almost ... but this last problem is not going away and driving me mad by now. OK, here´s the deal: 1. I am using Mozilla setup program to install firefox. 2. I am copying the plugin folder from an existing folder onto the plugins folder in Firefox directory. 3. I am copying a bookmarks.html and a prefs.js file into the defaults\profile directory. Next, I wanted to install a few extensions globally but I soon found out, that no matter what I tried, firefox would start the IE Import Wizard whenever it would run the first time, making an unattended installation of firefox extensions impossible. I read threads here about turning the IE Wizard off but not one of the suggested workarounds worked. Also, I would actually like to keep the wizard pop up when a USER runs Firefox for the first time but NOT while the Administrator is installing plugins. But this is seemingly impossible. So I then came up with a workaround: I figured that Firefox will only pop up that wizard if no user profile existed in %APPDATA% so I came up with the idea to copy an old Mozilla folder containing a dummy profile into the %APPDATA% directory before installing the extensions. No comes the big problem ... The code to copy the dummy profile works perfectly if I try it on my main machine´s user account but it fails miserably during an unattended installation on a virtual machine. Of course if the dummy profile is not copied over, the extensions will not install without popping up the IE Import wizard. I have tried at least 20 different versions of the code, I checked while the code was executed if the folder %APPDATA% existed at that time, I even went as far as to make a "Mozilla" directory inside the %APPDATA% folder before copying ... to no avail. What happens is, the Mozilla folder is always copied to C:\ instead. However, if I open a CMD during the Runonceex process and check if the variable %APPDATA% is recognized, I correctly get directed to the corresponding folder (C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Administrator\Anwendungsdaten) This drives me mad !!! I don´t understand why Windows won´t copy the folder into the APPDATA folder at that point in time while it will work perfectly later on when the process is finished. Any ideas ?? I sure hope so ... Here´s the complete code ... REG ADD %KEY%\022 /VE /D "Mozilla Firefox 1.0" /f REG ADD %KEY%\022 /V 1 /D "CMD /C md \"%APPDATA%\Mozilla\"" /f REG ADD %KEY%\022 /V 2 /D "%CDROM%\Setup\Firefox\setup.exe -ira" /f REG ADD %KEY%\022 /V 3 /D "CMD /C xcopy %CDROM%\SETUP\Firefox\dummy\Mozilla\*.* \"%APPDATA%\Mozilla\\" /S /E /H /Y" /f REG ADD %KEY%\022 /V 4 /D "CMD /C xcopy %CDROM%\SETUP\Firefox\plugins\*.* \"%PROGRAMFILES%\Mozilla Firefox\plugins\\" /S /E /H /Y" /f REG ADD %KEY%\022 /V 5 /D "CMD /C xcopy %CDROM%\SETUP\Firefox\profile\*.* \"%PROGRAMFILES%\Mozilla Firefox\defaults\profile\\" /S /E /H /Y " /f REG ADD %KEY%\022 /V 6 /D "CMD /C %CDROM%\SETUP\Firefox\default.cmd" /f REG ADD %KEY%\024 /VE /D "Firefox Extensions" /f REG ADD %KEY%\024 /V 1 /D "\"%PROGRAMFILES%\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe\" -install-global-extension %CDROM%\SETUP\Firefox\xpi\auto_copy-0.3-fx.xpi" /f REG ADD %KEY%\024 /V 2 /D "\"%PROGRAMFILES%\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe\" -install-global-extension %CDROM%\SETUP\Firefox\xpi\disable_targets_for_downloads-0.8-fx.xpi" /f REG ADD %KEY%\024 /V 3 /D "\"%PROGRAMFILES%\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe\" -install-global-extension %CDROM%\SETUP\Firefox\xpi\favorites_converter_(export)-1.0.1-fx.xpi" /f REG ADD %KEY%\024 /V 4 /D "\"%PROGRAMFILES%\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe\" -install-global-extension %CDROM%\SETUP\Firefox\xpi\flashgot-0.5.5-fx+mz.xpi" /f REG ADD %KEY%\024 /V 5 /D "\"%PROGRAMFILES%\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe\" -install-global-extension %CDROM%\SETUP\Firefox\xpi\ieview-0.84-fx-windows.xpi" /f REG ADD %KEY%\024 /V 6 /D "\"%PROGRAMFILES%\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe\" -install-global-extension %CDROM%\SETUP\Firefox\xpi\TargetAlert.xpi" /f Bye, Alex

Hi again, after thinking about it for a while I came up with a solution: @echo off SET CDROM=%CD:~0,2% %CDROM%\SETUP\Codecs\CHKCPU.EXE /v | findstr "SSE2" | findstr "No" > NUL rem echo %errorlevel% if not errorlevel 1 goto NoSSE2 if errorlevel 1 goto SSE2 :NoSSE2 start %CDROM%\SETUP\Codecs\ffdshow\ffdshow-20041012.exe /S goto end :SSE2 start %CDROM%\SETUP\Codecs\ffdshow\SSE2\ffdshow-20041012-sse2.exe /S goto end :end exit Would this work ? I will test it right away, however I have no idea how to do all that in a runonceex.cmd ... But if it works, thats at least a good start ! Thanks, Alex

Hi ! I updated to version 2.1.12.15 now but that did not change anything as to my problem. BYe, Alex

Hi Benjamin, I don´t want to explain your own program to you but, as you can see in the screenshot, my code leads to the entry %PERSONAL% in "Basisordner". Thats why I always thought it would work. If I adapt to what you just said and remove the lines "Home=%PERSONAL% in [users] section, and add a section [environment] with the lines "DefaultHome=%PERSONAL%" this will not happen. So is this a bug or am I doing something wrong ? Please give me the correct syntax. I am using 2.1.12.7 Thanks, Alex

Argh, my head is spinning ! Thanks, first of all for your help ! I do not completely understand your wonderful piece of code yet but I will nevertheless try it out ! However, now I get a "0" or a "1" right ? So what do I do know with those numbers ? Remember, I am in a runonceex.cmd so I think (?) I need something like "if exists" or "f not exists" ... but I am not sure ... Sorry, for being such a neewb in these things ... Thanks, Alex

Hi Shotgun, Thats lovely ! THANKS ! Alex

Hi Benjamin, Happy new year ! I am working on my unattended DVD again since I am on vacation and I came across a problem with the "Basisordner" setting. My install.ini contains this: [Users] Default=0 Home=%Personal% That should make the Personal folder (which is set to D:\%ThisUser% ) the Homepath when that user logs in, right ? Well, it does not work. After the user logs on, Windows defaults the HOMEDRIVE to "C:" and HOMEPATH to "\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Alexander" Unless I misunderstand your "Basisordner" setting. I know we had this or a related topic already a few months ago, but I don´t remember. Are you still gonna work on the "format feature" some day ? Thanks, Alex

Hi shotgun, thanks for your detailed answer ! I have quickly tried both Chkcpu and CPUZ with your commands. The first one adds this to the file: which should make it hard to use that information since it will only toggle yes or no and the word "SSE2" will always be in that file.CPUZ on the other hand seems to be more useful because it gives this information amongst others: So I guess this means on an non SSE2 capable system, the word SSE2 will not appear in the text file. However, I do not yet know what commands I would need inside a RUNONCEX.cmd (!!) to check for that phrase in that file. I guess something like But honestly, I don´t know the exact code. The above is just a wild guess .. As for the Intel Chipset, CPUZ, as you said, also detects the chipset but I cannot look for the word "INTEL" since the CPU is also described as INTEL ... Yes, I mean the IDE drivers. I do install all the chipset drivers using the winnt.sif method and it does work fine for all chipsets BUT ... a normal installation will use the Microsoft pci.sys IDE drivers and not the intelide.sys drivers. Only if you install the Intel Chipset drivers using the -INTELIDE switch, will Windows use the intelide.sys driver. Thanks, Alex

No one ?? I did a search but couldn´t dig up anything useful ... Thanks, Alex

Hi guys, I hope you can help me out here ... Is there an easy way (for a non programmer like myself) to test for the presence of an SSE2 capable CPU during an unintended installation ? I would like to add ffdshow to my unattended installation but there are SSE2 special versions available so in case a SSE2 capable CPU is present, an optimized version should be installed of course. Also ... I would like to test for the presence of an Intel Chipset during installation because the usual winnt.sif way of installing the Intel Chipset drivers do not install the Intel disk drivers. Instead one has to call the Setup program using the -INTELIDE switch. However, on a Non Intel Chipset this will cause an error of course. Thanks for any help you can give ! Happy new year !! Bye, Alex

Hey ! The new version works fine, thanks ! Alex

Hi drthawhizkid! Yes, I am installing on a German Windows XP! Just tried downloading your latest version but I got a page URL not found error. Byebye ! Alex

Hi ! Just trying this out for the first time but even the normal (not silent installation) gives this error (see pic). Thanks for your help, Bye, Alex PS: Just downloaded from your website, so it should be latest version.

Hi again, Alanoll ... I reinstalled Winamp now with your latest msi and everything works fine now, including cddb and uninstall info in control panel. I modified my ini like this: [Setup] Xlibrary=1 Xintex=1 Xjump=1 Xmodernskin=1 Xaudio=1 Xextra=1 Xregopt=1 XStartmenu=0 XName=xxxxxx XKey=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx XINET=0 XREGAUD=1 XREGVID=0 I have made the observation though that even though the "father value" Xregopt had been set to 1, Winamp was not set to play Audio CD´s after an unattended installation ( had to manually tick the relevant value ) Thanks, ALex

Hi again, just wanted to deinstall Winamp and reinstall using your latest msi but Winamp was not in the uninstall list in Control Panel/Software ... Maybe something went wrong with my last installation Was a fresh install though ... I will try again ...

Hi Alanoll, sorry, I was not online that much lately, I just saw your reply now ... Here´s my winamp.ini: [Setup] Xlibrary=1 Xintex=1 Xmodernskin=1 Xaudio=1 Xextra=1 Xregopt=1 XStartmenu=0 XNAME=xxxxx XKEY=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx XINET=0 I should add, that this is the same winamp.ini I used for 5.06 and it used to install CDDB just fine .... Thanks, Alex

HI Alanoll, thanks for the update ! I did find 2 other bugs possibly, though .. First, when running Winamp for the first time after installation, Winamp showed that dialog where one can allow anonymous user statistics. I think it is the registration dialog. I have name and serial entered into the winamp.ini so thats not the cause. Second problem is that CDDB does not seem to work although I have set Winamp to be always connected to the internet ... see pic ... Other than that, thanks for your work and help ! Bye, Alex

Hi Alanoll, thanks for the new msi ! A small bug ... as with your last msi, the playback of wav etc. files does not work after installation. The wave input module does not have those associated after installation ! Thanks ! Alex

Hi Benjamin, Thanks for your message ! I´ll be patient ! Good luck for your exams ! Bye, Alex

Hey Benjamin, any news on the format feature ? Don´t want to push you but looking forward to a new version with this feature ! Bye, Alex

Hi Benjamin, ah, I understand, you mean like if the drive is formatted with Reiser or other Linux filesystems for instance ... mhh, well ... I guess Wihu should then ask the user what to do ... Your screenshot looks great ! Two small remarks ... the countdown can be turned off in install.ini I guess ? and a quick format switch would be nice ( but I said so already) Thanks, Alex

Ah, I forgot .... please also add the possibility to do a quick format instead of a full format ! :-) Thanks, Alex