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Hi ! @smood1: Unfortunately, I believe that is not entirely true. If you add a user in Wihu and specify some personal folders, those folders are created right while executing Wihu and, I think, before the software installation process is started in Wihu so your command will come too late. At least thats what I think ... But thanks for the command syntax ! @Benjamin: Thanks for adding this feature ! :-) Mhh, how about an error message and a choice to repeat the format or skip it ? Yes of course but you could also add some switches to install.ini to create a "default" template for this. Not by default. However, you could also add another switch to Wihu to do that (for people using Wihu on similar systems that might be nice) That I did not understand completely yet. Sorry Bye, Alex

Thanks a lot, Benjamin ! Bye, Alex

Hi Benjamin, back again after a while I did an unattended installation yesterday on some friends PC and came across a problem if there are 2 partitions (C, D) created during Windows setup. Then, D is not being formatted during Windows setup, only C is as Windows is installed on that drive. After unattended setup is finished, Wihu starts and I am trying to add a user whose Personal folders are set to be created on D:\%ThisUser% in Wihu. Now the problem is that D is not yet formatted so nothing can be created there, yet Wihu does not say so. I think I once asked you about this already ( in the first stages of Wihu ) but then I forgot about it. Would you be able to add a "check" to Wihu that checks if the drive is formatted while the personal folders are created and then gives the user the possibility to format the drive before the user and the folders are actually being created ? Thanks ! Hope you are fine ! Bye, Alex

Thanks, shaz ! Do you know if this msi includes the Flash and Shockwave player for Firefox too or is this a separate download ? THanks, Alex

mhh, the /s switch does not work for me. Installation stops and asks for language (see pic). Ideas ? Thanks, Alex

Hi guys, There are many threads about silently installing Firefox. Quite a complicated thing to do currently. However, the Firefox installer supposedly has a silent installation switch (-ms), you can get all switches available by running setup with the -h switch. The problem is that there is a bug in the installer which causes a stop during silent installation. This bug is well know and you are able to vote for it so it maybe gets more attention so it may gets fixed for the final 1.0 version. So I would ask you all to vote for this bug in the Mozilla bug base: Bug 229706 You need to register in order to being able to vote. Thanks for your help ! Alex

Hi Mr Cobra ! wow .. this means that I won´t have to install the audio control panel seperately anymore ??? This is sooo cool ! I wonder why NVIDIA did not add this by default Thanks for this great tip !! One more small question if I may .... what is this NAM subfolder inside the ethernet folder ? It contains just one setup.exe without any iss file ... Thanks, Alex

Hey prathapml ! Thanks a lot !!!! Very very nice ! Alex

Hey prathapml! I am not installing it during T12 phase either ! At time it gets inserted into the registry but it actually runs later on after reboot ( maybe you should read up on the runonceex method ) How ´bout the iss file ? Sorry to be a pain but I simply cannot test this myself ... Thanks, Alex

Hi guys, thanks for your replies ! @DisabledTrucker: That I did not understand yet, sorry. I decided to keep my folder structure the way I mentioned in my first post because I do not yet use any driver packs. So if I keep the folder structure as it is, will there be any problem ? I would not know how to split the VIA drivers between Intel and AMD systems but I thought that whatever system I am running it on, Windows will simply take the drivers it needs from the OEMPnPDrivers path ... @ prathapml: THanks for chiming in ! 2 questions: 1. I have adapted your code like this: IF EXIST %systemroot%\system32\nvaudio.nvu REG ADD %KEY%\001 /V 1 /D "%SYSTEMDRIVE%\drivers\Nvidia\AudioUtl\Setup.exe -s" /f However, I am wondering if those PnP drivers from the OEMPnPDriversPath are installed at this stage in time (T12) already ? Since I am testing for the existance of this file I need to be sure that those drivers get installed before T12 .... 2. As for the iss file .... it seems like you own an NVIDIA board with NVIDIA audio .. could you maybe post your working iss file for the AudioUtl or test the one that is inside the folder already ? I would love to test if it reboots myself but I can´t. I don´t have any NVIDIA board available for testing so I am kind of dependant on what you (or someone else) finds out ... Thanks a lot ! Bye, Alex

Hi DisabledTrucker, thanks for your lengthy reply ! I am not sure I correctly understand though: Did you say this because of my attempt to install the audio utility during runonceex or because I left all the inf files in their folders and added each path in my winnt.sif ? Since I already added all those paths to my winnt.sif it is no extra burden to do so and I gathered from recent threads on this subject that this is the preferred method.Would putting every file from the subdirectories into one folder change anything except making the line in winnt.sif more "readable" ? Mhh, I´d rather not do this through shortcuts because this shortcut would also appear on INTEL systems for instance and it would then be up to the user to install this which I would like to avoid ( my future user base probably does not know about the internals of their PC´s ) I have read in recent threads that one can test for certain hardware by running a script or by testing for the existance of special files. However I only found references to ATI video cards not NVIDIA chipset boards ... I know that my runonceex should read something like: if exists ......... then REG ADD %KEY%\001 /V 1 /D "%SYSTEMDRIVE%\drivers\NVIDIA\AudioUtl\Setup.exe -s" /f but I am not sure what to "test" for that would always be present on an NVIDIA board with activated onboard NVIDIA audio. Thanks for your help ! Alex

Hi everyone ! Since I don´t have any NVIDIA nor VIA chipset board available for testing, would you please, please check if I did everything right ? I think I got it right but I am not sure and also I don´t know how the NVIDIA AudioUtility should be installed during RunOnceEx.cmd ( because it should only install when needed, meaning only on NVIDIA chipset boards with onboard audio ). Here´s what I did: 1. I extracted NVIDIA and VIA chipset into the $OEM$\$1\drivers folder 2. I put this into my winnt.sif: OemPnPDriversPath="Drivers\Via\;Drivers\Via\AGP\;Drivers\Via\IdeFilter\; Drivers\Via\IDEWinXP\;Drivers\Via\Inf;Drivers\Via\WinXP\;Drivers\Nvidia\; Drivers\Nvidia\AudioDrv\;Drivers\Nvidia\Ethernet\;Drivers\Nvidia\Ethernet\PreNRM\WinXP\; Drivers\Nvidia\GART\;Drivers\Nvidia\IDE\WinXP\;Drivers\Nvidia\MemCtl\;Drivers\Nvidia\SMBus\" If I read everything correctly, this should be all that is needed for the Via chipset but NVIDIA chipset needs the audio utility to be installed seperately: How do I test for an NVIDIA board with onboard audio ? Would my line in runonceex.cmd be like this: REG ADD %KEY%\001 /V 1 /D "%SYSTEMDRIVE%\drivers\NVIDIA\AudioUtl\Setup.exe -s" /f if the supplied setup.iss file in the AudioUtl folder looks like this ? [InstallShield Silent] Version=v6.00.000 File=Response File [File Transfer] OverwrittenReadOnly=NoToAll [{D7A6C517-11F2-419F-B5BB-27772B939698}-DlgOrder] Dlg0={D7A6C517-11F2-419F-B5BB-27772B939698}-SdWelcome-0 Count=2 Dlg1={D7A6C517-11F2-419F-B5BB-27772B939698}-SdFinish-0 [{D7A6C517-11F2-419F-B5BB-27772B939698}-SdWelcome-0] Result=1 [Application] Name=NvMixer Version=1.50.000 Company=NVIDIA Corporation [{D7A6C517-11F2-419F-B5BB-27772B939698}-SdFinish-0] Result=1 bOpt1=0 bOpt2=0 Will this work without userinput or worse, reboot ? Since I cannot make my own iss file because I don´t have any NVIDIA board available for testing, could you please check if I am making any mistake ?? Thanks very very much for your help ! Bye, Alex

Hey Benjamin Good luck for your studies ! Bye, Alex

HI Benjamin, Now I am a bit confused ... bug or feature ? Mhh, as far as I know the whole folder "default user" is being copied to the new user folder by Windows and so did Wihu 2.1.6.0 each time a new user is created or logging on. Otherwise all things added to the default user folder during unattended installation (shortcuts etc.) would never be copied to the new users folder, right ? A quick test with 2.1.9.2 showed that it works now, thanks ! Bye, Alex

Hi ! I know that some of you use that dll for weeks now ... I don´t know why those problems happened on my system but I tried more than 5 unattended installations using this dll and all of them had the above problems. As soon as I switched to the original dll, they went away ... what can I say ... for me that´s proof enough ---

Hi again, ah, I am glad version 2.1.6.0 does not have this problem so I reverted back to this version for the time being. As a further test I created two users, one with 2.1.6.0 (left) and one with 2.1.9.1.(right). You can see the results in the attached pic. Bye, Alex

Hi Benjamin, I really hope you can help out ! There seems to be a bug or problem with the user creation process with all the recent Wihu versions. I know this worked fine a few weeks ago but now it does not anymore. This problem drove me nuts over the last few days because I did not know why some of my registry tweaks I applied during unattended setup suddenly did not work anymore although they had worked already a few weeks ago. The thing is ... during Windows Setup I place a few files into the "default profile" folder so that when a new user is created and the default profile is copied, those files get executed when the newly created user first logs on. Now, as you can see in the attached picture, Wihu does not copy those files over to the new user profile when a user is created !! Of course if the user logs on, those files don´t exist ... so the tweaks don´t get applied. This used to work fine before. Also, as a test, I created a user with the standard user creation tool of Windows XP (Benutzerkonten in Systemsteuerung) and this user did get those extra files copied so this has to be a problem with Wihu. Would you please fix this soon ? Kind of urgent for me .... As always, thanks for your help ! Alex

I have had serious problems with this dll ... more info here Bye, Alex

Hi everyone ! I have had very strange problems lately with my unattended Windows installation and after tearing my hair out for days now, I found the cause: the patched termsrv.dl_ I downloaded from this thread My problems with this hacked version: Emule would always report a lowID and have connection problems downloads would break up randomly Some IE registry tweaks would not work anymore ( show IE on desktop, start menu etc.) I replaced the hacked dll with the original one and all those problems disappeared. This may be because I use a German Windows version but I still though I might warn you ... Bye, Alex

woaahh, thats strange ... I think everybody said that tcpip.sys is language independant ?? If not, why would it work on a German system but not on a portuguese one ? powtrix: what symptoms do you get with the english version ? BYe, Alex

It worked. Don´t know why this is suddenly needed but at least it works.

Not on purpose I will try again now with those entries above included and will post back afterwards :-) Seeya soon ! and thanks for your help ! Alex

mhh, I activated this and watched the changes using Active Registry Monitor and the only things that came up apart from some strange hex code was this: [HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1708537768-1482476501-1801674531-1004\Software\Clients\mail] @="Microsoft Outlook" [HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1708537768-1482476501-1801674531-1004\Software\Clients\StartMenuInternet] @="IEXPLORE.EXE" I guess, I will try this. Strange though that all used to work fine without this earlier.

No, it is not. It looks like this ( see pic ) any idea how to activate this again during unattended setup ? Thanks!

Sure ! ;SetupMgrTag [Data] AutoPartition=0 MsDosInitiated="0" UnattendedInstall="Yes" [Unattended] UnattendMode=FullUnattended OemSkipEula=Yes OemPreinstall=Yes TargetPath=\WINDOWS Repartition="No" FileSystem=* UnattendSwitch="yes" WaitForReboot="No" ProgramFilesDir="%systemdrive%\Programme" DriverSigningPolicy="Ignore" OemPnPDriversPath="Drivers\01_IntelInf\;Drivers\02_ViaInf\;Drivers\03_NvidiaInf\;Drivers\04_3Com3C940\;Drivers\06_USB2Seriell\;Drivers\07_GrafikNVIDIA\" [GuiUnattended] AdminPassword="xxxx" EncryptedAdminPassword=NO OEMSkipRegional=1 TimeZone=110 OemSkipWelcome=1 AutoLogon = Yes AutoLogonCount = 1 ProfilesDir = "%SYSTEMDRIVE%\Dokumente und Einstellungen" [UserData] FullName="Setup" OrgName="NO" ComputerName=Computer ProductKey=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [Display] BitsPerPel=32 Xresolution=1024 YResolution=768 Vrefresh=60 [TapiLocation] CountryCode=43 Dialing=Tone AreaCode=1 [RegionalSettings] LanguageGroup=1 SystemLocale=00000c07 UserLocale=00000c07 InputLocale=0c07:00000407 [Branding] BrandIEUsingUnattended=Yes [URL] Home_Page=www.derStandard.at Search_Page=www.google.at [Proxy] Proxy_Enable=0 Use_Same_Proxy=1 [Identification] JoinWorkgroup=ARBEITSGRUPPE [Networking] InstallDefaultComponents=Yes [Components] msmsgs=off msnexplr=off freecell=off hearts=off minesweeper=off pinball=off solitaire=off spider=off zonegames=off [WindowsFirewall] Profiles = WindowsFirewall.TurnOffFirewall [WindowsFirewall.TurnOffFirewall] Mode = 0