CoffeeFiend

Wise is nice too (and a bit cheaper iirc) but work will only buy me so many toys for the same job... Now I want a adminstudio 5.5 to 6 upgrade

Or you do like I do, bring the odd app that's being a pain to work, and use adminstudio there (I have a license at work for it).

I use RegSnap myself and I never had problems with it. The fact that it generates .reg files with more infos in it aren't the app's fault. It merely reports what has changed, if lots of extra stuff has changed other than your settings, every apps like that would do the same... It usually only takes a few seconds to sort it out with notepad (eliminate MRU's and what not). The one thing that helps is running the 2 captures as close as you can to before/after the changes you want it to register. If there's too much time in between and many apps running at the same time, lots of other things will change as well and it will make a bigger and messier .reg file. If you want fancier than that, with exclusion lists and everything so it looks cleaner, then the big repackaging apps (adminstudio and such) do that job better... at a price.

That wouldn't surprise me. I bet lots more people thought of it, it's nothing new (dating from the "real" dos days) and it's not like it's copyrighted either

It's always possible to fix the .msi file like that or to repackage it altogether, but I guess I'm too lazy for that Instead of spending 3 days on it, I spend 5 minutes to make an AutoIt script... Leaves me time to take care of other problems instead Maybe I just give up too easily...

If you can access your router's config page bu http:// then check it's status pages. Make sure it has a valid IP (lots of times, you'll have to clone the MAC address or such things in order for your ISP to let you on). I'm half guessing your computer is getting proper IP/subnet by DHCP as you can get that page in the router.

That doesn't work. For/Next doesn't work with letters, nor you can increase letters by a number. Lots of people seem to add the same bunch of lines liek that for nothing really... I've posted this a while back and it always work fine, at any stage, no mater what: for %%a in (C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z) do if exist %%a:\i386\winnt.exe set CDROM=%%a: (of course, do change the filename and path accordingly)

I don't like that method too much. It will match *any* hardware made by nvidia (including video cards)... For example, a NVIDIA Riva TNT2 has this string: Pci\Ven_10de&dev_0028 (to the best of my knowledge - not that have one around to test) and it would isntall your nforce drivers because of it... Using both Vendor ID and Device ID is the reliable way to test. I've been meaning to do a batchfile (or vbscript or program...) that would test for most chipset categories like that (via, intel, sis, nforce, ...). I just need to find some time for it. Even better than that would be not to use devcon, but rather use direct port i/o to get southbrige/northbrige Mfg/Dev ID's instead. I already have quite extensive lists of them made up. (I'm also using a Mfg/Dev ID match to install a F-Lock registry tweak only for my ms office keyboards, and I've been considering making one for usb2/firewire detection too...)

As much as I hate having to do that.... Sometimes AutoIt seems like the last resort...

Another vote for ATI (powercolor and sapphire may be good too, haven't tried them yet). Gaming... does playing commander keen on a 286 count? (I'm not a gamer at all)

You might have a filter applied

You can't. Why would someone want to do that anyways?

Oh... I thought it was for an install... My mistake. Start > Settings > Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs > Microsoft Office 2003 > Change > Add or Remove Features > uncheck infopath & outlook, insert CD, click update.

Create ad administrative install point and use the Office 2003 Resource Kit Tools to create a transform file, make a custom install, don't select what you don't want. see http://unattended.msfn.org/xp/office2003_advanced.htm

If I omit f1 (the setup.iss IS in the same spot as setup.exe) then it does not work. Weird... I've had issues in the past getting apps to install like that from a DVD, and this is the only way it works for me. From the HD, it works fine regardless. If I remember right, without f1 I get error -3 in the log file (Required data not found in the Setup.iss file) and if I mention f1, it installs perfectly.

I won't take time to check, I'll just say I was wrong First mistake I ever do, I mean, really...

Yes, you can do a DVD, the process is absolutely the same than doing it with a CD, other than using a DVD drive and media... You can install all your programs, drivers and what not.

If you search, you will find there was a thread about this where we suggested about a half dozen methods to detect which type so you can install control panels (and coolbit tweaks/tvtool for nvidia or powerstrip and such for ati or whatever you want). I even wrote a 264 byte program (hopefully you don't need an extra CD for that ) that returns a errorlevel depending of which one it is... [edit] Found the link: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=26097

unibrain's site tells all about the issue in depth... It's fairly long so I won't copy/paste it. I use mostly USB2 (for CF card readers, external HD, etc) and firewire only when I shoot docked with my DSLR (not too often). I suppose I've been mostly lucky, I've never had problems with it yet. /me knocks on wood

No

It only works because your SFX extracts files to the HD first then you run it from there, if you actually ran the setup from DVD like I do, it would NOT work, you DO require BOTH f1 and f2 from CD/DVD, else it will NOT install.

The bug where IE saves only as BMP is very, very widespread, we already had this whole discussion a couple weeks ago in the forums here. The best fix would be to use firefox

Firewire support in SP2 is not great... I'd use the unibrain drivers if possible. Check it out at http://www.unibrain.com, it's good stuff.

You're missing f1 for your iss file (with full path), and f2 shouldn't have that space either.

This has been answered in at least half a dozen threads already, just use the search function.