CoffeeFiend

It was already explained. Copy it as whatever_file_name.key.yek to your installdir and that's it. It works fine for me and many others.

I've seen sp2 make turn several perfectly working sp1a machines not make it to the desktop anymore after installing sp2 on them. Installing from a slipstreamed sp2 never caused issues. I'd much rather do it the 2nd way.

I see that on many, many PCs (not even just on xp, let alone just xp sp2). Page view doesn't work, and IE wants to save all pictures format as BMPs no matter what... The ultimate fix: a good browser (firefox).

Yes, and Lada makes the best cars IE has so many bugs, so many security issues, and CSS support is very poor at best. Most webmasters living in this century (using xhtml/css v2 and such - not html 4/no css n00bs) will tell you they hate IE because of that. There were some campaigns against IE because it's just a headache having to make css hacks so the pages render fine in Ie - then have to add more hacks to your css - so your hacks to make your pages look like intended in IE don't mess up the other browsers like opera... I suppose anything that uses IE's components are no better with respect to that. As for the disabling js, activex, pictures, resizing windows, many searchengines in the toolbar (including google), popup stopper (the best around) and all that, my firefox does all that too

it's not "continually" not media issues, it's the program that's actually very slow and not too intelligent. It sucks enough that I can't stand it, so I just disable it altogether.

Ever since I replied to this thread, I'm starting to think more and more to an app that I meant to write for over a year now... Because the default XP autorun thing really *does* suck. I wanted to do something that would react differently depending on many things, and with lots of customizable events/actions depending on media type inserted and such, ie: If DVD-Video inserted, launch favorite DVD player (ZoomPlayer/WinDVD/PowerDVD/Theatertek/...) If DVD but not video, see if it's one big media file on it (HD DVDs mostly - as either .wmv .ts .avi or such) start selected player as well. Otherwise (still for DVDs), look for autorun.inf, else look at files, and do something depending on what file type has more files (more pics -> pic viewer, more audio -> music app, with maybe confirmation depending on percentages of each types) If it's a CD, look if it's a SVCD/VCD/miniDVD or has one big .avi/.mkv/.ogm file on it, if so, play it with appropriate/selected player else look for cd audio, else look for data files like previously. If it's a CF card (or whatever removable digicam media) then depending on prefs, start a slideshow (built-in with transitions and all), or move to a set directory on the HD with customizable paths (like %D for date, %T for time and such) with no user interaction required. Something along those lines anyways. It was something I thought that most HTPCs could use, and possibly other PCs. In fact, just about anything would be better than XP's built-in annoying "scan the disc for a minute and come up with no good suggestions". I'm sure many more useful features could be added as well. It would also have to be controllable easily with a remote control and such (with girder and keypresses) Perhaps have a disc database too so once you tell it to do something with a disc, keep doing the same thing with it next time... The bad thing is... It's not the style of project that is completed in a couple hour long coding session...

It looks like most people love flashget (I've tried it just once and I'm not familiar with it so I can't judge yet), but otherwise I'd say getright. the browser in it (ctrl-B) is very handy too.

I do make it install from a customized k-lite codec pack now, but when I was making it install by itself, the /S switch worked fine... (don't recall which version it was for sure)

Look for an update and cross your fingers?

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if you use this choice.exe instead http://www.usfamily.net/web/wpattinson/wil...util/choice.zip then you can do it like that: (pressing enter with no number, or pressing escape, or waiting 20 seconds will all choose option 1 as well) @echo off echo 1) install something av echo 2) install another av echo 3) install somecorp av echo 4) install nogood av choice /C1234 /E /t1,20 if errorlevel 255 goto av1 if errorlevel 4 goto av4 if errorlevel 3 goto av3 if errorlevel 2 goto av2 if errorlevel 1 goto av1 if errorlevel 0 goto av1 :av1 echo installing something av rem (setup.exe here) goto end :av2 echo installing another av rem (setup.exe here) goto end :av3 echo installing somecorp av rem (setup.exe here) goto end :av4 echo installing nogood av rem (setup.exe here) :end

if you don't mind a console-style app ("dos"-like), a batchfile with choice.com can take care of that in no time.

Running installs on vmware/virtualpc sometimes seem to have glitches like that. I remember once I tried a setup and it didn't run my start.cmd (from GUIRunOnce) at all... It seems that VirtualPC has it's share of glitches as well. If it works on a real PC... I guess it's all that really matters.

a protection emulator won't fix issues with the program not properly loading exports... could be a buggy program, could be a buggy "wrapper", could be caused by many small things you wouldn't suspect (like sometimes, changing a single DLL for a newer/older version messes some programs up - especially if export names/ordinals change or such internals changes were made)

Yep. Completely unrealistic overhyped movie...

It sounds like the first is windows' reaction to inserting a disc, and the second is started by the autorun.inf on the disc. As far as I know, you can disable autoplay, but both would go away. Perhaps writing an app that uses handles shells notifications and monitors the SHCNE_MEDIAINSERTED event ID to parse the autorun.inf.... (but that feels like a lot of headaches for not much gained) Some times like that, I wish I'm wrong and that there's a way to do this otherwise

You can add it in the winnt.sif network section. The sp2 deployment tools will let you add it easily. I believe this will do it: [Networking] InstallDefaultComponents=No [NetAdapters] Adapter1=params.Adapter1 [params.Adapter1] INFID=* [NetClients] MS_MSClient=params.MS_MSClient [NetServices] MS_SERVER=params.MS_SERVER [NetProtocols] MS_TCPIP=params.MS_TCPIP MS_NetBEUI=params.MS_NetBEUI [params.MS_TCPIP] DNS=Yes UseDomainNameDevolution=No EnableLMHosts=Yes AdapterSections=params.MS_TCPIP.Adapter1 [params.MS_TCPIP.Adapter1] SpecificTo=Adapter1 DHCP=Yes WINS=No NetBIOSOptions=0

Actually, I just posted in another thread a link to a utility called GetSID http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techi...ng/getsid-o.asp which seem to do mostly the same thing. As far as I know, sysprep actually does change (or the mini setup after it) the SIDs (and there's a utility called NewSID that works too).

Yes, that is what he was refering to in the 2nd post (he also PM'ed me more details). He has the del commands in start.bat and guirunonce start it. Looks good so far.

As long as your start.cmd is in the proper place for that, yes it will

Exports sounds like exports from a PE executable (or DLL), nothing to do with a firewall. Not much we can do to fix something something like that... (or it doesn't lead to any obvious problem) I'd suspect a "wrapper" type of protection (ala safedisk) to be causing the issues...

Actually, you might have to do more than that to get rid of them, because most likely, setup will still try to copy those files to your computer and setup would fail because it couldn't find them. (there *might* be an entry in winnt.sif for wallpapers) You can very easily mass-delete them post-install (at GUIRunOnce or such) in a batchfile.

I wasn't sure what you meant in your post until I googled for Outsource XP. For those wondering, it's a MS Outlook backup utility.

The SID (Security ID) change with every install (which is also why you can't "straight" clone NT/2k/xp/2k3 boxes on a network, they have to have their own - newsid/sysprep takes care of it...) But - you could try to dynamically get the user's SID and use that instead of a hardcoded one. You could use GetSID (my microsoft). link to GetSID: http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techi...ng/getsid-o.asp

You can delete the other ones if you want, but it won't really prevent other users from installing new ones. There might be a policy entry that hides this tab or prevents users from using the display properties to change it, but some 3rd party apps also allow you to se the wallapaper (acdsee, quickview plus, etc.) and you can't do much about that. Also, changing theme will change the wallpaper, so you would have to find out a way to prevent theme changes as well.