CoffeeFiend

Perhaps it did not successfully register the ocx...

WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU.exe is the official one, and it has the proper MD5 checksum. I'm second guessing the other one is the network install that was released to MSDN suscribers between Aug 6-8... By any chance, does it not have a signature? Note the URL also starts with oem... (it's the OEM system builder website, so it's definately not for the same "audience") Personally I'd use the official one, but most likely it's just different packing but same contents.

Unfortunately, I don't. It's not like a batchfile or something like that one can learn in 5 minutes either. Handling WM_'s can be tricky at times (subclassing in general), and lots of times your app will crash when debugging (because of the hooks). You also need the general knowledge of making API calls... It's not extremely complicated but it might not be a 5 minute project for a beginner either.

Sorry. I was just joking here (I'm never very serious...) The new IPB sure looks nice Looking forward to it already.

RunOnceEx might comlplicate things too much for nothing if he has problems writing batchfiles. I much prefer GUIRunOnce personally...

And no, it wouldn't be that simple either. To this day still ignore why they chose to keep the chipset info out of the Win32_BaseBoard WMI class... Perhaps it would have made things too easy for us.

You got the idea, but I'm not sure of your placement of the quotation marks. Anyways, yuo can simply put in winzip in your $OEM$\$Progs\WinZip directory on your install CD and call it with the proper slashes, ie. "%ProgramFiles%\WinZip\WinZip32.exe" /noqp /notip /autoinstall (I have not checked if the switches are ok, but from memory it looks good). It should work fine.

Yes, and then perhaps we can go IPB-hack crazy and bug xper every day for a new tweak

Weird. Just installing IIS6 and forwarding port 80 traffic to the proper Private IP worked fine for me. You must have changed something, like deleted the IUSR_ account or something...

Okie When's it supposed to be final anyways?

I was thinking exactly of the same. Now I want to know what's different

Those "add this to your batchfile" usually have to be adapted, at least to have the paths match the ones you use in your setup. Perhaps you can paste the stuff you wanted to have, what you have right now and such, then we can figure out better where your difficulty is.

Ouch! Now I know why you wanted to do that... Chances are your best option is using another program then...

use MD to create new directories, and MOVE to move the directories into the new ones... Works for me.

Yes you can. You could make a app that would do just that in whatever programming of your choice, it's actually not that hard (although you'll most likely have to use SubClassing, and use the Shell_NotifyIcon API).

Lots of people have posted theirs on the site in many threads. You can look at them for ideas. Unless yuo don't know basic DOS commands and such, in which case you'd have to learn that too. A google search can find lots of good things

Are we going to uselessly continue on this thread that will eventually get lost deep in the site, when there's already a dedicated "stickied" spot for this? ...

You could delete some files post-install, but it might not save that much space. Nero.exe itself is already 13 megs (although you could delete some 15kb language files, 20kb big wav files and such...). There just isn't much you could delete. My nero install takes up around 64mb and it doesn't bother me at all. Features (even if you don't use them) aren't a nuisance either. Why bother trimming it anyways? Storage space is becoming so cheap nowadays it's not even funny... If I look at my usual computer shop, storage space is under 60 cents (US) per gig now (if you look at big drives that is)... So accordingly, saving 100 megs of storage is like emptying 6 cents worth of storage (and it doesn't affect performance in a meaningful way either).

XP SP3 is not gonna be here anytime soon, that's for sure. I can't see them coming out with a new service pack in the next 4 months, while SP2 has already cause enough problems by itself - that won't be completely solved even by 2005... Longhorn, it's gonna be in a long time, and it looks so much of a GUI-overbloated OS with nothing interesting in it for me, I just might stick to XP/2003 for another 10 years instead, or do a switch to linux then? Who knows. XP Tablet is here but Tablets just aren't catching on, mostly because of the price... Media Center (MCE and MCE 2004) are just not worth it imho. There's tons of other HTPC front ends out there and better apps for the job. The only thing I like from it is the remote...

Good to see... There actually are more ways to it, so we're up to 5 methods now 1) devcon.exe & find 2) WMI (Win32_DisplayConfiguration) 3) regedit /e & find 4) video bios substring scan 5) nv4_disp.dll/atiddc.dll file check and I'm sure we could still come up with more! As for method 5, I'm not sure at what stage you guys use it, but it has to have the drivers already installed obviously. Although I won't be surprised when someone says my bios substring scan doesn't work because "NVIDIA" is say, at the 513rd byte in the BIOS I don't think there actually is a "perfect"/100% fail-proof method.

Uh, I'm sorry but I do have to say you're wrong here (maybe lacking sleep such as I am?) GUIRunOnce cannot possibly use the %CDROM% variable to call start.cmd which has to set %CDROM% in the first place... There's a better way to set your %CDROM% with a single line of code too (that I've posted a while before). @Black-Panther: I'd definately call microsoft product support for some help with your key

Glad to see it helped. I never tought of using the print function like that before, but I'm sure it will come in handy numerous times. Any more tweaks or enhancements required... I'm always ready to lend a hand.

I never heard of a key to do that... You basically *have* to send the proper WM_Close message (or similar) to all windows, and no key combination will do that.

Nobody's got comments on the screenies? I guess it's not a much visited section of the website either...

It can easily be changed. Just a matter of opening the proper file with notepad and changing the 300 to whatever pleases you.