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LAYOUT.INF - Loads all of the Operating System files to disc in preparation for installation TXTSETUP.INF - Installs all of the Operating System files (do NOT go haywire, commenting everything out!) A bit of trivia: you can modify LAYOUT and if you slipstream a Service Pack afterward, Windows will think the file is digitally signed. Removing files from these two by commenting them out was how I got started removing useless Windows components. You need a hacked SYSSETUP.DLL or SETUPAPI.DLL to avoid errors.

Hi Gurgelmeyer the IE6 binary does not have all of the patched files for IE or OE and the scripting is not the updated ver I will PM you with updated filesets

Awww, darn. The Windows Genuine Advantage Tool is already down. Woulda liked to experiment with that. I assume it was a mod. If not, can someone post a non-IE only link to it. @Pene - thanks for the sharp eye, man. I will fix that note. TommyP's and my documentation will of course be somewhat different but yes, I do strive to get the basic info right and appreciate little details like this to make it easy for even the beginner to not only do it, but understand what's going on, too. @tommyp - the weird behavior really started after I tried my own standalone of IE6. The Outlook package works. Shouldn't CAT files not matter if SFC is off? Or am I wayyy off base there? I'll put them in if they need to be there. Will reply to your email fully later. @All - the HAL.DLL is apparently the file that causes the newly discovered HALT bug, causing some machines to overheat. Calios over in nLite forum posted that. We'll see what differences there are between old and new versions; maybe using the sp4 version is best.

TommyP's approach started as Win2k only and expanded to XP also. Now that we've got it to the point where Windows Update reports nothing needed, the idea was that parsing INF files would be the Next Big Thing to Try. I'm inclined to agree that this isn't ideal due to the fact that so many are dual 2k/xp. Also, your custom INF file contents - make it nonoptional and then try to circumvent this hang problem by replacing axant.in_ or some other worthless INF file with your INF's contents to do the dirty work for you (and reboot too) so that the problem you cite below is taken care of by logon (only looking quickly).

So last night I finish work on a fully patched executable of IE6. I figured I'd test it out myself since I need to reinstall soon anyway, so if it messed things up I could limp along til I found the time to redo everything on the weekend. I think folks are figuring out that the Outlook 6 standalone installer works very, very well. I figured IE6 wouldn't be a crippling problem. OMGWT (flying) F. When I rebooted I had only task manager - trying to run Explorer as a new task just crashed Explorer. You know that sick feeling you sometimes get? Like you're walking past a old beat up Cadillac ElDorado in a dark parking garage at LAX and you just KNOW that an out of work circus midget with a broadsword is going to jump out of the trunk and try to mug you? And who the heck would believe that? "Hello, 911. What is your emergency?" "I got mugged. At swordpoint. By a midget wielding a broadsword." "Sir, prank calling 911 is a crime." "No, really! He's probably an unemployed jockey or something!" Or say it's December 22, 1997 and you're with Kristen Gore on the desk of her dad's senate office when he was giving a press conference at Housing and Urban development and a Secret Service agent walked in. When things move in slow motion, when you're taken by surprise. And you know you're in trouble because it's hard to explain that all that screaming was just her being enthuisiastic. Or the feeling you get when you walk into a bank to cash a paycheck after you've had five beers on your day off and deciding to be funny you yell "listen up, this won't take more than a minute" and the tellers are really polite and accomodating but there are blue and white Crown Victorias pulling up to the building very fast and you realize that they're called "silent" alarms for a reason. That kind of sick feeling. I think probably these exe's should be made into cabs instead, that way, they will work with tommyp's script. BTW dude I haven't been replying to emails but I will and this was why So... yeah. See, it all started out when I tried to download IE 6 with that lengthy gobbledygook command that MS gives. It used to work, but doesn't anymore. So I thought I'd consolidate all of the win2k IE 6 files, but then this whole "well, I made a MS Java installer, and an Outlook 6 installer, why not jump right into a potentially big mess and do IE too. Soooooo, that brings me here, to update you fine folks on this IE nonsense. Hey TommyP once I get reinstalled I'll U/L the ie exe files; i am wondering if they are simply dumped into the HF folder and nothing is in the IE source folder, would that work? Or should I just .CAB everything and put it into the IE source folder? I think MS is doing the IE 6 download prevention because they want to force everyone to use the Windows Update site; the error I got was a Windows Update error when I tried to download. Internet Explorer is like a suicide pill for your computer.

Hey Oleg_II don't worry about questions just keep them easy You actually bring up a question I hadn't thought of. You could do what you propose. The file I created is a Type 2 Hotfix, technically. If you use the CMD file, you would not need the Outlook patch. Eventually, the IE 6 source files and their patches would also be eliminated. For now, since it's really quite beta, I'd like to get feedback on how it installs on an already-installed system, like a system with Outlook 5.x. I'd also like to know how it installs on an Outlook-free system. For now when testing it don't install without IE files unless you are testing it under scenario #2, trying it out on an Outlook-free system. I should note that either SFC should be off (not a problem for 99% of folks here anyway) or, if you get the popup box saying "insert your cd," keep clicking to use the new files. Let me know what happens in any case via email. BTW also, this file is not for XP, it's only for 2k. (Well, okay, I suppose it could be for XP SP1, but not SP2).

(obsolete) Post noted that I started work on standalone IE6 and OE6 installers. The OE6 installer worked flawlessly, the IE6 installer was a system-killer.

Hoak, you misread my post. What I am saying is that the reason no one else is doing it is precisely because Gurglemeyer has already done the work, gone to the trouble of obtaining non-regression tested nonpublic fixes and put them in, etc, and that is the reason why no one else did it. Why would I trivialize or disparage his work? Gurglemeyer - in the non-regression tested fixes you have seen are there new kernel files? The rollup has a bug that eliminated the STOP instruction so that the CPU never goes idle when it should (source is in this forum, posted a few weeks ago?) Wondering if MS issued a quiet fix for this?

Hoak - just clarifying. This is only a solo effort to avoid duplication of effort. By and large it is possible to grab the regedits from the rollup's UPDATE.INF, add them to the SP4 UPDATE.INF, compress the rollup files individually using makecab, and drag-drop-replace into the SP4 folder (after having expanded with /X). For files that don't exist in SP4, the rollup's INF has the details on target locations; these may be added to SP4's UPDATE.INF. That's why updates to things like MDAC will be in his option pack, as he notes at the start of the thread. The post-rollup files that may then be added can be found listed elsewhere on MSFN. Letting your computer create an integrated Win2k is detailed here (skip step 8 if you like Internet Explorer). The trick is avoiding a Cease and Desist letter from Microsoft when offering an unofficial SP5 binary, though the maintainer of the Windows 98 service pack seems to have gotten away with it Guglemeyer - That's great news that you've also found the method to trick WinUpdate into seeing that the rollup files are present. Not an easy fix I think you'd agree

@JoeMSFN - that command is designed to roll back from an upgraded IE to a previous version. Not sure what would happen after you've run TommyP's script (after all, IE6 becomes integral). WinUpdate on the start menu now opens IE and takes you to the Windows Update page on a system with WinUpdate 3.1 v2 installed. (If it's not, it installs and then subsequently takes you to the MS site). So, the Start menu item turns into a browser shortcut. Lots of us like this instead of MS's site, BTW.

pene, no, you don't need winnt.sif. angel blue01, you NEED ie6 hotfixes if you're integrating ie6. it's how winupdate "thinks" ie6 is there. Gotta have ALL of those inf entries. also may i highly recommend adding all of the hotfixes. it's just a really good idea.

Hey Gurgelmeyer, TommyP and I ran into this same dilemma a few days back. The new Windows Update checks more than just reg entries now... Great. It's checking for several dlls to be copied over to system32. A simple slipstream we made wouldn't do this (at first) but the EXE did. So, we adapted the command. The files that you need to be sure of are dummy.cat, oem6.cat, authz.dll, fltlib.dll, fltmc.exe, fltmgr.sys, and the files in the windows media server subdirectory in system32. Worked for us. As an aside, if applying the download is still not causing WU to see that it's on your system, there are major problems, because WU is no longer an applet like it used to be at all, it is now totally an ActiveX control run within IE. If WU isn't seeing it applied, then perhaps it's a Power User account and not an Admin. Can't think of what else it might be offhand right now, but then again, I need some sleep. Make an up-to-date Win2k SP5 manually "honey, mommy doesn't know what that means, but it's dinner time, and you've got to stop crying and come out of the bathroom now." Woof. The following has been an inside joke.

I apologize if this has been posted in this thread... I have read since page 65 and saw no mention. This is a little CMD file to slipstream hotfixes into a windows source: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=32125 This does files, all reg entries, and leaves WinUpdate saying little if anything. The file works for both XP and Win2k. Here is a quick and dirty set of instructions for making an up-to-date Windows 2000.

Just a note on BG's post... The 03D9F3F2-B0E3-11D2-B081-006008039BF0 reg add sets the kill bit for the javaprxy.dll COM object. The other reg adds create yet another new CLSID for IE, which I do not see for IE6, so I don't imagine any software is going to call on it. So... I know I need sleep, but can't the javaprxy dll OR the COM object's CLSID just be deleted? And couldn't Windows do just fine without the new IE 5 CLSID? Just sayin', I guess. Never have been able to make much sense of MS' work. Oh, Pene, BTW... WINNT.SIF should not take away your ability to do a repair. I have never read of this nor can I find anything about it using Google. Here's an MS note on the Recovery Console. Also, many helpful sites make no mention of this problem you have. I myself have not experienced it and I use a WINNT.SIF. So, I'm not sure.

Pene: [Data] AutoPartition=0 MsDosInitiated=0 UnattendedInstall=Yes [Unattended] UnattendMode=GuiAttended DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore That's your whole file. The GuiAttended will revert so that nothing is automated. Any specified settings would be ignored.

For Windows 2000 enthusiasts, check out a Win2k-specific procedure here: http://www.vorck.com/sp5.html Yeah, it takes some work, but like I say, don't blame us, blame MS.

Hi, gents. This post is not arguing anything whatsoever either way about MS JVM, its users, online banking, security or insecurity of the MS JVM, who or what supports it, or anything else. It's just me doing an MSJVM package for fun. Build 3810 will install only if msjava.dll is on the system, and XPSP2 and Win2k SP4+ don't put it on the system by default. So, I whipped the below up. Here was a RAR file containing the last msjava.dll MS issued (Build 3810 version); it installs in in your /system32. Then, the package runs the 3810 updater. It worked okay and installed MS JVM on my machine. Give it a try. I'll keep it up for a few days, but I don't want major throughput so I'll take it down after a little while. edit: file now removed. (23 folks downloaded it.)

<sigh> RyanVM isn't trolling. Did you read the linked material? MS doesn't include it's Java in its operating systems anymore. It was a victim of their embrace and extend, had security flaws, got lotsa patches, Sun won the lawsuit, MS dropped their proprietary version. Which is, in fact, a JVM based on version 1.1, which dates from 1997. (Not saying it's good or bad, simply explaining that when RyanVM says what he says, he isn't trolling)

hoak dude don't mess with us, don't tell us something like that and not link to it

Hey gents, new version is up at http://www.vorck.com/data/hfslip.zip Slightly OT: God I hate Microsoft. I've said it elsewhere but I have to say it again, they had a chance to do something right and they just friggin' blew it. This rollup is garbage, as the UPDATE.EXE files are different, the files are uncompressed on /X extract, and it therefore cannot be slipstreamed. Thanks as usual to tommyp for creating this batchfile and seeing us through this b?ll$#!+. For new users, please read the first post in the thread to get an idea of how this works. This will integrate hotfixes as well as a bunch of other things like XML, MDAC, MSI, and Internet Explorer 6 (or 5, if you wish to keep 5).

Allright, I'll take a wild flying huge guess. Fedora Core 3 uses an older NTFS driver combined with an install routine that has caused some errors on your NTFS volume. Upgrade to FC4 on the presumption that enough time has passed to the point where you have better drivers and a cleaner installation process. Yeah, I know, like I said.... Just a guess.

Right this second, it would seem that this June update is probably the latest. Maybe. It has the most recently updated files compared to the others. For now. This statement is not guaranteed and may change on Microsoft's whim, lead you to a 404, or cause Steve Ballmer to issue a statement saying IE 7 will have tabbed browsing and will automatically share the contents of all of your drives for the sake of convenience. All I wanna do is slipstream the whole ?$#@$ thing... <sighs>

Let's not forget bittorrent... Many of us would be willing to seed it...

Okay, I give up. Which contestant is the Real IE6 SP1 Rollup? Is it... Contestant One! Contestant Two! Contestant Three! Contestant Four! Contestant Five! And on which rollup is this patch to be applied? I see dates, but I see different file dates and contents within the installation packages. Nice. Like it's so mother f------ difficult for MS to release Internet Explorer 6.2. You know, because issuing what's fast approaching half a dozen cumulative updates is so easy for end-users. (For the curious, one of my clients actually wants IE6, so I gotta figure this out and I'd ideally like an answer, perhaps it could benefit us all)

Nope! It covers until May. When installed, it still says that there are a dozen updates available. It's like some kind of really, really bad joke.