[Vista is another outstanding flop !]

I despise Vista in it's current state...

I have a Tascam US-224. Worked fine in 98SE, worked fine in 2000, works fine in XP.

When the drivers are installed in Vista it refuses to accept it's a multimedia device and refuses to put any sound through it.

Vista and it's UAA architecture has now put my system out of date. I highly doubt Tascam will be releasing new drivers for this (no longer supported) so to have sound in Vista I will have to *downgrade* my soundcard, losing my control over Cubase.

To be fair I haven't had the best of times with Linux with it either, but it was easier to set up than this steaming pile of muck.

Bring on the next beta...

[Unattended Install for WINFLP]

From what I've read (on bink's forums I think) it uses the same method to install as Vista, which is completely different to how XP does it. I suspect it will be possible, and if I get my hands on it I will be looking into it.

[Silently configuring a printer]

Worked perfect, and I can take it across computers

Thank you very muchly

[Silently configuring a printer]

Cancerface your code worked well for me,

I had to change the "RICOH Aficio 2090 RPCS" in your suggestion to 2090-3079, which is my printer name, I could never get the hang of that command line!

Thank you!

[Silently configuring a printer]

Thank you all! This is exactly what I need! will try today and let you know how I get on.

Thanks again

[Silently configuring a printer]

Hi,

I am currently installing a number of the same printer in my XP deployment. I am using the following:

cscript c:\windows\system32\prnport.vbs -a -r "ricoh2090-3079.someplace.co.uk" -h "ricoh2090-3112.someplace.co.uk" -o raw -n 9100 //nologo

to create a port and

rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /ga /if /u /b "2090-3079" /f "C:\DRIVERS\PRINTERS\2090\RC19E12K.inf" /r "ricoh2090-3079.someplace.co.uk" /m "RICOH Aficio 2090 RPCS"

to create a printer entry connecting to the port. Because of software I'm using it has to be done this way.

Only problem is it's set to it's defaults, which aren't very good at all for this printer. So I'm looking for a way to adjust both the default printer properties (ie spooling etc) and printer preferences (ie default printer tray, etc.) without intervention. Can anyone help with this? I've looked for months to no avail.

Thanks

Tom Mann

[Unexpected VS.NET 2003 install behaviour]

REG ADD %KEY%\088 /VE /D "VS.NET 2003 Enterprise Architect" /f

REG ADD %KEY%\088 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\install\apps\vs71\setup\setup.exe /UnattendFile "c:\install\apps\vs71\setup\vs7.ini"" /f

REG ADD will see your command line as invalid and not add it to the registry, which I believe is causing your problems. When you use quotes for the /D value, you need a backslash preceeding the quote.

Here's your fixed line...

REG ADD %KEY%\088 /VE /D "VS.NET 2003 Enterprise Architect" /f

REG ADD %KEY%\088 /V 1 /D \"%systemdrive%\install\apps\vs71\setup\setup.exe /UnattendFile \"c:\install\apps\vs71\setup\vs7.ini\"" /f

Have fun

Tom

[What's Wrong With This?]

REG ADD %KEY%\015 /VE /D "WS_FTP Professional" /f

REG ADD %KEY%\015 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\INSTALL\WSFTP\WS_FTP.exe -s -f1"%CDROM%\INSTALL\WSFTP\wsftp.iss"" /f

REG ADD %KEY%\060 /VE /D "Completing Installation..." /f

REG ADD %KEY%\060 /V 1 /D REGEDIT /S "%CDROM%\INSTALL\tweaks.reg" /f

OK, You can use quotes when adding registry but for everything inside the the main set of quotes (the first and last quote) you have to add two " instead of the one. Ancient programming trick from the Spectrum coming in use again

Your line should be:

REG ADD %KEY%\015 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\INSTALL\WSFTP\WS_FTP.exe -s -f1""%CDROM%\INSTALL\WSFTP\wsftp.iss"""

[Few Apps I Can't Get To Go Silent]

www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=2709

Installshield Tuner for Acrobat 7 - It can recreate the setup to run completely silent, or just give you an msi

Why Adobe needed a special "Installshield Tuner" is beyond me...

[Gain space on your CD and make life easier!]

Just a suggestion mind,

I've started to use WinRAR to pack my executables into a self extracting archive. OK I know they're compressed already but it can make life easier. This is what I do.

Find the switches for the program

Add the file (or CONTENTS of a folder - not the folder itself) to an archive. Make sure RAR is the compression type and strength is set to Best. Click Create SFX archive.

Click the advanced tab, then SFX options. In the box that says "Run after extraction" goes the command line for silent install. Click the modes tab of this dialog box and tick "Unpack to temporary folder" "Hide all" and "Overwrite all files" (Just in case).

OK Everything and you should have a single file which installs silently when you double click it. Now you don't have to worry about switches in cmd, and is a boon for people who need slightly older nVidia drivers than the windows versions (any GeForce 2/3 owners?)

You could then have in your batch file something like

cd (appdir)

for %f in (*.exe) do start /wait %f (I'm not sure that's right but it's similar!)

which would install everything in the directory

Wow my first post...