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Daemonforce OK! Please don't forget to include the hot-fix (Roll Up) I mentioned. I'm not sure but somewhere on fdv's page I read that it is needed for integrating IE6. Or maybe he meant it is an important hot-fix The source should be slipstreamed with SP4 and the resulting distributive should be installed from CD-ROM. And don't include other programs first time. The purpose is to slipstream IE6 SP1 first (if you mess with folders and add other installers it may not work as designed

tommyp I tried again AutoIt method yesterday but wasn't lucky again. But I probably found where is my mistake: I have not commented OemFilesPath=\$OEM$ and OemPnPDriversPath="drivers\0;drivers\1;drivers\2" - that's maybe my problem. Let's see if I have some time today to try on my other computer. By the way there is a good script to compress drivers found here _http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=35869

fdv How are you replacein the file after installation? Run Bart CD? Can it be somehow automated with some M$ tool like run a batch and after reboot the files will be swapt? Is it possible?

Great : Please consider that there are a few choices: some people move to IE6 SP1 and some people still stay with IE5.1. The same with DirectX versions 7 and 9. You may have a look at some threads in Unattended section as examples.

Daemonforce Sorry man, but I have doubt you have even tried HFSLIP. Please follow these simple steps (it is not an unattended installation, just for ensuring you): 1. Download these files first: - hfslip.zip; - BRANDING.CAB - from IE dist. - IEW2K_1.CAB - from IE dist. - IEW2K_2.CAB - from IE dist. - IEW2K_3.CAB - from IE dist. - IEW2K_4.CAB - from IE dist. - MAILNEWS.CAB - from IE dist. - OEEXCEP.CAB - from IE dist. - SCRIPTEN.CAB - from IE dist. - WAB.CAB - from IE dist. - Windows2000-KB891861-v2-x86-ENU.EXE (it mentioned that this hot-fix is needed for slipstreaming IE). 2. Run HFSLIP.CMD first time and place files in created folders accordingly: - HF - Windows2000-KB891861-v2-x86-ENU.EXE - HFCABS - all CABs for IE; - SOURCE - i386 (W2k slipstreamed with SP4!). 3. Run HFSLIP.CMD again. There will be SOURCESS folder created. Look in it - could you find IE6SP1 in here? All files are dissolved in distributive All like you want to do manually. 4. Create your disk from SOURCESS folder (don't forget to do it bootable). After installing run IE and look at About menu. What can you see? -

Could somebody create and maintain the threads with hot-fixe for Windows 2000 and Windows XP as Bilou_Gateux created for Windows 2003 Server?

saugatak During unattended I run appz.cmd (place it in HFSVPK which installs all my programs from installation disk and does simple tasks like this: xcopy "%CDDRIVE%\tweak\clean.cmd" "%UserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\" /Y This line copies CLEAN.CMD from my installation disk to Default User Profile. During the first logon my profile is created from and inherits all files and shortcuts from Default User Profile. As you know all files or shortcuts placed in Startup will run automatically on startup. So, windows starts the first time and runs CLEAN.CMD where I specify: RD /Q /S %SystemDrive%\drivers This line deletes DRIVERS folder and all its content including sub-folders from the system disk. There are some more stuff I delete in CLEAN.CMD. The batch has a command to delete itself at the end so it won't disturb you any more. fdv also suggested a method with WELLCOME.EXE. I haven't tried it yet but it has potential PS Send me PM and I'll include the content of my CLEAN.CMD and other stuff you need in reply

Crash&Burn You can unable Help files openning by running winhtml.inf from disk after installation. Then you can open CHM and HLP files. But some of the funcions will be broken. I install this functionality by default Slitely modified winhtml.inf and made it run during unattended B) And we would like to remove Help files only for those who want it (you will have the option and may not remove if you don't want it I'm playing around with the CMD file tommyp introduced me. It removes all CHM, CNT and HLP files from the source, modifies txtsetup.sif and dosnet.inf. I wonder should I add modifying LAYOUT.inf as it works even if modifying only txtsetup.sif. And there are some difficulties with some files - some other INFs are calling for them so I also need for modifying them with the batch.

Crash&Burn Just tried Freecell for you on a system without IE - works! Sorry couldn't find Minesweeper at the moment and now it's re-installing again Cygwin is not a native Windows component? I'm not sure but you can need it for some programs ported from Linux and you just can place it in system32 during installation (use HFEXPERT folders).

Crash&Burn I agree with you that Help files sometimes are usefull. But to tell the truth I used them very-very raraly And I want to remove them on a system that uses fdv's set of files where you even can't open CHM and HLP files (well, you can if you run one INF from the disk, but Help Sysem will still be broken anyway). PS I still save a couple of CHM files with command refference and shortcuts somewhere in my Docs

Norton SpeedDisk v5.01 can be taken from Systemworks disk if I'm not mistaken. All needed files are less than 6MB. The trick was with replacing some file with the old version that was shipped as stand alone installer (sorry, do't remember the version number it was quite ago I also used it). It installs and starts without errors. But when I pushed on Optimize Disk there is an error message: something like "Norton Speed fails because it doesn't recognize this version of Windows". It doesn't recognise fdv's operating system Just in case - I ran the utility fdv mentioned before installing. PS I like it because it could place paging file at the begining of the disk

Yzöwl Tommyp is right: if WMP10 has wm9 codecs already why don't use it? If you want to install just a few codecs and don't need others maybe you can use Tommyp's codecs slipstreaming guide And please don't understand that the list of hot-fixes Tommyp gave here is mandatory - you don't have to install all hot-fixes if you don't like some. But when it turns to integrating things like IE, DirectX, WUA, codecs, I suppose Tommyp tweaked his batch for certain files. If you want integrating these things you should use the files he specifies. By the way Tommyp asked in Codecs thread about integrating codecs in groups. That maybe interesting for you? PS May I ask you a question about a batch file in PM? I want to try modifying one batch for removing files.

tommyp We have messed up in you "Codecs" thread. Could you move our last few messages in this thread? As for FireFox. It saves all favorits only in one HTML file easy to handle and you can do the following: 1. Install Firefox without plugins and arrage all it's settings according to your liking. 2. Type in address bar about:config , find and chage accordingly (if there is no key - create it): browser.bookmarks.file string D:\Docs\Safe\bookmarks.html Your bookmark.html with all your favorits will be saved in D:\Docs\Safe (the path is up to you). 3. Creat somewhere FFProfile folder (or call it how you like) and place two files in it: localstore.rdf and prefs.js (in your case only the second file is important and you can even rename it into user.js for sure, the first one is for View preferences and you can omit it). Create a SFX archive from FFProfile folder that will place it say in %programs%\"Mozilla Firefox" during unattended. 4. Find and open profiles.ini from in %UserProfile%\Oleg 2\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox and edit: [General] StartWithLastProfile=1 [Profile0] Name=Oleg2 IsRelative=0 Path=C:\Appz\Mozilla Firefox\FFProfile Default=1 I also place profiles.ini in SFX archive that extracts in %UserProfile%\Default User\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox replacing other file (in fact I have only one SFX that do all the jobs like this for FireFox, Thunderbird, Open Office and a few more programs). 5. Before running FireFox first time make sure you place your bookmark.html in the folder specified. You are done! Unfortunatelly you can't just specify your favorites in winnt.sif, you have to save one file with favorits somewhere on you disk but one HTML file is easy to save and you can take it on any computer even without FireFox and use it as a link page to reach your favorits

saugatak I don't thing you have get any error messages even if your drivers don't work or install if you specify in your winnt.sif: [Unattended] DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore The wrong drivers just won't install. So you can delete COMPDATA in any situation. As for Recovery Console it was one of the other folders WIN9XMIG, WIN9XUPG or WINNTUPG that was mentioned. Probably the last one. But I'm not sure. Anyway if you use winnt.sif you probably just don't have a choice to install Recovery Console (I may be wrong?).

fdv I'm not talking about removing languages automatically with the script because I also use some of them B) It's just an old trick and very simple for manual tweaking - open the folder, find the languages that are not used and delete them. If no languages are used - delete the folder itself. It could be done manually according to your needs, no need to implement it it your set. I've just downloaded tommyp's CMD for removing MDAC files. I'm not too strong in scripting, just using others ideas As I understand the script will move the files mentioned in it to another folder and update txtsetup.sif. Does it mean that the same can be done with CHM, HLP and any othe files I want to remove from the source - the script can move them to another folder and delete them from txtsetup.sif and dosnet.inf? If I'm wright - that's what I meant with pluging system! We may have separated batch files for removing different files from the source and updating necessery INFs. That could be simplified version of batch-nLite for non-professionals By the way if you are going to remove POSIX and OS/2 files I suppose you just comment them but the stay in the source. I uderstand why - there are always people whon need something that you think is not important. Like me - I need Help System so I need the files for it in the source. But it could be greate if one can have a choice to remove or leave the files and can get his source as slim as possible with this. If tommyp confirms his batch could be modified we can get another one for removing POSIX and OS/2 files too

COMPDATA - is just a folder with TXT and HTM files. I don't know exactly what are they for but I don't think they are functional. LANG - I don't know about issues with M$ Office as I don't use it I use Open Office. But don't think there should be issues either. I know for sure that Office 97 and Office 2k hadn't any issues with this folder as I installed a few laptops in our office with these versions and they are working now using 3 different languages. I heard (I don't know for sure, just read about it somewhere) that one of the folders is needed for installing Recovery Console. Sorry no more info. I don't install Recovery Console too - I use DOS version of Drive Image that can be run directly from W2k and reboot to DOS utility (it's a part of big software, I use only 7 files from the package and don't install it at all

That is why I ask fdv if he agrees me doing the job with commenting CHM and HLP files - there are 400+ files to find and comment in 2 files and if he comes with the new version of files As you suggest including some modifications proposed by users, I'd suggest making a plugin system - sub batch files that acomplish small but concrete purposes. For examle, fdv agrees me to comment out CHM and HLP but he wants to include an INF file that will install these files if needed (and I understand why - some people could ask him for this). It means the file names won't be included in DELFILES and the files will still in the source. And I would like to have a smaller source. This example is very easy because I can still have a list of files and can include their names in DELFILES myself. But with a pluging system apart from a Basic set of IE removal files we may have a batch that could delete the files specified in say DELFILESPLUS from the source for those who want a smoller distributive There could be lists of files possible to delete and everyone can choose which of the list he would like to include in this DELFILESPLUS (for example, only CHM, only HLP or both types).

Acomplishing the task of commenting CHM files int txtsetup.inf I found that not all of *.CH_ files in the source are CHM in fact, there are a few files that have CHQ extention. I found a usefull batch by Yzöwl that expands multiple files in a folder so that one can see the real extention.

HFSLIP is language independant and works as far as integrating IE6, DirectX 9C (W2k) and hot-fixes. I don't integrate Windows advantage because I remove IE and other things from my installation but if it integrates the other things it makes me think it also should work with WGA. You can try and if there is some issues just post in the thread about it, maybe the issues could be solved quickly.

If somebody needs Real or QT it is really easy to slipstream with the same method too. It is only about registering two AX files and placing a few DLL in system32. If you can edit INF files (very basicaly as I do you can add just a couple of lines in tommyp's inf and it should work. The files to register: QuickTime.ax and RealMediaSplitter.ax - Google for them. The files to place in system32 are in the following text. But just tried a simplier thing without AX files at all and it works with all QT and Real files I have (just a few). In 4 steps: 1. Get Media Player Classic (I used v6.4.8.4). 2. Get these files for Quick Time: - qtmlClient.dll - QuickTime.qts - QuickTimeEssentials.qtx - QuickTimeInternetExtras.qtx 3. Get these files for Real (one of the files could be from an older version - that's all right): atrc3260.dll cook3260.dll drv13260.dll drv23260.dll drv33260.dll drv43260.dll pncrt.dll sipr3260.dll tokr3260.dll 4. All files go to one folder (they should stick together In our case you may place all them in HFEXPERT\CODECS. You should also make a shortcut for Media Player Classic somewhere on Desktop, Quik Launch or in Start Menu. And it would be better to assosiate some files with it too: mov, qt, ra, ram, rm (maybe some more - these are all I know If you are familiar with INF files just add the tweaks in tommyp's INF. Your Media Player Classic will play all QT and Real files now! I'm not sure if these files are enough to play directly from Internet but they are enough to play a downloaded file. PS I use the other way of playing multimedia now (Windows port of Linux mplayer). It seems easier, takes less ressorces, needs less files and efforts (and I'm lazy

Yes! If you don't need any of the languages just delete the folder LANG in SOURCESS. And if you didn't know: you may saftely delete COMPDATA, WIN9XMIG, WIN9XUPG, WINNTUPG also.

saugatak Have a look at LANG folder - if you need any of languages from here just leave it alone (I leave only two CHS and CHT - Chinese Simplified and Chinese Traditional as I use both somethime B) And you can delete the rest of the folder LANG itself if you don't use these languages. It saves about 63MB. As for the service Print Spooling - it takes about 3-5MB and I make it starting manual by default. And I have a few CMD files with shortcuts in Start Menu, one of them is Printing.cmd: @echo off MODE CON COLS=60 LINES=3 Title Printing the document color 1e net start "Print Spooler" %programfiles%\"silex technology\PRICOM CX\JRMON.EXE" goto :eof When I click the shortcut "Printing" it starts Print Spooler service and I can print (it also starts my wireless printer monitor). I also have the similar CMD for Scanning and I'm going to explore Internet connections too B) I'm not using printer, scanner or not in the net everytime on my laptop. I think it's a good idea to start services when you need them. Automatically of course You can use the same technics starting VMWare and its services by only one click.

saugatak I just replace notepad with the other program: 1. First rename say Mark.exe to notepad.exe. 2. Run modifype notepad.exe -c. 3. Run makecab notepad.exe. 4. Place notepad.ex_ in FIX folder. TAiN Unfortunatelly not all components can be removed/not installed through winnt.sif. fdv I offered you to include all CHM and HLP files in DELFILES. I can help doing this (not in a couple of days of cause but I'll have more free time by the end of the week and I can do it in two days time. OR I can do the job with CHM and HLP files manually. But if somebody with scripting knowlege can help creating BAT or CMD file that can add comma before file-names taken from a file say COMMA.txt in txtsetup.sif and dosnet.inf. This way everyone can compile his own COMMA.txt with the files he wants to remove from the source. I also suggested gathering more information about all components and corresponding files that can be removed from the source. If somebody removes a component he can also include corresponding files in COMMA.txt and run the new script removing the files.

Bilou_Gateux Sorry for misunderstanding, I meant you introduced this method to me And I was wrong - there is no modified setup.exe. But anyway, I tried it and it didn't work for me. Maybe because it is only for Windows XP? Is it really possible to modify it somehow so that it works with Windows 2000?

I was using Pyron's method for about a year before I start using HFSLIP. It is very simple and worked for me fine. Unfortunatelly I have to quit using it. I even wrote about it in Drivers section and was recommended switching to AutoIt method by Bilou_Gateux And I tried it. But in both cases I had a problem with running .CMD and .INF files in my SVCPACK folder (to be exact HFSLIP.CMD was not running). Probably svcpack.inf wasn't working with both methods because of modified setup.exe. I'm not saying that methods are not working at all. Maybe the reason was on my side And it would be cool to have DRIVERS folder integrating drivers too Or have a small sub-script just for this purpose - uncab/cab/include in drivers.cab (and get some out PS Now I'm just using an old official method of winnt.sif and OEM folders structure. The obsolete folders with drivers are deleted during the first startup by cleanup.cmd that is usefull anyway because it also deletes some more crap from just installed system.