tongboy

you sir absolutly saved my bacon edit gah, it made it all the way through the expansion process without a problem when it goes to execute the final install statement a small alert box pops up saying "installation failed" I tried manually going to the au.inf file and installing but it just hourglassed the mouse for a second and didn't do anything even after a reboot. I check both the system properties screen and the services window and neither show automatic updates yet. I'm guessing there might be a mistype or something in the install statement so i'll look for a solution still very much thank you edit again! changing C:\WINDOWS\System32\rundll32.exe setupapi,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 132 au.inf to C:\WINDOWS\System32\rundll32.exe setupapi,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 132 c:\install\au.inf let it run without a problem. restarted and still nothing so i'm going to go back and try doing the same for all the other files

I used jdeboeck's REMOVE! script to remove automatic updates (as well as other things) and now I need to see if its possible to get them back via a script or anything at all onto the machines (about 120 of them!) without manually reinstalling all of them. the code used is below @echo off if not exist optional mkdir optional if not exist optional\au mkdir optional\au rem Moving files move i386\au.in_ optional\au move i386\rootau.in_ optional\au move i386\wuauserv.dl_ optional\au move i386\wuaueng.dl_ optional\au move i386\wuauclt.ex_ optional\au move i386\wuauhelp.ch_ optional\au rem Updating txtsetup.sif echo au.inf>> txtsetup.log echo rootau.inf>> txtsetup.log echo wuauserv.dll>> txtsetup.log echo wuaueng.dll>> txtsetup.log echo wuauclt.exe>> txtsetup.log echo wuauhelp.chm>> txtsetup.log findstr /v /b /i /g:txtsetup.log i386\txtsetup.sif > txtsetup.sif move txtsetup.sif i386\txtsetup.sif del txtsetup.log rem Updating dosnet.inf echo d1,au.inf>> dosnet.log echo d1,rootau.inf>> dosnet.log echo d1,wuauserv.dll>> dosnet.log echo d1,wuaueng.dll>> dosnet.log echo d1,wuauclt.exe>> dosnet.log echo d1,wuauhelp.chm>> dosnet.log findstr /v /b /i /g:dosnet.log i386\dosnet.inf > dosnet.inf move dosnet.inf i386\dosnet.inf del dosnet.log rem Updating sysoc.inf expand -r i386\sysoc.in_ findstr /v /i /c:au.inf /c:rootau.inf i386\sysoc.inf > sysoc.inf move sysoc.inf i386\sysoc.inf makecab i386\sysoc.inf i386\sysoc.in_ del i386\sysoc.inf if I can't get them back i'm most likely going to try and setup a GPO to push out a windows xp update install. I've found plenty of answer files for unattended installs but I can't find anything for unattended updates. all I need to to change other then automatic updates is the CD key. thank you for any info on either of these!