Tarran

keepass works great... has a password generator and can store all of the passwords you want and use a USB key as a hardware key to open the database

It all depends.. where are you using it? what are you using it for? how often do you change the key? I've been doing work with stuff like that lately and it always depends... even if you lock down the connection what about the hardware being used? could they be broken into? If you're just asking about just the connection itself if you're just surfing at home it should be secure enough but I wouldn't trust it for a corporate environment

where did you tell it to run application.cmd?

well I'm automating the entire thing so the install isn't a problem... I'm just wondering about after the install if the keyboard will be recognized or at least it will be asked to authorize itself or if I'll still need the 2nd kb hooked up to use it... and there's a new intellipoint for bluetooth software out? every time I check MS' site it says it's only available on the cd

no one has dealt with this problem or one similar? maybe just using a bluetooth kb in general?

excellent... now to do a quick search for how to run the script from my cd and how to set maxthon as default from the getgo and I'm set... thanks again...

$OEM$/$Docs/All Users/Start Menu/ then put your shortcuts there

I've been looking over posts all over the forum and I see people saying that the bluetooth support in SP2 is good and others saying it's bad... and talking to MS support they say I'll be fine... I have a Microsoft bluetooth keyboard and usually during installs I would have to have a normal keyboard hooked up to be able to do anything... since I'm making an unattended cd that's not really a problem but when I finish I'm wondering will my keyboard work from the getgo or will I still need to install the intellipoint software (which MS still refuses to offer anywhere except on their cd) Is there anyone that has the MS bluetooth keyboard that has used SP2 that could give me an answer? vmware tests really don't help me figure it out... thanks in advance...

well thanks for the help everyone... seems to be working now and I think I've figured out the problem with my install file... so does anyone have any tips on how to clean it up or tools I can look into? I keep reading about xplode... is it something I should look into or is it meant for more advanced stuff than I'm doing...

I had that too... it reads what's in the quotes as the entire command and the rest as a new command... so do "%ProgramFiles%\winzip\winzip32.exe /noqp /autoinstall" instead though right now my problem is the fact that it just opens a new window and hangs when it's supposed to be running one of the programs

Have you or anyone else figured out how to automatically install support for reading say Japanese characters? I asked about it in another thread but never got a response. To my understanding (and I am a noob to this so I could be dead wrong) but the languagegroup setting tells it which language packs to install.... so mine is english, chinese, japanese, etc and theoretically I should be able to go to one of those sites and not need to install the language pack... but I could be wrong... and no one has any tips or even places to look about the install file I'm using? I can accept needing to do the update page but I would like to have the rest of it be automated... then at least it's just one thing I need to do and then still have all my programs installed...

I thought it needed the automatic updates switch?

I'll try that out... I think I remember seeing it in some other threads... just a question though... why does it list it as unattended in the ref file? I mean microsoft would never be wrong... ever...

install.bat is in the Install dir under $1 so it gets copied over to the computer and then should run all of the installs silently

$OEM$/$1/drivers then 000_sata, 001_network, 002_graphics I don't have any special chipset drivers to install but I have some extra (not the drive the install is going to) drives that I'd like found by the install so I can access them after the install is done and I removed the \.. thanks

alright... I've changed my pass to plaintext and set encrypt to no... could that be the reason the mini-setup screen kept showing up? (wondering if it's worth testing it out again if that problem could be fixed) and for the .bat file did you mean I need to add a line to the bat file to get it to work?

Since I kept updating the previous post I wanted to let you see this... with the language group did you mean that english should be first so that it uses that as the default? I haven't had any problems but I'm just wondering if that's what the problem you were mentioning was

I've tried that before from other threads... I've used AutomaticUpdates="Yes" AutomaticUpdates="yes" AutomaticUpdates= "Yes" AutomaticUpdates= "yes" AutomaticUpdates=Yes AutomaticUpdates=yes AutomaticUpdates="1" AutomaticUpdates=1 AutomaticUpdates= "1" AutomaticUpdates= 1 and none of them make a difference... and in threads I've seen people have said that it's worked for them with the quotes and without the quotes... does the order have anything to do with it? and the language group should be right b/c I'm including some asian languages since some of the sites I check have characters like that so I want them to display properly. and I've removed those two lines... I found them in a couple of threads where people said that was why the resolution info was still coming up so that's why I added them... Also any suggestions for the bat file? am I not supposed to be using a bat file for this or something?

No one has any helpful suggestions or maybe a tip that I missed? I really want to put together an unattended cd like I've been reading about but I still have those 3 (2 if the suggestion works, I'm waiting until I get at least one other thing fixed before making another iso to test out) problems keeping it from being completely unattended.

isn't the folder usage also to ensure the order in which the drivers are loaded? chipset first then network then...

I'll try changing that to 0... is there a ref.chm that includes that? I've checked the updated on here and the one in the deploy portion of a slipstreamed SP2 cd and neither shows configureatlogin or autoconfirm

I've checked the forums, I've checked the unattended page, I've checked google and I've tried everything that has been suggested and I still keep getting the mini-setup window winnt.sif ;SetupMgrTag [Data] AutoPartition=1 MsDosInitiated=0 UnattendedInstall="Yes" AutomaticUpdates="Yes" [Unattended] UnattendMode=FullUnattended OemSkipEula=Yes OemPreinstall=Yes TargetPath=\WINDOWS OemPnPDriversPath="Drivers\000_sata\;Drivers\001_network;Drivers\002_graphics" DriverSigninPolicy=Ignore UnattendedSwitch=Yes [GuiUnattended] AdminPassword=*** EncryptedAdminPassword=Yes AutoLogon=Yes AutoLogonCount=1 OEMSkipRegional=1 TimeZone=35 OemSkipWelcome=1 [UserData] ProductID=*** FullName=*** OrgName=*** ComputerName=*** [Display] BitsPerPel=32 Xresolution=1280 YResolution=1024 Vrefresh=85 AutoConfirm=1 ConfigureAtLogon=1 [RegionalSettings] LanguageGroup=7,10,9,1 [Identification] JoinWorkgroup=NJOE [Networking] InstallDefaultComponents=Yes [GuiRunOnce] %systemdrive%\Install\install.bat Plus I keep getting the message about the screen resolution though I'm hoping that's b/c I'm using vmware so the drivers aren't being installed.... also I'm working on having programs setup after install with my install.bat ECHO. ECHO Installing WinRAR v3.40 Beta 4 ECHO Please wait... start /wait "%systemdrive%\install\WinRAR\wrar340.exe /s" ECHO. ECHO Installing WinRar Settings REGEDIT /S "%systemdrive%\Install\WinRAR\Settings.reg" ECHO. ECHO Installing WhereIsIt v3.61 ECHO Please wait... start /wait "%systemdrive%\Install\WhereIs\setup.exe /VERYSILENT /NOCANCEL /LOADINF=%systemdrive%\install\WhereIs\whereset.inf" ECHO Copying WhereIsIt License Copy "%systemdrive%\Install\WhereIs\License\*" "%systemdrive%\Program Files\WhereIsIt\" ECHO. ECHO Installing SpyBot S&D v1.3 ECHO Please wait... start /wait "%systemdrive%\Install\spybot\spybot.exe /VERYSILENT /NOCANCEL /TASKBARHIDE /AUTOCLOSE" ECHO Updating SpyBot ECHO Please wait... start /wait "%systemdrive%\Program Files\Spybot - Search & Destroy\SpybotSD.exe /autoupdate /autoimmunize /autoclose" ECHO. ECHO Installing RealVNC v3.3.7 ECHO Please wait... start /wait "%systemdrive%\Install\realvnc\realvnc.exe /SILENT /SP- /NORESTART" ECHO. ECHO Installing PuTTY v0.55 ECHO Please wait... start /wait "%systemdrive%\Install\puTTY\putty.exe /SILENT /SP- /NORESTART" ECHO. ECHO Installing Open Office v1.1.2 ECHO Please wait... start /wait "%systemdrive%\Install\OOffice\setup.exe -r:%systemdrive%\Install\OOffice\setup.txt -debug" ECHO. ECHO Installing Litestep ECHO Please wait... start /wait "%systemdrive%\Litestep\utilities\setshell.exe %systemdrive%\Litestep\litestep.exe" ECHO Setting default Litestep theme ECHO Please wait... start /wait "%systemdrive%\Litestep\utilities\LSThemeInstaller.exe /switch Tarran-Style" But it just sits there at a command prompt... I thought it was supposed to run the command and then run the next one once it was finished.... ANY help at this point would be very much appreciated....

but what about any reg keys and such? I was hoping to use the silent option since it's already included... I just can't figure out why it's not working...

After looking around the web I found out that the config.ini file has an option for a silent install... but the problem is that when I use it it hangs on the installation directory selection part... has anyone found a way to get past this as this seems to be the only thing keeping me from a silent install of thunderbird on my cd