Aaron

We might as well close the Longhorn forum then?!

How long has that been going on for? You sure its not just a temporary glitch with your ISP?

That's a great idea Cal, an app that asks you what reg tweaks you want applied, programs you want installed, the location of these programs, then the app puts it together in one directory and creates the necessary batch files. It would probably be difficult to make since there are many combinations to an unattended installation.

aha I think I know why. This happened to me too lol In your Winnt.sif, you should have this under [unattended]: OemPreinstall=Yes This will tell setup that there are OEM files to be copied to the hard disk (that's the reghacks, dx9 and whatever else you've added). Add OemSkipEula=Yes as well, that'll skip the EULA that nobody reads Since you are doing it from CD, it's correct that the $oem$ folder stays in the root of the CD, and not inside the /i386 folder.

the $1 tells all subs folders in that $1 folder to be copied to your hard drive. Everything looks right, but you said "Cant Find Reghack.cmd" did you forget the 's' as in Reghacks.cmd? And for DX9, put it anywhere in the Install folder. Better to put it in its own dedicated folder: /$1/Install/DX9/

When you say parallel, do you mean your buddy is on a LAN with you, and connected to the net? File Sharing probably doesn't support a PC to PC connection on a LAN. But I'll try this out myself later.

Have you actually not bothered to read any of this thread?

More to the point, why do you want to activate it? Longhorn is far from ready to be used as a Primary Operating System.

Download: http://vzone.virgin.net/aaron.stevens/Dire...Silent_Inst.mht That's the saved webpage from back then. Looks like they're redesigning the site. You won't need to include both Directx9.0 and Directx9.0a like the instructions say, it was fine with the 9.0a redistributable itself.

Didn't see you was using Windows 2000: Either update it to Service Pack 3, or get the Windows Installer Package 2.0 for NT/2K. Don't use the one made for 9x/ME as linked in the other thread. (sorry!) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...&DisplayLang=en

yep, instructions to do that should be at that link I posted in the first post

http://www.MSFN.org/board/index.php?act=ST&f=8&t=6375

I followed the instructions but I can't connect to the quake.swe.net address via WASTE or IRC :-( Is it down? My public key is: WASTE_PUBLIC_KEY 20 1536 AaronXP DE093015F30407340D29B2292179F90F0F46BB1D0F42BEF46BA5E7135664 EE0A4E24DF1D09A51C5FEBA7DD25FD2ECD1F5111145F77DE98AF59C53A76 BAA7F4694C9D0A004E5E72494F8FA262609C88C9EF6706DBA9C58E931496 D1C10179A522D2E226BDA6DFD9E7A7C245292C9C620D69AB7C77AE07EF05 50397AD341EABBBECE97C59F6C61ABAA036338A27E97F0F672D2A05F4181 5D914D31C3A335820F88300FCDF34F4D6B1CF9685C82BD3B5CA620B9E41A 24C0FE1522C3C7A6D6117E9B0003010001 WASTE_PUBLIC_KEY_END

Welcome to MSFN ABEO Jay Stealth has posted a bunch of MSN Messenger 6 mirrors in the Software Hangout forum if you need any

AOL pulled it offline http://www.MSFN.org/comments.php?id=3362&catid=1 http://www.MSFN.org/comments.php?id=3374&catid=1 http://www.MSFN.org/comments.php?id=3400&catid=1

Double click on the edge of the window, then you're sorted

whoops! Sorry about that!

Do I have to be an american to understand this joke?

Nice one jay That should keep the screaming down a bit

Yeah, all offline This is the last working mirror I've found: http://www.m02.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/msnmes...eta-winbeta.rar

Most files tell you what parameters are supported when you type the following: file.exe /? in Command Prompt. If there aren't any shown, the website where the program originated from should cover documentation on the supported parameters.

hmm.... Make sure MSN Messenger 6 is closed, and the msnmsgr.exe process isn't running in Task Manager. Delete the MSN Messenger directory in X:\Program Files\ then reinstall MSN Messenger 5. Hope that helps! Moved to Software Hangout

Yeah we're aware of what the Flexbeta Tab Installer does, our programmer MikeW informed us that the Flexbeta Tab Installer is patching over the ConfigCache.xml with a premade XML file, so you lose all the custom tabs you added. They also have invalid XML characters in their XML file, causing most of the other Tab Installers to error out when checking the ConfigCache file. We recommend you delete your configcache.xml file, then sign in MSN Messenger so you can download a new fresh copy. Install all your favourite tabs except Flexbeta's, then lastly manually paste in Flexbeta's tab code into the ConfigCache.xml: <tab> <image>http://www.flexbeta.net/amin/flex.png</image> <name>Flexbeta.net</name> <tooltip>Flexbeta.net</tooltip> <contenturl>http://www.flexbeta.net/main/modules.php?modname=custompage&name=fds</contenturl> <hidden>false</hidden> </tab> which goes inbetween the msntabdata sections. Good luck!

Gamehead you claim you created this all-in-one patch at http://www.MSFN.org/board/index.php?act=ST&f=9&t=6323 but you don't know why Polygamy is in the patch. This concludes you didn't create it. So, please don't steal other people's work and claim its yours.

It was said that Futuremark was inspired by Battlefield 1942's airplane battles to make the first scene in 3DMark2003. I don't know if this is true for sure though. Some top games you could try out: Freelancer EVE-Online (FthrJACK and Snoop are hooked on it, no wonder we don't see them around anymore lol) Red Faction II GTA Vice City