Aaron

I believe this happens when you don't have win51ip.SP1 in the root of the CD.

That's right, you'll only need to install Q828026 after installing WMP9.

The page says to put the hotfixes and qchain into the update folder. It's also up to you which method you want to go for. The Alternative method will save you a couple of seconds compared to doing it the svcpack.inf way: Svcpack: Copy new hotfix to Update folder, add entry to svcpack.inf including the switch. Reburn CD. Alternative GuiRunOnce: Copy hotfix to its correct folder, then reburn CD

are you trying to run Q817787 from svcpack.inf?

looks nice, does it give you direct links to the hotfix files themselves to download?

its too squashed for me to make out...

I have a feeling the seperated WMP9 and MM2 OPK files on http://msfnforum.cjb.net/ are different from the WMP9MM2 bundle, because I never got a systemrestore message during the svcpack.inf process when using the bundle version

Looks like they might have changed something. I'm not sure what build I was using at the time I wrote up http://www.MSFN.org/unattended/xp/applicat...ons/sunjava.htm but I'll go download the latest version and see what's up.

16/10 seems new, its the last date when MS released 4 updates and the rollup. btw, got a screenie of Hfnetchk in action? I've only used the command prompt version.

First of all you can check the current list of hotfixes here: http://www.MSFN.org/board/index.php?showtopic=8741 If you already slipstreamed the rollup, then adding additonal hotfixes is just a matter of dumping them into the 'update' folder and then putting in their filename and switch in svcpack.inf Or, you can follow Numinous Alternative Hotfix installation guide: http://www.MSFN.org/board/index.php?showtopic=9762 which runs a automated batch script on several folders, seperating the Type 1 and Type 2 Hotfixes.

You'll have to sign up to the Betareq, and sit in hope. Sometimes we will get Guest IDs and post them on the main page which you can use to enroll in a beta.

Get another firewall and disable the inbuilt one. The one included with Windows XP *isn't* that good, as it doesn't block outgoing connections which a trojan can take advantage of.

Here's a full list of all the hotfixes that the Update Rollup 1 covers: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=826939 By the way, I'd suggest you use /Q /U /N /Z instead of /Q /M /Z remove the /N if you want to keep backups and to be given the choice to uninstall a hotfix at a later date.

Excellent, that clears up the confusion on what I had to put in the "Install Program to Launch" bit. You mentioned that WM5 cannot be installed, so I'll go try MSN6 repackaged. On a side note, for kicks I ran Setupdl.exe /Q:A /R:N (that's MSNM6) yesterday in svcpack.inf which wasn't quiet obviously, so I went through the installation manually, then MSN Messenger opened. (didn't have time to try and sign in though) Anyway, it was kinda amusing to see MSN Messenger in a setup environment.

It only affects the Welcome to Windows XP screen which you described

Make sure you have the following set in winnt.sif: [unattended] UnattendSwitch="yes"

We had a lot of pinned topics, so to reduce that we can keep a list of threads that may be of interest to a large number of people. Thanks to eXPerience-XP for the idea! If you have anything to add, reply and it'll be added to this list! Numinous - Using HIVE files instead of registry tweaks Gosh - How To: Put WinPE and Windows XP on the same CD Gosh - Installing Registry Files Gosh - How to: Deploy a Custom Kernel Gosh - Unattended Tips and Tricks GreenMachine and Royalbox - Hotfix Slipstreaming Creating an Unattended XP CD (on-site) DaveXP - Other Folders that can be used in the $OEM$ folder Everybody's collection of Registry Tweaks DaveXP - Windows Update Method For An Unattended CD Numinous - The Alternative Hotfix Installation Guide b0r3d & Westi - VBS Scripts Gosh - Unattended Secret: Reducing Size Of Source webmedic - How to do a 2 CD install Completed XP Setup Screens b0r3d - Editing WINNTBBU.DLL For Dummies DaveXP - Unattended XPCD Setup Script Gosh - Using Install INF instead of batch/reg files (Updated) Other INFs by gosh: services.inf | mru.inf | options.inf Gosh - How To: Install Win2K or XP from WinPE gareththegod - List of Default Variables and Batch file commands baliktad - Combining the MSJava 3809 Full Install and 3810 Update into one package (for those using SP1a) Wraith's XPlode - A visually-stunning RunOnceEx and CMDLINES.TXT replacement that runs at the T-9 mark of Windows XP Setup. Numinous - oobeinfo.ini usage (an easy way to add 1-6 users) Jotnar - How to rename/edit the Administrator Account Windows Post-install Wizard 1.2 Beta - A program to allow the user to select what to install and what not to install. Office 2003 Source Shrink nLite - Windows 2000/XP/2003 Size Reduction tool - A new tool to drastically reduce the size of your Windows CDs! XPCreate - A program that will slipstream your hotfixes with just a simple click. Software Installation Selection Windows Installer Helper Utility - This is an easy to use tool for account creation and software installation. It is intended to be used for unattended windows installations. serialzs' Guide For Compressed Drivers Unattended Install SiMoNsAyS' How To: Install XP from CD1 and Office 2003 from CD2

Its a shame to see you go gosh, you really have bought a wealth of knowledge to MSFN, but its taught us a lesson in which we will take 'flaming' seriously from now on. The best thing to do is ignore any such negative comments and stay on track, a mod will soon remove any negative comments that are reported.

Could anyone fill me in on how to use this tool? I'm aware people have used this to get applications using MSI such as .Net Framework 1.1 and MSN Messenger 6 to be installed via svcpack.inf.

attached: SFC_OS.DL_

I've got that too, I don't think MS have updated their cab file for MBSA for a while.

The old switches will still be there for a while yet, even their kb/technet articles don't mention the new switches, but it looks like they're planning to switch over to the new, more 'user-easy' switches if you get what I mean. Why? I don't know, its my closest guess.

I found this from the win2k3 site, should work: Copy UXTheme.dll to C:\WINDOWS\System32\dllcache save the following as uxthemepatch.cmd in notepad: @ECHO OFF ren %SystemRoot%\system32\uxtheme.dll uxtheme.bak copy %SystemRoot%\system32\dllcache\uxtheme.dll %SystemRoot%\system32\ echo You now may reboot! echo.(Press CTRL+ALT+DEL simultaneously and select Shut echo.Down from the window that appears) Copy the uxthemepatch.cmd to the root of your C:\ drive Reboot into Safe Mode Command Prompt (Press F8 upon booting) Once the Command Prompt has loaded, type cd\ followed by enter, then type uxthemepatch followed by enter.

you'll have to go into safemode command prompt, and use commands to rename the old uxtheme.dll to uxtheme.old then move your new one in its place. Do this twice for dllcache and system32