Aaron

You're right Ryan, MS forgot to mention this in their KB Article. Gonna edit the hotfix list now

That's correct, Q823980 is superceded by Q824146, as it states this under the heading "Security Patch Replacement Information" in Q824146's KB Article

1. The hotfix batch was being executed from GuiRunOnce, and I have spoken with a contact from Microsoft on this who says that WFP may interfere 2. QCHAIN.exe wasn't used 3. A wrong switch was being used It was ok for most people, but some other had issues, which is why I removed it.

You seem sure of yourself, but I read the following KB Article: I have about 8 Post-SP1 hotfixes in total that were compiled before December 2002, which prompted me to include the updated QCHAIN.exe in a hotfix installation batch.

That's not possible. Files from the OSs you mentioned do not share the same files with others. You're better off making a DVD disc of them.

Sunil - read halfway through this page, it explains why: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=296861 astrolabos - use /Q /U /N /Z instead of /Q /M /Z as /M is not supported in Windows XP. (a mistake which I added to the hotfix guide on my site months ago).

Don't forget to use QCHAIN.exe at the end of the batch

winnt.sif doesn't control accounts

If Virtual PC is directly connected to the Internet, you're being exploited by the RPC flaw. You will need to apply the hotfix to fix the RPC flaw before being connected to the Internet. Using Svcpack is the best way to accomplish this.

Anyone wanting to better that can install WMP9 and the 2 post-WMP9 updates in svcpack.inf as well. Basically it can install anything, not just hotfixes. MSI packages will have to be done in GuiRunOnce though. I'm getting the assumption that svcpack.inf can replace cmdlines.txt completely. [SetupHotfixesToRun] MPSetupXP.exe /Q:A /R:N Q819639.EXE /Q:A /R:N Q828026.EXE /Q /U /Z /N I did get a "System Restore is disabled" message when WMP9 was installing, but I think that can be disabled by using the /DisallowSystemRestore switch on MPSetupXP.exe

Add/Remove is not a good place to find out what hotfixes you have currently installed. You can either use QFECHECK and Windows Update to find out what else you need.

I'm going to get the DirectX 9.0b OPK up for you guys soon which you can install using svcpack without needing any switches. Microsoft seem OK with it.

Actually you're right. I only knew the number of the chipset I had at the time (i875P) but checking cpu-z again, it shows an "ICH5" alongside it.

No, its an MS tool for creating CD and DVD images. You can get it from here It includes a command script, so extract all three files in the zip to C:\ The script also assumes you have your Windows XP CD files in C:\XPCD\, so you may want to edit the script file if your paths are different.

cmdlines.txt needs to be put into the $OEM$ folder, and doesn't need to be specified anywhere else to tell Windows of the existance of a cmdlines.txt

http://www.MSFN.org/comments.php?catid=1&id=5228 Basic one for now, it works perfectly fine. Anyone wanting to go advanced can try out Greenmachine and Royalbox's scripts, they're still fixing out some issues though.

Writing up the guide as I speak, should be up in a few hours

Here's some more: $Progs\ (Program files dir) $Docs\ (Documents and Settings dir)

[superhumaN][dhc], a better way to confirm if your hotfixes have been installed is to use a tool known as QFECHECK, which can be downloaded from here: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=282784

How is it against the rules when a user owns a licence to these 2 copies of windows? bisco2k - Balder Multiboot is able to do this, but its been taken offline for a while as a newer version is in development, so keep an eye on http://www.balder.ms

Could you guys give a brief description on what your hotfix scripts do, does it slipstream or not, and any other information. Plus, a location to download them from. The site is currently without a hotfix installation guide, as the old one had to be removed due to issues. The one I'm making is rather simple, which is dumping all the hotfixes into the svcpack folder and running each one using syntax in [setupHotfixesToRun]. No cat files or extracting to i386 is involved in this one. But still, I would like to provide an alternative to users by trying out hotfix scripts, which will be linked from the guide. Thanks!

http://microsoft.com/downloads/details.asp...;displaylang=en It's titled Windows 2000, but the information states: This update is also applicable to the following operating systems: Windows XP Professional Windows XP Home Edition

hmm, didn't deleting the LANG folder free up 90mb, at which point you've already reached your target?

looks like the winnt.sif file is perfect, Since I don't use Windows XP's notepad, nor do I have it installed, I'm aware it offers different encoding options for a txt file which you may need to check, as other users have had problems from winnt.sif depending on how it was encoded when its saved.

What does the Setup log file show? edit: I see you sorted it out