Aaron

Most of them will show you a menu asking what OS you want to install.

Run a batch command script (cmd) from GuiRunOnce, which can be defined in the winnt.sif file.

I think only Microsoft Systems Management Server is capable of doing that, kinda expensive for the home user though...

looks like it does the same thing as 1365Vidchng, which was posted in a thread a while back

ISO Creator for Windows XP Download that and edit the included batch file to match your directory structure, including the label defined in the cdimage.exe syntax. Test it in VPC before burning it to DVD. Edit: extract it into root c:\

Make a wall display of them! (with the disc the other way around of course! You don't want to see AOL printed covers )

hmm, the username and passwords are not stored in this phonebook?

Its probably this simple: Copy the contents of each CD to a folder on the hard drive, such as CD1, CD2, CD3, then burn all three folders to the DVD as a data disc?

Keep your eyes on http://www.balder.ms as they're bringing out a newer version soon.

I once tried to install a dialup *.ins file throught winnt.sif, but it didn't work. Although I didn't have a modem on the test PC it could explain why, it probably needs an installed modem to be able to import the dialup settings.

ProductKey = "xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx" and WaitForReboot = Yes Its all there in the Win2kSP4 Deploy tools.

If you didn't know, Service Pack 1 already slipstreams IE6SP1 into Windows XP, so no silent installation of IE is necessary for Windows XP.

Gosh, I see what you mean. It bloats up the CD quite badly and still takes some time on the 13min mark because of all the downloaded hotfix files its executing. And even when it does that, I can't see any point copying the extracted files into the i386 folder since the hotfix files itself is going to be doing that via [setupHotfixesToRun] so people might as well remove their defined cat files in the svcpack.inf file. I've also tested a hotfix slipstream a month back, removing all the entries from [setupHotfixesToRun] and leaving the cat entries there. (thus, removing the bloat) It slipstreams and doesn't halt at 13mins but the registry entries are not imported causing Windows Update to report incorrect information. Royalbox and Greenmachine might have possibly found a way round since, but I decided not to go any further as it started to get somewhat complicated

Does this F Lock reg hack also work for Logitech keyboards? I find it annoying having to enable it on every reboot.

By default when OEMPreinstall is enabled, Windows checks for the existance of a cmdlines.txt file in the $OEM$ folder, so it doesn't need to be specified anywhere apart from the OEMPreinstall value in winnt.sif

August 2003, Cumulative Patch for Internet Explorer superceded by the October 2003, Cumulative Patch for Internet Explorer. Link changed on the hotfix list. Edit: Added Update for Windows Media Player Script Commands Q828026, supercedes the Q819639 patch

Works great, and since its executed from svcpack.inf, I should be able to add the other patches, and the OPKs of directx, .net and the wmp9&mm2 bundle under [setupHotfixesToRun] (not slipstreamed, but a few other patches won't take too long under the 13min stage)

Nice, will give this a run in a minute

Looks like a bad RAM module. Run memtest86 and loop it 10 times and see if any errors are reported. You can burn the memtest86 ISO to CD and it will automatically boot from it. http://www.memtest86.com/

Try Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 instead of REGEDIT4

svchost.exe is a windows component and best left alone, I have three running on System, 1 on Local Service and 1 on Network Service

Have you removed the LANG folder from the i386? Not needed for us brits!

Using only 9mb, SAV 8.1 is the way to go

If you have a copy of Norton Ghost, use it. Put in your new hard drive alongside your old one, and boot from the Ghost floppy/CD and start the clone process. Once that's done, take out your old hard drive, and put in the new one in place of where the old HDD was previously. I've done this before and its an exact duplicate.