Aaron

Since Luna contains 3 visualstyles in one file, you will have to use a couple of registry tweaks to change to Silver. I think Bachus has achieved this

Only if the setup file uses MSI, find out what kind of installer it uses

Check if these work, I used Regmon to try and get those values: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 ;Disable Taskbar Grouping [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced] "TaskbarGlomming"=dword:00000000 Didn't have much luck monitoring the regkeys that applied for quick launch though

it installs the OS for real on emulated hardware into one Virtual PC Image file (that's what makes it slow). It won't overwrite anything on your hard disks/partitions. The only thing you can't test on it is your updated drivers, since it cannot emulate an Nvidia card, only an S3 gfx card or something like that.

I played it a month ago, absolutely crap!!

Grab yourself a copy of IconPhile (doesn't need installation), set the Icon color depth, then delete/keep the app.

I'm not sure how to allow users to choose an alternative cascading stylesheet, (if not I would have to redesign another 130 pages :/)

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Try the method at http://www.MSFN.org/unattended/xp/drivers.htm I know its an ATI Catalyst driver guide, but the same should apply for nVidia. IIRC, the last folder containing the INFs was called NVI_DISP or something similar.

Norton Antivirus 2003 is on the site now. The Intel Chipset Installation Utility and Intel Application Accelerator was done by someone else in this forum, you may have to search for it. The batch files don't need to be modified to install windows to C:\, you do that via Text-mode setup. I don't know if winnt.sif will load if its stored on the hard drive - I will have to try that.

http://www.MSFN.org/unattended/xp/finish.htm For those who took the full route with a customized winnt.sif and all the unattended extras, make sure winnt.sif is in the C:\XPCD\i386\ directory, the batch files in C:\XPCD\$OEM$\$1\install\ (add the paths to the batch files in [GuiRunOnce] in winnt.sif), and make sure the $OEM$ directory is alongside the i386 directory, not in the i386 directory!

Has anyone been finding it difficult to read white text on a black background? I've had opinions from close friends saying that the colors should be reversed (black text on white background). But then I've wondered why all custom mirc scripts is white text on black (thinking it was better for most people) What does everyone think?

Only if you were able to edit the VMWare image and edit the contents of C:\install\ that Setup copied over. You should remove applications and hotfixes that are already functional, and only put stuff you want to test. Then put everything back together for your final CD.

I don't have an nVidia card...

lol, this actually got me thinking... what if I was to execute that script which would open all your CD-ROM drives (lost the code, but it spread around the internet like wildfire) at the very start of the batch, and then kill the iexplore.exe process. It's a good way of automatically ejecting your drives

Use copy with the /Y switch to supress the confirmation that you want to overwrite. Another thing to do would be to take out the CD during the batch run.

I downloaded OpenOffice 1.0.3.1 the other day and its got me stumped It's using its own Installer so none of the known switches will work on it.

You probably forgot to add this line to your winnt.sif file: OemPreinstall=Yes (this goes under [unattended])

Thanks, will add some more info on Install Types later edit: INSTALLDIR="C:\Software\Test" seems to have no effect for MSI files (failed on Daemon tools and MSN Messenger 6)

MSI is there as Windows Installer, just below the Installshield link. Do you know of any NSIS installers, so I could test on it (except Winamp)?

Virtual PC? http://www.connectix.com I think they do a 30-day trial, should give you plenty of time to test your CD/ISO

I know that Daemon tools and NAV uses the Windows Installer, so they support the /QB (or /QN) switch Daemon tools need to be extracted before you can get to the MSI. And if NAV2003 is a CD version, then go into folder NAV and run NAV.msi /QB

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Techies said the best OS to develop on was NT4 and Server operating systems, but that was almost 3 years ago. As long as you're using an NT Operating System (thats NT4, Win2k, XP, 2003) then its good enough to program on.