Takeshi

This subkey's binary data value contains hardcoded entries for the drive letter and in this case, also the path for the user folder.

You don't HAVE to install Windows, but you DO have to install an OS. http://www.vmware.com/products/ws/ DeepFreeze doesn't allow you to have simultaneous OSes running. It's a bit like picture-in-picture for TVs.

These commands can tell you the adaptor and IP Address without you looking up the CLSIDs in the registry. ipconfig systeminfo wmic nicconfig GET Description , IPAddress

Check firewall, ports, Client for MS networks, File and Printer Sharing...

Would you pls kindly explain how these strings are tied to the OEMBIOS files or PID?

Startup sequence in 9/11 tests (abbreviations used in parenthesis) leaving out the timings, using the same method I used before, but now in UA setup in VMWare: Summary for 11 tests that all the keys (except the ones listed below) execute:1. LU is the first to start every time. 2. In nine out of 11 tests the sequence is identical (see above). 3. Except for one test, CRO is the last to start. The exception in one test is UPSM last to finish. 4. Except for one test, LU, LRO, LROE, CROE executed alone and finished before the next started. In one test, LU started and LROE started before LU finished. 5. In all the tests, LU, LRO, LROE and CROE are always the first four to execute. 6. In all the tests, LROE always started and finished before CROE. This may be useful for UA installs. Keys that did not execute from previous tests: Where my results differ from yours: • I couldn't get the HKCU and HKLM policies key to run. • I could get HKCU load and HKLM userinit keys to run. • Not sure if HKCU ... userinit key exists at all; I didn't test it.

It'd be meaningful to ask if something is best only if you say for what purpose. I don't quite comprehend why you guys would want something that will play/decode all the formats in the universe. Do you really watch videos encoded with all the available formats? Why not just pick the codec for your particular purpose?

Look here: http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/31/ Applications that use Quotations...

Since I replied earlier I also found that some HKCU tweaks don't stick when applied at T-12. You said importing the reg after user logon works. So it should work if you use RunOnce or RunOnceEx, making sure the reg is still there on the HD.

Double-click it.

multiple "" problem

The poster is trying to activate a genuine copy of XP after reinstall. Can we stick to the topic? The other thing is, how is this going to help here? The poster is already using the royalty OEM install disk so it already has the relevant oem files. Is there much point in getting the oem files from the HD? He has already installed, so getkey.vbs only returns the key that he used (the one which couldn't activate), not the royalty key.

Qu 1. Have a look yourself in Customize Start Menu > Advanced > My Documents...(3 options)

Disable WZC?

It depends what version you have. For XP HE, the default built-in Administrator account has NO password. Just press ENTER. For XP Pro, it's the password you setup for the built-in Administrator account, not any other admin user account that you create afterwards or use to logon.

"Force classic Start Menu". You'll find it in GP under User Config.

No AFAIK Do it manually.

Just calm down. Look inside the installation CD more carefully and you might find a royalty key in winnt.sif.

It's not that XP won't format a primary partition or one with an OS. Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc) greys out the format options for the first active primary partition on each HD. Without knowing more details from the poster we're only left guessing what his setup is. If you force format the partition (which of course you could do offline), you may well make your system unbootable.

Yeah I suspect that would be the case but I haven't done it myself. It's a bit like renaming VCD dat to mpg (mpeg-1).

"EnablePrefetcher"=dword:00000003 means both boot and prog prefetch. I only use "EnablePrefetcher"=dword:00000002, meaning boot prefetch only. The problem with program prefetch is, every single prog you run even once, including cmd, will get a prefetch file created. I think this is not helpful, but you can decide what's best for you. "DisablePagingExecutive"=dword:00000001 "LargeSystemCache"=dword:00000001 "IoPageLockLimit"=dword:00020000 These aren't applicable (IoPageLockLimit) or useful (the other two) in XP. I don't understand the query on classic menu options, since I don't use it.

HKLM (not HKCU) RunOnce and RunOnceEx execute almost immediately on first reboot but BEFORE a user is logged on and the desktop is loaded. See mazin's post on testing RunOnce keys (I'll update my results soon). Why don't you try it and see if it works. Unless you actually mean to do it while still in GUI setup, before reboot. But at T-9 it's finalizing installation stage and I don't know of a way to do anything there from then on.

NoStartMenuHelp should be NoSMHelp. These policies are only HKCU keys; there aren't HKLM equivalents. Not ALL HKCU keys have their HKLM counterparts so you can't just make them up. Applying HKCU keys at T-12 will affect ALL users, as outlined in the UA Guide.

I didn't realise you can just rename vob to mpg. If there's no copy protection or region code, you could just copy the files directly to HD without using DVD Decrypter.

To be fair, leaving the merits of having a hidden recovery partition aside, the poster formatted and fdisked the HD on purpose knowing the consequences so DELL is not directly to blame. It's not as if the partition failed on its own accord. It is not designed to withstand formatting.