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Much to my suprise this thread is still active hehe. I am glad it is still somewhat useful. I plan to download the latest version and update the guide in the near future. Just gotta get some time
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ECHO Removing useless shortcuts...
RD /S /Q "%systemdrive%\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Accessories"
Sure... I suppose I don't need to get to Defrag.... or Wordpad... or Calculator....
Kinda harsh don't ya think?
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Umm I dont need a start menu shortcut to know how to use my PC.
Defrag = start, run, dfrg.msc
Worpad is useless. OpenOffice and Notepad are my choices. start, run, notepad
Calc = start, run, calc
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No, but it does mean you guys know how to go through bandwidth like crazy.
It's your own **** fault for making something accurate, very useful, and simplistic.
It doesn't help the lack of bandwidth but I am very appreciative of your contributions.
Thank you!
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if anyone knows anywhere else I should add to that list, please tell me..
the recycled is for win2k, recycler is winxp
I've created that to run at login in our login script at work
Here is what I use. You should create another thread for this topic I bet alot of people have stuff we haven;t listed here and may not see this conversation since the topic is related to Defrag
ECHO Removing useless shortcuts...
DEL "%systemdrive%\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Windows Update.lnk"
DEL "%systemdrive%\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Set Program Access and Defaults.lnk"
DEL "%systemdrive%\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Windows Catalog.lnk"
DEL "%systemdrive%\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\MSN.lnk"
DEL "%systemdrive%\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Windows Messenger.lnk"
DEL "%systemdrive%\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Windows Movie Maker.lnk"
RD /S /Q "%systemdrive%\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Games"
RD /S /Q "%systemdrive%\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Accessories"
RD /S /Q "%USERPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\Accessories"
DEL "%USERPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\Internet Explorer.lnk"
DEL "%USERPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\Outlook Express.lnk"
DEL "%USERPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\Remote Assistance.lnk"
DEL "%USERPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\Windows Media Player.lnk"0 -
Thank you daddy.
You're welcome.
but any help would be great.For the record I did offer you help. You just chose not to see it. You will be far more successful with your queries at MSFN if you follow the rules.
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I dont frequent or trust most peoples opinions in forums; however, I trust everyones here and im sorry for posting this off topic post here. I just bought a glare screen, where do I connect the ground cord? Would it be sufficient to connect it to the outside of the power cable? Again im sorry, but any help would be great.
Ok this is completely selfish of you. You knowingly admit to posting in the wrong forum and apologize but you still violate the forums most basic of rules. Not to mention you are posting a basic hardware question in not the hardware section... or the general section! Not even in the off topic area but in a member contributed project forum for an application called nLite which function is to reduce and customize windows.
Please don't be so selfish next time you post. Someone is paying for this host which provides us with some of the most organized and most technical forums on the net don't clutter things up for your own personal gain... as if you are above the rules and guidelines.
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but since I don't have a clue how to call that zoneinformation stuff I also don't know where to search. Offcourse it's your first search result with google since you know with what words you should search with and I don't
DigitalAZ, I'm well aware of these things but since you could have read I didn't know anything about this matter. So, how could have known I had to search with +CheckExeSignatures +RunInvalidSignatures? I knew I had a problem but I didn't know what the problem exactually was or how I it is called! Comeon is it that difficult to understand?
No need for attitude I was trying to be helpful. I spoke directly to you but it was also for the benefit of others.
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Here at my office, we are using Novell Zenworks 6.5 for imaging.
This allows us either a imaging CD (using scriptable linux),
or PXE.
The server side allows rules based imaging, so when the system boots, it will check against certain hardware rules (including chipset, processor, video, nic, ram, hd size, etc), which will determine the particular image it is supposed to use. Using PXE we can also force a reimage remotely.
The image and all the apps are seperate, but also fall into the script.
The Apps are created as Zenworks NAL objects, when can be deployed (similar to group policy), or in this case, a seperate image file for each app is created.
The script then tells which apps go with which system and they are pulled down together with the OS image. In our office we are using sysprep'd images, but it will work for standard load as well.
For reimaging, Zenworks allows personality migration (which will save user data, settings, profiles, etc), before reimaging and restore them afterwards.
Nice features, for a Netware environment.
I have used Zen and it is kickd a**. Unfortunately we don't have a Netware environment.
Your post made me realize I missed a few things hehe
Altiris has PXE support and PC Transplant which wraps profiles, application settings and files into an executable that can be run on the new machine to migrate all their settings and data
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Umm wrong forum
The sticky threads in that forum contain most of those applications. Did I understand your post.. you are requestings cracks for those applications? That is a no-no around here.
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UPDATE 16/03/05Phew Im finally done.The reg file is now completely updated. Corrections from Page 27 to 71 have been made. Enjoy
Could a mod pin the rar to the first page
Thanks for all your hard work
hehe
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I have been to M$ training for the Business Desktop Deployment stuff and while it is very interesting and includes alot of slick stuff it isn't feasible at my company. We don't have AD yet. No SMS 2003 server. No WinPE
What we have been using is Altiris for about 3 years now. The Altiris Deployment Solution allows you to catagorize all the PC's in designated groups in your deployment server console. In my organization our PCs are grouped by cities. Once you have layed out your groups you can manage one PC or the entire city or entire organization. For example I can create an event to set the time zone to Eastern Standard Time and drag and drop that event on a PC, City, Multiple Cities etc.
Here is a breakdown of the features we use.
Altiris Client. Installed on every PC in the organization. Sends machine inventory everytime PC is logged in. Allows for remote control and package deployment.
Altiris eXpress Deployment Console. This piece our enterprise admins use for managing the organization. Via the deployment console we have access to everything with the click of a mouse. Imagine wanting to install Acrobat Reader on every PC without interfering with the user as they work. Fire up the RapidInstall tool and create a baseline on a clean image. Install Acrobat run RapidInstall for post installation tasks. Aft er a few moments you have an executable that can be use in a silent and hidden installation. In your deployment console make an event to execute your Acrobat package silent and without user interaction. Then drag and drop the newly created event on the PC's or Cities you want to get this package.
For imaging we create and image much like you would with Ghost. Install, update, tweak, clean, and image. With Altiris it can be an .IMG or you can make it executable. Having an executable image is great because you can put it on CD and run it without the Altiris console. Being we have such a powerful tool for software deployment we NEVER put software in our images. Software gets updated to often and it also increases the size of the image well over CDR size
As far as the issue with varying hardware what I do currently is create an image using the Altiris RadidDeploy application and my images are chipset specific. I support Intel 810, 815, 845, 865 chipsets in my organization. I am changing that process however because we are expected to get new PCs again soon and they will have Intel 925 chipset heh. Right now we have 4 images total. What I plan to do is when I have completed the tweak/clean phase and I am ready to create an image I add sysprep to my installation and set it up to run minisetup when the image is deployed. This way it is not hardware specific.
So to answer your question hehe.. If you cannot go the AD/RIS/SMS/WinPE route then I would suggest something like Altiris. Create your images, Create your packages, deploy and support your clients all from one software suite instead of 10
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I also don't know where to search. Offcourse it's your first search result with google since you know with what words you should search with and I don't. I guess that's the reason these forums are here It's kinda hard searching if you don't know what to search for...
As it states in stickied Welcome to the forum!, Please read me before posting! thread you can search using the + and -minus modifiers. So searching for +CheckExeSignatures +RunInvalidSignatures would have returned all post with both those words in it. The search here is really powerful just have to understand how to use. + makes it a mandatory search keyword while - ignores that keyword. Also make sure you are using the board search and not the integrated google search. Well at least try the board search first as the tips above apply to the board search
Good luck.
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Sysprep has an option to reset the SID.
If the machines are factory loaded, and you did not have to activate windows when they were taken out of the box, then if you create your image from that factory load you will not have to activae it on the destination machines either. If you relaod the machine from scratch using the OS cd not a recovery cd then you will have to activate each machines license.
You have any good sites for sysprep info? I would like to switch to this method instead of creating images for each chipset heh
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Is there a max number of tweaks that one can apply - and after this number the tweaks won´t stick?
I have som ancient memory of this limitation - and that it is possible to change the limit...
Ideas please
/ SwedenXP
more than ever...I don't believe so I have over 800 lines of registry tweaks in my automated tweaks.reg
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I am a smoker. I have been for about 2 years now, and I hate it. But it's an endless cycle...every time I try to quit, someone gets on my a** about how "stupid I was to ever start" or about what it can do to you, or how second hand smoke could kill them...well, for god's sake, I'm not a dumbass, I know this.
Apparently not...
ANd yet you still smoke... all these signs telling you to stop and even an informative pamphlet but you can't make one decision for yourself?Walking by me smoking a cigarette is not going to kill you, if you don't like it, hold you breath for a second or two, but say enough of this crap to me, you just might wish it had. I am SO sick and tired of every non-smoker deciding to make it their personal vendetta to inform me of the dangers of smoking. I KNOW THESE THINGS!!!! For god's sake, even my pack of cigarettes today included a stop smoking pamphlet!!!If you want me to quit, shut the f*** up already, and keep your comments to yourself, you can't say a **** thing I don't already know. I smoke to escape from the stress of everyday life...you aren't helping.Hey I will stfu and keep my comments to myself when you keep your second hand smoke to yourself... deal?
Furthermore, for that arrogant prick who stated that the guy smoking 4 cars up was bugging him, you have obviously never driven a car before in your life. The smoke from a cigarette does not come out the window and just stay there, the motion of the air around the car dissipates it, the person in the car behind the smoker might get the slightest whif of it (assuming absolutely no wind whatsoever), but certainly not someone 4 cars back.Ok so everyday when I drive home I do not actually smell smoke I am imagining it because you obviously have a theory how smoke "doesn't come out a window and stay there"... Slighest whiff? Hey f***nut your senses are dulled by your addiction. WE CAN SMELL YOU! Just because your damaged senses can't smell something doesnt mean it isnt there.
And two wrongs make a right? So because other litter exists throwing a butt out the window is ok? How many forest fires have been started by an old soda can or fast food bag? Get a clue.Also, about the litter. I cannot count the number of times I have seen someone chuck a drink cup or fast food bag out the window, or how often I've seen the remains of a blown truck tire scattered all over the road. And you might argue that there are 50 times more cigarrette butts out there than all of these combined...but where are they?? I see ugly mangled black rubber, I see four year old soda cans, and brown paper bags so moulded into the road that only the rain will eventually get rid of them...but I have never EVER noticed a single cigarrette butt on the highway.
Again with the magical non traveling smoke that noone can smell...As for the whole 20-feet from buildings thing, I feel your pain, that's the rule at my college. It drives me nuts, because people will come out if you're only standing 10 feet from the entrance and tell you so. I mean, this is ridiculous, most of the time it's about 10 degrees, and the side of the building only stretches for around 10 feet, so you freeze your a** off. Not to mention that on a few of the buildings, 20 feet would put you dad-smack in the middle of either the sidewalk or the road, I would think being a little closer to the building would be preferred. And come on, how little of that smoke is actually going to make it into the building from 10 feet away? I'll bet more comes in on my clothing then would from my cigarette.
There is a health risk everytime I walk out the door... very true. BUT it is my choice to take these risks. I didn't choose to be harmed by your second hand smoke because you are a junky and half the population is as well.And the health risk. There's a health risk every time you walk out the door. Hell, I've known just as many people who've died in car crashes as who've died from lung cancer...but the ones who died in accidents were a heck of a lot younger, and much more dearly missed, because noone ever would have suspected it was coming. Unless you live in a hut with no contact with the outside world, you know there's a danger to smoking. If you choose to accept that danger, then so be it. But for god's sake, please shut up about it, I long for a day when I don't hear about it at least twice.
How about our right to stand outside and breath fresh air.... I can be at the park with my kid and someone will be smoking.. not only around their kids but around other peoples kid too.. What other weak mind id*** is that inconsiderate? Smokers take the cake. Selfish and self centered.And just to clarify, I'm not trying to defend smoking itself, I'm defending my right to smoke. I have made my decision that smoking is not something I wish to do for the rest of my life (and my girlfriend really doesn't care for it either), but if I did, I believe that I should have the right to do so peacefully, without every prick on the **** planet nitpicking because his coat now stinks from walking by five feet from me. YOU PEOPLE PlSS ME OFF!!! (in case you hadn't figured that out by now)Your post is riddled with excuses. Preach to me when you are able to control your addiction and stop. You claim you try but everyone who cares about you expresses concern bothers you and makes you start smoking again? Wha
So now it is your loved ones fault you are a junky?You are still a young kid in college. Wait until you grow up and live life a bit. I promise your views will change severly.
Recognizing you have a problem is the first step. Stop blaming others. There is no way to justify your inconsiderate habit which harms others around. Just quit. You know the risks.. you know the facts,, you know the outcome. Just do it. Once you get your senses back after a year or two of no smoking you will be amazed at how much the stench is around you and you will think back to this post.
Now to rant about the companies that sell these things. How come we can send a man to the moon, create bullet proof glass, cheese in a can, and edible panties but we can't make a smokeless/oderless cigarette?
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Hello everyone !
I splitstream WinXP to a WinXP SP2 with all updates. Everything work fine, but when I reboot computer after a sysprep, WinXp tell me the CD.
Why?
Someone allready have the same problem ?
Thanks for answer.
Is WinXP prompting you for your installation CD?WinXP tell me the CD?0 -
Just as a rule of thumb don't get into the habit of putting apps and drivers into your images. Otherwise you have to update your image everytime something gets updated. make the image clean and then create packages to deploy the software.
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Is the name of the app under 8 characters and has no spaces?
Ok with that knowledge I now I have working 7-zip installers! Thank you for your patience.
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Well I am not sure how useful this would be for 19 PCs but it is a great experience none the less. The days of using imaging software has greatly changes with XP having SIDS and the mass controllers issue. Sysprep can relieve all this but it is a pain.
You have several options here.
1) Build Unattended XP CD that installs with no input and the machines are all identical besides SID and computer name.
Pros: Gets around the SID and mass controllers issue.
Cons: Slowwwwww and the process of making a properly configured Unattended CD can take awhile as well.
2) Build an image using Ghost or Altiris that installs the exact same pre-configured image to each machine changing machine name and SID via sysprep.
Pros: Uniformity, faster than install, Highly configurable and automated.
Cons: Highly configurable and automated which is prone to more mistakes. Specific to mass controller used on imaged PC unless configured otherwise..(which I have never successfully done)
I use this method with Altiris and have one base image per chipset. (Wish I could get around the mass controller issue)
3) The method I am planning to switch too.. Setup a RIS server.
Pros: Network install but uses the image concept as each PC will be identical but gets around the mass controller SID issue. Saves disk space as the RIS server only stores the WinXP source once and each "image" would only be the changes applied to your source. So you could have 1 image per group in your organization but instead of using 600MB per image you could use 50MB or whatever.
Cons: Never used it yet but on paper it sounds awesome. Requires Active Directory
I think being you are doing such a small amount of PCs you could setup one PC exactly the way you like and then multicast the configured PC image to all the other PCs via a network boot disk. This is not at all difficult nowadays. Both Ghost and Altiris do this quite nicely.
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I mean when for example when i reboot the computer, i refer to the screen before it displays my desktop and my configuration (in the screen appears the word only: "welcome")
Thanks Man
Oh so you are autologging in but you see the "Welcome" screen as your profile loads?
This should get rid of that.
; Enable Ctrl+Alt+Del requirement at Classic logon screen
"DisableCAD"=dword:00000000
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]If by chance it breaks your autologin use this.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
"DefaultUserName"="USERNAME"
"DefaultPassword"="PASSWORD"
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Did you by chance in your Unattended CD specify a resolution/refresh rate your Video/Card monitor cannot handle? In safe mode change to a safe resolution and refresh rate and try to boot back into windows.
It works installed and not slipstreamed because you made the slipstream and Microsoft made the install hehe.
Good Luck!
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Hi Men
I have put this line to disable the welcome screen when i log-in, but i still see the welcome screen
;-----------------[ Hide Welcome Screen, (0 = default, 1 = hide ]-----------
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoWelcomeScreen"=dword:00000001
Thanks
I use the following.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
; Disable Welcome Screen, Use Classic Logon
"LogonType"=dword:00000000You mean the Welcome login screen not right? If not here is the code to get rid of the Welcome to Windows.
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\tips]
; Disable Welcome To Windows
"Show"=dword:000000000 -
This is an old throw back from the NT days but I still do it to this day. Your logs would take about a year to get to 1MB under normal conditions. I like having too much history rather than none
It will only start purging when it has 1MB and it purges the oldest history first so you will essentially always have one year's worth of data But who leaves a server let alone a PC up for a year without reinstalling nowadays lol; Change maximum application log size to 1024 and set to overwrite as needed.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Eventlog\Application]
"MaxSize"=dword:00100000
"Retention"=dword:00000000
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\Eventlog\Application]
"MaxSize"=dword:00100000
"Retention"=dword:00000000
; Change maximum security log size to 1024 and set to overwrite as needed.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Eventlog\Security]
"MaxSize"=dword:00100000
"Retention"=dword:00000000
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\Eventlog\Security]
"MaxSize"=dword:00100000
"Retention"=dword:00000000
; Change maximum system log size to 1024 and set to overwrite as needed.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Eventlog\System]
"MaxSize"=dword:00100000
"Retention"=dword:00000000
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\Eventlog\System]
"MaxSize"=dword:00100000
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I hate the clutter of unused Context Menus. I personally use the "Play In Winamp" context menu several times daily but never use the Bookmark or Enqueue context menus. So I found the keys to delete to clean this up.
In WinAMP v5+ you can goto Options, Preference, File Types and uncheck "Show Winamp in folder context menus in Windows Explorer"
This will remove all Winamp context menus.
However I like the Play in Winamp context so I remove all but that.
; Removes Winamp Bookmark Context Menu when right clicking on folders
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\Winamp.Bookmark]
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\Winamp.Bookmark\command]
; Removes Winamp Bookmark Context Menu when right clicking on items
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Winamp.File\shell\ListBookmark]
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Winamp.File\shell\ListBookmark\command]
; Removes Winamp Enqueue Context Menu when right clicking on folders
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\Winamp.Enqueue]
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\Winamp.Enqueue\command]
; Removes Winamp Enqueue Context Menu when right clicking on items
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Winamp.File\shell\Enqueue]
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Winamp.File\shell\Enqueue\command]
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Winamp.File\shell\Enqueue\DropTarget]
; Removes Winamp Enqueue Context Menu when right clicking on playlists
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Winamp.Playlist\shell\Enqueue]
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Winamp.Playlist\shell\Enqueue\command]0
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So now it is your loved ones fault you are a junky?
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nuhi has contacted me regarding the update of this guide. I will start to tackle this task this week and look forward to the assistance of the community to get our guide updated!