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Did you copy nvatax64.sys to the AMD64 dir?

What happens if you install to vmware without a network, then enable the network after the install is finished? Thats what I have to do to get my network to work with virtualPC sometimes, but the real install works just fine.

If you place your file in $OEM$\$1 then %systemdrive%\myfile.exe will work. You have to uae the path that matches the $OEM$ sub directory on the cd. For $OEM$\$$ would be the windows directory on the hard drive. %CDROM% wouldn't work in winnt.sif. If you want to run your program from cd you would have to call it from a batch file that defined the %CDROM% variable.

I go by the date they were released. And if some were released on the same date I install the lower kb number first.

There are "well known SIDs" that never change. But try creating an account, then find its SID. Delete that account and recreat it. You'll find that the SID has changed.

All instances of [HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-299502267-1677128483-1060284298-500 needs to be changed to [HKEY_CURRENT_USER The SID which is S-1-5-21-299502267-1677128483-1060284298-500 changes each time you install windows.

First thing do you know if the CD will boot on another computer? You only need the floppy if you have mass storage drivers that need to be installed with the F6 method. But getting one wouldn't solve your not booting from CD problem. Do you see any thing on the screen when you try to boot from the CD? Does the light on the drive go on? Try the other cd drive if you have more than 1.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop] "ActiveWndTrkTimeout"=dword:00000000 "AutoEndTasks"="1" "CaretWidth"=dword:00000001 "CoolSwitch"="1" "CoolSwitchColumns"="7" "CoolSwitchRows"="3" "CursorBlinkRate"="530" "DragFullWindows"="1" "DragHeight"="4" "DragWidth"="4" "FontSmoothing"="2" "FontSmoothingOrientation"=dword:00000001 "FontSmoothingType"=dword:00000002 "ForegroundFlashCount"=dword:00000003 "ForegroundLockTimeout"=dword:0012cb4c "GridGranularity"="0" "HungAppTimeout"="100" "LowPowerActive"="0" "LowPowerTimeOut"="0" "MenuShowDelay"="90" "PaintDesktopVersion"=dword:00000000 "Pattern"="(None)" "PowerOffActive"="0" "PowerOffTimeOut"="0" "ScreenSaverIsSecure"="0" ; This is what you want time is in seconds so 600 = ten minutes "ScreenSaveTimeOut"="600" This is what ; set to 1 to activate screen saver "ScreenSaveActive"="0" "SCRNSAVE.EXE"=hex(2):00,00 "TileWallpaper"="0" "UserPreferencesMask"=hex:9e,3e,07,80 "WaitToKillAppTimeout"="1000" "Wallpaper"="C:\\WINDOWS\\\\Web\\\\Wallpaper\\\\Bliss.bmp" "WallpaperStyle"="2" "OriginalWallpaper"=hex(2):43,00,3a,00,5c,00,57,00,49,00,4e,00,44,00,4f,00,57,\ 00,53,00,5c,00,5c,00,57,00,65,00,62,00,5c,00,5c,00,57,00,61,00,6c,00,6c,00,\ 70,00,61,00,70,00,65,00,72,00,5c,00,5c,00,42,00,6c,00,69,00,73,00,73,00,2e,\ 00,62,00,6d,00,70,00,00,00 "WheelScrollLines"="3" "FontSmoothingGamma"=dword:000003e8 "SmoothScroll"=dword:00000000

Your using a bunch of different reg files right? Are you sure some of the tweaks aren't duplicated only with different settings?

First I would unassociate .iso files from winrar. Then what program are you using to burn the CD? The xpboot.img is the boot sector and cannot just be copied to the CD. But if your burning an .iso image of a bootable cd you don't need xpboot.img because it should already be included in the .iso What ever program your using there should be an option like 'burn image'

There are about 10 or so covers with a bunch of little holes that go in front of the 120mm fans on the removable tray. What are they called? You remove them if you want to install a CDROM drive or something. I always had a hard time removing them to clean them, so last time I left them off.

I'm gona just start building a new computer when the dust builds up too thick Seriously I removed the filter on an older machine when I was messing with over clocking. no i have a cooler master cmstacker case. I don't like how the dust builds up on the front and is hard to clean off. So I removed the front covers and I'm going to stop by home depot to see if I can find a filter I could use

I could be completely wrong here but my guess is that windows defaults to "let windows choose what's best for my computer" it changes it to what it thinks is best. This reg tweak sets it to custom Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects] "VisualFXSetting"=dword:00000003 And it's been my experience that I've had to apply some tweaks more that once to get them to work. That's probably because of things like the above.

The files could be damaged? Or you should search microsoft.com here's a link to get you started. http://search.microsoft.com/search/results...=3&na=33&cm=512 You could all so search on the application name. Someone could help better if they knew what the applications your having trouble with were.

I guess you want to do it unattended. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop] "SCRNSAVE.EXE"=hex(2):00,00

try /quiet /norestart instead of /q /n /z for those two You could have typed IE6.0sp1-KB883939-Windows-2000-XP-x86-ENU.exe /? in a command window to get this info.

Use winrar to open cdrom:\support\tools\deploy.cab. Go to the directory you extracted the files too and run setupmgr.exe. it will step you through creating your winnt.sif

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon] "AutoAdminLogon"="1"

I need to learn to read better. Perhaps you should post one of the reg files thats not working. Oh and I like your idea of having reg tweaks divided into diffrent files, my reg tweak file is getting quite long.

I'mnot an expert in batch programing but I think this will do what you want. also I think TWEAKS should be the full path to your TWEAKS dir. or you could use .\TWEAKS if its a sub of the current dir. for /R TWEAKS %%i IN (*.reg) DO ( regedit /s %%i )

Are you saying you installed xp64 then xp32 and it boots both with no problems? and without making any changes? Or maybe I'm misunderstanding j4ever's question.

The general rule with microsoft oses is to install the oldest OS first if you want to dual boot. You can copy ntldr and ntdetect.com from your x64 cd to your boot drive C:, they're in the i386 dir.

[GuiUnattended] OEMSkipRegional = 1

[unattended] Repartition="yes" From ref.chm Repartition Specifies whether to delete all partitions on the first drive of the client computer and to reformat the drive with the NTFS file system. Autopartition will install windows on the first available partiton with enough space and doesn't have windows installed already.

I couldn't see a problem. I ran your reg tweaks in virtual PC and the history in ie was still working even after a reboot and complete shut down and restart. Did you use nlite?