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Oops sorry I thought you were asking for my boot.ini. And your correct mine is working. KennyK if you haven't got it working could you post your boot.ini

[boot loader] timeout=10 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Professional x64 Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect C:\CMDCONS\BOOTSECT.DAT="Microsoft Windows Recovery Console" /cmdcons

Thats what bootcfg does for you. When I manually edit boot.ini I almost always screw it up.

Maybe I'm missunderstanding the question, but wouldn't that depend on the method your using to install the reg tweak. Cmdlines.txt, batch file or runonce.cmd or what ever.

Sound like you installed it correctly for dual boot. There should be a menu to choose 32bit XP or 64bit XP. It defaults to 64bit and times out in 30 seconds or so. If you don't see this menu, boot from the 64bit CD into the recovery console and run bootcfg. type bootcfg /? for instructions. If that doesn't help post back

You have AutoPartition=1 which tells setup to install on the first partition that doesn't already contain an install of windows. And Repartition=NO which tells setup not to repartition the drive. So if your drive allready has windows installed then you'll be asked to choose a partition. Change Repartiton=yes should do what you want. Personally I prefer to choose the partition myself because I don't want the wrong drive being formatted.

boot from the XP 64 cd and do a repair install. don't choose the repair console but continue until your asked if you would like setup to attemp to repair your install or something like that. Sorry I should have mentioned that in my first reply. PS after the repair install you may have to reinstall some applications and/or drivers

You need to install XP 32bit first then the 64bit version second.

Change the [HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1708537768-1580436667-854245398-1006 to [HKEY_CURRENT_USER. Your trying to use a SID from a previous install.

From reading the ref.chm it looks to me like setting unattended mode to defaulthide and leaving those answers out of the answer file should work. But I haven't tried this myself.

The best thing to do is to set it the way you want and then export this key. ;----- Display detail on windows explorer ;----- [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams] "Settings"=hex:08,00,00,00,04,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,00,77,7e,13,73,35,cf,11,ae,\ 69,08,00,2b,2e,12,62,04,00,00,00,10,00,00,00,43,00,00,00 ;-----

Remove the DO from DO IF EXIST Never mind, disregard this

I don't

Try searching in the Application Installs forum. Search for AVG*

I was experamenting with this and made a DVD with all the files from a ME cd and an XP upgrade cd. during the upgrade when it asks for the verifying cd you have to press enter and it will search the CD for qualifying files. I also found if I created an empty directory structure of the ME cd on the unatended cd it worked too. Looking at my CD the only files I left from the me cd are in the tools directory. But I can't remember why I left them, may have just over looked them. I also tried it with just the win9x directory but it wouldn't work. So far it has only worked if the full directory structure from the ME cd is included. Hope this helps a little. Also since you still have to press enter it wouldn't be fully unattended.

I don't think the order matters unless something your changing in one file depends on something in another file. Did that make sense? Are you sure your not stopping a service or program that XPSP2 depends on that earlier XP didn't.

I noticed the same thing so I ended up installing it in my runonceex.cmd REG ADD %KEY%\270 /VE /D "KB890830" /f REG ADD %KEY%\270 /V /1 /D "%systemdrive%\install\KB890830.exe /q" /f Don't know about the GDI detection tool.

Try this in a reg file ;----- Disable Security center ;----- [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security Center] "AntiVirusDisableNotify"=dword:00000001 "AntiVirusOverride"=dword:00000001 "FirewallDisableNotify"=dword:00000001 "FirewallOverride"=dword:00000001 "FirstRunDisabled"=dword:00000001 I think this is in the sticky "reg tweaks" I can't remember for sure

I'm able to install build 1433 using the F6 method with no problems. On a K8N-E MB, 32bit XP is on a RAID array on the nforce controller. 64bit XP was on the RAID array on the si3114r controller. Tried to make an unattended CD using Green machines method. The text mode doesn't give any errors, but after reboot setup can't access drives on the si3114r controller. It lists a drive but says its size is zero. I'm not sure but I think the problem is with SIWinacc.sys but I couldn't prove it, just a feeling I have. anyone have any luck with this or have any other ideas?

I'll upgrade for sure if it's free, but I'm confused too. Is this upgrade for everyone that has 32bit Xp. Or is it like when XP was released? If you bought a computer from Dell for instance with 98 installed. it came with a certificate for a free upgrade to XP.

Use Alcohol120% and create a virtual drive with the ISO. Virtual PC will not work with images larger than about 2gig

I was able to extract the files using winrar. I'm using version 3.42 which is the latest.

Just put your winnt.sif file in the i386 folder on your CD. I tried to remenber where I got this information and give you a link "maybe in the unattended guide?" but a quick look didn't find anything.

I don't know if this will work because I haven't tried it. But I call a file in cmdlines.txt to set up accounts. accounts.bat net user administrator /delete net user newadmin password /add net localgroup Administrators newadmin /add

I had problems in my runonceex files so it wouldn't work. And I made some other goofy errors. Its like I originally thought XP home will not allow the administrator acount to autologon and will only allow logon when in safemode. But I had no trouble setting auto logon for an count in the administrator group. First I had to remove the lines setting administrator password and autologon from my winnt sif. The in my cmdlines.txt I call a file to create some accounts. cmdow @ /HID @ECHO OFF net user Jim password /add net localgroup Administrators Jim /add REGEDIT /S autologon.reg EXIT Here's the autologon.reg file Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon] ;username administrator causes problems in XP HOME "DefaultUserName"="jim" "DefaultPassword"="password" "AutoAdminLogon"="1" Next put your runonceex.cmd in cmdlines.txt Your PC will boot using the account you setup "jim" in the above example and run you runonceex commands. Note like MCT says HOME will auto boot with the user name "OWNER" if you only have one account. so you may just need to remove your autologon for the administrator.