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I also just found out that that tweak isn't working anymore. Using the info Neo provided I created a working tweak: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Device Manager] @="Device Manager" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Device Manager\command] @="C:\\Windows\\System32\\mmc.exe devmgmt.msc" Or for the Dutch like me: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Device Manager] @="Apparaatbeheer" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Device Manager\command] @="C:\\Windows\\System32\\mmc.exe devmgmt.msc"

Yeah well the only regtweaks I run via cmdlines (besides the XPlode installation) is your excellent way for enabling the 'quick launch' bar and adding the users to the admins. For me with all the regtweaks applied it takes about five seconds longer than w/o tweaks. And this is also on every regular boot, not only after the Windows installation. BTW and IIRC in SP2 the welcome screen has been replaced by this loading screen which by itself takes longer to load then before so I think Windows itself boots a bit slower.

Hi there, been away for a while. Just finished reading the pages since my last visit, 'bout 30 pages , anyway I see there are some new things here which I'm gonna try out. For the record, two months ago thanks to y'all I've created a perfectly working unattended installation DVD with a lot of good registry tweaks . These tweaks have been installed on three PC's already . Anyway there's one thing that bothers me and perhaps this is totally normal, but after Windows has finshed booting where it normally says 'Welcome' I always see this: "Your personal settings are being loaded." This usually takes something like five seconds which is a bit annoying. I guess this is because of all the registry tweaks I have added, but does anyone know if it is something in perticular that causes this slowdown?

I thought I read somewhere yesterday that you can use that string for the System32 folder in Windows XP. But I can't find that site anymore

Can I exchange "%systemroot%\system32" for "%system%"?

I think this will work (I call the clean up file cleanup.xml): [GUIRunOnce] "%systemroot%\system32\Temp\XPlode\XPlode.exe /x:#systemroot#\system32\Temp\XPlode\cleanup.xml"

I've created a perfectly working clean up file with an XPlode GUI. Can I call this cleanup file like a regular XPlode installer like this, but then under GUIRunOnce (in winnt.sif): [GUIRunOnce] UserExecute="%systemroot%\system32\Temp\XPlode\XPlode.exe" or does it HAVE to be a .cmd file? If so how can I call the XPlode file (XPlode.xml) via .cmd file? Like this?: cmdow @ /HID START %systemroot%\system32\Temp\XPlode\XPlode.exe EXIT

oh sry for my previous post then, I thought that was the one which set the statusbar Edit: it seems that "StatusBarOther"=1 does enable the statusbar for all windows, at least in SP2. About the list and detail view tweaks, if I use both than all my folders are set to list view with detail aswell. And I still have statusbars in all windows though. Something else I want to add is about the 'quick launch bar'. The method of adding it to your complete reg file doesn't work for me as it hasn't worked for others aswell. Now prathapml has posted a way to do this which seems to work fine. You have to create a separate reg file and call it via cmdlines.txt. His post can be found here. This method works for me aswell.

This works for me to enable the statusbar for all windows: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main] "Show_StatusBar"="yes" "StatusBarWeb"=dword:00000001 "Show_URLinStatusBar"="yes" "Show_URLToolBar"="yes" "StatusBarOther"=dword:00000001 To show the left hand bar as you call it: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced] "WebView"=dword:00000001 I'll attach my complete RegTweaks file which I use in my unattended install. Maybe it can be of some use RegTweaks.reg.txt

The problem was calling the XPlode file via cmdlines.txt. See my reply here

Well I tried the [COMMANDS] ".\$1\Install\XPlode\XPlode.exe /xml:#Systemdrive#\Install\XPlode\XPlode.xml /log:#Systemdrive#\XPlode.log" and at the same time I had added a lot more stuff to my setup such as customized bootscreen, setting another theme, and added more apps, and when I went through the test with VMware the installation stopped right after the network install was done, then it rebooted and restarted the setup After that I eliminated almost everything in my setup, from deleting files one by one such as .cmd files, .svcpack file, reg files, editting the winnt.sif, changing back to my previous winntbbl, editing almost everything out of the xplode file, deleting the system32 files untill my setup was almost empty. One thing I hadn't tried was removing the above code, and whaddaya know, that fixed it Went back to calling XPlode via winnt.sif, and everything is working again. That thingy took four hours to fix, I think I tried seven installs until I figured that out, never expected that to be the problem. Oh and the shortcut.exe thingy doesn't work either, no shortcuts are being created.

I cannot figure out for the love of god why my unattended install insists on rebooting when it is done with the Network Installation. See my attached picture, right after that, it reboots? Don't know where to start looking since it doesn't even come to the point that it is gonna use the cmdlines.txt (for the useraccounts.reg and XPlode start), thus the final app install through Xplode.xml and the svcpack.inf (for the Royale.exe) files. I already tried deleting the '[GUIRunOnce] %systemdrive%\Install\bootlogo.cmd' line in winnt.sif to test, but that aint it either. Will in a sec exchange my newly created winntbbu.dl_ (as seen in the screenshot) for a previously working version to test. For the rest I haven't changed anything except more apps in the XPlode file. More suggestions would be appreciated.

At page three I saw a suggestion for your winnt.sif for doing a full format instead of a quick one: Full NTFS Partition

The Royal theme is also being discussed in the 'MSFN -> Customizing Windows -> Customizing Windows -> XP Visual Styles' section. In that topic there's someone who created an installer for the Royale theme: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...ndpost&p=204892 Hope this helps you.

This weekend I've done my complete unattended install on my separate HD and everything is working fine, Windows automatically installed my nForce2 drivers, and the latest ATI Omega 4.10 beta was also installed through my apps list. But now I just noticed in my Add/Remove apps list a 'nVidia driver' item. Anyone know where this comes from? Or could this be the nVidia nForce2 Sound Utility?