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I found this site. They have lots of tools for protection. http://sac-ftp.externet.hu/security10.html

Dude, please don't take my comment negatively. It is just my personal opinion, and has nothing to do with anyone/anything. I know you always want to have a password protected setup.. That is what I want too. Now, I have an idea on protecting setup in DOS mode, but I can't start this project alone, because I'm not that good. So I need more brains. Would you like to help me? And also, I'm not 100% sure if this will work. And if ever it works, it is still not 100% safe.

Yeah. I know that thread. I even posted there. But what I want to know is, which program is launched when I press a key. And how can I change that.

Hi. I want to know which file exactly lunches the "Press any key to boot from CD..." screen. And after pressing any key, which file triggers the initialization of the Text Setup mode? Is there a way to edit that? Because I want a different program (or batch file) to be executed when I hit a key.

So.. could you post your results? Where is the registry entry located?

I don't want to sound negative, but these are my thoughts regarding this subject. First of all, an autorun is just an autorun. It is true that you can password protect the autorun, but is still just the autorun, which can be easily bypassed by right-clicking the drive, and choosing "open", or by using Windows Explorer. If you do that, the cd is not password protected anymore because the password is just stored in the autorun program. Second, bypassing the password is easy, but there is always a solution to give your disc additional protection. It is hiding the contens using UltraISO or similar program. Yes, this is usefull, but still not 100% safe. For people who know how to deal with hidden contents of ISO, they can view your files in seconds. Another thing is, hiding contents has a serious drawback. If you hide ALL the contents of the cd, even you will have a hard time browsing the contents of your CD. So for me, it is not advisable to hide everything in the CD. Because it is like locking your door, so you no one can enter, including you! And you have to pick the lock everytime you want to enter. And last but not the least, this protection applies only in Windows, not in DOS mode, and not during the installation of Windows! Do you need an autorun to install Windows? No. So what's the point of having a password protected autorun? What I want to see is a tool that lets me password protect the installation in DOS mode. Without the proper password, no one can enter the setup. But I'm not sure if there is such a tool. Hiding the contents of the CD is good. I use it all the time, but I don't hide ALL of the contents. I only hide winnt.sif, passwords, etc. This just my personal opinion. So I don't mean to discourage anyone, and I don't intend to mess up this topic. That's all for now, and I'm out.

The contents are hidden using ultraiso. But if you have to tools, you can easily view the contens of this. So therefore, its still not 100% safe.

But that is inside your nrg, am I right?

@ECHO OFF REM REM WPI startup something. REM REM Example, how to look for CDROM-drive. Must have a file called WIN51 in its root. for %%i in (C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z) do if exist %%i:\WIN51 set CDROM=%%i: echo Found CD-Rom as drive %CDROM% blah.. blah.. blah.. long list.. :end I got your code already. Hahaha!!!

Hello FeTT! Expect to have a bigger size if you are doing an admin install. But you can alway shrik it down using WinRAR. You can try this also. 1. Delete the files in your %temp% folder (just to avoid confusion). 2. Run the original setup, but don't install it. Just let it sit on the welcom screen. 3. Go to your %temp% folder again, and look for the installation files there.

Nice games you have here!

Thanks guys. I will try it. Especially the AT command. Do you mean HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run ?

As for the system tray icons, I'm also looking for a way to do that.

Right. PSKILL PROGRAMNAME

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Hello. How can I set a scheduled task during the unattened installation? Is it simply copying the [TASK].job file to the %systemroot%\tasks folder? Thanks.

I get it now. First, I typed wmic so I got this prompt. wmic:root\cli> Then I typed wmic /? from there. That's why I didn't get the list of switches.

Run msconfig to see the name of the program that you want to disable on start-up. You can also see the registry location there, as MCT said. For example, if I want to disable Yahoo Messenger from my start-up, this is my code. REM THIS WILL DISABLE YAHOO! PAGER ON START-UP REG DELETE HKCU\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENTVERSION\RUN /V "YAHOO! PAGER" /F

Hello lilweirddude! Have you tried msconfig? About the icons, are you talking about the system tray icons?

soulin, I didn't know that command. Could you explain to me what it does? I tried WMIC /? and got nothing. I want to know the switches.

That's not gonna work, because you omitted the extra percent signs (%) on this part. DIR ""%1\"" /B /O /S>""%1\""\"_CONTENTS LIST.TXT""

Nologic, please stay. We all need you here. Don't be bothered by m0r0ñ$ who think they know everying. Is your wife a Filipina??

Nologic is still here. I see him all the time. He is actually reading this thread.

Not mine.

Nice Afterdawn! Could you explain to me what your code does? Because I don't understand hex values.