totoymola

Hi. I have a slight problem regarding auto logon in Windows 2000. I am working as computer lab technician in our school and all their computers there use Windows 2000. Each computer has 2 (or 3) user accounts, the admin and the restricted student account. Most of the time the computers use the restricted account, and we only use the admin account if we have to install new softwares, updates and do some configurations. My problem is, everytime I logon using the admin account, I have to type the username and password manually. That is a major pain especially when I have to do it on 40 (sometimes more) computers. I'm just wondering if you can recommend a FREE and small utility (preferably command-line) that can help me do this job. This is what I want to do: Using the main computer (the computer that I use there, and it is always logged in as the admin), I want to run a batch script that will shutdown and restart all the remote computers (they are all logged in as the limited account). I use the command line utility PSShutdown from Sysinternals to do that. After restarting, I want them to log on using the admin account so I won't have to type the username and password on all of them. I don't want that auto logon to be permanent because after I finish updating, I have to restart all of them and logon using the restricted account again. But I don't know any tool that can do that. There is an auto-logon tool from Syinternals, but it's features are very limited. I cant use it to control a remote system. One more thing. We use Novell client, and in order to login using the admin account, I have to check the "Workstation only" checkbox on the login screen. I think that makes this more complicated. I will appreciate any suggestions that you can give me. Thanks!

Sweet! Oh by the way, nice avatar Nanaki.

Hi Bâshrat the Sneaky. This installer is becoming popular now. Y! Tunnel and other chat programs use it (YaZak and YahELite).

Hey no offence to the users, but imho, MSN Messenger (and Windows Messenger!) is a very stubborn and annoying piece of s**t. I have no problem deleting the registry entry on the "run", but it still tries to find a way to recreate the deleted entry! Anyway, I have some suggestions regarding the automatic launch after the installation. You are on the right path, I don't see anything wrong with your PSKill command. Just make sure that you have the PSKill executable in yoiur system32 folder. Also, I think you can modify the msi to remove the property that launches the software after installation.

Well, it's becoming popular now. Y! Tunnel and other chat clients use it.

Thanks dude. This project is really cool. : I have one more suggestion for your future version. I think you missed the switches for Tarma installers.

Most of the time, you can easily tell the switches of an installer by just looking at it's icon. For example, Wise, NSIS, Innosetup, Tarma, and MSI's have their unique and distinctive icons. However, it is not 100% reliable because anyone can replace the icons.

Hello advancedservers. Me and my friend Astalavista experienced some problems installing these games several months ago. The native installer has no silent installation switch, and it is a self extracting executable. So what we did was we made a customized installer for them. Building the installer for these games shouldn't be a problem. Because all the files are in the %programfiles%. The registry entries are not very important because the program will right it's entries to the registry when you run it. For the registration, the name and serial number are stored in the registry. Its very easy to find. Tips: 1. Install the game on your computer. 2. Run the game, and register it. 3. Go to your installation directory and copy all the files there. (There are useless log files inside, you can delete them. I just can't remember which files exactly they are.) 4a. Create a custom installer using Inno Setup, InstallShield, or others. (Like what I did) or 4b. Create an SFX installer. (Like what Astalavista did) OR: Forget everything I said, and just use AutoIt. You can also create a silent installer for your softwares by using installation capture softwares, but I don't recomend using that.

Cool. I'll be waiting for your future release.

MHz, can I make a feature request? Can you add the InnoUnpack feature for Inno Setups? I hate doing it thu commandline.

Or integrate it with nlite. The driver's installer is not good. Even if its created using InstallShield.

True. But I still prefer using customized sfx modules because they look better. Dude, I never had that problem. As far as I know, you can call it whatever you want as long as it has a .SFX extension. I call mine "totoymola.sfx" and I'm using it without any problem.

Is there a new version coming?

Lost Soul, I'm not sure if that is the correct reg entry. Like I said, I don't have a valid serial to test it out. Anyways, I will give BTEngine another chance. Will I get the same result with the trial? Or does it only work when registered? I also heard that it is not good to keep it running when you have other softwares active, such as browsers and IM's.

I don't have a valid serial, so I tried entering a bogus serial number. Here is where the serial is located. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\soft4kids\btengine Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\soft4kids\btengine] "version"="4.0" "username"="testing" "reg_code"="11111111" "isfirst"=dword:00000001 "point"=dword:00000000 That is the complete reg entry. I think the lines "isfirst"=dword:00000001 and the "point"=dword:00000000 are not important.

I would like to help you on this, but I don't have a serial to try it. I'm not gonna buy it until I feel the difference. I have 6mbps down/768 up. I tried it on BitTornado and BitComet. Do I have to be registered first to make it work??

Jedi82, I will try to find it. Or perhaps I will try to build an updated version.

Cool!

Is it really working? I tried it before but I didn't fee any difference.

Thanks man. I'm really impressed.

Hi. It's a wrapped msi. edit: it's an InstallScript msi

this is really cool.

Cool! You're getting close!

There is a Firefox extension that does the same thing. It's really good.

No there is no software that converts an exe installer to an msi. You have to build it manually, and it's not that easy. Especially if you want to make a nero msi. You have to know how your software works, the files it installs, registry entries, components, etc. Why do you have to make an msi for that if you can install it silently using the original installer?