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been considering the same idea for battlefield 2. I was thinking of just copying the folder thats installed on my current system and then using the $Progs to copy it over but im guessing i would need to find if thiers any registry settings that need exporting and re-importing? Could work same for Doom!

thanks for your reply, i think I will try the nlite option.

thanks.. so do I point to the ini file in my batch file? sorry for being confused

will I still need to use any switches for the installer?

Thank You Soooo much, thought I was gonna have to format again. Now I can go bed and smile. edit.. did I mentioned it worked lol

(double post) please ignore this one

Well lol I used both and nothing has changed after a reboot so looks like I'm stuck anymore suggestions?

I noticed that code mentions "classic start menu" is that ok because I dont want classic menu lol.

My Recycle Bin has disapeared off my desktop, possiibly due to running my regtweak on my unattended disk. Is there anyway to get it back without having for format again

ok will try that when it finishes installing, what exsactly will that do ?

it was the latest trial from their site. like I said it wont let me move the icons, if I try and drag the recycle bin elsewhere on my desktop it will make it a shortcut

ok finished my unattended but having a very annoying problem, my mouse wont select the icons properly, if i try and move a icon it keeps creating a shortcut instead of moving the icon. btw im talking about the desktop icons like the recyclebin, also it wont select the icons unless I click on one @ a time (cant select all using the drag mouse action) I havent installed any reg tweaks so it cant be anything like that. also im only running the installation on Virtual PC , not tried it on a real pc yet. Please Help.

thanks. it turns out I remember stopping a service called "msiexec" from my task manager, seems this was why noting would run thanks again

"The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed. This can occur if u are running in safe mode, or if the Windows installer is not correctly installed." My disk worked fine yestaday and all I added today was Acrobat Reader and Photoshop and also ran some Service Pack 2 hotfixes using nlite to intergrate them. Now I get the above message when it trys to installed msn 6.2 or the .net framework silently. Any ideas ?

Yep I followed the above way and had no problems. ECHO. ECHO Installing Office XP Professional with Frontpage ECHO Please wait... start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Applications\OfficeXP\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb- ^^^that was what I had to copy to my batch file after running the Resource Kit etc.

Thankyou. Will try it after me watched a film

Can this Menu be edited/changed, if so where can I find it ? Thanks.

ok done that, just one thing, will this be silent or do I add a /s switch to the Pictures.exe ? btw I did select "hidden" when I made the sfx, so that should make it silent I assume ?

ok will try now. thanks for the code tip. [edit] that fixed the problem thanks.

I tested my silent intstall under Virtual Pc but it stops at the screen where you select the partition, have I missed something ? my winnt.sif looks like this.. have I missed something ? ;SetupMgrTag [Data] AutoPartition=1 MsDosInitiated="0" UnattendedInstall="Yes" [Unattended] UnattendMode=FullUnattended OemSkipEula=Yes OemPreinstall=Yes TargetPath=\WINDOWS Repartition=No [GuiUnattended] AdminPassword=bethany EncryptedAdminPassword=No OEMSkipRegional=1 TimeZone=85 OemSkipWelcome=1 [UserData] ProductKey=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx FullName="Gar3th" OrgName="" ComputerName=Shabba1 [Display] BitsPerPel=32 Xresolution=1024 YResolution=768 Vrefresh=75 [TapiLocation] CountryCode=44 Dialing=Tone AreaCode=0121 [RegionalSettings] LanguageGroup=1 SystemLocale=00000809 UserLocale=00000809 InputLocale=0809:00000809 [Branding] BrandIEUsingUnattended=Yes [URL] Home_Page=http://www.google.com/ [Proxy] Proxy_Enable=0 Use_Same_Proxy=1 [Identification] JoinWorkgroup=WORKGROUP [Networking] InstallDefaultComponents=Yes [Components] msmsgs=off msnexplr=off freecell=off hearts=off minesweeper=off pinball=off solitaire=off spider=off [WindowsFirewall] Profiles = WindowsFirewall.TurnOffFirewall [WindowsFirewall.TurnOffFirewall] Mode = 0 [GuiRunOnce] %systemdrive%\install\mybatch.cmd

ok 1 hour later and finally my pictures are compressed lol. ok so now how and where do I add this sfx file and how do I execute it on my private install ? also will i need to also silently install winrar before the sfx file for windows to be able to extract it. ok I assume it will involve the start.cmd and if so do I even have a start.cmd or do I make one and if so do where do I place it and also where do I place my installation files ? maybe someone could point me to a tutorial that explains things if Im asking to many questions lol.

could I not make a $OEM$\$Docs\Gar3th\My Documents\My Pictures folder and place the pictures there ? (sorry for the 2 posts it wont let me delete this one)

ok I've created the sfx and set it to hide all etc, so how do I execute it when installing XP silently?

could you explain more please, if I sfx them, how do I get them to extract with the XP installation silently ?