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Maybe it would be...Would there be a way to use StarDock's BootSkin? (It's free) It has the ability to show animated progress bars for the boot screen.

Release Notes Download Page Enjoy!

Xcorcist-Injuring... oOoo.... "Coming Soon...The Sexy Name Decoder"

RPG and RTS. I like the occasional FPS every now and then, but I'm not really that good at it... planning worldwide domination on the other hand...

If the laptop doesn't have an internet connection, why would you want to install updates? I can't really think of any updates for Windows XP that add new features that you would need. Most of them are for online security.

I'm glad I don't live where you live if you're surrounded by girls like that. You'd be insulting an awful lot of good girlfriend's out there. Better choose your words more carefully next time. Yup... you just gotta make sure you give them something better than the next guy and they'll never think twice about leaving you...

Umm... that's old news... There's already peopole who have put up guides on how to slipstream it... Search first, no?

Yeah, set up UltraVNC so that it runs silently in the background and as "viewer" only and disable the system tray icon. That way, you'll be able to look in on whatever she's doing without affecting her use of the computer. She'll have no clue...

Can't forget Foamy!!! www.illwillpress.com

The command that you need is something like: REG ADD %KEY%\010 /VE /D "Office 2003" /f REG ADD %KEY%\015 /V 1 /D "%Installs%\Office\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=UNATTENDED.MST /qb" /f (Btw... my previous code had an error... corrected now) And try to use code tags when possible. They help sort out your words from your code.

Strange... No matter what I try to do (slipstream using administrative install point or just following the guide), I can't get the option to cache the install files. I think I'll give this one more shot tonight...

Hold on a sec... you're mixing apples and oranges. What you've got there is the code for installing from the batch file. A RunOnceEx example is: @echo off SET Installs=%systemdrive%\Installers SET KEY=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx REG ADD %KEY% /V TITLE /D "Programs Installing" /f REG ADD %KEY%\000 /VE /D "Nero 6.6.0.16" REG ADD %KEY%\000 /V 1 /D "%Installs%\Nero\Nero_Custom_Setup.exe" /f If you do want to install Office at T-12 (the time that the batch files are executed) then you will probably need nankai's OfficeExec installer. The regular installer will give you an error otherwise.

It's so simple and it just works! Now... if they only had IMAP interface instead of POP3... that would be the ultimate e-mail solution! Only if you pay!!! AFAIK, you cannot use Hotmail with Outlook if you don't have the paid for account with MSN. I just tried this weekend with my girlfriend's computer and the Hotmail server gave us the message that you require a subscription.

Nice Desktops everyone!!! @harunaksoy - Is that actually the image viewer in Vista? It's really nice...

Yet another vote for a small tube of AS5. It's the best $10 I ever spent on my computer.

Compression is not simply compression. 7-zip and Microsoft use completely different algorithms to compress/decompress the files. You cannot use 7-zip to compress a file and then expect the expand.exe program to be able to decompress them. You can save some space by using Gosh's method of installation, or by removing the ability to upgrade from Win9x/Me (which I do in any case). With Gosh's method and no nLite, I was able to fit WinXP-SP2 and Office2003 (CD1) onto one CD.

Thanks for the update! And as for the size increase... the only people who should really complain are the ones on 14.4kbps modems... and they probably wouldn't use BitTorrent anyways...

BAH!!!! Make a URL link... that picture doesn't even fit on my 1280x1024 screen!!! And AFAIK, that's not the Royale Theme... You can get Royale with XPize though.

You probably need to increase the number of individual folder settings remembered. Download TweakUI from Microsoft (Link). Dig through the settings and you'll find an option to set the number of folder customizations. Set this to 4000-5000.

Another really nice feature that I just noticed... When quoting, the snapback button is located in the quote title, not at the bottom of the quote. It makes it really easy to find your way back to the original when a long post has been quoted and split up.

That looks really promising! Definately checking this out...Thanks!

That's all fine and dandy... but it doesn't really help others. Do you think you could write a guide so that others might be able to follow your instructions? Not to mention that there are people who can get the same with Office 2003....

I dont' have either the refresh or shdoclc.dll problems here, either with IE, FF, or Opera. I do have another problem... possibly. My avatar isn't showing up. I'm not sure if this was a change that was made last night, or just a temporary bug... Tested in Opera and IE. Same problem in both. Refreshed, cleared browser cache, and all that jazz....

aspenjim has good advice. Start off by making a UA install. Just plain old XP installing on its own. Once you've got that working, then you can move on to including application installs. As for what you've got there, the entry in the cmdlines.txt must be the exact same as the file name, and it is case sensitive. If the file is named RunOnceEx.cmd, enter "RunOnceEx.cmd". If it's named runonceex.cmd, the enter "runonceex.cmd". You've been going back and forth between using capitalizations and not.

Wierd...