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You can get what you want one of two ways. 1) Use 7-zip to compress the administrative install point. For me, the administrative, slipstreamed install point comes out at 634MB. Compressed it's 235MB. (Easy) 2) Use Office Shrink. Search for it, read the thread and the how-to. Once you're done with that, you can compress the resulting files as well to further save space. Be warned. Every time you change something in your Windows installation, you'll need to recreate the shrunk Office package. (Difficult)

No, because the programs that you've mentioned have already been discussed elsewhere. For example, typing in "Winzip silent" will give you this as one of the first hits... Try harder...

Usually it would be an on-site visit. It may not necessarily be a person working for Microsoft, but it would be a company that was hired to perform the inspection. They would take a count of the number of computers each running the VLK and see if the client company has stayed within their contract limits. The whole point of the VLK is that there is no count on how many times its been used. It also allows for companies to easily transfer the licence from one computer to the other without having to call Microsoft for confirmation/permission.

Hehe... Nullification... reminds me of ReBoot!

The dreaded iFrame bug has apparently been fixed in the Merlin build, the version that is to be released as Opera 9 by all accounts.

Have you read the other posts about this? It's already been said that Alanoll is working on an update to the site and will not be updating the current site. Be patient and use another browser in the meantime (or download the PDF).

I get an error: Video Error INF cannot be found I tried putting it into the directory (didn't overwrite anything), as well as renaming it so that the filename matched that of the original.

I'm going to try with the standard ATI Catalyst drivers first. I've never been able to get the IGP drivers to install, even with a modded INF file from the DriverHeaven site. EDIT - I think you forgot to attach the INF file...

I don't know if you've got it, but AutoPlay Media Studio can do this for you... with a nice pretty interface as well. If you want, I can run you through how to set up a simple interface. It might take a bit of time and basic scripting know-how to make, but it'll do what you want. If all the programs can fit on the CD, you'll just need another couple of megs of space for the autorun. EDIT - Wait a second... you said you wanted all of this after the computer has rebooted? With an autorun system, you wouldn't need to reboot.

You want a selection list for the programs that are installed by RunOnceEx? Very simple answer - WPI. Check out the forum here. You'll need to create the silent installers yourself beforehand as normal though. Or are you talking about something like a CD that you insert after Windows has installed... I think you might be able to do this with an autorun... I'll have to check though. EDIT Yes... I think that you should be able to do this with AutoRun. You just have to set up the proper variables.

Umm.... 32MB ATI Radeon 9000 Mobility... I think. Compaq labels it as a 9200, but Lavalys and the Omega drivers list it as a 9000.

My girlfriend just showed me this game... It's really addicting. If you add the different components in the right order, you can get everything maxed out (I think...) Grow Cube It's really really addicting... those little guys are so hilarious!!!

Ok... with the edited line you gave me in Post #9, the basepath shows as it should. However, I tried the second code you gave me in #7, but I get errors that "The system cannot find the file specified". I haven't tried the first code yet...

If I take a non-admin install and slipstream SP2 into it, I get 1GB. With an adminstrative install point it goes from about 620MB to 634MB, which is to expected (patching most files, adding a few more).

Either Konfabulator, or AveDesk with SysStats.

Ok.. this is strange. I took the code that JoeMSFN gave and ran it with my entries for the newdir and olddir and set it to output to a text file. (Office_clean.cmd > output.txt) The contents of the output.txt file are essentially a list of the contents of my C: drive... even though neither of the newdir or olddir variables are on C.... When I manually run the script line by line, the following line for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('cd') do set basepath=%%atells me that basepath is set to C:\. When I run cd it says G:\OFFICE\OFFICE2 (which is what it should be)... I'm so confused...

It's actually not that strange for Microsoft to put trust in another company. The two companies sign an agreement that is bound by law. If the customer breaks that agreement, there are far more repercussions than there would be for an individual. Corporate lawsuits are over big-bucks and everything is documented... if you're caught, you're pretty much screwed. And yes, most companies get checked every now and then to make sure that they're staying within their licence limits.

In theory, unlimited number of times, but it would only be legal for them to use it 1000 times. You can find online stores that sell OEM copies online. NCIX (www.ncix.com) is one of them. Look under their Operating Systems section (I see you're in Canada... that's why I suggest NCIX). To get an OEM licence, you need to buy a certain requirement of hardware, so they bundle it with a case fan and a mouse (I think). It's still a lot cheaper than the full version. If you read through that carefully, it says that you're supposed to press F5, not F6 (that's for SATA and RAID drivers). I haven't heard of the XP install not recognizing ACPI systems made/sold in the past few years. It's mostly on computers that were sold just as ACPI was being released that may have this problem. I would be surprised if you have any.

Thanks for the help. However, when I try to run it, I get a lot of "The File could not be found" errors. To be honest, I'm not entirely sure what the script does... @echo off&setlocal enableextensions set olddir=%userprofile%\desktop\old folder set newdir=%userprofile%\desktop\new folder pushd %newdir%That much I can figure out... set the variables and then move to the newdir. for /f "tokens=*" %%c in ('cd') do set basepath=%%cThis sets the variable to the current directory. for /f "tokens=*" %%d in ('dir/b/s/a') do ( set fullpath=%%d call:chkit "%%fullpath:%basepath%=%%" )When I run this on its own (with echo instead of call:chkit), I get the same file listed many many times (probably the number of times that there are files in the current directory). Is it supposed to take the fullpath of each file and remove the basepath? popd&endlocal&goto :eof :chkit pushd %olddir% if not exist ".%~1" del /f/a/q "%newdir%%~1" popd&goto :eofSo... return to the previous directory before the pushd. Move to olddir... and that's where I get lost. I'm not entirely familiar with all the modifiers for variable names and such. Thanks again.

Hmm... when I do that... My folder jumps from 400MB (Office, no SP) to 1GB! When I make the administrative install I get 634MB after slipstreaming.

As InTheWayBoy said, using the copy of XP that you have would be illegal. Companies sign contracts with Microsoft allowing for so many computers to use the key that is on that CD. If you are not part of that company, you shouldn't be using it. If you're planning on keeping that computer and running XP on it for a while (i.e. not selling it), then you can buy an OEM copy of XP. That copy, once installed, cannot be transferred to another computer as a full version of XP can, but it costs considerably less. As for ACPI, it stands for Advanced Configuration and Power Interface. Almost all computers (I actually think all) nowadays have ACPI-capable hardware. It simply means that you are able to use features such as standby and hibernate, and for computers with speed-stepping processors it allows the operating system to control these settings. The greatest thing about it is that it's pretty much self-regulating. I have never configured anything ACPI based on any of my computers, and yet the speed-stepping in my laptop works just fine.

I think that the meeting at 11 on sunday was an example...

XPero's icon... it fits really well with my desktop...

You can do all that without nLite... but it's a bit harder...

I'm interested... but I can't seem to get it to work... How do you go about clearning out all the files that aren't on the original CD? Also... do you just take the files that are on each CD and simply copy them over into your working directory, overwriting any existing files?