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The guide does show you how to add users and setup Auto-logon. http://unattended.msfn.org/intermediate/users.htm As for adding a firewall, search! There are plenty of programs out there and they've all got UA install instructions here.

When do you get the first error message? If it's when you're trying to install your programs, then it means that the batch file or registry entry can't find the program that you're trying to install. As for the second question, if you've messed up a switch or a setup.ini file, then sometimes the installer will simply quit without doing anything. Dunno about the last question.

Thanks for the info! The strange thing is that when I removed everything, I only got the Burning ROM (no Xpress). When I kept the Toolkit, the XPress link came back. That was the only reason I asked. As for the command line... it's no biggie. Just another couple of .reg files I gotta make (pre-NCAB.reg and post-NCAB.reg).

If you're installing other software on your UACD, you can put the following line at the very end to apply your regtweaks. REGEDIT /S <path to regfile> Just execute that command just like you would an installer. Hope this helps!

I've always found SpywareBlaster a good preventative tool against Spyware. As for scanning, I've never had a problem that Ad-Aware, Spybot, and CWSShredder couldn't fix.

You could try burning the image as a file from the PC, and then copying the image file onto the MAC. From there, you should be able to use a MAC program to open/burn the CD. (I think)

And word on the possible bug I found? Thanks for the update though!

There are none built into Windows. You can use a program like WinKey to set these up (and many more) for you. Link

Eiger will apparently cost less than a standard Windows XP install, since it doesn't offer all the features of XP.

Umm... XP+nLite = Eiger... So does it come with a t-shirt? I'd get it if it does!

You're not going to get much help unless you search first and then come back with something that doesn't work. Both of the programs you mentioned have topics relating to them.

This is exactly the point I'm getting at. The software that you're providing is not a typical anti-virus or security solution - it locks down the entire computer and provides an all seeing eye for administrators. Don't get me wrong - if you can make this work relatively easily for companies great. I'm just wondering how much of an impact it will have on the home computer market. Until you can make the software usable for the common person, you'll be stuck with large corporations as your market base. Until then, anti-virus won't be obsolete...

Trust me... it always feels that way at first...

Haha... nice find Crispy!

Stop calling him "bob". It's just plain rude. Here the guy's trying to explain a different method and all you can do is insult him? Come on...

I think the difference here that many people are getting confused with is the fact that this software will essentially lock down the entire computer - not just provide an alternative to anti-virus software. But what you also said isn't quite true... NOD32 relies heavily on heuristics to detect viruses - not definitions. As a result, it's recieved the highest placement on the VB100 list (30 passes, 3 fails - all fails on Linux or DOS...). Place an unknown malicious piece of software on your hard drive and chances are that it'll get picked up. As for the question about the batch file... it's a silly example, IMO. A lot of the stuff I do involves batch files... and you're basically saying that I'd have to add each one to the "allowed" list. I could also type in (as un4given1 pointed out a while back): del c: /s /q /f to the command line... no anti-virus program would catch it, but would your software stop that if you had granted permission to the command line? EDIT And yeah... I'd imagine your hands are getting tired. You've got a lot of smart (and some not-so-smart) people asking questions. Kudos to you for keeping such a level head!

Yeah, whenever you get a chance, try playing with the services. I'm not saying update your BIOS. Some motherboards have drivers to allow the system to properly access hardware.

I'll give you a hint... Crispy had a guide on Photoshop silent...

Did you have an anti-virus and firewall installed before connecting to the internet? (key thing here, anti-virus - you mentioned McAfee firewall) Who advised you to not install the latest mobo drivers? With my computer, unless I install them, I get strange behaviour from my hard drives as well since the IDE contoller is non-standard. And always as a first step, go to Safe Mode. If that's working fine, then you can start putting the pieces back together. As for the services themselves, write down a list of all the services and their startup types. This way, you can change things back to the way they were if you want to.Then you can alter your services configuration to cut out any potential problems. Here are the services I have listed as Automatic: -Computer Browser -Cryptographic Services -DHCP Client -Event Log -Network connections -NOD32 Kernel Service (This is my anti-virus) -Plug and Play -Remote Access Connection Manager -Remote Procedure Call (RPC) -Security Accounts Manager -Server -Shell Hardware Detection -Sygate Personal Firewall (my firewall... duh) -Task Scheduler -Telephony -Windows Audio -Wireless Zero Configuration (only because I use a laptop with wifi... if you're running a desktop, disable this) -Workstation Here are my services listed as Manual: -Logical Disk Manager -Logical Disk Manager Administrative Service -Office Source Engine -PDEngine (PerfectDisk) -PDScheduler (PerfectDisk) -Print Spooler (you'll probably want to keep this one Automatic) -Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Locator -Windows Installer Everything else is disabled. To access the list, go to Start->Run, and type in services.msc. Double click on an item to change its startup type. Try disabling some of the unnecessary services (like Distributed Link Tracking Client) and reboot to see if the problem goes away. That should keep you busy for a while...

Yep... now I see it... CHICKEN!!!!! well... sorta... Nice shots everyone!

You're missing quotes... Also, does the problem occur when you run in Safe Mode? Do you have an anti-virus running as well as the McAfee firewall? Try disabling both of them (after disconnecting from the internet) and see if the problem persists. Do you have all the latest drivers for your hardware? Motherboard included?

Yes, on the surface XP does run slower than 98, but do you understand why and the reasoning for it? IMO, the benefits outweigh the costs. I'd rather have a rock solid system that runs a bit slower than one that runs really fast, but crashes... and I loose my work.

If you've set the swap file to minimum, you'll have one hell of a time getting Photoshop, Outlook, your web browser, and Dreamweaver running... all at the same time. You actually - manually - find any "scary" files on your computer? You must have a lot of free time on your hands. And with nLite, I've got a fully working computer with a mere 400MB in the Windows directory. I know others have done better, but this is what I needed for everything I use. Who cares if the scan only takes 31s.... how often do you scan your comptuer? With a proper anti-virus and SpywareBlaster, you shouldn't be needing to scan your computer that often. If you do and it picks up stuff everytime, then you've got more problems than you can shake a stick at. I haven't scanned my XP install for viruses or spyware in months. It's running rock solid, as it has for a while now. Not to mention that if I wanted to... I could very easily kick the Spybot scan out of memory in Win98... something that's (pretty much) impossible to do in XP.

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The problem that I have with this (I'm not an admin by the way...) is the fact that someone completely new comes in and advertises (that's the way I see it) a new product without having contributed anything else first. The difference between rythmnsmoke and nuhi and Alanoll is that nuhi and Alanoll have provided help in many areas, whereas for rythymsmoke, his first post is regarding a product that costs money and he works on. To me, that's advertising. And IMO, it does belong with a discussion regarding AV software since that's the market that its in. There's a lot of software that runs on XP... but we all post about that in the Software Discussion section... what's so different about this? I apologize if I was quick to judge on this. I've seen many other such first posts, and probably all of them up until now have been completely bogus. From the looks of things, this isn't the case here. Now... to ask some questions (and hopefully get some good answers! ) Sure... most AV programs go undetectable on the system when you're not using it, but what about when there's high network or file I/O happening? Both Norton and NOD32 will sit quietly at idle, but start downloading a lot of stuff and Norton will cause your computer to slow to a crawl while NOD32 doesn't. These are just for comparative purposes mind you - there are several other AV programs that demonstrate similar qualities. How exactly do you accomplish this? You're saying that you recieve data at the hardware level before Windows does? I thought that this was the key to how WinXP worked... the HAL - a method so that it was simple to interface hardware through the OS. The only program that I know of that can directly access some hardware (network cards and CD drives perhaps) is VMWare, but it still relies on the OS for processor calls and file I/O. I'm somewhat skeptical of this... was the program put on the computers malicious (i.e. a virus/trojan)? If so, you're saying that none of the AV programs picked it up? I'd like to get my hands on this program... for testing purposes. Kinda harsh way to put it, but true... several programs use auto-update features. When the program is updated, how would the ImmuneEngine know to allow that program access to resources? For example, Sygate Personal Firewall keeps a running tabs on all programs that request network access, and when a program version changes, it asks the user what to do. Would the ImmuneEngine provide a similar feature?Also, I'm not quite sure what you mean by "Binary Search Engine". Searching through the binary code itself is somewhat crude and probably an inefficient way of doing things. The binary data itself doesn't hold much value unless you know how to interpret it. A little more elaboration might help here...