Zxian

Happy Birthday!!! Welcome to the land of not being a teenager (officially) anymore! I know you probably haven't thought of yourself as a teenager for a few years, but now it's official! Enjoy your birthday!

The NTOSKRNL.EXE file isn't a file that you run to install the boot screen... it is the boot screen. You need to replace the file that's in your Windows directory (I can't remember where it is) with this one. Just a warning: if you don't have the right NTOSKRNL.EXE file, then you'll end up with a computer that won't boot! A much better option is to use BootSkin by StarDock. If anything goes wrong, you can still get into Safe Mode and turn off the Boot Skin.

Get a copy of BootSkin and then use these boot screens: Link As for the login screen... what do you mean? Win2K3 defaults to the classic login. I've never tried to see if there's a Win2K3 Welcome screen since I find it horribly ugly anyways...

@spiritpyre: I don't think it's a problem with the VS itself. The .msstyles is the file that contains the information regarding the location of the common tasks bar (since various releases have both a "side" .msstyles and a "top" .msstyles file). I was going to as Stefanka if it would be possible to have a side common tasks bar style as well. That's the only thing keeping me from Inspirat right now.

That's funny... 4 different people have said Bandwidth... but there are only 3 votes for it!

512MB will do the trick for basic UACD testing. If you're actually going to use the VM as a computer (i.e. bring it to full screen and expect some speed) I'd get 1GB.

Did you not understand my first reply? If you want our help with something, ask! No one is going to do the work for you (at least no sensible person). What steps have you tried? Do you have any .cmd files that you could show us and we could help you fix them?

Thanks everyone, Yeah... like I said... with me right now, everyone's got their first strike ever since I sent out the warning e-mail... anyone tries that crap again gets banned... Man I love having the power.

Sorry dood... no idea about that.

Probably not... What is confusing about the process? Have you read the guide at http://unattended.msfn.org/? If you have any questions about how to do things, we're more than happy to help you out, but I'd be surprised if someone would simply do it for you... I'd suggest starting with batch files, since they're generally the easiest to understand what's going on. From there, move on to RunOnceEx, and then perhaps XPlode or WPI if you're really hardcore.

Why don't you try following Astalavista's guide on shrinking the Office 2003 install as shown here? That way you get a nice compact, silent installer with no need for switches.

lmao @ all...

Well... to get back on track... I'd suggest saving up a bit more money and going for a Socket 939 motherboard and working from there. Find the cheapest 939 CPU you can find, and keep adding on whatever else you need. If you can, get a mobo with PCI-E, since AGP will also be going out the window soon enough. You can get an ATI X600Pro for the same price as the 9600Pro that was suggested here. It'll add a little more to your budget, but it means that upgrades are an option instead of a completely new computer a couple of years down the road. EDIT Here's a link to a pretty good 939 motherboard that supports PCI-E. Link All in all, you're probably looking at having to save up another $100 or so. In the end you'll get a much better rig though.

Wow... what's with all these old posts being dug up? I use PhotoShop CS nowadays though... lots of really nice features...

As for the first one... in Group Policy Editor you can find the setting you want. Computer Configuration->Administrative Templates->System->Group Policy Set "Turn off Resultant Set of Policy logging" to Enabled. I got this error as well after removing WMI from following Bold_Fortune's guide. The second problem seems to be a driver issue though...not sure if you want to ignore that one.

lol... that's a really really funny bump... Kinda came out of left field. but I voted yes...

Wow... that's a really handy feature XPerties. I think I'll register later on tonight and give that a shot (for testing purposes of course ).

You could try using a browser with a built in pop-up/ad blocker? Pretty much anything that isn't IE has some form of ad-blocking built in. Maxthon - built in Firefox - AdBlock Extension (Link) Opera - Adblock add-on (Link) If you're going to use the Opera ad-block, get the C++ version, it's the easiest and the quickest. Oh... and stick with Sygate. I've been using it for months now with the Opera Ad-block and nothing gets through (ad/popup/anything). Hope this helps!

That's a feature of Office itself. I'm not quite sure how to turn it off though... Why do you want to turn it off? It's a pretty valuable security feature.

I've used this program as well without any problems. It's really easy to use and setup. The fact that you can bypass it by going into Safe Mode is a great thing too, since if you screw up your ntoskrnl.exe file by replacing it with a modded version that doesn't work, a format is the only way out (except for using Knoppix or WinPE - but that's much harder anyways...).

Glad to see you've figured it out. When you do post your RunOnceEx file, make sure to use codebox tags to surround your code. It makes it much easier for us to read and keeps the thread clean. i.e. [codebox](insert code here)[/codebox] Cheers!

Considering that there are several ways of installing applications on a UACD, you need to figure out one of the basic ways (i.e. RunOnceEx - not XPlode/WPI) and stick with it. I started with the batch files, since it's a good place to learn about the basics of setting up the file structure on a UACD. When I was comfortable with that, I moved onto RunOnceEx since I don't care about really fancy looks and it's relatively simple to setup. There's even a RunOnceEx maker that makes things a lot easier. What you end up with in the end is a sleek looking box that shows you what's been installed and what's to come. Read the guide carefully. There's no quick UACD creator program out there... it takes a bit of practice. All the information you need there is available - you just need to read it all (no skimming). The RunOnceEx page even has a good example on how to setup the .cmd file.

Wow... this looks really cool! Considering that I only use the Nero Burning ROM I'll definately look into this when I get home tonight.

Hey Alanoll, Thanks again for the release. Great work as always. I think it's best the way that you have it - i.e. having to select what you DO want installed. That way if you want to make it a Winamp Lite plus a couple of addons, it's pretty easy to do this. Cheers!

Which program are you using right now? Sygate is running on all my computers at home, and I've never noticed it get in the way of any network traffic. CPU and RAM usage are quite low (~10MB RAM on average) and I've transferred files across my CAT5e (100Mbps) network without any speed loss. Call me paranoid.... I'm running behind a Linksys router which stealths the entire network, but I definately need the software firewall on my laptop since I connect to my university's wireless network, and I know for a fact that there are infected computers there...