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Well... first off this should probably be in the Unattended section of the forum. If a mod sees this, please move it. As for the question, the basic idea is that the files that are located in the $OEM$ folders on your CD (read up on them in the guide) are copied over to the harddrive during the first stages of the Windows install. (I'll start with batch files since that's the easiest place to start learning about UACDs) From there, you set up the cmdlines.txt file to run your batch file. Have a look at the examples page for a good start on the basics of setting up the necessary files. The program path that is described in the RunOnceEx creator refers to the location where the program can be found. For example, if you set up your $OEM$ folders as follows: $OEM$\$1\Installs\Installer.exe Then your batch file would run a command as follows start /wait %systemdrive%\Installs\Installer.exe /switch The start command starts the installation of the program, and the /wait switch tells the batch file to wait until the installer is finished before moving onto the next command. If you are unfamiliar with writing batch files, try practicing some basic stuff first, such as copying or renaming files, or running several programs in sequence (i.e. run MSPaint, then Word, then IE). Hope this helps!

Read the Unattended guide. The RunOnceEx.cmd creator program will simply create the .cmd file that will then install your progams. You still have to set up the CD as normal.

Yup... "best" depends on what you want to do.

You still get treated like one until you are about 25 though... so get used to it <{POST_SNAPBACK}> lol... so true...

Have you tried setting this with TweakUI from Microsoft?

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...).