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It searches the root of each drive on your system for a system file named either programs.sys, documents.sys, music.sys or videos.sys. If found it will label that volume with that filename, (minus the extension). <Edit> Since you.ve now changed your mind on the volume labels you may wish to change &&label %%? %1to &&set %1=%%? </Edit>

The 'complex' version will only check your drives, not ones you don't have. The original, nested command will actually check four permutations of twenty four drives, i.e it will look 96 times for its files. If you only have C: D: E: F: drives it will still look for those four files in G: H: I: J:Z:.

Please don't do it! Nested FOR loops is bad practice, and can cause problems. Try something like this instead @echo off for %%? in (programs documents music videos) do call :setit %%? goto :eof :setit for /f "delims=\" %%? in ('mountvol^|find ":\"') do dir/b/as-d %%?\%1.sys &&label %%? %1 goto :eof

Just a quickie on your refs section, the swgreed MSFN codec pack, currently at v2.6 is now my mod. I created the install in inf format, then wrapped it in a silent sfx was fully implemented into the available release. You can, as I do, just drop it into HFSVCPACK.

Will this help explain contents of WindowsXP-KB898461-x86-ENU _sfx_.dll _sfx_0000._p _sfx_0001._p _sfx_0002._p _sfx_0003._p _sfx_0004._p _sfx_0005._p _sfx_0006._p _sfx_0007._p _sfx_0008._p _sfx_0009._p _sfx_0010._p _sfx_0011._p _sfx_0012._p _sfx_manifest_ contents of WindowsXP-KB901190-x86-ENU _sfx_.dll _sfx_0000._p _sfx_0001._p _sfx_0002._p _sfx_0003._p _sfx_0004._p _sfx_0005._p _sfx_0006._p _sfx_0007._p _sfx_0008._p _sfx_0009._p _sfx_0010._p _sfx_0011._p _sfx_0012._p _sfx_0013._p _sfx_0014._p _sfx_0015._p _sfx_manifest_

Okay, although not directly on subject, could you explain a couple of these entries captured from the running batch file WindowsXP-KB896428-x86-ENU.exe TEMP\SP2GDR\telnet.exe 1 File(s) copied TEMP\telnet.exe 1 File(s) copied WindowsXP-KB898461-x86-ENU.exe 0 File(s) copied WindowsXP-KB899587-x86-ENU.exe TEMP\SP2GDR\kerberos.dll 1 File(s) copied TEMP\kerberos.dll 1 File(s) copied WindowsXP-KB899589-x86-ENU.exe TEMP\SP2GDR\nwwks.dll 1 File(s) copied TEMP\nwwks.dll 1 File(s) copied WindowsXP-KB899591-x86-ENU.exe TEMP\SP2GDR\rdpwd.sys 1 File(s) copied TEMP\rdpwd.sys 1 File(s) copied WindowsXP-KB900485-v2-x86-ENU.exe TEMP\SP2GDR\aec.sys 1 File(s) copied TEMP\aec.sys 1 File(s) copied WindowsXP-KB900725-x86-ENU.exe TEMP\SP2GDR\shell32.dll TEMP\SP2GDR\winsrv.dll TEMP\SP2GDR\linkinfo.dll TEMP\SP2GDR\shlwapi.dll 4 File(s) copied TEMP\shell32.dll TEMP\winsrv.dll TEMP\linkinfo.dll TEMP\shlwapi.dll 4 File(s) copied WindowsXP-KB901017-x86-ENU.exe TEMP\SP2GDR\cdosys.dll 1 File(s) copied TEMP\cdosys.dll 1 File(s) copied WindowsXP-KB901190-x86-ENU.exe 0 File(s) copied TEMP\SP2GDR\LANG\imekr61.ime 1 File(s) copied 0 File(s) copied WindowsXP-KB901214-x86-ENU.exe TEMP\SP2GDR\mscms.dll TEMP\SP2GDR\icm32.dll 2 File(s) copied TEMP\mscms.dll TEMP\icm32.dll 2 File(s) copiedSpecifically sections with lines 7-8 and lines 52-56 Thanks

It's only a standard Athlon XP… Here are the files, from my new version with the replaced incorrect file I had previously <Edit> Yes, as far as I'm concerned the WGA Notify thing is not a critical update, it was only included for these tests. I just didn't remove the cab so that I don't forget to put it back later. </Edit> All3.zip

I'm not too worried about the flash patch for now, as you say, I will likely be updating it eventually. the_guy thanks for the heads up on the 904706, I've no idea how that happened, I have now downloaded it from here. I didn't know that TC was mirroring updates, but I prefer to get them from MS anyhow. Here is the particular registry branch, let me know what you think! updates.zip

Can someone explain what we're supposed to be looking for in these results, and why lines 12-15 of WU.txt aren't what I expected. This is the first time I've ran a HFSLIP ver since January, and I've never bothered with HFNetChk before, just relied on Windows Update. Thanks WU.zip

>%TEMP%\_.url (ECHO/[InternetShortcut] &ECHO/URL=http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/) &%TEMP%\_.url &&del %TEMP%\_.urlIt should be on one line, any line(s) not beginning with two spaced has wrapped.

From my understanding of the program you are using, should you not be using a file listing like this: "C:\Program Files\vso\ConvertXtoDVD\ConvertXtoDvd.exe" /fl=filelist.txt /auto=true /close If so you may be able to use: If wscript.Arguments.Count = 0 then msgbox "drop a Directory onto me..." Wscript.Quit End If objin = wscript.Arguments(0) Const TemporaryFolder = 2 Set wshell = wScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") Set fileobj = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set objfolder = fileobj.GetFolder(objin) Set filelist = objfolder.files Set tfolder = fileobj.GetSpecialFolder(TemporaryFolder) With wshell.CreateShortcut("none.lnk") .TargetPath = tfolder.Path temppath = .TargetPath & "\" End With tfile = "filelist.txt" Set filetxt = fileobj.CreateTextFile(temppath & tfile, true) For Each f In filelist filetxt.writeline chr(34) & f.path & chr(34) Next strexe = wshell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%ProgramFiles%\vso\ConvertXtoDVD\" &_ "ConvertXtoDvd.exe") strarg = " /fl=" & chr(34) & temppath & tfile & chr(34) & " /auto=true /close" wshell.Run(strexe & strarg, 1, true)I don't know the program so you may need to remove or add double quotes in places, but it shouldn't be too far away. To use it just drop your folder containing your files to be added onto the vbs file.

Tarun, this is the Windows XP Forum! and I will say nothing else on the subject.

strFullCommand = """C:\Program Files\vso\ConvertXtoDVD\ConvertXtoDVD.exe"" /file=" & strFullLocation & " /auto=true /close"<Edit> You may also find the quotes easier to grasp if you were to use the concatenation operator and a continuation character in this case. The first line would show your file name using the "" convention to signify the set of double quotes, ("), within the quoted string, due to the space in the filename path.</Edit>

How does a router secure your operating system? a router configured correctly would only secure the flow of information not the operating system itself Is there a button in nLite to press which does that? or do you have to know exactly what you want first and implement it yourself A software firewall will not really secure your operating system in this setup only useful to prevent outgoing information from an already compromised system Why not use IE can I not secure it as an integral part of the operating system, hence the question

Not quite correctRD/S/Q "Folder Path" DEL/F %systemdrive%\Remove.cmdThe /Q switch is incorrect In your case, to delete your batch file, you could use, DEL %0as the last line of your batch file. However, as most users are using a cleanup.cmd file and cmdow and trying to remove a folder named install in the root of their system drive, how about this for an idea? place your command file into the Install folder you are trying to remove and have this as the last line in your cleanup.cmd RD/S/Q "%~DP0" It will delete the batch file's containing folder, obviously also removing the batch file too!

Try setting the 'dumpfile' appropriately if you intend to attempt running your system without virtual memory. Without making that change Windows needs a paging file, so don't just try it!

Or REGEDIT/E <drive>:\<pathto>\<filename>.reg HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Program1\Settings

As Sonic has stated, using the incorrect syntax for the command has caused the problem start "" "c:\my prog\prog.exe"I have posted here however, not to affirm Sonics advice, more out of intrigue… How did you get this to work?

sc config Alerter start= disabledsc.exe is included on XP and can also be used in 2000. However there is no need for it, services are only used if needed, there is no need in a standard system to change anything from the defaults. If you wish to not have a standard system, then go ahead, but noone is capable of knowing your current or future hardware and software system requirements. Without that information a database would not be capable of making assessments of services and their individual dependencies for you. It could not cater for every possible scenario, therefore would rely upon the knowledge of the user. If you have sufficient knowledge to know what you specifically want and need, then you should be capable of putting together a small script. Similar could of course be said for the registry database! Tweaks are useful only to the specific machine, setup and user; the ramifications of any changes should be fully understood prior to their deployment. Other than the deployment of IE settings, my personal registry tweak list can contain up to twelve entries. Back to the point in hand, the most commonly accessed script in my toolkit is actually the one which resets windows services back to their defaults! Most PCs I am called out to have problems which are fixed using this script. Being armed with insufficient knowledge is more dangerous than being unarmed in this case. We all trust Microsoft enough to spend a majority of our lives on their operating system, trusting it, a little too much possibly, with banking, shopping, and communication with the rest of the world. They wrote this system, and in my opinion have done superb job at creating something which works in nearly all hardware and software configurations, for nearly all users. Other than their specific disabling of a couple of services, with SP2, there have been very few real complaints from the knowledgeble about Microsofts default services configuration. Just trust them, and perform your few specific changes, registry and or services yourself.

ripken204, mentioned partitions, and I responded directly to him on that, my response to you and everyone else is to leave it alone, (System managed size).

Set it to System managed size, probably 3838 MB <Edit> ripken204, putting your pagefile onto a different partition on the same hard drive as your system will actually degrade performance. </Edit> <Edit2> changed probably figure due to mis-calculation </Edit2>

Have you noticed that there are now two KB917344? The new Script56 is named WindowsXP-Windows2000-Script56-KB917344-x86-enu.exe. Which do we need? since only one of them required G.A validation to download! I know that if they both go in only the newer versions will apply, but that doesn't answer the question. Also, there is a June version of the directx 9.0c Redist

Copy and Paste the exact contents of the code box, into a new line within your existing cleanup.cmd. There is nothing to change in my text.

Thanks Alanoll, by editing my post, youve completely changed what I had to say. I will say it again here, however, if ther is some reason after sixteen days why what I had wrote was in some way in breach of some rule, please let me know by PM, Thanks. What it said was: <Edit> Or more correctly: and </Edit>

Try one of these in your cleanup.cmd: 1. This will get rid of all non read-only and non-system shortcuts from all non-hidden and non-system non-redirected profiles desktops.FOR /D %%? IN ("%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\..\*") DO DEL/Q "%%?\Desktop\*.lnk" 2>NULIt should all be on one line. 2. To delete all shortcuts from all non-redirected profiles desktops. FOR /F "DELIMS=" %%? IN ('DIR/B/AD "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\.."') DO DEL/F/A/Q "%%?\Desktop\*.lnk" 2>NULIt should also all be on one line. Use the first example first, it is the safer option. If the problem is still there after this then your shortcuts are not LNKs; likely URLs or created by CLSIDs.