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Welcome to the MSFN Forums. Becoming the best was the easy part, staying there needs good membership, thank you for joining!

Welcome to the MSFN Forums. Becoming the best was the easy part, staying there needs good membership, thank you for joining!

Welcome to the MSFN Forums. Becoming the best was the easy part, staying there needs good membership, thank you for joining!

Welcome to the MSFN Forums. Becoming the best was the easy part, staying there needs good membership, thank you for joining!

Welcome to the MSFN Forums. Becoming the best was the easy part, staying there needs good membership, thank you for joining!

Welcome to the MSFN Forums. Becoming the best was the easy part, staying there needs good membership, thank you for joining!

Welcome to the MSFN Forums. Becoming the best was the easy part, staying there needs good membership, thank you for joining!

Welcome to the MSFN Forums. Becoming the best was the easy part, staying there needs good membership, thank you for joining!

Welcome to the MSFN Forums. Becoming the best was the easy part, staying there needs good membership, thank you for joining!

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This is the same reply as IcemanND's above. While you are logged into Windows you can get the key used to install it by using any one of many small software utilities. There is no other way to get your key other than finding the one you lost. Keys are not free and nobody here will be giving you one. If you still cannot find it then give Microsoft a call, tell them what happened and see if they would like to supply you with one. Topic Closed

There are literally thousands of examples and tutorials etc already in this forum. Please use the search facility!

The first thing I'd try doing is changing the command script. All the pings and sleeps mixed with your exes are likely causing problems. I've attached a re-written, but untested, version of your cmd file; renamed only so that you don't overwrite your own (in order to check the two side by side). Basically I've used the start command with its wait switch to hopefully negate the sleep executable with its commands. I've altered the %errorlevel% too because there's no telling what errorlevel will be returned by your exes on any error. If errorlevel 1 means if the errorlevel is 1 or more! This is obviously only best guess since I'm not in a position to test and run your completed exe along with its contents. I hope it helps! Dell745Bios.zip

By using information! Something which consistently appears to escape you in your posts! Please learn to use these forums a little more responsibly. The vast majority of your posts have required some sort of intervention by the Boards Administration Team. Topic Closed

Could you upload either your IExpress or the CMD and SED files.

A quick reminder to anyone replying... Make sure that D: is not an optical or removable drive.

Since you keep referencing nLite, I'm moving this to their dedicated Forum area.

No, on this occasion I chose it directly through the GUI Wizard interface, sometimes it appears in the drop down list, sometimes it doesn't. My usual method, when I used to use this tool, was to modify an existing SED file however.

Of course IExpress will run a cmd file! That wasn't a fix for all your problems, I'm telling you that you don't need the cmd /c in order to run title. All you need is what you've used in the example you've provided above. Attached is a zipped archive containing a CMD file and its associated SED file, place them both in the root of your C: drive, run it through your IExpress wizard, create the EXE and run it! Also if you want to edit the SED file change the two instances using CMD file extensions to BAT and rename your CMD script to BAT, you'll probably find it doesn't work when run! MyTest.zip

Just a quick rant, because it's one of those things which really does get me riled. I gave the correct switches for the DEL command in my example! There is no /Q switch needed or required in any case throughout your script. As for the munge stuff, I really don't know anything about this tool . If all you wanted was a method of replacing lines in a file there are many tools available to do this which look better than the one you chose.

Your second line opens up an instance of cmd.exe with a `My Ghostcast setup` in the TITLE bar and immediately closes due to the /C switch.

How about providing us with the bat file, (which should incidentally be a cmd file in an NT OS), and an idea of the process you went through in order to create the executable.

First of all I'd suggest you at least try using the /b switch with your dir command. <Edit> Also I hope you realise that if any file fails to correctly expand it would be deleted in the next step! @ECHO OFF IF NOT DEFINED HFSVER ( IF NOT EXIST HFTOOLS CD.. IF NOT EXIST HFTOOLS\HFSPEEDUP.INI ( ECHO.&ECHO Please make sure you are running this program ECHO from the HFSLIP or the HFSLIP\HFTOOLS folder. ECHO Press any key to quit.&PAUSE >NUL&GOTO :EOF) IF NOT EXIST SOURCESS\I386\TXTSETUP.SIF ( ECHO.&ECHO Unable to find SOURCESS\I386\TXTSETUP.SIF. ECHO Please make sure to run HFSLIP first. ECHO Press any key to quit.&PAUSE >NUL&GOTO :EOF) IF NOT EXIST HFTOOLS\MUNGE.EXE ( ECHO.&ECHO Unable to find HFTOOLS\MUNGE.EXE. ECHO Please verify that the file exists. ECHO Press any key to quit.&PAUSE >NUL&GOTO :EOF) IF EXIST SOURCESS\I386\TXTSETUP.BAK ( DEL/F SOURCESS\I386\TXTSETUP.BAK) CLS) ECHO.&ECHO Expand compressed setup files to speed up boot process... PUSHD SOURCESS\I386 FOR /F %%I IN ('DIR/B/A-D *_') DO ( EXPAND -R %%I>NUL 2>&1&&DEL/F %%I) POPD <snip> </Edit>

You've taken this too far now, you were asked to use the search function and as yet have shown no inclination to do so. Topic Closed!

Correct, my exe removes all shortcuts from the `current` and `all users` Desktop.Along with the prior response from uid0, it exactly answers the question asked. Why use five sticks on dynamite when one will do!