MrChris

My simple solution to avoiding just about all spyware is to NOT use Internet Explorer as a web browser but use something based off m favorite such as Firefox

I have many floppy boot disks out there most of wich load usb drivers to allow the use of usb deviced, however what I am after is booting a usb drive on a machine that does now support usb bootable devices. I have a 80GB notebook drive 2.5" in a external usb drive enclosure. I have bartpe installed on it but i want to be able to boot to the USB drive. I also have many bartpe cd/dvds that I use but my target audience does not have any cdrom drives for security reasons. Granit I am not a developer by any means but I wouldnt think it would be to hard to have a bootloader be called by some exe os some sort after a boot process has already been init. thanks again for the input. MrChris

Are there any "boot loaders" out there than can boot a USB boot device on a mobo that does not support booting to a usb device. In otherwords what I am thinking of is as follows Create some type of maybe DOS based bootable floppy disk that inturns loads USB host drivers then looks for a boot sector on the usb device then if found loads the found boot sector and thus booting the USB device Thanks, MrChris

I understand that and how there is an option with some ISO complication software such as UltraISO and mkisofs where you can have an option to only have the actual data written once to the drive/disk even though there are more than one copy of the file present on the media. My question is does such an option exsist for a normal FS such as NTFS? I have an external USB drive with many copys of the same file (dont ask why I just do) and dont want to take up twice as much of the space for each file/data! I use winxp and 2003 most the time. I know that 2003/RIS has such an option know as SIS Groveler (Single Instance Storage Groveler) It would be nice to have this if it does not already exsit for a normal everyday FS function. MrChris

Ahh yes this worked just as I need. Thanks a ton. But the data of the value has spaces in it and its only getting the first part of it. None the less thanks. The output is there when the batch is done running. but when I view the var with the SET command I only see the first part of the data. I dont think this type of a task will onyl work for the app i refer too. It should work across the board.

Unless im missing something. It still is setting the var as USERNAME and not the data for the value. such as USERNAME=John Doe

Thank you very much. That is kinda of what im looking for but only in my case the key value will always be the same name but the data that belongs to that value is what will always be diff. If that makes sense. for example. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\EasyBoot Systems\UltraISO\5.0 has a string name=UserName but the data for that string is always diff. I want to set the data from the value as the env. var. In your above example it was setting the value itsself as the var. I know batch scripting a little but not a lot. I only know the simple parts of it. And I know that there are a ton load of commands that can be passed in a batch file. Thanks again for the help. MrChris

I am looking for a way I can Read a win2000/xp registry setting and set the data value as an enviroment var that can be used in a batch file script. I have check the reg.exe command but done see any method that can have the output of just the data be a VAR. Anyone know of a way? Thanks a ton. MrChris

I have made a custom install of both XPSP2 and 2003 using nLite (.99.7 I think) and managed to put it on a all in one CD I made. for some reason when the dos txtmode setup of the cd starts it says it is an upgrade and need to have a previous verion isntalled. Now I have never had a upgrad version of eather app. Infact the Source of both 2003 and XP files come from WinXP/2003 FULL CDs. Maybe the TXTSETUP.SIF has an upgrade check flag in it. ??????? Any Ideas? Thanks, MrChris

that did it. thanks a ton. mrchris

not so much fast user switching. i just want to use a welcome screen.. mrchris

How can I get the logonui to work in 2003 like I have in XP? MrChris

what I mean is I want to keep the fancy logonui but dont want all the accounts to be desplayed. kinda like when i first install xp. i only see the account i create i dont see the administrator. mrchris

How can I turn on and off weather or not my logongui displays all the local user accounts or not? I have like 10 accounts on my xp box but dont want all 10 displayed as valid users on the fancy logongui that xp has? thanks, MrChris

I found layout.dll to use in my winpe cd. but is there I a way I can get it to auto restore my icon position with out having to right click on my computer and choose to restore my positions. read about this here, Read about it here Thanks for the fead back. MrChris