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Oh yea.. theres that way too.. but Im so anal retentive, I dont like the tool tips coming up as "15 Mozilla Firefox".. heh.

The only way you can accomplish this is by configuring your quick launch the way you want it on your pc, reboot, then grab the necessary reg entries. Finally, during your UA install import this reg tweak prior to runonceex. search around.. its been cover a bunch of times.

If this really does what it says it does... thanks! ive been looking for something like this for a while now!

hulala posted a re-packaged msi someplace around here which is supposed to silently install itunes without any switches and eliminates the 'Next' problem of the original installer... but based on analfoams post, there may be issues with it and I dont think he's updated it for the latest version of iTunes. You could also use autoit to install this I would imagine. I havent used it myself, but search around.. its covered in quite a bit of detail around here. Other than these methods, there isnt any other way to install iTunes in a truley unattended fashion. Because the installsheild doenst work like its supposed to and hangs at that initial 'Welcome' screen, causing you to manually press next to continue, we're forced to resort to these types of work arounds which press it for you. Id be happy to clear anything up for you to make it that much easier to implement if youd like. Its actually a pretty straight forward cut and paste from my guide.. with the couple changes I mentioned to reflect your specific settings.

Not sure what youre talking about... are you simply trying to change particular settings of your start menu during unattended install? if so you need to look into reg tweaks... most of which are covered in the reg tweak sticky

Be glad to help... This script was designed assuming youre installing programs directly from the CD, which I do. To modify this to reflect installing from the hard drive like many others, including yourself do as well, take the following steps. 1. off you can remove the following code from the script: ' Check for CDROM For Each objDrive In fso.Drives If objDrive.DriveType = "4" And objDrive.IsReady Then If fso.FileExists(objDrive & "\WIN51") Then cdrom = objDrive End If Next If Len(CDROM) = 0 Then MsgBox "Error: CD-ROM not found!",vbCritical,"Diskeeper" WScript.Quit End if APP = CDROM & "\Custom\Applications" All this does is figure out which drive is the CDROM and set a variable for it. "The APP =" line is setting APP equal to the "CDROM drive\Custom\Applications" folder, which is where my application install folders reside. 2. Replace this line: WshShell.Run (APP & "\iTunes\setup.exe -s -f2" & SYSD & "\iTunes.log") with this line: WshShell.Run (SYSD & "\Install\Applications\iTunes\setup.exe -s -f2" & SYSD & "\iTunes.log"") As you can see I changed APP to SYSD (which is the variable for your systemdrive) then the folder where your setup.exe resides. After making these couple changes, you should be good to go. Let me know if you have any other questions / issues!

As I mentioned before, these shortcuts are created at the time you desktop is drawn.. which is after runonceex runs and far after cmdlines.txt is executed. What you need to do is place your cleanup2.cmd in the startup folder of your start menu. Anything in this folder will be executed after the desktop starts to load. I promise you once you move that cmd into this folder your problems will be fixed. Only thing to note is, youll want to add a line to have the script delete itself after its run.. otherwise it will run every time you boot up your pc. For example: DEL /Q %ALLUSERPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\cleanup2.cmd Assuming of course cleanup2.cmd is located here. Hope this helps clear things up!

Correct me if Im wrong, but isnt the entire reason prefetching exists is to speed up loading times of applications? So if you remove these its going to slow down the overall startup time of all of your programs which use it. I dont know about you guys, but I restart my pc maybe once every other week and Id much rather have my programs load up faster over my pc booting up an extra 3 seconds faster. Just my 2 cents.

@iceman thanks a ton.. thats exactly along the lines of what Im looking for... I actually plan on using this for launching programs, not installing, so I'll be tweaking it a bit. You mind if I hit you up with some questions if I run into issues? Thanks again!

ah... i gotcha.. in that case youre method would work perfectly! also, not sure if you caught it or not, but I also included a couple stand alone virus scanners in my previous post as well.

Been looking around and havent been able to find much about what Im hoping to do. I want to create a vbscript which will read in particular values from a 'config file'. This config file will have something similar to the following: ProgName="prog.exe" ProgPath="c:\temp" ProgDesc="this is a prog" and then repeated for multiple programs. is this something i can accomplish with vbscript? Thanks!

even so cdrom drives are the same deal... you never know the exact drive letter youre gonna be running it on. and screwing up progs that are already installed on the system still applies. but hey.. if it works for ya.. great!

gtaylor is absolutely correct.. its just like if you were to set the 'archive' attribute. it only flags it for other services if you run them. in the archive attributes case it flags the file if you use windows back and in the index case it simply flags it if you run windows indexing.

Ive noticed that windows handles autorun for removable storage devices a bit differently from cd-roms in the fact that you can turn off autorun for cdroms but leave it on for removable devices and vice-versa. well.. im trying to make an autorun.inf for my usb drive to launch a program when its inserted. Now I know autorun is enabled for removable drives on the pc im testing this on cause the windows xp autorun box pops up every time I plug it in. Does anyone know if I have to do anything special to get this to work? Has anyone successfully gotten it to work? Any suggestions are appreciated!

Well I can say that I had a similar issue he had... I used the defaultprofile and searchplugins folder and it had the same effect he experienced.. it created a folder called MOZILL~1 and copied it into there. The reg tweaks work fine with using this shortname, but I needed to create an additional variable (I called it FFDIRLG) which I set to the full folder name (Mozilla Firefox) for the items that performed xcopy.

why not just add it to your startup? Whats it matter if theyre deleted right before you log off or right when you logon? This way all you need to do is make a batch file and toss it in there...

Here are a couple good ones... http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_cleaner.html http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/ and in regards to the registry suggestion.. the only problem with that is that since usb keys are typically used with multiple systems, theres no guarantee as to what drive letter it will be assigned to. plus if the system already has the application installed, it would screw up its settings. other than these couple things i suppose it could do the trick!

1st off.. thx for the reply! 2nd, Ive been meaning to ask about this.. why do you use the shortname convention in this batch file instead of full name? thx again bud!

what the heck is minilogon?

Again.. try posting up in the WPI forum section.... youd be much more likely to get an answer there

Search around this section and Unattended Windows.. I know Ive seen a couple people post up batches or vbscripts that do just what youre looking for.

Look in Simonsays Unattended firefox for how to make FF your default browser. Search around for a thread in regards to internet explorer and outlook express icons not deleting from the start menu.. the solution to that problem is the same... the IE shortcut is created at the time the desktop is drawn- after your cleanup.cmd runs, so youre going to need to create a batch file which removes it and place it in your startup folder in your start menu if you want to remove this. As far as losing right click, Ive had a similiar issue with this where I couldnt right click and explore anything in the start menu.. Id say go back through and be a bit more liberal with nlite... in other words.. dont take as much crap out. finally.. to remove right click new wav, new bmp, etc... look in the reg tweaks thread... its covered in there.

Fact of the matter is... its not right. In other words if you i386 folder is that large youve most definately screwed something up and placed things in there that should not be in there.

Setup your task bar how you would normally want it, then restart your pc.. export the following reg key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StuckRects2 Then import this reg setting prior to 1st logon using guirunonce or in cmdlines.txt

Quick question for ya... up until now, Ive been using Astas default profile method of applying my extensions and themes. If I wanted to move to the method you have now worked into the installer (adding the xpi's and jar's) whats the best way to keep the settings of my extensions? It appears as though all of these settings are kept in 'prefs.js', which is locate in '%userprofile%\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<random name>.default'. If this is the only file that needs to be implemented to ensure all of my extension settings are preserved, what would be the best way to have this file included? Thanks as always!