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Professional home, workgroup Yes. [Identification] JoinWorkgroup = MSHOME [Networking] InstallDefaultComponents = Yes [params.MS_TCPIP.Adapter1] SpecificTo=Adapter1 DHCP=No IPAddress = 192.168.1.100 SubnetMask = 255.255.255.0 DefaultGateway = 192.168.1.1 DNSServerSearchOrder = 24.31.152.116,24.25.161.3 WINS = No [WindowsFirewall] Profiles = WindowsFirewall.TurnOffFirewall [WindowsFirewall.TurnOffFirewall] Mode = 0 [Homenet] EnableICS = No ShowTrayIcon = Yes [TerminalServices] AllowConnections=1 So youre saying everyone who does a UA install experiences this? No way to get around it? Thanks for the replies!

anyone?

thanks!

I gave you a work around.... and it works fine.

yea.. running Window here. darn.

Not sure what kind of info you need from me, but after running my UA install, I cant access other pcs over my network unless I run the 'Network Setup Wizard' 1st. Ive tested and verified this a few times. Any ideas? Thanks!

Im finding myself using iTunes more and more as my primary mp3 player, however I miss the useful plugins I could always find for Winamp. Ive managed to find a couple out there, but does anyone know where I can snag some more? Thanks!

Ah.. didnt catch that part... well, what if you do a regshot before and after choosing 'Always do this selection'... Im sure Windows keeps that info in the reg someplace...

the key word you want to be looking for is 'AutoRun'... you want that to be disabled. EDIT: This is what youre looking for... ;----- CD-ROM AutoRun (0=disable, 1=enable) [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\CDRom] "AutoRun"=dword:00000000

Check out this thread for the method I ended up using...

Thanks for the help guys.. while I havent tested it out, I think Ive got it all figured out... What I did was create an SFX of the entire contents of $OEM$ (except CMDOW.exe so that the batch file will be hidden), the contents of which will be extracted to %systemdrive%\OEM when run. I then created the following batch file, placed it in $OEM$\$1\OEM and added DetachedProgram = "%SYSTEMDRIVE%\OEM\Run_OEM.bat" to my Winnt.sif [GuiUnattended] section, which then executes the SFX and copies the folder contents to their designated location based on variables. @echo off CMDOW @ /HID set OEMSRC=%systemdrive%\OEM start /wait "Extracting OEM" "%OEMSRC%\OEM.exe" XCOPY /C /E /I /H /R /Y "%OEMSRC%\$1\*" "%SYSTEMDRIVE%" XCOPY /C /E /I /H /R /Y "%OEMSRC%\$$\*" "%WINDIR%" XCOPY /C /E /I /H /R /Y "%OEMSRC%\$Docs\*" "%SYSTEMDRIVE%\Documents and Settings" XCOPY /C /E /I /H /R /Y "%OEMSRC%\$Progs\*" "%PROGRAMFILES%" CD \ RMDIR /Q /S "%OEMSRC%" Im hoping this will do the trick. Thanks again everyone! EDIT: Finally tested it and found you need to use XCOPY instead with a few parameters to ensure everything gets copied over. Also messed up on the syntax for copying the $Docs folder.. updated the post to reflect the changes.

I love for someone to tell me theres a way to perform a full ntfs format UA style.. and mean it.

It depends on the program youre installing... most programs requires different parameters. Search around in the Application Installs forum for each program you want to install... You can pretty much be sure its already been covered. Welcome to msfn!

Thanks again!

Excellent.. couple more things... You can only call a batch file from DetachedProgram? Cant be an exe? Also, you cant extract different items to different folders from the same SFX correct? So I would need to use 1 of 3 methods: 1. Create the entire directory structure for each OEM dir (ie: Documents and Settings\durex, Program Files, etc) and place it all in one SFX to extract to systemdrive, 2. Create multiple SFX for each OEM dir (ie: 1 for $progs to extract to Program Files, 1 for $Docs to extract to Documents and Settings, etc) 3. RAR up everything in the OEM dir and extract all the contents to a general directory and use the batch file to move stuff around.... which is what I think you are saying Simon and is the method I think im going to end up with... Just want to get this down before I start testing... Thanks again guys.

Thats what I was looking for... thx Alanoll. So to understand this better... lets say I want to archive everything thats in OEM to save space, then extract it during the install using this method... obviously I cant keep the same directory stucture I have on my CD of $OEM$\$Docs\All Users, $OEM$\$$\System 32, etc... I would actually have to replace the sub dirs of OEM with the actual folder name, correct? IE: Instead of '$$\System 32', I would actually need to archive 'Windows\System 32' right?

I know this has already been covered, but my searches werent coming up with the answer Im looking for... I need to cut back more space on my cd and I remember someone posting a method that allows you to create an sfx of your $oem$ dir and then add a command to the winnt.sif so that it will extract before the Windows install needs anything that it contains.... Reminder anyone? Thanks!

I dont believe so... its mainly designed to capture user actions, message boxes, MS Office stuff and the such.

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@Bulldog Right, but wouldnt this method leave you with 3 seperate RunOnce boxes on the screen at the same time?

Ive finally gotten to a point where I need to start sliming down some things to get my image under 700 mb (yea yea.. i dont have a dvd burner..) and noticed that the photoshop source takes up nearly as much as mu i386 folder! Weighing in at 158MB I need to find a way to slim this down.. Ive tried simply rar'ing it up but even with WinRAR's best compresion it only got down to 130MB or something... So.. anyone have a solution to slimming this bad boy down? Thanks!

Yea, but I thought that has a single file size limitation of like 5MB or something...

Yea... this program friggin rules.. in addition to video capture, you can use it to capture the text from windows message boxes... so lets say you keep getting this error and you want to post about it.. instead of manually retyping it you just use this and it magically copies the text out of the message box! Amazing!

I need a simple little program that will record my actions of only a particular section of the screen and dump it to video. IE: Lets say I wanted to make a video of right clicking the task bar and choose lock task bar... I dont want to record the entire screen, I just want it to record a lower block of the screen which will show the context menu. Hope this makes sense... and more importantly, I hope theres an easy program out there that does this... Thanks! NM... found a great one that does this and a ton of other cool, useful stuff SnagIt

Ok.. so this didnt fix it after all... does anyone have any idea whats going on with this? Anyone experiencing this?? EDIT:: Okay.. to help people understand exactly what my issue is, I made 2 small videos that display whats actually happening. 1st.. take a peak at a PC that editing icon text works as it should Works! (584KB) Now, heres what my PC does when I edit desktop icons... Busted!! (194 KB) Hope this helps clear up what the problem is.. and more importantly helps figure out what the solution is! UPDATE 2: Well, Ive verified this only occurs when I use custom themes... at least the only 2 custom themes I have installed. Anyone happen to know what regtweaks would effect the icon text box like this?