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Anyone know how to make firefox NOT run the Internet Explorer import wizard on 1st launch of Firefox? RegTweak? Profile Modification? Im using Astalavista / SimonSays method of installing it. Thanks

So after I installed my 'stripped down' version of NAV2005, Im getting an error where the solution to it is disabling the Office Plugin, which I have no problem doing. Does anyone know how to do this automatically? I did a regsnap compare before and after and didnt see anything definative that needs to be modified. Thanks

Already did, and Ive tested it out by running the batch manually... worked like a charm. Just want to make sure i wouldnt have any issues running the batch from cmdlines.txt... thx again for the great util and write up

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Found how to fix it but still have no idea how it happend. [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics] "ScrollHeight"="-255" "ScrollWidth"="-255" They were set to -195 for some reason....

No.. Sorry.. didnt understand what you meant.

yep.

Ok, so one thing I just noticed after I ran my latest version of uA install is that somehow my icon labels were effected. When I goto rename them, after I type the 2nd or 3rd letter all you see is a single letter being typed at a time for each letter after. So for example, say the label want to rename the icon to 'testing'. I highlight the icon, press f2 to rename, type 't' 'e' (so at this point all i see is 'te'), then as soon as I type the letter 's' all i see is the letter 's', then I type 't' and all i see is the letter 't'.... it does this for each letter there after. Once Im done renaming it, I press enter and it renames to 'testing' as it should, but normally I should be able to see the entire word as Im typing it. I scanned through my regtweaks and dont have the slightest idea how or why this happend. Hope I made this clear... Any ideas?

I just want to be sure that when I call your pagefileconfig.vbs from cmdlines.txt, theres going to be a page file to modify.... So as long as it is created before cmdlines then Im set.

Here you go! MountedDrivesReg.txt

Come again?

Check out your user accounts. There has to be one that has admin privledges. If you dont see one there, ever xp system as an 'Administrator' user setup by default. You would have set the password for this user during the installation phase of xp. Youll need to login as this user and add which ever user account you want to use as your primary to the administrators group.

post up your useraccount.cmd and your autologon.reg as well as their location and where theyre being called from (ie: guirunonce, cmdlines.txt, etc)

Hrm... This link kinda makes it sound like it converts your fat32 file systems to ntfs... ur probably right though.. Im really surprised there isnt a way to do this without user interaction..

Hey mdes... I just wanted to let you know that I figured out how to do this pretty easily.... Im using DISKPART with a script that selects volume numbers than assigns the letter.... ie: diskpart /s drives.txt drives.txt select volume 0 assign letter=I noerr select volume 1 assign letter=J noerr select volume 4 assign letter=P noerr select volume 3 assign letter=D noerr select volume 5 assign letter=E noerr This works like a charm and I have no issues with my CDROM drives as well. Do you still want the info you emailed me about? Thanks again.

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Holy s***. that worked. Thanks a bunch man.

I think the only reason the uA guide originally points to using $OEM$ method is perhaps its a bit easier to understand than using variables and FOR loops....

Adding this to your winnt.sif should convert all of your FAT32 columes to NTFS... [Unattended] FileSystem = ConvertNTFS I searched all over but couldnt find a single thing that lets you automatically convert a specific volume without any user interaction. Only thing I could think of was use a VBScript to do it..

Hey prathapml... having a tiny issue with that pagefileconfig.vbs... Im trying to delete my page file from drive C: and it gives the following message... WARNING: If the pagefile on volume 'C:' has an initial size of less than 64 KB, then the system may not be able to create debugging information file if a STOP error occurs. Continue Anyway [y/n]? Any idea how to have it bypass this or automatically choose yes so I can use this on my uA? Thanks!

Right, the point is you have to manually join... doesnt do it automatically

Anyone know what stage in the Windows installation the page file is created?

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams\Desktop Yea.. thats the same reg key your quick launch is store under. What I was mentioning before totoy is that this needs to be imported before you log in. Which means if you use RunOnceEx, this cant be one of the registry entries you have applied by it. You need to apply this reg setting before this stage. In other words, add this registry key before runonceex.cmd in your cmdlines.txt (either by creating a batch file that inputs this or using REGEDIT /S quicklaunch.reg)

Bah.. I just typed up this long response of each key you need and blah blah blah, then I hit reply and the forums crapped out... So you get the short version... 1) Pinned menu items isnt an easy task. Do a search for 'pinned' and my name in the member field for the thread about this. Someone linked to a particular way to set this up, but it seemed a bit too involved for something that would take me 5 secs to to manually 2) click on the 'reg tweaks' pinned thread, click 'print this topic' and use your browser find for 'start menu', its a bit down the page, but there are multiple posts that show the reg entries for adding/removing things from the right side of your start menu like My comp, My network, Printers, etc.... 3) as far as browser and email shortcuts on the upper left part of your start menu, these simply are links to your default email and browser clients. so all you need to do is make whatever browser/email client your default and it will show up here instead of the default IE and OE. Again, search around for the reg key for this.. Dunno if you see a theme here, but search is your friend. hope this helps

Yea, I tried installdir and no dice. If its quick for you to do thatd be awesome, if not dont worry about it, ive already got a method that works without issue using vbscript and setup.iss. oh and a happy new year to you as well!