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Youll also save a lot of time if you learn how to determine what installers (ie installshield, nsis, innosetup, etc) are used with those programs, then simply find out what the method is for that particular installer

You actually want to use $oem$\$Docs\Default User\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch

Plz check out the UA Guide and search before posting... You can find the answer here

So are you all set with this? I know you sent me a pm in regards to this a couple days ago I wasnt able to get back to you on.

If you look under your Docs and Settings folder (and you have show hidden items enabled), you should see a 'Default User' folder. Basically, any changes made within this Default User will apply to any accounts created after these changes are made. So to answer you 1st question; no, you wont need to change the name to a specific account name, because if you place files in your '$Docs\Default User' folder of your UA cd, then every account created on that pc will have the files which are included in that folder, included in the specific User account folder created for your specific user account. As far as your 2nd question, I dont use Xplode, so I cant help ya with that one.

I dont believe it will.. unless Im mistaken you need to point to a .theme file. If your theme doesnt have one, you can easily create one by applying your theme, then right click your desktop goto properties, then on the Themes tab, choose save as and save it in your Resources\Themes folder. Also, if im not mistaken, you msstyles file (and every other file/folder in the same path as it which are used by that theme) should be in a subdirectory of 'Themes'. For example:Take the windows default 'Luna' theme; youll notice that in your 'Themes' folder you have 'Luna.theme' and a folder called 'Luna', its in that folder that you should see the 'luna.msstyles' file and 'Shell' folder (depending on your theme, you may have additional files / folders in that folder as well). I believe you should need to setup your theme similiar to this configuration for it to work... at least thats how I set mine up and it works like a charm. Hope that makes sense.

1st off, take your CD-KEY out of that file. 2nd, I dont even see a [shell] section in there 3rd, this should be all you need to add, assuming the *.theme file exists in the directory specified. [Shell] CustomDefaultThemeFile = "%Windir%\Resources\Themes\Storm.theme"

Not to mention there is a MUCH easier way to copying these files using the original method you referred to... try turning your 50 lines of code (or however many) into 1: XCOPY /E /H /R /Y "%systemdrive%\install\themes\ChaNinjaStyle_RC5\" "%WinDir%\Resources\Themes\" tada.

Um.. X-Savior... I hate to burst your bubble, but Im pretty sure someonesmind was complementing you... not dissing you. You might want to try actually re-reading his post (reading... like what he was complimenting you on..) and edit yours..

To copy a file: COPY /Y "X:\Full path to file\filename.ext" "%USERPROFILE%\My Documents" For copying folders, I prefer to use XCOPY: XCOPY /E /H /R /Y "X:\full path to folder\" "%USERPROFILE%\My Documents\" Note the trailing backslashes when copying folders. Let us know if you have any issues with this

Ah... now that I havent tried... apologies to ya and unforgiven for misunderstanding.

Which is what I believe he wants... he said he wants that file copied regardless of the user (if i read it right)

%USERPROFILE%

I guess i completely missed that part... but that doesnt make any sense... cause according to that, my entries of "RunOnceEx.cmd" and "REGEDIT /S regfile.reg" shouldnt work, right?

np.. feel free to let us know if you run into more issues.. btw... 800th post! woot!

Very nice...

Heres your example... straight from M$. Also, I use "REGEDIT /S regfile.reg" without issue and if you count the amount of characters in "RunOnceEx.cmd" you get 9.3... so Im telling you.. spaces (using double quotes, parameters and long filenames do work in cmdlines.txt.

Just like the Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player icons, I wouldnt be surprised if these favorites are created after the explorer shell loads, which means anything run from runonceex wont remove them (assuming thats the case). Try creating a batch file that has these commands in it, place it in your startup folder then have the batch file remove itself once it finishes. Also, I might recommend removing the contents inside those folders, and not the folders themselves. You can easily do this by adding "*.*" after the last backslash and before the quotes.

Yes you can. I do and again, that Microsoft link even says you can as well.

Thats the method I use as well... works like a charm.

Are you certain it was actually "preventing" it from running, or was it just not showing the command prompt window while it was running... which is what CMDOW is supposed to do.

1st off, using the ".\" is kinda redundant isnt it? you can just use the name of the app since its sitting in the same folder as cmdlines.txt According to this and this it should be: "my app.exe" or ".\my app.exe" They both will do the same thing.

Awesome.. that sounds to be exactly along the lines to what Im looking for. So I assume its not possible to do this without 3rd party software? Why do I vaguely remember thinking you could setup 'mount points' with ntfs filesystems and windows xp/2000? Maybe Im way off with this.

Is it possible to create a folder that links to another? Ive got a folder which I want to keep where it is, but I want a 'shortcut' of sorts to link to that folder from another location (within My Documents to be exact). Why dont I just create a shortcut to that folder and place it in My Docs, you ask? Because I want it to show up in the folder pane of Windows Explorer. This possible? Thanks!

sure can... use %USERPROFILE% for username specific, this will point to 'C:\Documents and Settings\<username>' %ALLUSERSPROFILE% will give you 'C:\Documents and Settings\All Users'.. So... COPY /Y whateverfile.ext "%USERPROFILE%\Application Data\folder"