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yes, your right, I call the game.cmd batch from the menu batch (using call game.cmd) then, as cmdow is used, the game.cmd command window is hidden, the game loads fine. But, although the command is there to return to the menu, it doesn't I don't have the files to hand as I'm on my friends computer, the game.cmd files go like this as far as I recall... cmdow @ /HID start /wait c:\install\emu.exe c:\install\rom.sms call menu.cmd so I thought this would return to the menu.cmd file once the emu has stopped (closed)... but it doesn't.. Idealy I don't want to have any command windows open during gameplay as it blocks the timer, I know it would be simple to move the window, but I think it would work best if I could keep the command window hidden, expect for the menu..

I'm in the process of making an unattended xp install which lets you play sonic whilst xp is installing. I added the deatched program parameter to winnt.sif calling a cmd file I made giving a choice of games, depending on the choice, another cmd file is called which has cmdow @ /HID option, this loads the emulator and the rom. At the moment, it goes well, the menu automaticlly appears at t-39, dissapears when you make your selection (this is quite handy as you can then see the timer counting down the install process) and the elumator and rom are loaded fine. What I want though is for the menu batch file to come back up once the emulator is closed, just leaving the menu open blocks the timer. I have tried the start /wait option, but that doesn't seem to be helping. At the moment, when you close the emulator, the menu does not come back up MENU.CMD -> batch file giving choice of game - loads gamex.cmd depending on choice GAMEx.CMD -> batch containing command line parameters to run emu and load rom what I want it to do... MENU.CMD > GAMEx.CMD [hidden dos window? hold whilst emu running] >MENU.CMD

just as you suggested, working from SP2XPCD folder, all new versions of packs/base downloaded this afternoon, still getting same errors as above ED: Just tried same process without mass storage, recieved same as 2nd error in my last post, the same as ghostrider had.. he didn't have this problem at home though, I tried changing my folder to SP2XPCD and I still get errors... gotta be more to it then path?? ED: Just been looking at the RUN_ME.CMD file, in the sections for chipset you have the following: are the highlighted %systemdrive% variables meant to be there, isn't this what will be causing the 2nd error I had, and the same for ghostrider previously?

I've tried the latest packs and got an error which I have been getting since the previous version, I got a dos box saying installing mass storage displaying the following: then, at the end I get same problem as ghostrider mentioned.... When I run on vmware, I get the dreaded siside.sys file error that seems to be causing so much frustration lately I hope I can help to hix this problem, if I can give any useful info, let me know

congratulations on another fine release, been using this on my unattended disks for a while now and it's getting better and better by the looks of it I had a couple of questions, but it all seems pretty straight forward now - nice 1 and thanks for a gr8 tool! by the way, I think the download links are the same, I used the one on your homepage, either way - nero serial is still there, I'd hate to see you get your fingers burnt....

thanks for your response spaceboy, the program you suggested did allow me to replace the bitmap reshack wouldn't, so res turner obviously seems the better of out the two I have tried. the background still hadn't changed though, lol..

maybe because there's four different versions. 2 members have confirmed this in this thread alone ...I have now extracted the contents of sp2.cab to a folder and modded the four files I mentioned above. I compessed them back using winrar, but now when I run the install, it reports an error reading a file.. p4.sys or something like that. I've now looked in the original sp2.cab file and this file doesn't exist in there either?? ..anyone have any useful suggestions? thanks

I reckon I could get it done after boot no probs, but i reckon it'd look better capturing the setup process and having it in from the start, even if it is a pain to do, can it be done?

well, from what I learned there are four different kernels, with/without HT and one for systems with less or more than 4Gb of RAM. That's if my memory serves me correct, and I'm busy looking into SP2 cab file now and have spotted what I think are four kernels... ntkrnlmp.exe ntkrnlpa.exe ntkrnpamp.exe ntoskrnl.exe ..now, are these the ones that need modded bluetov? I did exactly the same as the poster above, used my copy of the kernal and tried booting into virtual envoronment, but it would kinda make sence it not working as mentioned above, the virtual environment doesn't use hyper threading (I do too).

can you list these two older kernel filenames m8? might have a crack at this as I eperienced the same thing just yesterday. I guess it would have something to do with the different versions of the kernel, but I never thought you could just mod all four (makes sense though).. just these two older ones you mentioned... what are they named? cheers

I recently downloaded a trial version of Windows Server Enterprise 2003 from MS. I've done a winnt.sif unattended install to demo at a job interview I have coming up. I'm now trying to change the setup billboard background to have the logo of the organisation in it, I have opened WINNTBBU.DLL using reshack, and have replaced the bitmaps of the exisitng background, but when I test this, it still has the default background. When I try and open 123_1033 using reshack, it comes up with an access violation error. can anyone help, is 123_1033 the bitmap I need to replace, as this is the only reason I can think why the original background is still being displayed. Thanks for any help

I've cracked it m8, I left the 2nd cmd parameter in, it had [''] as it was empty, so I removed and all workin fine now. maybe this could be worked on for the next version as something trivial like that, thought it would just "overlook" it, lol thanks for your help a06lp, you did indeed set me on the right track

that's not it m8, been through the script on a " search, only ones in the parameters are in the category for colouring...

I switched to using tried 2.9.8a last night, keep getting this error. Can anyone point me in the right direction here as I have checked the config.js file and the cmd file which I have calling the application, and there's no stray c's in there as far as I can see cheers

guys, I've just slapped together this VBS script for entering the serial info after a silent install... install using silent switch then call this VBS afterwards... Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") WshShell.Run ("C:\Progra~1\UltraISO\UltraISO.exe") WScript.Sleep 1000 WshShell.SendKeys("{TAB}") WScript.Sleep 500 WshShell.SendKeys(" ") WScript.Sleep 500 WshShell.SendKeys("xxUSERNAMExx") WScript.Sleep 500 WshShell.SendKeys("{TAB}") WScript.Sleep 500 WshShell.SendKeys("xxSERIAL PT 1xx") WScript.Sleep 500 WshShell.SendKeys("xxSERIAL PT 2xx") WScript.Sleep 500 WshShell.SendKeys("xxSERIAL PT 3xx") WScript.Sleep 500 WshShell.SendKeys("xxSERIAL PT 4xx") WScript.Sleep 500 WshShell.SendKeys("{ENTER}") this worked for me after the reg import method failed

Hey all, been stuck on this app for a while, I've tried looking at the CFG and VBS methods, no luck at all using CFG and using VBS I can't stop it from restarting the system (I have tried adding the tab and space bits to take the tick out the box, but it doesn't seem to work for me) anyway, I have made the VBS method work up until the point at where it gives the option to restart the system, and I thought at this point, just close the process.. but the process as listed on task manager has a space before the name ( setup.exe) and this is causing a little trouble as I don't know how to close the process.. can anyone point me in the right direction? here's what I've tried... C:\Documents and Settings\User>taskkill /F /IM setup.exe ERROR: The process "setup.exe" not found. C:\Documents and Settings\User>taskkill /F /IM _setup.exe ERROR: The process "_setup.exe" not found. C:\Documents and Settings\User>taskkill /F /IM setup.exe ERROR: The process "setup.exe" not found. C:\Documents and Settings\User>taskkill /F /IM ?setup.exe ERROR: The process "?setup.exe" not found.

Hi, I've been up all night after finally getting round to learning how to add progs to the unattended installs, I've had a succesful attempt, although it did take some time. I was wondering if I could bypass the part where the installs for the applications in $OEM$\$1\insalls\ are copied to the hard disk. Basically I would prefer the setups not to be copied and ran from the cd itself. Is there a variable I can use in start.cmd to call from whatever cdrom the disk is in? I remember seeing %CDROM% in a batch file once, would this come in handy here? Any help appreciated -EDIT- ..the very next post I came to answered this, lol - sorry lads