neil

see my reply in your other thread: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...=0entry400819

short answer - no it won't affect it. if it works once it'll work every time. long answer - the whole point of an unattended installation disk is so you can install XP multiple times and get the exact same result every time - the only thing that should ever affect activation is the XP product key in the winnt.sif you use. if clients are buying XP licences from you, then you should leave the prod key blank so the client has to enter their bought product key into the installation, this should be the only user interaction necessary on their part when installing a system. Free products and apps you include can be installed and activated/registered with registry entries and, as long as you hold the required amount of licences for each product (to keep it legal - some apps allow you to buy 50-500+ licences), commercial products could also be included in the same way. if done right, your template iso should have all the files you need, and you should only need to alter a few lines of text in a .reg file for each client you burn an iso for. If you plan on giving clients your disk as a 'Reinstall/Repair' disk so they can re-install their systems to the starting point you give them, you should give them this an an extra to the normal XP disk, not a replacement, so they can install XP from scratch or add/remove extra's. (If they're buying a licence they should get a full XP disk anyway - even if it isnt a boxed version)

pmshah: not quite right - rapidshare keep tabs on your IP address and monitor how much is requested from it (max 50mb per hour) the cookie you are talking about is for Premium accounts which remove this restriction anyway (allowing upto 3Gb per day and multiple file downloads - at a price) The easiest way to download more segments in an hour from rapidshare is to change your IP - log off and back on to your ISP.

a quick google for '900mb cd' popped up a few sites, the first one being http://www.mam-e.com/web/cd-r_100_min_900mb_golden.phtml. there is also an over-burning guide available from a link on the same page or downloaded from http://download.mam-e.com/burning_guide.pdf. This allows you to burn the full 900mb onto the disk with Nero.

first of all there is no need to start a new topic when we are replying to a thread discussing exactly the same thing started by you. http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=48968 secondly, as i replied in your thread above, the option you need to change is located in the boot.ini. This file does not exist on the XP CD so cannot be edited prior to install. You could set up a script to automatically edit the file on first log on so that its changed forever after that - try this: cmdow @ /HID @echo off REM delete boot.ini if exists FOR %%d IN (c:) DO IF EXIST %%d\boot.ini DEL %%d\boot.ini" /q SET D = %%d REM create new boot.ini echo [boot loader] >> "%D%boot.ini" echo timeout=10 >> "%D%boot.ini" echo default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS >> "%D%boot.ini" echo [operating systems] >> "%D%boot.ini" echo multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Professional SP2" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect >> "%D%boot.ini" :EOF All you need do is edit the last line to say ...="Windows XP MSFN edition"... I don't guarantee this will work, as my batch editing is rusty, but to do what you want this is the only way i can think of that doesn't involve hex-editing a $hi7-load of files on the CD to find the right entry.

look for a small file on the C: drive called BOOT.ini once XP is installed, open it up and you will see something along the lines of: ... ...="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect just change the text to read something else - "Windows MSFN Edition".

my college did away with mouseballs and switched to optical mice, but the students STILL managed to wreck these by snapping pen nibs in the optical hole and gumming them up with glue/chewing gum. you don't know how frustrating it is removing chewing gum from an optical mouse when its buried half an inch inside

i know this topic is old now but i found a few viewers that are useful: can't remember where i found them, presumable the MS site, but i've uploaded them here: Word Document Viewer: http://rapidshare.de/files/1993622/wdviewer.exe.html Powerpoint Viewer: http://rapidshare.de/files/1993670/PPVIEW97.EXE.html

i could use the "Why don't you use the search" reply, but i'm feeling generous so try here - http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=31407 Somewhere in the first post is the reg entries to associate almost everything with MP10 from QuickTime to OGG. You need the unattended codec pack (found elsewhere on the forum) for these to work.

surely, the first 2 letters of a password should be enough to jog your memory as to what the whole password is?

as i said at the beginning, oioldman, i cannot use tools that need installing on remote pc's , and i've discovered i don't have access rights anyway, so its a moot point. If i can get the rights from the admin, or talk him into running the script for me, that'll do fine - i'm just lazy and don't like running around at 5 oclock switching 100 machines off.

soulin: any chance you could have a pop at that script anyway? If i can't use it, maybe i can sweet talk our network guy to run it for me every night.

further info - using oioldman's advice i tried the XP shutdown and was told 'Access is denied', so i guess i don't have the right privileges.

OK tested this with machine name of M11010 (for example) Looks like i don't have permission - running the command I get: ERROR: Code = 0x8004100e Description = Invalid namespace Facility = WMI am i missing something? do i need the domain too, or do i not have the permissions to do this?

hmm. good app, but it still has to be installed to every remote pc as as service, and as i said, i don't have the permissions to install software or services on these machines - only my own.

heres the problem - currently at the end of each day, I get the grand job of running round the IT areas of where i work and manually shutting the machines off. Then in the morning I do the same again only switching them on instead. Our IT guru who runs the network has enabled Wake-on-LAN on all the machines but hasn't perfected it yet (read: it doesn't work). I cannot install software (like PsShutdown) to the individual machines, but i can install it to my own machine. Question - can PsShutdown (or similar) access networked PCs without it being installed on them, or anyone logged in on them? My only thought is a command line or script i can use to access certain machines from my own, and remotely shut them down at the same time. any ideas? my minds gone blank.

There's no need to remove the GDI detection - it can be added as a registry entry instead of installing the update - search the forum for the proper entry to add. Make sure you install something like Office or .Net framework before you add the regedit to be on the safe side, and everything should be fine.

you need to look into the apache module mod_rewrite. check out http://www.modrewrite.com/ for all the relevant info and links.

if you can post a file list, like the one available for a slimmed down - 7mb!! - win98 (http://www.winimize.com/filelist.html) that would be a great help in letting people do this for themselves, and you may get more help that way. I don't know how legal an installer would be - if you mean packaging up these 47mb of files and distributing them as a self-contained mini-XP installation, i would think MS would frown on that, but they can't stop you if you create a batch file that after installing an unattended XP can then delete all unneccessary files as per your file list. this would seem a better option. I'd be interested to know if you can boot this from a mini CD or USB key, as you suggested. Ive been looking into booting a mini98 from a 16mb usb key but if i can boot and run XP on a 128mb key with selected programs, i'll do that instead. ask in the unattended XP forum as the guys there could help with this.

on the subject of updating the site, why not update the Office XP slipstream info to include the SP3 update and following hotfixes instead of the SP2 update. Also, when finalising the CD you only provide a link to an MSFN article, but if you have the PDF of the site and don't have net access, how do you know how to finalise a CD? How about integrating the article in to that section? cheers

this sounds extremely similar to another space-type online game http://www.planetarion.com/ i havent played this in a a while (currently at round 13 - i remember playing it when it was round 4 through 7, so its been a looong while) but it involved galaxies of planets mining resources and attacking other galaxies to steal their mining asteroids. it works as a turn-based hourly 'click' type thing (very descriptive ain't it?) and its a LOT larger and more popular than i remember it. seeing Ogame has reminded me of what i missed in planetarion i may have to join up with both if i get the spare time to waste.

see if this helps: from http://www.tweakxp.com/article140004.aspx

hmmm, have you tried selecting 'List' from the View menu instead of 'Details'?

upgrade your IE to at least 5.5 to see if this fixes the problem if not IE6 should do it. The problem is that the google ads are viewed in an iframe (created by the google javascript - so its not apparent by viewing the page source) The same thing happens with drop down menus and input boxes - ie the input box appears above the drop down when it opens, so you can't see the menu options. Try viewing the site in Firefox first, but definately think about upgrading IE.

more specifically: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/wul.html