rikgale

No worries!

Hi noam_moshe and welcome You need to create this folder yourself in the root of your UACD. i.e. put it in the same folder as your i386 is in. And then you have to create all the sub folders yourself like in the diagram in the guide. Hope this helps a little

Well as a round up, the PSU knackered the mobo, the DVD-ROM, the HD, basically everything. I've not been able to test the RAM and the CPU. From what I've been told these are protected by there own voltage circuits (or something like that) so these maybe salvagable and there for ebayable (new word ). Now looking at a nice cheap (~£320) Shuttle replacement as a quiet test machine.

This is probably gonna be a dumb question, but I gotta get it clear in my head. I am assuming that you run this after you have installed you UA CD on another machine? Just checking, but I love it sofar Rik:)

Sadly still didn't work. Gonna give up on this idea for a while and come back to it at a later date.

Thanx Soulin I'll give it a try again when I get home.

Any chance of a little help? I have tried numerious ways to impliment this code that Soulin wrote 'by Soulin '31.5.2005 Option Explicit Dim objWMIService, arrayNIC, objNIC, strMAC, strAllowedHost, arrayAllowedHosts, strYouAreWelcome Dim strOperatingSystem, colOperatingSystems Const wbemFlagReturnImmediately = &h10 Const wbemFlagForwardOnly = &h20 Const wmiRestartForce = 4 arrayAllowedHosts = array("00:0c:29:fb:b7:4d","00:0e:a6:b5:2a:20") Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\.\root\CIMV2") Set arrayNIC = objWMIService.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_NetworkAdapter", "WQL", wbemFlagReturnImmediately + wbemFlagForwardOnly) For Each objNIC In arrayNIC For Each strAllowedHost in arrayAllowedHosts If LCase(objNIC.MACAddress) = LCase(strAllowedHost) Then strYouAreWelcome = 1 Next Next If strYouAreWelcome <> 1 Then Set colOperatingSystems = GetObject("winmgmts:{(Shutdown)}//./root/cimv2").ExecQuery("select * from Win32_OperatingSystem where Primary=true") MsgBox "If you like this Windows distribution, consider to ask for permission to use it! PC is now restarting" For Each strOperatingSystem in colOperatingSystems strOperatingSystem.Reboot() Next Else Wscript.Echo "Your installation will continue! Hope you will enjoy this Windows distribution!" End If I am struggling to get it to work properly. (By working properly I mean not allowing me to contiune the install once it has detected an incorrect MAC address. I have deliberately made sure that the MAC addresses are incorrect) I have tried calling cscript //nologo restrict.vbe in cmdlines.txt. This did not seem to work, so I created a .cmd file to call the above code. This .cmd file was then called by cmdlines.txt. This did not work either. I then called this .cmd file from RunOnceEx.cmd. This did not seem to work either, so I abandoned the whole idea of using encoded .vbs(.vbe) files. I then just called restrict.vbs from RunOnceEx.cmd and this worked fine apart from the rediculasly easy way to get round it. So I thought that I try calling the restrict.vbs file from cmdlines.txt (My cmdlines.txt) [COMMANDS] "restrict.vbs" "RunOnceEx.cmd" "renuser.exe Administrator Admin" "REGEDIT /S loginName.reg" "REGEDIT /S quickLaunch.reg" The restrict.vbs file is placed in the same folder as cmdlines.txt. This also did not work. So my question is what, if anything, I'm I doing wrong TIA Rik

Could you not use something like taskkill.exe/pskill.exe to kill off the autoupdate task?

Me. IMHO I think that I am the best computer builder, at least within about 10 meters of where i am sitting atm. I voted other However if I was voting for laptops I'd vote for Sony. My little TR3A is just the trick

@sheiksoft. Correct me if I'm wrong but nlite does not support Windows ME, which I think that the OP was asking about.

Thanx for your answers Soulin:)

Ok I have read the entire post and I have some simple (and probably dumb) questions. 1) What's the point of encoding the file using the Windows Script Encoder? 2) I assume that the cscript part of cscript //nologo restrict.vbe should be placed in system32? 3) Could the above code be placed in guirunonce in winnt.sif instead of RunOnceEx? 4) Does the MAC address of a VM change everytime you reinstall the OS on it. Or does the MAC address stay until you reinstall the WM program (i.e. VMWare)? This is a really good idea and I am very grateful to Soulin for his efforts and much respect to him as a programmer (Every programmer apart from SPYWare\Virus programmers gets my respect as I can't program to save my life!) Cheers....

That's my 'something new' learned for the day, cheers.

You'll have to setup the IP addresses on each machine or setup one of the machines as a DHCP server. Try google for setting up a small computer to computer network, there are bound to simple guides out there somewhere.

You will be probably looking for the words "Crossover" on the packaging. A patch cable is another way of saying "regular lan cable" You can modify one type of cable to be the other type of cable, but dont ask me how as never tried.

Have you checked that you are using a cross over cable and not a normal lan cable?

plug memtest86 and prime95 into google and that should see you straight

Try checking your RAM. Try running memtest86 and Prime95 for a night each and see if any errors are produced. If you've reinstalled and the problem is still there then it might suggest a hardware issue and not a software problem. Another suspect might be the power supply, esp if it is a cheap no name(i.e. not branded) PSU.

Mobo is toast! As well as the PSU. I'm currentely unable to test the rest of the things as I don't have another motherboard to test them on. Thanx for all your replies

Sadly ERD Commander costs. BartPE doesn't. If you can afford it go with ERD Commander. However I recommed that you save you money and buy another stick of RAM or some other goodie for your machine instead.

Just remember not to remove the mannual install items from nlite!

I feel that I should know more than English and pigeon French!

8 is the way to go. Pick a word you like and replace all 'O's and 'L's with 1's and 0's.

I am kinda prayying that I've not done any of the above as I can't really afford a new machine.

You've got to make and ISO to test it with VMWare etc. AFAIA there is no way round to not test it with a CD or ISO.