Afterdawn

Well for almost being here 1,5 years you have a quite impressive post history Tinbin!

This is a car advertisement from somewhere. When they finished filming the ad, the people who made it noticed something moving along the side of the car, like a ghostly white mist, they also heard weird noises. The ad was never put on TV because the unexplained ghostly phenomenon frightened the production team out of their wits. Watch it and about halfway look and you will see the white mist crossing in front of the car then following it along the road and you will hear the weird noises. . . spooky! http://rapidshare.de/files-en/223022/KFee_Auto.mpeg.html Tell me if you see the mist and hear the noises? Disclaimer: I am not responsible for any kind of damage, including but not limited to fysical damage and mental damage caused by watching this video!

Jesus christ you almost gave me a freaking heart-attack! I tried it twice, because I thought maybe it's a time-limit and even then it scared the crap out of me!

The BEST Pc-game EVER is definitely Grim Fandango! However, if I'm at a LAN-party, Battlefield 1942 will do

I am currenly using these programs that run out of the box, all freeware offcourse: AccessEnum - Quickly view all insecure permissions settings Autoruns - View which files run at startup CDImage - ISO creator Diskview - View where a file is scattered over a drive FileMon - Realtime file monitoring Hexplorer - Really good hexeditor, can even edits Disk sectors. Hijackthis - Merijn's anti spy-ware tool Metapad - Notepad replacement mouserate - Check your mouse refreshrate in Hz netscan - Quickly view all hosts on a network pci32 - View PCI devices with information procexp - Proces Explorer - Very enhanced Proces viewer putty - SSH / Telnet client RegMon - Monitor registry changes/accesses at realtime ResHacker - Change resources in executables and dll's Restoration - Restore deleted files Rw - Remote Wake-up Utility Sniffer - IP tools (network sniffer / prober / monitoring) vcswap - Enable/Disable installed codecs I just copy these programs over during my unattended installation.

You can try Wordpad, however if you think Wordpad has too much features..., you could try Notepad, or EDIT. Seriously, ABIWORD is a much used word processor. It's really popular on Linux, but is has a Win32 download too. (Which is only 5MB, beat that "Micro"soft Word!! )

No thanks! How DID you get it working at the T12 stage? I cannot use Net use at this stage. It says: "Workstation not running". If I try to run it manually ( net start workstation), it reports that the service is already running Well I don't use it at this stage but still curious how you did it. Also, I don't care how pretty my installation looks.. as longs as it's unattented and flexible!

I changed it once again, so if anyone's still interested, they may want to check it out: echo. echo Installing items echo ---------------------------------------------- set installDir=\\10.0.0.152\install net use %installDir% /user:unattended unattended if NOT %ERRORLEVEL%==0 ( echo. Cannot connect to %installDir% echo. Starting CMD to assist user in finding manual address... start cmd set /p installDir=[Type manual address] ) pushd %installDir% for /D %%i IN (*) DO ( if EXIST "%%i"\!install.* ( echo. echo Installing "%%i"... if EXIST "%%i"\!install.cmd ( pushd "%%i" call !install.cmd popd ) if EXIST "%%i"\!install.reg ( echo Adding registry information... regedit /s "%%i"\!install.reg ) ) ) popd I explain exactly what it does: - It tries to connect to the %InstallDir% - If it can't connect (when there's no network available for example): - - - a CMD prompt is opened, so the user can check where the directory might be. - - - the user is prompted for to enter a manual installation address. For example enter F:\ if you have the Apps on a CD. - The current directory is changed to the %InstallDir% - The FOR-lus executes: - - - It checks in each subdir if a "!install.*" exists... if so then it: - - - - - - runs "!install.cmd" if is present - - - - - - imports "!install.reg" to the registry if is present Note 1: This one doesn't recursively scans all dirs.., only the ones that are in the %InstallDir% path. Note 2: If a "!install.cmd" exists, it also changes the current directory to the one where the "!install.cmd" file is, so that the commands in that file don't need to be absolute. Useful because your %InstallDir% can be anywhere this way. You don't need to know the path in advance.. [EDIT] Small fix to the "if not errorlevel ..." line [/EDIT]

This tweak can be used to let windows update now that you've ran the malicious software removal tool: ;-- The Malicous software Removal Tool has already ran [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\RemovalTools\MRT] "Version"="E5DD9936-C147-4CD1-86D3-FED80FAADA6C"

@Yzöwl: The default value has to be a REG_SZ type. I could create a new REG_EXPAND_SZ but this doesn't work because the Default value counts. Also what name should I give the key?

No it didn't had to do with your files.. i just noticed it. Thanks, I'll try it when I come home!

That was meant rhetorically Well I obviously missed it. You can't expect people to look for a EULA.TXT file. Yes for the changing part I agree, but for viewing it I don't. Also I didn't see his warning-topic before I posted this thread, otherwise I wouldn't have started it obviously. Look at the included license from BBIE.. it says BBIE may not be distributed under another license. It's included in the package so it should be excluded. Another thing: If you run CDIMAGE.EXE it states "For Microsoft internal use only", right under the copyright thing.

Thanks but no thanks.. Ofcourse it isn't still running! (Just because I'm from holland doesn't mean I'm stupid )

He's got to be kidding me! First of all: I didn't see an EULA at all! I extracted it using Winrar. So he should make sure that people don't accidently miss it (which I did). What if I were a big company.. I couldn't possibly know it wasn't free for me! Second: If you publish a cmd-file and don't expect people to look in to it.. you're thinking wrong. He could at least convert it to some binary format. BTW: Still then people should not modify it and redistribute it.. cause I also think that's a no-no! Third: I am not sure about this one but you he's bundled a lot of software which he didn't create... is he entitled to license his software? I don't think so.. at least not without the permission of the original creators.

Okay here are exact details about my problem: Let's say you want run a certain program on a folder, and you achieve by adding this reg-file: [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\do_something] @="Do something on this folder" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\do_something\command] @="c:\\tools\\do_something.exe \"%1\"" This works, just the right-click on folder and click the "Do something on this folder" option. So now replace c: with %SystemDrive% (either in the registry or in the reg-file and import it again.. doesn't matter), because tools is copied to the systemdrive. And now it DOESN'T work anymore? It says access denied. Maybe you should try this yourself to reproduce the problem.

Why on earth can't I use %SystemDrive% instead of c: in the folderregistry-hive? It says ACCESS DENIED when the command is opened. Tjeez this strange.. it seems like the %SystemDrive% is replaced by 1ystemdrive Huh? [edit] Okay %S seems to be replaced by 1..... how do i escape this? [/edit]

thanks Yzöwl

could ya post the modified batch and inf file please? i'm lazy

You can change it to 1 entry if you want. Just name it "Make iso", and you let the batch ask if you want to include a bootsector. It's easily done.

[edit] Never mind... the BARTPE method is muchos better! [/edit]

@Webmedic: At cmdlines.txt you can't connect to a network share, because the workstation service is needed for this (which isn't loaded the the t12/t13 stage). I've only heard this.. so you might want to confirm it. Also network drivers need to be integrated otherwise you need to install them first/reboot etcereta.

You can't? Oh, my bad... I guess the 1500+ PCs I used this for were all faking it, huh? I meant it doesn't work in my situation! Your one isn't that flexible! Well.. never mind!

This isn't a permanent solution... because sometimes the MenuOrder hive gets restored (typically when installing a certain application). Very annoying.

You are absolutely right.... but this is the only way for now. I also hate these binary tweaks... but if you want to modify the corresponding hexadecimals, you'd have to indentify them first (that may not be a big problem) but you'd have to find a way of modifying them properly. Also... you don't want to know what happens to this registry-entry if you add a toolbar to the taskbar. (For example, I add a directory: %SystemDrive%\Tools). The data almost doubles!! Try to monitor then what exactly happens... Oh, I have. When you add a toolbar, a counter to identify the NUMBER of items increases, and then the information about that toolbar is appended (or inserted) into the data. (I've looked at a lot of before/after snapshots with Advanced Registry Tracer.) Identifying the format is important. If I knew the format, I'd make a tool that read it, parsed it and spat it back out. Screw it, I'm *going* to decypher the damned thing. Good luck

You are absolutely right.... but this is the only way for now. I also hate these binary tweaks... but if you want to modify the corresponding hexadecimals, you'd have to indentify them first (that may not be a big problem) but you'd have to find a way of modifying them properly. Also... you don't want to know what happens to this registry-entry if you add a toolbar to the taskbar. (For example, I add a directory: %SystemDrive%\Tools). The data almost doubles!! Try to monitor then what exactly happens...