cyberthug

beyondcompare2... wot's that? lol.. about PQmagic... you could probably hide a partition u wanna save, then boot up with XP.. actually.. i wonder if that works! care to find out and let us know? why don't u just change ur unattended to ask you that. i mean.. all ya gotta do is sit there for like 2 or 3 minutes till it boots up, let it ask you what partition u wanna use. That way, u can create, delete or use an old one... for mine, i've only left it to ask two questions, the partition and what type of formatting i wanna do. fat32, ntfs, or leave it as it is(just replace windows files and it won't deleted anything else on the partition)

beyondcompare2... wot's that? lol.. about PQmagic... you could probably hide a partition u wanna save, then boot up with XP.. actually.. i wonder if that works! care to find out and let us know? why don't u just change ur unattended to ask you that. i mean.. all ya gotta do is sit there for like 2 or 3 minutes till it boots up, let it ask you what partition u wanna use. That way, u can create, delete or use an old one... for mine, i've only left it to ask two questions, the partition and what type of formatting i wanna do. fat32, ntfs, or leave it as it is(just replace windows files and it won't deleted anything else on the partition)

you could just restore, then partition your drives with some tool. partition magic 8 get's my vote. but if u wanna save tthings on ur eextra drive.. that would be a problem,.

alanoll.. sad to see i got ya p***ed off! lol. well.. dunno if u misunderstood, or i didn't say it right. I haven't got to the part of the multiprossesor yet. i've been trying ntoskrnl.exe (single processor) which was really giving me trouble. i have searched, read tutorials, tried to apply them, nothing worked. BUT, i finally managed to get the single processor kernel working. I couldn't find enuf info on how to usee boot editor to get the multiprocessor kernel. I KNOW that it won't work in VMware, and am pretty sure i didn't say so. thanks for the links ppl.

@prathapml could you please post it.. the batch file i have i have to run it manually.. i didn't know u can add your own .reg and .bat's to the msbatch.inf. pls post it and describe as u said u would. is there some other source that i can read that'll help me out too? thanx.

maybe a seperate section, like top of the list, or under "totally clueless"... have a small tutorial on VMware,MS virtual machine or others that people can use, before starting their UXPCD.

;Hide CTF lang bar. [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\CTF\LangBar] "ShowStatus"=dword:00000003 "Label"=dword:00000000 "ExtraIconsOnMinimized"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\CTF\LangBar\ItemState\{ED9D5450-EBE6-4255-8289-F8A31E687228}] "DemoteLevel"=dword:00000000 "DisableDemoting"=dword:00000001

I think i've seen this being unattend, buut i wanted to know how exactly, and why windows doesn't autologin at start up. I mean, i've got only one user, the Administrator. How do i get windows to autologin so i don't have to wait for prog's to load when i get back to thhe comp?

i'm using a batch command to do this, AFTER installatiton. just by copying logo.sys and win\logow.sys and win\logos.sys over with my modified ones. but if there's a way to do it unattendedly! i would LOVE to know!

actually.. i learnt win98 could unattendedly install quite recently!!! AFTER completing my unattended winXP cd!!!! And boy... was it tough to look for it! i searched msn forums and all, and couldn't find it. Alot of people were told they'd have to buy it with that big fat book! I was about to buy it actually!!! lol but i stumbled onto this finally with the help of a friend.

Hey all... I just thot maybe there should be a seperate thread for this link. A link from microsoft containing the complete Resource Kit for Windows 98. I know how frustrated I was when looking for this the 1st time i heard of Win98 being able to install unattendedly! [Maybe this could be a sticky?] ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/services/technet/samples/ps/win98/reskit/ Enjoy.

are u using unattended cd's? maybe it's a glitch there? are u installing 98 and xp / linux on a different partition?

Here ya go.. the whole resource kit! ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/services/technet/samples/ps/win98/reskit/

cheers mate! working on it right now!

Hey all. I'm nearly done with my win98CD with batch files for silent installing of my commonly used software. I notice that the only problem i'm having is that my MSBATCH.INF entered all the values in the textboxes, but it stops to ask me to press next/enter at the screen of Username / Computer name, accept some agreement (EULA i think?), then it's fine after that. Enters the time zona and everything fine. Could someone pls hav a peak at my msbatch.inf. Hope you can tell me what i missed out! ; MSBATCH.INF ; ; Copyright (c) 1995-1998 Microsoft Corporation. ; All rights reserved. ; [BatchSetup] Version=3.0 (32-bit) SaveDate=11/20/04 [Version] Signature = "$CHICAGO$" AdvancedINF=2.5 LayoutFile=layout.inf [Setup] Express=1 InstallDir="c:\windows" InstallType=3 ProductKey="A-B-C-D-E" EBD=0 ShowEula=0 ChangeDir=0 OptionalComponents=0 Network=1 System=0 CCP=0 CleanBoot=0 Display=0 DevicePath=0 NoDirWarn=0 TimeZone="Nairobi" Uninstall=0 NoPrompt2Boot=1 [System] Locale=L0409 SelectedKeyboard=KEYBOARD_00000409 [NameAndOrg] Name="User" Org="xCyp" Display=0 [Network] ComputerName="Computer" Workgroup="WORKGROUP" Display=0 PrimaryLogon=VREDIR Clients=VREDIR, NWREDIR Protocols=NETBEUI, NWLINK, NWNBLINK, MSTCP DefaultProtocol=MSTCP Services=VSERVER Security=SHARE [NWLINK] Frame_Type=4 [MSTCP] LMHOSTS=1 LMHOSTPath="C:\WINDOWS\LMHOSTS" DHCP=1 DNS=0 WINS=D [NWREDIR] FirstNetDrive=F: ProcessLoginScript=1 [VREDIR] LogonDomain="WORKGROUP" ValidatedLogon=0 [VSERVER] LMAnnounce=0 MaintainServerList=2 [OptionalComponents] "Accessibility Options"=1 "Accessibility Tools"=1 "Briefcase"=0 "Calculator"=1 "Desktop Wallpaper"=1 "Document Templates"=1 "Games"=1 "Imaging"=1 "Mouse Pointers"=1 "Paint"=1 "Quick View"=1 "Windows Scripting Host"=0 "WordPad"=1 "Dial-Up Networking"=1 "Dial-Up Server"=0 "Direct Cable Connection"=0 "HyperTerminal"=1 "Microsoft Chat 2.1"=1 "Microsoft NetMeeting"=1 "Phone Dialer"=1 "Virtual Private Networking"=0 "Baseball"=1 "Dangerous Creatures"=1 "Inside your Computer"=1 "Jungle"=1 "Leonardo da Vinci"=1 "More Windows"=1 "Mystery"=1 "Nature"=1 "Science"=1 "Space"=1 "Sports"=1 "The 60's USA"=1 "The Golden Era"=1 "Travel"=1 "Underwater"=1 "Windows 98"=1 "Desktop Themes Support"=1 "Microsoft FrontPage Express"=1 "Microsoft VRML 2.0 Viewer"=0 "Microsoft Wallet"=0 "Personal Web Server"=0 "Real Audio Player 4.0"=1 "Web Publishing Wizard"=0 "Web-Based Enterprise Mgmt"=0 "Microsoft Outlook Express"=1 "Baltic"=0 "Central European"=0 "Cyrillic"=0 "Greek"=0 "Turkish"=0 "Audio Compression"=1 "CD Player"=1 "Macromedia Shockwave Director"=1 "Macromedia Shockwave Flash"=1 "Media Player"=1 "Microsoft NetShow Player 2.0"=1 "Multimedia Sound Schemes"=1 "Sample Sounds"=1 "Sound Recorder"=1 "Video Compression"=1 "Volume Control"=1 "America Online"=0 "AT&T WorldNet Service"=0 "CompuServe"=0 "Prodigy Internet"=0 "The Microsoft Network"=1 "Additional Screen Savers"=1 "Flying Windows"=1 "OpenGL Screen Savers"=1 "Backup"=1 "Character Map"=1 "Clipboard Viewer"=1 "Disk compression tools"=1 "Drive Converter (FAT32)"=1 "Group policies"=0 "Net Watcher"=1 "System Monitor"=1 "System Resource Meter"=1 "Web TV for Windows"=0 "WaveTop Data Broadcasting"=0 [Printers] [InstallLocationsMRU] "C:\WIN98\" [Install] AddReg=RunOnce.BatchDelay,Run.Installed.Components,Registry.WinUpdate [RunOnce.BatchDelay] HKLM,%KEY_RUNONCE%,BatchRun1,,"%25%\rundll.exe setupx.dll,InstallHinfSection Delete.Regwiz 4 %10%\msbatch.inf" [Run.Installed.Components] HKLM,%KEY_INSTALLEDCOMPS%\>BatchSetupx,,,">Batch 98 - General Settings" HKLM,%KEY_INSTALLEDCOMPS%\>BatchSetupx,IsInstalled,1,01,00,00,00 HKLM,%KEY_INSTALLEDCOMPS%\>BatchSetupx,Version,,"3,0,0,0" HKLM,%KEY_INSTALLEDCOMPS%\>BatchSetupx,StubPath,,"%25%\rundll.exe setupx.dll,InstallHinfSection Installed.Components.General 4 %10%\msbatch.inf" HKLM,%KEY_INSTALLEDCOMPS%\BatchSetupx,,,"ICW" HKLM,%KEY_INSTALLEDCOMPS%\BatchSetupx,IsInstalled,1,01,00,00,00 HKLM,%KEY_INSTALLEDCOMPS%\BatchSetupx,Version,,"3,0,0,0" HKLM,%KEY_INSTALLEDCOMPS%\BatchSetupx,StubPath,,"%24%\progra~1\intern~1\connec~1\icwconn1 /restoredesktop HKLM,%KEY_INSTALLEDCOMPS%\>BatchAdvpack,,,">Batch 98 - Advanced Settings" HKLM,%KEY_INSTALLEDCOMPS%\>BatchAdvpack,IsInstalled,1,01,00,00,00 HKLM,%KEY_INSTALLEDCOMPS%\>BatchAdvpack,Version,,"3,0,0,0" HKLM,%KEY_INSTALLEDCOMPS%\>BatchAdvpack,StubPath,,"%25%\rundll32.exe advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %10%\msbatch.inf,Installed.Components.Advanced" HKLM,%KEY_INSTALLEDCOMPS%\>Batchwu,,,">Batch 98 - Windows Update" HKLM,%KEY_INSTALLEDCOMPS%\>Batchwu,IsInstalled,1,01,00,00,00 HKLM,%KEY_INSTALLEDCOMPS%\>Batchwu,Version,,"3,0,0,0" HKLM,%KEY_INSTALLEDCOMPS%\>Batchwu,StubPath,,"wupdmgr.exe -shortcut" [Installed.Components.General] AddReg=Browser.Settings, Shell.Prep BitReg=Shell.Settings [Installed.Components.Advanced] DelFiles=Connect.Icon, OLS.Icons, QuickLaunch.Icons CustomDestination=Custom.Dest RunPostSetupCommands=DirCleanup [Custom.Dest] 49070=DesktopLDIDSection,5 49050=QuickLinksLDIDSection,5 [Connect.Icon] connec~1.lnk [DesktopLDIDSection] HKCU,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders",Desktop,OLSFolder,"%25%\Desktop" [OLS.Icons] americ~1.lnk at&two~1.lnk compus~1.lnk prodig~1.lnk themic~1.lnk aboutt~1.lnk abouto~1.txt services.txt [DirCleanup] rundll32.exe advpack.dll,DelNodeRunDLL32 %49070%\%OnlineLong% [Delete.Regwiz] AddReg=Registry.Regwiz [Registry.Regwiz] HKLM,Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Welcome\Regwiz,@,1,01,00,00,00 HKLM,Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion,RegDone,1,01,00,00,00 [Registry.WinUpdate] HKLM,Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer,NoDevMgrUpdate,0x10001,0 HKLM,Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer,NoWindowsUpdate,0x10001,0 [Browser.Settings] HKCU,%KEY_IEXPLORERMAIN%,"Start Page",,"http://about:blank" HKCU,%KEY_IEXPLORERMAIN%,"First Home Page",,"http://home.microsoft.com/runonce.asp" HKCU,%KEY_IEXPLORERMAIN%,"Search Page",,"http://home.netscape.com/home/winsearch.html" HKLM,%KEY_IEXPLORERMAIN%,"Search Bar",,"http://home.netscape.com/home/winsearch.html" HKCU, "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Help_Menu_URLs","Online_Support",,"http://support.microsoft.com/support" [Shell.Prep] HKCU,"Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Desktop\Components\0",Flags,01,00,00,00 HKCU,"Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\main",Show_ChannelBand,0,"no" [Shell.Settings] HKCU,"Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Desktop\Components\0",Flags,0,20,1 [QuickLinksLDIDSection] HKCU,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders",AppData,QuickLaunch,"%25%\Application Data" [QuickLaunch.Icons] viewch~1.scf [DestinationDirs] Connect.Icon=10,alluse~1\desktop OLS.Icons=49070,Online~1 QuickLaunch.Icons=49050,Micros~1\Intern~1\QuickL~1 [Strings] KEY_RUNONCE="SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce" KEY_INSTALLEDCOMPS="SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components" OnlineLong="Online Services" KEY_IEXPLORERMAIN="Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main"

is your c: NTFS? if it is, u won't be able to see it. I think UBCD has NTFSpro or something to be able to read ntfs partitions. but if u got Bart's PE on CD, try that, u should be able to see it. if not, it's something else. partition magic as mentioned above should be able to tell u more.

i do have a low class memory i must admit.. but it's been just fine during anything and everything else! I though maybe it was b'coz i had overclocked my system (mite be causing cachinig errors or mem errors) but that wasn't it either! it may have been my ntosknrl.exe hack. It wasn't perfectly working; had color distortion etc.. but it worked enuf to get thru to windows, so i'm not too sure. guess if no one's seen this before, i'm gonna have to reinstall windows (NOt on a virtual machine) with my finalized unattended CD with better kernel file. i truely hope i NEVER see that **** error again!

yeah... sorry. i've found some topics on this already.. pls close this thread if possiible.

Hey all.. I need help removing the winamp lshortcut on the desktop, and i wanna add it to the quick launch. I would also like to know if i can sort the quick launch bar as i want. thanx.

i didn't use nlite to slip stream... i'm not sure what i used actually.. it's been long! think it was justa small proggie for slipstreaming only. i've used nlite to remove a few things, but i'm definately sure i didn't remobe OOBE... about MS checking just the PID, yep.. i read and made sure that they ONLY say that they check that.. but after doing that, then restarting, and all those freakin problems!!! i really feel like they did MORE than just check the PID!!! lol.. ofcourse... i'm hoping that i'm wrong! it's the only explaination i can come up with! EDIT: it works perfectly in VMware! conects to the net everything!! piece of crap's got me stumped! guess i'll have to burn another copy and try it out on my space HD!!!

let's make it short shall we? have a winXP sp1a CD, slipstreamed SP2 onto, made unattended. Been testing for over a month, on VMware, windows is fine, logs onto the net, updates, does NOT ask for activation. I decided to burn my unfinished windows as i'm about to reformat my HD to start playing with a clean installation of windows. After installing, -1st boot: hal.dll missing/corrupt msg during boot up. so i boot into dos, replace it with a new hal.dll from the CD. Doesn't solve the problem. -Reformatted, installed windows. After 1st boot up, logging into windows, when entering windows, gives a funny msg window saying error creating user profile, but windows managed to create a default profile [30 second count down here]. But still doesn't log into windows. Gives same error about twice or thrice, then a msg titles Windows Activation Error, saying windows has encountered a prroblem while encountering activation. CANNOT GET PAST THIS POINT! Formatted properly, deleted partition, formatted FAT32, formatted full NTFS, but nothing works.. [i should mention that i did the 'check if your windows is legal' test from MS online before formatting. it failed.] So i'm now using my WinXP sp1a, and upgrading with that. Anyone hav an idea whatt the #%@#!@% this is about??? i haven't yet gotten arround to installing VMware and testing the unattended again to see if it gives an error, but don't think it will.. hope someone has an explaination! i'm really angry, all this work making a nice unatttended, and might not even work!!

hey all.. i've used win2003 server before, liked it, but it bugs the hell outta me at shutdown etc.. I just saw the sticky on changing it to be more like a workstation... i just wanted to know, how many of u'all use it as a workstation, and what do u have to say about it? i'm considering using it on my machine.. thanks for the views in advance.. -CyberThug.

i'm pretty sure it's the right kernel file. yes, my comp has hyperthreading. i'm using the same windowsXP that i have installed on my machine to make my unattended cd. i'm taking my ntosknrl.exe from my system32\ and using it with boot editor. testing under VMware (which does not support hyperthreading). but it still hangs half way. I downloaded a modded ntoskrrl for sp2 (same build as mine) from themexp.org, loaded it into boot editor, placed my bmp into it, and it WORKS! the one that works, is slightl smaller in size then the one from my system32 directory!! i have no idea what's happening!!!! anyone got an explaination!?!? another question... how do ii use boott editor to make a dual kernel boot up logo? and how do i implement it using regkeys or whatever. thanx.

i'm implementing the single processor version (ntoskrnl.exe) using bootcfg /RAW /A /Kernel=KPkrnl.exe /ID 1 bootcfg /Timeout 0 I have read that boot editor is capable of creating dual boot kernels. 2 questions: -How do I create/edit a dual boot kernel? -How do I implement it on my unattended windows CD? Cheers.

think the folder's used mainly for the RESTORE process. i've had a virus in that folder, and usually, it's locked from entry (it should be!) to get access to it, i just get into safe mode, and then it's accessible. I sometimes delete EVERYTHING in it, after KNOWING that i don't need to use restore. i've done this coz of two reasons usually; a virus in SVI, or my C:'s runnin outta space.