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Great to see this posted again wraith, can't understand the three week limit though. I have an xplode dvd for my laptop and a three week limit is not much good if I'm away and need to reinstall. I was hoping to use the 'select' install to keep stuff on the dvd and only install a particular program if needed. At home the limit kind of assumes you have a working OS to build it on. How much is a single corp. version?

Wraith, I do hope you find the time – I really need an excuse to update my pc. I missed the screen shot posted, I never had a problem with the EULA/activation thing though, makes me wonder how some people make it through the day. Reading documentation? I don’t think this will ever improve. I belong to a few forums and always there are posters who never rtfm. I even have (intelligent) friends who would rather wait a few days and ask me a question than go start/help & support. Maybe with X5 a download could be made available, can’t get through the EULA – download this file and solve all you xplode worries, Anyway, it’s Friday night - I’m off to find my partners F1 button, seems I’ve violated the EULA, don’t you just hate those supplemental agreements….

OK, I’m no doubt going to get flamed to hell for writing this, fools rush in… I understand fully why wraith has become fed up with those who could not make it past the eula or post questions without reading this site or the documentation. I’ve been dropping in here for about a year or so, have a very low post count and an xploded (ver 1.1.2) xp dvd of 3+ gigs. I’ve no prior scripting/programming experience but plenty of patience and a willingness to learn. Xplode has been a lot of fun. I checked in today to see if a new version, (with file I/O) was available but sadly the download has been pulled for all ‘hobbyists’. It’s wraith’s call, but is it not storing up problems for v5 if users can’t get hold of v4 and learn that first? This is not a plea for v4, I’ll wait for v5 and tackle the problems I have with it the same way I’ve done so far. I feel in many ways xplode is a victim of its own success, the wider the user base, the more ‘dumb’ questions/users you’re going to get. It’s a shame a few members lack the maturity to respect the author of this great program, some of the posts directed at wraith are just insulting, others make me laugh because I’ve been here long enough to know what’s coming next, the ones that get the downloads pulled – they just depress me. If you are new to this forum, - and have read this far -, please give wraith and the other gurus on this board a break and do some work with xplode before posting. The rest of us hobbyists are looking to develop our understanding and abilities, don’t hold us back. Thanks to all who make this site the great source of information it is, cheers wraith – don’t let the h*bbyists get you down! tbs.

Try here for some info on the M$ .Theme files. you will need a program to create the visual style & a way to create the sound files, but this M$ link tells you how to pull it all together. good luck,

I had a nightmare with windows welcome once 'cause I mis-spelt welcome - took me ages to spot it Anyway add the following to [unattended] UnattendSwitch = Yes this will skip windows welcome can't help with the user thing as I use renuser to rename the admin account and xplode to add other users I turn off registration with Ms using the following reg edit ;----- Make the Windows XP registration with Microsoft unnecessary ;----- [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion] "RegDone"="1"

thehalon, Don't know if you've solved this one yet... basically you need to add the group first, then the user to the group. <item display='Adding users and groups...'> <addgroup groupname='tha crew' comment="When the Black Dog bites, he don't let go!" /> <adduser username='thehalon' password='****' groups='Administrators "tha crew"' /> </item> Note that when adding a group only use ' and not " or '". Use " for adding users to groups - (groups='Administrators "tha crew"') when you have a space between the group name - tha crew - for example. tbs