vertigo

October 23, 2006

Thanks. Now everything works fine.

Cheers

October 22, 2006

Maybe I missed something but I can't make the hfslip-1.0 work. At the beginning I get this:

If you are making a multiboot CD, what folder/pathname does this OS reside in?
The format to enter is: Pro\
You need to type in the \
Pressing enter will bypass the multiboot installation CD mode.
Enter your pathname in the format listed above or press enter to bypass.
===============================================
//pressing [ENTER]here.
1 was unexpected at this time.

The cmd window suddenly disappears and whole process is terminated.

I have been using previous versions of hfslip (also last betas) for a long time and never had any problems like this. What's going on?

Cheers

[beta] User Creation Tool · October 19, 2006

OK, finally I managed to do it right. I did 2 tests. Firstly I changed winnt.sif entries to

[GuiUnattended]
	AdminPassword=d90asd8098vxcvx9084234...
	EncryptedAdminPassword=Yes

but that didn't help.

Then I removed all commented lines from winnt.sif and moved CreateUser.exe from T13 svcpack (7z-sfx) to T12 cmdlines ($OEM$) and everything went fine. I don't know exactly what was the problem, maybe the autologon entry was overwrriten somehow by the windows setup when I used to run the tool from svcpack. Soon I will try to do more tests.

EDIT1:

I did another test and it seems that CreateUser.exe should be run only from T12 cmdlines.txt.

Cheers

[beta] User Creation Tool · October 17, 2006

Ok, I tested v1.6 on VMware

Firstly I commented two lines in my winnt.sif:

[GuiUnattended]
	AdminPassword=**********
	EncryptedAdminPassword=No
;AutoLogon=Yes
;AutoLogonCount=1
	OEMSkipRegional=1
	TimeZone=100
	OemSkipWelcome=1
	ProfilesDir="%systemdrive%\Documents and Settings"

and almost everything went fine except that at the first logon the username "Administrator" was used instead of my new created accout username. Because user name was incorrect, the error occured, then I manually entered correct username and it was ok. I checked the registry entry and there was "Administrator" as well. It looks like automatic logon took wrong username but I don't know why it happened. Any suggestions?

My settings:

[SecurityInfo]
FakeAdmin=1
FakeGuest=1
RenameAdmin=1
RenameGuest=1
DisableAdmin=0
ForcedLogon=0
NewAdminName=root
NewGuestName=NewGuest
HideNewAdmin=1

Cheers

[beta] User Creation Tool · October 16, 2006

when I run v1.6 on my current running windows the options: rename Administrator and Fake Administrator are disabled (grayed) again. Is this right?

Cheers

[beta] User Creation Tool · October 15, 2006

Next time I will try to modify my winnt.sif and test it again.

[beta] User Creation Tool · October 15, 2006

It's very strange but all i wrote last time was after first login. Now after reboot (lets say 2nd login) there is no forced login problem, I can logoff/logon normally, as it's supposed to be. However automatic admin logon is gone somehow. I checked registry and there were:

AutoAdminLogon=0

DefaultUserName=jdoe //yes I used default settings

There was no DefaultPassowrd = "123" entry and no "ForceAutoLogon"="x" (and I'm almost sure there was no "ForceAutoLogon"="x" entry after first logon)

Is it possible that automatic logon has been disabled by AutoLogonCount=1 option from my winnt.sif?

[GuiUnattended]

...

AutoLogonCount=1

Cheers

[beta] User Creation Tool · October 15, 2006

Now it works almost perfectly. I successfully ran it from cmdlines.txt (next time I will try to create svcpack addon). Another strange thing is that when I execute v1.5 on my current running windows (XP SP2 EN with PL locales) or on VMWARE (XP SP2 PL) the options: rename Administrator and Fake Administrator are DISABLED (grayed). Firstly I thought it was normal and would work during setup but v1.6 works as it should and these options are available.

There is only one thing that seems to be working improperly: after installation I can't logout! When I try to logout, another automatic login occurs with the same accout and this way I can't login on the other accout. I don't know if I fully understand the ForcedLogon option but anyway I set ForcedLogon=0 in the ini file.

How can I disable the automatic re-loging on already-installed system? (which reg entry should I change?)

Cheers

[beta] User Creation Tool · October 14, 2006

I don't use CMDOW.exe.

It's not my screenshot but I keep getting the same error. I use 1.5 version.

Cheers

[beta] User Creation Tool · October 14, 2006

The same problem here!

WinXP(PL) SP2 + HFSLIP + nLite

user.bat in $OEM$\cmdlines.txt:

@ECHO OFF
TITLE Creating Windows XP Users
START /WAIT %SystemDrive%\Install\CreateUser.exe

...\$OEM$\$1\Install\CreateUser.exe

Tested only on VMware.

Can this be the problem?

winnt.sif:

[GuiUnattended]
	AdminPassword=*************
	EncryptedAdminPassword=No
	AutoLogon=Yes
	AutoLogonCount=1

Any suggestions?

Cheers

February 25, 2006

There was no Profile folder in the Firefox dir and it was because there was a file named profile (no extension, just 'profile') and when I tryed to create the folder Profile manualy I got the error of the same name as profile (file). After removing profile file from Project\Firefox I created the folder and after clicking 'Copy my files', prefs.js bookmarks.html and mimeTypes.rdf were copied. I'm wondering what's wrong with the profile file, the content was:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<RDF:RDF xmlns:NC="http://home.netscape.com/NC-rdf#"
		 xmlns:RDF="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#">
  <RDF:Description RDF:about="urn:mimetype:handler:application/x-msdos-program"
				   NC:alwaysAsk="true"
				   NC:saveToDisk="true">
	<NC:externalApplication RDF:resource="urn:mimetype:externalApplication:application/x-msdos-program"/>
  </RDF:Description>
  <RDF:Description RDF:about="urn:mimetypes">
	<NC:MIME-types RDF:resource="urn:mimetypes:root"/>
  </RDF:Description>
  <RDF:Seq RDF:about="urn:mimetypes:root">
	<RDF:li RDF:resource="urn:mimetype:application/x-msdos-program"/>
  </RDF:Seq>
  <RDF:Description RDF:about="urn:mimetype:application/x-msdos-program"
				   NC:value="application/x-msdos-program"
				   NC:editable="true"
				   NC:fileExtensions="exe"
				   NC:description="Application">
	<NC:handlerProp RDF:resource="urn:mimetype:handler:application/x-msdos-program"/>
  </RDF:Description>
  <RDF:Description RDF:about="urn:mimetype:externalApplication:application/x-msdos-program"
				   NC:prettyName=""
				   NC:path="" />
</RDF:RDF>

I removed this file in order to create Profile folder.

Now everything seems to work corectly.

And one more question: I always disable bookmark toolbar in View menu but this option is not included in copied files. What files do I have to copy to include View settings?

Cheers

February 25, 2006

data.ini content:

[Firefox]
Name=Mozilla FireFox
RegKey=Software\Mozilla\Mozilla Firefox\
Path=%PROGRAMFILES%\Mozilla Firefox\
ExeName=Firefox.exe
Profile=%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\
ProfileFiles=prefs.js,bookmarks.html,mimeTypes.rdf
RemoveProfile=
MainFiles=plugins,searchplugins,components
RemoveMain=
Output=sfirefox.exe

process log:

Successfully copied plugins
Successfully copied searchplugins
Successfully copied components
-----------------------------------
Main Files Processed

Successfully copied prefs.js
Successfully copied bookmarks.html
Successfully copied mimeTypes.rdf
-----------------------------------
Profile Files Processed


7-Zip (A) 3.12  Copyright (c) 1999-2003 Igor Pavlov  2003-12-10
Scanning

Creating archive C:\Documents and Settings\vertigo\Desktop\Sof\app.7z

Compressing  Profile
Compressing  Main\components\compreg.dat
Compressing  Main\components\xpti.dat
Compressing  Main\components\jar50.dll
Compressing  Main\components\jsd3250.dll
Compressing  Main\npnul32.dll
Compressing  Main\plugins\npnul32.dll
Compressing  Main\npswf32.dll
Compressing  Main\plugins\npswf32.dll
Compressing  setuprsc.dll
Compressing  Main\components\xpinstal.dll
Compressing  Main\GetFlash.exe
Compressing  Main\plugins\GetFlash.exe
Compressing  Install.exe
Compressing  setup.exe
Compressing  Main\searchplugins\eBay.gif
Compressing  Main\searchplugins\google.gif
Compressing  Main\searchplugins\yahoo.gif
Compressing  config.ini
Compressing  install.ini
Compressing  Main\components\jsconsole-clhandler.js
Compressing  Main\components\nsBrowserContentHandler.js
Compressing  Main\components\nsBrowserGlue.js
Compressing  Main\components\nsCloseAllWindows.js
Compressing  Main\components\nsDictionary.js
Compressing  Main\components\nsExtensionManager.js
Compressing  Main\components\nsHelperAppDlg.js
Compressing  Main\components\nsPostUpdateWin.js
Compressing  Main\components\nsProxyAutoConfig.js
Compressing  Main\components\nsSetDefaultBrowser.js
Compressing  Main\components\nsSidebar.js
Compressing  Main\components\nsUpdateService.js
Compressing  Main\components\nsXmlRpcClient.js
Compressing  Main\GetFlash.exe.manifest
Compressing  Main\plugins\GetFlash.exe.manifest
Compressing  Main\searchplugins\amazondotcom.png
Compressing  Main\searchplugins\answers.png
Compressing  Main\searchplugins\creativecommons.png
Compressing  Main\searchplugins\amazondotcom.src
Compressing  Main\searchplugins\answers.src
Compressing  Main\searchplugins\creativecommons.src
Compressing  Main\searchplugins\eBay.src
Compressing  Main\searchplugins\google.src
Compressing  Main\searchplugins\yahoo.src
Compressing  license.txt
Compressing  Extensions\adblock-0.5.3.042-fx+fl+mz+ns.xpi
Compressing  adt.xpi
Compressing  browser.xpi
Compressing  en-US.xpi
Compressing  Extensions\fasterfox-1.0.3-fx.xpi
Compressing  Extensions\flashgot-0.5.9.993-fx+fl+mz+ns+tb.xpi
Compressing  Extensions\noscript-1.1.3.9-fx+fl+mz.xpi
Compressing  talkback.xpi
Compressing  xpcom.xpi
Compressing  Main\components\browser.xpt
Compressing  Main\flashplayer.xpt
Compressing  Main\plugins\flashplayer.xpt
Compressing  Main\nsIQTScriptablePlugin.xpt
Compressing  Main\plugins\nsIQTScriptablePlugin.xpt
Compressing  UninstallFirefox.zip

Everything is Ok
New Package created

Another strange thing is that I normally use SFX archive to extract flash plugin files into plugins dir, now when using sof, flash files are extracted but I can't view flash in browser.

Settings and bookmarks still don't work.

I don't know where I should look for my files after copying, there are no prefs.js bookmarks.html and mimeTypes.rdf inside .\Sof\Project\Firefox dir.

February 24, 2006

Similar problem here (FF 1.5.0.1). Nothing works except extensions. No bookmarks, no profile settings...

Suggestions please?

April 21, 2005

didn't help

April 20, 2005

One time I could't browse one page with FF 102 when with IE it worked fine at the same moment on the same system!

After system reinstall i tested FF and few sites and it worked quite nice but I cant run WU with FF.

It looks like there was Firewall with blocked ports or something but windows firewall was disabled and there was no other FW.

google.com always works fine

April 20, 2005

Hi all,

After installing latest M$ updates I have many problems with my system and Internet browsing

First of all I cant use Windows Update anymore:

When I open the WU-page it loads very slowly and then nothing happens.

IE shows "Done" and nothing then. Sometimes after few minutes some missing pictures begin to download and than WU hungs.

There are more troubles with Internet browsing:

Some sites don't want to load or load once and later I cant browse them (just like WU - everything is done but I cant see anything)

Its really wired.

I tested it on clean XPSP2 + RvMpack1.2.1 (regular install - no tweaks)

I also tryied to install older Win build without latest updates and everything was OK, then I used WU to update and after installing all new hotfixes the same problems appeared.

I dont think its a connection problem because I have seccond winXP installed and everything was OK at the same time.

I've never had that kind of problem before and I dont know what's wrong

Does anyone know what could be wrong and what can I do to fix it?

April 5, 2005

Is it possible to run batch file under cd-shell boot menu?

I would like to create a few installation options of win XP and I though it would be good way to add a batch file which will execute sfx-archive from the cd, this archive will extract some file e. g. bla.txt into the hard disk and then in my RuneOnceEx I will add sections and "IF EXIST bla.txt ..." line to select what should be installed

I will have as many sfx-archives on CD as many installation options

Is it possible or maybe there is another way?

March 11, 2005

nive

KB890830 is not really a hotfix but a removal tool so u cant integrate in any lang verions. Try to put KB890830.exe (rename the oryginal file) in i386\svcpack and add

KB890830.exe /q

to the svcpack.inf

To integrate KB887472 u have to disintegrate KB834707 first (or use clean xp-source without KB834707 integrated)

March 11, 2005

It would be nice if everyone could create own language update pack

Is there any guide how to create update pack just like RyanVM's update pack?

February 22, 2005

I installed xp with all fixes except KB885250 and my Network still doesn't work corectly

I'm really mad at M$ right now

February 19, 2005

I decided to do some tests:

I found an older compilation of my unattended winXP and I installed it on my seccond 20GB testing HDD

The compilation was: SP2+KB890175+KB834707+KB885836+KB886185+KB885835+KB873339 (all old hotfixes except M$ last wave)

and:

* computer browser service disabled

result: LAN works corectly - fast with no hangs and errors

then I updated my system using WU and all new updates were downloaded and installed

* after update my LAN was 'disabled' again

after this - format C and reinstall winXP with all hotfixes integrated this time and:

* Computer browser service disabled

* Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) disabled

* Security Center disabled

result: LAN didn't work since first logon

after this i did some actions:

* turned on Computer browser service - LAN didn't work

* used Conection Wizard (Windows Firewall was enabled by it) - LAN didn't work

* enabled 'files and pronters sharing' in Firewall options - LAN started to work

* disabled Computer browser service again - LAN didn't work again

I have no idea what is going on with my win

This problem appears every time after fresh install when useing my last xp unattended cd with all new hotfixes integrated.

February 18, 2005

I have the same problem! I can't browse my Local Network after insaling new M$ updates (so KB885250 is a problem then)

My Networks works slowly (hangs on for 20-30 sec. when I'm trying to browse) and finaly returns an error.

After some tests i found out that after turning on COMPUTER BROWSER service (and one time I had to turn on M$ firewall when having no other firewall on) my Local Network works again.

I dont know if turning on Computer Browser service will help in all cases but it helped in my network

January 4, 2005

Try this:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects]"VisualFXSetting"=dword:00000003
; Use "Windows Classic Folder" instead of common tasks in folders
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"WebView"=dword:00000000
; Disable "Translucent selection rectangle"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"ListviewAlphaSelect"=dword:00000000
; Enable "Drop shadows for icon labels on desktop"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"ListviewShadow"=dword:00000000
; Disable "background image for each folder type"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"ListviewWatermark"=dword:00000000
; Disable "Slide taskbar buttons"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"TaskbarAnimations"=dword:00000000
; Enable "Visual Theme"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ThemeManager]
"ThemeActive"="0"
; Disable "Window contents while dragging"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
"DragFullWindows"="1"
; Enable "Smooth edges of screen fonts
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
"FontSmoothing"="0"
; Disable "Animate windows when minimizing and maximizing"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics]
"MinAnimate"="0"
; Disable Menu Shadow & Fade
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
"UserPreferencesMask"=hex:90,12,01,80

It should work (reboot/relogin to take effect)

(Use it during T-12 to set visual for all accounts)

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