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I got WMP9 to install unattended right. The problem is I need to get rid of that setup screen that appears after you first run it. That screen appears for every new user that runs WMP, is there a way to have it not appear and just run WMP with defaults?

I tried Kalpersky which wasnt good. Then I tried Sygate, all it did was crash on me. When I got it to not crash I was still disappointed. ZoneAlarm Security Suite all the way

Thats the thing I did set sounds under audio devices and they work except for the startup/shutdown sounds.

Im sorry about this. I must have made a mistake and checked off disableing startup/shutdown sounds when I didn't intend to. Is there a way to re-enable them?

What this study suggests is the obvious. If you take an IQ test while being distracted by IMs, emails, etc, then you are going to score lower on the IQ test.

I got one of those ipods what with the circly thing that spins around and iTunes installed. Thing is, iTunes just sucks, mostly because it constantly crashes. Are there any good alternatives out there?

It's definately better. I would just use version 5 of VMware Virtualmachine.

What the hell? Isn't it suppost to be called "Windows XP Pro N" or something of that nature? The EU bitched about the "reduced media edition" name.

There is an easier way. Have a batch file run at first startup containing the following command: @netsh interface ip set address name="Local Area Connection" source=static addr=192.168.1.104 mask=255.255.255.0 gateway=192.168.1.1 gwmetric=1 @netsh interface ip set dns name = "Wired Connection" source = static addr = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx @netsh interface ip add dns name = "Wired Connection" addr = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx index=1 @ECHO Process Completed. Static IP address 192.168.1.104 issued to Local Area Connection. You can have seperate commands for each "Local Area Connection". If you want to enable DHCP, use this @netsh interface ip set address "Local Area Connection 2" dhcp @netsh interface ip set dns "Local Area Connection 2" dhcp @ECHO Process Completed. DHCP Enabled on Local Area Connection 2.

Wouldn't know, you would have best luck looking at the documentation of the mb. You could also run VMware, which has special emulated VM hardware to run your old DOS games.

Ehhh I guess that means I need to manually change filenames in oem and reconfigure the batch file. But OK, at least it's fixable. Thanks a lot.

I did have OEMpreinstall=yes in winnt.sif. I tried it with $oem$ in i386 per your suggestion, but the problem with that is when I do that, all the names of the files in the oem folder get converted to MSDOS compatable names what with the ~ and the numbers. So... damnit.

I'm doing a DOS unattended install of Win2k. So basically I have all the stuff on the hard drive. The install files are in a folder called "win2kinst" and $oem$ and i386 are next to each other. In dos I enter the command winnt /s:c:\win2kinst /u:c:\win2kinst\winnt.sif And it works, able to read the winnt.sif file 'n everything. The only problem is, the contents of $oem$ do not copy. What do I do?

Oh its fun..when it works. Trial and error is no fun, however Thanks for looking that winnt.sif file over. I made the changes. As it turned out it wasn't even being loaded since the command should have been Winnt /U:c:\win2kinst\i386\winnt.sif That whole file copy error thing turned out to be caused by nLite, which has problems with non-boot from cd installations at the moment. So I had to remake the CD image. And to top it all off putting $oem$ in the i386 folder proved to be a mistake, since when the files were copied they were all given MSDOS compatable names (windows went ~1 happy on all my $oem$ contents). Lesson learned, put $oem$ next to i386.

Are you using WinISO to make the CD?

I am getting massivly p***ed off. Any answeres would be greatly apreciated. So basically im doing a clean install of Win2k on Win98 unattended. So I copy the install files to c:\win2kinst, then boot to DOS and run c:\win2kinst\i386\winnt.exe It asks me for the files directory, at which I input c:\win2kinst\i386, allows me to select a partition, then converts the drive. Fine. Then the installation starts. This is the part that is suppost to be unattended. But at the beginning it asks for where autoexec.nt and other files are. DAMNIT! What am I doing wrong? I attached my winnt.sif file if anyone wants a look. WINNT.SIF

You win a free AOL CD. Should come in the mail sooner or later.

ZoneAlarm Pro has this thing where it can backup settings and restore them. Does ZoneAlarm free have it? It should be in the overview tab.

The problem with those solutions is it turns off the prompt, but the download still happens.

Indeed, but which registry keys is the question.

Thats good but the problem is I gatta do this for a lot of computers.

How can I do that then? I just want to prevent users from seeing the security prompt itself, doing that wont stop people from downloading web pages. It will just stop them in situations where the security prompt would popup.

Thanks for pointing that one out but I fear that users could use regular old explorer.exe to download files this way, so I want to prevent that.

I have made some restrictions in the group policy editor to limit what users can do on their computers. All seems to be going well, but there is one thing I cannot figure out. When a user downloads something they get the XP sp2 prompt that the file could be harmful and if they should download it. I dont want them to be able to see that prompt, I want winxp to automatically deny the download without a prompt. Is there any way I can do this?

Thanks What does proxyoverride <local> mean?