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I was noticing under the name of each person that had donated that it shows the type of donator they are. I was thinking... if possible... It would be a good idea to make that a link to where they would go to become the same type of donator. That way it makes it easier and more out there. MSFN is obviously a very good forum for any tech and you guys deserve any donations that come your way. Thanks for everything.

Very useful tool severach. Thank you. I am thinking about making a new version of my OEM ACT tool I made a while back that utalizes oemscan.exe and your new oembios.exe. Would you guys mind? Basically what I am thinking is I'll make OEM ACT scan with the new oembios.exe and find the crc needed then browse a folder filled with oembios files and check each crc of each cat file till it finds a matching set and then it copies oemscan and that set of oembios files to the harddrive and runs them. This way it would be less work for the users. BTW I have another question. May be a stupid lazy question but here goes... I haven't had a chance to test 2k3 or vista compatability yet. But does 2k3 and vista use the same oembios file sets that windows xp uses? Or would I need to collect my own oembios sets from manufacturer oem disks or installed manufacturer oem systems? Sorry if I missed a post that answers this allready. Thanks again guys.

That is exactly what oemscan was made for.

Wow Xequter! You have made a lot of progress over the holidays! I just found out about 1.4.1. I didn't know you had any new releases since 1.3.1... So I'm way behind. I'll be running some tests very soon for 2k3 and vista. I will also update the integrator addons as well once I complete my tests. Thanks a lot xequter and crew.

Maybe it's just me... but I can't see the attachment of oemscan 1.3.1 on this thread anymore. Or am I going blind?

If you are using a royalty oem machine you can easily make a disk with pre-activation files on it. Search for oemscan here at msfn. If you are using a dell, hp, gateway, etc... system, this is the easiest and best method to bypass having to call microsoft. You can get some integrator addons I made using oemscan here: http://siginet.ryanvm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=61

Why not just use 2 totally different winnt.sifs? In the next version of pp there will be enhancements to the multi-winnt.sif feature.

Sorry... not even I have a copy of it anymore. If anyone does have it ... it would be nice for me to add it to my new host.

Windows XP PowerPacker doesn't support Win2K at this time. It is pretty simple to add win2k if you know the concept of how multiboot disks work. The main thing is to create your boot directory and copy it in a folder at the root of your disk. Place the I386 folder in a folder inside the ROOT folder on your disk with your win2k ident files in that folder and at the root of the disk. Go into the BOOT\BOOT.ini file and add a line pointing to your setupldr.bin file inside the boot folder you created. If you don't want to use my tool you don't have to. It was made to help simplify things for those that allready know how to create a multiboot disk. At this time it only supports XP... and 2k3 is possible. This app is still a work in process even though it is pretty rock solid. It does have it's minor bugs though. I'm hoping to have more time soon to add a lot to the next version. Pretty sad that a reply from one of the users of the program would make you talk like that... but hey... we all have our hissy fits at times.

Actually I have been pretty busy so I haven't had time to code latley. I did have RC9 almost done but lost it in a hard drive crash.

This issue seems to be doing a number on a lot of the hardcore msfn members from the looks of this thread. How many Super Mods have gotten banned? Weird it only happens with IE7 and msfn.

Has anyone noticed that in IE7 that everytime you click on a thread in msfn that the page goes nuts and makes a bunch of clicking noises like you are going to ten different links really fast? I just noticed it. I bet that is what is causing people to get banned.

OK thanks for the info. I will mention this to him the next time I see him. If anyone else sees him before I do can you give him the info in this thread for me? Thanks

Another tool is cmdhide.exe by yours truley. But I think RunHiddenConsole is more popular.

I can see msfn.org just fine but Kelsenellenelvian can't access it at all. No matter what he does. I know you guys have changed servers... but I would think his dns would have resolved by now. He was able to access it yesterday but not at all today. Any ideas? Or did you ban all usernames that are hard to pronounce! lol!

Thanks for the requests. Some of the stuff you requested is allready planned in future releases. The Advanced options for multiple winnt.sifs is still a little buggy. It works but it is gonna be changed a little to make it much simpler to use.

In the next version I plan on making it Auto copy $OEM$, OEM, WPI directories.

That is how you make an OEM Specific install disk. Which only works on that type of manufacturer computer. The project here uses that concept but actually makes it possible to utalize multiple OEM specific files on one disk. Helping you make a tru Universal Installation disk.

Looks like this project is slowing down a bit. I guess that is because oemscan is working pretty well. I have to say it is great to not have to call to activate all the time anymore. I think I have only had to call MS once in the past 2 weeks... whereas before I was calling them 1-3 times a day!

I was wondering the same thing. Allthough I know in autoit if you have 2 sections with the same name in an ini file only the first instance is read. I am not sure with C+ though. If this is the case I suppose we could search for: [GATEWA] PATH=".\oemfiles\GATEWAY\A04597C6\" RANGE="0x000F32F0:20,0x000FE840:20" [Gateway] PATH=".\oemfiles\GATEWAY\C86378C7\" What do you think xehqter?

As far as I know it will not work with a regular OEM Windows Key. It must be a SLP key.

Actually at first I thought of the oembios.cat file at the root was a bug... but then I started to enjoy seeing it there. I can tell that pre activation was successful and I can check what the crc32 of that cat is so I know which fileset was used. So it's not that big of a deal in my eyes. @Roguespear At first I thought using detatched program would be the best approach... but oemscan works great the way it works now. The issue I had trying to run it during detached program was the fact that debug.exe does not seem to work around that time.

Yes this method will work on a multiboot dvd on your oem copies. I do want to make a couple modifications so you don't have to add the 100+ MB of file on each OS. Instead have a batch that is run during svcpack to run oemscan from within the oem dir on the root of the disk. I know from my experiance that if you have too many oses on a dvd you can sometimes run into read errors. So of course... use trial and error.

I went ahead and made some Integrator Addons for xehqter's OEMScan utility. Here is where you can get some. http://siginet.ryanvm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=61

Aww man I am sory. I will fix it now.