dman

IE works good enough and is safe enough if you set security right. FireFox is great, especially web developer plugin and other tools. It carries a pretty heavy footprint though. If all you need is a surfer, you can't beat lightning fast (even on memory and CPU challenged machines) K-Meleon. It's the Mozilla 1.7.5 Engine, same as FireFox, stripped to the bones for performance, and its pretty easy to look at too! [url="http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/"]http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/[/url]

Dont worry about the windows logo test. Lots of driver packs fail that. If the drivers came with the lan card they are OK to install. It certainly will not work without them.

Have you tried cwshredder? http://www.intermute.com/spysubtract/cwshr...r_download.html for nasty variety of coolweb try this. http://www.safer-networking.org/files/delcwssk.zip if you know what processes you are looking for you could also try hijackthis. http://www.spychecker.com/program/hijackthis.html (not for beginners)

Nice work, Gman! Your code runs great. I learn a few things from you, too.

@bilou Thanks for replying, B_G. I'm not sure what you mean by this. Are you saying do not do CD-boot install. If so, why not?

Glad I could help

Probably not. Most home users probably do cd install, while most corporate probably do unattend winnt32.exe. I find DOS based install convenient because I have 5 computers of varying vintage with pull-out racks, about a dozen hard disks that may end up in any one of them. (I test a lot of code, both mine and others and often need clean installs). I prep the disks with fat32 and copy installation folder to root. This way I just have to shove a disk-rack in a machine, boot my dos cdrom and autostart winnt.exe. This is much faster than CD install, plus with i386 dir on hard drive windows doesn't keep bugging me to insert installation disk. I am starting to work with BartPE as a rescue tool, maybe I will try doing winnt32.exe setup from PE boot. Thanks Again dman

I'm not too up on vbscript, so I'm not sure if there is a way to return just the drive letter, but you can always brute-force parse it. If the return is a root drive folder name, the return will always include the drive letter and end with "". This combo would be invalid in this position if you were returning a subfolder name, so you can detect this and parse out all but the drive letter and colon and you should be good. Excerpt from BrowseForFile_Shell(strPrompt) If Right(fol.Title, 2) = ":)" Then 'must be a root drive strpath = Mid(fol.Title, len(fol.Title) - 2, 2) else 'is a subfolder strPath = fol.ParentFolder.ParseName(fol.Title).Path End If

Yes, deleting those lines from dosnet.inf cured the problem. Thanks again, GM

Thanks GM

I found some stuff about wscript and file names with spaces. The suggestion is to enclose the exe in brackets with qoutes Ex. ["some app.exe"] http://www.foxite.com/archives/0000023492.htm I'm still not sure exactly what you are trying to do. Do you really just want to return a folder name, or would it be better to return a file name and path? If so you might want to try commondialog instead of shell.browseforfolder. Dim shell, x Set Shell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") Set ObjFSO = CreateObject("UserAccounts.CommonDialog") ObjFSO.Filter = "Programs|*.exe|Scripts|*.vbs" InitFSO = ObjFSO.ShowOpen If InitFSO = False Then Wscript.Echo "You did not select a file!" Wscript.Quit Else Wscript.Echo "You selected the file: " & ObjFSO.FileName x = shell.run (Chr(34) & ObjFSO.FileName & Chr(34)) End If

Thanks GM. Logfiles posted on first topic of this thread. dosnet.inf seems to be a clue. The last section reads: [Files] d1,hfsecper.inf d1,hfsecupd.inf d1,iecustom.dll d1,kdcsvc.dll d1,llsrpc.dll d1,llssrv.exe d1,rdpwd.sys d1,spupdsvc.exe d1,wmp.dll d1,wmpcore7.dll d1,wmpcore8.dll d1,UNIPROC\kernel32.dl_ d1,UNIPROC\ntdll.dll d1,UNIPROC\win32k.sy_ d1,UNIPROC\winsrv.dl_ d1,XPCLNT_QFE_BINARYDROP\shlwapi.dll d1,XPSP2_BINARYDROP\shlwapi.dll The four files that have a problem are listed here at the end. These files ARE in the CDROOT tree PS. How about Tedy? He's one of my favs (despite what he done to my Eagles). Hope he's OK. Man, if it can happen to a guy like that... makes you think.

Yes, original source works fine. Also, I have done this twice with different disks, so I dont think it is an error with the media or in copying. Also, the file DOES appear to have been copied. It is in the $WIN_NT$.~LS\i386 temp directory left on setup disk. Just to be clear... this error occurs during the initial dos mode blue-screen-with-yellow-progress-bar portion of setup, before the machine reboots into windows portion of setup.

This is not a CD read error. The i386 folder is resident on the hard disk being set up. The files are there and I can copy them manually. I am going to try running xpcreate again and see if this reproduces. EDIT: re-ran xpcreate, copied cdroot folder directly to blank hard diskdisk and tried install- same result. I am attaching txtsetup.sif file left on root of setup drive. not sure if its relevant or not yet.

It seems to work OK. I renamed "spybotsd.exe" to "spy botsd.exe" and it works. there is no spybotsd13.exe file in the folder. Is this code just a test, or is that file actually there on your computer? What is the "xxx yyy.exe" file you are trying to run? Dim sh, fol, fs, lngView, strPath Set Shell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") Set sh = CreateObject("Shell.Application") Set fs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") V = Vbcrlf FUNCTION RT strPrompt="This Will Open Only Folder Listed In A Root Drive. It Will Not Open Just The Root Drive!" & space(2) &_ "Root=Any HD Or Partition" & space(5) & "Eg> Root:\" & space(2) & "Wrong" & space(5) & "EG1>Root:\SomeFolder" & space(2) & "Right" strTitle ="Gsm Open A Folder" RT = BrowseForFile(strPrompt, strTitle ) End Function Function GsmGetApp02 Gsm02=RT MsgBox Gsm02 GsmGetApp02 = (CreateObject("Wscript.shell").run (Chr(34) & "" & Gsm02 & "\spy botsd.exe"& Chr(34))) 'GsmGetApp02 = (CreateObject("Wscript.shell").run (Chr(34) & "" & Gsm02 & "\"& Chr(34))) End Function Function BrowseForFile(strPrompt, strTitle ) On Error Resume Next If Instr(TypeName(CreateObject("Shell.Application")), "Shell") = FALSE Then ELSE BrowseForFile = BrowseForFile_Shell(strPrompt) End If End Function Function BrowseForFile_Shell(strPrompt) lngView = SFVVO_SHOWALLOBJECTS Or SFVVO_SHOWEXTENSIONS Or SFVVO_SHOWFILES Or SFVVO_SHOWDRIVE strPath = "" Set fol = sh.BrowseForFolder(&0, strPrompt, lngView, ssfDRIVES) On Error Resume Next strPath = fol.ParentFolder.ParseName(fol.Title).Path If strPath = ("*\(*:)") Then strPath = fol.Title Set fol = fol.ParentFolder strPath = fs.BuildPath("", strPath) End If BrowseForFile_Shell = strPath End Function GsmGetApp02

I am getting a failure doing DOS based setup (winnt.exe) with win2k pro. During file copy the progress bar gets to 97%, then get messages "Failed to copy file" on the following: kernel32.dl_ ntdll.dll winsrv.dll shlwdc.dll Can anyone confirm this, or should I start this experiment again? EDIT: I am using latest XPCREATE. This disk builds with no errors, and works fine doing CD boot install, with all updates incorporated. Original source disk is Feb 2000 MSDN version win2k pro (no service pack)

you are comparing the string read by cin stored in lock variable. You need to tell if that variable contains the word "lock". compare string variable against string literal looks like this: if (lock == 'lock') if (load == 'load') the code still doesn't work, but this maybe gets you to next step.

Thanks GM. Sucessfully created and tested Win2k and XP pro with new version. Worked flawless after taking care of above noted issues. To these I will add this small one. (not really an error, just unexpected behavior) When you run XPCREATE for the first time before editing INI, as you would do to initialize directories in previous version, new program immediatly starts searching for cdsource. If you have a zip drive with no disk in it you get a loud red-x error message CMD.EXE - NO DISK "There is no disk in the drive E:" with buttons "Cancel" "Try Again" "Continue" as noted, this is not really an error, but It might be better if the program could trap and ignore this condition if cdsource is not actually set to zip drive. EDIT: After looking at the log it appears XPCREATE is processing a mapped drive on my networked laptop (drive W:, where there IS a i386 folder, but not the one I want to use). This is what is written to the log before getting "Drive E:" message. strange since it seems to be processing network drive w: at the time. XPCREATE.LOG.TXT

“In future, you would do well to think before you type.” Perhaps I spoke out of turn, and if so I apologize. But if all you want to do is download updates (a fraction of what XPCREATE does in total) why do you want to use XPCREATE? Why not just get the current update list and put them in a download manager? After you get them, what are you going to do with them that XPCREATE can’t do better? BTW, my parable/rant was not meant for YOU specifically, maybe it would have been better placed in it’s own thread. As for my character, I can only say I don’t enjoy being rude, but as a programmer (and I am speaking for myself, not the Author) I can’t tell you how frustrating it is to have people constantly want to use your code for things for which it was not intended.

Sorry, don't mean to be rude. It's just that if you read the sticky at top of forum you will see the owner of this code feels strongly about people modifying/copying his code, and has recently (this week) stopped public distribution because of requests like yours. EDIT: Forgive me if I misunderstood your intentions and you were NOT talking about modifying the code. The new version of XPCREATE does not do downloads yet, but when it does you can just edit XPCREATE.INI and turn off cd creation (DOISO and DOCD) and other unneeded options. http://xpcreate.com/xpcreateini.htm

Ode to Free Software Once upon a time there was a man who owned a lake. The lake had the best Bass fishing in the County. Not wanting to be greedy, the man let whoever wanted to come fish in his lake. The man asked only that people respect his property and posted clear, easily readable signs to that effect. But soon the man started to notice disturbing things, like the people putting up a dock on the far side. “Just making some improvements”, the people said. The man walked away muttering, only to find an angry man on his front porch. “Your lake sucks, the man spat. I didn’t catch nothing”. The man with the lake nodded, noticing the slingshot in the others hand where a rod should be. Behind this man was another who said “I don’t want to fish in yer lake , mister, but ya mind if I do a little water skiing? On and on it went, until fed up, the man said to himself “why do I need this? Its my lake… I am making no money here” and closed the road to the lake. Not wanting to cut off those that had respectfully fished in is lake, the man allowed them back in by invitation only…. But still the idiotic requests came! Please don’t help close this lake for good. Take what is being offered on the owner’s terms (read EULA) or move on.

oooh, you didn't know about the bet. Well all I an say is I hope he runs your state better than he wagers. Soldiers in Afghanistan have cheesesteaks flown in from the other side of the world and this guy not only refuses them, but disses them too. We obviously have no champion teams to brag on, so we demand RESPECT for our cheesesteaks! http://www.nbc10.com/sports/4134100/detail.html

No, Mrs. Rendell sings for you at a Celtics game.... but yeah, same idea. Some bets are better lost. Pats are a awesome machine & classy team, I give them credit for that. Congrats

"the curse started when TO became the cover-boy for that game" AAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!! TO did his part. I think it started when freddy mitchell "the peoples champ" shot his mouth off and dissed rodney harrison. that really p***ed your boys off. guess we saw who came out on top of that one. we gotta lose that jerk. Oh well, thanks to gov. mittens instead of feasting on aforementioned cheesesteaks you will be treated to our gov's wifes singing..... bon appetit.

you can't get it to download from that site??? I just built one last night and it worked ok.