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SUCCESS AT LAST!!! It sure looked good to see at long last that "operation successfully carried out" or words to that effect when RunOnceEx.cmd did each of my entries. I've got some tidying up to do with the expected glitches for maybe a third of my entries like "can't find file...." etc. but such a relief after so much searching and trying. Of the suggestions given, the only thing different was using the reg.exe from my CD: I had previously been using a download from one of the many posts I read. Also, I had previously tried placing that reg.exe by making folders under $1 like $OEM$\$1\Winnt\System32\reg.exe. Obviously one or both of these were at fault. I had learned from reading posts that the $Progs doesn't work for copying files to C:\ Program Files in Windows 2000 but works fine in XP and that $$ similarly is just for XP. Looks like the latter was wrong. My sincere thanks for the quick and helpful advice! It sort of made up for my faithful NEC 17" CRT finally failing after five years of service. Watching RunOnceEx work looks good even on my dusted off first !4" monitor!!!

Hi...RunOnceEx.cmd does not run on my Windows 2000 VMware Control Panel install from ISO. A post on msfn forum gave me the way to detect what the problem was. After each entry is an error notice: This I should have realized because I ran into the same thing when I first started testing each RunOnceEx entry and had to install the Windows 2000 Support Tools CD package. Searching the forums as to how to do the same thing for an unattended CD located this post: http://www.msfn.org/lofiversion/index.php/t39896.html on the very subject. It stated: I've done this and it didn't work. Yes, reg.exe was there in the VMware OS winnt but it never served any purpose other than take up space. I suspect very strongly it takes more than just placiing reg.exe in winnt. Isn't their some kind of file association that a registry entry arranges say, in this case, between RunOnceEx.cmd and reg.exe so when the REG command is encountered, reg.exe can do it's number correctly? Or do I have to include the entire 10MB Support Tools package in my ISO build and run the setup.exe in a batch file that will install all the support tools before RunOnceEx.cmd is run? After some 15 ISO builds and VMware installs I'm out of other ideas and this is the first solid lead I've come up with. Unfortunagely a search for just reg.exe turns up nothing and including "Windows 2000" or "install" turns up a zillion anwer pages. Any help in getting reg.exe active in Windows 2000 would be appreciated. Regards, Nick

Hi ...I'm a total newbie at trying to understand the unattended boot CD so I appreciated the detailed steps in your Radeon driver setup. I have a problem at the point following downloading and installing RadClocker. The install seemed normal and there is a Radlinker menu choice when I right click my Desktop which opens a program window. When I look in the Temp folder for the random string .msi file to copy to my ATI\RadClocker\ folder; it's not there; nothing is; it's empty. I even looked in all the other Temp folders but no sign. I have used "looking in the Temp folder" to extract the contents of self-extracting .exe files before after running an install .exe but for this case it's not working. I have also read in other posts of a means of using WinRAR to extract the contents of self-extracting .exe files but all I can get is a notice that the file contains no archives and if I use the "view" menu choice all I can see is what is likely a non readable binary file. Any suggested reading or ideas would be appreciated. I'm using Windows 2000 Pro and shut down all other apps for the install and tried installing both from the desktop and in C:\ Regards, Nick Duh! After reading some more to understand most of the posts prior to mine I found that the sought after random string file is in C:\winnt\installer\Radlinker.msi. I had looked there earlier but somehow messed up viewing hidden files with Explorer. As it turned out I'm going to try and leave out Radclocker altogether since like other posters I don't have a need for it. The instructions seem clear as to what can be omitted to do this. Regards, Nick