HJW

- User to set somekind of ETA in configuration per app. - Add backgound/wallpaper during installer.. (i hate that black schreen )

You should look for a installer, not a cab file. WindowsUpdateAgent30-x86.exe

Hey dudes, Do a clean install, make sure all updates are installed, hide your languagepacks and other updates you want to hide then: 1.reboot 2. go to c:\windows\ 3. copy the whole directory softwaredistribution to another location 4. delete the dir downloads in softwareditstribution. 5 put your softwaredistribution folder in your install.wim c:\windows 6.done

This would be cool. Kindalike OOBE stuff, I disabled OOBE because it runs at the wrong moment..if you could include stuff like this with the WPIinstall that would be great -computername -computerdescription -workgroup -timezone -useraccounts.. HJW

Someone here who wants to make a little walkthrough how to use winpe2.0 with xp setup.. I am looking for a stepbystep guide - otherwise I know i will not suceed in doing this ;(

Hey, Welcome at MSFN, Did you check your unattended winnt.sif file for OemPreinstall=Yes HJW

Update: developments are going very well right now. Currently we need to do some bugfixing and the website then we're done. The application will generate .reg tweaks for both XP and Vista or applies tweaks with one click on a button

With OOBE enabled it didnt work for me either, but with everything automated, users accounts and stuff tooo CustomTheme worked for me...

Vista runs a digital signature check on the file with the progresbbar (NTOSKRNL/NTOSMPA), when changing bitmaps inside those files Vista will refuse to continue with its bootprocess, so you got stucked with an unbootable OS thnx for those virtual machines Idea what about a custom kernel file defined with bcdedit (like in boot.ini with XP)?? HJW

I overwrite the default wallpaper in install.wim (windows\web\wallpaper\img24.img) with my favorite wall Just another way to do it

No Problem, I am not quite satisfied with my current bootscreen, but it will do for my unattended dvd. BCDEDIT /SET QUIETBOOT OFF to go back to orginal progressbar. HJW

It's custom build and setup for my system especially, so sharing wouldnt make much sense since it wouldnt work 100% at other systems. I made the application with an autorunbuilder. So I suggest you look into that to make something similar.

CMD /C BCDEDIT /SET QUICKBOOT ON in your autounattend.xml at synchronous commands or add this entry to your setupcomplete.cmd in %windir%\setup\scripts when you are using $oem$ folders. Regards, HJW

Dear MSFN users , A small list of resources you might want to edit for your unattended project. With filename and possible resources of interest (ie Bitmaps or TextStrings). Use any resourcehacker to edit these files. Don't forget to edit any files in your install.wim image as well - so your custom files also show up when installing from boot function. I am sure it's far from complete but it's at least something to start with any tips for update of this post are welcome.. I tried to keep somekind of clear structure in this list with the following order: LOCATION: <filename> <orginal description> <resources to edit> <resource edit tip! : description > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ VISTA_DVD\SOURCES\ note: try editing dll's in locale-LOCALE directory first (i.e. nl-NL) those mui files will be used by default so any changes made to any dll in \sources\ will not be shown. ARunImg.dll Autorun Wizard Image Resources Bitmaps ARunRes.dll Autorun Wizard Page Resources Dialogs and strings spwizres.dll Setup Wizard Framework Resources Bitmaps w32uiRes.dll Setup Wizard Page Resources Bitmaps w32uiRes.dll Setup Wizard Page Resources Strings VISTADVD\SOURCES\locale-LOCALE\ (en-EN or nl-NL for example) w32uiRes.dll.mui STRINGS: 327: Collecting information Progress Step1 Caption. 323: Installing Windows Progress Step2 Caption. 4500-4522 ARunRes.dll.mui STRINGS: 1252 Setup.exe Window Title 1254 Install Now button 1266 Check compability online now button Setup.exe.mui Windows-installation and Setup STRINGS: 500: Loading… spwizres.dll.mui Setup Wizard Framework Resources Bitmaps and Dialogs Dialog 104: Window Title during setup Bitmap 517: Background during setup 1024x768. SYSTEM32\OOBE\ OOBEresources.dll OOBE Branding Images Bitmaps; Backgrounds + icons WINDIR\BRANDING\Basebrd\ Basebrd.dll Windows Base Branding Resource Dll Bitmaps Bitmap 101 logo about windows note: some information and screenshots are from RetroPack created by SoFtTech

Here's my entry -lol Modded autorun with background image. Installs my fav- applications on 1st logon. Similar to WPI but much much smaller and own-made HJW

Hi folks, I cant get pkgmgr working my log file: 2007-05-27 15:19:34, Info CBS Pkgmgr: called with: "pkgmgr /o:"C:\wim_mount\;C:\wim_mount\Windows" /n:"C:\answer.xml" /l:c:\log.txt" 2007-05-27 15:19:34, Info CSI 00000001@2007/5/27:13:19:34.224 WcpInitialize (wcp.dll version 0.0.0.5) called (stack @0x6c11f745 @0xda2dbf @0xd9d892 @0xd9e27e @0x76573833 @0x77bda9bd) 2007-05-27 15:19:34, Info CBS Pkgmgr: return code: 0x80004001 %errorlevel% reports 9009 or sometimes a negative digit Any ideas? thanks in advance HJW EDIT1: it seems that the switch /wait causes trouble the switch /w returns 0 so succesful operation I run "start /w pkgmgr <options>" right now EDIT2: How possibly can there be a difference between: C:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\x86\Servicing\pkgmgr.exe and C:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\PETools\pkgmgr.exe running commandline to integrate updates from 2nd location fails with error 2 and running exactly same commandline from 1st dir is succesful. From PETools\.. it says in the logfile an error with WCP.DLL

A multilanguage addon / installer for sidebar is easy to make as long as you have all source files

Yeah well, like the situation is atm it appears the coder HGK doenst like VB as much as before since he discovered Java.. Unfortunately an update is not planned in near future.

Well as soon as I and HGK have some serious free time we will try to complete this project. The plan is to make it someday open source

C:\Windows\System32 somewhere is msoobe.exe located (use searchfunction if you cant find it). This file is what you are looking for.

Regtweakage 0.2 Beta released. Let me know what you guys think of our application.

Well maybe because Nlite tends to erase about all components in your XPcd. But with RyanVM integrator I dont have to recreate the bootfolders everytime I just copy the txtsetup.sif's and everything works well... month after month updatepack after updatepack. HJW

easy pal http://regtweakage.professorcpu.com/download/CDSm.rar only for personal use PNG files editable with Macromedia Fireworks free trial on the www ( use google) gr HJW

It is not neccesary to create your bootfolders after slipstreaming.... However be sure you copy your txtsetup.sif everytime you updated i386 to your bootfolders... Don't forget to modify [txtsetup] SetupSourcePath.

Development is going smoothly.. Actually I can say we are ready to release its first version. However we have a little issue with the hosting of the database - the host we're going to use doesn't support outbound connections...(neccesary for the application because it's supposed to connect to the DB). As soon as we have found a solution for this problem we're going to release the first beta version of RegTweakage.NET. edit: problems with hosting solved. Testing application atm. first release within a week. Thanks HJW and HGK