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My guess would be the problem isn't related. Did you change anything else? The only other explanation I can come up with is you've used the wrong version. Make sure you have the version for your version of XP (SP1 or not.) But I think you'd have issues long before the desktop loads if you had the wrong version.

Give us the exact error as well as a copy of the cmd line you are running.

Check ref.chm in the xp deploy tools.

Is there a place where I can look at the setup pages so that I can compare the string tables and see where each one is placed? I'd like to know exactly what I'm editing, but seem to be a but lost.

YES. You need to place it wherever you want (usually install folder) and yes you need to give full path in the [GuiRunOnce] section just ike you have shown. Bored needs to edit one of those lines: bootcfg /RAW /A / Kernel=OEMKrnl.exe /ID 1 should be: bootcfg /RAW /A /Kernel=OEMKrnl.exe /ID 1 (remove the space between the slash and Kernal.)

I don't think WMP added it. It wasn't there when I looked before. TweakUI added it. Next install I'll just try adding it to the folders.inf and see what happens.

Ok, used TweakUI to edit the location of "My Music" Here is the registry entry for "F:\My Music" Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders] "My Music"=hex(2):46,00,3a,00,5c,00,4d,00,79,00,20,00,4d,00,75,00,73,00,69,00,\ 63,00,00,00 Now I guess since you know more than me, this will give you a place to start and change it to whatever drive letter you use.

Figured it out. In the WINNT.SIF I had: ProgramFilesDir=D:\ but it should have been: ProgramFilesDir=D: without the trailing slash. Funny, the rest of my programs didn't have trouble. But I see a bunch of registry entries showing D:\\yadayada as a path. Well, guess I'm up for another reinstall. SO, pstrip.exe /s is the answer.

Ok, pstrip.exe /s seems to almost work, but then I get the error that it can't create D:\\PowerStrip. (Notice the 2 slashes.) Any thoughts on why the extra slash is there? One note, I do have "Program Files" defaulted to D:\ via WINNT.SIF.

Ok, got the opportunity to figure it out myself today. SteamInstall_CS.exe /silent However, it pops open the login screen upon completion. I've e-mailed Steam to see if they can give me more information. Now to play for a bit!

Man....just finished what I thought was an install I would keep for a while too. Oh well, guess I can whittle down on that list of improvements I wanted to make.

Think you need to add the hacked sfc.dll to your Disable WFP guide.

Well that sucks, I always keep music in a separate partition.

Figured out my first question... But what about My Music? I see a key under "Shell Folders" for it, but not "User Shell Folders." Any thoughts?

All I am doing is the following and it works: Place my alternate logonui.exe in $OEM$\$$\Resources\LogonUI\ . Then I run the following during [GuiRunOnce] Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 ;Set LogonUI to alternate [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon] "UIHost"="C:\\Windows\\Resources\\LogonUI\\logonui.exe" Since this works, can you tell me why I would want to change to either of the ways listed above?

Bored, you should add this to the gide on the first page. "How to customize the Logon screen"

Yes it's a typo - I simply was too lazy to export the reg key. We need of course "\\" instead of the single backslash ... BTW: I recommend using a REG_EXPAND_SZ and path variables instead of absolute paths. I don't understand the REG_EXPAND_SZ thing. I guess by path variable you mean: "UIHost"="%systemdrive%\\Resources\\LogonUI\\custom.exe"

For the life of me I can't get this to work as a reg file. Is it because I need to double the '\'? IE: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 ;This will set the LogonUI to an alternate [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon] "UIHost"="C:\\Windows\\Resources\\LogonUI\\logonui.exe"

Perfect! Thanks! Yeah, very familiar w/ ThemeXP.org, but couldn't find that information....way too much to look through.

Thx, I'll let you know how it turns out. In the middle of an install now....not sure that I'll burn another ISO and run another install tonight or not....already 1:30am.

Ok, think I got it figured out.....I replaced the sfc.dl_ w/ the hacked version. I also changed the following registry key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon] "SFCDisable"=dword:00000002 As I understand it, this will disable it at the next boot (when it usually replaces the file) and automatically enable it on the following boot (did this cuz I don't want other ppl screwing w/ system files later.) Does this mean if the CD is put in at a later date, WFP will replace that file??

Ok, so LOGONUI.EXE controls the logon screen. It is in the SYSTEM32 folder. I've tried just putting my new one in the $$/SYSTEM32 folder, but it is protected by WFP. I guess this means I have to pull the DVD out at some point, but I hate that solution. Any other fancy ideas? I know we have ways of hacking the uxtheme.dll to match the crc value, but that's just one file and there are tons of alternate logonui.exe files. (Guess I could just pick one and figure out how to hack it.......hmmmm.)

this should be bootcfg /RAW "/Kernel=OEMKrnl.exe" /A /ID 1 bootcft /Timeout 0 thats what works on mine anyway. The original didn't work and gave an error WOW! Finally figured out the problem here. I haven't been able to get this working all along. Both you guys have a typo. In the second line, bootcft should be bootcfg

Hmmm....the boot screen didn't work for me. Gonna try again soon. I would also like to see info on changing the logon screen. It should be similar right? Thanks for all your hard work bor3d! GJ!

Do you mean ".CAT" files? And do you mean "C:\XPCD\$OEM$\$$\inf" folder? Sorry, just guessing...not really sure here.