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No sorry, I'm not sure why it didn't install your apps. Double check your install paths maybe. Did you reverse the changes you made to the textsetup.sif? Anyone else have any ideas?

Thanks for your reply, but unfortunately adding Unattendsw=yes to the winnt.sif did not make any difference.

The Alcohol reg file does not disable the virtual drive, it will configure it on first start up. If you don't want the virtual drive I suggest changing the options in Alcohol after it is installed. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Alcohol Soft\Alcohol 120%\Info] "UserName"="your username" "Company"="your company" "SerialNo"="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Alcohol Soft\Alcohol 120%\Info] "UserName"="your username" "Company"="your company" "SerialNo"="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" Note: the serial number should be enclosed in quotes just like your username, I'm not sure what happened but I didn't type the & #34; so just ignore them and put a " there.

Hi, I'm sorry if this has been explained previously, I have tried searching but as I'm not really 100% sure what the topic should be called, I am not exactly what keywords to search for. I did try but cannot find acurate results. I just wanted to know if you can get rid of the part which plays on first boot up, the bit which has music and a pretty logo video. Usually happens just before the "Let's get to know each other" screen. I have an unattended install which has user name and computer name predefined so the actual "let's get to know each other" screen is not displayed, the music and video part is however. Thanks

I use the RunOnceEx.cmd method of unattended install for my third party applications. All I did to make this work was.. create a file with called cmdlines.txt which contains the following: [COMMANDS] "RunOnceEx.cmd" Save this in your $OEM$ folder. Also in the $OEM$ folder, place your RunOnceEx.cmd file. Here's what mine looks like: cmdow @ /HID @Echo Off SET PP=%SystemDrive%\ SET KEY=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx REG ADD %KEY% /V TITLE /D "Unattended Program Installation" /f REG ADD %KEY%\000 /VE /D "Alcohol 120" /f REG ADD %KEY%\000 /V 1 /D "%PP%\Install\Alcohol\setup.msi /passive /norestart" /f REG ADD %KEY%\000 /V 2 /D "REGEDIT /S %PP%\Install\Alcohol\alcohol.reg" /f REG ADD %KEY%\001 /VE /D "Nero Burning ROM 6.0.0.6" /f REG ADD %KEY%\001 /V 1 /D "%PP%\Install\Nero\Nero6606.exe /SILENT /NOREBOOT /SN=xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx /WRITE_SN" /f REG ADD %KEY%\002 /VE /D "WinRAR 3.30" /f REG ADD %KEY%\002 /V 1 /D "%PP%\Install\Winrar\Winrar_330.exe /s" /f REG ADD %KEY%\003 /VE /D "Microsoft Office XP" /f REG ADD %KEY%\003 /V 1 /D "%PP%\install\OfficeXP\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qn /norestart" /f REG ADD %KEY%\004 /VE /D "DVD Decrypter 3.2.5.0" /f REG ADD %KEY%\004 /V 1 /D "%PP%\Install\DVDDecrypter\Setup.exe /S" /f REG ADD %KEY%\005 /VE /D "Adobe Acrobat 6 Professional" /f REG ADD %KEY%\005 /V 1 /D "%PP%\Install\adobe6\AcroPro.msi /passive /norestart" /f REG ADD %KEY%\005 /V 2 /D "REGEDIT /S %PP%\Intall\Adobe6\acropro.reg" /f REG ADD %KEY%\006 /VE /D "DVD Shrink 3.2.0.15" /f REG ADD %KEY%\006 /V 1 /D "%PP%\Install\DVDShrink\dvdshrink32setup.exe /silent" /f REG ADD %KEY%\007 /VE /D "Spybot Search & Destroy 1.3" /f REG ADD %KEY%\007 /V 1 /D "%PP%\Install\Spybot\spybotsd13.exe /SP- /VERYSILENT /NORESTART" /f REG ADD %KEY%\100 /VE /D "Removing temporary files & rebooting" /f REG ADD %KEY%\100 /V 1 /D "%PP%\Install\cleanup.cmd" /f EXIT In the I386 directory, open the file winnt.sif (assuming you have created one with windows sp2 deployment tools) and remove any [GuiRunOnce] entries you may have. I did not edit or change any other files. This will install the apps at before the first user logon. Some install progress is displayed for some of the apps, I prefer to see what's going on. Hope this helps you.

I have solved my issue with Alcohol 120% not installing. I ran setup.exe from a command prompt to see if I could figure out what was happening. The result was the same, nothing... but no errors either. I then decided to try to execute the setup file by double clicking it. Same thing, nothing. It was then that I realised I had only copied the 39.5KB setup.exe file to my install directory instead of the 4.09MB setup.msi file. Everything works fine now.... I really feel quite silly for making such a mistake, but hopefully at least my posts could help someone else in the future.

Hello to everyone at msfn. I'm a little late with my greeting, I've already found this place to very helpfull with my problems. Hopefully one day I can be of help to someone else

This method of using.. SET PP=%SystemDrive%\ And then including a \ in the line of code like.. REG ADD %KEY%\029 /V 1 /D "%PP%\Install\Winrar\Winrar_330.exe /s" /f Works fine for DVD Decrypter, Nero, Winrar and Office XP. I can understand what you are saying but for some reason it does not create a second backslash. All I can tell you is the it fails in such a way that it does not install Alcohol. It happens too quick and I don't get time to read the error message. Is there a way I can test it without doing a full install of windows on my virtual pc? I'll give your code a try though Yzowl. I did not realise /qn applies to .msi and not .exe, I thnk this could be the problem. The setup file is definately setup.exe so I will have to look for silent switches which are suitable. By the way, I used the code I found on Aaron's switch list.. Alcohol 120% Switch: /qn Full syntax: setup.exe /qn Extraction needed: ? Thanks for all your help guys. I changed the code so that the first line was like this SET PP=%SystemDrive% But it made no difference, the program still did not install. I also don't think that the /qn is the problem either as I have read many posts by people saying that this is what they successfully used. Any ideas?

Hi, Can someone tell me what is wrong this code for Alcohol 120% v1.9.2. It does not work for me.. SET PP=%SystemDrive%\ SET KEY=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx REG ADD %KEY% /V TITLE /D "Unattended Program Installation" /f REG ADD %KEY%\009 /VE /D "Alcohol 120%" /f REG ADD %KEY%\009 /V 1 /D "%PP%\Install\Alcohol_120\setup.exe /qn" /f REG ADD %KEY%\009 /V 2 /D "REGEDIT /S %PP%\Install\Alcohol_120\register.reg" /f Thanks

Hi, Over the past week I have been researching how to create an unattended windows install disc with third party apps. The main reason for this post is to say thankyou. Thanks to all the people at MSFN for their wealth of information regarding the topic. Without this site I would not have achieved my goal no where near as quickly as I have. Thanks especially to DaveXP, gosh, AaronXP for their helpfull guides. I have slipstreamed my windows xp cd with service pack 2, plus all the recent hot fixes to date. It will install Office XP with service pack 3 integrated and now a small collection of my favorite apps as well. I used the batch file method at first but after seeing the difference in appearance of the RunOnceEx.cmd method I was soon converted. I used the RunOnceEx method without using .inf files by the use of the simple tool provided by you guys... RunOnceEx.cmd Creator.

I just downloaded Xplode v4.1.50266.868 I'm pretty new to unattended installs though have created application silent installs with batch files. If I start working with xplode should I start from a clean xp install disc or can I keep working with my existing project?