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UXTHEME.DL_ is not the bootup screen. Changing this file allow you to have a non-microsoft theme! You can find many on the web. Also, you won't see any difference after changing this file. It just allows you to do something: it doesn't change any look and feel. If you want to change the boot screen, the screen where it says "Windos XP" with a green (home) or blue (pro) bar scrolling from left to right, you'll need a custom kernel. Search the board for this.

Install it, yes, sure, no problem. But uninstall it, thats another question...

Or just delete them on first logon from RunOnce... HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce

I have the same issue and I'm disconnecting the second harddrive to be sure while installing but this is a pain. I have only one partition on that 2nd hd, which is primary. If I switch it to logical with Acronis, whats the chance it failed? Anyone did this before?

Nice work wraith! Even if its ugly for now, features look really nice! When selecting "Example tag" or "Monkey Tag" and pressing "Install" its display the tag correctly. But if I select "Testing s***..." and press install, the window begin to flash and I can't move the sidebar but I can press Install or Exit... Here is the log. XPlode2.log

@Providence A kind of dependency... That could be nice! Actually I put all my related installation inside the same <item></item> so disabling it will disable all related... @BAM 7zip could be nice, since its open source. But I'm not sure it will be really usefull. chaning: to: really needed? I'm not sure... 7zip do its thing perfectly, lets keep what other tools are meant to be.

winnt.sif is read during setup: you can't use it elsewhere.

Don't forget guys that cmdlines.txt doesn't support environment variables! So DO NOT use %systemdrive% or others in it!!! @digitalfrost I suggest you put XPlode in a folder <CD ROOT>\$OEM$\XPlode and call it like this: [COMMANDS] "XPlode\Xplode.exe /xml:#XPLODE#\1.xml /log:#systemdrive#\xplode1.log" You could put it elsewhere to. I have it under <CD ROOT>\Programmes\XPlode and call it via cmdlines.txt: [COMMANDS] "..\Programmes\XPlode\XPlode.exe /xml:#SOURCEDRIVE#\Programmes\XPlode\dd4550.xml /log:#systemdrive#\setup\logs\XPlode.log"

I'm not quite sure I understanded you... You want to apply SP2 on (already installed) XP machines? Then you need absolutly not any winnt.sif... And even if you integrated SP2 on your cd, you don't need winnt.sif: you can have a XP SP2 disk without the use of winnt.sif...

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...&displaylang=en

hey bam! for the IE & OE icons I don't really see. On my (french) XP setup, I have 3 unwated shortcuts created on first logon: %USERPROFILE%\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\Lecteur Windows Media.lnk (WMP) %USERPROFILE%\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\Bureau.scf (Show Desktop) %USERPROFILE%\Menu Démarrer\Programmes\Lecteur Windows Media.lnk (WMP) Those shortcuts are not present in Default User but are still created upon the profile creation (first logon) I've put a RunOnce key to delete those, and do other things (create user specific shortcuts). I suggest you try the same... Nice background you have for XPlode!

Yes, this is a real pain. How many times I played a hard Counter-Strike game, and while crouching (my shift key), the game stop and the desktop is back to ask me that stupid question!!!!!!!!! My nLited SP2 XP doesn't ask me anymore

Hi BAM! You need to move the shortcuts before one logs on. Are you runnging things from cmdlines.txt? You could, when everything is installed, move those shortcuts (I do, from DefaultUser to All User)

haha your my hero! Its one of those tweak I always forgot to change and never really checked. But now you bet its disable

The file you want is "unattended.txt" If you want your CD to be usable on another computer without using the answer file, put BOTH unattended.txt and unattended.bat on a floppy, and while the cd is booting, insert it in A:. XP setup will go on A:\ and search for those files. If you want your CD only for one computer, you can rename unattended.txt to winnt.sif and place it in <CD ROOT>\I386 (so you'll have <CD ROOT>\I386\winnt.sif) If you place your answer file in I386 folder, then you won't have the choice to use it.

You'll need to posses those two windows version. You'll need to make a multi-boot CD. Search for a tutorial on this. I'm not sure it will fit on a simple CD since english/german/whatever else languages files are not the same...

On microsoft.fr, nothing about SP2 BUT, on SP2 download page, there is: German English Chinese (Trad and Simplified) Korean French as of August 28 Downloading Fr version 261.8 MB

@evilvoice We are many who are installing programs at t-12! Just look at the screenshot I posted: I install about 45 programs at t-12. Whats great about it is that the user logged on at that time is "Default User" so applying regtweaks will apply to everybody!

I posted my xml file on this thread Since it is for XPlode v1.0, I'm pretty sure some feature will not work the same. At least you can see what you should do or adapt...

Why shouldn't it work if it only manipulate registry? What are your results with editing $winnt$.inf?

@Coolsights2000 Yes. I posted that link some time ago, but since using qchain doesn't seems to have negative effects, people are still using it. As GreenMachine said, if it doesn't broke something, there is no reason to take it out... I'm not sure its really usefull though.

QChain wasn't intended to be used with XP since it should include QChain feature... People are still using it though... And I don't know about SP2.

cmdlines.txt doesn't supports environment variables! Thats why everybody is using batch files. What you could do is put XPlode.exe near cmdlines.txt and change the later to: That should make it!

The black screen poping @ t-13 isn't your cmdlines.txt. cmdlines.txt is executed @ t-12. t-13 is the svpack.inf I think. Are you using this technic? It looks like a cmdlines.txt syntaxt error... post it to be sure.

Please post the header of your .xml file Check the: <window width='461' position='2' fixmain='0' /> and <main back='#4A6FD6' fore='#FFFFFFAA' current='#FF8000' description='#FFFFFF' image='' overlay='#FFFFFF22'/> sections. I can't remember which one it is, but I'm pretty sure it is in these options.