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Yes that could be a nice idea... Maybe a command line like: mt39.exe /xml:defaul.xml /var:DevicePath="PnPDrvrs",OtherVar="SomewhereElse",AnotherOne="YouSeeThePoint" Many ideas come from XPlode as you can see They do quite the same thing, while mt39 doesn't show anything...

v0.5 is up This version correct the empty tag bug. You should not have any more problems Dustinwmew There is also a logging feature and a test mode feature

I think MadCat1968 found the problem: I've tested your xml posted here and it crashed. You didn't have any arguments in the <argument> tag: I changed this to: And it seemed to work... Give it a try

I tough of it yesterday, you could have used an AutoIT script to do the same. Maybe it would have been easier but since you've made a cpp exe, the lader is surely smaller then the compiled AutoIT script... Glad to see you like mt39 I'll need to check out the XML parser to see what it does when there is no arguments given... I'm sure I didn't used TinyXML's "full" capacity so my implementation could be not as stable as it could be... I've created a SourceForge project but didn't have the time to release anything. Everyone who would like to help will be welcome

Updated to version 0.4

Hum ok... Maybe an .inf expert could help you with editing the .inf to prevent this?

Hum it seems like you won't be able to run scripts at t-39... thats sad... Again, are you sure you need to run the setup.exe file for your driver? I do not run anything to install my drivers; I extract them somewhere and tell windows where to find them... If you absolutly need to run the setup.exe file to install your driver, do you know witch type of setup is it? Inno Setup? Wise? NSIS? MSI? Maybe you could find a switch that get rid of the "Setup Complete" popup... You could always run the setup.exe via mt39 and set the wait tag to the number of seconds you think it should have finished installing and add another item to the xml killing the window with pskill...

As enuffsaid said, you have a Windows XP license, not a CD license It's not important which method you install from (some people here never use their cd anymore: copy to a network share, installation from backup CD, CD modification as with nLite...) as long as the version your method use match your license!

@MadCat1968 Never tryed to see if scripts can be executed @t-39, but have you tryed to execute "%windir%\wscript.exe path\to\your\script.js" and not only path\to\your\script.js ? Also, are you sure you need to install your drivers? You're aware of MSFN's unattended driver guide?

When you say it tells you: "Cannot open file "default.xml" for reading, exiting" what was the command line you gave? None? Or if you gave it another one, it could be a bug... I don't have the source here at work so I'll try to check it this evening. What about open source? If people like it enought it could be possible...

Yeah if you remove a tag it will crash (there isn't a "checking" method to see if the tag exist, and if it doesn't and the program is trying to access it, TinyXML will crash... I'll try to add checking soon). Be sure that your xml file is encoded in UTF-8. Notepad supports this (save as -> encoding -> UTF-8), ConTEXT doesn't, PSPad does (thats what I'm using and I recommend it, its freeware). Have you found the problem? What was it?

Look @ Winguides for your tweaks need.

Thats what I'm using It should be ok. I'm using the GUI (left click on files->7zip->Add to archive... then the same options as you) and it works fine, in windows and @t-39 (I'm using this since before mt39 so it should be ok). Have you tested the archieve in windows? Just after creating it? I think the first time I used 7zip the archieve I created didn't worked and I was scared 7zip wasn't working correctly but never had trouble with it... Can you post a screenshot of the error? Hope this helped too...

Something I forgot to mention in the main post: Since the XML implentation is quite simple (TinyXML v2.3.1 Beta) the program crashes if the xml isn't valid... So to be sure that the xml and program have the same version (I could add some feature, so the xml file could change), I've included the <version></version> tag in the xml file. This value needs to match the program's version. Actually, mt39 is at version 0.3.1 so your xml should have: <version>0.3.1</version> instead of <version>0.3</version> Try it in windows before to see if it works (place the Drivers.exe on youre C: drive) to see if it exctract. It could be also a character encoding problem. I used PSPad v4.3.0 to edit the xml file. With this, it is easy to set the file character encoding to UTF-8 (wich you should use) I'll had a feature to test things (check xml, looks for the correct files but don't execute them and report with a message box...) and maybe logging... Hope this helped...

Updated with xml usage.

Unless I am horribly mistaken, what he meant to do was to have the Documents and Settings folder on another location by default, (so when Windows installs, it will use that location) not to actually move an existing D'n'S folder. Of course. And I actually recommend not doing so but only change the default "My Documents" folder to point to another location, and not all the "Documents and Settings". That way you can keep your files, but have a clean install since the configuration of programs will be deleted (I backup some of them, but not ALL... thats the whole point of a clean install)

I would suggest you to move only the "My Documents" folder to another drive and not the whole Documents and Settings. In DocsNSettings, there is many program configuration files and if you want a clean install, you don't want all those config. What I did was to modify HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders\\Personal to point to D:\Data Now if I double click My Documents, it gets me to D:\Data. But the Documents and Settings is still in C:\Documents and Settings where it belongs...

hum... thank you though....

I'm not using this but I think I've read somewhere here that you need to edit some .inf somewhere...

@killerbee: Could you look in your event viewer? When installing hotfixes at t-12 I had some errors and I corrected them by moving to RunOnceEx...

http://frenchmozilla.sourceforge.org/

Hum... I wasn't able to include extensions in the config.ini file... The setup always crashed. If someone got it to work... I found those interesting sites: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/ex...ineoptions.html The command lines doesnt seems to work... any idea? The last line of this site: http://www.bengoodger.com/software/mb/exte...extensions.html say that the "-install-global-extension" command line should work. It seems to. I was able to install adBlock (0.5.2+ d2 n39) and SessionSaver (0.2 d2 n23 pass2) sucessfuly. TextZoom (v1.5.1) was poping up some message boxes until I set a default zoom, and was working perfectly after. SwitchProxy (v1.0) didn't work at all. Maybe because they were installed in the program directory and not in the profile...

Look here for more info: http://members.madasafish.com/~tyndall/installer-extras.html

Hum... I'm looking to the config.ini fom Firefox (0.9.2) and there is sections for components: I'll try to add manually an extension...