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I've searched through the forum and only got answers to install in unattended mode. I want to install WMP10 normally (i.e. with UI and progress bars) but when setup finish, don't launch Media Player. How can I achieve this? If not possible, how can I create a custom MSI package to achieve this? I used the Enterprise Deployment Pack, but the created MSI has no warnings, no text "Please wait while installing files..." and has a fixed title "Enterprise Deployment Pack" (I don't know how to modify this). Thanks for your help

Thanks for the link, GreenMachine. That tool may be useful. But my question is: How to uncheck these tick marks? (programmatically, of course). An undocumented API call perhaps? Regards and thanks

Hi all. I would like to find a way to disable Index Server on all drives, that is, uncheck the tick mark on all harddrive properties. I've found this Thread, but using Indexsrv_system = off on WINNT.SIF does not solve the problem. Is there any way to do this programmatically, since Indexing is a NTFS attribute? Thanks.

Hi guys! I did a search for "telnet service" but I only found how to disable it. I would want to know if is there any chance for installing Windows XP SP2-integrated WITHOUT the Telnet service (not disabling it or removing it phisically from the CD with nLite or similar tools). Thanks for your help

Yes for second question. I'm not confident with updating the graphics board. Yes, PCI and PEG Slot 1 and PEG Slot 2. Tried all. Didn't resolved the problem. Yes. I tried with my other monitor, a Sony SDM-X52 (15"), and it worked seamlessly. Just a note: I realized this problem is not derived from Windows itself. This morning, I've seen resized the screen during the POST (the BIOS test), and then the Windows logo with the black screen appeared scrolled right one more time. If the monitor is not the guilty nor the graphics board (it works with the Sony monitor). What is the issue? I've talked with the shop where I bought the computer, and they don't know anything... Very strange Of course, thanks very much for your help

The monitor is a BenQ FP937S+ 19" (1280x1024 native resolution). Please, help me

Anyone? Please, help. I'm in process of asking for an RMA...

Hi guys. I have an annoying problem when booting XP (SP2). Recently, I have bought a Radeon X700Pro PCI Express graphics board (Sapphire), and since then, when I boot into Windows, occasionally the boot logo (the black screen with the windows picture) appears scrolled (up o right) in a strange way, i.e., in a big scale (like 320x200). If during the boot process I turn off my TFT and then power on, the screen is centered and resized to 1280x1024 (my native resolution, 19 inches). Whenever the boot logo was OK or wrong, later the GUI is always shown properly (1280x1024, and the screen is perfectly centered). The monitor is OK, because I have tested on other PC with a Radeon 9700 AGP card and I rebooted with it several times without issues (boot logo appeared OK). Using DVI cable on both systems (the correct and the wrong). I think this problem is due to the PCI Express bus, but not sure? Any experiences of this? Faulty hardware? Thanks for your replies System with symptoms: Athlon64 3500+, 1GB RAM Kingston 400 DDR, ATi Radeon X700 Pro PCI Express 256MB, HD Maxtor Diamond 10 300G, Mobo Gigabyte K8NXP-SLI (updated with F8 BIOS).

Thanks for your replies. Like I said above, the hotfixes remain installed, after repairing the installation (and Windows Update tells me no updates are available). I will assume this is "by design" (typical phrase from Microsoft). Regards.

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I'm experimenting a strange behavior when repairing an unattended install. That is, when I install my XP SP2 with all hotfixes integrated (via svcpack.inf), everything was OK, but if I try to repair the installation by using the 'R - Repair installation' on Windows text-mode setup, all the installed hotfixes disappear from Add or Remove Programs, but they are still installed (Windows Update tells me no updates are available). Is this normal? When repairing an installation, the svcpack.inf is NOT processed? Thanks for your advices

Please, help

I'm installing MSI packages via "msiexec /i". Everything was OK, but if I try to repair a product in the Add or Remove Programs dialog, Windows Installer shows me a dialog box to find the original MSI package ("Open File" dialog). My question is, how can I install a MSI package and store the needed information on the hard disk to repair -later- an installation WITHOUT the original package (not present)? Is this possible? I think this is called "local caching", but I'm not sure. I've read the entire documentation on MSDN for the Windows Installer Platform SDK, all the public properties, but I don't find the suitable one I tried the REINSTALL=ALL property, but didn't work. Any ideas? Thanks

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Anyone? Please, I think the RunCount key is overwritten when I log on to the system...

Thanks for replying. But, I ONLY want to disable it for the Administrator account, not for all users. I know this is possible, because the HKCU key is changed when the tour is visited (observed with RegEdit).

I have a little problem with disabling Windows Tour for default user, i.e., Administrator, since I'm skipping the OOBE part (UnattendSwitch=Yes). I have the following in WINNT.SIF: [GuiRunOnce] "rundll32 setupapi,InstallHinfSection usrConfigure 128 %windir%\inf\Configure.inf" And Configure.inf: [usrConfigure] AddReg = TourWarning.Disable [TourWarning.Disable] HKCU,Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\Tour,RunCount,0x10001,0 When logging on the first time, annoying Windows Tour notification is shown on taskbar. Why? Notice I only want to disable the Tour for Administrator, not for all users. Please, give me an advice. TIA.

@ Yzöwl: Yes, you're right. If CMD.exe is not found, any command on %SYSTEMROOT%\system32 won't be found too. On WINNT.SIF is different (the method I'm using). You can use system commands without the absolute path. EDITED.

Sorry for not reading the entire thread (too big), but is the slipstreamer respecting digitally signed files? For example, when you install XP, you can see an error log named "setuperr.log" with all non-signed files. Bashrat slipstreamer has this limitation. Thanks

It's not so hard. You would want this: REM CMDOW is a tool to manipulate windows. With /HID switch will hide the specified REM window (@ is the current). CMDOW @ /HID @echo off SET KEY=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx SET DELTREE="rundll32 advpack,DelNodeRunDLL32" REG ADD %KEY%\005 /VE /D "Removing Favorites" /f REG ADD %KEY%\005 /V 1 /D "%DELTREE% \"%systemdrive%\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Favorites\Links\"" /f REG ADD %KEY%\005 /V 2 /D "%DELTREE% \"%systemdrive%\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Favorites\Favorites\"" /f REG ADD %KEY%\999 /V 1 /D "%DELTREE% %systemdrive%\drivers\" /f Try this and tell us the results. Ponghy.

Or you can use an API call to do the task (more elegant): rundll32 advpack,DelNodeRunDLL32 dir_to_remove This will remove the specified directory and their subdirectories and files. Keep in mind that "DelNodeRunDLL32" is case-sensitive (you must write in this way). Regards.

If you only want to remove Microsoft-related favorites, try to add this section in WINNT.SIF or UNATTEND.TXT: [FavoritesEx] ; Emtpy section without anything. In this way, Setup won't create any link. Good luck

Yzöwl: Thanks for your input But, I want to show the progress bar without Cancel button. And: /q = /qn Tried /qb, /qb-. They didn't work as expected (still showing the Cancel button). Any ideas guys?

OK. Question 1 solved. I had a little typo in WINNT.SIF: UnattendedMode = GuiAttended -> UnattendMode = GuiAttended But, what about 2nd question? Is it impossible to hide the Cancel button while showing the installation progress? Thanks for your help (again)

/qb! -> not recognized /qb- -> same as /qb And, what about the network question (please) ?