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    Is DirectX 9 really necessary?

    in Windows XP

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    I read somewhere that apparently you shouldn't really bother installing it unless you have a DirectX9-compatible motherboard/soundcard/videocard/whatever.

    I have an SB Live! sound card from three-four odd years back, and I have an NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX/MX 400 graphics card which I believe I've been using for either two or three years. My motherboard is most recent, an ASRock K7VT2 (to fit my Athlon XP 2000+ chip in), although a small part of it is somewhat busted (the floppy disk controller no longer works due to an accidental shortage a while back, so I disabled the internal floppy drive in the BIOS and am now using an external USB floppy drive) yet generally it's still functional. But that's just me going off-topic now... :)

    With all this in mind, should I stick with 8.1 or go for the "latest flava" and whack in 9.0?

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    Unattended setup doesn't allow me to...

    in Unattended Windows 2000/XP/2003

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    Sounds to me like I should be doing this with something else other than FDISK... is this so? Should I be using Partition Magic or something?

    Sorry if I'm annoying you somewhat here, but I feel genuinely stuck.

    (For the record, the XP partition was created with FDISK but it was in FAT32. I assumed I would get the change to reformat it and change it to NTFS during Text-mode Setup but this was not the case. I daren't delete it through FDISK as this would mean having to delete nearly all the other partitions first (I say nearly, since it isn't C: that XP is on).)

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    Which KB's are irrelevant?

    in Unattended Windows 2000/XP/2003

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    Thought I might tell you lot that currently I only install the hotfixes I feel I really need for a decent system performance:

    ECHO Installing Windows Update Hotfixes
    ECHO.
    ECHO Installing 330994: April 2003, Cumulative Patch for Outlook Express 6 SP1...
    start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Hotfixes\q330994.exe /Q:A /R:N
    ECHO.
    ECHO Installing 819696: Unchecked Buffer in DirectX could enable Sys. Compromise...
    start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Hotfixes\Q819696_WXP_SP2_x86_ENU.exe /Q /M /Z
    ECHO.
    ECHO Installing 820291: New "Set Program Access and Defaults" Start Menu icon...
    start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Hotfixes\WindowsXP-KB820291-x86-ENU.exe /Q /M /Z
    ECHO.
    ECHO Installing 817778: Advanced Networking Pack...
    start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Hotfixes\WindowsXP-KB817778-x86-ENU.exe /Q /M /Z
    ECHO.
    ECHO Installing Q815411: Help Algorithm Update for atypically large Heap Requests...
    start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Hotfixes\Q815411_WXP_SP2_x86_ENU.exe /Q /M /Z
    ECHO.

    :)

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    Unattended setup doesn't allow me to...

    in Unattended Windows 2000/XP/2003

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    Here's how the appropriate section of winnt.sif is set-up:

    ;SetupMgrTag
    [Data]
        AutoPartition=0
        MsDosInitiated="0"
        UnattendedInstall="Yes"

    [Unattended]
        UnattendMode=FullUnattended
        OemSkipEula=Yes
        OemPreinstall=Yes
        TargetPath=\WINDOWS
        Repartition=No
        UnattendSwitch="no"
        WaitForReboot="No"
        DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore
        OemPnPDriversPath="Drivers\NVidia4523"

    [GuiUnattended]
        AdminPassword=*
        EncryptedAdminPassword=NO
        OEMSkipRegional=1
        TimeZone=85
        OemSkipWelcome=1

    I get to choose the partition where I want XP installed, but it doesn't give me the option to choose FAT32 or NTFS, or allow me to format the partition - it just goes ahead with the install! I feel this is a rather uncomfortable way to go along with. Aren't there any other switches that I could utilise to solve this problem?

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