bizzybody

That's what I meant, the default option for Shut Down from the Start Menu. It's fairly simple to do from power options, but it's just one more thing to have to change from Microsoft's defaults that would be nice to have pre-set.

I want to write a batch file, to be run from a CD-ROM, which copies a directory and all its subdirectories and their contents to the c:\Windows\System32 tree. On the CD it'll be arranged thus: CD-root |_\Directory | |copy.bat (no other files) | |-\Dir to be copied |(several files and subdirectories) I want "Dir to be copied" to land under c:\Windows\System32 with all its files and subdirs just as they are on the CD. I can't specify a drive letter for the CD-ROM because I can't know in advance what letter it will be. I can specify c: rather than %systemroot% because I do know all PCs this will be used on will have Vista installed on the standard drive and path. I could write a text file instructing users how to drag and drop and run a command prompt with Admin rights, copy and paste this command..., but it'll be MUCH easier to just tell people to rightclick the copy.bat file then click Run as Administrator. PS. I tried XCOPY and could get it to copy the contents of the subdir, its subdirs and contents, but not the subdir itself.... d'oh. I just figured a way to do this... but the top dir I want copied one more level down in an empty dir. But 'zat, she iz not elegant methode of doing zis!

XP Home on an HP laptop has two updates it installs every time the owner shuts it down. It's been fully updated with Microsoft Update and AutoPatcher. Shipped with SP2 and has had SP3 installed. It doesn't say what updates they are, just that there are two. Where do I apply the hammer, tongs and blowtorch to convince it to stop it with these two updates it wants to do every time it's shut down? (Doesn't do it on Restart, only shut down.)

Thanks. I got Avast. I really like how they have an e-mail address right there on the site. AVG doesn't want to hear from anyone who hasn't paid them $$$.

Adding this to vLite would be very nice. I like having shut down as the default shut down option instead of sleep. Have all the options selectable for default, make everyone happy- except whomever at Microsoft decided sleep would be everyone's default.

Heck with it. Nuke and pave with vLite'd SP1 Vista! WTH doesn't Vista put an entry into add/remove programs to uninstall and go back to the previous Windows, y'know like XP and 9x do? (Looks like an opportunity for someone to write a bit of software to correctly restore everything from Windows.old!)

Following the guide here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933168 to get the original Vista environment back after installing from an unattended SP1 slipstreamed Vista bulldozed everything into windows.old It all works except it will not let me move the users folder back so I can have my old Start Menu and other things back how they were. Is there a way to make an unattended install that will UPDATE original Vista to Vista SP1 instead of doing a clean install and moving everything into windows.old?

I made a slipstreamed SP1 Vista disc with vLite and launched setup from within Vista. Installing it that way shoved all my apps and everything into windows.old, so now I'll have to reinstall everything. I don't mind that too much, but my sister will hate having to do that on her laptop- which I've previously setup with a vLite modified Vista that SP1 won't install on. Is there a way to install Vista over itself, preserving installed software like can be done with Windows 9x and XP. (But not 2000, bad things happen...)

I do not like AVG 8.0! It cannot be installed without the link scanner that slows your net connection to a crawl, and if you disable it, you get a permanent ! on its tray icon to tell you it's disabled. It has EVEN MORE STUPID FALSE POSITIVES than 7.5. It thinks several of the Farb-Rausch graphics demos are "viruses" and the common.dll from ERD Commander 2005 is also a "virus". Turning off heuristics doesn't change a thing. It will not allow the Magical Jellybean Keyfinder to run. The ignore button does nothing. An ignore button should do EXACTLY THAT. It should make the software completely, totally, 100% IGNORE THAT FILE! But not with AVG! You can tell it to ignore something all you want and it still will not allow the user to access the "infected" file or run the "infected" program. AVG WAS good, but it's caught the same "virus" that software like Nero Burning ROM and WinAmp have... BLOATWARE! Any recommendations for a free AV program that's not ad-ware, has as close to zero false positives as possible- and has a way for users to report false positives so they can be corrected, and does NOT force the user to install crap like link scanners and other "features" other software like Spybot S&D does better?

I know one is using the wrong key for the version you're doing in the unattended settings. I know that's not my problem because I'm using the same Acer key for Ultimate I used the first time and it worked fine. I've slipstreamed SP1 to all versions, made a backup copy so I won't have to do that again. Then I set my settings, driver integration (didn't do that before) and clicked Apply, then made the iso. Burnt that to a DVD-R and get "There are no images available". I did get that error the first time I ever used vLite- because I used the wrong key, which I have NOT done this time. I just verified with ABR that the key entered in vLite is the same key already on my laptop, which is the key I used for the vLite'd install of original Vista Ultimate that's on it now. P.S. I'm *really* not liking AVG 8.0. It won't allow the Magical Jellybean Keyfinder to run and it has even more stupid false positives than 7.x did, and the ignore button is still useless!

I selected one and got a message that vLite would automatically add them all. So WTF does it need an option for multiple driver folder if it'll do that anyway???

My Acer 5315-2153 laptop has Realtek HD Audio. The folder named Vista in the files extracted from the ZIP has seven .inf files with different names. There's two for the modem, two for the Atheros WiFi, and twenty-five in the Intel chipset folder for Vista.

Is there any way to activate the Apply button without making any changes? I just want a 100% normal all versions Vista DVD with SP1 integrated. No changes from the default install except for having SP1. I want this for use on customers' (who don't know what they don't want from Vista's default setup) OEM systems that don't come with a Vista disc. THEN I'll make a customized Ultimate DVD for myself. I still don't have a clue how cdimage can create a 6+ gig ISO from only 3.2 gigs of files. I've burned the SP1 integrated files as-is to a DVD for safe keeping so I won't have to do the slipstreaming over again in the event of an oops with removing stuff. What'd really be great is if vLite had a function to slipstream all versions and rebuild and make a bootable ISO all in one process. Just set it in motion and come back a few hours later, all done.

This is the ORIGINAL Microsoft Force Feedback Pro joystick, the giant grey monster that plugs into a game port, not the "2" version. I've found references to versions 3, 4 and 5 (supposedly 5 is also for XP), but download links to none or to dead pages at Microsoft. (WTH can't MS just leave this stuff on as unsupported legacy downloads?) It's extremely cool to grab the stick and feel it "come alive" and pull to the center- now if I just had the drivers so I could play games with it...

a little more detailed info would be a help.

Anyone who creates a hack to make Aero use a normal white text on dark color highlight in Explorer will have the adulation of a huge number of people. Just Google or Yahoo for vista aero highlight to find all the people complaining about the horrible thing and the inability to alter it to something they can actually see.

Will it work OK to use vLite to slipstream SP1 to all versions on one DVD or should I just stick to one? I downloaded Vista from Digital River and have used the latest vLite to slipstream SP1 to Ultimate.

Any progress on getting SP1 to install on an already customized Vista install? I've two systems that need SP1. I could nuke and pave mine, but the other one is my sister's and she complains majorly whenever she has to re-do everything after a nuke and pave. What might be the results of doing a custom vLite'd SP1 DVD and installing over the existing install?

Nope, that registry entry is fine. Next?

The *bleep* you say?! It is too correct! I've use the exact same download to install SP3 onto two other PCs and used it to slipstream a Home and Pro CD. It's only giving me this BS on (of course) the last XP Pro SP2 PC I have to update. (All were installed from SP2 Pro slipstreamed or Home with SP2 already on from OEMs.) I've searched yonder intarweb with Google and come up with nothing useful, just vague hints that there might be some process that has to be running, which isn't. (And of course every possible manglement of my search Google could come up with instead of EXACTLY SP3 "update.inf file is not correct".)

Hello, Savas34! Another utility you may find useful is Autopatcher, from autopatcher.com. It's freeware. What it does is downloads updates from Microsoft and a few other freebies like Sun Java and Adobe Reader then integrates them into an offline installation which you can burn to a CD (or DVD if you download more than what'll fit on a CD). It supports 2000 SP4, XP (with SP2 or SP3) and Vista SP1 and Microsoft Office 2002 (XP), 2003 and 2007. If you download *everything* it uses about half a DVD. Even if you do a fresh install from an SP3 slipstreamed CD, Autopatcher will still save you tons of time with IE7, Media Player 11, .Net and tons more stuff you'd have to download through Microsoft Update and other places scattered around the MS site and other places. I regularly update it and burn a new DVD-R to take with me on service calls, especially when the PC doesn't have broadband net access.

Just downloaded oemscan, got a Gateway 310S H box to fix. Why are there GatewayA and GatewayC folders when there's just one folder for each of the other brands? I'm working on downloading all the Gateway files from oembios.net When I get them all, which should be extracted to which Gateway folder? (Would be a nice thing to have in the instructions.) How about grouping each brand's links together instead of scattering them all over the page?

I needed to 'nuke and pave' a Gateway PC with XP Home*. There were no recovery discs and no recovery partition on the drive. So I used the magical jellybean keyfinder to get the OEM key (because I know the key on the COA would require activation), then formatted the drive. I got a factory-fresh SP2 Home OEM CD and slipstreamed SP3's RTM build. Install went fine and it accepted the original OEM key. But it's saying I have 30 days to activate. WTF? I've never seen that happen with an OEM version of XP Gold, SP1 or SP2 and a valid OEM key used on OEM hardware from the same company. Does SP3 try to make all versions of XP phone home? *It came with Home on it so I figured the easiest thing to do would be to put Home back on it to match the COA label on the box.

How about flipping it around to Me298SE? Install Windows Me then replace the small number of files required...

They come back next reboot. Reminds me of when those motherboard companies put Win 98SE detecting and auto-installing adware in the BIOS.