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ApplyTheme is from a post on these forums. Original post. It's just a script for opening the theme dialog, and I'm not sure it works from CmdLines.txt. It does work when you run it at first login, which is where I use it.

Try CACLS (Change Access Control Lists). It's a default component.

There is a sticky tutorial by BTS himself in the Drivers section of this board. Obviously you didn't look around at all. Not only that, you should have posted this in that sub-forum anyway.

No funky scripts to write, no command window opens. You can download NirCmd here. You can also use it to call batch/cmd files silently.

You can do this from a PE (Preinstall Environment, basically Windows installed on a CD) like BartPE or WinPE. Check out this topic from the PE section of this forum.

Secunia also says IE is affected by 20/83 unpatched vunerabilities, at least one of which is highly critical, while Firefox is affected by 3/21 unpatched, the highest of which is "less critical." Opera has 0/5 unpatched (way to go Opera!). You can think about any adblocking program/browser for this discussion, though.Here's an interesting article at CNET written by a senior editor earlier this year. In the article he specifically states, I agree with him. Your computer will have to repeatedly search that gigantic HOSTS file whenever you browse, and it will be huge if you expect it to do anything; it doesn't support expressions, so you will have to explicitly list every site to be blocked. It doesn't block popups, and *gasp* there are ways to remove these things without making it ugly. If the HOSTS file that you downloaded from some random website contains a line which, instead of using the loopback address uses a seperate address, they could easily spoof the website you are attempting to access. For example, someone could use the HOSTS file to redirect your PayPal sign-in page to their webpage, which contains a similar login. You try to login, they get your password. Uh-oh. And with HOSTS files so large, it can be difficult to check all the entries for something like this. That is what I meant by "slip in." Please do a little more research before you begin to make petty insults. I checked out your findings, do me the decency of investigating mine.When there are so many good ad/popup/spam/virus blockers out there, I just don't see a need for this method. And lastly, This joke is officially five years old. It's not funny any more. For God's sake man, let it die.

The HOSTS file is what your browser checks to get address info website content (if the URL isn't found, then it checks the DNS). You can block ads by telling it to look for data from ad servers at the 127.0.0.1 address, which is your own computer, instead of at their websites. Be careful with this method though, it has several downsides. First and foremost, it can block needed content if you aren't careful about what you choose to block. If it blocks something you need, the only way around it is to swap out Hosts files, which is a big hassle and usually involves rebooting, or at least restarting your browser. Also, it can only block entire sites (no wildcards or expressions), which means that if an ad is hosted on the wanted webpage you can't remove it. The HOSTS file method can also be pretty slow, if you made a lot of additions. Your browser will chug away trying to find the data at the loopback address, and obviously won't, plus it has to search through a large text file. Some browsers will pop up an error if they can't find the data. There is also a security risk. Someone can slip in a different IP address instead of the local one, and your information will be sent to them. Make sure all lines begin with 127.0.0.1 (or 0.0.0.0), and get the files from a website you trust. Lastly, it's pretty ugly. You get an error message where the ad was supposed to be. A far better solution is to use a browser like Firefox with the Adblock extension (I prefer a combo of Adblock Plus myself, which allows whitelisting, and CustomizeGoogle which can remove the Google ads). This way you can use RegExp, it's easy to edit what's blocked and to turn off blocking, it reforms the page to hide the ad's spot, and there is no security risk.

If you really think the problem is with RyanVM's pack, then post it in his forums instead of posting it multiple times here.

It can do either. CaretCoordMode = 0 - relative coords to the active window CaretCoordMode = 1 - absolute screen coordinates (default) CaretCoordMode = 2 - relative coords to the client area of the active window AutoIt is extremely easy to learn, and the help file is excellent. I basically sat down and wrote my own program selection screen (like WPI), complete with .ini file reads, file log, and a purty, customizable interface, without ever having used this language before.

I'm really surprised to see this kind of discussion here, and that the mods allow it. This board is not about hacking programs (in this way, at least), and has always prevented any discussion about cracking. What's next, a tutorial about how you can supposedly remove the ads in Opera by messing with the .css files? ++ (link) Some of the Summer of Code stuff for it looks really neat, too.

Wow, this sounds really suspicious. Why do you want to put a silent install of a keylogger on your Windows install? Also, are you sure that keylogging is legal where you are? If your next question is about how to install a root-kit, I'm going to be really worried.

Search the boards before posting a question like this. It has already been discussed several times, and this topic even has a compiled AutoIt script in it.

Evilvoice, what I said was merely a comment, pointing out that by doing this now you are making it harder on yourself and more likely to be buggy/incompatible with future versions. Since it wasn't a question, it couldn't have already been answered. Also, you said yourself that you may have to update things, and you also said that it would be a "one-time" release. Sounds like if there is a problem with a future version, you don't plan on fixing it. There is no reason to flame me for posting an entirely valid comment in an open topic, and perhaps you should read other people's posts more carefully in the future.

~Always slipstream the service pack first, as it contains all kinds of system files and whatnot for the I386 folder. ~Integrate the hotfixes, which will update many of the files SP2 just created. I highly recommend RyanVM's Post-SP2 Update Pack for several reasons: 1. Very easy integration. Integrate with manually (recommended) or with NLite. 2. It includes KB873374 and KB890830. 3. It includes Windows Installer 3.1 v.2. ~Update WU to version 6 (RyanVM's only includes Windows Update 5.4.3790.2182, so you want to overwrite his). ~Integrate drivers using BTS' slipstreamer (I know you didn't mention them, but just in case you decide to add them) ~Integrate Windows Media Player. You really should be able to do this at any time after SP2, as the Windows Updates and whatnot don't involve the WMP files, and won't overwrite anything. Still, I always do the critical stuff first, and I've never tried doing WMP before the other stuff. These are seperate. They cannot be integrated, they have to be installed. Depending on how you're installing programs, you'll need to fiddle with CMDLines.txt and/or the RunOnceEx registry keys, or GUIRunOnce in the WinNT.sif file. Add those lines/files in last, in case they get overwritten by NLite or the drivers or something. You could add them earlier if you really wanted, just make sure those lines are there when you're done.

I'm sorry I can't help you install Autopatcher, but someone else may be able to help. However, I think it would be wiser for you to install the components individually. You can integrate the Windows updates and Windows Media Player 10 using into the actual disk, instead of installing them, and RyanVM has a nice Java installer you can use. MSN Messenger has been discussed on the boards before, just do a search.

WPI is indeed a popular one, but by no means the only one. Also check out WIHU (it has a section in the Member Contributed Projects section of this board) or MaxXPSoft's projects...or do like me and write your own Most of the install methods are basically GUI wrappers for the RunOnceEx registry install method, but they're easy to set up and use.

There are hundreds of different Linux distributions, and although they have the same base each one builds on it a different way. You cannot lump them all together as "Linux" and compare them against just one operating system, especially without specifying a purpose for the machine. I vote "Remove the silly poll."

This seems like a poor time to be trying to do this...both RyanVM and BTS seem to be doing major overhauls on their integration scripts/packages.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags\1\Desktop The easiest way to get your desktop setup the way you like is to configure it the way you want it, LOG OFF/IN (this is why Regshot doesn't pick up anything unless you use Save Shot), then export the entire Desktop key.

Quit expecting other people to do your work for you. If you're interested in implementing something like this, you should have done at least some research on it instead of just trying to take the easy way out. The information for the script you want to create could be found in even the most basic of guides. Google around for some help, or use the built-in .chm file, and there are plenty of command files on this webpage to use as examples (BTS' integration cmd files are nicely written and would make interesting browsing for you).

Sorry to nitpick, but Windows does not use a swapfile, and has not since before Windows 95. Although we generally use the terms "swapfile" and "paging file" interchangeably, they are slightly different. Swapfiles swap entire processes from RAM to the file, while paging files only move small parts of programs from RAM to the paging file at a time.Secondly, the old "1.5x" rule for RAM and paging files was always a poor rule. The more RAM you have, generally the smaller paging file you need; the paging file is meant as a poor substitute for the sytem memory. You should choose the size of the paging file based on how much virtual memory is needed when your system is under it's heaviest load. For this reason, I never set the paging file for someone else like you're doing (and if this is for your computer only, then you shouldn't need to calculate the size based on system memory at all). I always give them the option of size, or if you know what kind of usage the computer gets set the paging file at that limit.

The exe file is a compiled AutoIt script. What it does is it removes (essentially) all the files from the Office installer package, runs it, and when it asks for a certain file the AutoIt script copies it back. Office will pop up an error message for every file it needs, and the script just needs to pull the filename from the window and use the copy command. Pretty easy. You could do this manually if you wanted, but there are over 4000 files in the original installer. Also, the newer version is in the previous post....

CMDow isn't that great; it doesn't prevent a cmd.exe window from opening, it only closes it really fast when it does open. Since you are already using NirCMD (hurray!), you may as well use it to prevent the window from opening as well. If you would like to keep the seperate batch file, just call it with NirCMDc.exe Exec Hide <batchfilename>.bat However, since you only have two lines in the batch file, I would recommend integrating it into your program by adding these two lines instead of calling the batch file NirCMDc.exe ExeCMD Rundll32 shell32.dll,Options_RunDLL 0 NirCMDc.exe win settopmost title "Folder Options" 1 ExeCMD "Executes a command of Command-Prompt (Console Window) without displaying anything on the screen" (from the excellent helpfile). The second line doesn't need any extra parameters or changes, NirCMD commands avoid opening the command windows by default. You can use it anywhere on your CD to prevent those darn windows from popping up

It's just an autorun file to replace the Setup.exe in the root of the CD. It runs when you place the CD in the drive while within Windows, and allows you to start a fresh install a Windows on the next boot (among other things).

@Gee and Lost Soul... You're right. Thanks for explaining without being insulting/rude Gee. I apologize for my mistake (and I wish I could blame it on being so used to Bash, but I'm still not that comfortable on it ) and I'm sorry for trying to be helpful. When I tested the command out I tried it with a folder I had in the root for several weeks, which had since been deleted. Thus my confusion. Mmmm....lunch.