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Of course I was just joking Spheris...it's just that after "Here's the deal.." you lost me... After pondering your thought for a while, I think I understand what you meant, and it's just way beyond my tiny computer knowledge. No offense meant by my humorous comments..

I know what he means....if we can get the RAM in our grapple-grummets to synchronize with our Plexi-cable, we just might see some good results. .

Ok...sorry to take so long...my code as I entered it above definitely did not work...it didn't even creat the User Account properly... I will not try without the quotes around my name

I'm trying it now, I'll let you know hot it goes (it's installing hotfixes now, won't be too long)...

Thanks Lee...I'll substitute your code for mine and give it a go... Maybe I'll check this is ok before I go burning another cd....how does this look for my installs.cmd? (Username is "Cam", password is "123456") @ECHO OFF CLS TITLE Creating User Accounts ECHO. ECHO Please wait while Windows sets up your user accounts ECHO. ECHO Setting up User account net user "Cam" 123456 /add /FULLNAME:"Cam" /EXPIRES:never /PASSWORDREQ:yes net localgroup "Power Users" name /ADD net localgroup "users" name /DELETE ECHO. ECHO. ECHO Removing ASP.NET User Account created by .NET Framework 1.1... net user aspnet /delete ECHO. net user >> "C:\user.log" net user name >> "C:\user.log" net user anothername >> "C:\user.log" EXIT

Hey Quya....thanks for your help on this topic.... I've tried this (using the cmdlines.txt and installs.cmd) ....and I"m not quite getting the result I'm looking for... My username is being created, however it is auto-logging me in as "Administrator"....and I would like to fix that My Winnt.sif file: ;SetupMgrTag [Data] AutoPartition=0 MsDosInitiated="0" UnattendedInstall="Yes" [Unattended] UnattendMode=FullUnattended OemSkipEula=Yes OemPreinstall=Yes TargetPath=\WINDOWS Repartition=No UnattendSwitch="Yes" WaitForReboot=No AutoActivate=No DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore [GuiUnattended] AdminPassword=(edited for this quote) EncryptedAdminPassword=NO AutoLogon=Yes OEMSkipRegional=1 TimeZone=4 OemSkipWelcome=1 [UserData] ProductKey=(edited for this quote) FullName="Cam" OrgName="" ComputerName=EnterNameHere My cmdlines.txt file: [COMMANDS] ".\INSTALLS.CMD" And my installs.cmd file: @ECHO OFF net user "Cam" /add>nul net localgroup administrators "Cam" /add>nul Not sure what I'm doing wrong (not really sure what I'm doing in general, but hey I'm trying ). Any help would be really appreciated....Thanks

Looks like you were doing everything right...you just had the wrong version of Direct x 9b.....so download from the link given, replace the version you were using, and it'll work.

Thanks Mpak...but I'm using the RunOnce key to run my batch file....and it's working fine. I've tried too many things to change something now!

Nope...no auto-logon here. But while we're on the subject... I'm interested in using Auto-login....but how can you get it to auto-log-you-in by your user name, and not as Administator? I want to run the batch files while I"m logged in by my user name...not as Administrator...? Hope that makes sense...think I need some sleep

Gaim? Sorry...never heard of it Try using the same commands as other installers (especially the ones that use the same icons).... Check the website, and search Google for Gaim silent install parameters... Finally....enter command prompt and just start trying them out, sometimes I've entered the wrong one, and all of a sudden up comes a dialog for the installer telling me exactly which commands I can use... With all of that said, there are still a couple of progs that I either can't figure out, or just don't support silent installs... (Irfanview & Webshots) Good Luck

LOL...oh boy How old do you have to be to read these posts?

Nice tweak...thanks cheesehead.

Travelcard..... it only runs once for me Not sure why it's doing that....do you definitely have the registry key in the right spot ? (GUI Run Once, and not GUI Run) ?

Just to clarify on this....in order for me to get this to function properly, I had to enter the code as follows: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce] "Batches"="c:\\software\\batches.cmd" (notice the double slashes - \\ above Whereas "Batches" is just your own name for what you're doing (doesn't matter). "c:\\software\\batches.cmd" is the path to the .cmd file you want to run at next login "batches.cmd" is the actual name of your .cmd file which runs whatever actions you want...

Hey Terminator...I think that IE Icon is coming from your shell32 file...and it's likely there because you have Classic Start Menu enabled....would that be right? If so....it's in your shell32 ...... #512 to be exact.

LOL ....that post would have been great if it had a beside it.... Been drinking too much coffee lately ThA_FiLeR ?

Yah...I already had that...think I just had some badly created regiistry files...

Nah...I got it worked out...the key for me is rebooting after I install the hotfixes....and before I change all of the system files... I think my CD is finally perfect!

Ok....so in an unattended install, if you try to install apps, install hotfixes, change uxtheme and shell32 etc, then reboot, it will not work.. I tried that a bunch of times ( I replace about 25 system files though ).... What you need to do is create a separate batch file to replace your system files, and then tell the registry to run that batch file after it reboots from the apps, hotfixes, uxtheme operations... You can read a little bit more about making that happen here : Running a batch file after hotfixes have installed...

OK...sorry Terminator...I'm still not sure if you're trying to do this as part of an unattended install situation... If you are: I haven't had any luck adding custom system files and hotfixes without rebooting inbetween...so I've made a registry entry that replaces the system files (like shell32) on the next boot, AFTER the hotfixes are installed....when you install them both on the same boot, the new ones never work, they get replaced by the hotfix versions... If you aren't: Change your icons....rename the version of the system files that you want to change that are already used by Windows, put yours in the right spot, reboot, and use Tweak UI to "rebuild the icon cache"....that should take care of it... Have fun

Do you mean in an unattended install situation? Or are you talking about replacing them after your OS is installed? And it's fine to replace all of the old icons, just use ResHacker's "Replace Icon" option.... (of course a smart thing to do is to back up your original sp1 shell32.dll file just in case...

I should have clarified...my computer won't even let me import these (from within Windows)....it just says it can't assess the registry...

I used regshot to try to find registry tweaks for a few things....some of them worked but these ones didn't... I'm assuming that they won't work, no matter what I do...but I thought I'd post them just in case somebody had an idea as to how I could get them to work... ;Change the number of Items in the Start Panel [HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1482476501-113007714-842925246-1003\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced] "Start_MinMFU"=dword:00000000 ;Enable the Windows XP Start Menu [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer] "ShellState"=hex:24,00,00,00,3c,28,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\ 01,00,00,00,0d,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00 ;Remove My Pics & Music from Start Menu...and remove taskbar grouping [HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1482476501-113007714-842925246-1003\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced] "Start_ShowMyMusic"=dword:00000000 "Start_ShowMyPics"=dword:00000000 "TaskbarGlomming"=dword:00000000 ;Turn off MSN6's MSN Today, Main Window, Tabs, and Task Bar Preferences [HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1482476501-113007714-842925246-1003\Software\Microsoft\MSNMessenger] "AppSettings"=hex:02,02,00,00 "TaskListState"=hex:00,00,00,00 "DisableTabs"=hex:01,00,00,00

They keep running? Hmmm...I'm just about to try this....I'll post my results..