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i don't know about diskeeper 10 nor the XP powertoys, but they are -as you see- unlikely to need the .net. About the CCC, there's one thread in the DriverPacks forums : clic here to go there ++

AFAIK, Windows setup doesn't do that. Check the app that is installing "About half way into the RunonceEx" : it's the culprit. You should install .NET 2 before this app, and hope it will be detected ; if not you'll need to update this app to a newer version.

850 and 1252 are both "Occidental" codepages. 850 is called "IBM" or "DOS" 1252 is called "Windows" or "Windows ANSI" (and is the default Windows CP for North America and Western Europe) (sorry for the mistake in my precedent post) Both allows the same characters, but shifted ; so some of them f*ck the batch (as the é in "démarrage"="startup" in french ; which is converted on-the-fly to a coma in %Startup%) but there isn't such letters in dutch (i presume), so the two CHCP are pointless and you can remove them. (and, yes, the "patch" i posted checks your codepage before to allow the batch to run with characters not represented in the 850 codepage -- even if i don't know of any applicable to the "common startup" folder ) Agreed. it's not "easier", it's simply "straight-forward". The VBS is great also.

Yes : 1252 is the American-US codepage You'll need to change the "CHCP 850" (which is the Western European codepage) to your own (CHCP with no arguments shows what number to use) PS: @ Djé : CHCP 1252 FOR /F "skip=4 tokens=3 delims= " %%? IN (' REG QUERY "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders" /V "Common Startup" ') DO ( CHCP 850 SET Startup=%%? ) this code is not portable to another language than Western European ones... you should change it to guess the codepage : FOR /F "tokens=2 delims=:" %%c IN ('CHCP') DO SET CodeP=%%c CHCP 1252 FOR /F "skip=4 tokens=3 delims= " %%? IN (' REG QUERY "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders" /V "Common Startup" ') DO ( rem no space in the line below, it's in %CodeP% CHCP%CodeP% SET Startup=%%? ) and you can update your 5in1 theme script

Great work start menu is built right after svcpack i think cmdlines.txt is executed after... EDIT: just seen "call it from T-12" in your batch... There's a feature left : IF %SmallIcons%.==yes. GOTO Tweaks it should be "1" instead of "yes", shouldn't it ?

It was a "joke" because XP setup billboards says that XP makes games more exciting...Thanks for the rest of your answer

If the computer-specific items are hardware related you can use WMI to determine what to install (in a batch, in a script, ...) There's a thread somewhere about unattended install of VMWare tools.

If what works for me don't work for you, what's the "good" way ?

Sorry, i didn't see this point. AFAIK, you'll need to create that partition with the "hidden FAT32" type. MS tools can't, but PartitionMagic and FreeFDisk can. Then, there's two options : 1a/ make that partition bootable, and use a bootloder ("embedded" in the restore partition) that will let you choose between "normal boot" (timeout) and "system restore boot" (special key pressed. 1b/ same as above, but with the bootloader on another bootable partition 2/ use a floppy or cdrom to boot the restore partition I'm sure XOSL (or maybe Grub) are able to do that. PS: you don't need that partition to be hidden nor FAT32 : you only need to boot it on request.

It forces you to buy new & faster hardware, thus making games more exiting Seriously, what means "cracked" winlogon ? what's the matter with the original one ? Is there any hope for those who don't have/want SP1 ?

Use UnattendedMode=DefaultHide and Autopartition=0 will activate "text-mode partitionning" and "F6 mass storage drivers". But you'll need to fill in ALL the lines relevant to GUI-mode to make it unattended. Here is an example, made with nLite : [Data] Autopartition = 0 MsDosInitiated = 0 UnattendedInstall = Yes [Unattended] UnattendMode = DefaultHide UnattendSwitch = Yes OemPreinstall = Yes OemSkipEula = Yes FileSystem = * WaitForReboot = No NoWaitAfterTextMode = 1 NoWaitAfterGUIMode = 1 DriverSigningPolicy = Ignore NonDriverSigningPolicy = Ignore Hibernation = No [Display] Xresolution = 1280 Yresolution = 1024 BitsPerPel = 32 Vrefresh = 75 [SystemRestore] DisableSR = 1 CreateFirstRunRp = 0 [GuiUnattended] AutoLogon = Yes EncryptedAdminPassword = No AdminPassword = * TimeZone = 105 OEMSkipRegional = 1 OemSkipWelcome = 1 [Components] Indexsrv_system = Off [UserData] ProductKey = "xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx" ComputerName = xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx FullName = "xxxxxxxxx" OrgName = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" [RegionalSettings] LanguageGroup = 1 Language = 040c [Networking] InstallDefaultComponents = Yes [Identification] JoinWorkgroup = xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Well, you forgot that this this folder was named "system32" because NT became 32-bit (and the 16-bit "system" directory is still here) It was 10 years ago... Now MS cannot do the same, not because of "compatibility", but because of people that would blame they for breaking compatibility But, as r3incarnat0r says, Windows x64 is not a 64-bit OS ; it's a "64-bit Windows on 32-bit Windows" (WOW)

1/ Yes 2/ each app behave differently. most of the time, it's a registry setting to import before or after the installation ; sometimes (eg msi installers) the serial can be passed to the installer via commandline ; sometimes it's a file to backup & copy in the app directory... You can use RegShot to track registry & disk changes when you entrer the serial, and save the result. Or you can tell the forum wich app you use, maybe someone will help you better...

If i understand correctly, there's "penalties" only if some hardware is changed. For the rest, you only need to backup the WPA.DLB file before formatting and restore them after... (if you have OEMBIOS.* files, you'll need to use the same CD to reinstall)

google for : AutoHotkey AutoIt

And the longest post contest winner is.... RBCC ! Attach your file next time instead of posting it "inline"...

Before making the ISO, move WINNT.SIF out of the i386 dir and put it on a floppy. Then, you'll need to insert the floppy to do an unattended install...

See my answer in the other thread ; and search on the forum about it if you want to understand what is done behind the scene. (the main question is : do you want the default user and all future users to have this program) About the WU & RyanVM pack & etc. ; the question is "do you want to have old and buggy files on your disk ?" (but both ways work)

Now I understand why numbers has been discovered *after* social engineering... Prehistoric people didn't like headhaches Anyway, that's a beautiful number with *embedded* rythm

1. The files goes to (unsure about $Doc ; it may be $Docs) : CD:\$OEM$\$Doc\All Users\Start Menu\Programs Don't forget OemPreinstall=Yes in winnt.sif 2. read this page : http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/59/

The GOTO will break the loop after the first CD.

Aren't the filetypes icons already included in XPize ? (ok, with WinRAR, but they are great and "self-explaining") I think that "general filetypes icons" are preferable over "program-dependant icons". /my 2 cents

Not very helpful but... wash your screen (i'm thinking about a transparent sticker)

My two cents : "unspecified" means "no sort order specified thus no grouping avaiable" (the screenshot shows mixed files and folders) try clicking on an header to sort and voilà !

That's the hard question... [edit: lots of stupid ideas based on wrong suppositions... ]