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Did you tried to select the option "Do nothing" ???? (the first of the list for each key) That's in "Start> Settings> Control Panel> Power Option", "Advanced" tab bye

undeadsoldier, "Printer & Faxes" is a "NameSpace". Take a look there in the registry : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ControlPanel\NameSpace I have a subkey named "Printers" (it can be anything else : look for the "Name" value), if I remove it, the icon "Printer & Faxes" is removed from Control Panel. There are "NameSpace" keys for many other folders, I let you find them bye

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Look at the Format$() function : day_number$ = Format$(Date, "d") day_number_2_digits$ = Format$(Date, "dd") day_name_abbr$ = Format$(Date, "ddd") day_name_full$ = Format$(Date, "dddd") and so on... "m" for month, "mmmm" for month full name, "w" for week number... you can make more "complex" formats : test$ = Format$(Now, "dd\t\h mmmm yyyy \- hh:mm tt") will retrun : "20th june 2005 - 09:05 pm" But This Is For VB Classic, Not VB Script, Maybe VB.NET... bye

I did never read the trial EULAs, but I'm sure you can't I can send you one or two, if you want bye

I don't know that app, but it will work if it can compress using "LZX" algorithm, and rename the file with a underscore "_" instead of the 3rd letter of the extension, or add the "_" to the extension if less than 3 letters. (note that "LZX" is sometime named "MS-CAB") IMHO, it's easier to use MAKECAB/EXPAND... they are on your windows disc, and you will not run into troubles... And (nearly) everyone here uses them... And nLite uses makecab too... bye

Pause allows me to see the BIOS output before it vanishes. SysRq is used by some console apps under *nix and non-MS DOS (TSRs or daemons) bye

'lo, You may read the unattended guide here : http://unattended.msfn.org/ To uncompress the files, use expand (bundled with windows) : copy d:\i386\ntoskrnl.ex_ .\ntoskrnl.ex_ expand -r ntoskrnl.ex_ del ntoskrnl.ex_ now, you have the EXE uncabbed on the disk. Edit it as you want. Then you will need to re-cab it, but before there is a little trick : windows will see your modifications, and say "file corrupt" during install. So, download "modifype.exe" ( http://unattended.msfn.org/global/compress.htm ), and run : modifype.exe -c ntoskrnl.exe makecab ntoskrnl.exe del ntoskrnl.exe Makecab is bundled with windows too ; and now you have the file ready to be copied to you local install source. There is other methods for the boot screen, logon screen, etc., see there : http://unattended.msfn.org/advanced/cosmetics/bootscreen.htm bye

This is right : DEL /Q %systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\*.* -> the "/Q" switch must be right after the "DEL" command (as you can see with DEL /?) -> The quotes are needed ONLY when using file names/pathes with spaces (1st line below), and you can use them only on the "path part with spaces" (2nd line below) : DEL /Q "%systemdrive%\Program Files\blablabla\*.*" DEL /Q %systemdrive%\"Program Files"\blablabla\*.* bye

hello, In Layout.inf there is many numbers in [sourceDiskFiles] : exemple.dll = 1,,123456,,,,,,,,,,,... I'm curious about the "123456" (the 3rd value) : is it really the file size in all cases ? On my cd I have 1000+ files that mismatch... bye

You're welcome !... and you've found the elegant one How it works ? (is it "hardcoded" window title or commandline or by process name or ... ?) bye

hello, I think you should hide them with the CMDOW utility ( link on MSFN , direct link ). Else, the only way I know is to code a program that will find the handle to each command windows, then subclass them to trap the WM_CLOSE... not sure that will be easy to do with these windows, since they are a bit "specials"... (another solution would be to modify the system menu to disable to close button -- much more elegant... more complex too) bye EDIT: links

404 too... but after restoring the missing "?" between "index.php" and "module", it worked http://www.xchangezone.com/index.php?modul...118&post_id=296 bye

Very strange ! Are you talking about explorer's windows (as in your screenshot), or other programs ? I never saw such a program ! It will make the system "unstable" since many apps doesn't like to be "modified" by others bye

This behavior appears on "poorly" coded apps that checks "Screen Size" instead of "Client Size". explorer.exe is definitely not one of those apps : I have my taskbar at the top of the screen since ages, and I had never saw any explorer.exe's window doing what you see... So it has something to do with the differences between our two configs : my guess is that the "transparency" on the taskbar makes Windows not knowing the taskbar position and thus makes the "Client Size" starting at the top edge of the screen instead of the bottom of the taskbar. Check with an opaque taskbar to see if I'm right ??? bye

hullo, First, windows will never do what you want : "C then D" ! After a chkdsk on the systemdrive ©, the system is rebooted. At best, you will get "D then C" or "C then reboot then D". (But I don't know if you can set the "disk order") There is two ways to enforce the chkdsk at boot : 1) set the "dirty" flag on the partitions to check. you need to use the command "fsutil" : FSUTIL DIRTY SET C: FSUTIL DIRTY SET D: (note: this will make some programs not working until the chkdsk : defragmenters, backup, etc...) 2) use "chkntfs" : CHKNTFS /C D: CHKNTFS /C C: (I put D before C, but I don't know if this change anything about the order the check will run...) PS: look also the "CHKNTFS /T:x" command : it allows to set the "abort countdown" to "x" seconds bye

The NTOSKRNL.EXE file has changed (for XP SP2, this allow the "Data Execution Prevention" I think)

Once TXTSETUP.SIF have been modified by nlite, you can re-cab it (makecab txtsetup.sif), and copy it over TXTSETUP.SI_ on the floppy. (there is no chances IMHO that nlite modifies any of the boot files) I think you don't need to worry about the other files...

1- ... and the proccess of making a PE disc is well documented (that's the reason of my previous post 1st point). I can't help you more about this, sorry. 2- you can download the updated bootdisks at MS download center. Go there : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/results...&DisplayLang=en click on the one you want (Home or Pro, no SP or SP1a or SP2), and then select your language on the download page (it will be a SFX-CAB archive, with 6 .IMG files and the utility to copy them on floppies) I don't know if these floppies asks for an "additional mass storage floppy disk", but there is free space on some of them, and TXTSETUP.SI_ on the first. (it's the same TXTSETUP.SIF on the CD...) bye

1- No way AFAIK (better idea : make a PE disc !) 2- slipstream the SP on the CD, delete the CMDCONS folder on hard drive, reinstall it. Or simply copy the files from the SP on the one of the CMDCONS folder bye

Disabling the "up one level" button will not disable the shotcut key "backspace" which do the same... You should really deal with security attributes to do that, so students will still be able to create subfolders into their home, and navigate... (IMHO, it's useful) To customize the "places bar", you only need TweakUI (search at MS download center). But you may also search for a couple of month... the answers are here and there... bye

You're right : you only need to keep the file names...

That's a mess : the folder view are often stored in RAM. And sometimes, Windows thinks about remembering them... (on logoff) You should try to hold down CTRL while closing the "personalized folder windows" (with the mouse and the [X] case) ; sometimes it helps... (this shortcut was introduced in IE 4 or 5, and I never managed to make it works ALL times... you may "reset" folder view options before use) If you succeed, the value will be a binary one named "Streams" (somewhere under HK??\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Explorer I think) bye

If you're doing only DATA copy, you can use CDBurnerXP Pro ! (simply create a new data project, browse to your source CD/DVD, drag & drop files to the project) Of course, this will not copy a bootsector, nor many other things, but it will copy all your backed-up data for sure ! Else, you can try BurnAtOnce (free for non-commercial use), the site says it can do "on the fly disc copy" LINK (I did never test it...) Or if you're fond of command-line, there is "readcd" & "cdrecord" in the CDR-tools package... (this one is open source, and comes from *nix) bye

Why don't you use the long folder names ??? START "" "C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Ad-Aware\Ad-Aware.exe" (notice the empty "" -- not sure you need it... try !) @+