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Strange review : Did the author understood that nlite targets Windows (NT) 5 ? And saying that there's no help file... OMG ++

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hi, acdsee -> - irfanview - xnview (if you're used to acdsee, xnview is a beter choice than irfanview) - photofiltre (editing only) tuneup utilities/system mechanic -> see http://www.mdgx.com/toy.htm ++

hi, Each setup app (installshield, wise, innosetup, windows installer, nsis, ...) uses its own switches. Sometimes you can define the path to install to, sometimes you can't. I don't know by heart all switches, but here is an example for a .msi setup (with windows installer v3) : start /wait msiexec.exe /i %systemdrive%\path\to\setup.msi /passive /qb REBOOT=ReallySuppress TARGETDIR="%ProgramFiles%\P2P\MyApp" For most others, you should give a try to "Universal Silent Switch Finder" (search for it on this board) : it's a small app to display the switches applicable to a specific .exe setup. ++

8Mbps I do not have that No matter, i got it on CD. And guess what ? it's not the same SP2 than the one you downloaded... there's more things on the CD (not only the symbols) ++

Nice to see someone on the trusted computing side. But you didn't finished your sentence : "unless you." Unless you What ? (/me feels hungry ) I may suggest : "unless you trust its creator and know what it does _exactly_ ?" or : "unless you created it ?" One drawback of these two suggestions is that's a good way to end up paranoïd if you're investing too much of you in "security" ! (in french we says "ne pas prendre les choses trop à coeur") Come on Mordac85, tell us (me) what you have in mind ! Securing an OS is an everyday job (and sometime "everyhour" since there's exploits immediately used). If you seach for "windows security" on the net, you'll get tons on sites like CERT (windowsecurity.com & ntsecurity.net are the first two after MS). Then, securing applications will make you ask your boss to engage someone else (depends on what level of security you're willing to reach : see for example the old "Orange Book" from US DoD which shows examples of classified security levels) [wayyyy offtopic] In fact, if you want a secured system to store confidential data, use something old, like an Atari ST : less functions, less holes. And really ugly. If you saw Terminator 3, you see what i'm thinking about : the only hole is that enormous door [/offtopic] ++

spacesurfer : @echo off set media=G reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\DriveIcons\%media%" /ve /d "X:\Path\To\Your\Icon.ico" /f I'm interested with that too 'coz i never see it working when set manually with regedit (icon cache rebuilt) ???? ++

Or you ca use the -w switch to specify an exact time in milliseconds. This line will wait 15 times (-n switch) 2000 ms (-w) = 30 sec : ping -n 15 -w 2000 127.0.0.1 > nul ++

Camarade_Tux > ok (previous post edited). next time i'll have something to burn, i'll try again. but i'm sure i had to activate imapi to use cdbxp (maybe something else i didn't see that time) dcyphure > if you only burn ISO, you may try the commandline tools cdburn.exe & dvdburn.exe from windows ressource kit tools (rktools.exe). and then use something like cdcheck (or just commandline tools FC or COMP, or something like a md5summer). The best (if you're feeling paranoïd) is to check the disc with another drive, or (if you have only one drive) to eject/close the tray before checking. And CD-RW are good for more than 2-3 writes (far more...) don't buy "noname" ! ++

just to say : HDs rotates with constant angular speed and heads are parked outside the plates, thus outer tracks are the fastest area (anyway your idea is true 'coz first partition is on the outer). For pagefile (and mostly anything except ex. videos), transfer speeds are not as important as access times. Then, pagefile shouldn't be on the outest track, but somewhere between the first third and the second third of the tracks. (obviously, this is invalid if pagefile is not on systemdrive) And a fragmented pagefile, spread across this area, can sometimes acheive better performance than a contiguous one (again, it depends on what you load : for video editing, this is false). This is exactly what is done by default on NTFS : the MFT is not at the beginning of the partition (outest track) ; and if enabled the "boot optimize function" (prefetcher) tries to place files "somewhere in the middle". Sadly, pagefile is not placed according to these rules... ++

I think you catch that **** file. Yes it goes to i386 as written in the guide : About list tags, i never tried (i'm using fast reply, or the old editor, not the rtf one). I think you should rename your CatalogSubDir to something else... To confuse yourself when you will update your disc, you can try : CatalogSubDir="\i386" and move the original one to its parent ++

Thus it created a svcpack.in_ file, it's a cabbed (compressed) version. you'll need to un-cab it before editing it. This command uncabs it : expand -r svcpack.in_ This one recabs it (not needed if you delete svcpack.in_) : makecab svcpack.inf If you don't have a svcpack.in_ file, then you've found secret editions of MS hotfixes that works magically. i'm not a wizard, and can't help with so unrational things. But i'm very interested by this sort of files Example is ok, and your way to display dir structure is very good (i didn't knew that LIST tags could be imbricated). I'm sure that the current directory is not <CDROM>:\I386\SVCPACK because it's something under %systemroot% during all the windows setup. (hit Shift+F10 during setup to see) So you need full pathes. (or add CD /D "%~dp0" at the beginning of your batches, but this will not work for RunOnceEx which always requires full pathes) ++

Easy as follows : Start > Run : "mmc /a %systemroot%\system32\services.msc" click the "Standard" tab File > Save File > Exit done

There is no integrated hotfixes in the svcpack.inf you posted. Did you checked for the cabbed one ? (svcpack.in_) (you must have only one) Second point, you must place your two batches (start.cmd & runonceex.cmd) in svcpack\ and you can place your installers anywhere. Only error you did is that your batches are not calling them with full pathes. If your "Install" folder is in the root of your CD, you should do like this : @ECHO OFF REM "WIN51" = ident file for WinXP FOR %%d in (C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z) DO IF EXIST %%d:\WIN51 SET CDROM=%%d: SET KEY=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx ECHO. ECHO Creating user account(s) ECHO Please wait... net user username passowrd /add net localgroup Administrators username /add net accounts /maxpwage:unlimited ECHO. ECHO Installing Windows Installer 3.1 Redistributable (v2) ECHO Please wait... start /wait %CDROM%\Install\NetFramework\KB893803.exe /Q /O /N /Z ECHO. ECHO Installing .NET Framework v1.1 with SP1 ECHO Please wait... start /wait %CDROM%\Install\NetFramework\dotnet11sp1.exe ECHO. ECHO Installing Sun Java2 Runtime Environment v5.0 Update 7 ECHO Please wait... start /wait %CDROM%\Install\JRE507\jre507.exe ECHO. ECHO Installing Windows Media Player 10 ECHO Please wait... start /wait %CDROM%\Install\WMP10\mp10setup.exe /q:A /c:"setup_wm.exe /Q /R:N /DisallowSystemRestore" ECHO. ECHO Installing Office 2003 Professional ECHO Please wait... start /wait %CDROM%\Install\Applications\Office2003\officeex.exe REG ADD %KEY% /V TITLE /D "Installing Applications" /f REG ADD %KEY%\005 /VE /D ".NET Framework v2.0" /f REG ADD %KEY%\005 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\Install\NetFramework\dotnet2.exe" /f I merged your two batches in this sample (if you want to keep them separated, copy the FOR... line in both in order to be able to use the %CDROM% variable). I see no switches for JRE & Office, i suppose you made silent installers. about dosnet.inf, again, you used /integrate, you do not need to edit dosnet.inf and you do not need to create svcpack.inf.

Following this thread, i'd say you're true technically speaking (if the comps are identical). But on the legal side, i think you're not allowed to take the key from one comp and use it on another.

Did you activated NMS Access ?

if you used hotfixes with /integrate, they are not slipstreamed, but integrated : in other words, hotfix installation will occur during windows setup (slipstreaming is more complicated, and you'll need other tools like hfslip or nlite, or use an updatepack) but you don't have to modify manually svcpack.inf if you use /integrate... You already know : go back on the page you took this erroneous code (Signature="$WindowsNT$")... Or run winver.exe. Or integrate any hotfix, it will create a correct svcpack.inf (you integrated some HF, did you ?) ++

"better" ? i can't know. [setupHotfixesToRun] allow to launch .EXE (with switches if needed) from the "CatalogSubDir" folder. If that's not enough for you to install your apps, use a batch (classic case : you have an archive to decompress in %systemroot%) Only thing to keep in mind : create something easy to use, to update, etc. (that is, avoid to run installers directly from svcpack.inf or from cmdlines.txt if you're also using a batch : simply run everything from that batch) ++

-> imagine what happens if you checked the "start with last compilation type" option i presume the author has other interests than correcting these bugs. ++

i'm not always so quick... 1. You don't need the winnt.sif file to use svcpack.inf (there are two differents things, you can use one or the other or both) 2.a. If the CatalogSubDir line is already there, use the specified folder, or rename both the line and the folder (you must have only one CatalogSubDir line) 2.b. It installs *.CAT files (provided with hotfixes for example). 2.c & 2.d. already answered 3. see point 1 4. some apps won't install @T-13. ex .net fx 2 need a special fix. diskeeper 8 will fail to install its service. If you are unsure and don't want to test, use ROE. 5. no ++

$CmdLine[0] lets you test the number or space-delimited arguments $CmdLine (where i is an integer lower or equal to $CmdLine[0]) returns you the i-th argument. In other words : your $1 or %1 becomes $CmdLine[1] Thus, your script becomes (this is a very bad-written sample) : If Not $CmdLine[0] Then RunWait(@ScriptDir & "\Nero\Nero.exe") Else RunWait(@ScriptDir & "\Nero\Nero.exe" & " " & $CmdLine[1]) EndIf As you can see, the genius who wrote $CmdLine thing forces you to write error-trapping code... ++

'lo, 1. cmdlines.txt need a winnt.sif file with OemPreinstall=Yes ; svcpack.inf is always parsed. It mean that cmdlines.txt will disable the ability to do repair-install ; and svcpack.inf will also be ran during repair-install (allowing you to use the same disc both for new installs and upgrades) 2. In svcpack.inf, the [setupHotfixesToRun] section is very similar to the [Commands] section in cmdlines.txt. Example : ;Windows XP [Version] Signature="$WindowsNT$" MajorVersion=5 MinorVersion=1 BuildNumber=2600 [SetupData] CatalogSubDir="\i386\SVCPACK" [ProductCatalogsToInstall] [SetupHotfixesToRun] MyFirstSwitchlessInstaller.exe MyProgramSetup.exe /themagicsilentswitch If these two .EXE are in i386\SVCPACK, they will install, one after the other. ++

You're victim of something called "mirage". Consult your ophtalmologist quickly or you will loose the ability to see shells...If you clicked on the "see also" link, you would have found : ++

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/René_Magritte ++

SafeXP is not an "easy-to-use tool to start securing windows xp". It's entirely based on a total misconception of "security" : you will not get a more secure system if you disable some services, you will only get it less stable. The key in security is the configuration of these services (and many more things, like permissions), in other words, it's what SafeXP does not offer. The help center, if used online, gives more relevant links. ++