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im not all that great at making visual styles but i love the new xp variations in the Media Center IIU style. what i was hoping if someone would be kind enough would be to keep the three standard xp ones and then have the 3 media centre variations all in one msstyle if possible. eg Default Blue, Metallic, Homestead, Royale, Royale Metallic, Royal Homestead if anyone would be able todo this if they could just post so that i know, it would be greatly appreciated, and keep up the good work xpero it just keeps getting better and better.

guessing noone knows then. becoz i integrated all my additional drivers needed for my pc in with the standard xp ones using nlite and was hoping i could still use that xps source for my PE cd.

i saw that all the tweaks and things u make with nlite will be included into ur PE, but what i was wondering was if i integrated a load of drivers using nlite would BartPE still work ok with the driver.cab or not.

i havent started doing my PE cd yet but i was wondering if there would be anyway to use ur own visual styled taskbar like they have on ERD Commander.

Truly excellent. i would love to create something like that for myself. just wondering what font u used on ur desktop screenshot saying Windows XPE

hi just a quick question im going to place a program in the system32 folder for my unattended cd and was wondering what registry entries i would need to add so that i can have a shortcut icon in control panel.

sysdm.cpl in ur system32 folder. res hack that and ur sorted. u can get resource hacker free from http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/ if you can post some finished ones to give me some ideas for my own.

setup.dll u can resource hack or Hex edit and the bin u will have to Hex edit.

yup i got that one included in the reg tweaks thing. i was just hoping there was a way to set the standard icon for nfo and diz icons to notepad.exe,1 or notepad.exe,2 depending on the icon place.

Inno Setup may well build exe i cant remember. but i thought it was msi installers. i havent used it in a while as i primarly use Astrum and Installshield

i know. i use ultraedit to hex edit all my files but have yet to come up with it.

well a very simple and free one to use is Inno Setup you can build msi packages with it and it has very good compression ratio compared to the others ive used. if u want to pay for one then theres Astrum InstallWizard 2 which is very easy to use and u can completely customize the dialogs u see when installing, but unfortunately u cant use any decent setup icons which really sucks. and for more advanced usage theres things like Installshield X Professional, Wise Installer or Ghost Installation Wizard. but youd be looking at forking out alot of cash for them.

no ntoskrnl is just the boot screen that u see.when windows is loading. its not really important at all

well i used a screen shot and the blue colour is 00 00 AA in hex so u can try looking for that ive tried the bin and the exe stpldr files but im not sure what other files to check

well thats what i thought. but when i took a screenshot using vmware and used a colour hex finder it returned it as 00 00 AA

i was wondering about nfo files and opening them with notepad. what i was hoping was to add a second icon to notepad which can be used as the icon for nfo and diz files. but i wasnt sure if there would be anyway to associate the file types in the registry with this icon that id have added to notepad.

im also trying todo the same thing. i would like to know what file it is as ive already checked SETUPLDR.BIN and SETUPLDR.EXE for the Hex code 00 00 AA but it doesnt seem to be there so im guessing its another file.

im going to see if i can change the background colour. u should be able todo it by hex editing the file. EDIT: Just had a look and cant find the hex colour so im not entirely sure if thats the correct file. if anyone knows what file this could be please say.

those old v4 variables dont work anymore. u have to use _SourceDrive and _SourceDir . im using them in the arguements for when i launch a program. eg cdimage.exe " "_sourcedrive\i386\tools\boot.img" but for some reason its not changing the built in variable into the drive letter likes its suppose to.

ok i just tried to use autoplay mediua studio to launch cdimage using this arguements -l\"2003\" -h -j1 -b\"_SourceDrive\I386\Tools\boot.img\" -x -o -m \"_SourceDrive\" \"C:\Windows Server 2003 SP1.iso\" now according to autoplay ur meant to be able to use the inbuilt variabls anywhere in ur project. but when it launches cdimage flash up quickly and says that it cant find _sourcedrive\I386\tools\boot.img i cant believe how much trouble this has become todo such a simple thing bcoz of using autoplay media studio.

thanks that worked like a charm. ill give my cdimage a try abit later and hopefully ill get it to work properly.

yes that is what i mean. the code im trying to run is this Shell.Execute("nircmdc.exe", "open", "win settopmost title "Folder Options" 1", "", SW_MINIMIZE); i tried putting a break in a couple of places but it gave me an error still while building.

ok so ive found the variables and for my button i will launch cdimage using these parameters "" -l"WIN2003_SP1" -h -j1 -b"_SourceDrive\I386\Tools\Boot.img" -x -o "_SourceDrive" "C:\Windows Server 2003 SP1.iso" im hoping thats pretty much right. ill ask anyway but when u need to use " in the aruguements when u execute a program from autoplay is there a different one used to represent the " as thats the same as the one autoplay uses internally. if u see what i mean

lol thank you for all ur help i will try that. im afraid the indigo rose forum is absolutely useless and the help files arent much help either, that y i decided to ask here in the end as i know a fair few ppl use autoplay media studio.

there doesnt seem to be any variables like %SrcDir% in v5 of Autoplay Media studio. and im not entirely sure if i would need to write a script for it.