neophyte

If you're going to use HKEY_USERS, don't. The SID values are different from every machine, and differ each time you install XP on the one machine. If you can, try and find the equivalent HKEY_CURRENT_USERS key and values.

HKEY_USERS and HKEY_CURRENT_USER, as far as I'm aware, are essentially the same registry hives.

Change REPARTITION=NO to REPARTITION=YES However, this will also delete the partition. I don't think you can choose to just format the partition...

Try using this VB script that another forum member here graciously helped me out with... Dim SRP, eSRP Set SRP = GetObject("winmgmts:\\.\root\default:SystemRestore") eSRP = SRP.disable("D:\") Replace "D:\" with whatever drive you wish to disable system restore on (you must also keep the quotes). You can also re-enable it by changing SRP.disable to SRP.enable You can't use this during the actual installation process, but you can use it during GUIRUNONCE/EX. Just copy+paste it into notepad and save it with the .vbs extension (making sure not to save it as .vbs.txt)

Yes, you will lose space if you set your block size to 8,16,32,64kb etc. However, that would only be for files less than the size of the block.

Perhaps HP Canada have a different policy than HP Australia. I've repeatedly tried to get recovery CD's for machines which have these stupid HDD recovery partitions, but have been denied each time.

Perhaps it came from a human body? Oh why is it always so obvious....

In the future, for the consideration of every middle finger out there (or more commonly known as, Fingerus Scrollus Buttonious), please attach your tweak files using the attachment options, or host it externally. We most certainly don't need to scroll through 915+ lines of text.

You can just as easily use the cmd.exe to delete the file using the del command, without terminating the process that is causing it to get locked. For the majority of time, this will work.

If you create the thread, then maybe one of the moderators will sticky it for you...

SubInAcl is a somewhat complex tool... but this seems to show the PACE's for a regkey: subinacl /output="c:\documents and settings\%username%\Desktop\out.txt" /keyreg HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MenuOrder Simply replace the regkey use above, for the one you want to check the values for. You would use /subkeyreg if you wanted to find out the permissions on a subkey. The out put is something similar to this: ======================================================================================= +KeyReg HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MenuOrder ======================================================================================= /control=0x0 /owner =mjollnir\neophyte /primary group =mjollnir\none /audit ace count =0 /perm. ace count =3 /pace =builtin\administrators ACCESS_ALLOWED_ACE_TYPE-0x0 CONTAINER_INHERIT_ACE-0x2 Key and SubKey - Type of Access: Read Detailed Access Flags : KEY_QUERY_VALUE-0x1 KEY_ENUMERATE_SUB_KEYS-0x8 KEY_NOTIFY-0x10 READ_CONTROL-0x20000 /pace =everyone ACCESS_ALLOWED_ACE_TYPE-0x0 CONTAINER_INHERIT_ACE-0x2 Key and SubKey - Type of Access: Read Detailed Access Flags : KEY_QUERY_VALUE-0x1 KEY_ENUMERATE_SUB_KEYS-0x8 KEY_NOTIFY-0x10 READ_CONTROL-0x20000 /pace =system ACCESS_ALLOWED_ACE_TYPE-0x0 CONTAINER_INHERIT_ACE-0x2 Key and SubKey - Type of Access: Full Control Detailed Access Flags : KEY_QUERY_VALUE-0x1 KEY_SET_VALUE-0x2 KEY_CREATE_SUB_KEY-0x4 KEY_ENUMERATE_SUB_KEYS-0x8 KEY_NOTIFY-0x10 KEY_CREATE_LINK-0x20 DELETE-0x10000 READ_CONTROL-0x20000 WRITE_DAC-0x40000 WRITE_OWNER-0x80000

I really don't like bumping old threads, but it seems a few people need a little reminder about this...

Your login screen is black instead of blue because you either have a registry 'tweak' which turns its colour to black, or because you have disabled fast user switching, as well as the welcome screen. I would suggest you run those two tweaks in the GUIRUNONCE section. As for the second, I'm not particularly sure.

I have the luxury of not having to delete anything.

100MB here, another 100MB there. Not a big deal

Or you could just buy a bunch of internal DVD drives Bashrat the Sneaky: You'd need a 1024MB usb 2.0 stick. The i386 folder with SP2RC1 is 560MBish (the SP1 would be somewhat similar).

I would actually integrate SP2 onto a non SP'd XP. SP2 is inclusive of all SP1 patches anyway...

This is what I use, RyanVM: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 ;Force Search to Search All Files [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer] "SearchSystemDirs"=dword:00000001 "SearchHidden"=dword:00000001 "SearchSlowFiles"=dword:00000001 ;Set search assistant to the good stuff (disable that s***ty assistant and use advanced search) [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Search Assistant] "SocialUI"=dword:00000000 "UsageCount"=dword:00000001 "UseAdvancedSearchAlways"=dword:00000001

This probably belongs in another section.

If you like the look of the new Windows XP search system, you can disable it using this: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 ;Set search assistant to the good stuff (disable that dodgy assistant and use advanced search) [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Search Assistant] "SocialUI"=dword:00000000 "UsageCount"=dword:00000001 "UseAdvancedSearchAlways"=dword:00000001 It disables the assistant, and gives you the advanced search method instead. Or you could use maxXPsoft's method, for a more 'permanent' solution

Windows XP does hide known file extensions automatically, so you shouldn't be needing a tweak to do this.

Hrm. All post SP2 updates appear to have version 5.5.x of update.exe. To note - express updates cannot be integrated.

Yeah, obviously you can do that. However, unless you've got a friend with a legitimate copy, and can make a copy of it, you're most likely still going to have to pay for the copy

Alanoll: I tried calling HP in regards to that (for a client of mine), and they said that they don't ship CD's for the machines which use an on hard drive system. The bastards!

Yes. Disable the Firewall service using this: ;Internet Connection Firewall (ICF) / Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) Service ;default: manual/automatic (home/pro) - dword:3 (home) or dword:2 (pro) [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SharedAccess] "Start"=dword:4 And you'll probably need to use this too: ;configures firewall for windows xp service pack 2 RC1 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SharedAccess\Parameters\FirewallPolicy\StandardProfile] "EnableFirewall"=dword:00000000