Thanatos

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When i run my unattended XP CD in VMWare, windows and all of the applications install OK, but the default theme I specified in winnt.sif doesn't load. Neaither do any of the themes i copy to \resources\themes during the install. I get an 'Access Denied' message when trying to apply visual styles. I know its not the theme file as when I try to apply it under my already installed XP (not vmware) the theme loads fine. I think this could have something to do with UXTheme.dl_, but i don't know how, as i'm using the one that was posted here a while ago, that goes in \i386. Any help would be appreciated

How did you get that bar at the bottom, I'm guessing the outline is part of the background, but how didi you change the position. For transparent background, use the winntbbu.dll from windows 2003

Myabe something it requires doesn't load until a minute or so after startup

READ the instructions included inside the file

The Saint: Glad you like it, put winnt32u.dll and winntbbu.dll in \i386 on your XP CD. You'll also have to use makecab winntbbu.dll Then place winntbbu.dl_ in your \i386 directory aswell

Thanks for the info, been looking for w way to determine whether the user wants to open a command prompt

Control panel>mouse, configure the buttons in there, and if you want program specific buttons, there's a checkbox in there too

I was thinking of replacing LUNA.DL_ with a compressed chaninja theme, rename to LUNA.DL_, could you clarify what i have to edit, because i know chaninja contains a few more variations than luna

Thanks for this, i didn't know it was possible. How do i compress the shellstyle.dll's, what file are they included in, and how do i create a .theme file from a .msstyles ?

WinISO works fine for me, wachoo talkin bout aaronxp?

Thanks for the compliments mate. The setup window is part of winnt32u.dll, i had to edit the icons to match the background. The file is available in the first post now, thanks gosh

Thanks, but it gives me the same error, cmd.exe - no disk There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive A: :S

He's on about the user pic, which is part of the welcome screen. You have to enable the welcome screen first

Thanks, I'll get the whole resource kit. Any ideas about the other problem, i need a batch to check whether A:\drivepart exists, if it doesn, then run it, but if it doesn't, just ignore it and go onto the next part of the patch?

Just finished this, tell me what you think ... The file is available Here!!

Ok, thanks for the info, i'll give it a go

Tough one, you'd have to do it with a .ins (internet connection settings) file. Maybe google has the answer

Its HKLM, so HKLM\Software\microsoft\windows\current version\programfilesdir

Thats strange, I use a script that runs in GUIRUNONCE, it adds me as a user, adds some basic reg tweaks (autologon etc), then extracts all the files needed for install, and installs hotfixes, then it creates another script to run on 2nd boot. See if you can make any sense of it ... CLS ECHO. ECHO Installing sofware applications, windows updates, and registry ECHO hacks ECHO Adding Default User... net user Thanatos /add net localgroup Administrators /ADD Thanatos ;your code in here... ECHO Setting up second boot... COPY "systemdrive%\install\2boot.cmd" "%allusersprofile%\Start Menu\Programs\Startup" ECHO Restarting the PC in 1 minute... shutdown.exe -r -t 60 -f -c "Restarting in one minute DEL %SYSTEMDRIVE%\install\main_batch.cmd > NUL Then in 2boot.cmd i have this... CLS ;your code here ECHO Starting Application batch... start %systemdrive%\install\applications.cmd DEL %SYSTEMDRIVE%\install\2boot.cmd > NUL Hope that helped

When setup has finished, windows always asks for the admin password, i have this in winnt.sif [GuiUnattended] AdminPassword=pass AutoLogonCount=1 EncryptedAdminPassword=no OEMSkipRegional=1 TimeZone="85" OemSkipWelcome=1 After this first logon, i create my user account, apply autologon registry settings and everything works. I'd also like to know, would it be possible to open a command window and wait two minutes before closing it, so that the user could set up drive letters using drivepart and change the location of %programfiles%, and execute any other commands they wanted, because at the moment i have it hard coded into my reg tweaks, which doesn't always work. One last thing, at the moment, i have a drivepart script, so in my main_batch.cmd I have IF EXIST A:\Drivepart.cmd start /wait A:\drivepart.cmd But if the script isn't in A:\, i get an error, the idea of it was to use a file to set up partition letters, but if the file didn't exist, use the default ones. Thanks for any feedback

Yeah it would be good, i think it might be possible with wincdman, but i hated wincdman, its buggy and has a bad interface. I'd like to do it with XP and 2003

I'd like to know these too

Looks nice, i've never noticed before but the exit button on the original doesn't blend in to the background

I didn't get any errors, thats what makes it strange. Maybe if someone who can progarm is reading this thread could make a basic interface thing, that is similar to the original... Install windows (button) --- Command=\i386\winnt32.exe Install Additional features (button, leading to submenu) -----------------Install feature 1 (button) - Command=\i386\somefile1.exe -----------------Install feature 2(button) - Command=\i386\somefile2.exe -----------------Install feature 3 (button) - Command=\i386\somefile3.exe -----------------Install feature 4 (button) - Command=\i386\somefile4.exe I wouldn't have a clue how to do this as i don't program, but its just a thought