RyanVM

Yeah, I was thinking about that kind of pack too (or HighMAT). I agree, let it fly! (when the U of M game is done )

Yeah, I think I'm gonna do it. And starting from the beginning, it shouldn't be too bad to make and maintain. I wouldn't have wanted to start it 6 months ago with SP1 hotfixes, though

Here's what I'm thinking (and now's the best time to do it since there's only two real hotfixes for SP2 thus far): Keep track of and makecab all of the hotfixed files, which can be put directly in i386. Then keep an INF with the registry entries to be added for each hotfix (mostly just HKLM\blah\Hotfix and HKLM\blah\Updates entries) to be applied during setup. That way you've got all the newest files integrated into the install source, but you don't have to run all the EXEs during setup, saving time and space.

I'm beginning to think an INF is a better way to do this.

What's TPC-IP.SYS? Sorry misspell TCPIP.SYS I already did patch it. Look back a page

What's TPC-IP.SYS?

OK, and %DATE% works as well. Now if I could figure out how to take the Sat off the front of it. Basically I just want to write the registry values for the Update key and the only thing that would vary would be the install date. Everything else is static. EDIT: Is there a way to use an environment variable in a .reg file or only in batch files?

Probably

;GDI+ Tool [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\GdiDetectionTool] "GDITool"=dword:00000001 Add that and you shouldn't need to install the tool.

http://www.ryanvm.net/msfn/TCPIP.SY_ (171KB) Patched for 100 connections, modifype'd, and compressed with makecab. Ready to go on the XP CD. @GM - Is there a DOS command to get the current date/time? EDIT: OK, I've got DATE /T now. What I'm trying to do is get the current date written to a variable so I can pass that date as the "installed" date to the registry for the hotfixes (since I'm going to integrate them all into the install source).

I knew it was one of those

Was just about to post it myself. Means we'll need an updated patched version of Tcpip.sys as well. EDIT: Here's update info for the patch: KB884020 Date Version Size File name --------------------------------------------------- 13-Aug-2004 5.1.2600.2505 359,040 tcpip.sys Do you guys like this info or am I wasting my time?

No bugs my arse Any evidence to back that up or are you just speculating? Funny, neither do I with Sun's VM. Well, you're entitled to it, but you might want to reconsider it. Did you even bother to read the details of the settlement? Allow me to explain it to you - while the court action was still pending, Sun won an injunction against MS preventing MS from doing ANY development on their VM at all. After settling the case, they were allowed to release security updates for it if necessary. That does not change, nor will it ever change, the fact that it is based on the Java 1.1.4 core which came out nearly 7 years ago. That doesn't change the fact that the MS JVM is heavily exploited by spyware as a way for installing itself (ever heard of CWS?).

Replace SYSSETUP.DL_ in the i386 directory of your install CD with this one (assuming your CD has SP2 integrated): http://www.ryanvm.net/msfn/SYSSETUP.DL_

I'm pretty sure it's one (or a couple) of these that control its (my unattended install doesn't give those messages anyway): [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced] "Hidden"=dword:00000001 "WebView"=dword:00000001 "SuperHidden"=dword:00000000 "WebViewBarricade"=dword:00000001 "ShowSuperHidden"=dword:00000001 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\Folder\SuperHidden] "DefaultValue"=dword:00000001

Where are you from, GM?

You think this thread is huge? My old thread (when I was still the guy making these packs) was 35 pages long

New nForce Platform drivers out. Includes IDE driver 4.46. http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_udp_winxp_5.10

...assuming you haven't extracted the MSI from the exe

start /wait %CDROM%\Updates\apps\HMTCDWizard.msi /quiet /norestart It's an MSI file, though, so I'm pretty sure you won't be able to install it until the RunOnceEx (or GuiRunOnce) part of setup.

That's a bit overkill. All you need to do is delete the AMD64 folder and replace ulsata2.sy_ in i386 with the Win32 version. I'm sure somebody here can makecab it quick.

The SATA error is because Bashrat for some reason put an AMD64 driver in his pack. It'll be fixed in the next released.

The file I linked to only allows you to delete protected files from Program Files.

http://www.ryanvm.net/msfn/SFCFILES.DL_

Correct, no JavaVM is included in SP2. Below is a post I made in another thread on this forum regarding MS' JVM: Well, they did get $2B out of Microsoft when they settled their case... And why exactly is Sun's java so "pathetic"? The fact that it's actually based on the current JRE rather than version 1.1.4 (1,2), which dates back to 1997 (1)? Heck, even MS acknowledges that their JVM is outdated. http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/7...6/msjvm_dev.pdfIn short, use Sun's VM.