RyanVM

AHHH, YOU'RE RIGHT. Sorry, typo on my part

It's probably a self extracting EXE. Try opening it with WinRAR.

OMG, that made a HUGE difference! And driver.cab was still only 78MB (no drivers removed). Thanks a million! :thumbsup

And it's completely irrelevant. In fact, I already said those settings weren't what I needed. nuhi gave me exactly what I was looking for.

Yeah, that should be correct.

The files in that hotfix are way older (5.6.0.8513 vs. 5.6.0.8825)

THAT'S IT!!! Thanks (And I KNEW it was GreenMachine who posted it first )

Is the path to the transform correct?

I'm willing to bet that's your problem. Try an ISO with it still there and see what happens.

VMWare tends to go fast enough that you don't see them load.

Do you have System Restore enabled?

Not a problem. I'm home from work now, so you can IM at any time.

OK, the command is even easier. All that's needed (assuming you're running this from a point where %appdata% is a valid variable) is the following two lines: MD "%appdata%\Sun\Java\Deployment" ECHO deployment.console.startup.mode=disable >> "%appdata%\Sun\Java\Deployment\deployment.properties"And for those of you who like calling separate batch files, attached is a cmd file with the same code + an @ECHO OFF command. disablejavaconsole.cmd

OK, so if I'm running it from GuiRunOnce, it should be fine. Sounds good

Don't forget that the Office Prep tool is going by the directory structure you've got when you create the MST. In reality, your structure won't have the $OEM$\$1 in it (as we discussed in the other thread). Try the command below (make sure that setup.exe is in the Office11 directory and if it isn't, adjust the line accordingly): start /wait "%systemroot%\Install\Office11\setup.exe" TRANSFORMS="C:\Install\Office11\Unattended.MST" /qb-

What type of installer does it use?

ahh, yeah I think that's different at that point. I don't have the enter users step in my unattended setup, so I guess we're looking for different things.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like you can use the %appdata% environment variable from a command prompt in all circumstances. It's listed if you run the SET command.

One thing I do like about the Java5 installer is that it doesn't create any shortcuts or start menu items anymore. Always nice

I don't use RunOnceEx, so I didn't know that Glad to be of help as always

The patcher is linked on (I think) the 2nd page of gosh's thread which was linked to in this thread.

Yeah, my next board will be an nForce3 250Gb chipset (OK, realistically by the time I have the money to upgrade, it'll probably be an nForce4 board ). If I could afford the supporting components, I'd already be the proud owner of an MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum.

The video will be removed as well ? Physically removed from the CD, no (as you would expect since we're only patching a DLL file ), but no, it doesn't play anymore.

I created a batch file to do this automatically. You can either insert the code below (minus the @ECHO OFF) into your main batch file to be run immediately after the JRE is installed or you can call the cmd file to do it. @ECHO OFF CD "%UserProfile%\Application Data" mkdir Sun\Java\Deployment ECHO deployment.console.startup.mode=disable >> Sun\Java\Deployment\deployment.properties java.cmd

The DLL gosh posted for for SP1. Also in the thread was a patcher program that somebody wrote which can generically patch any syssetup.dll. You need to actually patch the SP2 syssetup.dll, run modifype on it (so windows setup doesn't complain about an invalid CRC header), then compress it with makecab. And you don't need to use any other cleaners at that point. With the patched syssetup.dll, the music won't start playing. Send me an IM tonight after 5 ET and I can send you a ready to go syssetup.dl_ otherwise.