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It seems that not too many of my questions get answered around here, but I figured I'd give it a shot anyway. Does anyone know how to change the blue part of the setup.exe file to another color? Or image, whatever it uses. Here's what I'm talking about: http://www.geocities.com/altwebcam/setupexe.png (copy + paste link into new tab or window) I want to change the light and dark blue sections to my own colors. I also want to knwo how to edit the text color. Anyone know how to do this?

Eek, I can't stand numlock being on at all.

Wow, I didn't know about those. I'll have to try this out right away! Thanks numinous!

Congrats?

For some reason my silent install of WMP9 has decided to pop up a warning dialog box, complaining that system restore is turned off. How do I supress this dialog? Thanks.

Wow, I bet that took a while to write out.

****, I've almost got my XPCD working great, but there's one small problem... Using the CMDLINES.TXT method to apply updates, I am encountering one popup dialog box. When Windows Media Player 9 starts to install, it pops up and warns me that System Restore is disabled. Here is my current code, in the installs.cmd file: ECHO Installing Windows Media Player 9 start /wait .\Updates\WMP9\wmp9.exe /Q:A /R:N ECHO. What could be wrong? DirectX 9 sets up fine with no problems whatsoever. (here's my dx9 script) ECHO Installing DirectX 9.0b start /wait .\Updates\DX9b\dxsetup.exe /opk ECHO. Any ideas?

Gah, nevermind. I think I've found something here.

How do I make a silent install of Photoshop 7? I've read about using the setup.iss file, but I have no idea on how to edit it or anything. Does anyone know how to do this?

I might just do that. Thanks for all your help GM.

Thanks Dave.

I think it's called Wallpaper1.bmp, and it's loced in an application data folder somewhere in the Documents and Settings directory. Search for wallpaper1.bmp, see where it's located. I think you just replace that file with your chosen wallpaper during setup. Actually I'm really not sure, I'm just recalling what I've heard.

Ah, I didn't know that. Thanks!

Thanks. Regarding the screensavers, how do I remove the registry entries? Using the $1 folder only copies to the root of the drive, but I'm not copying most of my programs to the root of the drive, like Firebird and Thunderbirds, the wallpapers, etc. Thanks for confirming the net user code. Much appreciated!

Hello everyone, decided to give this CMDLINES.TXT thing a try. Just wondering if anyone like GreenMachine or pmcx9 could look over my code and tell me if I've screwed up on anything. (Note: I've left the drivers in the $1 directory, so that's all taken care of) cmdlines.txt [COMMANDS] ".\installs.cmd" installs.cmd @ECHO OFF TITLE Post Install Setup ECHO Removing Wallpapers DEL "%systemroot%\Blue Lace 16.bmp" DEL "%systemroot%\Coffee Bean.bmp" DEL "%systemroot%\FeatherTexture.bmp" DEL "%systemroot%\Gone Fishing.bmp" DEL "%systemroot%\Greenstone.bmp" DEL "%systemroot%\Prairie Wind.bmp" DEL "%systemroot%\Rhododendron.bmp" DEL "%systemroot%\River Sumida.bmp" DEL "%systemroot%\Santa Fe Stucco.bmp" DEL "%systemroot%\Soap Bubbles.bmp" DEL "%systemroot%\Zapotec.bmp" DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\Crystal.jpg" DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\Friend.jpg" DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\Home.jpg" DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\Moon flower.jpg" DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\Peace.jpg" DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\Power.jpg" DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\Purple flower.jpg" DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\Radiance.jpg" DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\Ripple.jpg" DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\Stonehenge.jpg" DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\Vortec space.jpg" DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\Ascent.jpg" DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\Autumn.jpg" DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\Azul.jpg" DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\Follow.jpg" DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\Red moon desert.jpg" DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\Tulips.jpg" DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\Wind.jpg" ECHO. ECHO Removing Screensavers DEL "%systemroot%\system32\dllcache\scrnsave.scr" DEL "%systemroot%\system32\dllcache\ss3dfo.scr" DEL "%systemroot%\system32\dllcache\ssbezier.scr" DEL "%systemroot%\system32\dllcache\ssflwbox.scr" DEL "%systemroot%\system32\dllcache\ssmarque.scr" DEL "%systemroot%\system32\dllcache\ssmypics.scr" DEL "%systemroot%\system32\dllcache\ssmyst.scr" DEL "%systemroot%\system32\dllcache\sspipes.scr" DEL "%systemroot%\system32\dllcache\ssstars.scr" DEL "%systemroot%\system32\dllcache\sstext3d.scr" DEL "%systemroot%\system32\scrnsave.scr" DEL "%systemroot%\system32\ss3dfo.scr" DEL "%systemroot%\system32\ssbezier.scr" DEL "%systemroot%\system32\ssflwbox.scr" DEL "%systemroot%\system32\ssmarque.scr" DEL "%systemroot%\system32\ssmypics.scr" DEL "%systemroot%\system32\ssmyst.scr" DEL "%systemroot%\system32\sspipes.scr" DEL "%systemroot%\system32\ssstars.scr" DEL "%systemroot%\system32\sstext3d.scr" ECHO. Installing Default Theme COPY ".\Classic.theme" "%systemroot%\Resources\Themes\" ECHO Installing DirectX 9.0b ECHO Please wait... start /wait .\Updates\DX9b\dxsetup.exe /opk ECHO. ECHO Installing Windows Media Player 9 ECHO Please wait... start /wait .\Updates\WMP9\wmp9.exe /Q:A /R:N ECHO. ECHO Installing Firebird 0.6 MD "%systemdrive%\Program Files\Firebird\" XCOPY /S /E ".\Programs\Firebird" "%systemdrive%\Program Files\Firebird\" ECHO. ECHO Installing Thunderbird 0.2 MD "%systemdrive%\Program Files\Thunderbird\" XCOPY /S /E ".\Programs\Thunderbird" "%systemdrive%\Program Files\Thunderbird\" ECHO. ECHO Installing Miranda IM 0.3.1 MD "%systemdrive%\Program Files\Miranda IM\" XCOPY /S /E ".\Programs\Miranda IM" "%systemdrive%\Program Files\Miranda IM\" ECHO. ECHO Installing Default Wallpapers MD "%systemroot%\Wallpapers\" XCOPY /S /E ".\Updates\Wallpapers" "%systemroot%\Wallpapers\" ECHO. ECHO Importing Registry Files START "" /WAIT REGEDIT /S ".\regtweaks.reg" ECHO Removing useless shortcuts RMDIR "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Start Menu" /S /Q RMDIR "%USERPROFILE%\Start Menu" /S /Q ECHO Removing useless folders. RMDIR "%systemdrive%\Program Files\ComPlus Applications" /S /Q RMDIR "%systemdrive%\Program Files\Online Services" /S /Q RMDIR "%systemdrive%\Program Files\Uninstall Information" /S /Q ECHO Removing HotFix Log Files DEL "%SYSTEMROOT%\*.log" /Q /F DEL "%SYSTEMROOT%\*.txt" /Q /F DEL "%SYSTEMROOT%\*.tmp" /Q /F DEL "%SYSTEMROOT%\TEMP\*.*" /Q /F DEL "%USERPROFILE%\*.log" /Q /F ECHO Setting up Users NET USER SysAdmin SysAdmin /ADD /COMMENT:"System Administrator Account" /PASSWORDREQ:YES NET USER User User /ADD /COMMENT:"Local User Account" /PASSWORDREQ:YES NET LOCALGROUP Administrators SysAdmin /ADD NET USER Administrator /ACTIVE:NO EXIT Now, one last question. The part where you set up your user account, it is a bit confusing to me. I want to setup my account with the name "Valkyre" and no password, so what would the correct code be to do that? Could I use my original code from my original main_batch.cmd file? This is it... ECHO Adding User "Valkyre" net user Valkyre /add net localgroup "administrators" Valkyre /add net localgroup "users" Valkyre /delete net user administrator /active:no ECHO. Thanks.

There's your problem.

Quick question. (didn't want to start another thread) Should I just remove the "AutoAdminLogon=1" line from my user.reg file? Or should I remove the user.reg file altogether?

AutoPartition=1 will automatically partition your hard drive, 0 means that it will not partition your hard drive, and let you choose wither or not to partition it.

Looks good. I might give it a whirl once it's done.

Any screenshots?

Maybe you have a setting wrong in your winnt.sif file. Somewhere in your GuiUnattended section, you should have the OemSkipWelcome option turned to 1. [GuiUnattended] OemSkipWelcome=1

Call me in 5 years and let me know when Longhorn is actually worth trying.

Unless you talking about the box in the first streen, which could possibly be done through a third party application.

He made that in Photoshop, or whatever photo editing program he used. It's a nice little trick, but it has nothing to do with coding.

Very strange, I've never heard of this kind of problem. Can you post your script line?