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Nice slim-job Numinous, everything to get the install-dir size down

Alrighty then, as long as no dialog boxes pop up, interrupting everything, I'm cool with it... thanks again, gotta try this out

Nice post and a great way to get rid of some of that "important" "core" stuff Just one quick question: Nologics post of an old gosh post states that Does this mean that modifying the .infs - not necessarily deleting files - will cause errormessages to appear ?? which would be kinda crap during an unattended install

Thanks for the IExpress tutorial links, GreenMachine !! Gave me something new to play with

*BUMP* and "Anyone tried this ?? Does it actually work with truncated filenames etc. ???"

Great thread and/or idea, thanks Aaron

I must admit I haven't had time to test the "miso"-way yet, but looking in the new Q823718_WITHOUT_SWITCH.EXE I noticed that files are named for example "Q89df7~1.inf" instead of "Q823718-270_WinMEx.inf". Will the install work then with the truncated filenames or have I done something wrong ??

Couldn't agree more, what an extremely cool and neat (pardon the word) way of installing that blasted MDAC-thing!! Nice work miso1391, thanks

Thanks for the info, Ryan, was just considering using Sun Java when I spotted your thread

LOL, you're absolutely right... I have (I mean, I HAD) my "RD /S /Q %systemdrive%\install" line before I (tried to) run shutdown.exe... Do I feel like an id*** now or what ?? Thanks a lot for the input, at least I got my problem sorted and some of you guys can laugh at me

The command windows shows and runs a couple of "rmdir" commands and such and then closes, but seems to skip the shutdown.exe-line completely ... I haven't read anywhere that it needs a "pause" command... is that really necessary ?? or is it just the psshutdown.exe utility that's able to run without pausing maybe ??

I already had "shutdown.exe -r -f -t 60 etc. etc." in my .cmd file and it didn't work... and it's not just a problem with VPC, that's been tested I could of course just revert to using psshutdown.exe again, but this sorta bugs me...

Thanks Dave and greenmachine, been looking for these too

I just add my fav. wallpaper(s) to \$oem$\$$\Web\Wallpaper\ in .bmp format, then use a couple of reg. hacks to make it the default, i.e.: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop] "ConvertedWallpaper"="C:\\WINDOWS\\Web\\Wallpaper\\Windows XP.jpg" "Wallpaper"="C:\\WINDOWS\\Web\\Wallpaper\\Windows XP.bmp" Works like a charm

Great script - and great modifications too. Thanks a bunch