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You might get an error as setup tries registering files. Look in syssetup.inf under the [olecontrols], the movie maker file is in that list (i don't remember the file name off hand, it's something like mmer...dll), so when syssetup.inf registers files it'll say "hey, i can't find this file". Also in the list is srstr.dll, the system restore file (i believe, i'm not in front of an xp box so i could be wrong). If you are using FullUnattended, any errors will be silently logged to setuperr.log, you won't see them during the install. If you're not using an unattended install, you *might* see the errors.
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Alrighty then, as long as no dialog boxes pop up, interrupting everything, I'm cool with it... thanks again, gotta try this out
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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
"4 - Now run setup from the flat you made on the hard drive, and movie maker won't be installed. You'll get an error during setup, but you can continue. After installation, in the program files folder you'll still have a movie maker folder, but it'll be empty.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
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Thanks for the IExpress tutorial links, GreenMachine !!
Gave me something new to play with
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*BUMP* and "Anyone tried this ?? Does it actually work with truncated filenames etc. ???"
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Great thread and/or idea, thanks Aaron
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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 ??
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I think miso1391's way is way cool: point me towards some documentation for writing the SED files, would you please? The problem I have run into is how to package directory structures for the install files. IExpress from the GUI will not do it, but I would think it could from here.
Couldn't agree more, what an extremely cool and neat (pardon the word) way of installing that blasted MDAC-thing!!
Nice work miso1391, thanks
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Thanks for the info, Ryan, was just considering using Sun Java when I spotted your thread
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Rancor - Are you perhaps removing the directory that the .cmd file is launched from?
I had the same thing and finally figured it out. I was trying to clean up the install by removing my install directory.
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
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What exactly didn't work, Rancor?
Did the PC not reboot?
Did it login before rebooting?
Did it login and restarted after the countdown finished?
This is a copy of my Reboot.cmd which worked perfectly:
cls
@echo off
echo.
shutdown.exe -r -t 60 -f -c "Whew! I thought it would never end."
pause
echo.
exitNotice the all important "pause" which makes the command window hang if you don't push any button.
It will keep hanging until the time runs out, then TA DA!
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 ??
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Try adding the '.exe' to shutdown, so it appears as 'shutdown.exe'.
I've often had problems where my batch script would loop when shutdown didn't have an .exe suffixed to it.
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...
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Thanks Dave and greenmachine, been looking for these too
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I realize that you can add different wallpapers to show up on the desktop tab by placing them in the $$\Web\Wallpaper dir, but how do you set one to be default, instead of Microsoft's bliss.bmp (the one with the grassy hills) ?
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
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Great script - and great modifications too.
Thanks a bunch
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I'm having the exact same problem... using the "standard" shutdown.exe, the system doesn't restart... any ideas why ??
I could of course just use psshutdown.exe, but the other method is easier, since shutdown.exe comes with Windows...
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Using Resource Hacker, you should be able to replace the bitmaps in setup.exe with your own, thereby exchanging the colors, icons etc....
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Pretty cool stuff there, gosh, thanks for the info and keep up the good work
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Looks very nice Paul, looking forward to trying it out
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Looking good b0r3d, can't wait to try it out when I get home from work.
Keep up the good work
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If it runs, what's the problem ??
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Thanks for the files, webmedic, looking forward to trying this out when I get home from work...
Much appreciated, my unattended "thing" is coming along quite nicely now
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ok if I get time latter today I'll post a topic on how to use inf files for your install. It's not so hard but I did have to mess with it quite a while to get some parts of it figured out.
That would be most appreciated, webmedic
Seen some of the screenshots of your .inf thing in action and it looks pretty good... much nicer than the .cmd way
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if you can wait a few days i'm going to release a new versio nthat will do a little more than the current one. I will release a .9 for the current one and call it .9 beta I guess. I will include al lthe files needed to make it work so you should not have a hard time wiht it. It will auto create the directories it needs that aren't there and a few other things. IF it is stable then I will release it as 1.0 with any big fixes that may be needed.
After that there will be some changes and additions. The next code release will do sp1 for you as well as hopefully slipstream dx9 and .net. I'm going to finish this up as soon as posible and then after that I will start working on the part that will create iso's and make bootable cd's from it all. IT should more or less be all automatic and not give any problems. You will be able to add your own files into place to customize the cd how you want.
Sounds great, I'll be looking forward to that... along with many others I suspect
The current version seems to work quite well here though, apart from the dirs and files I'm missing and/or haven't copied to right locations
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This slipstreaming looks very fascinating, but as I'm pretty new to all this unattended stuff... is there some Slipstreaming Hotfixes for Dummies guide somewhere ??
I mean, what dirs to create, what files to put where before I start and so forth...
If it's already been posted, I apologize... must have lost it in all the other posts
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Hijaking Directx 9 Websetup
in Unattended Windows 2000/XP/2003
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Nice slim-job Numinous, everything to get the install-dir size down