Skyfrog

Sounds like there may be an error in your winnt.sif file. If you could copy and paste it here everyone could look it over for you. Be sure to take out your product key and any other personal info first of course.

Sorry for the late reply; I guess your question has been answered now, but what I do instead of trying to create the shortcuts by hand is just install the program (or create a shortcut to it) on an existing installation of XP, and then copy this shortcut to my $OEM$ desktop or start menu folders.

Where's the challenge in that?

Edit: SOLVED! In addition to the .scr and .dll file for each screen saver, you also need the following two files (from the Windows 95 Plus! Pack or Windows 98): WL32DLL.DLL WILDLB32.DLL The next problem is that they all show up in the screensavers menu as "WildLife 32" instead of their proper names such as "Mystery", so you must use Resource Hacker to open each .scr file and modify the name "Wildlife 32" found in String Table, 1, 1033 to it's proper name (Mystery, Nature, etc). Be sure to click the "Compile Script" button in order for your changes to be saved. Now save the file and copy everything to your system32 directory. They should now be in your Screen Savers list. Enjoy. Download Resource Hacker.

I only mentioned ME because I thought perhaps the same trick would work with XP. I understood your post perfectly. Actually I still have my copy of Plus! 98 so I'll mess around with it and see what I can come up with.

Thanks for sharing this.

There are also some registry entries you could export to get the shell extension "Scan with Ad-Aware", but personally I would rather do without it. Too many of those shell extensions really start to look messy after a while and may even make Explorer less stable.

I do not have autoconfirm or configure at logon in mine; what do these options do?

I seem to remember that you could trick Plus! 98 into installing on Windows Me by copying the CD to the hard drive and renaming setup.exe to something else. I have never tried this with XP however so I don't know if it would still work. Even if it does there are probably certain parts you should not try to install. Desktop themes, the games and the Deluxe CD Player should be safe though.

No problem at all. I'm doing the same thing by creating shortcuts to programs I'll be adding automatically (like Media Player Classic and Ad-Aware) in my All Users start menu. Seems to work just fine.

I bet that's what he means, the Windows XP Tour. Here's how to stop it:

To be honest I wouldn't bother. In no time at all those will be outdated also, so you will have to download updates again anyway. However I read that 2004 has an update out that allows it to work with the Windows Security Center, so if 2003 has one also I'd try to get that at least. As for how to do it I'm afraid I don't know; I'm using Avast myself.

I guess you mean Windows Me. I didn't have that very long and fortunately my shiny new Radeon card wasn't recognized by it so it was unable to play that stupid movie. I'll look around though and see if I can find a way to disable it.

I'm guessing it uses the Windows Installer, so these should work: http://unattended.msfn.org/xp/applications/wininstall.htm If it uses some other installer click Unattended XP CD on the page above, go to applications, and scroll down to the installer you need.

Everyone probably knows about installing WinRAR silently already, but I added a bit to mine to get rid of that stupid zip and cab files as folders feature in Windows Explorer. I found this works best for me since WinRAR can immediatly claim those associations. ECHO. ECHO Installing WinRAR 3.30 ECHO Please wait... regsvr32 /u /s zipfldr.dll regsvr32 /u /s cabview.dll start /wait %systemroot%\support\install\WinRAR\wrar330.exe /s

I believe you could copy them to this location on your CD, and during setup they should be copied to your fonts folder. Make sure they aren't zipped up or anything of course. $OEM$/$$/Fonts

I don't know then, maybe it's because you don't have a floppy drive. I don't think I've ever installed XP without one. When you hit Enter does setup continue or does it just keep asking? You might want to post your answer file for everyone to look over (taking out any personal information first of course).

I've never seen that before; when you made the bootable CD did you choose Floppy Emulation? You should choose No Emulation if it asks. I've never used nlite so I'm not sure what options it gives you.

It shows the same thing on mine, as does IE when you click About. I downloaded SP2 directly from Microsoft so I definately have the final; must be an oversight on their part or that number is referring to something else. Got me...

You don't have to enter setup to change anything. The boot sequence is already set up for you; Virtual PC automatically boots from the floppy or CD-ROM drive if a bootable disk is present (captured) in either.

Thanks

Edit: Ok, keeping quiet about it then. I know nuuuthing!

The drivers that are included in XP are very basic and don't offer all of the features you should have, such as the HP Deskjet Toolbox. This displays how much ink is in your cartrides, allows you to change advanced settings, etc. The newer official drivers may have bug fixes or other improvements as well.

At the moment I'm running SP1 and the driver shows up in v4 of Windows Update. I do recall having trouble with the drivers before SP1 also and I always had to use Windows Update to install it. I have not tried it with SP2 just yet but I imagine it will still happen. I may have a defective gamepad but I can't understand why it is correctly identified from Windows Update and the driver installs from there, but it won't allow me to install it manually. I'm actually thinking of throwing this thing out the window and buying one from Logitech. Gravis support has never once offered to help me out with it. That was an amazingly fast reply by the way. Thanks

This is making me mad. I have a Gravis Xterminator Force gamepad, and by default Windows installs it as an HID device with no support for force feedback. Windows Update does detect it properly and offers me a driver (Immersion HIDClass 4.50) which installs and works great if I install it from Windows Update. With SP2 being out I decided to download the driver and put it right on my new slipstreamed CD so I wouldn't have to bother with it anymore. Now here is the problem; when I point the device manager to the inf file it says "This location does not contain information about your hardware". WTF? Why would Windows Update detect it properly and work fine, but trying to install it manually is a no go? Is Windows that stupid or am I doing something wrong? I've tried for several hours to force it to install but it just refuses to accept it. The driver is WHQL certified by the way. Any ideas? I have downloaded the Gravis Xperience software also, same version drivers, and these will not install either. Windows XP simply refuses to use anything but the generic driver unless I get it through Windows Update, and on dial-up that is really annoying to have to do every time.