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Ok, a couple issues/questions... First, what exactly is %COMSPEC% /c doing? I can't find that command anywhere and its driving me nuts. Now, if I create a logoff.kix file with the below in it: If @USERID = "comp1" Shell '%COMSPEC% /c net start "FAH@E:+Program Files+Folding@Home+F@H1+FAH504-Console.exe"' ; at the end of this line is a double quote followed by a single quote Shell '%COMSPEC% /c net start "FAH@E:+Program Files+Folding@Home+F@H2+FAH504-Console.exe"' ; at the end of this line is a double quote followed by a single quote EndIf After exectuing the .kix file with kix32.exe, it gives me an error stating: "The service name is invalid" However, I have a foldingstart.bat file which works perfectly to start the services. The contents of it are below: net start "FAH@E:+Program Files+Folding@Home+F@H1+FAH504-Console.exe" net start "FAH@E:+Program Files+Folding@Home+F@H2+FAH504-Console.exe" So, why is it telling me the service name is invalid when it must be correct since it works in my .bat file? Thanks.

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Thanks for the idea nmX.Memnoch...I don't know anything about kix32 yet but I'll study up, tinker around and see if I can get it to work. If not, I'll ask for some more help. Thanks for the help rehbar. I actually don't want to shut down the entire PC though. Just log out of a single user account and then have the system re-start two services.

I just searched this forum & google for the answer but didn't find it. I know that using the group policy I can set a logoff script to execute every time a user of an XP Pro machine logs off. However, I want it to run a log off script for only one user profile. Can this be done somehow or am I wasting my time? I have a startup script which net stops both instances of folding@home when I log onto my gaming profile. When logging back off, I want it to net start both of them again but NOT do it when I log out of my other profiles. Is that possible? If so, please share how. EDIT: I also should add that this is a single XP Pro box on a workgroup. There is no server. Thx. EDIT: Tried to add 'resolved' to the title of this post.

Great info... Thanks oioldman & snooz!

I created a UACD with the wpa.dbl file in the $OEM$\$$\system32 I am using the UACD on the system that I got the wpa.dbl file from. However, after the install completes I am still prompted to activate windows. I checked the file size after the install and noticed that the wpa.dbl file on my system drive was about half the size of the one I copied to the uacd. So, I checked the source I used for the UACD to make sure that I actually did put the correct file there. It checked out...matched perfectly with the backup I made. It looks like the file I had automaticlly copied was overwritten by windows or did not get copied properly. I now manually moved the correct wpa.dbl file to my system32 directory on my system drive. Since moving this file manually windows activation has not popped up asking me to activate but it possibly has not had enough time since I moved the file. My question is: Is there something else we are supposed to do when backing up our activation other than just copying the file to the $OEM$\$$\system32? Do we need to add a reg tweak or a command in a batch file or something? I checked the guide but it doesn't say to do anything else. Thanks for any help or clarification you can provide.

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I have searched google and this forum for "set temp path", "temp directory", "how to set temp path" along with a few others...no luck or I am not searching correctly. I also looked at the reference section of the guide as well but no luck. So, could someone help answer or point me to how & where to set the path location of the TEMP and TMP file for an unattended install? For example: I want Drive Z with 3 gigs of space to be the drive my temp and tmp directorys are written to. (to reduce fragmentation on my main disk) This question has been driving me nuts tonight.

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