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So I'm going to have to find some program called PowerArchiver to make a CAB? =/ I know what I'm doing, I just don't see how the hell CAB files are manufactured. If I can't find this program, I guess I'm probably better off grabbing my XP SP1 image, extracting the whole SP2 archive and editing the entries that overwrite the bootscreen before integrating. What a mess....

! ................... We'll see about that....>.<' I would suggest you try your project against the pinfi virus, but it's way too vicious for any box with executables. I like where this is going...Is it going to be available this year?

Weird...I've never had any problems with the Royale theme. I always shut off the themes service before adding a theme though.

XPCREATE will do that... Personally I would rather integrate the WGA tool manually.

I know this probably doesn't belong here, but how do you go about manually updating the driver.cab located in the Windows XP distribution? It's pretty high compressing...I take one look at that thing and shidang that's a 1GB+ archive in a 73MB file. For those of you that care...I just want to update the bootscreens. =/ I'm sure this is the same process seen from Win2K to Longhorn.

Yeah...It would be nice...But I'm done messing with Win2K! o_O .................. Until November 8th.... Do you think XPCREATE will work on NT 4 Server?

It sounds like IIS didn't completely install. Did you reboot before using it? You shouldn't have to do that, but if it works afterwards I guess it's a fix. I've never had any good experiences with Virtual Server. In fact, I remembered the last time I blammed that crap was because I lost control of my computer while something important was going on in the background. I hate Virtual Server. >.<'

BAM! o_O Fixcessed to the hackcess...o_O XPCREATE finally pulled through. The QCHAIN hangs unless you mash a few keys. I have everything for the October 11 update except for the flash 8 and the WUS cabs installed perfectly. This is a perfect network candidate.

There are no error reports generated by HFSLIP. It's the process in VMWare that goes bad. It tries to install but hangs halfway into setup. I'm not waiting more than an hour on it. I need to move on with other things too. =/ Nothing appears corrupted. There shouldn't be any corruption present. I have Windows 2000 Pro working just fine the way XPCREATE set it. HFSLIP gave me nothing but problems and I'm not about to go back into that. The issue seems to be with Windows 2000 Advanced Server. It doesn't like what XPCREATE does to it and it doesn't like HFSLIP either. How the hell did you integrate DX9C without breaking dxdiag? o_O If you slipstream DX9C you get two errors about GDI32.DLL and USER32.DLL. ............................ Broken! I'm about two builds away from just tossing HFSLIP and editing the hive myself. This is really starting to p*** me off. If I can't fix this today I'm just going to say screw it, give it service pack 4 and leave it. I'm done wasting my time with Windows 2000. They're the least of my worries right now anyway. I should be more concerned about NT 4 Server and the entire flavor line of Windows XP and Server 2003. Longhorn is going to be a redistribution, but as a live environment only.

The setup just hangs again. I'm sick of HFSLIP. Whenever I integrate the rollup it never works right. >.<'

How about forcing it into the hive? That's what I'm going to do with the custom recovery environment when I'm done updating all this crap. =/ Then again that's not 2K. Alright...I'll attempt to put the rollup with HFSLIP. I just tried updating the hard way and the GUI installation would hang. After 9 days I'm considering giving up on the Windows 2000 platform entirely.

No. The rollup isn't needed. If it wasn't needed three months ago it isn't needed now. Now I'm going to attempt to manually integrate the rollup and all following hotfixes without breaking the installation. The one annoying thing I find about HFSLIP are the several HFSLIP entries in the i386 folder. Is there any way to clean these up and force the HFSLIP popup into the background? Or is HFSLIP still doing what I have been complaining about for the past two weeks?

Ok I'll try this one last time. I'm really hoping this works, but this time I'm only going to go through the steps to integrate IE6.

No it doesn't! o_O If it was directly integrated, you'd hear a lot of nothing because people would have more problems with HFSLIP than updating their distribution configurations every second Tuesday of the month. I've asked more than a reasonable amount of times if anyone has found a way to successfully reforge IE6SP1 into Windows 2000 installations and so far NO ONE has been able to do that. If it was directly integrated, I could: Install Service Pack 4 "directly" integrate IE6SP1 into Windows 2000 Integrate non-slipstreamable hotfixes using HFSLIP/XPCREATE Stop Manually integrate all slipstreamable hotfixes post SP4 Forge new ISO compilation Install with IE6SP1 preinstalled Only see Windows Update gripe about the ActiveX control used on the site and nothing else But that isn't what happens. Instead over half of the manual work is sacrificed because IE6SP1 is not slipstreamed into the installation. If it was, I wouldn't see IE5 every time I install and Windows Update wouldn't be griping for about 50MB of hotfixes. What I want is a way to directly inject IE6SP1 from the beginning. Make it a permanent part of the distribution that doesn't require help from 3rd party junk like HFSLIP and XPCREATE because they do a lot of nothing for that kind of work. I want an up-to-date distribution that I can quickly update when the need arises without these aggrevating programs(HFSLIP doesn't do what I want while XPCREATE does a little more and is incredibly time consuming). I guess what I'm saying is I want to do this the hard way so that there won't be a hard way in the future.

No. He wants direct integration! o_O The kind of integration that makes you go CMD KB######.EXE /integrate:D:\2KADV and you do a total overhaul of flawed files. IE isn't like that, but the setup for IE can be run in the background during setup. The only problem is it interferes with DirectX if you try to integrate DX9C as well. The problem of just doing hotfix integration is that Windows 2000 doesn't come with IE6, so regardless of using it or not, you break Outlook and a nasty error pops up even in a FullUnattend. It's something that p***es a lot of people off and so far I can't think of any way around it other than slipping IE6SP1 setup into the background during setup. Replacing files could work, but I would have a hell of a time doing it manually(finding what files go where, editing the setup INIs, compressing files...testing for three or four days to find out what else broke...). It's really lame. XPCREATE seems to do what I want perfectly, but so far it doesn't seem to work at all on Windows 2000 Advanced Server. I know Professional accepts it, server is supported, but Advanced Server....

I knew I wasn't crazy. I just remembered my 2003 ENT VLK disc defaults at 5 seats and just goes up and up...x_X' I believe my XP VLK goes to a max of 77 seats. These are really great. .................. I need to stop consuming so much caffeine.

Nice server name... That first box....Greatest error ever! Reinstalling may get rid of it, but I don't see a problem and apparently neither does Windows. Your server is trying to synchronize time with an outside primary domain controller?

I wouldn't say that. Every business has to expand at some point. Whether it be one piece of equipment every year, or they become as bloated as each Microsoft OS....=/ If this business is expanding quickly, I'm sure it will eventually take full advantage of volume licensing.

Crap....I guess I think so big I don't see the small detail. The individual license thing sounds a bit expensive to me. I guess I'm lazy too. =/

Care to explain? o.o Even DX8 breaks on me and I'm sure it's because of the IE6 update in the middle of setup. =/

No. This has to be wrong. Newegg wouldn't even be in business. =/ I believe the maximum client connections can be set manually.

What the crap! Well how do I integrate DX9C into a Win2K distribution that doesn't give errors when I run dxdiag?! zOMG hawt! O_O I need to make something like that for my preinstallations. =/

I see: 1 XP Pro VLK 1 2KPro VLK 1 Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition license

Try initiating a system crash instead? o.O I'm sure the Ctrl+Scroll method will work for you.

Yes! YES! ............. OMGWTFBBQ YES! <3:) lol I accomplished this with XPCREATE and it's working fine. My only beef is with DX9 installation. Just for reference, was DirectX9 ever meant to go on Windows 2000? o.o