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IcemanND

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  1. Wait! You are able to sleep in on other days!!! No fair! My soin has been up at 7am every morning this week!!!!!
  2. Congratualtions! Good date for a birthday. My first son was born Dec 22 2000. Hope you all get home for Christmas.
  3. let's see, raid 5 on 4 - 300gb drives 900gb or 1.2tb if left as is, 600gb if mirrored.... I would hate to have to back that up to 4.7gb dvd's. if it was ever full.
  4. Really too many to list but my main 3: home: Dell Optiplex GX300 Dual PIII 866 1gb ram last count a total of 200gb of hdd space amongst it 8 drives. zip 250 cdrw dvd 52x cd 128mb MSI FX5600xt-vtdr128 video MSI tv@nywhere card I think that's it on that one. work: P4 3.0mhz w/ ht 768mb ram 40gb hdd 80gb hdd 750mb zip dvd-r Sound blaster Audigy /w firewire usb 2 Laptop: edit: P4 1.2ghz w/ centrino 512mb ram 15" lcd 40gb hd and a slew of tet systems and servers which I don't count because they change configs more often than some people in this forum take showers.showers
  5. I would if i had managed to figure it out. still working on it.
  6. Hmm...looks familiar. Windows doesn't like it being changed by script. So it asks to make sure you want to do it. The only way I know to do it is to create another script to run this one that waits for the prompt to come up and clicks the button for you.
  7. The INI settings have been updated in the original post to reflect new additions to the script. 1 - boxdesc - displays a description in the box with the application name 2 - popdesc - displays a description when the mouse stops over the application name 3 - register - installs the specified REG file after performing the installation. The script has also been updated, here.
  8. See the default INI, you can specify the height and width of the window. (Posted default INI just updated 11-15 to include new features) You can change the default font sizes by creating an INSTALL.CSS (cascading style sheet) and placing it in the same directory with the script. I've been working on this but have not come up with a way to do it that everything else continues to work properly. Still working on it. I had not added this feature to the VBS because until now there had been no interest. The EXE version does have this feature and I will add it to the VBS version in the future. It gets a little tricky. I have thought about this but decided it was easier just to kick off my hotfix installer at the beginning or end of the other installs, depending upon where I was using the script. That way the script didn't get too bloated and complicated.
  9. I'll create a new thread for INSTALLS.EXE. Since it is in a different development stage than INSTALLS.VBS and uses different options in the INI. It won't be posted until tomorrow when I'm at work. I forgot to bring it home with me.
  10. Here are the options I have considered adding (plus Geckoteck's request) For Main App: 1. Restart - option to restart after installsare complete 2. autostart - automatically starts installations upon launch. 3. delay - seconds to delay before painting IE window. For application Installs: 1. registry/(before/after) - install a registry file either before or afer install. 2. display order - instead of having them displayed in the order you put them in the INI file they display in the order specified, that way you don't have to move things around to diply in the order you want. 3. postreboot - add to runonce and install after reboot, 0 install now (default) 4. saveinstall - delete installation folder after install, deletes contents of folder and removes folder containing installer listed in INSTALL. 5. processname,wait - Process to kill at end of install, wait in seconds before killing 6. Description - a description line under name or pop up description on mouse over If anyone has any other suggestions let me know. I'll add the ones above as I have time and post the updates here. I have also create a VB6 executable that runs without the constraints of IE. Since the current version you can only run after a user profile has been created. I had the need to install some applications during the windows install but wanted some of them to be selectable. If anyone would be interested I'll also post it, it already has some of the above features included.
  11. give me a day and I'll add a comment field to the INI. As far as killing a process I haven't had to do it with any of the installers I normally use, but if you were to macke a CMD file that launched your installed and then the kill process. It should owrk just fine. I.e. (I don't know the exect command just an example CMD file) aol.cmd: start /wait aol.exe /s killps gtoad.exe Then in the INI [AOL] install=%systemdrive%\install\aol\aol.cmd The same could be done for programs were you want to put registration info in the registry before install, etc. I was considering adding an option to install registry file with an application, but dropped it when there seemed to be a lack of interest. If there is interest I will revive the project.
  12. 1. Yes you can use environment variables in the INI file. 2. What exactly are you after knowing or doing as far as a description and where?
  13. Since I had to do this for work I thought I'd pass it on. Silent install Netscape 7.x run the full installer, available here , or the base installer, available here. After the package had finished exploding and the Nescape 7.x Setup - Welcome screen comes up. Browse to the temp folder of the current user: i.e. c:\documents and settings\john doe\local settings\temp Copy the "ns_temp" folder to a new location. Cancel the installation and open your copied ns_temp folder. find CONFIG.INI and open in wordpad or metapad (does not display properly in notepad.) At the top of the file you will find: Change the "Run Mode=Normal" to "Run Mode=Silent" Search the file for "RunAppX", brings you to: And comment out all of the lines in the above three sections, RunApp 0, RunApp 1, and RunApp 2. It also never asks you to register once you do this. Save the file and run setup to silently install, or you can recompress and make your own installer. You can also customize the install using the Netscape Customization Kit, available here. But you have to register before you can download it.
  14. M$ Knowledge base on CONVERT convert <driveletter> /fs:ntfs will convert fat16/32 to ntfs.
  15. Except that XPES is for creating the setup batch files. This script gives you the ability to create a single image to install a custom selection of applications. So you put INSTALL.VBS in the runonce and after the rest of your install is done you can select what apps you want installed. If you do more than one machine for many different people that want different applications then you don't have to redo the cd for each, you just select and go. No programming is requireed either. Just set up the INSTALLS.INI with your setup options and run the script. The rest is done for you.
  16. screenshot for those interested. sample with 6 applications.
  17. Use this: html.writeline ("<title>" & wTitle & "</title>") html.writeline ("<link href=" & chr(34) & "install.css" & chr(34) & " rel=" & chr(34) & "stylesheet" & _ chr(34) & " type=" & chr(34) & "text/css" & chr(34) & ">") html.writeline ("</head>") I've updated the downloadable script with this also. I have also added a REGISTER option for the install.ini. usage: register=path\yourreg.reg registry keys will be added from yourreg.reg to the registry via "regedit /s path\yourreg.reg" after the application has finished its install. EDIT: Script updated 11/16/03 7pm EST install.vbs
  18. If you use the preinstalled system that Dell put on you should not have to Activate it again after running sysprep. From what I recall if you reload with the cd it will ask you to reactivate.
  19. try this. configure your installs through the installs.ini file, then run the script. You can have as many applications as you can display on the screen, or memory allows. I'm still working on hiding checkboxes, so that feature in the ini does not currently work but the rest appears to. EDIT: Hidden items now works. Updated downloaded script. Send me comments, problems, etc. Here is the INSTALLS.INI file: edit: updated 11/16/2003 7:13p est
  20. After using system restore to go back before I installed the hotfixes, and having reinstalled each one by itself. the culprit is KB824141. According to M$ it only updates Msgsvc.dll, and User32.dll. Which the msgsvc.dll on my machine is already the same version as what the patch installs, but user32.dll is v5.1.2600.1134, patch installs v5.1.2600.1255.
  21. the application is a Point of Sale System Client. The font sizes cannot be set within the application, as far as I have ever been able to tell. Fortunately system restore returned the systems to a properly functioning state. Now I'm instaling the updates one at a time to see which kills it. Royal pain in the A**!!!!
  22. It appears to only be affecting one application. but it has done it on four different systems. It condensed the font so that its about half the normal width. If I run system restore to a point before the updates install its fine. I Haven't had the opportunity yet to install the four updates one at a time yet. I didn't install the rollup as I already had all of the updates in it installed on the systems. The other three other than mine had the updates automatically installed last night.
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