IcemanND

Sounds like you have a worm or bot on your machine. Scan your system offline from CD and see what you find. While you are scanning be sure to empty all temp folders. I really hate to say it but you are likely looking at a system rebuild.

dir /s /b *.inf returns a list of all of the INF files in the directory passed to the batch file which is stored in the %Drivers% variable. each file in the list is then passed to the PEIMG command to be processed and then the process is repeated until the end of the list.

WOW. over 3000 downloads and no one has ever noticed that, including me. Both lines should be changed to: if "%installmsd%"=="true" call Install_Drivers.cmd %MSDPath% if "%installlan%"=="true" call Install_Drivers.cmd %LANPath%

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I think you may want to recheck your own system and verify the file you downloaded against the MD5 hashes provided. I just downloaded the latest version from the links in the first post and found no viruses in the files checking with the latest mcafee, norton and nod32.

you can write your app to use the Windows Update offline scan file. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926464

Only ther thin gi can think of is your profile being corrupted. Try backing up your existing profile, then delete it and let a new on be created and see how it goes.

Any errors in the event viewer? Do you have a VPN you tunnel through, or that you can and see if there is a difference.

The packs are just compressed archives. Use 7-zip and extract just the drivers you want from the packs you want and manually add the driver paths to the answer file or directly to the registry. Nothing says you have to use their designed method to use the packs.

http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPo...9&SiteID=17

If you want to process all DESKTOP.INI files in the current tree all you need to run is the attrib command from the desired folder. ATTRIB +s +H DESKTOP.INI /S The /S does the recursive searching for you. If you want to check the current folder before you run it use: If EXIST DESKTOP.INI ATTRIB +S +H DESKTOP.INI /S

you can get the lease obtain date and time and expiration on a client using WMI and Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration

In case it happens again, or someone else finds this post, try Dial-a-fix; http://wiki.djlizard.net/Dial-a-fix it has an option for repairing the windows installer. works great.

yep that looks right.

what's the link to the cd/dvd file you are checking? Quite possibly are not needed, most of the cd/dvd files available from Dell are firmware updates not driver files.

7-zip can decompress the Dell drivers to folders for you then nLite can integrate the decompressed drivers.

well if you are using WMI and a VBscript the use the RIGHT(String$,x) command to get the last four characters of the serial number. Then append the month and year to the results.

not sure what the issue is with the intel drivers, but the 888111 pack checks for SP version before installing and is a SP1/2 update only. I integrated SP3 then installed the DPs post install and had no issues with the audio without 888111 which I had to install with SP2 to get my audio working. Though the driver that was picked has some strange configuration for the volume control panel but it works.

you can get software to combine partitions like partition magic. you could use an imaging tool like ghost and back up the disk to an image repartition and then restore to the expanded partition.

If you have admin access to all of the machines on your network you could run a VBscript to collect installed software from machines and save it to a file on a network share or the machine you run the script from.

do any errors appear in the event viewer when you are booted to safe mode? Does it still do it if you disable ALL of the startup items from the stratup folder and the registries RUN keys?

this depends upon your keyboard and the software provided with it, some allow you to customize the launched apps some don't

veryify that your timezone settings are correct by running w32tm /tz from a command prompt. Adjust if needed. the numbers in () in the results are the start and end time of DST.

Not a problem. If you search around the forum you will likely find the switches to your apps to make them silent. There is also a database of some switches in the unattended guide http://unattended.msfn.org . Good luck and welcome to MSFN

Check the hard drive during the install, your folder on %systemdrive% will be $install not install.