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check here, it has a csv file in it that is up to date as of april, at least for the critical updates.

Try this in Word: Tools --> Options on View Tab, Show section Uncheck Picture Placeholders. click OK

are you creating your images using sysprep?

at what point is the usb hard drive not seen? Ghost 9 will normally see a usb hard drive. If not you may need to add a switch for it to try and detect it differently.

@gunsmokingman - sorry I was assuming the end of the loop was in the etc, etc. since the error was before the loop I didn't test anything from the loop on.

copy the i386 directory to your external hard drive (needs to be formatted fat32). Back up any data on the internal drive. Get / create a bootable dos floppy, or if you have Norton Ghost or similar application use it to create a boot floppy. Image the external drive to the internal drive. restart and boot from floppy again. run i386\winnt.exe <your switches> to install XP. convert drive from fat32 to ntfs.

you could try booting from floppy if you have one, then use ghost (or similar program) to clone the usb drive over the new drive, the reboot from floppy and run winnt.exe from the internal drive.

I'd use the word SMART with the product XP very lightly, sometimes it can be very slow at unloading unneeded DLL's

first you need to know what the HAL is that is installed on the two machines if you did clean install of windows to them. They need to match or be compatible. There are ways to go between incompatible HALs but it is not always a pretty or satisfactory result. You will also need the HDD controller drivers for te new system, the Deployment tools for your version of windows and service pack (they are different between sp1 and sp2). Hopefully both systems use either ACPI Uniprocessor or ACPI Muliprocessor HALs, check by going to the device manager and looking under the computer heading. If the old system is uniprocessor, or both systems are the same then all you need sysprep to do when it reseals it is to add the diskcontroller drivers and redetect the hardware. If its multiprocessor and the target is uniprocessot then you need to add a line to tell sysprep to downgrade the processor when deployed, check the deploy.chm help file for details. I don't have access to it at the moment. Then some luck and prayer. Or you can buy a license of the Universal Imaging Utility.

sounds like a firewall issue, on the new system

your folder name needs to be in double quotes in the query string. this: ..."'Win32_Directory.Name="& foldr & "'" should really end up looking like: ...'Win32_Directory.Name="C:\\\\scripts"' you can either add the appropriate number of quotes or add CHR(34) to the string. ..."'Win32_Directory.Name="" & foldr & ""'" or ..."'Win32_Directory.Name=" & chr(34) & foldr & chr(34) &"'" @ gunsmokingman - his loop will work, rereview your Do..loop do [{while | until} condition] [statements] [exit do] [statements] loop

so what is nLite? it's a 3rd party solution. sorry Nuhi. If you don't want 3rd party solutions you should just download every hotfix and integrate them according to Microsoft's supported methods.

just add the appropriate switches for the update you are installing so it installs silently. Basically the same as when integrating them just don't use the /integrate switch.

does the whole processs have to be unattended? Because manually you can create multiple partitions, you just can't format all of them until windows is loaded. You can create the partitions manually during the installation drive selection, but you can only format one partition, the one you install to. After windows is up and running you can format the others. But to my knowledge there is no way to create the partitions unattended without booting to another environment first.

if it is your teacher may be the first to figure it out. Let us know when he shows the class

the dll's are required for WGET. I have been looking for a way to download the files using something built into the os but so far they are either way too slow or use waaay too much memory.

if you have a cd (or other system you can attach the drive to) you can boot from which you can access the drive you can replace the missing/corrupt file with one of the recent backups mae by System restore. Microsoft has a couple of KB articles on how to do it. Knew it was around here somewhere: Fixing registry: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=71807&hl= Getting access: (detailed) http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=10561&hl=#

then delete this: and change the "%CD_Drive%\Hotkey for Display Devices\English\" to the full path on your hard drive. for example: C:\WINDOWS\System32\rundll32.exe setupapi,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 132 %systemroot%\install\toshiba\Tfnf5Wxp.inf >nul

try this http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=74452&hl=

I like jcarle's utility but he hasn't updated it since January, so I came up with my own. At this point it does what I need so I'm not likely going to make any changes other than fix bugs if any are discovered. But recommendations will be considered. I will not be updating the included list of updates on any sort of regular basis, but since it is a CSV file you can keep the list up to date yourself by referencing any of the numerous lists on this site. The included list should be current as of April 2006. It is written as an HTML Application so if you what to add something feel free. This will syncronize your download folder with the listed contents of you CSV file, if it's not on the list it will not be in the folder. If it's on the list and you provide the correct download link it should end up in the folder. Enjoy. GetUpdates.exe (7-zip self extracting archive) Updated csv file for August 2006 updates.zip

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Is there a way to downlod files via script, without the use of a thrid party app, and preferably without using the following: Const adSaveCreateOverWrite = 2 saveToFile = False msgbox "strUrl=" &strUrl &vbcrlf &"strSavetoFspec=" &strSavetoFspec Dim oDnLod set oDnLod = CreateObject("Msxml2.XmlHttp.3.0") oDnLod.open "GET", strUrl, false oDnLod.send() If oDnLod.status = 200 Then Dim oStream set oStream = CreateObject("Adodb.Stream") oStream.type = typeStream oStream.open() oStream.write(oDnLod.responseBody) oStream.saveToFile strSavetoFspec , adSaveCreateOverWrite oStream.close() set oStream = nothing saveToFile = True else Dim strNameTemp, i i = InstrRev(strSavetoFspec, "\") strNameTemp = mid(strSavetoFspec, i+1) msgbox "while downloading " &strNameTemp & vbcrlf & oDnLod.statusText &vbtab &"status=" &oDnLod.status &vbcrlf &vbcrlf &vbcrlf &strUrl End If Using the Adodb.stream to save files is fine if you are getting small files but if they are larger 200mb+, one it will take forever, two it sucks up memory like an elephant at a water hole. edit: PS. if you want to test the above method do not hard code an EXE file as the file to download, most virusscanners will detect it as a virus. If it pulls the file from the commandline or an external file its fine.

actually media does matter - it needs to be the same media as what you already have. Also try a different cd-rom drive. I have seen this kind of issue with drives that are starting to fail but still function well enough for general use. and i think by "clearing" he meant cleaning. Usaully scratches or dirt on the cd will cause this, but sometimes it's the drive.

if you are goinf to do a clean install you don't need to install a previous os just need to have a cd. Do the install on a clean drive and it will ask you for the qualifying upgrade media to make sure you quilify for the upgrade. But you should be able to do a repair with the upgrade cd and that process will replace teh cd key. But If I were you I'd get a full version or a copy of the same version you already have.

use notepad to open it. then the commas and double quotes will still be there for you to see. and anything else that excel may be stripping away will still be visible.