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My opinion on MCP, MCSE, MCSA (or any other cert). If you have to "cram" for them then you don't deserve them. Most of the items on the tests are items that most people who get their certs have never done in real life, just read in a book. These are the people who saturate the IT market and lower the standards. These are the fools who belong behind a level 1 helpdesk.

just a small bit of information that most people do not know. When you save a file in notepad you do not have to select "All Files." You can simply surround the file in quotes and it names the file that no matter what the file type is set to.

Post SP1 hotfixes have Qchain functionality built in. They do not require Qchain to be run. Use Shutdown.exe at the end to restart the PC.

There are two methods. One would require you to create a share on a network drive and a disk that boots to the network and kicks off from that share. The other (and easier) option would be to use RIS. RIS is Remote Installation Services and is available on Windows 2000 and 2003 Server. Let me add that the first option requires a boot disk. The second option uses PXE which is built into most MBs BIOS chips. You need only press "F12" to boot to the network (some older PXEs use "N"). You CAN use a bootdisk for RIS, but there is no need.

This would mean that you do not have administrator rights on your PC. Login to an account that has administrator rights.

Thanks for agreeing... Oh, love the hosting account XPerties! Thanks for your help!

Welcome the the forums Slipstreaming a service pack or a hotfix is not particularly hard. Slipstriming a BETA update is not particulary smart in my opinion. Thank you for the bit of information, but it's posted all over the site already. Enjoy your stay.

I just use 3 cards. my main Ti4200 128MB and my 2 PCI cards are Matrox. Works well for me. I love 3 monitors.

devil270975: Don't worry, I understand where you are comming from. I like to create scripts that create scripts in order to save time. I also do it to prove to myself that there isn't anything I can't do by command script. I had someone once argue that it's impossible to create a timer script that would count down and launch a program when it hits zero. Proved him wrong. It's a thrill, right? I have scripts to do everything you could ever imagine. I have to administer over 500 PCs and when you have to do something to all of them scripts come to great use. Anything can be done using a batch script. I will take any challenge that says not. :-D I would recommend that you take parts of your script such as the reg keys and put them into an "INI" file of some kind and search that using the for command ( EXAMPLE: file.ini [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\ApmActive] "Active"=dword:00000001 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ApmActive] "Active"=dword:00000001 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Hardware Profiles\0001\System\CurrentControlSet\Enum\ROOT\NTAPM] for /f %%i in (file.ini) DO echo %%i>>XP\$OEM$\$1\Install\NTAPM.cmd I would also make the winnt.sif file a stand alone file and use the FOR statement on it as well. It's nice to have everything together, but seem to have done way too much work. I am sure it's hell to find what you want to edit. By calling files from other places you can make it easier to edit. You can even add options at the beginning to ask for filenames and such so you can try different things without editing your existing files. You could also create prompts to change items on the fly. Example winnt.sif .. .. [userdata] .. .. computername=%cn% .. .. set /p siffile=Enter location and name of desired SIF file: set /p cn=Enter desired name of Computer: for /f %%i in (%siffile%) do echo %%i>>file.txt I don't really dig the 1 file thing, but if that is how you would like to do it then it's kewl. Maybe some of my suggestions help. Let me know. Good Luck!

fedgoat: got a little bit of a rage problem, huh? I am not christian (or any religion for that matter) but your little bias statement was uncalled for. What right do you have to make such assumptions? And, what right do you have to stomp on someone else's 1st amendment right of free speech? If you don't like it, don't watch. Why not attack the companies that made so much money from the footage of the 9/11 attacks, of people jumping out of windows and all that? What's the difference? Oh, I get it... You aren't from the States, so you think that gives you the right to bash our rights? Welcome to the forums by the way. You should really read the forum guidelines before you post again.

Well... most people don't wait. They simply walk away and do something else. Anyways. Anything is possible. I STILL don't understand why people want to use Windows Server 2003 as a workstation.

you can most definately remove the 65MB IE5 directory.

I understand exactly what you are wanting to do, but I don't think it can be done. You can try using a tool called FILEMON or something similar to watch what files are used and which are not and then remove the ones it doesn't access. That's about all I can recommend.

here's how I do it... Create a directory called $OEM$\$1\hotfixes Create sub directories called IE and WIN Create sub directories beneath the WIN directory called 1 and 2 So, here is what you should have $OEM$\$1 HOTFIXES WIN 1 2 IE There are two different kinds of hotfixes for Windows and one for IE (the reason for the directory structure) One type of hotfix uses -u -q -z switches where as the other kind uses /q:a /r:n switches. Drop the first kind in the 1 directory and the second kind in the 2 directory. If you have trouble determining which is which you can launch it from a prompt with a /? switch to find out. Drop the corresponding IE hotfixes in the IE directory. Drop QCHAIN.EXE in the HOTFIXES directory. Create a batch file in the HOTFIXES directory called HOTFIXES.BAT with the following contents :START @ECHO OFF DIR /B c:\hotfixes\win\1\>>c:\hotfixes\win1.txt DIR /B c:\hotfixes\win\2\>>c:\hotfixes\win2.txt DIR /B c:\hotfixes\IE\>>c:\hotfixes\ie.txt FOR /f %%i IN (c:\hotfixes\win1.txt) DO ECHO %%i -u -q -z>>hotfixrun.bat FOR /f %%i IN (c:\hotfixes\win2.txt) DO ECHO %%i /q:a /r:n>>hotfixrun.bat FOR /f %%i IN (c:\hotfixes\ie.txt) DO ECHO %%i /q:a /r:n>>hotfixrun.bat ECHO qchain.exe>>hotfixrun.bat hotfixrun.bat RD /S/Q c:\hotfixes :END

98% of the installs I do are part of our network so I use RIS. For the few that I have had to build using a CD it is not worth my time to make an unattended CD. I have heard of people using multiple CDs as well as DVDs.

when I said batch I meant CMD

Prometheus: I am not so sure that I understand what you mean.

no... you need to put that into a batch file and list the batch file in the cmdlines.txt

you go on believing that...

no, I was just giving my background. I am not a 12 year old who stumbled upon this method and decided "oh, I'm cool... I can do this." I have professional experience. I hate being told by someone that I am wrong when I know that I am not. edg21: do YOU feel big now!?

you CAN do it that way, but you would also have to include drivers for your CD drive. (although this shows that you would be installing it from your C drive)

I would assume that as long as you give them the original software along with the new CD and it works with their legal key it should be legal. You are selling a service, not software. That is of course if someone wants to pay for it and they don't feel like doing it themselves.

this is not done using DOS. Search the forum for unattended windows xp installations and you will find a wealth of information.

"don't know" !?!?! WTF Let me give you a little of my background. I have been doing unattended installations for a year and a half. I have read every single MSKB article regarding unattended installations. I dare you to check the unattended installation file included on the Windows XP CD. You will see the official variables. oemsigningpolicy is not one of them. I administer a RIS server and Windows 2000 and Windows XP images and have deployed them on over 500 PCs. Now... I am going to say it again... There is no such variable as "OemSigningPolicy"

When you say "mirroring" are you talking about HD mirroring? And... I have yet to understand anyone who wants to run WS2k3 as a workstation.