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because changing the setup screen color (the initial part of setup) would require hex editing a few core setup files. It gets kinda nasty. It's hardcoded into the files.

I'm not sure HOW XPCREATE propagates it's driver list..... but you added your CHIPSET to FILESCD\$OEM$\$1\DRIVERS you would then need to make an winnt.sif file and add the path to OEMPnPDriversPath ( unattended.msfn.org for help ), but it will not be added to TXTSETUP.SIF i don't think like the raids would. http://greenmachine.msfnhosting.com/XPCREATE/raid.htm Follow that, but keep in mind, if you're driver is not listed there, it may not work. It has to be digitally signed.

why should the framework be intalled before DX9c? I don't see that written anywhere......

I assume you speak of this one? http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=8385 But i have no idea what controls the transperancy. and I'm only seen it for hte Windows XP thing in the upperleft

it's magenta actually.... but it might not work....

I think I've only ever made ONE modification to your code, and all I did was suggest it to you. it was adding a TITLE And now look what happens, now it has the date too However I must admit I have opened it a few times, mainly too see how those blasted FOR loops work. I still don't understand those darn things. Oh well, I'm a C++ person

That's called going overboard without knowing about what you are talking. Firstly, India is not the the pitiful,miserable country mired in poverty that some people seem to think. Secondly, India is not a shark preparing to eat up foreign jobs either (as propaganda in the US seems to suggest). It is a normal country, with as many problems and good points as any other democratic nation. I suppose forums like these are what open your mind to a global outlook, and picking up good practices is an option we all ought to exercise - instead of continuing to stereotype people. I am proud to be Indian [END OF RANT] OK, now I ease up. As for why there isn't an Indian-ised version of Windows: 1. There isn't a mono-language called "Indian". We have a multi-lingual culture, and each region here speaks its own language (Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, etc.) - 80 languages in all. 2. Predictably, each of the above languages have varying number of speakers, the largest being Hindi with 350 million. 3. Now, let's see how many people speak one of the smaller european languages - that fact will tell you that, Microsoft in its arrogance never bothered to localise their software for India (unlike their arabic/spanish/french/german/japanese editions) despite the presence of numbers. 4. The language of elitism has been english since a century (because of the legacy of british rule) - and common-sense says that computing was the preserve of the elite at first. Although now the common people have access to PCs, the supremacy of knowledge of english is re-inforced by MS's blatant profit-motives. 5. The average man on the street would still prefer to not pay for his OS, and pirate it - and he knows english. The man who doesn't know english, is, well, not in a position to buy a PC at all, nor visit an internet parlour ("poverty" as you said). So MS doesn't have an incentive to develop "Windows for Hindi" and such editions. But then, I guess they haven't heard of the concept of corporate responsibility either (after sucking the blood out of the Indians they employ as slaves - sorry, programmers). really didn't mean to offend you.... but it was just a generalization. But you're last few points do kinda illustrate my point. Microsoft is in it only for the money.....they don't make much money from India. The multi-lingual makes it even worse. Thinking economically here and business wanting money, who would spend their money developing a language version for windows, when it will most likely either not get bought, or it will be pirated? Morally they should make it, but monetarily, they shouldn't. I did learn quite a bit of Indian culture however, and I thank you for that. I like learning new things. Also, I only used Indian as a example. It is always the the languages that produce the least amount of profit that get things last. Have a good day prathapml We'll get that MSI working yet

I wonder how bad the servers are going to get hit when it's RTW, remember when RC1 came out? Those were just the enthusiasts and Tehnicians.......

That's not merite an answer... If you want to help, help, but no judgment about people's origin... Thanks Versius Sorry, didn't mean to offend you, but I'm serous...... somehow the tables of teh bored got messed.....and it's only this post. I'm really curious how yall did it....even goign back through the posts, in this edit window (scrolling down) the posts stop appearing, I see names, but no posts. But it's obvious from all the posts that somehow his files aren't where he wanted them. Perhaps missing OEMPreInstall , perhaps he put then in an Unattend folder and forgot. EDIT:: To clarify, by tables, I mean teh formating of the board. Somehow everything misaligned the farther down I go. It looks like there are embedded tables within a single cell EDIT 2::There we go....fixed it. And THAT'S why we don't post extremely long code files, but rather attach them to the post.

His key is removed..... OEMSkipWelcome is indeed missing. It's UnattendSwitch that will disable that OOBE first run

it depends on the licensing information. If it's just a simple LICENSE="BLAH" then you can do that via commandline as well.

Well, you could speed up the access times in both if you wanted to, if you actually created the disk image. Both of them by default create a dynamic file. If you had set to create itself right then and there, it would be alot faster. May take a few minutes in settings, but after taht......

how in the world did you people end up breaking the tables of the board????

Originally, comptuers didn't get that hot. lol. So there was no need. And then they had to make then compatible during the change over from ISA to PCI and when boards had BOTH, there would be space issues. PCI had to go on top for the same slot, but if there was an ISA on the next slot up, there wouldn't be space. I'm surprised they didn't change it when AGP came around and flipped it back. PCI Express i don't think changes the direction either.

Pyron's method is AFTER the blue screen. You're going to need a DOS/LINUX environment to boot into and then start the setup process. Perhaps booting a Win98 disk (you can set it as teh bootsector if you wanted) to control it. But then you can't use DISKPART. You COULD look into Windows PE/ Bart PE. You'll be able to do all the formating there and then start setup (there are posts on the topic) and BartPE is free.

Well, more specifically, I was asking for the "Microsoft news" link

Wrong Forum ~ Moved

Yes, I tried that just now, and saw what you meant (got the "Help" page when I ran a "/A" on it). Oh well, I don't see the need for it either (unless it would somehow reduce the size ). actually it would make it bigger, unless you only selected a few components.

What?

you'll have to do all the formating and stuff BEFORE you get to that blue screen where it copies all the files. but I'm not sure how to do the cutting.

Oooh! Here I was thinking you were trying to install a game that's almost 10 years old Silly me.

Hah! you'll rue the day you said this. I normally try to make an Admin-Install (/A) of every app that uses MSI as the installer. But I didn't try it on your MSI yet - but now that you mention it, I will use it and report any errors. Now don't say that..... I specifically REMOVED all ADMIN functionality. lol. But you may get a nice little screen instead. I didn't see the need for an admin install of the Winamp MSI. And hopefully I don't ahve to add it back in (don't know how ) As a matter of fact, I'm not. girlfriend for over a year thank you very much. lol. But she was busy in a play yesterday afternoon, and I had already gone to see it twice (and given her 36 roses so far) so I stayed home and got bored

oh that. Well, you posted in the Unattend forum so that got me kinda confused. Are you trying to run it from presetup.cmd? Have you tried fdisk? There is a fdisk like program that is scriptable. But why you would want to format when setup has already copied most of the files over is beyond me.

English be the first mate. Though it's not the official language in most countries, it is the 2nd largest language base, first being Chinese but that's just because of the few billion people in the country.

That's why I'm thinkin of adding those MSG boxes. It will display the string it's trying to copy from. Perhaps I need a different object then FileSystemObject