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Look at sleep.exe from the server 2003 reskit tools, which is a free 13 meg download. www.microsoft.com/reskit -gosh

Anything but 640 is locked for corp as far as i can tell. This is what i posted on another forum. Here's how to download and install one of the latest betas of xp sp2. Removed by admin - keygen 3. Install sp2, if for some reason you can't boot back into windows try safe mode and uninstall from there. That's what i did to install sp2 beta build 2135. -gosh

so you don't get the error when you use all that $OEM$ stuff on an RTM XP? -gosh

Awhile ago i got mozilla working in winpe using a switch, and by hexing a file in the profile. You can edit the file with a hex edit, or you could run mozilla/firebird with the -p or -profile switch which will prompt you to create a profile. The -p switch works best because the hex edit doesn't always work. -gosh

That's what you get for liking d12 ;o Winme has system restore you can try that. You could also download ad-aware from another pc and try to install it to remove the nasty spyware. In safe mode you could use msconfig to stop any nasty spyware from starting at startup. -gosh

try safe mode w/ networking and try another browser -gosh

Provide more information. -gosh

Well where are the %setupfiles%? You really dont need that, you just need /u: or /unattend:<answer file> to do an unattended install. -gosh

Look at using RunOnceEx, this site and my site have guides on how to use it. -gosh

You can use preset variables like %windir% but you're talking about custom variables like %comp%. It all depends on when you set the variable, and if you can use that variable in the answer file. Some answer file settings, such as setting the theme file, don't allow certain variables like %windir%. Ref.chm could give you examples of that. You will need to use trial and error. -gosh

It looks like you want to auto logon as bueller, but then you say youre not auto logged on as Administrator, which user do you want to be logged on? It sounds like a hotfix is causing your error. I'm not a hotfix guy, maybe someone off hand knows what hotfix is causing the problems. When you get the error you could simply press shift + f10, type taskmgr, press enter, then go to the processes tab and see which hotfix is running. -gosh

An answer file only takes pre-existing values, you just can't make up answer file settings. In general you probably can only use preexisting values, although i guess it's possible you could make up variables, never tried it. If you want to make an environment variable permanent use the setx command, which is documented and is also documented on my site (winpesetup.bat). -gosh

You will need to change the BOOT folder and the Sources folder. The BOOT folder is easy - just rename BOOT to whatever you want and hex edit setupldr.bin in the new BOOT folder to what you renamed the folder to. You also need to make BOOT.DAT files (the 4k loader files), just change BOOT to the name of your new folder. The second problem is you will need to rename the Sources directory. This i think would be tricky because the Longhorn WinPE is compressed in the sources.bin (?) file and uncompressed on the fly when you boot longhorn. I have never done this, but my theory would be to make 2 BOOT and 2 Sources folders. For example, let's say you want to put 4008 and 4053 on a cd/dvd. Rename the 4008 BOOT folder to 4008; rename the 4053 BOOT folder to 4053. Hex edit setupldr.bin in 4008 to 4008; hex edit setupldr.bin in 4053 and change BOOT to 4053. Make 2 boot sectors (the 4k boot sects), and change BOOT to 4008 and 4053, respectfully. Rename the Sources directory on each longhorn to Src4008 and Src4053, for both. Boot from each Longhorn original cd, and when setup is on the screen do shift + f10, and go into the BOOT folder. You will see the folder magically has all the winpe files. Copy the BOOT directory (which should be 100+ megs) to the hard drive, then exit setup and reboot into windows. From this folder you copied take txtsetup.sif and change the setupsourcepath to your new Sources directories. You might need to load setupreg.hiv in regedit and change HKLM\Setup to the correct Sources directory. So in 4008 and 4053 you should have setupldr.bin, txtsetup.sif,setupreg.hiv, and the other 1 or 2 files that were already in that directory. You might need to edit the files in Src4008 and Src4053 to point to the right Sources directory. Just hex edit each file in that directory and change Sources to the respective name. That should work, but ive never tried it and don't feel like trying it. The reason why i think this will work is Longhorn will use any files in a directory before using the sources.bin or whatever that file is called. -gosh -gosh

You might be able to do that just by changing the registry permissions on the powercfg key in the registry. There's also powercfg.exe from the server 2003 reskit that might allow you to do this. Look into security templates that might lower permissions enough to allow users to change their power options. Screensaver timeout is a registry key in HKCU\Desktop i believe. You could play with the permissions of that registry key. -gosh

Without saying a word im sure most of you guys know what method i would recommend. I think the best option is to try each method and then pick which one is best for your needs. Each method has pros and cons and there's no perfect method out there. GM's site has a good comparision of the common methods used. -gosh

You don't sell windows you sell the license for windows. As long as you are selling a valid windows license i dont think microsoft would care. They would care if you are selling hundreds or thousands of pc's as an OEM. -gosh

I've said it before - when you want to add drivers delete setupapi.log, install the program, then look at the new setupapi.log to see what inf and associated files are used. It sounds like you've done that. You could then integrate the drivers. Adding the inf and associated files to dosnet.inf and txtsetup.sif would probably do that. My site has tutorials on how to do that. During setup it should do PNP enumeration, it should find your inf and install the software. If the drivers aren't digitally signed make sure you use driversigningpolicy= in your answer file. It should work. If you need the exact steps to do this someone could write them for you. -gosh

You can download the trial on the internet, some site in brazil had it. Google and you shall find. -gosh

Try it, see what happens. Try installing longhorn too. -gosh

You gotta love people like that. Everything worked fine, then he played around with setupp.ini, and now it doesn't work. Gee, i wonder what happened. If you want to install xp then don't screw around with the source files. -gosh

edit: Clear his temp files, cache, and redownload the file. Check for netscape style plugins. Delete anything in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Plugins\Extension\.exe Uninstall any software such as quicktime, download managers. -gosh

Correct, using my method you won't have dosnet.inf, winnt.exe and winnt32.exe. If you use my method you never need to do anything to dosnet.inf, it's not used when you boot from the XP cd. -gosh

Yes you would need to partition seperatly. Diskpart is for 32 bit mode, but you can download delpart.exe from the win2k resource kit which is like diskpart but runs in dos mode. Or you could use winpe to script disk part -gosh

A friend of mine - on this site his name is cooldude or something - showed me how to play solitare while running setup. All you do is shift +f10 and type the exe for soliture and switch to full screen mode. It does work. -gosh

Justuse several boot folders, one with an unattend file and one without. My site has more info. gosh