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This would be a good one for Typoe Guy

Hive files are a pain and unless you use a seperate hive file you'll have to recreate the hive file everytime you apply a new service pack. If you're looking at hive files you might want to look at inf files instead, since they're much simplier and easier to test. -gosh

Someone actually used that batch file. I'm not sure what the error means, try sfc /scannow -gosh

Post the exact error and search google on the error. -gosh

You don't need to be a wise a**, i answered you question. The topic of this thread is "format with cluster size". You asked if there's any way to get the installer to change the allocation unit, you didn't specify what you meant by installer. Do you mean setup.exe or format.exe or what? I assumed by the topic of this thread that you want to use format, you never asked for a way to do this during setup. If you don't like my answers then next time don't be vague and assume people know exactly what you want. -gosh

I think you can install windows installer programs during setup, but in general this is not advisable. Therefore you would need to install them using guirunonce, or runonce, or runonceex. You could always extract the .msi and manually install the hotfix. -gosh

format /? -gosh

I highly recommend r-studio from www.r-tt.com. It's recovered destroyed partitions for me before that no other software could touch. It is expensive, but the trial version recovers files up to 64k big. It's well worth the money. -gosh

The xp registry guide by jerry honeycutt is a very good book, it shows how to use regsnap and other things like that. -gosh

my install4.inf has a policy to disable it, and my website has a link to a website with group policies to control that. Just disable the prompt by policy. My friends don't mind, i install r-studio that undeletes data so if they accidently delete something they just use r-studio. -gosh

I hear if you change your computer name to 'gosh' activation will be deactivated. Don't know if it's true or not. That info was public info available from Microsoft when XP launched. It amazes me when people copy stuff from a public ms kb article and act like they're big computer hot shots like they figured out wpa.dbl all by themselves. -gosh

just do like i do and disable email, it's all good. -gosh

There's no way to change the default administrator name, yet. You'll need to use a program to change it later. I think administrator comes from syssetup.inf which you cannot modify. -gosh

did you redownload the file?????? -gosh

you're cute beccatigger. Happy bday again, Aaron. -gosh

From another forum i heard about a huge raid today overseas. http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2004/April/04_crm_263.htm I'll quote this from another forum: I just find it stupid. Instead of going after students downloading software they should be going after the real criminals, the terrorists and such. -gosh

you might have a cd that will only upgrade win2k (yes they exisst, ive seen them). Tell me the first 5 numbers of your product id (not key, ID. the number in My Computer properties). You can get the first 5 numbers of the product ID from setupp.ini. I'll tell you what that version can upgrade. Otherwise youre typing in the key wrong. -gosh

can this kid come to the party?

You mean enabling the set command? Even if you enable the set command, everytime you use recovery console you have to type set whatever = true. The 2 registry keys for RC haven't changed since win2k, it should be the same in win2k3. -gosh

I fixed this and uploaded a working syssetup.dll that doesn't have administrator or guest renamed. Just redownload the file - http://gosh.msfnhosting.com/Files/Syssetup/syssetup.dl_ -gosh

that's from a microsoft kb article. -gosh

taskkill.exe is not on xp home, therefore you'll get an error saying invalid command. http://gosh.msfnhosting.com/compare.htm -gosh

The 64k limit is from windows 3.1, which is why the registry was made. I think that msdn article is wrong, an .inf is much different than an .ini which has the 64k limit in win9x. -gosh

To copy a file in an inf, you need to defination the destination folder and use the CopyFiles command to specify the files to be copied. By default you have windows (10), system32 (11), and other folders. [defaultinstall] CopyFiles = one [DestinationDirs] one = 10 ; windows two = 11 ; windows\system32 [one] file1 file2 [two] file1 file2 That's it. Read my install4.inf for more info or read the registry guide. -gosh

Your answer is somewhere in this picture. -gosh