Nologic

Well my nick is spawned from the way I use to play video games Q1-Q3A and such. I would actively seek out and place my self directly in the crossfire of any opposing team...while I was almost always the first to die on my side, I would manage to inflict heavy damage on the other team prior to being put down. Generally manage 1-2 kills with 10-35% damage to almost all of the opposing team...hehe not to mention some times the other team would suffer other casualitys do to friendly fire. Most couldn't see the logic in my method of play...hence No Logic....Nologic

If one is looking to create a exe...why not just use AutoIt...simple to use and fairly powerful for whats normally being done here on these forums.

hehe good deal, well there is always some thing to learn...I'm still getting my feet wet when it comes to AutoIt even tho I got a number of them posted. heh yeah if they find that magic button called "Search"

Okay here are my suggested edits. Oh if things look sloppy its because I use a tab spacing of 8, with a mono spaced font...namely Courier New.

I don't know about the MSI file...but if I keep drinking enough coffee I'll have a AutoIt script for it out in a few hours. Heh or less

Sure post away...maybe you'll teach me some thing...hehe not hard to imagine. Plus its all ways good in case some else may need the script...hence maybe search will bring it up.

hmm maybe some thing like this would be useful? [link]

Yeah you can use: Send ( "{ALTDOWN}{F4}{ALTUP}" ) To close any window...but if you can get me the window title or some text to give me a clue, I'll correct the main script so that the problem is solved. Keep in mind I'm not saying any of my scripts work Unattended...they should...but should and do are two totally different things. I've only ran them in windows and on a dirty system....so if your using them on a real unattended disk your results are real world. My tests are just guess work.

Well if you don't mind using an AutoIt script...the one I have posted in the AutoIt thread should do the trick.

Well if you can get me the window title and some general text I maybe able to fix the script to where it will work for you.

Protoss - Well I'd do up a simple script like so at the very least. If FileExists ( @WindowsDir & "\ServicePackFiles\i386\Notepad.exe" ) Then FileCopy ( @ScriptDir & "\Notepad2.exe", @WindowsDir & "\ServicePackFiles\i386\Notepad.exe" , 1 ) EndIf If FileExists ( @SystemDir & "\dllcache\Notepad.exe" ) Then FileCopy ( @ScriptDir & "\Notepad2.exe", @SystemDir & "\dllcache\Notepad.exe" , 1 ) EndIf If FileExists ( @SystemDir & "\Notepad.exe" ) Then FileCopy ( @ScriptDir & "\Notepad2.exe", @SystemDir & "\Notepad.exe" , 1 ) EndIf If FileExists ( @WindowsDir & "\Notepad.exe" ) Then FileCopy ( @ScriptDir & "\Notepad2.exe", @WindowsDir & "\Notepad.exe" , 1 ) EndIf Tho that will flate out nuke Notepad to where there is no backup...so you may want to code that in. Some thing like: FileCopy ( @WindowsDir & "\Notepad.exe", @WindowsDir & "\Notepad.exe.bak" , 1 ) Tho that code would go before the prior code.

Heh yeah I know they could be done differently. Just most of the installs are simple cookie cutter style so I can reuse code a lot...so code wise it shouldn't be a big hassle. Plus this should cut down on some of the work others would have to do. If the file exists then it gets installed...if it doesn't then it moves on to the next. I'll see about adding those to the list...tho links are helpful...less time I spend hunting the sooner I get the script done. Not that there is any hurry...just my little kick I'm on right now.

Okay I'm looking at redoing my current AutoIt script that installs XP PowerToys to include a lot more free stuff from MS. So any suggestions along with links would be welcome. Well here is what I'm looking at thus far: The 3D Windows XP ScreenSaver is located at: [link] 3D Windows XP Screensaver The Winter Fun ScreenSavers are located at: [link] Winter Fun ScreenSavers The Windows XP Media Center Edition Screen Saver is located at: [link] Media Center Edition Screen Saver The below list of PowerToys For XP are found at: [link] Alt-Tab Replacement CD Slide Show Generator ClearType Tuner Command Window Here HTML Slide Show Wizard Image Resizer Power Calculator Taskbar Magnifier Tweak UI Virtual Desktop Manager Webcam Timershot The below list of PowerToys For XP Media Center are found at: [link] Alarm Clock Playlist Editor Solitaire The below list of PowerToys For XP Tablet PC is located at: [link] Art Tool Calculator Dictionary Tool Drawing Animator Extended Desktop Handwriting Analysis Tool Hold Tool Hoop Strategy Game Ink Screen Saver Letteris Maze Game Dots! Phraseology Physics Illustrator My Font Tool New York Times Crossword Puzzle Pool Power Paint Tool Puzzle Game Snipping Tool Music Composition Tool Thumbnail View Tic Tac Toe Web Search Energy Blue Theme Pack Word Search Game Writing Practice Tool Writing Recognition The Fun Packs are located at: [link] Digital Fun Pack Media Player 9 Winter Fun Pack 2003 Media Player 9 Spring Fun Pack Media Player 9 Winter Fun Pack Movie Maker 2 Creativity Fun Pack Movie Maker 2 Winter Fun Pack 2003 Digital Video with Windows Movie Maker 2 Winter Fun Pack The Windows Media Bonus Pack for Windows XP is located at: [link] Windows Media Bonus Pack DownLoad the following Visualizations at: [link] Blazing Colors Color Cubes Dungeon Siege Energy Bliss The Grind Ice Storm Looney Tunes Picture Viz I Picture Viz II Pulsing Colors Softie the Snowman II Terminator III Trilogy I Trilogy II Trilogy III Windows Media 9 Series The Final Fantasy XI Theme is located at: [link] Final Fantasy XI Theme The Remote Desktop Connection Web Connection is located at: [link] Remote Desktop Connection Web Connection The Tablet PC Tools are located at: [link] Journal Viewer Office XP Pack The Internet Downloads are located at: [link] MSN Toolbar Office Animation Runtime MSN Messenger

battleangel - Relax MHz does know all about AutoIt trust me...matter fact he showed me some trick stuff the other day. MHz is pro AutoIt, he just doesn't preach it as the be all end all. I would guess that MHz read stuff into your statement probably because of some post you made the other day...which I guess ruffled some feathers...I don't know what was said or why...just that there was some sort of dispute. Any ways let it slid

Well you could config it on first boot with an AutoIt script. Just have the following bit in your script to open the "Power Options" control panel: Run ( @SystemDir & "\control.exe powercfg.cpl,@0,0" ) Then just script it like you normally would.

MHz - Unless battleangel's post has been edited...I didn't read it as "inhuman" just excited...hehe but thats me. Protoss - hmm not sure why you wouldn't be able to use AutoIt while doing your Unattended based around Xplode. Tho I haven't tried it my self...but as long as you have basic GUI fuctions you should be able to use a compiled AutoIt script. Also you might want to look into using this [link] to help find switch's. Radimus - MSI's are nice but they are hard to share with out using up a lot of bandwidth. Also its my understanding one can excute thier install file from the script like so: Run ( "installer.exe" , "" , @SW_HIDE ) And have the whole thing hidden...tho I haven't played with this...hell a lot of things far as that matters...heck MHz showed me some cool stuff the other day thats changing the way I do scripts. Tho I think the 2 main turn offs most people have with AutoIt is 1 learning curve...which really isnt' that bad with as many examples as we currently have, and secondly time involved it can range any where's from 15min to 1 hour to make a good script, with every thing tweakable....tho 1 hour is normally only when you hit some sort of wall and need to do some trick coding. How ever I've spent 8 working hours on one script...but I was working on making some new fancy code. MSI's are faster to do tho 5-15min. Any ways...not picking any fights just making some comments is all.

Yeah AutoIt would probably be your best bet if this is some thing thats likely to be updated fairly often....other wise you could simply extract the contents of the SFX file and repackage them....so that there is no password on the file and so it installs silently by default. So: Updates Often = AutoIt Updates Rarely = Repackage

Actually once you have entered your serial number UltraEdit creates a file called uedit32.reg in its install folder...copy it and then from your unattended simply copy it over post silent install. Oh thats not a normal reg file...just fyi

I still don't see why more people aren't trying this method.

Yeah I could but then you'll be stuck with what ever I set as the defaults for the app. Mainly with most of the au3 files you just edit them as you want them or use them as is...with some of mine the options get out of hand. After all edits are done then just right click on it and compile it into a exe your self...tho it requires you have AutoIt installed in order to do that. I'll upload both since its not a big deal ether way. Tho you should look into and start working with AutoIt lots of cool stuff you can do with it and real easy to learn. heh even more so with how many examples we got posted up so far.

looks like some thing easy enough to write a AutoIt script for...but I'll be out of town for a few days...and I already have one standing request yet to complete. Any ways if its not done by then I'll code it up...looks like a handy app.

Well for Cacheman you could probably use a large amount of the code I have in place for CachemanXP...the script is in the AutoIt thread. if you want a simple autoit script that would probably do what you want, you could do some thing like so (please cheack help file): Run ( "cachm550.exe /S" ) WinWait ( "readme.txt" ) WinClose ( "readme.txt" ) ProcessClose ("cacheman.exe" ) Exit

Well I haven't tried it...but you could go and find the first run command and do some thing like so: Run ( $SF_1 , "" , @SW_HIDE ) Sorry about a late reply on my behalf...stuff has been a bit crazy as of late.

Well I see a AutoIt script but I don't see it in file form and attached to the AutoIt thread. So if you would toss a copy of it into that thread so its easier for some one to find later.

Save your self some hassle and just use BootSkin its a freeware app put out by Stardock...the guys that make WindowBlinds. Here is a AutoIt script in which to install it and set the default boot screen.