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It will not default to it on an unattended CD. I have been playing with this theme. It is an .msstyle theme. Apply it, modify it they way you want it to look. Then, go to the Themes tab and save it as a .theme file. Then you must add two lines to your winnt.sif file. Mine looks like this: [shell] CustomDefaultThemeFile = "%WinDir%\Vista\Vista.theme" Yours may look different depending on where you put it and how you name the .theme file. But it does work well for an unattended installation.

Isn't everyone being a bit harsh? In the beginning, I wished I could find the perfect installation CD, quickly and easiliy, without having to learn a ton of stuff. Now I know what has already been said: what is perfect to one is not perfect to another. Set aside the legal issues and the answer to the original question is: no, you won't find the perfect installation in torrent form. If you want the perfect installation CD, you must do it yourself. So, marjorieproops, do alot of reading then take your legit copy of XP and make your "perfect" copy of XP. Then try again. And again. And again. You get the idea. Six months now and I'm close, but still haven't make the "perfect" installation of XP. Maybe one of these days...

If you are having problems with a blue screen of death in XP, I bet the problem is with a chip of memory. It is rare to get the blue screen in XP. Other possible causes: highly fragmented hard drives, poorly written software and spyware can cause it, too. Or, just about any hardware failure could cause it. But most of the time, it's a chip of memory. It could even be a bad contact. I have reinserted a chip and everything worked fine afterwards. But as for nLite, check out the premade addons here. Firefox, Thunderbird, and K-lite codec pack have already been made. Just download them and add them as hotfixes.

I have some a single running .exe file (Y'z Dockbar, to be exact) that I want to run on startup after installing Win XP. I opened up the msconfig file hoping to modify it to add an entry to run this app at startup. It was gibberish. Is there any app that can edit the msconfig file or some .bat or .reg entries to add to an unattended CD to accompish this task? I browsed through the registry but couldn't find anything useful. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. It would be nice to know this because it could be modified for a variety of apps I may want to run on startup in the future... Thanks...

Just wondering if you have to do something different for other types of files? Such as an .exe Flash file. Would you still use: Arguments="-play" Do I need to change it to something else like -run or -open? I followed the instructions exactly and can't make it work. This is a really interesting topic. Opens up new possibilities to make installation fun!

Thanks a ton for the links. I'm gonna have fun playing with this new feature now... (or at least new to me)

Quick question about this screen: How did they change the background to the girl? Does anyone know?

Grab hevnbnd's version here Open the ENTRIES_XPIZE40L.INI file and add the switches to the programadd section. Example: [general] builddate=2006/2/8 description=XPize MCE language=English title=XPize version=4.2 website=http://xpero.msfn.org/ [EditFile] I386\SVCPACK.INF,SetupHotfixesToRun,AddProgram [AddProgram] XPize42MCE.exe /noboot /notask /nocmd I used different switches than what you want to use, but the ones I tried worked for me. I'm working on figuring all this stuff out myself, but for now, I'm relying on others' works, such as hevnbnd's release to get me started.

Of course! Thank you for that pointer. I thought I had seen it on the site. Maybe it was the guide I was remembering. Now I can continue my plans for world domination....

The switches for Xpize were on the website (or at least, that's how I remember it). But I can't find them anywhere. Can anyone post the various switches? I love everything about Xpize excpt the boot screen. Just need to disable that...

Thank you very much for pointing me in the right direction. I have looked over that guide hundreds of times in the past but never noticed that section.

I'm sure it is one of the values in the txtsetup.sif file, but I don't know what to modify to make a particular theme the one that loads when setup is complete. Reason why is I downloaded a theme and got it to install unattendedly, but the old Luna theme is active by default. The new theme works, but I have to manually set it. Any ideas?

I am having similar problems described by others before. For Office XP (aka 2002), I can get the whole thing to install, but on first run it asks for a serial number because in the Office Resource Kit, there is no place to preinstall a serial number. I tried the exporting and importing settings as an .OPS file, but that apparently doesn't encompass the serial number. Then working with Office 2003 (with the serial inserted), install does start, but hangs and never finishes. For fun, I tried mad_mattx's suggestion on not recompressing but that didn't help. It just never finishes installing. Just want some version of Office to be truly unattended. Should I try getting a different version of Office 2003? Is there some way of inserting a serial in 2002? Any suggestions would be much appreciated!

Using the Office Resource Kit, pay attention to step #8 of the 24 (top right corner tells you which one you are currently on). Click on the "Configure local installation source" and that's where you can preinstall a license key (don't forget to check the box for agreeing to license terms). Edit: I did this for Office 2003 and the ORK for it. It may be different for Office 2000.

Just discovered this about Nero Express. Right after booting it up just now, I accidently hit the letter 'r' on the keyboard. It brought up a dialog box that says "Please configure the robot before using it". What the heck is that? Hit OK button and it has some sort of configuration for it. It doesn't lend itself to giving any clues except on part of it is labeled "robot recorder". My best guess is it may be an audio caputuring thing, but there is nothing else audio related in there. Anyone heard of this?

The broken links are also causing me to struggle. You need Office Resource Kit (aka ORK) to create the MST file. I found it on another site. I just uploaded it. Download it here. I have a couple questions myself. I managed to figure out how to make the Unattended.MST file with ORK. I ran Office Shrink and it even installed Office 2003 perfectly. But with a very small snag. In the middle of the process, it popped up with a small dialog box and simply said "broken". Weird. But it installed fine. Other thing to note: no matter how much I remove, the final output folder ends up being exactly 290 MB every time. Furthermore, when I try to install it on another computer, it asks for a serial # (that was configured in the MST files and worked on the original computer). But I got my hopes up that I can make this work. It works one time on the original machine almost perfectly. I'm sure if we had the guides, we could work out all the bugs. Can anyone point us in the right direction? I have searched for answers on this site. I've gone pretty far back in the posts with no luck. Like finding a needle in a haystack.

Just want to say that is is an incredible program. Thanks to the developer of it. Does this person have a site for it? Is he/she still working on it? Just curious. I do have one little request in case he/she is listening I would like to be able to add/subtract shortcuts to the various apps on the desktop. That would be the icing on the cake. This piece of software amazes me!!!

I can see that unattended installs requires alot of reading. I have been doing that. Thanks to those who mentioned some of the apps used to do these things. That is the kind of direction I was looking for. Just needed some good app names to look up and maybe an idea of how easy/flexible they are. Still reading and learning.. But just wondering why a program can't be developed with the simplicity of nLite. Really, is it not impossible to create a program for unattended installs that could go something like this: step 1: is this install for integrating with nLite or an executable to be run after the OS is installed. step 2: browse for program. step 3: options for install (this is where switches would go, in GUI format of checkboxes for things like silent install and accept EULA + a place to insert serial # like nLite has for its unattended install). step 4: finalize. I mean really. nLite makes it that easy. It only took me an hour from start to finish to create a working disc with nLite my first time using it. Heck, I really don't see why it couldn't be incorporated in nLite itself. Add an option box in the Task Selection section called App Integration and put in steps 2-4 listed above. I am well aware it's not as simple as that. It would require a heck of alot of work on the part of the person/persons who works on nLite. But is it not possible to make app integration this easy? Are there any programmers out there who can tell us if this is just crazy thinking or what? Also just want to say kudos to nLite! For the power it posses, it is so freakin' easy to use!!!!

I also had booting problems with the MSDN version of MCE. Running it through nLite can create a much better bootable disc. The second disc is not meant to be bootable. It just contains extra files that wouldn't fit on the first disc. If you get rid of a little fluff from the first disc using nLite, you can combine the two discs into one. Just copy both to the same directory and run it through nLite.

I'm in the same boat. I have been playing with this stuff for about 2 weeks now. People get mad if you ask redundant questions. Overall, the guides are good, but don't explain some things very well. Some crutical guides are even missing! I have the same question as you. What do we do with that line of code? I have seen it before. I have seen the explanation of what each switch means. One guide was using a program called 7zip and I think I was supposed to insert the code in there somewhere, but I saw no place to put it. And if it goes with the RunOnce command, do we copy Nero to the CDROM and point to it? How would we compensate for different computers having different drive letters? I wish someone would write an even more detailed guides. I also suspect these guides were made with versions of programs that have since been updated and maybe work differently now. That may be why so many people are lost. Being so good at so many things on computers makes it hard for me to be a newbie at this.