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WinPE doesn't include the IE or scripting support AFAIK. There are plugins for HTAs (hyper text applications) and scripting for Bart's PE.

You could use a registry tracer to compare the changes between a 2 and 5 speaker setup. ART from Elcomsoft or Total Uninstall Update: I just had a quick look in my VMWare and it seems that the regkeys are vendor specific. One of four occurrences: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Hardware Profiles\0001\System\CurrentControlSet\Enum\PCI\VEN_1274&DEV_1371&SUBSYS_13711274&REV_02\3&61AAA01&0&80\DirectSound\Speaker Configuration and \Speaker Type So it seems not very wise to just copy these registry setting. I would either do a search/replace in the registry for the "Speaker Configuration/Speaker Type" keys or snoop around in the driver inf files.

Well not quite. Here's the time table from the OEM QTB video: Windows PE Timetable: XP SP2 Features 1HCY04 WMI Support Driver injection and PnP boot support Formal documentation Server 2003 SP1 Features 2HCY04 Ramdisk support

Just take the msi file from the temp folder during installation or directly out of the installer and run it with: start /wait SZProFull.msi /QB! My compulsive application pimping: Try the MyIE2 browser which has an excellent build in popup blocker. IMHO the best browser available.

My key works when you add it to the registry before installing (actually starting) DUMeter. Might be for backward compatibility. I just tried it with a freshly downloaded english 3.05 B148 on a clean VMWare XP.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Hagel\DU Meter] "UserName"="John Doe" "SerialNum"="xx-xxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx"

I'm working on something similar. A first version should be ready tomorrow. The idea is to have each application in its own folder with an info file which contains the application description, several command lines for the setup and a default install /don't install switch. My app then recurses these folders for the info file and builds a selection menu. When given a countdown parameter it installs all selected apps unattended. This way you can add and delete certains apps by just moving their folder.

I'm not quite sure if the entire switch list has been posted before. The unattended web site just mentions /silent and /verysilent. /SP- Disables the This will install... Do you wish to continue? prompt at the beginning of Setup. Of course, this will have no effect if the DisableStartupPrompt [setup] section directive was set to yes. /SILENT, /VERYSILENT Instructs Setup to be silent or very silent. When Setup is silent the wizard and the background window are not displayed but the installation progress window is. When a setup is very silent this installation progress window is not displayed. Everything else is normal so for example error messages during installation are displayed and the startup prompt is (if you haven't disabled it with DisableStartupPrompt or the '/SP-' command line option explained above). If a restart is necessary and the '/NORESTART' command isn't used (see below) and Setup is silent, it will display a Reboot now? message box. If it's very silent it will reboot without asking. /NOCANCEL Prevents the user from cancelling during the installation process, by disabling the Cancel button and ignoring clicks on the close button. Useful along with /SILENT. /NORESTART Instructs Setup not to reboot even if it's necessary. /LOADINF="filename" Instructs Setup to load the settings from the specified file after having checked the command line. This file can be prepared using the '/SAVEINF=' command as explained below. Don't forget to use quotes if the filename contains spaces. /SAVEINF="filename" Instructs Setup to save installation settings to the specified file. Don't forget to use quotes if the filename contains spaces. /LANG=language Specifies the language to use. language specifies the internal name of the language as specified in a [Languages] section entry. When a valid /LANG parameter is used, the Select Language dialog will be suppressed. /DIR="x:\dirname" Overrides the default directory name displayed on the Select Destination Directory wizard page. A fully qualified pathname must be specified. /GROUP="folder name" Overrides the default folder name displayed on the Select Start Menu Folder wizard page. If the [setup] section directive DisableProgramGroupPage was set to yes, this command line parameter is ignored. /NOICONS Instructs Setup to initially check the Don't create any icons check box on the Select Start Menu Folder wizard page. /COMPONENTS="comma separated list of component names" Overrides the default components settings. Using this command line parameter causes Setup to automatically select a custom type.

XPAntispy is a NullSoftInstaller. Use /S (capital S). Or just copy the standalone exe to your drive. You can use the commandline version if you want to apply its settings once. I'll have a look at Spywareblaster. Gets on my new unattended cd anyway. One way would be the use of taskkill.exe

Start the installer and wait at the first welcome screen. Go to your temp folder where you'll find the msi file.

Silent method for the best file manager ever Extract the content from the installer exe (it's a self extracting zip file) Edit the "Install.inf" file: [auto] auto=1 lang=2 alllang=0 iniloc=C:\Program Files\TotalCmd iniall=1 mkgroup=1 mkdesktop=1 . . [Destination] Dir=C:\Program Files\TotalCmd Ini=wincmd.ini,Configuration,InstallDir "lang=" should be your language code which you can find in the same file For installation just run the install.exe After that you could copy your custom made wincmd.ini and your key file to the program folder.

TuneUp Utilities is my favourite tweaking app. Install the exe with /q or extract the msi file from your temp folder during installation and use START /wait TU2003.msi /QB! for registration run this reg file: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\TuneUp\Utilities] "RegCode"="XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX" "UserName"="John Doe" "Company"="Doe Inc."

I wrote a little menu batch to make the selection of what to install a bit easier. It expects you to have sub folders for every application containing a file _SetupInfo.txt containing a one row file description and a file _SetupBatch.bat with the typical setup commands for unattended installation and of course the setup file itself. That way you avoid editing the batch files for installation if you want to add or remove a specific application on your cd. Please note that CHOICE.exe from the W2K resource kit is required. I'm sure the whole thing can be streamlined a little more especially the dummy FOR commands. We need the V switch for delayed variable expansion (or whatever its called in the english windows) CallMenu.bat : @ECHO OFF CLS CMD /V:ON /C Menu.bat Menu.bat : @ECHO OFF CLS SETLOCAL rem --- Z is used to avoid problems with the offset later on --- SET Characters=z1234567890abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwx SET Choices=y SET /A ItemsCount=0 rem -- Insert your applications path below -- FOR /R Applications %%i IN (_SetupInfo*.txt) DO SET /A ItemsCount+=1 & FOR /F "delims=xxx" %%n in (%%~fi) DO SET ItemText!ItemsCount!=%%n & SET ItemOption!ItemsCount!=x& SET ItemSetup!ItemsCount!=%%~dpi_SetupBatch*.bat FOR /L %%j IN (1,1,%ItemsCount%) DO SET Choices=!Choices!!Characters:~%%j,1! :Menu CLS ECHO. ECHO. FOR /L %%k IN (1,1,%ItemsCount%) DO ECHO !Characters:~%%k,1!. !ItemOption%%k! !ItemText%%k! ECHO. Choice.exe /C:%Choices% /N /T:Y,20 Toggle selection with keys. Press Y to continue (20 Sec..) IF %Errorlevel% LEQ 1 GOTO End SET /A ChoiceMade=%Errorlevel% - 1 rem --- Dummy FOR Commands to append number to ItemOption --- FOR /L %%l IN (%ChoiceMade%,1,%ChoiceMade%) DO IF "!ItemOption%%l!"=="x" (SET ItemOption%%l=_& GOTO Menu) FOR /L %%m IN (%ChoiceMade%,1,%ChoiceMade%) DO IF "!ItemOption%%m!"=="_" (SET ItemOption%%m=x& GOTO Menu) GOTO Menu :End FOR /L %%n IN (1,1,%ItemsCount%) DO IF "!ItemOption%%n!"=="x" CMD /C !ItemSetup%%n! ECHO End.. ENDLOCAL A typical example of how your CD would look like: $OEM$\$1\Install\Applications\AdobeRdr\ _SetupInfo.txt _SetupBatch.bat AdbeRdr60_deu_full.exe _SetupInfo.txt content: Adobe Reader 6.0 Full Version _SetupBatch.bat content: @ECHO OFF ECHO. ECHO Installing TYPE _SetupInfo.txt ECHO Please wait... START /wait AdbeRdr60_deu_full.exe -p"-s /v\"/qn\"" Have fun with it and post your improvement tips edit : some typos and ECHO in final execution