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Remember, no F6 drivers with $OEM$ preinstall=yes in winnt.sif. (I think)

If you want to pay $1000/£900 then AdminStudio is the best! But if you are in a coproration it's a considerable option. If you just want to repackage an installation, try wininstall le. Remember, GOOGLE is your best option, not the forum.

You could use IF EXIST commands to search for a file like apps.txt that is on the root of the memstick or something. FOR %%i IN (D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z) DO IF EXIST %%i:\apps.txt SET USB=%%i: This is an example you could put at the top of the batch. Replace apps.txt with whatever file you want. Maybe a real setup name so you don't have to create a separate file.

Unlocker! ( http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/ ) (Just in case)

start /wait msiexec /unregister msiexec /regsvr msiexec /register Just copy and paste the lot in notepad, save it as msiexec.cmd on your desktop (not msiexec.cmd.txt) and run it. Install anyway. It's always better to have a later version anyway.

So setup.exe (the drivers one) executed but setuporg.exe didn't?

Why not using another browser than IE ? That's not forbidden by MS EULA... I were told that Mozilla Firefox rocks. Maybe you can give it a try ? It may suits you so well that you choose its icon as avatar... *revolted againts easy-revolts* I use firefox, hence my avatar... But I mean you don't need to check WU every time you open IE or any other browser, so why is it your homepage? And I think it's strange if WU is your homepage, unless your a M$ techhie checking WU is functioning or something.

Don't use it in safe mode. Like me, you'll more than likely corrupt your msiexec.exe by trying to start the service in safe mode That's the next step.Or make a batch file with this start /wait msiexec /unregister msiexec /regsvr msiexec /register Hope this helps

Add this to a batch file REG DELETE "hklm\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run\msn messenger" /F REG DELETE "hkcu\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run\msn messenger" /F

Who would put their homepage to windows update? *revolted*

Norton has like 5 processes for the antivirus and 3 for firewall. Another 4 when outlook is open for antispam. I'm ditching norton asap. Even avg free is better!

In theory, no, it should say as valid. The oem files on your preactivated files are legit for your serial. So it should work unless M$ has crapped up again.

How do you add the bold to the quote if the bold tags are around the quote tags? It never worked like this before...

Ah, I get it. Is there any way to flash or reinstall your bios in 16bit mode by booting from a cd? Why don't you try a bartpe cd and a bios flasher and see if that helps? http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ Just in case you don't know, bartpe makes a windows cd or dvd that allows you to boot directly into 32bit windows. So no installation or any crap, though the whole windows dir is on the cd. It creates a ramdrive, so you should have at leat 256mb ram. And it's a great emergency bootdisk. Or it could be hdd corruption and there are errors reading off it. If it is, you'll have to format again.

Why did you create 2 topics? Such a waste of time...

I asked them how to remove it because for me, an annoying balloon tip pops up every few mins saying "thank you forpurchasing windows" and IE always opens to the WGA advantages page. So I removed it, btw I can't use windows update anymore, I'll have to use windiz update.

If this is happening in a virtual machine, you can go here to use silent activation for OEM systems.

Er, maybe e.g you have a tweak for office, you haven't installed office so when you do, it gets overwritten? Try converting the reg to inf format and adding it to hivesys.inf

Could you be a bit more specific? Try system optimizers and cleaners like tuneup utilities. http://www.tuneup.com

Hmm... This would have saved a lot of problems I had a long time ago. I called M$ and instead they posted a replacement cd to me.

Do you mean it keeps booting from the cd every time? This happened to me when I disabled "press any key to boot from cd" message. If it keeps booting from cd everytime, remove the cd after turning your pc on and put it in when gui setup has a cd error and asks you to put it in. @doc How do you apply a regtweak when you can't go into gui mode?

Did you uninstall your current office and install the one with slipstreamed updates?

Did you even read the unattended guide? http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp Always read before posting.

It depends on the specs of your pc, and how many progs are installed, running etc.

I just removed it from Updates section in add/remove progs. Now I am free! It should be that it installs ONCE, checks if it's a legit copy, if it is, then removes itself, if it's not, then do whatever microsoft wants it to do.