Spooky

I'm not into the programming thing very much. I've done a few scripts in .vbs for personal small things that I wanted. I was wondering if one of you gurus could answer a small question. Can you use windows scripting to affect or modify directx or direct 3d in any way?

After installing a slipstreamed SP2 unattend install, I found that its best to put some registry tweaks in right before the first login after setup (thru the use of the GUIRunOnce line in winnt.sif). For example, the tweak for WMP9: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\PlayerUpgrade] "AskMeAgain"="no" Placing this tweak in after WMP9 is installed with SP2 but before the first login and before the final reboot, i found that the tweak was removed and not present in the registry after login. Seems MS wants you to be nagged a little first . Installing SP2 by its self will also remove this entry if its present. Previously, with SP1, or a non SP1 install, this tweak could be added during the install by the common methods already discussed in the forum and the guides, including thru the use of .inf files - and it took affect and was available at the first login. I'm working with it trying to figure out which tweaks are removed and which stay, in the case of media player, tho I haven't confirmed it yet, I think all the tweaks for it will be removed if not added in GuiRunOnce from winnt.sif. Other tweaks and settings may also be affected.

I have always resisted installing WMP 9, never did like it because of its automatic update thing with no choices to not update really. However, there comes a time...yada yada yada... I'm doing another unattened install with slipstreamed SP2, and guess what, yep, it installs WMP 9. Thought i'd ask here because a lot of you it seems use wmp9 in your unattend installs. OK, does anyone know how to disable the automatic update thing totally for WMP9?

I know how to change the font used by the shell - no problem there. But what i'm wondering is how to change the basic system font in the shell so that I can change the color, add 3D effects, etc..... without developing a theme or any of thet other stuff... You know what i'm talking about - for example the font used for the desktop is basically white and very flat looking - i'd like to make it another color with maybe a sort of raised 3D effect.

Aaron, Are you saying that there are some problems with installing it when the MS Java is installed? Or you just saying that there will be a tool to remove the MS java if someone wants to?

I'm not using sp1a, i'm using the straight sp1 and in addition I had already installed the Vm3810 as well. Any special considerations for the latest version of sun java under these circumstances?

I haven't used the sun version of java in a while. I know there was a thing on the MS website about replacing the MS implementation with the sun version due to the agreement. Are there any special considerations if you already have the MS version installed and want to install the sun version?

I just started using the taskill thing in the format: taskkill.exe /F /IM example.exe I have noticed that if i try to use it in an .inf file, it retrurns and error for invalid parameters. I'm not sure why this is happening but think its because in a .inf things dont wait for completion - in other words if I tell it to install, say for example isobuster, the install completes before the isobuster.exe file starts up and as a result the install complete is returned and the taskkill starts up before the isobuster.exe process does so as a result there is no isobuster task to kill when taskkill starts and the error is returned - if any of this makes sense. Anyway, if I do it with the start wait thing from a batch file, it works perfectly. I thought about just calling a single batch file from the .inf to take care of the taskkill problem and just let everything for it be done in the batch. Which kinda makes sense cause I know it works in a batch file. Anyone have any suggestions for use of taskkill in an .inf file?

wrong forum

Is there an english version of this?

I think this is the main site for that: http://wald.heim.at/redwood/510433/wsh/index.html my foreign language skills are a little rusty but from what I could translate quickly from the readme file with it, its for winNT and not 2000 or XP.

Is there a way to slipstream drivers into XP-SP1? do you use the same methods as outlined for things like sp1 and the rollup?