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  1. Read up about the differences on winsupersite.
  2. That kind of voltage is totally insane, your processor might die early. I've got the same mobo as you, with a Sempron 2500+, & it overclocks from its native 1.4 GHz to my current 2.1 GHz, with no sweat at all (*touchwood*). This, with just a slight increase in voltage, from 1.40v to 1.440v. Also my default operating temperature was 25C, now with the over-clock, the processor ran up to 31C.
  3. Hi Robert,I believe what you want to do, is to have access to all dialogs, you basically want to just customize the setup defaults & go ahead normally from there on. Here's how: Go to the 2nd line in my example above. You see "Display Level="none"". Change it back to "full" instead of "none". That is all. @clavicle Thanks indeed. I just wish someone finds out how to disable the "MSOcache" facility in o2k7.....
  4. To be straight, NO XPcreate is not the same type as nLite. Atleast, not from birth - though today, both meet halfway, with the difference being that nLite is in active development with a nice UI, while XPcreate has been dormant for long. XPcreate was made to put together all updates & merge it into a Windows XP/2000 disc. nLite was made to strip out all the junk, from 2k/XP/2k3. Toaster: Most probably, cdImage is not of much help to you. The main speciality about CDimage is that it can optimize files while making an ISO disc-image. You probably did not mean ISO images, & probably not many of your identical files are repeated. (what is "optimizing"? Read the topic at this LINK)
  5. Detecting last partition can be quite a bit less simple. Instead, you can just have files copy over directly to a specified drive letter. Instructions below: 1. you'd already have a folder called "$OEM$" in the root of your CD. 2. Now make a folder under it, with the drive-letter to which u want files copied. For example, make a folder inside "$OEM$, called "D", and any files/folders you put inside the "D" folder will get copied directly to the partition "D". You can do it similarly, for drive E/F/G/etc, upto Drive Z! Changing that text, requires you to hexedit the file named "BOOTFIX.BIN", which is in the i386 directory on the CD.
  6. Ah, thanks a LOTTTT!!!!!!!Finally the mystery's solved, i wondered why it never worked for me... @crystalxp: Well, the question in first post is confusing! I found out what you actually meant, by reading the link to your other post about re-sizing winntbbu. And guess what, bashrat-the-sneaky said the truth indeed. And the earliest way of having drivers built-in, is by using BTS-driver-packs or the PnpDriversPath method. That will ensure the true drivers are installed before billboards. And then run the VidChng.exe command from within XPlode itself!
  7. Thanks but.... The 32-bit one is WHQL for only a few cards, & the 64-bit one is totally lacking WHQL! This need not necessarily mean a problem with it, I'm just mentioning it so everyone is aware that its yet to be certified - in a few more days it will be re-released as WHQL-certified!
  8. Merging with: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?act=ST&t=71294
  9. My only beef with this version (atleast in the current beta), is that there doesn't seem to be any way to disable creation of the LIS. (LIS = local installation source, its the s*** that you see in the name of an "MSOcache" folder littering any of your HDD partitions at random). If the LIS was disabled by default, the installation time could be reduced by 3 minutes approx, besides saving HDD space (because the last 3 minutes consists of copying files from CD to the LIS). Here's what I've already tried in the config.xml, but both failed: <LIS CACHEACTION="REMOVECACHEONLY" /> <CDCACHE Value="0" />In both cases, setup refuses to use the XML. Yes, I know that we could write a batch file to search all drives for the "MSOcache" folder & delete it if found, but it would be even better to disable LIS, in the first place. Does anybody know how to do this in o2k7?
  10. Solution to office2k7 automation - http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=72392
  11. Option B: 1. Go to the folder-path, "Office2007\Pro.WW" (or any ??????.WW folder for other editions such as standard/enterprise/etc) 2. Modify "config.xml", or copy it to somewhere else & modify it, using my posted code below as a sample. 3. If you modified it "in location", then setup will take up the changes automatically. 4. Otherwise, place the modified file in the same folder of setup.exe, as custom-uA.XML 5. This is the command to run setup with the customizations specified in custom-uA.XML: setup.exe /config custom-uA.XML 7. This method is also a great way to make changes to the defaults itself, so that you dont need to keep changing it upon every new time you install it. The sample XML here, makes setup fully silent, cuts down features rarely used by me, and reduces install footprint of Office 2007 Professional from 721 MB, to 303 MB (of course you can always add/remove components later); I've also removed lines that I found useless from it, you might like to keep many of the default lines & customize them. Also, be aware that the XML offers a way to chain updates & install them before or after o2k7 setup, but then you'll lose control over reboot parameters. By default, o2k7 setup wont cause an auto-reboot, so no need of "/noreboot" or "Reboot=ReallySuppress" properties. I intend this XML to be used for clean installs, with no previous version settings or profiles to be migrated. Use "start /wait" for silent installs. This file is for the main suite, you can modify it accordingly for the other component products, the options are commented with double-slashes. I obtained the OptionIds from setup.xml files, in each component folder. Here's a tested/working config.xml file, to get you started with Option B: (you need to put in your own key, and configuration-Product can be obtained from your current xml) <Configuration Product="Pro"> <Display Level="none" CompletionNotice="no" SuppressModal="yes" AcceptEula="yes" /> <PIDKEY Value="BCDFGHJKMPQRTVWXY2346789B" /> <USERNAME Value="0wner" /> <COMPANYNAME Value="0wn Inc." /> <OptionState Id="ACCESSFiles" State="absent" Children="force" /> //access <OptionState Id="OUTLOOKFiles" State="absent" Children="force" /> //outlook <OptionState Id="PubPrimary" State="absent" Children="force" /> //publisher <OptionState Id="AceRepl" State="absent" Children="force" /> //access db Engine replication <OptionState Id="CAGFiles" State="Local" Children="force" /> //Clip Organizer <OptionState Id="MSSOAP3" State="absent" Children="force" /> //SOAP toolkit <OptionState Id="OsaNonBoot" State="Local" Children="force" /> //new,open office docu lnks <OptionState Id="ProofingTools_1036" State="absent" Children="force" /> //french <OptionState Id="ProofingTools_3082" State="absent" Children="force" /> //spanish <OptionState Id="WISPFiles" State="absent" Children="force" /> //handwriting <OptionState Id="DocServicesFiles" State="absent" Children="force" /> //docu update util <OptionState Id="HTMLSourceEditing" State="absent" Children="force" /> //script editor <OptionState Id="DocumentImagingUtils" State="absent" Children="force" /> //scanning,ocr,indexing <OptionState Id="OISFiles" State="absent" Children="force" /> //picture manager <OptionState Id="OSESupp" State="absent" Children="force" /> //sharepoint support <OptionState Id="QueryFiles" State="absent" Children="force" /> //msQuery <OptionState Id="VisioPreviewerFiles" State="absent" Children="force" /> //visio viewer <OptionState Id="XDOCSFiles" State="absent" Children="force" /> //infopath <!-- These are additionals from Enterprise RTM <OptionState Id="GrooveFiles" State="absent" Children="force" /> //groove <OptionState Id="OneNoteFiles" State="absent" Children="force" /> //onenote <OptionState Id="RefIEBarFiles" State="absent" Children="force" /> //research explorer bar <OptionState Id="WebDriveFiles" State="absent" Children="force" /> //hosted webs <OptionState Id="VBAFiles" State="absent" Children="force" /> //VB for applications <OptionState Id="OfficeDigitalSFiles" State="absent" Children="force" /> //vba certificates --> </Configuration>The procedure is same for all other editions of Office 2007. The above is just a working sample, you'd need to put in an appropriate key & modify as per your needs. If you downloaded a single SETUP.EXE (500-MB?) from MSDN, then you might need to extract it to some folder, to get the installation source. setup.exe /extract:D:\o2k7
  12. (updated to reflect final RTM version) Unattending or silently installing MS Office System, has now become easier than ever. There are two ways to unattend your setup: --> Option A (use it only if you got Office2007 thru SoftwareAssurance, which comes with activation stripped out). --> Option B is for all the others (retail/OEM/academic/trial/etc). Both are colored differently below. Option A: 1. Ensure you have an actual VLK (some call it enterprise/corporate) disc & product-key. 2. Notably, o2k7 uses setup patches (*.MSP) for uA, rather than transforms which previous versions used (*.MST). The below instructions will give you an MSP file, which is not accepted by non-corporate versions of o2k7. If you ignored point1 above, then you will end up wasting 15 minutes of your life which I'm not responsible for. 3. Now at the command prompt, type: setup.exe /admin 4. Choose the product for which you want to make a customization-patch. 5. Then go through all steps in the customization wizard (to install the reqd apps & remove junk & change default settings). 6. Be sure to have "completion notice" turned on & "suppress modals" turned off (this is to get to see errors, if any exist). Once you're done with testing, go thru the customization again to modify the MSP to disable completion notice & enable suppress modals. 7. Save the resulting patch file in the same folder as o2k7 setup files. 8. Now just execute this command (thru any method) for silent install: setup.exe /adminfile CUSTOM.MSP Or if you have the Office 2007 Enterprise VLK, you could even drop the CUSTOM.MSP file in the "Updates" folder & setup will pick it up automatically (without any switches being used). For this, ensure you have WindowsInstaller 3.1 already installed. You can add in further MSP files (extracted from SP1 update EXE) as well, to have updates applied during install. *** For completely silent install, you MUST set the DisplayLevel to "none", either by MSP (accessible from step 6 above) or by xml, otherwise you'll get a confirmation dialog similar to the image shown in attachment below. (do this only AFTER testing, when you're sure it works)
  13. Hi Iain, yes you can use any media, the procedure is all the same.
  14. Hi vijay, E-mailing each poster is not a solution. Here's a guide for the exact purpose you mention - [url="http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/"]uA[/url] Any further queries, just post on here!
  15. Its cumbersome to use upgrade discs for unattended installs....
  16. Yes you can get rid of that one. Here's how:Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 ; Don't search Windows Update for drivers (when new HW detected) [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\DriverSearching] "DontSearchWindowsUpdate"=dword:00000001 "DontPromptForWindowsUpdate"=dword:00000001 You know to use registry tweaks? If not, then what you need to do is: 1. copy & paste the above code into notepad. 2. Save with file-name "drvr.reg" (note the extension - its NOT *.txt, it should be *.reg) 3. Double-click it to apply manually. 4. To apply it unattended, use this command in your unattended install: regedit /S <PATH-TO-FILE>\drvr.regDo post back with your results!
  17. extremely interesting: http://www.nickbostrom.com/existential/risks.html This is a list of conceivable ways humanity will end. It is written by a man with a PhD in philosophy, and of course he does NOT want to see this happen, merely thinking about the ways it could.
  18. You can make it a little too black if you prefer! No hope of that!
  19. I'd say the same as what simonsays said. But forget about this part: its POSSIBLE to use an emulator (wine) to run windows games, but directx games such as the above, would either not run at all, or run very bad. Why not just buy the linux version of the games you want? (you can get ut2k3/ut2k4 for linux, but farcry & RON are windows-only)
  20. Thats exactly why the post about "html editor on ASP forum" is not at all relevant here.
  21. My contention was, whether PowerISO is the promised WinISO upgrade, that never materialized! And then got sold off as a new app, to increase profits without having to support upgrades for old customers!
  22. Calm down everyone. This topic never ends, NT -vs- 9x keeps on coming up repeatedly, its getting boring now!
  23. The forum you mention is something else, based on ASP, so its definitely not relevant here (msfn is IPB with PHP). alsiladka, It works for me here, including smilies. Perhaps you have a mis-configured opera profile, due to all the weekly upgrades?
  24. Maybe it all looks the same to you perhaps?To me, I know it when one app is developed independantly of another. The function of UltraISO (and a few other ISO manipulators) might be the same, but they're clearly & visibly based off original code. This post was to express surprise that the same old WinISO code has since, surfaced & been renamed to PowerISO? (remember, winiso wasn't updated since 4 years - something fishy in this, the licensed buyers of winiso left in the lurch so the utility maker can profit more by launching poweriso?)
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