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The name of foobar with '2000' looks retro though.... probably the MSI you make can be renamed to 2005 to make it cool!

If all those make use of other files, those can be replaced with newer versions too.I've described in those posts linked - to replace the liveupdate,livereg,and such components of NAV. I'm sure NIS is also modular enough to make the "replace with new files" possible.

In fact, the resulting files after using this process is not an official install CD anymore. Its equivalent to what the setup creates on your HDD! You can integrate SPs only onto an official install CD (or identical HDD copy of it). No workaround! What you do need to know, though, is that you should always keep the "reducing source" as the last step in your uA install preparing - do everything else, then approach this. There should be nothing else that you need to do after that step. (gosh himself said it, some pages before)

And then ensure that you have the latest patches/updates installed, and new versions of IE6SP1, DirectX9c, etc. If nothing else, a clean re-install will get rid of junk that has built up over the months. Its times like these, where I recall this quote:

"General Discussion" is for more general stuff.... *topic moved

what registry tweaks did you apply? For now, you can just do Alt+F4 at the empty desktop and you'll be able to shutdown/reboot/hibernate.

That's cool, but the place posted in was not! *topic moved

You'll need to create your own, taking the ones illustrated in the guide as an example.

please use tags where necessary, while posting. Reading a huge mass of tangled text is a put-off to anybody trying to help!And then, I see you have registry content inside your cmdlines.txt - that will not work. You should have it placed in a .REG file and call it from there thru cmdlines.txt.

Hmm...... this gives a new idea.@urmy Slip-stream SP2 into your XP CD. Then install from that, and try again. It might work fine now. click here for a guide to slip-stream

Yes, its possible. You can just delete the old definitions and replace it with the new.It has been discussed many times before. (links below) 1 2 3

Why CEOs don’t blog View Jonathan Schwartz, president and COO of Sun, is one of the few top executives that blog. I always find his posts provocative and entertaining, even when I disagree. Of course, the downside of executive blogging is that when you say something people don’t like they are going to treat you like a blogger. Most top corporate executives can’t handle that kind of heat. So it will be interesting to see how Jonathan reacts to the fallout from his latest faux pas.

Firefox: It's a love-hate thing ZDnet blog Now that I've had some time to use Firefox day-in and day-out for a while, I'm no longer quite so enamored of the browser as I originally was. That said, I'm still using it because, despite its shortcomings, Firefox still light years ahead of the alternatives. Last week's news that Firefox is cutting into Internet Explorer's (IE) lead came as no surprise. It should also come as no surprise that Microsoft appears to have softened its originally rigid position that IE would not take on any new features. After all, with IE not having been refreshed in what seems like an eternity, a new browser doesn't have to do much in order to get people to try it. Judging by my e-mail, Firefox's optional tabbed interface (as opposed to separate Windows) is the most talked about feature and the one that most clearly separates Mozilla's browser from IE (unless you're using the Maxthon customization of IE). However, Apple's Safari (which is only available on Mac OS X) has a better implementation of tabs. Each Safari tab, in addition to displaying the name of the Web page, also has a close button on it. This allows me to close a tab without right-clicking or switching to it. In Firefox, there's a "close button" for each tab, but you must switch to the tab in order to get to it. One of Firefox's killer (and I mean that literally) features is its built-in ability to block ads of all types (specific images, third party-served, pop-ups, banner ads, box ads, and even ads based on Macromedia's Flash technology). This feature alone makes Firefox worth the move. Ads are often placed on Web pages by a Web server other than the one you actually visited. For example, Doubleclick.net serves ads into Foxnews.com. By blocking Doubleclick's domain, I not only keep Doubleclick-served ads from appearing on Fox, but all other sites I visit too. You can even import "black lists" from others who have shared their lists with the public. This is a great feature, but Firefox needs more granular control over how such ad servers are blocked. For example, I might want to block the Doubleclick domain from serving ads into some sites, but not others. Having the ability to quickly and selectively "show me the ad that was supposed to be here" is missing as well. (By "here," I mean a region of the screen that was supposed to show an ad but didn't because it was blocked.) Also, the way in which the translucent "Block Ad" button that appears underneath automatically detected ads forces the page to stretch vertically by additional pixels is a poor design choice. Since the button is translucent, my preference would be for it to be displayed in the ad's foreground. That makes it harder to see and advertisers might not like the idea of browsers interfering with their messages, but it only takes a few of these buttons before you might need the browser's scroll bar to see something that might normally have appeared on an unscrolled page. Another love-hate feature that I see often discussed is Firefox's Live Bookmarks. XML feeds have surfaced since the last time IE was updated, which is why IE doesn't support them the way Firefox does. But after using Firefox on my Mac and setting it up with a bunch of Live Bookmarks (on Windows, I was using Newsgator's plug-in for Outlook), I discovered that the feature is not as manageable as I'd like it to be. For example, there's no easy way to set polling intervals so that, instead of constantly looking for new content, the feature only goes to certain feeds once a day or once a week. What's the big deal, you ask? Well, the big deal is that when I deleted all of my Live Bookmarks, I noticed a considerable slowdown to my PowerBook's fan (which can blow like a hurricane when the processor gets hot). This to me was an indication that Firefox's Live Bookmarks feature has a healthy appetite for processor cycles. With newer, faster Powerbooks that don't break a sweat, this may not be as much of a problem. But, it doesn't take much to whip up a storm with the fan in my first generation 867 Mhz G4-based 12-incher (if you have any experience in pushing these systems beyond their 640 MB RAM limit, please let me know). Finally, there are Firefox's pre-programmed search engines. When I downloaded Firefox for the Mac, the only version I could find was the British version. I don't mind the British spellings of words like "Minimise" and "Favourites." But I'd rather have the pre-programmed search engines take me to google.com instead of google.co.uk. In the drop-down menu where you can select which of the pre-programmed search engines to use for your next search, there's a nice menu that says "Add Engines" and by clicking on it, you're taken to a Web site that makes it easy to download more pre-programmed searches. The site has an option for deleting existing ones that tells you how to do it. Instead, there should be a built-in option so Firefox can (as "they" say) just do it.

I found these comments interesting too:

Define open source article That headline sounds silly, doesn’t it? But it’s an honest question. How much freedom must a software license give you before you think of it as open source? Richard Stallman (left, from SoftPanorama) gives a clear, hard-line answer. He describes it in terms of freedom. The code must not just come to you free, he says, but you must be free to see it, you must be free to add to it, and you must also be obligated to give your additions back on the same basis as you got the original code. These four freedoms are embodied in the General Public License of Gnu.Org. But that’s not the only way to define Linux. There are, in fact, a multitude of open source licenses, some of them very open, others less-so. As corporations move toward embracing the open source world, in other words, they need to read the fine print. This is even true when reading the news. Today Sun, for instance, is letting us all take a peek at the code for its new desktop Java release, code-named Mustang. But to get at it you must sign Sun’s Java Research License. Sun maintains control, not just of the original code, but any enhancements. So, you going to go for it? Or are you going to keep your distance? You and your company need to come to your own conclusions on all this. How much freedom do you demand in a software license before you consider it to be truly open source? And how much freedom is too much?

Please attach any large amounts of code - or better still, host it elsewhere and and link to it.

Its better to stick to an official licensed file! Anyways, you did not tell me whether it works silently now?

InfoWorld's Chad Dickerson gathered responses from a bulletin set up for IT managers and vendors asking them for the most common mistakes they ve made and then distilled them down into a list of 20 IT blunders that you should avoid. The lessons learned from these tales from the trenches touch on a wide array of IT issues and can keep you out of trouble: 1. Botching your outsourcing strategy 2. Dismissing open source -- or bowing before it 3. Offshoring with blinders on 4. Discounting internal security threats 5. Failing to secure a fluid perimeter 6. Ignoring security for handhelds 7. Promoting the wrong people 8. Mishandling change management 9. Mismanaging software development 10. Letting engineers do their own QA 11. Developing Web apps for IE only 12. Relying on a single network performance 13. Throwing bandwidth at a network problem 14. Permitting weak passwords 15. Never sweating the small stuff 16. Clinging to prior solutions 17. Falling behind on emerging technologies 18. Underestimating PHP 19. Violating the KISS principle 20. Being a slave to vendor marketing strategies read full

I think making a winrar compression profile is the best way to accomplish the above. Here it is: 1. apply the HKCU registry file attached to this post (it modifies the default settings/profile of winrar). 2. that's all a. now you just right-click on any set of files or folder b. and choose "add to archive". c. modify file-name.exe to what you want (if at all) d. click "OK" in that dialog-box to create the SFX. Do post back on the progress. wrar_profile.reg

Look through your CD for any file with .REG extension, and post the file here. (as a link to it being hosted somewhere else, preferably) That might help in finding out where the login is going wrong.

First confirm that you have downloaded an official version - link. Well, I still do the same thing: 1. Run the single-file setup with "/A" switch. 2. take the resulting admin-install folder and run its msi with "/QB" switch - for unattended.

1. why do you want to run 2 anti-virus programs - maybe that is causing a problem. 2. Go into "C:\Windows\System32" and check if "wpa.dbl" exists - that is your activation file. If you're having something that deletes it on every reboot, then search for what might be causing it.

@Adiel By now you ought to know that such *MASSIVE* code being posted is not appropriate! In future, please attach such content - if a post is too long, it is a problem to yourself, since no one will feel like reading it.

Wishing you a very happy Birthday !!! Hey, gimme that cake..... Why wasn't I wished on MY b'day...

BTW, bashrat's driver-packs seem to be becoming very popular. Here's a snippet taken from the mailing-lists of http://unattended.sourceforge.net