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You followed the same steps as what else? And proofing tools needn't be separately slip-streamed. What are you asking? The hidden CAB files do get de-compressed when you make an admin-install point.The resulting folder is about 600-odd MB and doesn't change by much after merging SP1 into it - how did yours swell to double the size! And note: And if you need the final size to be smaller, just ZIP or RAR the entire directory. If you need a detailed step-by-step guide of how to do what you're trying, please check out this page - click here.

The below is to be saved as a .REG file (copy/paste into notepad and save as cpp.reg). And is made in such a way that you'll get the option to compile, only if you right-click on a .CPP extension file. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.cpp\shell] @="open" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.cpp\shell\compile] @="Compile source" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.cpp\shell\compile\command] @="bcc32.exe \"%1\"" ;--OR-- ;@="\"C:\\Program Files\\FOLDER_NAME\\bcc32.exe\" \"%1\""If you do use it, please post here about whether it worked properly (for your purpose) or not.

@thehalon That's right. @CyberMurder Yes, you can use regedit, regsvr32, CMD, cscript, notepad, and such EXEs directly, without needing to give full path-names. If you want to see what other executables can be directly run, go to this registry key for a full list: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App PathsAll the EXEs listed there can be directly run. How does it work? The listed EXEs there, have their full-paths already known to the system/registry - so that you don't need to specify the path.

I'm still searching for a way to set these settings on XP home! (the VBscript by shuter works fine with XP pro, though). Okay, I'm back with a new update on this issue. Since I execute the command to set pwnexp (password-never-expires) - the above VBscript by shuter doesn't work anymore. What is the VBscript to: 1. Remove the check-mark from "Password never expires". 2. Enable "User cannot change password" for a specified user. Below is a screenshot of the current (messy) situation I'm having. The screenshot is about the properties of a certain user, from User Management MMC. Screenie taken, so that my above question can be illustrated (by showing what boxes I want to check/uncheck).

But the registry method is problematic in a way. It opens the moveto/CopyTo dialogs at odd times/places even when you did not choose to open them. Instead, there is a "contextMenuExt.dll" which you need to register (using regsvr32 command) - that one is a cleaner option. Now since this forum doesn't allow attachments, here's a link to the topic that has this file attached.

Yeah, I had my head in a whirl before I finally understood cmdlines.txt! More additions related to that:

@evilvoice Okay, here's what I do: 1. We're fortunate that firefox and thunderbird do not use absolute paths in their main config files (in program files folder). 2. My method is as you mentioned - none of "install this/that silently" crap. 3. Download firefox 1.0 (installer/.EXE) and install it to "%programfiles%\Mozilla\Firefox" 4. Install all the extensions that you want - ensure that changes are being made to the installed app in %ProgramFiles% and not in your userProfile folder alone. 5. Download Thunderbird 0.9 (installer) and install it to "%programfiles%\Mozilla\Thunderbird". 6. Do all the preferences editing that you want to do (you need to edit the .JS files in the installed folder, if you want). 7. Download the Sunbird 0.2 ZIP file and extract into "%programfiles%\Mozilla\Sunbird" 8. Now just start all of these, and satisfy yourself, that it works properly. 9. Copy away the "%programfiles%\Mozilla" folder to desktop. 10. Go into this folder now, and taking a good look at all contents, delete the uninstallers - since it is not relevant. 11. Then right-click the above folder (which is on desktop now) and choose to compress to 7-ZIP archive. Ensure that the compression level is "Ultra" and that "make SFX" box is checked. The other settings in that window can be left at defaults. 12. You now have "Mozilla.EXE" on your desktop with a 7-Zip SFX icon. Edit the icon resource (with resource hacker) if you don't like the icon! 13. If you added firefox and thunderbird *AND* sunbird (the PIM) - your resulting archive (mozilla.exe) should be 8.7 MB. If you added only ff and tb, it should be 6.2 MB. 14. Now, put the EXE wherever you want on your CD. Below is an example (command-line) of getting the 7-zip SFX module to extract contents silently to the path you specify: %whatever%\path\pre_Mozilla.exe -y /q /r:n -o"%ProgramFiles%" 15. Then, go to this page, and get the INF that will make the required registry entries. (Now why do I prefer INF for this one? Because you can use system variable names, instead of having absolute paths). The registry entries that the INF makes is the same keys that the firefox/thunderbird installer does while installing - so that is all you need (you can forget about using installers for Ff or Tb). Settings in INF (this one is the newer/correct version) Do you want settings in .REG instead? (older/not recommended). 16. If you want to make firefox your default Internet sticky (in new-design StartMenu of XP), the details of "HOW", are in that thread which contains INF settings for Mozilla (linked to, above). 17. Put shortcuts to firefox/thunderbird/sunbird in: $OEM$\$Docs\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Mozilla\Ensure that the "path to application" of the shortcuts don't contain absolute paths (instead, it should use system variables, like %ProgramFiles% and such). 18. Make your uA CD! The paths I have given above is simply because I find those convenient - change the paths to suit your liking (but then the .REG or INF that you import for the app needs to be modified too). I recommend that you add-in thunderbird to your package (instead of stopping with just firefox) because: 1. Outlook Express simply begs for a replacement. 2. The size of the 7-zip archive (if you don't add thunderbird) will be only 1 MB lesser - so you're not saving on disk-space by leaving out thunderbird. 3. Of course, if you are determined that you only want firefox - its your choice by all means! In that case, don't do the things that are related to thunderbird above. I hope you understand that the actual process of doing this is not quite as lengthy as my post seems to suggest - I've made a huge post simply to pass-on all the needed info. Hoping you like it - took some time to document what I do (its surprising how we don't clearly note down what works for us, when we do it for ourselves the first time!). Do post back on how it goes.

Hmmm.... I'm not really sure about what you mean by hide CD-R media. Can you please post a detailed description of what you are trying?

please search! That this tweak is not useful now, has been explained. It was useful in the Win9x days.

And maybe you're being polite when you ask for help, with a question, and after having received a few replies, you don't say what the solution was? [/sARCASM]

Yep, all of important tweaks are in that large REG file. But a lot of the content is quite low priority too - so adding all of those would be an overkill.

Its either macros (in Word), or using java-script (in HTML pages).

Never mind the "3 files" and the "own site" and the code.... Just visit this site - http://www.danasoft.com/customsig.php And then put the resulting image in your sig - using tags.

Additional note: The registry keys mentioned above is a whole lot of settings across the range of search. Please use only the settings that *YOU* want to set - otherwise you might find unexpected effects. And also, the "yes" and "no" (that is, the dword:000001 and 00000 values) are set according to how the general public wants it - you might need to change it for your own purpose. A good idea is to keep these keys in mind, and then set whatever settings you want - and then go into the Regedit tool, and see what values have been set.

The current set of regtweaks that is up at the guide, is now insufficient. Just a few commonly asked tweaks could be added to the existing set. repeated requests for registry tweaks: 1. Advanced Search, search-dog related tweaks 2. folder options <--- will add to this list later>

Hmm.... the attachment to the first post in that pinned thread had a listing of all important tweaks. Using search in notepad for the term "search" gave the above results! Indeed! I agree. That thread has just grown too large for its own good. Maybe its time for starting a part-3 thread of that. I've not yet got time to think of ways to make it easier for people - the last time I went to aggregate all tweaks into one file, it took 2 full days. Let me see what can be done with that thread... please pitch in with suggestions, if any.

"Never" is an answer fine by me!

Dunno....There's some things that just never get revealed. Now as for the MSI property, just try one last thing. MS-Office 2003 (and MSO XP) support that property as well. Just check out if the property is valid when you use it with that package. That should certainly work on all machines, since Office comes with all required files self-contained. If that doesn't work either, then we can work out what's wrong. But if the property works with MS-Office, but doesn't work with AcroRead/diskeeper/etc. then you know that it is a *REAL* strange situation . Most MSI-based installers of small utilities do not utilise such advanced properties, but fact is that the bigger companies do give a lot of attention to their installers - so that is why apps like diskeeper does support INSTALLlocation. Well, if nothing else works out on the MSI properties front - cheers to your VBscript.

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Please read the forum's rules. Cracks,etc. are not allowed.

Is there an EXE in that folder, besides the MSI ?

Change requested: Is not true since it is BenjaminKalytta who is developing it.

yes, its reg tweaks. ;----- ;----- Change Default Search Options (1 = ON, 0 = OFF) ;----- [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer] "SearchSystemDirs"=dword:00000001 "SearchHidden"=dword:00000001 "IncludeSubFolders"=dword:00000001 "CaseSensitive"=dword:00000000 "SearchSlowFiles"=dword:00000000 ;----- Enable Classic Search [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CabinetState] "FullPath"=dword:00000001 "FullPathAddress"=dword:00000001 "Use Search Asst"="no" "Settings"=hex:0c,00,02,00,1b,01,e7,77,60,00,00,00 ;----- Disable "Search Dog" and use advanced search [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Search Assistant] "Actor"="" "SocialUI"=dword:00000000 "UsageCount"=dword:00000000 "UseAdvancedSearchAlways"=dword:00000001 ;----- Search All File Types [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ContentIndex] "FilterFilesWithUnknownExtensions"=dword:00000001Next time, please take a look in the *PINNED* registry tweaks thread.

Oh well! I've no idea why it won't work at your end. Are you sure you have the latest MSI engine? (use XPSP2 to use the latest - MSI 3.0) Is your diskeeper licensed, And are you sure you have the newer package of diskeeper 9 ? (because the older version that some people got from P2P networks were not properly packaged) If you own diskeeper, then get it from here.

check out CDshell - which is freeware. But if easyboot sucked for you, cdshell will too, even more so!