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You can type the command at a CMD window and see its uses. netYes, net.exe As for your requirement, net stop servicenameThat will do the task for that session (i.e., until the next reboot). But if you need it to be stopped even at your next session, you need to do it thru registry.

Alanoll, its just an opinion.... but I wouldn't bother about applications and reg-tweaks at the beginning. Finishing up with all else and then turning attention towards it is more like it. About the "more, clearer advertising" - is a bit off-topic, so if you want to discuss that, please start a new thread.

I haven't heard of the 70.xx series of drivers! Even if it does exist, its probably in beta form, and *WILL* cause problems. The cool-bits regtweak is okay. It is certainly not the cause of problems. I integrate the 66.93 drivers, and apply the cool-bits tweak - all works fine here.

Yep, off-topic posts split out to this thread. All's fine now.@larciel Have you tried with a clean XPCD yet?

Here's the regshot download (since you wanted it): Its attached to a post in this thread - click here

No no..... Windows setup will look in the folders specified in "OEMpnpDriversPath=" method. When it looks, it looks for INFs. If the relevant hardware is detected, it will use that INF. And the files (atleast nvidia files) are used/installed properly without needing to bother about separately calling a setup application. Now what is calling the other 28 files? Dunno... but the other 28 files are needed too. If you find out, please let us know - I did not find out that, simply because I did not think it necessary to know!

Use reg-shot to see what in the registry is being changed when you do that. Then just use it as a regtweak!

I think this is what you could do: Have the files to be installed on the centralo server (whatever it is named). Then add RunOnceEX registry keys, to every desktop (push it via group policies). That way, the next time when it boots up it will execute that app with switches and all....

There can be any number of reasons why the .NET pack is not installing.... It is english and you might have non-EN-US windows. You might have the "disable rollback for MSI" regtweak, which prevents .NET install. The files might be corrupted... The file may not even have been called in the first place.... In such cases, what *WE* do would be to pick-up a clean disk, and try it on that instead. And then to compare what could have made the difference.

Please post in the right section of the forum! Then, the people who can answer it will see it! *moving topic

Very right!I find cmdlines.txt very important/useful - most of my uA work is scheduled to happen thru it. Considering its importance, its amazing how little info is available in the guide. Please have atleast a 4-line run-through of things-to-know in the cmdlines section. And don't dare forget to include an example cmdlines.txt! Informing about the existence of the "/?" switch to find out switches is a good idea. And one important thing: The guide in its present state has a single layout - and you need to choose to read which pages you want, whether you are a beginner (simple) or advanced. I think having it in two variations of the main index.htm (but links will link to same pages in both pages) will be a good idea. I mean.... one index.htm will list only the pages that are simple for a beginner to understand, and another "advanced" Index page that has all the explosive bang-bang stuff. (where, stuff= whatever is currently present, and whatever you're gonna add)

Indeed, that did occur to me; however hotfixes clearly are able to replace system files which are protected by SFC so it can be done I was really just "wondering out aloud" as to what it might take. If we (you/me/someone) could create a mechanism to allow you to use your Update Pack to modify an existing installation then it would have a "double" use. Right. So here's info for you (and RyanVM) to chew on, if you want to use this update pack for an installed version of windows.

It will help. Change that catalogsubdir, then try it out and let me know how it goes. Hmm.... maybe that's the reason it did not work! Below is an example of an empty svcpack.inf (which will work fine when you add catalogs/whatever).[Version] Signature="$Windows NT$" MajorVersion=5 MinorVersion=1 BuildNumber=2600 [SetupData] CatalogSubDir="Update" [ProductCatalogsToInstall] [SetupHotfixesToRun] QCHAIN.EXE

You gave the file-name wrong. And you don't need to specify I386 again, in the catalog SubDir - directly giving name of subdir is enough.The portion that needs to be changed is below: [SetupData] CatalogSubDir="svcpack" [SetupHotfixesToRun] netfxsp1.exeAnd are you sure you have the "netfxsp1.exe" file inside the svcpack, folder?

1. Make a clear recommendation that people test their CDs/ISOs with some Virtual-Machine emulating app. I did not have anyone telling me that, and wasted 5 CDs or more, till I got round to that method for testing the installs. Suggestions by RyanVM: 2. http://unattended.msfn.org/xp/installhotfixes.htm might help if this page actually had content 3. some of the beginner's stuff could probably be updated for more clarity.

ewww.......

Yes, its the same story even with nForce drivers - it gets done direct from INF in the folders. You can delete the setup.And more - delete the MSI's custom package and all that. About the "special realtek codec" - dump the MSI package. Just stick with only using the nForce updated drivers - the latest nForce drivers downloaded from nVidia.com (currently, latest is v5.10). I have an MSI MoBo too, and I know what codec you're referring to - its not needed, the downloaded nForce drivers will have an updated version of it!

Hey djlax, If all the PCs you want to install XP to are networked, and have NICs which are network-boot compatible, then you have one option: RIS (remote installation services). You can control all setup parameters, and whether it is for all machines or individually, from a central server. (Win Svr2k3 or 2k needed) Try googling and checking out MS technet for detailed articles - they have lots. Your XPCD has some documentation too, regarding that - in the \SUPPORT\TOOLS folder, open the compressed files, to find documentation (in .CHM help format).

Pay the OpenOffice/Mozilla developers, and see them get motivated and beat proprietary productivity suites (or browsers) on all counts. Side-Benefit: Your documents' own future is secured too, because open-source does not function on the basis of orders coming from the top (which tell you to drop support for older versions). Also, all web-developers get a level-playing field, if there were no special info reserved to be divulged only to a paying customer. Tell me, to what extent will you do things for me, if you don't have the incentive of cash at the other end of the dark tunnel? Also, your time is not all that much worthless - I mean, would you rather be working (trying to make a living), or would you rather be stuck in a traffic jam in front of the United Nations building? Sorry if I come across as blunt, but not everybody can afford "the best" suite. Moreover, the IT industry happily has a concept of "good enough". When IE became "good enough" it trounced Netscape. When the PC was "good enough", mainframes went into oblivion. For that matter, windows and MS-office weren't always "The Best" - they took over the market, at a time when CTOs felt Microsoft solutions were "good enough" as far as price/value went. And so on.... "best" does not matter if there's something attractive about the "good enough" competitor. What you got to know about the concept of "free software" is this: They work to free you from the bondages of being locked-in to proprietary software manufacturers. They do it as an additional job, simply "for the love of it". If people are interested in joining the swelling party, they can - and if they don't like it, just pass it by! And to remember: While money is still required to exist in living form as a human on earth, the key difference between a proprietary firm, and the free-community is this- Its an obligation to stock-holders and to its founders, that the closed-source firm expands business, improves bottom-lines, and strengthens hold on market share (by any means possible, including lock-in/monopoly). Whereas proponents of free software require money too, but not so much as to become an over-riding consideration to the detriment of people that rely on them for software. Open-Source never claimed to wipe out hunger, nor to wipe your tears. Their only objective is to have the presence of choice in the market - to see that you can modify software and share source-code, to ensure that you be more productive by not having to re-invent the wheel when there's already a base to build on. (If you *OWN* the base as _private_ non-public code, you are not restricted from charging any amount of money you want in return for transferring it. And similarly, if you're offering services based around free-software, there's no law specifying that you should not specify any fee in-lieu of services offered)

Well, basically the sleep.exe wants to have a command-window to run in. So don't use CMDOW if you need sleep.exe to not show up another window of its own. You'll understand what I mean, if you try this: 1. Type command to sleep.exe from "Run" box. (sleep 5) - this creates a "Sleep" window 2. Open a command-prompt, run the sleep from there. (sleep 5) - no extra sleep window is seen If you want a real good solution, then I'd say move to using XPlode for your unattended scripts. It allows you to hide specific windows (like what you want) - and does a lot of advanced things.

Since all I want is for junk to not accumulate in the registry, I use an (unofficial) tool by Microsoft, which was released in the days of win97. It still does a good job. RegClean 4.1a

Think again. You don't make any money from your Home PC, would you pay the price for a license of MS-Office for your home? And I'm sorry to say, 12-year old kids who use word/powerpoint for school projects, most certainly can't afford to buy MS-Office. Shall I conclude that you support piracy? Because they don't have the computer skills to download/install/learn/use it. This is a point that has been clarified by Open Source communities many times. Free here stands for free as in freedom, and not "free beer". Free means the freedom to modify source code according to your requirements. Actually, even if you charge a million dollars for firefox installation, nobody can accuse you of a crime, for the below reason. When you pay for that package, you are not paying for the software. You are in fact paying for the *SERVICE* - paying for the skills of the person installing it for you, or paying for the fact that you got it in an easy-use box (instead of waiting for download). Exactly. Either you willingly donate money to them, or they have to find ways to feed themselves. Just for a moment, let's keep the point of salaries aside. Isn't the time you spent on making your unattended XPCD valuable? Now if I said that you have to give it to me freely, simply because you yourself did not spend money on licenses for it, I'd be speaking ridiculous. Because, you know that you spent a lot of brain-power, time (which could have been more fun if you had instead sat and watched TV), and money (on internet-access charges ) on that CD. If you gave me that CD, you'd say, "Pay me for the service that you get, out of this."If I'm happy with the price, I'd pay, and if not - I'd just look to somewhere else. You can't just subsist on love and air and good-will alone, can you? You need money to bring food on your plate. As simple as that. Sorry if this seems like an intrusion, but I just had to set things in the correct perspective. I hate to see it when people are blindly pro-MS or anti-MS.

Yes. But I keep it simply because 2 KB of useful info was good to have. <Modes.txt> and <nvapps.xml> ? No, those are needed files. Deleting them will cause problems in the driver's control panel. @Lucius Snow Well, I haven't created any tool of the sort you say. Its just a batch-file that I posted, so that you'd get an idea of what needs to be done by seeing it. I think the batch-file would work with international driver as well (but I'm not sure, please test and tell me). Even if the batch-file was not working fine with international version, what you can do is to manually do what those commands do, by yourself. You're right - using the US English version of driver, on non-English OS *WILL* give trouble.

Yes, that info has been posted before. 1. Those limitations are extremely severe, to run a real forum on. 2. If the thread-starter knew what needed to be done to setup a forum from scratch (using IPB, or whatever) - he wouldn't ask I guess the intention, is to have a ready-made forum somewhere, which can be easily put to use without headaches of having to deal with server hosting, file-uploads, PHP/MySQL db, etc. InvisionFree is a good idea in such cases.

Yes, it will install the nVidia Control Panel, without needing the setup files.the "OEMpnpDriversPath=" method is the one you should use, to get your drivers detected by windows. (details here - http://unattended.msfn.org/xp/drivers.htm Hoping that helps.... @Yzöwl Something surely wrong there. You must get 42 files remaining after clean-up (all the below files are essential). For your benefit, here's an output of the folder's file names: gfx-driver \---nVidia Folder PATH listing- advanced.tvp aliagp.sys cad.tvp dcc.tvp default.tvp finance.tvp hpqvdisp.dll keystone.exe modes.txt nv4disp2.inf nv4_disp.cat nv4_disp.dll nv4_disp.inf nv4_mini.sys nvappbar.exe nvapps.xml nvcod.dll nvcpl.dll nvcpl.hlp nvdccapp.cfg NVDisp.nvu nvdspsch.exe nvgfx.dll nvids.cfg nview.dll nviewx.dll nvmctray.dll nvnt4cpl.dll nvoglnt.dll nvshell.dll nvsvc32.exe nvsysrot.dll nvtsext.dll nvtuicpl.cpl nvudisp.exe nvwcplen.hlp nvwddi.dll nvwdmcpl.dll nvwimg.dll nvwsapps.cfg nwiz.exe Readme.txt No subfolders exist