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UPDATE: The VBscript above (by shuter) works fine with XP Pro, but not Home Edition. Any ideas how to do the same for home edition as well? @Benjamin Well, if the little tool can work in XP home, I'm game for it. If the cusrmgr.exe can do what I want, on XP home, then could someone please post a link to download it? (if its legitimate)

Well, this problem was there in SP0 and SP1 of XP as well.And I have one thing to add - I don't think (this topic) is a problem with only _some_ distributions of winxp. I set to work to see if that's true, and found its not so. The above problem is seen uniformly on XP home/pro/VLK in retail/OEM versions. I haven't yet tried the newest 0.99.4 version - I'll check back here if the issue is not yet resolved with this version. Thanx for all your hard work nuhi!

You need other files as well - those that reget puts into the System32 folder. Open the reget (downloaded) installer with winrar, and trace out all the files - then running "regetdx.exe -setup" works.

Hey, for starters, posting this topic in the correct section of the forum would have helped fetch more responses. Having this posted in: MSFN -> Customizing Windows -> Windows Desktops Screenshots -> Play MP3 During Batch File Looks pretty out of the way - you tell where you want it moved to!

Hi gape, Your package is appreciated a lot. Been using the win98 SE SP since v1.2 or so, I think. Thanx for soldiering on with this. Maybe you already mentioned it somewhere, but I might have missed it. Is there a silent install option? You know.... like we use "/S" or "/Silent" or "/Q:A /R:N" or something? So that we can schedule it to silently install at first boot after install - because slip-streaming is not very stable on win9x.

1. Run >> "diskmgmt.msc" 2. Right-click drive which you want to hide. 3. click "change drive-letter and paths" 4. Remove access to the drive from alphabet assignments. 5. And mount the drive in an empty NTFS folder - in the correct user-account's "MyDocuments" folder. So now, if E: has been mounted as "C:\Documents and Settings\nvtool\My Documents\My files", only when nvtool is logged-in that drive is accessible from a folder within his Mydocuments folder. The other users simply don't even *SEE* that drive - but it exists, and no need to fiddle with NTFS permissions or such things. I suppose this is kind of what you wanted? Do post back how it goes, and if you want more details.

No one said to do so. GM said please read the already available documentation and save yourself and others time.

Well, the explanation is a bit different. By "GOLD" they mean that the software is now on Gold CDs. Back in the old-time (yeah, just some years ago, but time flies in the digital world), when any software was about to be "Released to manufacturing" it would be burnt on Gold CDs (no, don't take "Gold" literally, its "Gold" since CD-Rs with that dye were of better quality), and then RTM'ed. Gold, Platinum as in having sold a million copies (or whatever) is a different thing.

[quote name='Shoshoni' date='Aug 12 2004, 11:45 PM']Is it very hard to construct such a picture prathaml?[/quote] I don't know.... It (the first one) just looks that much more beautiful, and natural and appealing. :

WOW!!! Finally its here for SP2. @flyakite Looks great! *waiting eagerly here*

I just allow all pages - and skip doing anything (clicking next) in whatever pages I don't need. So, I click next in all pages, except for ticking driver CABs merging in the Options page. And then I make the ISO (that one works flawlessly - it the CABs that somehow lose out files).

Okay, thanks for the debate, but it just is going a *bit* too far out.

Nope. Action replay - same story. same missing files.

Alanoll, I don't know whether it could be a path error (didn't think about this yet), bu he definitely doesn't need the switches. @Adiel RyanVM has a Java 5.0 package as well, get that. It will be switchless. And is there any reason *WHY* you need this? >> %windir%\apps.logJust a suggestion, but remove those parts, and try again, it _might_ work properly. No, its *NOT* okay. Topics merged.

@shuter YES!!!!!! It is perfect. *EXACTLY* what I was looking for. cscript //B forcepwd.vbs "user name"Thanks a lot!

You see a toolbar at top-right? Click Members from there. Do a "Name contains" search from drop-down box. For example, search for yourself, zilevoli. Then click on whichever user-name matches whom you wanted to see details about - it will show his/her user profile. Over there, clicking "Find all posts by this member" will show up all of your/his/her posts. Was that what you wanted?

That explains it! I _did_ think LCC school had been heard by me before. Well, don't be too worried about it. Where there's humans, there's weakness for money and such deeds do happen. We can only hope people become more law-abiding.

This is what I use: ;Right-click any drive to close the tray of the optical drive [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\draw] @="Close CD-&tray" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\draw\command] @="cdr.exe close ALL"You can get CDR.exe from here - http://unattended.msfn.org/xp/downloads.htm and place it in your System32 folder. Any more ideas, or some way to get rid of that uply CMD window from its use is welcomed.

UPDATE: Just to be sure, did some further testing. And what do I find? Under *EXACT* same conditions, with nothing being different, except for this: This time, I don't choose higher compression of driver CABs. I choose only merging of driver cabs. Same story gets repeated - lots of files missing - the *SAME* files as mentioned above. And you know what's most interesting? This time the merged driver.cab is 22.9 MB - that is smaller than it was when I chose higher compression. The version of windows on which I'm trying all of the above: WinXP Pro, VLK edition - manually slip-streamed to SP2 - works perfectly fine when doing anything else. ----------------- Tried my normal setup now - just the irritating components removed, and unattended support. And everything works properly this time - no problems. So now I guess the real question staring at me is - what is making it go bad when driver-CAB-merge/higher-compression is chosen?

I got the error in text-mode, about many files not existing for copy, when I did this: [Components] docs support valueadd Chosen merge driver cabs chosen higher compression I had this thing happening even before (some moths ago). Until I did this for this time, I've been simply not using any of the driver.cab merging or re-compressing options all these days - but that error has made a comeback now after choosing to do the above! I suspect it has something to do with the fact that the resulting (merged, recompressed) driver.cab is only 23.1 MB. Some files might be getting lost. Sample of missing files: cdaudio.sys cinemst2.sys cyycoins.chm cyzcoins.chm digiras.chm dvdplay.exe kodak_dc.icm srgb.icm streamci.dll <--- this one is particularly fatal, my nforce audio driver wants this file tosdvd.sys tsbvcap.sys tsbyuv.dll usbcamd.sys usbcamd2.sys vdmindvd.sys wowfax.dll wowfaxui.dllFar, *FAR* more files are absent - I just don't have enough fingers to type 70-80 file-names fast enough. Its an action movie - it was a stormy blue text-mode screen, many files waiting to jump into the hard-disk, each time some files get copied, and every few seconds a new "Setup cannot copy the file:" notice comes up. Saying "ESC" carries on with file-copy, but another file is missing within a few seconds! And this when I removed *NOTHING*. I did the standard install type - booted off the CD, no unattended, install completes fine and runs OK (atleast for 2 boot-ups). I hope I gave enough info to analyze what's happening. What am I doing wrong in the above?

Ha ha ha.... finally! (that's my happiness showing through). Your first script (3 posts above) works perfectly shuter (not yet tried your above one). Thanks a million. And welcome to MSFN forum! And now.... any ideas for the being able to specify user name from command-line would be fantastic!

I did, but promptly stopped thinking, since I realised I did not have any such script with me, lol.Thanks for the script. Will test it now, and if it works, I will modify it to take a commandline argument of which user to apply it for, or a graphical dialog-box to input the user name. (if you already have modified it to work that way, please do post it). Will let you know how it goes.

Okay... make it an MST, for being able to distribute it. I wouldn't like to see billy boy snapping at your heels.

Such a pity that such things happen.

Hehe... that page was totally incomprehensible, lol. (well... no it was useful, but not usable for my purpose). UPDATE: Using RegShot, and applying that setting, shows no changes in the registry. So I'm almost convinced that what I need is not in the registry. So I can rule out that one possibility. But still in search of other possibilities, lol.