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Please see the devcon command described above.As for my own adventure: I did see that when I used the drivers on the floppy-disk that came with my Samsung monitor, it did install that one unattended. But what use is this: SyncMaster 703(M)s/ 753(M)s/750(M)s/753(M)v, MagicSyncMaster CM173A(M)Ha ha.... That's what the INF contained, and that's what the monitor name in display properties showed up as. So I changed the monitor name in the INF to have the name of my monitor alone, and not the entire product segment. But, as is obvious, that broke driver signature, and the .CAT of the driver could not validate it anymore. Installing it manually works now, with a dialog about non-WHQL driver, but unattended has been no go. Other than that, I have a few things that I'm yet to try out myself. So the below is untested ideas: Maybe deleting monitor.inf and replacing it with your own monitor's INF file - and if it contains associated DLLs/ICMs you need to have it copied over to the system as well (txtsetup.sif). Or... disabling driver signing. Or... Make your own INF and your own .CAT (this one is highly improbable, I think).

@BoardBabe Yeah, do the direct-to-install that sleepnmojo mentions. It will DIRECTLY install the .NET during setup - just as if it were one of all the other windows components. Hopefully, atleast that method will not ask for "insert disk" anymore.

If spam wants to jump into the pit, let them, lol. Did you see the number of problems and issues and server busy errors that are happening to them.... I don't mean to say IPB2 is not good, but it needs some testing before such a big board moves over to it. And yes, as sleepnmojo said - we'll move when we decide to. @sonu And yes, waiting for a bit before posting is a good idea. Give some time to people to read your topic and reply. Posting 4 times in the space of 15 minutes, with nothing significant to add, is not polite. *topic moved from general discussion to site and forum issues

If you tell what are the software you have installed on your PC, what OS version, which updates installed, then we can see which of those could throw a spanner in the works. Otherwise, there are simply far too many apps to list that don't "play nice" with each other, in specific conditions.

I was with PowerDVD, and still use that. But since the last 6 months, when BSplayer was being distributed along with "all-codecs" packs, I sort of got drawn towards it - simply because you could throw any media file at it, no matter what format, and it would play. But yeah, if this poll is about which one of the two you'd rather use to play a DVD, I'd prefer PowerDVD any day - simply because I received it bundled with my drive, with a proper key.

Well I'll tell that myself. Happy? @smc1979 It is a major turn-off to post such huge chunks of text. Its simply too mind-numbing, for anyone to bother seeing. Use tags for small bits of code, and attachments for larger amounts of text.

yes, WinISO and UltraISO can open CD-images of all types. You just need to open the .bin in one of those utilities, and do a Save As. And it will get converted. But is there any good reason why this topic was posted in the Gamers' Hangout?

@Boardbabe How to reg it (crahak's post) Silent install switch

Did work, the last time I checked. The switch has a capitalisation... And how to reg the pro version? LINK here

Right, jito's code above will do what you want. Also, you can go to the Unattended Windows forum, and see the "stickied" topics there. There's one called "Threads of Interest" - it lists a topic that has been discussing exactly this (how to do a 2 CD install).

Thanks for the info. BTW, Would that mean Ultra edition can't run on 64-bit windows?Can't be so, because as we know, its the same installer/executables. So ultra has that 64-bit feature of enterprise edition too! (or maybe not - haven't tested latest releases of ultra).

Yes. Sorry, I was just mentioning the modifications needed to the code from your first-post - as an example. Of course, you caught it at the right time - and modified the code again, as per your environment.

No, the absolute speed in megahertz is not needed to be changed. What we need to do here, is to see that you have proc. and matching memory, such that both run at the same FSB. And please check if the details are true..... your post says you have PC2100 memory. That means its default is 266 MHz FSB. And then you mention 166 MHz for the memory.... you are giving conflicting reports. Right now, what you *CAN* easily do, is go into your BIOS, and set everything to the defaults. (it might be called fail-safe settings, factory defaults, CMOS defaults, whatever....) Basically to return everything to "tested under factory conditions" state. Now check if the slow desktop draw still happens. If its still happening, then go into BIOS, and set the Proc. and RAM both to the same FSB (first try 266, then 333) - change no other setting. If the "slow desktop draw" still continues, then try changing to different resolutions/bit-depths/refresh-rates. If a windows re-install (after a re-format of C: drive) hasn't been done since a long time, then try that. If all of this has failed, then there always is the product support offices of the vendor from whom you bought this PC. Get them to either solve the problem or replace the defective components. If it is all that much of a big problem, as you say - then that needs a technician to be right in front of your PC to analyze/trouble-shoot. If he can't do that and identify what is the cause of your problem...... (I won't comment on the probable quality of his knowledge, or lack thereof). It can't be THAT difficult to fix, because definitely you are using off-the-shelf hardware - hardware that thousands of others are using as well, without any problem.

Okay, let's give up on the original installer. There's a pre-modified, switch-less installer, that has the slip-streaming, and silent install support integrated: http://ryanvm.net/msfn/files/netfxsp1.exe (11 MB) Just download that and use it. start /wait %Systemdrive%\Install\NetFramework\netfxsp1.exe start /wait %Systemdrive%\Install\NetFramework\langpack.msi /QBThat should work. Do tell us how it goes, and whether it works for you now.

Hallo there, mister OFFICIAL Creator of the Johnny Do Reg Tweaks File. Indeed, welcome back after a long time! As for what EXACTLY has changed, I suppose the change-log should now be detached from the main registry tweaks file now, if it was needed to list each modification. 'Coz my guess is the changelog file is going to touch 100 KB by itself! As much effort as goes into trying to keep this regtweaks file up-to-date, there's 2 problems: 1. Listing what changes were made! 2. Try to get the people to NOT use the download as ONE BIG TWEAK-ALL. You can see that already. As maxXPsoft said some pages before, give 'em all in one place, and they'll apply all and complain. How can you get them to understand, that this is like a library - to copy only the tweaks that you need/understand, and not use the ones that you don't know what it does. I'm getting worn-out trying to explain this! And confirmation - file available for download in first-post is totally up-to-date, as of the edit date/time mentioned there. The only tweaks I haven't looked into yet (so not included), is the services tweaks by illusions (6 posts above) in this page.

Can I be sure about this?Because my early CDs which did not have OEMpreinstall enabled at all, also offer no repair option. I guess simply having a winnt.sif (i.e., using unattended install methods) gets the setup to conclude that you don't need repair functionality. You need to make a new CD with normal files - no unattended processes used - to be able to get to use "repair" option.

I suppose all of the above, are in the "Registry Tweaks" thread in this forum - it is stickied. The first-post there has a list of tweaks put together by JohnnyDo - you'd be able to find what you want there.

The VIA chipsets/drivers has been a perpetual head-ache. With nVidia you just have one set of chipset drivers, one set of graphics drivers, and both are unattend-friendly! First, just make a plain WinXP+SP2 slip-streamed CD. After installing windows from that, install the drivers for your mother-board. And then the latest drivers for your graphics. Should work fine, after that. (if you did nothing wrong in the process) So if you did the above, and all is fine, then use nLite to integrate drivers - otherwise if it won't work manually for you, how can it when automated! I've seen newer VIA chipsets giving pretty good performance - so its not an issue there. And I have an Athlon myself and can confirm that an Athlon is equal-to or faster than competing chips (no, let's not make this an Intel-AMD flame). If nothing else helps, you've either over-clocked your processor (or RAM or gfx card) - in that case bring them all down to run at equal frequency. Or you got a defective board - ask for replacement. But normally CPU/memory FSB being same gives a safe and stable system. And what's the need to ask about "whether you can bring down RAM to 266 MHz to match your proc" ? Why not try it yourself, and see what the results are - its definitely not going to blow-up any of your components.

@muaitai Naah.... no worries. That's info for over-the-network management. And even then, problems are only with specific case scenarios (the windows firewall basically blocks certain ports needed by diskeeper server edition - just open out the ports and no problem anymore). My XPSP2+diskeeper9 (yeah ) is working exactly the same way as it always did (same as how XPSP1+diskeeper8 would). My defragments never did have anthing to do with the network, anyway. And PCs at client places, I always set them up to defrag all partitions at a pre-set time - no over-the-network-management bothers needed - atleast not until the time thousands of desktops need to be managed by me. @jroc Yup! Evidence confirmed. Thanx.

@Alpheratz The best thing is to simply not use special characters. All those characters, I know those are normal in non-English languages. But if you want things to turn out exactly as you said it to, sticking to plain alphabets and numbers is the best thing. Moreover, I always try to stay away from using symbols (example: &,@,$,%,*,~) in the batch-files, since many of them have their own meaning and usage in a command-line. Similarly, just simply not using anything other than A-Z or 0-9 is a good policy. Call it conservative, but fact is that this guarantees results every-time - not so once you start using special characters.

Multi-posting not allowed, and it was said once! Please read the forum's rules, link to that page is in my Signature. Your previous post about this

Well, where (which site) did you notice that a new CS version has come out? That's where more info about it has to be present as well. But what do you mean by the title - "CounterStrike Source" ? Has its source-code been opened out, by any chance?

@XPect No, his reason for using INF is valid. His purpose is to have those codecs installed. @amigaman No, I doubt that wihu has anything to do with this problem. Its more about how you call the files, I think - and then maybe the INF file calls a DLL that empties the folder it runs... gotta check deeper to know. And for that, need more details. Until then, I have this suggestion for you: The below series of commands is unnecessarily complicated. It'd make your task easier to change it a bit. 1. Forget about codecs.cmd - not needed. 2. Change those "some lines" that you posted - modified code of that 3 lines below: description.3=Codecs command.3=rundll32.exe setupapi,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 132 %systemdrive%\install\mp3\fhg.inf selected.3 = 1The structure of the INF tells me that _maybe_ the files copying might not work.... but after using the above code, the directory deletion should not happen. Just try it, and tell us how it goes.

Hi openware, Thanx for the info. You might like to check out a .REG method for this as well: ;Link to any location on start menu (Branding) [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f6-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}] @="Internet Searching" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f6-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\DefaultIcon] @="%SystemRoot%\\system32\\shell32.dll,-15" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f6-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\Instance\InitPropertyBag] "CLSID"="{13709620-C279-11CE-A49E-444553540000}" "method"="ShellExecute" "Command"="Internet Searching" "Param1"="http://www.google.com"Of course, I changed it to make it worth the function - you can just as easily set the Param1 to a path on your HDD, or some other site like dell.com.

Greetings to you too, Rtano! Welcome to MSFN forums