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Sure. When I get home today, I'll re-make it for v6.6 and send it along to your e-mail, or PM you an FTP link. Might take me till tomorrow, so some time please. I dunno, if the 6.6 is going to swell the size, though. But even then, it couldn't possibly have swollen by too much. Let's see how it goes....

Here you go.... The below is what you have to look at: ######################## C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\greprefs\all.js (the below values to be changed) ------------ pref("profile.confirm_automigration",true); // profile.migration_behavior determines how the profiles root is set // 0 - use NS_APP_USER_PROFILES_ROOT_DIR // 1 - create one based on the NS4.x profile root // 2 - use, if not empty, profile.migration_directory otherwise same as 0 pref("profile.migration_behavior",1); pref("profile.migration_directory", ""); ------------ pref("network.cookie.prefsMigrated", true); ######################## C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\defaults\pref\firefox.js (the below values to be changed) ------------ pref("profile.allow_automigration", true); // setting to false bypasses automigration in the profile code Now, I'd be damned if the mozilla developers had made it easier to re-save the config files after manual edits! Trying to save the prefs files after the above edits results in improperly formatted text! We'd have to wait until someone else came along to tell what to do about this issue.

Haha... that's it then - you are in for a HUGE lot of testing and frustration. Forget about leisure for the next one month. No, that doesn't mean its difficult - its just time-consuming, that's all. The info for that is right here - please take a look in the "Windows PE" forum on this site - LINK.

@MCT You want only 20 MB installed? That's too much - make it 7 MB. The way to reduce Nero install-size, by removing unwanted files, and replacing them with dummy (zero byte) files has been discussed some weeks ago. I already do that - Install only Nero (the CD-burning thing alone, without all the annoying cover-designer, audio editing, etc.) - and its 7 MB only.

Wow! Thanks, that's great. Tried running it from CMD, and yes the command exists. I guess its easy to over-look... Anyways, cool and simple, thanks both of you.

I doubt that the EXE gets modified either! People use a modified EXE DELIBERATELY - to get around the key-checking (pirating, in other words) - but you don't need it, actually - if you use it legally. As for those who use a modified EXE, and are legally licensed customers of ultraiso: 1. Install the UltraISO installer with "/VERYSILENT /SP-" switch. 2. You need to use a batch-command to copy the modified EXE to the installed folder. copy /Y %systemdrive%\install\Applications\UltraISO.EXE "%ProgramFiles%\UltraISO"3. And then you need this: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\EasyBoot Systems\UltraISO\5.0] "UserName"="Your name here"4. That's all, you're done!

No, the validation is done by itself (when it activates). I believe what he is telling is that you need to export those keys, from "[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Macromedia\Dreamweaver\7\Registration]" in your registry. You can't do the validation part manually (atleast not in a legal way).

I'd be interested in the *HOW* of this.

@Windopain Welcome to MSFN There's only lots more pain awaiting if you moved to the RunOnceEx method. I'd say either stay with .CMD batch-files, or move to XPlode (its a fantastic, customizable installer, which literally can merge into the screen of windows XP setup). XPlode is also having all its info right in MSFN itself. Now, for what you asked about: There's several ways of doing RunOnceEX, and if you try to read up in different topics, it gets confusing (yeah, I know since I was doing it too, and was new to this when I came here). And indeed, put the little tidbits that you find here and there into action - and eventually you'll start understanding what is going on. Now what can I say about this one topic being evasive.... this is only the beginning - you'll find a lot more evasive things as you go about them, LOL. So seriously, the best bet for you is to just try out all these RunOnceEX commands/methods directly in your currently installed windows - you can do it on a test-machine, or install VMware and do it all within a virtual machine. Because, if you wait for testing out your scripts for the next time you do an unattended install, its going to be very tiring. If you simply want to make your RunOnce-based setup, and be done with it, there's a tool created by one of the people here (link has already been given by lilweirddude). Understanding it takes more time - don't worry, not very much time, maybe 3-4 days. And now for some "personally" comments - since you're anyway going to have to invest some time on learning how the **** thing works, you might as well better spend your time with XPlode - its a better/easier tool in many ways.

No, there's no way to remove the SP1 from it. Get a bare CD from a friend, or some thing - there's no legal way to move downwards!

How can I do a command-line run-as? I got this necessity recently... There's this organisation with some employees who aren't able to control their urge to fiddle with their systems. So we have locked-down systems, by disabling access to explorer interface completely. So there's no way to access the start-menu or MyComputer-style windows. No right-clicks allowed either. I've changed over to a different shell - task manager is disallowed. When I'm logged into a limited-user's account, and suddenly need to do something which is not allowed by his account (or need to do some file-permissions, or need to browse/delete files that he can't) I need to login with an admin account. Now, no matter what account I login to, the task is anyway only possible from a CMD-prompt. But still, I can make my task easier by "Running As" whatever I want to do with administrator powers. Now since I haven't disabled any of the services required for the Run-As facility, I suppose this should be possible, but how? I'm logged in as user XYZ, and have access to the command prompt. I need to "Run-As" something that needs admin privileges. For those of you you familiar with unix/linux, a simpler way for me to put it is - I'm looking for the win32 command-line equivalent of the "su" command. Thanking all in advance, for the help.

Hey everybody, now here's one tool to take Gmail to the next level of utility. You might have heard of gmailFS for linux - the file-system level tie-in, to use your gmail account for file-storage in an easy way. It allows you to mount your Gmail as a file-system. And its been like 2 months since I heard the first whispers of that project, and was hoping it'd make it to windows as well. And now it HAS made it to win32 platform as well. And it has all the ease-of-use of any windows app. Here ya go, words straight from their site: http://www.viksoe.dk/gmail simple installer - download GMail Drive shell extension I tested it today, and its pretty good!

You need a key compatible with v6.6 - only then you'd get a non-Demo shortcut.Some pirated keys keep getting blocked with each new version. And some people have older keys, which are valid only for an older version - they'd need to pay an upgrade key to get a new key. If you used the method Simon said, and have a valid key, you will see the properly named shortcut folder in Start menu. @SiMoNsAyS Great! We have an unattended method evolved 2 weeks before public release, lol. (yeah, I know its the same method as for older versions, its just that 6.6 is exciting )

hehe... no, I wasn't offended. Its always nice to see all the pros and cons of all available options. Cool!

Well, the link above that you posted for download.... After downloading the update from there: 1. open a CMD prompt and run the "WindowsXP-KB885523-x86-enu.exe" file with "/x" switch. 2. It will ask you where to save the extracted files. 3. Once it is extracted, go to that folder, and see the version of "\sp2gdr\acgenral.dll" 4. Similarly, in the XPSP2 CD, acgenral.dl_ is a CABbed file, extract it and see its version. Once the integrating is finished, once again see the version of the file in I386: It was "5.1.2600.2180" now it should be "5.1.2600.2523" Hoping this helps....

Yes, its worth buying. It was the top-end MoBo for a few months quite recently too. The nVidia 5.1 SoundStorm (which is DirectX 8 sound compliant), and its good basing which gives it high speeds make it very good. And of course, the dual-LAN, SATA/RAID support, Firewire, etc. at that cost, make the board a good buy.

Of course, that's there too. Anyone can use anything that they prefer. But a large number of people use the reg-tweak method (the one you posted) simply because they don't know any other option. And also, applying reg-tweaks is actually complex (for new-comers to system tweaking). This option gives them an easier way. And then, you'll see that I HAVE mentioned the registry method, of having notepad in right-click too. I said this too: But this topic wasn't about the registry method at all, why'd it have to come in...

I haven't ever checked it out, because it was too costly, but there was a component by the name "Alarm Clock" in Windows XP Plus! Pack, Digital Media Edition. Or, this was a free download: http://www.vioio.com/mp3alarmclock.htm Hoping this helps... Googling might help as well - gave 968,000 results here (many of them freeware).

It unpacks to wherever the path in the nero's packed file specifies. That EXE which you download, is just a RAR SFX (created with WinRAR) with embedded instructions on what to extract, what to run, etc. You can open the EXE with WinRAR to see the archive comments (which have the instructions you want to know). Or, if there's no specified path to extract to, you'll normally find it extracting to one of these places: %temp% (= C:\Documents and Settings\User Name\Local Settings\Temp\) or, "C:\Windows\Temp\" (this is far rarer).

Either you can use Registry Tweaks, which is the simpler option. All the tweaks needed are listed in this forum, in various threads, forum's search function is your friend. --OR-- You can set everything as you want, and then use the "NTUSER.DAT" from that user's profile - this is far more risky, since the paths,etc. is embedded.

Hi barnowl, Welcome to MSFN

Hey there, to you too Dagonet' Nice truck ya got there!

@Dj-Throll No, that [Disk1.config] doesn't work. Atleast, not directly using our current methods. The best/simple option is, do your partitioning yourself without having it unattended. But if you DO want it unattended, there's 2 ways to go about it: 1. WinPE 2. You need to use a different set of boot-disks, and a perl-script and so on - go here for details - http://unattended.sourceforge.net And both the 2 ways are quite lengthy, in terms of time/testing before it gets to work. Assume sort of 2 months work, to get it working (perfectly) in those methods. 2 months to get your partitioning (a 10 second job) automated? That's a HUGE waste of time if you're a home user.

@DysfunktinaL Great, now there's some info on which to work. 'Coz its difficult to help when we don't know all angles of what the issue is about. Its just about possible, that if your processor is a Pentium4-D based (the latest round of chips, also called prescott) processor, and a BIOS that is not updated, then a problem while installing SP2. Please see this page for details: MS patch to fix it Or, if that is not the cause, then try a different CD, since the CD could have got scratched after being used for some time - because nowadays CDs have become "throw-around"s for people. Or, you could once again start with a proper un-scratched XP CD, and slip-stream SP2 into it - then it should work. About the bottle-neck, I meant (bottleneck=whatever it was, that was causing this stoppage of install). Okay, so trying from a different CD might help - and doing a fresh (by re-formatting your C:\ drive) install might be the best option.

So where is the bottle-neck? Did you do some testing? Its possible the CD you use is bad. Or, the drive might have a spoilt lens (even though new). Or your HDD might be problematic. Or the SATA controller could be faulty. Or you might have your RAM/processor running in different frequencies - therefore creating a mis-match/slowness. Or its possible that you are just believing its slow, when in fact, that's how it IS. And what do mean by hangs? Installation does not progress beyond that point? Did you test with XPSP1 or win2k ? Sorry, but you need to do something at your end as well, before asking for help.