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I don't mean that folder. I meant, if you still want to use as the above previous method ("firefox.exe -install-global-extension blah-blah.XPI" method), then you need to edit the preferences.js in the firefox folder itself. It will be present somewhere in "%ProgramFiles%\Firefox\defaults\profile" folder, or something like that. But if you will directly use the config.ini method (from installer) to install XPIs, then you don't need to bother about the above.

Did you do an "upgrade" to SP2? That does do a lot of unpredictable things since junk gets left behind all over. Just slip-stream SP2 into your XP, and re-install. It should be fine (that is... IF it was because of SP2). You might first check if you get more crashes, or whether this was just a one-off case of crashing.

Indeed it suits "Hosting" the closest (though not exactly). Doesn't exactly look "General Discussion". *topic moved

There it comes again..... The power of ideas.... The last option you said - to get it done thru autorun without lifting a finger... That's indeed the fastest and best, I suppose (for the purpose he wants to use it for).

No, SMART is not going to prolong the life of your HD in any way. It just alerts you to any possible problems, and tells you if its going to fail anytime soon. SMART - the full-form of it: huh? naah.... just messing with ya, here's the correct one:

Hi neil, Welcome to MSFN forums It was nice that you thought of posting your solution here. Well, fact is I got the same MoBo, same processor, and same RAM too. And my woes with the Promise RAID controller on this damned piece of metal never ends. The VERY moment I manually install the RAID drivers, my Windows stops responding (yeah, happens right thru the windows generation - tried from Win2k all the way up to WXPSP2 and WS2k3 SP1 beta; and I'm not gonna look at win9x series if its the last thing I had to do). After that, I force a hard re-boot - and from that point onwards, it becomes a matter "sub-judice" to the machine's whims and fancies. It might/might not pass thru the "checking RAID" BIOS screen, and becomes suddenly unstable at the login screen after being fine till then. And then, sometimes is unable to even bootup in safe mode. Trying to boot-up in "Safe mode with command prompt" causes the same hanging you describe - MUP.SYS or some such file is stopping load of all else. Even if I integrate the drivers into my unattended install, the same results turn up. I doubt this is an NTFS vs FAT32 issue, as I've tried that too. Nopes, tried everything - the only solution in the end that I resort to: Boot into my Linux partition, and re-format the Windows system partition. And then re-install. And god help me if I dared to install the drivers again - the same thing repeats. So I just keep the RAID controller disabled, since I currently have no need for it. And so, I can't use the SATA capability either, since its tied in to the RAID. Carried out RAID and SATA-enabled installs for others, but my OWN MoBo is so problematic, what can I do.... But since the MoBo is very good in all other aspects, I put up with it. Tried all the things I could by myself. Searched MSI's own company forums, asked for help from their support staff (but their technical competency of employees where I live, is POOR). Tried Promise (the company) to respond, but they claim that the responsibility is now with MSI, since Promise hasn't shipped me a component "As such". Their drivers don't support other OEM-variants of their products; and they claim no liability. Tried older/newer/testing-level drivers, and beta control panel utils from MSI. Done all I could - No hope until now regarding this. If anybody else has experienced this as well (as indeed the person above has) and has solved their problem, and has a simple solution, I'm all ears to hear it. Thanx.

Try checking if all of that is the main package. For one, maybe its not compressed. Secondly, the 83 MB is all of the (previously) 3 separately downloadable packages from Ahead.de. And lastly, if it still is too big, there's a topic in this forum regarding a customized install of Nero, with only the components you need. That person brought down size to closer to 10 MB.

Yes. Just run this much. (the command without REG ---- sort of things) DIRECTLY from a batch-file (.CMD) - maybe use the same batch-file which you run from cmdlines.txt to do the RunOnce entries too. I'd say better not bother with using RunOnce sort of entries. If you're only beginning out with them, they cause too many problems to be able to track down.

Nope.We know what the files in question are, and what the difference between eval and retail/OEM copies are. No, the "evaluation conclusion" process used would not have anything to do with this particular case of what we're trying to solve. Which is why, probably doing it again will help. We do know that we do things a few times before we got it right. So..... do XPCREATE a few times, obtain a reproducible error, and it can be identified and fixed. Most likely (for example), the person might have done this: did process A, then B, then C, then P, then Q, then R - with retail (and it worked) did process A, then B, then Q, then P, then R, forgot to do process C - with eval (and it didn't work). @jamesmk And yes, we ARE determined to fix the issue you reported, and help you. Which is why so many are trying to chip in with their bit. So don't give up.

Many people have wanted to disable Internet Explorer, and use Maxthon instead, in its place. Here's how you can do it on a Windows XP unattended install. This is (hopefully) a complete HowTo for having Maxthon installed, configured and set as default browser - all of this silently, for Windows XP unattended. Its not nearly as difficult as the number of steps below seem to suggest (carrying out all of the below will only take 5 minutes in total). If you don't want to make another post saying "doesn't work" following the below EXACTLY will help, lol. Here we go: Credits: MCT for making the easy INF install. Note that after your first install of Maxthon once, there's no need anymore to use the original installer in which it came. Maxthon as default browser on Windows XP (SP1 or higher): 1. Check that the below is existing in your winnt.sif: [Unattended] OemPreinstall=Yes [Components] IEAccess=off 2. Since Maxthon is based off IE and will use its settings too, look-up this topic for IE configuration - IE6 pre-config. 3. Download and install Maxthon manually. 4. Configure it to how you like it (the settings, toolbars, get rid of the "donate" dialogs, etc.) 5. Just before you close it, remember to set this: We need it since that is what will set the protocols to associate with Maxthon after asking you, upon first-run (you need to click "yes I want to make Maxthon my default browser" when you run it first time after Windows is setup).6. Copy away Maxthon's installed folder (C:\Program Files\Maxthon) to elsewhere to have a safe copy. 7. Now put that folder onto your unattended CD - "\$OEM$\$Progs\Maxthon\" folder should now exist. 8. Explanation - The above way, during windows setup, you have it being copied automatically to "%ProgramFiles%\Maxthon" 9. Put the short-cut to Maxthon too - make a shortcut to it on the desktop, and put it as - "\$OEM$\$Docs\Default User\Start Menu\Programs\Maxthon.lnk" 10. Now, the registry entries in next step. Copy and paste the below into notepad: [VERSION] Signature=$CHICAGO$ [DefaultInstall] AddReg=maxthon [maxthon] ; remember Maxthon setup folder HKCU,"Software\Maxthon","Folder",0x00000000,"%16422%\Maxthon" ;Make Maxthon the default browser from Start Menu ;Set the Start Menu sticky apps HKCU,"Software\Clients\StartMenuInternet",,,"Maxthon" ; Give details for the Internet Browser (as mentioned above) HKLM,"SOFTWARE\Clients\StartMenuInternet\Maxthon","LocalizedString",0x00000000,"Maxthon Web Browser" HKLM,"SOFTWARE\Clients\StartMenuInternet\Maxthon\shell\open\command",,,"%16422%\Maxthon\Maxthon.exe" HKLM,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\Maxthon.exe",,,"%16422%\Maxthon\Maxthon.exe" HKLM,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\Maxthon.exe","Path",0x00000000,"%16422%\Maxthon" 11. Save it as maxthon.inf 12. Now copy maxthon.inf to "\$OEM$\$Progs\Maxthon\" folder on your CD. 13. Add this line to any .CMD (batch-file) which you run at T-12 (through cmdlines.txt): rundll32 setupapi,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 128 %ProgramFiles%\Maxthon\maxthon.inf (this block is to be taken as one line, the page might have given a line-break) 14. That's all. Make your CD and it should work. No IE, only Maxthon. Enjoy! If there's any errors in the above, do post and tell. Hoping this helps....

@MCT Great! (of course, this is not going to make me shift from using opera) Great news for a large number of people who disable IE and use Maxthon instead. Ha ha, it still beats me.... what is the magic here, that multiple people get together and evolve cool and easy ways to do things. Maybe if I find time again, I'll post another set of steps, that integrate using your INF as well (instead of .REG). @rodent You can put the INF anywhere you want to. Just remember that you should have carried out the steps previously mentioned as well - i.e., you should have Maxthon located in the %ProgramFiles% for the INF to be useful. Once that is done, you can just put the INF in "$OEM$\$1\install\Applications\" folder (for example). If you did so, you need to run this command: rundll32 setupapi,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 128 %SystemDrive%\install\Applications\maxthon.infThere's no real compulsory location to place your INF. Just keep the INF where you want, and tell the command to run it from that location, that's all.

*sigh* Why is this much of struggle..... You can directly edit the netfw.in_ as Alanoll said, or do the other thing he suggested. Steps given below: 1. He gave the code necessary. That file is now attached to this post. 2. Download "firewall.inf" file from this post. 3. Now put SP2 install, and firewall.inf in one folder (on the HDD or CD or wherever). 4. Now when you go to the PC that needs SP2, do the below steps. 5. Install SP2, but don't click OK at the end when it asks to reboot. 6. Right-click on "firewall.inf" in the same folder as SP2, and click "Install". 7. So now, that INF has been applied. 8. Now, click OK in the SP2 setup, to reboot the machine. That's it - you have it done the way you want it - SP2 is installed, and firewall is not enabled. firewall.inf

Then why are you using this method?The config.ini itself can be instructed to install all the XPIs that you want, I think. Much easier that way. And if you DO want to use this method, then you need to edit the preferences.js (in firefox folder) to tell it to skip the "Do you want to import bookmarks and settings" dialog.

WOW!!!! Nice ones indeed!

I haven't seen it come up on first login. Maybe because I apply these tweaks at cmdlines.txt: ; Disable irritating Security Center notifications [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security Center] "AntiVirusDisableNotify"=dword:00000001 "UpdatesDisableNotify"=dword:00000001 "FirstRunDisabled"=dword:00000001 "FirewallDisableNotify"=dword:00000001 "AntiVirusOverride"=dword:00000001 "FirewallOverride"=dword:00000001NOTE: The above set of tweaks is for making the security center go away altogether, it won't EVER bother you after the above. But its recommended to ONLY use the lines that you want to disable. For example, the antivirus notifications can be left on if you will use an antivirus. Because, for some newbie users for whom you make your installs, their last line of defence is the security center. So if you're confident about the rest of your setup, and sure that your users don't need to have the security center prompt them, then use the above tweaks. But if I remember right, there was some way to kill off security center in winnt.sif itself (through [Components], I think). Does anyone have more info on this?

Yes, you can. Involves 1 registry tweak, and then copying the ProgramFiles to the new place that you've set. But its just too messy to do it after install. You'd rather not want to deal with the things it causes - your OS may not even boot if its done the wrong way.

Yes, the old switch should work. It may not have differed the Setup by THAT much. What's new in v6.6 Reloaded? "Nero PhotoSnap" & "Nero MediaHome" i think. I have no qualms in waiting 2 weeks for such a good package. Linkie for details

You can delete COMPDATA folder safely. Windows XP installs perfectly fine without it. As for the recovery console: 1. I run it straight off the multi-boot CD. 2. I don't want clients to install the recovery console, since they mess up from there. So winntupg is unhesitatingly removed.

*in hoarse croaking voice* the guide.... the guide.... please look that up... T-13 is for svcpack.inf (http://unattended.msfn.org/xp/timeline.htm OOBE runs just before first-login. You know... the point where "windows welcome" comes and asks you to {give names of people who'll be using this computer} and asks you to register with microsoft, etc. - that is OOBE. To be more precise, Let's describe the scenery as in a detective novel: Windows setup finishes after doing everything... reaches T-1, then T-0, then re-boots... Then you see the boot-screen for the first-time, and then a screen resolution resizing.... Right? Just after that point. (that's when OOBE runs) And its perfectly suited to our purpose. Hoping this helps....

English please.

@khostri Have you tested what is said above? If it works, I'm all ears! Well, the location refers to hard-disk. I must've tried this hundreds of times - doesn't work on CD! OEMFilesPath=".:\Setup\Preinstall"That path will get interpreted as C:\.:\Setup\Preinstall Nopes, the only solution was to keep the multiple $OEM$ folders, and optimize the CD-image.

@MCTyes, I know... And I also know its possible by using system variables thru REG.exe (command-line) as well. But, oooh.... my aching fingers. I simply don't have the energy (and I'm happy enough with .REGs everywhere - unlike alanoll the expert, who is INF everywhere, lol - just too difficult to keep track of INFs). If someone can make a fail-proof INF that does the above, and also gives a simple instructions step-by-step, its welcome.

And I love helping, lol. ; won't check if you are low on diskspace or pop-up a balloon telling you [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer] "NoLowDiskSpaceChecks"=dword:00000001Needs to be applied at T-12 (cmdlines.txt stage) for it to work. And the other one you wanted was on the guide - http://unattended.msfn.org/xp/reference.htm ProgramFilesDir="D:\Programs"(above is for example)

No need to "do" anything at all.1. Make your winnt.sif 2. Put it on a floppy (DIRECTLY on floppy, it should not be inside any folders) 3. Insert it into the PC's floppy drive. 4. Now pop in the installer CD for Windows XP and boot up from it. XP setup will automatically see the winnt.sif on the floppy and use it (right from the point of booting up). Well, that is is if your floppy drive and disk are working properly without any problems.

Probably (since I don't use it). And as a pre-emptive strike - this is the switch for Inno setup-based installers: /VERYSILENT /SP-