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According to terms of agreement, its not acceptable. But no one seems to care... You CAN do that, but you still are breaking the terms of EULA of OEM.

Well... The entire floppy thing is pretty troublesome. This forum (device drivers) has all the information on how to integrate the drivers that you load from floppy at that stage. You can directly have those files on the CD itself - the "MassStorageDrivers" pack. Do tell us how it goes for you, and if you have any problems while integrating it.

I finally found an answer to that: And I'd seen in your regtweaks that you'd disabled the welcome screen. WHEW!

Make a WinRAR archive - most secure uptil now. And embed it with SFX - so it will extract itself properly if you provide correct password.

Info about WIM extractors that were found on google - posted because someone asked for it (don't flame me if they don't work, some do and some don't): http://users.telenet.be/aldatillian/main.html http://board.iexbeta.com/index.php?showtopic=32586 http://www.iexbeta.com/~tacobell/longhorn/...Dumper_v1.0.rarhttp://www.rwsbetas.com/index.php?showtopic=6498&view=new Remember, this links is only for educational purposes (there's no illegal content in these links, but still a statutory warning), and keep in mind the notice posted at the top of this page.

Then joy is here - my contribution towards stabbing at the venerable floppy's last remnants of life:Virtual floppy disk for windows another link Enjoy! Get vfdwin from there, and dump the floppy drive. You can use winimage to make .IMG images of your existing floppies. For new floppies, use winimage to make an empty floppy image - and mount that in vfdwin. Then, put that .IMG to your CD-RW (so that blank CDs aren't wasted) as a boot-sector. And you can even take 10 .IMGs and put them as a multi-boot CD - the power of CD! For BIOS upgrade flash, nero itself has a floppy-image of win98se with it installed - use it as boot-sector, put your awdflash.exe (or whatever your flashing program is) on the CD as one file, and the new BIOS as another file (yourbios.bin) - nirvana! No floppies needed ABSOLUTELY for any purpose.

Some say the position of the blocks will make a difference... So to check on that - you have specified MSN zone games to not be installed, is that working? If not, then try moving the [components] block to above the [iepopupblocker] block. Atleast, that's how I have it and it works.... dunno...

@Powerhouse With reference to the NTFS tweaks: Its been clearly said already: Why do people just keep on about the attached registry tweaks....

ahem... you didn't tell that you were testing this on a Virtual machine. In that case, you need to install the drivers for the virtual hardware (VMware tools in VMware, and something else in VirtualPC) - before you can get the power-saving options. Or maybe you were using Virtual PC 2004 - that one's horribly under-featured. My VMware (they offer a trial download too) gives me full power options including hibernate in a virtual machine.

Please post in the correct section! *moved to "hosting" forum

Since most newer mobiles are extensions of computer technology - its hardware. *thread moved

Thread moved to Websites and boards forum, since its related to those topics.

lol, you mean that because there's been so many "thank you"s that day?@megatron Welcome to MSFN forums - you finally found it useful to register here. Indeed, its very useful. I find that what would previously take almost 2 days after each re-format (OS, service-pack, hot-fixes, major apps, utilities, registering the apps with keys, setting preferences for windows and everything, applying tweaks, the list goes on and on.... ) PHEW!!! All that is done in 28 minutes flat! And without me needing to lift a single finger, and I can be sure that nothing was "forgotten to be done" - it will all happen to perfection every single time! *thread moved - was posted in incorrect section

Here's a tip I've been using since some years - thought it'd be good to share it. Now, this is obviously not a new tip I concocted - many have been using it since much longer. Many apply a registry tweak to have notepad as an option for unknown file types. We frequently see such files which are actually just text, but named with some odd file-extension. And then, some suspicious files which we want to make sure what the contents are. Well, in such cases where the registry tweak is applied, the downside happens to be that even some known files get associated with notepad - but no, all we want is to be able to open a file with notepad - the association part in such cases is unwanted interference. Also, notepad becomes a permanent fixture on the right-click menu - which is again an annoyance. So what we do, is to have notepad as an option in the Send-To options, of the right-click menu in explorer. It fulfils the purpose to perfection (atleast, in my case). Here's what we do: 1. right-click desktop, choose "New >> Shortcut" 2. Type the location of the item - "notepad" - (that's all, no need to give path) 3. Next >> type name for shortcut - "Edit with Notepad" 4. Click finish 5. Now right-click this shortcut on the desktop, and choose properties. 6. Confirm that the "target" and "start in" fields are using variables - "%windir%\system32\notepad.exe" - (absolute paths will be problematic if you use this .LNK on machines other than your own) 7. Now, browse to "%UserProfile%\SendTo" in explorer (which means "C:\Documents and Settings\User_Name\SendTo\" folder) 8. And copy the "Edit with Notepad.lnk" file which you already created, to that folder. 9. So now, you can right-click on ANY file-type, and be offered an option to open with notepad, from the SendTo sub-menu. So now, you just right-click on an .nfo or .eml or .diz file (which are associated with other programs, and are sometimes just plain-text files), and choose "Send To >> Edit with Notepad" and it will open in notepad! No more botheration of applying registry tweaks for something as simple as this. For those of you unattenders out there, kill the "open with notepad" registry tweak - it causes more grief than its worth (yes, I know since I was using it for a long time). Just put the "Edit with Notepad.lnk" in "$OEM$\$Docs\Default User\SendTo\" folder on your CD, to have it do the file placing for you automatically. You can use this technique in more ways as well. For example, if you frequently keep moving files to a particular folder, have its shortcut in SendTo. And if you frequently run many files through a script, just put that script/batch-file in SendTo as an option. And any other application that you want to receive files into (like maybe some app that will take incoming file paths as an argument and upload it somewhere) to carry out some action. Whatever.... its your imagination that will make it come alive. Enjoy! And yes, if someone is using this tip after seeing this topic, please post, so we can know if you're happy or not.

Topic moved to funny farm (to put people in the right frame of mind while seeing this, and prevent fireworks happening here, lol)

@Jito Hmm, Sort of confirms what I thought... Anyways, since the above winnt.sif works for you, there's another Q: Is there any value in winnt.sif, (like what you posted above) which tells setup to simply re-format the 1st partition on disk1 (that much alone - nothing more, nothing less) with NTFS ? And would you be so kind as to share with us, the source (webpage, document, whatever) of where you got that info from?

Probably you're basing that (above post) on the fact that "Winamp Modern" the skin, has itself in a folder. But no, its not necessarily so. Even the .WAL and .WSZ single-file skins of winamp are actually folders. Try renaming those skin files to .ZIP and opening them! And try ZIPping up the winamp modern folder, and renaming to .wal and using it as a skin! They're all the same, as you can see.

Yes. But if you spelt out your question in a simpler phrase, it'd be easier to know what you're asking. It looked like you have atleast 3 questions in that post there. Well, trying the best to respond to it, but if anything's been left out by me, do post your question in this thread again, (and in simpler phrases, so its easier to respond, point-by-point to 1 question in each sentence). 1. Slip-streaming is for service packs; silent installs is for apps. There's no reason why there's a "1 versus 2" between them. 2. As far as drivers go, yes you can integrate drivers into your install, and we all do it. And even after my 260 integrated drivers, I see no difference in stability - if that hardware is there, its driver is installed, that's all. Your driver's own stability matters of course (if the driver is beta, and is unstable, of course you'll see problems). 3. The apps you install don't by themselves matter to the stability either. If the apps themselves are stable, and if they run fine when you install them normally, its the same case with installing them silently too. 4. You need to anyway go about learning the switches for the apps you install, if you want to do them silently - so I don't know what you mean in that sentence. And whether you use a batch-file is up to you - there's many different methods possible (batch-files, direct from winnt.sif, cmdlines, XML, RunOnceEX, INF, etc.). Hoping this helps....

LOL... (at all this 15 bucks and 40 bucks offers) ha ha Well, angrynerdrock, if you GOTTA install XP again, anyway, you might as well install it integrated with SP2. And no, as much as people blame SP2 for their problems, its not true. We don't normally bother upgrading a machine from XP (pre-SP2) to SP2. We just slip-stream and install - upgrading is normally a big mess, like what you described. You can merge SP2 into your XP CD, either follow the guide here on MSFN, or you can use this guide here: http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windo..._slipstream.asp After merging it properly, you'll not need to worry about "updating to SP2" because its already done by default! And its clean too.

I have the drive, and so does everybody else, and I don't use it - been 2 years since I last used a floppy disk. If at all I need something on a floppy, I just run Virtual Floppy Disk (there's a tool like that) - and get the supposedly "floppy-disk" contents written to as an IMG. That's frequently needed in bootable floppy creation - and then..... I make the IMG an option on a multi-boot CD-RW. Simple way to eliminate floppies! Dis-continuing of having floppy drives in new PCs would be a good step.

there was a hacked files list and download, somewhere in this forum. Also, SFC_OS.DLL is now needed to be hacked, I think (that's in the list too).

@FatbellySlim Maybe you can try getting InstallShield X Pro (the app that CREATES these .iss based installers, in the first place) - and then modify the installers itself to see at what point it asks keys, and where it puts it, and then change to have the key integrated into itself....

I find that the command-line method of making user accounts has been problematic to many people. A simpler method, is to use the oobeinfo.ini method (if you're on WinXP), and then upon first-login, apply the password you want, or to change user groups. Or if you only have one user being created it is even easier - just use the oobeinfo.ini to create the one user you want, that's all. (no need to add to administrators, no need to create it, no need to use auto-logon, etc.). You can then just set the password (net user sanjay password) upon first login, and apply the maxpwage thing (both through batch-files) and be done with it! Link to topic - oobeinfo.ini usage. Hoping it helps.... EDIT: @sanjay - please edit out the winnt.sif from your first post, its not really needed in this case, moreover its breaking the page alignment to screen!

You just need to apply any .REG (regedit /S yourfile.reg) you want to be applied to that profile, at that stage. That's the simplest way to update the default user's registry.

The log you posted above, gives the impression one of the CABs could not be iterated, (maybe due to corrupted file). Could you try re-downloading dX 9C, and then install it, and tell us whether it succeeds this time? (forget about SP2 for now, let's deal with dX9c alone) download page for DirectX 9C *thread moved to right section