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Well, there's a way to increase size of thumbnails in ALL folders: This is done through the registry, and its recommended to use X-Setup Pro which gives a graphical interface to manyt tweaks including this one.

Someone please test them and tell if they are in english language or are they for french editions alone?

@cancer10 Please do not do further proxy promotion. Use our "Websites and Boards" forum to announce your site/forum. Thank you.

Please post in the right section of forums - this is a website, not a candidate for "General Discussion"? *topic moved

This topic is not about automatic, or slip-streamed.... Just plain and simple manual - in the way the original is gonna be.

LOL, (no offense meant) but ain't that been posted by myself some weeks ago - .NET Framework 1.1 Service Pack What I really said above was, why couldn't they have done this themselves, instead of giving a sick distribution folder with separate installer+update+DLLs.

I saw it being mentioned that those files are used when an upgrade install is used, to show the background and text.

evilvoice, you didn't need to res-hack the setup.exe! I just renamed RyanVM's .NET installer to "setup.exe" and placed it in "CD-root\DOTNETFX\". Oh well, its your choice to do what you want, but I just thought mentioning the above could be useful.

Which windows version is this? Win95 and Win98 original retail editions had a tool on the CD called "PolEdit" for exactly these kindof things (in a folder called "ResourceKit", if I remember right).

Talisman Desktop is one desktop changer you could check out.

ummm...... How is "My Computer" accessible if your hard-disk is formatted and clean with no windows installed? Booting up from a DOS floppy, or directly from the Windows ME CD would be the method to use. BTW, this topic is old. So please don't make such topics active again, unless you have a reason. nbertini might have already got his answer at the post by oftentired.

Your're welcome, eric. And more so, if you have questions to ask or tips to share, generally..... participating around here.

Well, no - but you could schedule a batch-file to be run during each shut-down (yes, its possible, as shown below) which will have this line in it: del /Q /F "%UserProfile%\Start Menu\Startup\*.*" And you can schedule it by: 1. run "gpedit.msc" 2. Navigate to "Local Computer Policy >> Computer Configuration >> Windows Settings >> Scripts >> Shutdown" 3. Add whatever you want to be run at every shut-down. Hoping this helps....

Alex, you read right - the drivers can't be tested through VMware, you can burn the ISO to a CD-RW and test it on your real machine itself. But everything else (including runonceEx, and the app-installs) is supposed to happen in the same way as it would on a real machine. So maybe some error there in your compilation! Shouldn't take too long to fix, though.

Its left to you to use that forum post or not but... ummm..... that thread does not have superseded hot-fixes listed. It has all the things that you HAVE to install, and nothing more/less. Those patches that are not needed due to a new patch superseding it, aren't posted at the first post there. Oh well, do let us know of your find as well, when you do manage to get the page please!

Hey, its difficult to do a diskeeper install in that way... too many switches to debug. Here's what I do: 1. When windows is running normally, open a command window and change to the folder in which the diskeeper setup.exe is located. 2. Run it with "/A" switch to make an administrative install point - "setup.exe /A" 3. Now go to the folder you specified to make the files in. 4. Copy it away safely. Now you can use this folder to install - use the "/QB" switch on the .MSI in that folder. 5. That's all. You could make a RARred SFX (for silent extraction) if you feel the space occupied by the folder is too much.

Just an annoyance that I noticed today.... The DOTNETFX folder on the SP2 CD that gets freely shipped to you, is sick. Its unnecessarily bloated! It has the initial contents of the cab files, and then some DLLs (MSVCP7.dll and so on) and the updates to the .NET in install in there! And I haven't checked yet if it is 1.1 or 1.1+SP1 - so that's another.... It just seems of no point to use the folder provided on that CD. And they had a good chance to offer a merged version! We might as well do our slip-streaming and SFXing! BTW, I got the SP2 CDs ordered for. 31 of 'em, for myself, friends, and clients. Black and white print, and delivered in a cover, via courier. So that confirms that they do process any number of orders, no matter if the same address!

@Stanislavs Please post only if you have something to say. I hope you will keep that in mind. It is an unwritten rule here, that if you don't know about what the topic is, you don't post a reply!

Those are: It will make the "Search Pane" on the left-hand side of IE use google instead of MSN search. Same goes to the "search from toolbar" - whereas normally MSN searches for the term you type in address bar, now google will. The Search URL gives the ability to directly access google search by prefixing "G" in the address bar. For example, typing "g windows+msfn" will do the same thing as searching from google's own site for the same term.

Depends on WHAT you want to hack. There's a million things tweakable/hackable! Until you tell what it is you're trying to do, meaningful help can't be given. For example, you might want to hack the boot-menu of the CD-menu loader. Or you might look to hack the entire set of UI to look uniform. Or the setup process. Or the Boot-screen/theme/logon/TCPIP.SYS/theming engine/blah-blah-blah WHAT are you trying to do, and what's the hack for? And searching should give a pretty good list of what each file does and how to modify it, because not everybody would like to re-state what's been said in posts earlier.

Thank you, but this being a registry tweak, why didn't you post it in the Registry Tweaks thread...

Wow, so that's all you need to do? (running the command "%ProgramFiles%\Mozilla Thunderbird\thunderbird.exe -silent -nosplash -setDefaultMail") Thanks a lot neoseifer! It does all the path/protocol/start-menu setting by itself? This is a nice discovery then! I'll try it now. In the meantime, could some more people test this as well? Looks good, and an easy method. EDIT: oh no... I was so excited.... That command doesn't do all that is required - it just sets the protocols (takes over "mailto:" for itself). That command is not needed to be used or put in registry if you use the code pasted by me above). The registry tweaks code pasted in my previous post, was the "invariably works every-where" sort of thing. (well, that's if you overlook that there's absolute paths like C:\ in there instead of variables ).

What installer does it use?

Well, this link (with all descriptions) was located right here as well - the below is what you want? All the required Hotfixes For Windows XP Professional SP1 Hotfixes For Windows XP Professional SP2

Well, the shell-extensions were a good part about winrar, so I don't know why you'd want to do that.... But there's no switch for that, and the alternative is here: RD /S /Q %UserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\WinRARPut that line in your batch-file, and it will delete the winrar group in StartMenu>>Programs. Hoping this helps...