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This is a very old thread. Please do not make posts here which are not directly related to the topic. Making a new thread for your above question will certainly get more people seeing it, and more responses.

If you normally use Windows Installer based app-installs, then this is the closes you can get: You can apply that from the .REG files.As for others, just disable running of any file called "setup.exe", "install.exe" and so on. That can be done through group policies. But doing so manually on each work-station will take lot of time. How to do it automatically to all the machines using .ADM (administrative templates), though is something I'm not clear on. Not fool-proof methods these, but then nothing is! But as firefoxthebomb said, the best thing to do is not give users administrative access. If they are in the restricted users group, they certainly can't install things. (of course they can still carry out installs that don't require access to registry_writing, and access to ProgramFiles or WINDOWS folder - but finding such an installer is very rare nowadays )

Well, one way that can achieve this: 1. Use a batch-file, which will do the following: 2. Run the SP2 installer with a "/quiet /noreboot" switch (or something like that). 3. run a registry-tweak file which disables the firewall 4. Another reg-tweak which will turn-off "Anti-Virus not installed" prompts. (this one is given below) ; Disable irritating Security Center notification [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security Center] "AntiVirusDisableNotify"=dword:00000001

Internet Explorer home From there, links are available for the win9x version of download of IE6 SP1. DirectX download From there, you can download the full re-distributable installer, for win9x of DirectX 9.0c Hoping this helps...

Yes, that's a possibility. Normally, you'll have your post.BAT in "$OEM$\$1\install". So, you need to have this in winnt.sif [GuiRunOnce] %systemdrive%\install\post.bat

Yes, its quite simple: Keep the favorites folder here on the CD: $OEM$\$Docs\Default User\Favorites If you keep it there, all the favorites from there will be usable by all users.

Oh, that's cool! So I gotta upgrade my personal forum from PF4 to final..... But there's no mention yet of this, even at InvisionPower's own forums. That's what is puzzling. It is going to be released later today then, I suppose.

SLP= System Locked Pre-installation. info Article to explain this No more discussion about this here please. It is off-topic to this thread. if you want to discuss this, open a new topic.

OK, you got a small mis-understanding of RTW the term. Well, RTW=Release to Web. That happened some time back, basically the RTM version was RTW'ed. Does that clear it up? That's what raverod was trying to tell, as well. What you are calling rtw is the automatic update download.

Hi Ge-Flopt, of course we'll help with win2k as well! Use the "/Q:A /R:N" switch, instead of just "/q" alone. That should solve your problem, I think? Otherwise, if you find it a bit difficult to do it manually, you could use the XPCREATE section, which has a program called 2KCREATE, which will make it all automatically. Do post back, on how it goes, or for any other problems.

No, I doubt it is possible to do it with the same yMesg client. Instead, you could use trillian (or any other yahoo-compatible) and the YM together, and be logged in to 2 usernames at a time.

Hi wyverns, and welcome to MSFN. PowerDVD 5 seems to use InstallShield, as the installer. The official guide here has the details (alongside many more things) on how to manage an unattended InstallShield setup.

It won't be simple, to do it automated from a network share to 20 machines that aren't previously controlled through domain policies. Running with a switch of "filename.exe /?" would tell you the switches available, so that you can choose the one you need to use, in your situation.

It is supposedly running the installer from the CD, but actually extracting somewhere (normally %temp%) and then run the install. So the above command specifies where we want it to extract temporarily, and then run. So it does copy the files over.

I wouldn't go so far as to call this a problem. Its the same story with all language versions. 95-110 MB download size is the stats for XP home/pro, only for automatic updates (what you called RTW, its not actually that though). The full (network/admin, also called RTM) install will need to be able to apply itself to a retail XP CD. Moreover, the same SP2 package will be used to update MCE/TabletPC too. So it will have to contain files which aren't for your machine alone.

Well, its a bit simpler than that.... Just make the correct drive-letter as a folder within the OEM folder. For example, make the folder "$OEM$\D". And put all files and folders that you want to go from CD to D drive over there. So, if you want "MySettings" folder to be present on D: drive (like D:\MySettings), then put that folder into the "D" folder in OEM folder. So, you can put it as "$OEM$\D\MySettings". It will be copied. Then, you can run whatever you want from your batch-files to deal with the copied file.

Right, you can safely delete the "LANG" folder in i386. Actually, the only folders needed in I386 are: ASMS DRW SYSTEM32 Of course, you need all the files in I386!

Your post should be this way, to get that name and time in the quote: [QUOTE=CoRoNe,Sep 17 2004, 03:50 PM]blah blah blah[/QUOTE]

The editing of setupp.ini is a grey area legally. That link is to be taken educationally, and no discussion about that allowed. If you HAVE to experiment, that article gives sufficient details. Try it, check out how it works, needs some leisure hours to kill..... As for what the difference is, from the point of view of making unattended setups, they are all the same. The difference is retail (and OEM if not SLP'ed) needs to be activated. The VLK editions (also known as corporate) don't need activation.

Please stop these kind of posts.... There exists this rule also, which you are expected to abide by: Going off-topic will result in this thread being closed.

I've seen java-script code do this. But this is just a pointer.... Don't ask me how its done - I let my webpage-coding apps do it for me!

Yup! There have been a few of our members from there recently. Well, global forum... so we gotta expect people from everywhere anyways.

@XtremeMaC Since that post (which you linked to in your previous post) is a few pages away, there's a good possibility that its not as updated as JohnnyDo's ZIP file is. Anyways, that was the file I was thinking of to be the new thread-beginner all this while. But the new one seems better. Those who want the other all-tweaks-in-single-file can get it from the link in your post. This is big, BIG, BIG, BIG thread. So you might need to wait while the server is transferring the page to be displayed.As I've previously said, this thread in "printed" HTML is 1700 KB in size. And even as we continue posting these questions, the size is rising. How long before this thread is locked?

Oh no... The source is not there now? Well, fortunately I downloaded the previous release of yours, (no printme, and all that...). E-mailing it to the mailID you gave me. Should reach you in about half-an-hour (sick connection speeds, at my end).

MUI = Multi-lingual User Interface pack. Its used when there's a core application, and MS wants to expand the languages in which it can display/accept UI elements. If you haven't heard/used it before, then its safe to assume you don't need it.