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Keep winnt.sif on a floppy. Insert the floppy with a changed winnt.sif each time, and boot-up from CD - it will read all winnt.sif details from floppy. Or if you use RIS, it is simpler to assign names after making associations to the NIC's MAC id.

What kind of tool are you looking for anyway? To run within your OS, or independently as an aid to recovery? Acronis TrueImage 8 is fantastic for backing up and recovering without bothering about the OS being in an operable state. Acronis has many more tools in the category you want as well - Acronis home-page.

Wow! Finally I see another AoM player around here. There is no real way to kill a titan. You can even cheat and use mythical powers, and produce thousands of units, and do all you can. Or you can send out a titan of your own to confront the other. None of that ever kills it. At best, you can keep the titan busy elsewhere fighting your units/titan or destroying buildings. You can draw the titan away to where you want as well (attack with a large force, then move away but be in its line of sight to make it follow). So yeah, that's all that is possible. Keep the titan occupied, and draw it as far away from your Town Center as you can. Of course, this statement of mine isn't valid for any custom maps made by you, which have set an objective of "so-and-so action" for the titan to collapse and die.

More guides here: Follow one of these guides to update your Windows XP install-source. (to install integrated with SP2 by default - saves on time, and gives you peace-of-mind) The D-I-Y guide --OR-- detailed D-I-Y guide --OR-- Universal Windows Slipstreaming and Bootable CD Guide. bootable XP CD with Nero6

Mr. X has to remove all instances of whatever was installed from that CD, destroy any backups of that CD, and then transfer (or sell) that CD in accordance with its EULA to Mr. Y. But, OEM CDs are licensed in a slightly different manner - you get the CD from the OEM, and if the OEM takes it back, its OK. But you can't sell OEM CDs to someone else - you can only get it with an OEM machine purchase, and its yours forever. (someone correct me if this is wrong)

BaaZee - that's a very good and reliable site. (like eBay)

@Alanoll Fantastic. This just _may_ finally fix my long-time gripe. I'll tell if it doesn't work fine.

Slip-stream SP4 into your win2k CD, then format-reinstall, enjoy!

Welcome into the forums ashish! But spamming right in your first post is not!

Hmm.... I thought the "XP update" part was self-explanatory. Will not work on WS2k3. And FYI, the update runs into problems with WXP SP2 as well. Those links posted by tak (above) are some you could check out. And see this one too: CDBurnerXP Pro is a free CD/DVD burning solution.

OK, yeah - cool news Alanoll! You finally managed to get the 5.05 out the door. There's one thing I've been thinking all along - since I so badly need to reduce space usage on my install images (and 4.x MB is not a help there ) do you have any plans of a lite version of wa 5.05? That'd be an interesting option - you could maybe put in only the features that the wa 5.05 lite installer (from nullsoft) gives; and what would it size up to? Sufficiently lesser installer size than the current one? (1.x MB would be perfect) Heh... Maybe this is why they say - "don't do something, because then they'll ask you to do everything". Never mind.... enjoy your day.

Sums up succinctly, the gist of what I wanted to say. As a winamp fan, wmp10 is of interest only as an update that "somehow came out, so needs to be bundled". Be warned - WMP 10 seemed to be sluggish on older machines for me (yes, even the final release, not just the technical preview). So if you have an older PC or support older PCs, WMP9 (of XPSP2) still is the fastest - and pretty sufficient for most purposes too. But otherwise, if you have a recently bought speed-monster, throw WMP10 at it and you'll only enjoy the re-designed UI - no negative factors.

That one's actually useful, is what I thought all along... Anyway, if you don't want it, the solution is to eject the CD from the drive, when the system is booting up for the first time. After the OOBE is completed, you can put back the installer CD into the drive with no problem. Or if you installed from hard-disk, just rename the folder that contains the I386 flat. The cause of your problem is: (explained sequentially) 1. You know that Windows has the "InstallSourcePath" listed in the registry. 2. So, if the CD that winxp was installed from is still in the drive, cmdlines.txt is executed. 3. That's because at the first boot (after SysPrep), your installed windows is running at somewhat like the T-12 phase when cmdlines.txt is executed. 4. After that, registry setup is finalised, detected hardware is initialized, and OOBE is run. 5. Thereafter, you know what OOBE runs (the username/organization can be entered, the key too, regional/network settings, registration, activation, users creation) - you can control which of these is shown to the end-user, and which ones are pre-configured by you, using the oobeinfo.ini method. Hoping this helps....

The reason is because of the "star" character in your switch (you used the /l* switch). Its quite painful to not get something to work even after struggling with it a long time. Just use the steps below, it will DEFINITELY work if you do it exactly as below: 1. Run the initial Setup EXE (not the MSI) this way: dk8setup.exe /A from a command prompt window. 2. Now it will start the setup, and ask "which network drive to install server image to". Just choose the path as "C:\dk8". 3. The file-copying will complete, but it has not been installed in the above step. 4. Copy away the "C:\dk8" folder to somewhere else, or onto the "$OEM$\$1\install\Applications\" folder on your CD. 5. Now, rename the file "Diskeeper Professional Edition.msi" to "dkpro.msi" (that file can now be found in the "$OEM$\$1\install\Applications\dk8\" folder). 6. Run this command through your batch-files to install during setup: start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Applications\dk8\dkpro.msi /QB Of course, test the final stage once on your normal installed windows atleast once - to confirm that it will work when doing the same unattended. Hoping this helps....

You're on the right path. All the best! BTW, using [code ] tags when posting code such as the ones above will make your posts far easier to read. Now, to clarify your queries: 1. Yes, you made "regtweaks.reg" correctly, and placing it in "C:\XPCD\$OEM$\" is correct too. 2. The "cmdlines.txt" is placed correctly in "C:\XPCD\$OEM$\" as well. 3. Since you have already got what you want (with the above 2 steps), there's no need for the batch-file now. 4. The commands in "cmdlines.txt" will be carried out with no problem even if you did not make a winnt.sif, so its ok - make winnt.sif only if you want to. While we try to be as helpful as possible, the fact still remains that reading and re-reading the guide is the best option. Since it is all explained clearly there. And just a tip: If you have a doubt, just read the correct section of the guide again and do what it says. When you actually do it, that is when all the concepts become clear. So before asking "will such-and-such a setup work for me?", just put it in action - and if it is still not clear, we will take you through it. To prevent wasting CDs, use VMware to test out your unattended setups. A trial version can be downloaded - http://www.vmware.com/products/desktop/ws_features.html. Hoping this helps.... Do post back on how your unattended install works, and problems if any.

I don't mean to be impolite, but...... Firstly, I'm not sure this is the place for these sort of things. Secondly, do you think it is possible to find many buyers for that HERE? Bcos most of us already have the mobile we need. And if at all we HAVE to purchase something over the internet (or something second-hand) - heading to eBay or a similar site is what holds greater appeal. I suggest you try selling those mobiles on eBay as well. You'll get many buyers, and far quicker too.

If in your shoes, I'd check what kind of directory-organization the player supported. Whether it wants all the files in the CD-root, or whether it supports upto 1 directory level down, etc. Put in different MP3 CDs, and see which ones work. Make a CD accordingly with the same kind of directory-organization. One more thing to check might be whether you accidentally burnt a multi-session CD and whether you closed the session - many players don't like multi-session CDs. Do post back on how it goes.

Yes please.......I concur with that statement, 922 posts in one thread ought be enough to enter the Guinness Book of World Records. And people - please note we DON'T WANT funny replies (therefore swelling this thread further) to this post stating that the record is not achieved yet. This thread is not pinned currently because of all the junk in here - and everybody just starts other threads for registry tweaks, or they don't try searching this thread simply because it grew too big for its own good. Locking this one and starting a new pinned regtweaks thread just might breathe fresh life into our tweaking quests. Quite reasonable one this request by evil voice is. @Moderators ???

@Treeman ZoneAlarm Security Suite 5.1 - I've been on that since some weeks, and fits the sort of "animal" you have asked for. The link is here - product description. @Trolls This post is no reason to flame this thread just because you think ZoneAlarm sucks.

No, you can't use animated GIFs. The boot logo is 640x480x256colors bitmap. And the moving bar beneath it (the progress-bar-like line underneath the logo) which is what you want to change - is also a BMP that is simply run across some distance. You can of course replace that with your own dots!

Hey j4ever, before you conclude that something is useless for you, would be nice to read the entire thread... Anyways, in the first page of that thread, there's a post by sleepnmojo that kick started the rest of the posts. Svcpack is a set of commands executed much later in the setup than what would otherwise be the case if you integrated it the way described in that thread. But yes, its up to you to decide what method you want to follow. Whatever is easier and more suited to your needs....

Towards the end of this year, when Windows XP’s latest update (Service Pack 2) is satisfactorily rolled-out we are going to see a media blitz. Looks like Microsoft favours letting a year or two roll-by, and getting a good service pack out of the door, before advertising in public media about their OS and office suites. Preliminary speculation says that its going to be a package (XP integrated with SP2 + Windows Media Player 10) promoted as an OS different from what you knew WinXP to be. Its not a retail product - its not a new version of windows. Most of the components that will form part of the XP reloaded campaign are out. Here's how to make for yourself the Windows XP Reloaded CD. This mini-guide is not anything new - this is just bringing together what was in different places. You need: 1. Your Current licensed Windows XP CD (professional or home edition) 2. Service Pack 2 (download the appropriate version for your language) 3. Follow one of these guides to update your Windows XP install-source. (to install integrated with SP2 by default - saves on time, and gives you peace-of-mind) The D-I-Y guide --OR-- detailed D-I-Y guide --OR-- Universal Windows Slipstreaming and Bootable CD Guide. 4. Download the Windows Media Player 10. 5. Download the .NET framework 1.1 and the update for it (SP1). 6. Additional tools download and info for XP SP2. Put it all in one place, and burn a CD. Enjoy having something that isn't even on the store shelves as yet.

Well, there already exists a Gmail thread - you could have posted this there.... Anyways, yes - I did get invites in 2 of my accounts yesterday.

@j4ever To install .NET framework as a component of windows (just like the IE/WMP, etc.) is possible. That's what you need to do to make ATi's CPL install and work. Follow the steps given in this thread - netfx install the way TabletPC and MCE do.

The backed-up files could have swollen it up by this much. BTW, its not odd to have that folder so big. The problem is if it starts slowing down your normal operations. You can clear out the folder that starts with "$" - and some more too. A better option is to merge the SP2 into your CD, then install from there. Its clean, and you have SP2 pre-integrated - occupies in total something like 1059 MB (not 2.x GB like you have now).