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I personally don't like those tools - they are drive overlays. Can cause distortion in partitioning and all that..... Just merge SP4 - gotta work straightaway with no problems.

If the setup is getting choked - either your source-CD was scratched, or your new copied CD's media wasn't of very good quality.

Just so you know, corp edition of WinXP doesn't need to be activated, whereas the retail and OEM versions have to be. NOTE: Please refrain from statements such as the above post. Read the Forum rules before you start posting - MSFN Forum rules - one can be banned for not properly following rules regarding warez. Be careful with what you say about piracy.

There's an MSKB article that describes this. You need to install Win2k, then some reg-mod then the SP4 to see large drives of more than 137 GB. The best solution to this is to slip-stream SP4 into your win2k CD - then it is supported perfectly.

Ha ha ha... So let's replace 40 pages of thread with (40pagesx30posts=1200topics) - hmm.... that sort of, sounds frightening to me. Am I the only one saying so?

Well, the retail CD has some copy-protection in the newer packaged ones. Also, the reason its not working might be simple - the boot-sector, lol.

Yes, those OEMs use something called "SysPrep". You can find more info about it in ref.chm (In the windows XP CD, open deploy.cab). If you're not moving machiners in the volumes that they do, its probably not worth the effort to do such a thing. But if you do wanna do it, it will take you upto 2 days of thinking/doing/testing.

What you said (above) sort of confirms what I was already thinking. Some break-down or maintenance work happening on the OFC pipe... Yes, calling up your ISP is a good idea - if they are polite enough, they might tell you a reason.

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thanks for sharing the info with us. Although, I believe it'd have been better to have in the official thread of switches. The switches look like it uses the Inno-setup installer. If so, the "/VERYSILENT /SP-" switch can also be used.

There's 2 options to solve this: 1. This solution will make your setup non-automatic: Leave out the lines concerning username, organisation, and product key. Then it will ask you to input it the normal way, but be automatic for everything else. 2. Do not put winnt.sif in your I386 folder. Instead, put winnt.sif on your floppy. Put in the CD in the drive, and the floppy as well. Now boot up from it - setup will use the winnt.sif from floppy. So now for each new machine you want to install, just modify the winnt.sif on floppy and use this method. Easy? Do put forward any clarifications that you need. All the best!

I guess you are posting the above from some other machine. Your tracert output seems to indicate that the connection between your ISP (or top-level server) and the one connecting MSFN is broken in some way. That kind of thing had happened lastly for someone in europe when the optical-fibre pipe connecting their ISP to the US had a fault.

So I'm not the only one noticing that. The page, it seems makes a splash at that address (maybe a page-hit counter) on every page-load. You can take a look at the default style-sheet for the forums (right-click, view source). This is what is causing what you see: <br /> <div align="center"> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-9597915216280083"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90; google_ad_format = "728x90_as"; google_color_border = "336699"; google_color_bg = "FFFFFF"; google_color_link = "0000FF"; google_color_url = "008000"; google_color_text = "000000"; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> <script src='http://www.longhorn.nu/astracker/ast.php?ch=2'></script> If this is against rules to see the source code, my apologies and please delete this post.

I suppose that's what he's talking about, anyway. AVG, NOD32, what else?

All the best for your studies eagle. You've made a great tool here in the last couple weeks.

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Installing it silently ought to be simple enough - I wouldn't expect that much has changed from 2004 series. Also, activation is simple too - mazin has a guide to do it for the 2004 series, the same one's gotta work for 2005 as well. (note that you can't bypass activation, you can only have it pre-activated if you are licensed)

If you have a license, it should be possible for you to get it activated. Then, just place WPA.DBL in "$OEM$\$$\System32\OOBE" for use the next time you install (to have it pre-activated). This doesn't in any way DISABLE activation - its only doing it automatically for you. That's all. Why do you want to complicate it?

Can you check and tell if it is able to make an administrative install point? (run it with "/A" switch)

hey RyanVM, thrown in the towel, eh? (just kidding) @everybody hopefully, there will be no more problems - just download the link above (given by RyanVM) and execute it as one of the processes through your batch files (or XPlode or whatever). It is switch-less. You will have .NET v1.1 SP1 installed fine.

You can stay with ShowTime - its pretty good, and not any quality difference between it and others. WMP 10 itself is good for viewing DVDs. But if I HAD to choose a DVD-playing software, I'd choose PowerDVD 5.

There must be some way to integrate the latest .DAT update. See the installer files and post an output of a "dir /B" of the installer folder here, please?

Well, the Macintosh has always been for people who don't know how to manage their machines (or need hand-holding, or are rich first-timers) - so is it a joke?

I'm pretty sure Opera will do fine on Win95 - http://www.opera.com