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About bliss.jp_ - you need to rename and run makecab on the JPEG image you want. And then put the file in I386. That's all. About the other system files - yes, that's what you need to do. Basically, you need to ensure that WHEREVER that file exists, it is replaced by your file - sometimes you might have to search to see the places where it is located - like the way in which ntoskrnl.exe is found in more than one place. Hoping this helps.... All the best, do tell us how it goes.

the "Registry Tweaks..." thread has all those settings (for explorer) you want, and more! Also, another way to get this done is to load the NTUSER.DAT of the DefaultUser as a hive (in regedit), and make the modifications you want.

Either you changed the ntoskrnl.exe yourself (accidentally?) --OR-- This looks like a case of having installed from a "modified" XP home CD, that used an XP Pro's setupreg.hiv - and when you installed the newer Service Pack, that messy patching got messed-up itself. I'd say don't do upgrade installs (of SPs) - slip-stream them into your CD and do a clean-install, that way it is totally clean without the problems mentioned above.

Are you trying to say that your CD is not booting and so you want to use floppies to boot-up and start setup? Or are you just confirming whether you need the floppies in order to boot for SP2? The bootable floppies aren't necessary - just use the same old boot-sector from the old WinXP CD. If you've GOT to use floppies for some reason, then you have to use 6 floppies - there's nothing less, and even SP1/SP0 releases of windowsXP needed 6 floppies. Win2k needed 4 floppies to boot into setup.

The only way I'd think it possible is to reduce your windows install-source using nLite (remove theme support and Luna theme) - that way, the tab itself disappears forever. Otherwise, there's a group policy restriction somewhere to dis-allow showing that "Themes" tab, but its more complicated :S. I doubt that there's any way to leave that tab alone, but only remove the "online" option from the drop-down box. Do post back on how it goes.

Well, there are tutorials of how to use the boards - I think its in the new users forum.... ****! Let me warn the "dial-up"ers out there - that flash file (linked to above) is 1.51 MB.

If this is true, then its cool! Will this work even on XP with SP2 and with any language of XP/2003 ?

Well, that switch is self-explanatory. If you want to instruct setup to not reboot (which will dis-orient your Windows setup) after installing the Nero package, then use that switch. I do use that switch where applicable - I want to be sure that the only time windows re-starts is when I ask it to, or when windows setup restarts.

No extra actions needed - just tell 7-zip (while compressing) to make it SFX, so that you don't need any extra executable to be placed in "System32" folder.And then, use this switch to extract: -y /q /r:n -o<your_path> Here's an example from my batch-files (runs directly from CD, so there's no environment variables used) start /wait GUIsetup\apps\NAV2k3pro.exe -y /q /r:n -o%SYSTEMDRIVE%\install\Applications start /wait %SYSTEMDRIVE%\install\Applications\NAV2k3pro\NAV\NAV.MSI /QB-!

ROFL... Now what's next? Are we going to have Windows Update announce the latest hardware device drivers (WHQL approved) for gamehead's paper-clip ?

@edmoncu Thanks for the info. its good that you tried to spread the news about this.... But as a matter of fact, MSFN had news about this since the beginning of august (maybe even earlier). BTW, how many times did you order it? 'Coz I'm gonna get a carton dropped off here, if they really service as many orders as they've got from me.

@skywalker What you want is the "/QN" switch. That's what will give no graphical output on screen. And just like "/QB-" (which you have been using successfully), "/QN" too will fail silently (no dialogs) if any error occurs. You want to just not see anything on screen while the setup is going on, right? So just replace the "/QB-" switch in your command below, with "/QN" instead. The "/QB-" switch shows just a progress bar on-screen, whereas "/QN" shows nothing on screen - and both will do a silent install, so they are similar in all other ways (excluding the screen display of what's happening, which is what that switch controls). Also remember, the above standard switches are for all other MSI packages as well (acrobat, .NET, Diskeeper, Sun Java, etc.).

Are you talking about WinXP or 2k? :S I get the impression that there's nothing hard-coded into any DLL regarding file-operations or install. Everything's gotta be listed somewhere in an INF or INI or something - even your "Cleaning Up..." section. Try opening all .IN_ files in I386. There's one person who's done all this long before, and his site might help you (remember that god is in the small-text, so read *EACH* page there and it will help): http://gosh.msfnhosting.com/

Hey dudes, this one bugs me as well. I'm on WinXP Home Edition, US English, SP2. The Windows Messenger blocks transfer of most file-types (including images/ZIP/RAR). This happens whether I've installed slip-streamed or done an upgrade on a pre-existing XP (SP1/SP0) machine. This happens regardless of whether the Windows Firewall is turned on or off. I figured that since there's no setting in the configuration interface to do anything about this, maybe group policy editor could help. And then I ran "gpedit.msc" on an XP Professional SP2 machine - that still doesn't help, gpedit has nothing to change this behaviour - and I know that I've looked long and hard enough. This can't be a Windows Messenger related problem - the version of it in SP2 is <4.7.3000> and that works fine on SP1. Those without XP's SP2 update don't have this problem - its definitely related to SP2's new security "Springboard". Wake me up when a solution to this is found.

You can also get that folder by ordering the SP2 CD from microsoft - its free, and ships to your location as well. Only problem is the 4-6 weeks waiting time. Go here to order it: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloa...us/default.mspx Tell me how many times you've ordered it, LOL.

This thread has been discussing exactly that - http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...view=getnewpost

Yes, it will work even in an unattended setup - you have to replace those files wherever they are located (even in sp2.cab).

I remember having seen a winnt.sif option, which allowed you to specify the background seen (a 256 colors bmp) during win2k setup. Going through the deploy tools help might help you to discover it...

The problem with Video Drivers is that it will swell up very quickly. Just try nVidia+ATi and their size will exceed that of any other pack released by Bashrat until now. If you want to support the top 10 brands/chipsets of gfx cards, the size will be 150 MB, and if you want to support all cards that XP doesn't have a driver for (as the way it should be) the driver-pack will go up to many hundreds of MB (and probably a GB when de-compressed ). In any case, even the latest cards (and almost all older cards) are supported with WinXP SP2 - so there'd be no need.

The solution I do for that is: 1. Extract the Nero installer (27.x MB) using winrar. 2. Make a silent extracting SFX. 3. Then run the setup from the extracted location during uA install.

Hey there's a problem with method 2- If you extract contents of dotnetfx.exe (.NET 1.1) into a folder called DOTNETFX, and rename install.exe to setup.exe, the option to install .NET framework from the autorun starts to work. But then, it is not able to complete the install - it asks for "insert Disk1" and you have to abort it. If you copy the same folder to a hard-disk and run .NET setup from there, it works perfectly. Has anyone else experienced this? Any solutions? My interim solution has been to make a silent SFX-extraction archive, which will extract all files from the folder into a %temp% and then runs the install - that way it doesn't ask for "insert your Disk 1".

Good to hear that you have eliminated that bug. Why not stick to nvidia's reference drivers itself? Its newer and tested far more than we ever could - get the nForce drivers for winxp from here and use that instead of Epox's own.

If you have those 3 tweaks above, imported into windows registry - you'll never see the first-run of WMP9, no matter what. If you've slip-streamed SP2 into your XP CD, you'll not need to have an update patch for quite some time. SP2 is the latest update you will need - no others are needed if you have that.

In fact, the technique is the same for win2k/XP/2k3, no matter what service pack level is employed.

Well, here's a suggestion for all those having problems with Office Shrinker: 1. Check that it installs fine BEFORE using the shrinker. 2. Analyse the situation, and see that you have understood how the shrinker works. (only then is trouble-shooting possible) 3. If there are missing files problems, either run the shrinker again on that source to get the missing files, or copy them manually. This is because we keep coming across posts that describe problems not-at-all related to the shrinker.