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5 topics with same content found.... merged. Unprecedented heights of post-spamming noticed. spider77, please read the "Help" guide which is available in the forum, before starting to post.

free? commercial? There's decent scripts available in both categories.

why are you creating a totally new topic that continues from where the old one left off!

Welcome to MSFN forums! Hoping you have an enjoyable time here.

no offense intended, but paid help-desks exist too. No one can demand a solution as a right. Most people here reach out to others for the love of helping. So try to keep people glad to aid you..... Also just FYI, each and every one of the above apps is incredibly easy to unattend. What's more, atleast half of what's listed there has been discussed to micro-levels, and whipped to death 20 times! And not all app installers will go by switches alone, there's many different methods usable. Why not try searching and reading around on the board about how others do things? Oh, and don't worry, no one's gonna ask you if you are really authorised to use all of those above apps. Oh well, hoping the minutes it took to make this post atleast, is of any use....

indeed, buckeyeXP made a brilliant tool.

To cut out the "load at startup", you just need to remove it from startup tree in registry - take a look at regtweaks file. To prevent messenger today, you will need to take a regshot before and after to find which key does it.

Why not contact GreenMachine directly via PM ? This is not something that needs to be discussed on the public board...

There's that file attached to first-post in that thread, where I clearly remember having added that tweak.

You would have seen lot of posts here comparing VMware and VPC2004. The conclusion has been VPC is a toy used by n00bs - it has neither the features, nor the power, nor the performance. VMware is what you want, to do anything useful at all. I've had upto 6 VMs running simultaneously and communicating with each other easily.

Hey, forgot the search huh? *grumbling* Why is everyone trying to dig out the girls.... we guys have no time for them anyway! (well yeah, some special girls do exist for whom one can forget all about the passage of time) See how many people before you have posted polls on the same topic Anyways, going to merge this poll with - this one.

Advertising, not the least bit stays out here. It takes exactly 1 minute to download a fully customized setup from the customers area. No MSI re-package here. And beyond this customized setup is the fact that its the most unattend friendly 3rd party browser that exists. Bought several licenses you say? Hmm.... why is it sounding doubtful...Right on the machine where I'm typing this from, opera (the app) hasn't been needed to exit since 5 days! Hogs resources? Pardon me... let me check my task manager. BACK - 41 tabs open, 9 MB total mem usage, 0.5% CPU usage - by singular process "Opera.exe". Stress and security tests, there cannot possibly be a person who puts his browser through more stress and security risks than me (yeah, probably everybody thinks the same of himself ). Have you checked out kiosk mode? Opera (here and everywhere) has passed every test that could be thrown at it, except what it clearly refuses to (for example, activeX). Ever wondered why the $25 it costs (in bulk) is worth every cent? Been with it through the insane kind of activity one has in teenage, and later in saner corporate surroundings. A point of note is firefox evangelism mostly happens on an abstract and militant basis (QUOTE: "mysteriously, mind you"), whereas its no co-incidence that opera generally is used by those who value their time, spreads slower and on the basis of debates informed with facts. (try seeing my old posts for reasons why I like opera) Incidentally, in cases where opera is not able to do the job (like windowsupdate), IE is preferred. (yeah, firefox exists with *YET ANOTHER* extension to enable WU, but since you seem to know about corporate policies, you'd know that we brand installing ANYTHING without permission to be a nuisance). Also, in that kind of atmosphere, IE is by far the preferred browser because of its ability to be locked down centrally in a domain (remember GPMC and GPOs? ). My stance has been to recommend Opera to intelligent, individual power-users and use IE in production environments because anyway the dumb employees cannot hurt themselves considering that we control IE on the domain. Where does that leave firefox?

Have no worries, this forum will still have things that others haven't even heard of. Also, its going to make things easier for manageability yes.... but they only reveal half of it - the other half you'll find at msfn. I've already started with unattending longhorn...

both those things which you are looking for, can be found in the registry tweaks topic here.

haha, I think I even know who....

Yes, you can change a certain registry key to make it such that pressing ctrl-alt-del will bring up task manager. (search this forum for that key...) Once that is obtained, I'm not sure if Win+L will work as in XP - but you could give it a try.

Take me there, take me there.... wanna see it from close by...

haha...

I am doing the same thing as what you are trying to do. I solved that problem by installing MS Office *AFTER* open-office. Also, remove the shortcut to launch OpenOffice from the startup folder (using the batch-files, cleanup.cmd or any other way). EDIT: grrrrrr..... evilvoice already beat me to it.

T minus twelve, is the point during setup where the status (on left) shows "12 minutes remaining". And most of these terms are explained in the guide.... just have a good read of the guide (which has been revised to explain things more clearly).

Try reading all his old posts, and you might get a full view of how it works (you can see all his posts from a link in his profile). Anyways, let me tell what I can: Basically the tool is an AutoIT script. Which is able to do file-moving/copying operations, and auto-click dialog boxes. Now when you select the main setup MSI and MST, this tool copies both those files to a different folder, along with whatever files are known to to be essential to setup Office. And then it starts the setup with a switch to use that MST. Now as the setup runs, it complains that file1 is missing, file2 is missing, etc. buckeye's script captures the text in the dialog, and copies over the required file from the source folder to the new slimmed location (where it originally copied your setup.exe and MST). Once that file is copied over, it is no longer missing, so the script clicks the retry button (so now the file is found, and setup continues). After this, the next file missing prompt that comes up, is also dealt with in the same way. This carries on till the end. This way, the MST dictates what files are needed and only those files are selected from the install source, and these are recorded by the OfficeShrink tool. Some files already exist, so obviously setup does not throw up the file missing dialog and so the script is unable to capture all the files necessary. This is why people end up still having some files missing when they do a clean unattended install with the incomplete set of files. Its because of this, that buckeyeXP recommends you run the shrinker on a clean windows installation. One more thing you might know, is that lot of people in that thread are complaining about a 7 MB install folder. That's happening because the base setup.exe and MST got copied, but some unexpected situation prevented the script from handling it properly, so it just exits after just those files alone. I'm relating the above two to explain how it all works, so that whoever makes a similar tool will know it and prevent errors in handling unexpected situations. Hoping this helps....

Well, there was two versions of UBCD - one for winPE, and the other for DOS. Which is the one you are using?

Oh good. A tweak to disable the windows key - many have been looking for that. Now for something to disable the Ctrl-Alt-Del....

The simple solution is to take all of those keys once and save to a single .reg file (when your system is normal) for a backup. And just delete all of them unattended after that, using a .REG of the type you have above. But if you need it to do the backup too, then a complex process: "reg export" all the desired keys to filename1, filename2, etc. then "type filename1.reg >> backup.reg" (do it that way for all files) Then move away the resulting single backup file with another command, and thru your other .REG file, delete all the unnecessary keys which you have just finished backing up.