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Make yourself clearer please. You want a floppy to have multi-boot options? Or you want it to be able to boot into DOS and give you selectable items to run the setup of your choice? (like win98/winME EBD gives). And in both cases, where is the actual setup of the item you chose going to run from? Everything is possible - but you need to provide details to get anywhere on this.

That's interesting! I gotta try this - have you already done it and does it work? It looks like something that's meant for a network install (or DOS install).

Another syntax error! OemSkipWelcome= YesTry it again without that extra space, and once again with quotes for yes.

yeah. and twice a day to be healthy.

goddamn #@$*%&! HORRIBLE! They got to clean up their act. How can you possibly be calm after this drew! My god!

quotes around the "yes" for oemskipeula and unattendswitch.

haha! This place is addictive.

Very old thread, please do not raise old threads without a significant reason. * closed

Ahemm.... There is a contact us link in front-page for reporting things like this. Anyways, this thread belongs in "Site and Forum issues". * moved

Hello SilverHaze420, Enjoy your stay at the forums!

Ned944's regkeys above looks somewhat close to what I do, but I'm not sure of it coz my method is simpler than that. The screenshot shown above, is actually called OEM Branding. It is one of the customizations OEMs make in addition to the oemlogo/oeminfo.ini. Below is the .REG: ;Link to any location on start menu (Branding) [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f6-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}] @="Internet Searching" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f6-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\DefaultIcon] @="%SystemRoot%\\system32\\shell32.dll,-15" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f6-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\Instance\InitPropertyBag] "CLSID"="{13709620-C279-11CE-A49E-444553540000}" "method"="ShellExecute" "Command"="Internet Searching" "Param1"="http://www.google.com"Okay, so this OEM branding in start menu is just a command executed - its fully changeable to your requirement. An OEM will normally use it to launch their own tool (for example, they will direct param1 to "C:\Dell\addons\OEMtool.exe"). Since that is useless to us, we can either direct it to some other EXE which we keep using frequently, or to your support website, or to a folder on the hard-disk, ANYTHING! What it does basically, is do a ShellExecute of specified command in Param1 - if you don't know what ShellExecute is, just remember that it is the same thing like what your "Run" dialog box does when you execute a command thru it. What parts of the above registry code is changeable? CLSID should not be changed. The "method=" should not be changed. You may change the Key name (which comes in first line : @="Menuname"). The icon shown can be changed (@="path\to\file.ico"). You can optionally use an icon resource from DLL/EXE like I did. The "Command=" value is what is shown in the startmenu as menu-item-name. The "Param1" value is the actual command executed when the item is clicked. Apply this regtweak thru whatever method you want, at whatever point you want. Just remember that you need to reboot to see the changes. Or if you are too lazy to reboot, just switch to classic start menu and then back to XP startmenu - this is quicker when you are experimenting. *tired out* PHEW! Is that enough info? Anymore clarifications? And don't forget to post back whether it works for you or not - because that is what makes one happy......

Please try to avoid attaching files. Always try to upload images to image hosts and post them using or tags. There are many totally free image hosts that you can upload to easily without registration. If I decide images are too big, I will remove the attachment. Keeping the attachments low helps the forum be faster as well.

Ah. Finally!Thanks totoymola. I was reading Asta posting about this method, but it was still vague, so did not do it till now. Now its clear. So I'm still gaining from uA discussions! Oh, and I always prefer the SFX module of RAR. 7zip is good only when it will cut-down on size (compared to rar) by atleast 25% or 5 MB. Office, NAV2k3, etc. are the ones that are good for 7zip. I compress all else with rar.

Its a mistaken notion that SP2 is any different in dealing with drivers. Just merge SP2 into your XP disk, do a clean-install, plugin your whatever you want, install the drivers..... it will work straight away. The reason it might not have worked for you last time, is that you did an UPGRADE - and its effectively junked 70% of your registry/devices/system files. Do it the correct way as described above, and its all fine.

It matters. Even the version. Not all MSI are created equal. Until we are told whatever else you thought doesn't matter, there's not much that can be done.... OS, MSI v3, time of execution, whether AIP/CD, lots!

What you mean to say is unclear.... But if this post is a public warning, thanks for the post Malko! Also, I'd like to add that lot of worms are now infecting people using .PIF extension. The main problem is .PIF is an executable format - but its not actually a file, its only DOS properties of an EXE. A normal .pif should never be more than 2 KB (max.) in size. Many worms are making use of the .EML file extension to spread too. The solution is to de-activate both these hostile formats, as it is unlikely that those 2 extensions would ever be used in a normal environment. Here's the commands you need to run in a CMD window to de-activate this vulnerability: assoc .pif=txtfile assoc .eml=txtfileThat's all, you are safe now.

You just need to drag-and-drop the downloaded XPI files (plugins) on the firefox window to have it installed. Then just make a RAR SFX of the firefox folder in programfiles to extract silently to where you want, and put the EXE on your uA install process. Third step, you need registry entries for firefox, get it here - link. That's all, No application data info copied over. Unbelievably simple solution to unbelievable problem.

That's great gigantor! Thanks a lot for sharing this info with us.

uhmm.... That's not an "idea" ! That's the correct way to do it, and works since 4 years! If its not working, you might like to check whether your tweaks are applying properly at all.

Then you better make all your requirements clear please. What EXACTLY do you want? It is a fact that the Office MSI supports all MSI switches that exist.

You got it right. But its hugely customizable just like the rest of opera is. For example, kiosk mode by default will remove a lot of menus - so just specify in the INI file while editing it (about what features you DON'T want disabled). Does it look complicated/roundabout? Its not - it looks like that the first time, that's all. Also, remember no other browser CAN possibly have such a feature! Keep us posted on the progress! *OH MY GOD* Idea strikes! Why didn't you think of limiting the cache to zero MB - isn't it far simpler.

OUCH! That's really sad. Why not use VMware to test your uA installs!

Take a look at these combos: /qb (with install progress) /qb- (this will suppress errors) /qb-! (this will suppress errors, and disable cancel button) Does any of those do what you want?

Well, I hope you install your updated nV drivers via OEMpnpDriversPath. I just do that, and windows straight away uses those - and it all works fine. If you don't use that method, then do it now. If you already are using that clean method, but now want to get your hands dirty with some fiddling in I386, then check out nLite's driver integration feature. Do post back with what happens!

Yes, you can. But it will be added at bottom of start menu, as in this screenshot: In the above shot see where the "Internet Searching" item has been highlighted. That's the item you can change to run any folder/command you want and change its icon. Want to do it?