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Now I just wonder how many reported this to me sp00f? 0, none, nein, zilch Currently the Full version don't use that same method but instead uses the FireGeier method right now with a little twist. I no longer get that issue but I was not getting it with the light version either when I put the correct Hard drive letter in it. Its up to you to get the drive letter right. I tested it just recently. %Configsetroot% sucks, copies the whole dvd down to HD. Yes it works. But so does FireGeier method. And, We are here to find better methods by sharing knowledge. Inject drivers into install.wim I had already done that about a month ago and forget what I didn't like about it. I'll have to look again

I see some good things in both. Pkgmgr integrate's the stuff directly also. Whats up with this? Both will do about same thing. MS mess up or 2 department heads fighting or something. Oh well

Are you sure its after Copying Files? 10 seconds in its doing the disk and then starts copy files then expand files I have had this error message before but it was Driver related untill I got it straight with FireG's Driversroot I see several things but hey I'm not sure because you definitely doing it different from me. Them DiskConfiguration and extends bug me but not sure. Also see you have both WindowsDeploymentServices and DiskConfiguration?

S-1-5-19 LocalService S-1-5-20 NetworkService Most the time you will see yourself also along with your Classes key. I forget the others and don't load them by default in my program but a bunch of stuff needed. Thats not really the spot where most reg tweaks are performed or done. HKEY_USERS is a Temporary key sort of. Each time you login it loads your NTUSER.DAT. On a safe shutdown it will save that data and next logon it will be to your HKEY_CURRENT_USER key. If you look real close HKEY_CURRENT_USER and HKEY_USERS\your sid will match kinda close. You can load his Hive in XP and edit it from your profile but you must unload it afterwards. Learn a lot more before you attempt that though.

To me pkgmgr is better because it don't just add the Hotfixes to a folder to be installed. Run it and you're done. I done 16 yesterday without a hitch including Dream Scene.

AnimaliX That moron didn't know what he was doing so get back to work. Was not the services, I disabled all of your list with my UA and have no problems except some things don't work as some of your explanations say. Might need a bit more explanation on the dll part as I said above. You can't rename critical dll's and not replace them.

MC My time is allways 2 hours ahead after a setup and I'm using enUS and my Timezone and an English Vista version. You must make sure you set all that to version of Vista you have I read. I reboot into XP and same there, my XP time is 2 hours ahead. Strange stuff. Course now I get to deal with a change in our Daylight Savings dates so add's more.

yes it is and it is working. Any problems then reply in my forums not here. A whole boatload of help and how to's are there also. Its really simple if you know anything about runoncex format for the applications. The rest is easy to understand.

specialize pass will get you the most

<FirstLogonCommands> you add to your xml. It calls a .cmd file where you will run those things from at the first lofon of your user. easiest example is try my app out and it creates a Firstlogon.cmd and places everything. I don't use RunOnceExProcess in that because there is no need with my app. Although if you look at the Appswitch.dat file everything there is in a runoncex format, slightly altered where you can add anything to it in alphabetical order and it adds your numbers in order you select applications. Thats what I've stuck with just slightly changing the way its handled between XP and Vista I copy wallpapers, fonts, and start my application to install all the applications from Firstlogon.cmd. http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=93215 You can alter that adding a call to a command file with your runoncex file. I think its even possible to make this Firstlogon.cmd the actual runoncex.cmd. But we are in Vista so I named it Firstlogon

only ? is what combination would cause it to crash like that. Haven't had time to try disabling services yet in my UA but I certainly know how to get back if it crashes. Edit: Now with remove dll thing, if you used that then you have to copy in a replacement right? Otherwise you'll crash and burn big time. I see you xcopy from X:, what is that? X is only available during PE pass.

BDD if you have it separately then Windows System Image Manager or Microsoft Windows AIK you get all them tools with the Microsoft Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment originally

peimg requires the BDD to be installled or it starts asking real quick for a boatload of dll's besides sticking them whole on the image. I'll keep jacking with pkmgr.

If your xml is on that usb stick then it makes it configsetroot so unneeeded the driversroot thing but using the configsetroot means it copies the whole thing down. Thats what we're trying to get away from. I've been running all mine with xml on root of Dvd but just tried on a floppy. You see I left the \ out of FOR so I can place it. Also I leave out the X since we know X is WinPE root. This worked for me where in the xml I call the Drivers like this as a folder with no .txt file %DriversRoot%\sources\pnpDrivers It processes all Sub Folders there and I have them named like 1, 2, 3 Maybe my delay is coming from those other things I put in but this is on a 3Ghz with 1Gb ram. Windows\System32\SetDriversRoot.cmd FOR %%i IN (C D E F G H I J K L N M O P Q R S T U V W Y Z) DO IF EXIST %%i:\sources\pnpDrivers SET DriversRoot=%%i: CLS ECHO DriversRoot= %DriversRoot% ECHO DO NOT CLOSE THIS !!! ECHO DO NOT PRESS ANYKEY !!! ECHO. X:\setup.exe Pause The thing about this is if it fails you can simply hit the X to close that window or enter if you can see it to quit setup without anything done to drive. If you can't see it hit Shift+F10 and then ALT+Tab to it. Takes about a second or two for setup to start so I see that window about that long.

Could you tell me when and where to call this command? Where do you need it? If you're doing Unattendeds then your very best bet is to use <FirstLogonCommands> But you want the status window and you said you know how to I'm able to install all my apps during vista setup using RunSychronous command well that has no staus window. So you can build your Runoncex cmd and call it with FirstLogonCommands which allows everything like you was the actual Admin and try that

no file i mean i set the For cmd like this DO IF EXIST %%i:\sources\pnpDrivers SET DriversRoot=%%i: with my pnpDrivers folder with all sub folders in the sources folder and then all you need is %DriversRoot%\sources\pnpDrivers Yep only .inf in that pass but work's ok.

you can set in all passes, I do and watch as it reads the xml and the res will change. Definitely need in the oobe because that is the final and thats what you need your desktop to come up on.

Not quite, I said FULL Path to your included iernonce.dll rundll32.exe E:\VistaUA\Utilz\iernonce.dll,RunOnceExProcess IE7 cripples the iernonce.dll, on purpose? most probably as its similar to comctl32.dll in 95 went to crashing and people freaked and went out and bought 98, duh, restore a diff version of dll and all was fine again. I wouldn't do that in Vista but just run it separately as my example. Yes it works here, is it going to start the world turning backwards, I doubt it. All it does is call the runonce key.

both cards were ATI, 1 was an onboard 200 and other was 9000+ something can't recall. same old monitor a Samsung 19" 955DF Try with just the Horizontal and the Vertical and it should pick up the rest as it sees best

yes Untested on a UA but I do use a method with the UnattendXP app by copy the XP iernonce.dll and using separately it will still work after IE7 just place it somewhere local to your scripts and call it by full path

I had the refresh rate thing also with XP full time I was doing it UA. I recently updated the PC here and a new PCI-E card and no longer have that with XP or Vista UAs. TIP! Don't leave it blank, don't include a blank setting in xml at all. TIP! Don't include default values in xml. TIP! VistaUA is designed to not do either of those but things happen so let me know if it does.

well the app works with all Vista is impressive the way it handles memory and a lot of other things if you want to mess with it. I do have XP on so I'm dual booting with XP as the primary. Its a learning experience for us all.

or better yet, dual boot them if you willing to put in a little time there Strider, How? Grab my VistaUA light in my sig and give it a whirl. Or don't you have that want to in your blood. That Dream Scene is pretty impressive in the Ultimate

I see someone still hungup on Configsetroot instead of trying to move forward. To go where no man or woman has gone before, to discover new and exotic lands and meet exciting and new people and ....... NO Windows\Configsetroot folder NO whole DVD copy Drivers FireGeier's method in this post with a little MaxXP twist of course No file needed on root of Dvd, just a path and its all fine

Because unless I'm mistaken you don't need the OOBE to do that. The only close thing would be SkipUserOOBE which specifies whether to skip Welcome Center if you want to turn that off so it don't popup in the way at Firstlogon. Worth adding cause that just gets in the way if you done seen it once. As an added Note <Password> <Value>UABhAHMAcwB3AG8AcgBkAA==</Value> Gives you a blank password, just hit enter and you logon but if you add from my post you go straight in <Password> <PlainText>false</PlainText> </Password>