ToBe

Available today, August 30, 2004

What happens if you delete the winnt.sif file and drops the iso into VirtualPC. Still the same error?

Open up a command-prompt and type edit. Change your cmdfile from within that application, and it should work... Thats how I got some of my swedish characters to be understood by the command files.

winnt.sif is not an inf file... Doesn't the error message give you any clue of wich file there is a problem with? Look at the very bottom of the screen during install, maybe you will see which file it stops at.. for example biosinfo.inf, dosnet.inf, hivedef.inf....... Made any modifications to dosnet.inf?

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If you still need boot floppies, here you go: XP Home XP Home Servicepack 1 integrated If you have the file WIN51IC.SP1 in the root of the cd, you should get the ones for SP1 integrated.

Volume discs are available now, according to Bink. So if someone downloads it, could you please post the label here? Would be interesting to know....

Available today, August 28, 2004 Doesn't show at Microsoft's SP2 page yet, though.

I use one single inf to install all of my apps at t-13 and runonceex, all of my regtweaks, create icons in start menu, and more. I couldn't solve some things with batchfiles, a few regtweaks pointing at wrong driveletter for example... I use batchfiles as well, but inf files suits my needs better, and are invisible. ToBe

You could try the Office 97 Resource Kit

You could use inf's instead. Takes a little more writing, but can do things that batch files can't.

It depends on the hardware as a 1x DVD-ROM drive is the equivalent of an 8x CD-ROM drive, a 2x DVD-ROM drive is the equivalent of a 16x CD-ROM drive and so on. Taken from here: http://stream.uen.org/medsol/dvd/pages/dvd...at_DVDvsCD.html

Follow the guide about multibooting DVD's: http://flyakite.msfnhosting.com/ "Creating a Boot Menu" has a very good guide to what you want.

This switch works for Norton Internet Security: file.exe /O REBOOT=ReallySuppress /QB Worth a try....

Oh. That made things a lot easier... Wish I knew that a couple of months ago... Thank you.

I couldn't get this to work either, I think it has something to do with localized versions... Are you using a danish version of Win2k? What I did was to grab a copy of reg.exe from an windows XP installation, and created a batch file that copies reg.exe to win2k, deletes the runonceex keys in the registry and register the services before first logon. Hope I make sense.... First get a copy of reg.exe from Windows XP Then put IE6_ROE.EXE in the svcpack folder. It contains this batch file: @ECHO OFF SET CDROM= IF EXIST D:\CDROM_NT.5 SET CDROM=D: IF EXIST E:\CDROM_NT.5 SET CDROM=E: IF EXIST F:\CDROM_NT.5 SET CDROM=F: IF EXIST G:\CDROM_NT.5 SET CDROM=G: IF EXIST H:\CDROM_NT.5 SET CDROM=H: IF EXIST I:\CDROM_NT.5 SET CDROM=I: IF EXIST J:\CDROM_NT.5 SET CDROM=J: IF EXIST K:\CDROM_NT.5 SET CDROM=K: IF EXIST L:\CDROM_NT.5 SET CDROM=L: IF EXIST M:\CDROM_NT.5 SET CDROM=M: IF EXIST N:\CDROM_NT.5 SET CDROM=N: IF EXIST O:\CDROM_NT.5 SET CDROM=O: IF EXIST P:\CDROM_NT.5 SET CDROM=P: IF EXIST Q:\CDROM_NT.5 SET CDROM=Q: IF EXIST R:\CDROM_NT.5 SET CDROM=R: IF EXIST S:\CDROM_NT.5 SET CDROM=S: IF EXIST T:\CDROM_NT.5 SET CDROM=T: IF EXIST U:\CDROM_NT.5 SET CDROM=U: IF EXIST V:\CDROM_NT.5 SET CDROM=V: IF EXIST W:\CDROM_NT.5 SET CDROM=W: IF EXIST X:\CDROM_NT.5 SET CDROM=X: IF EXIST Y:\CDROM_NT.5 SET CDROM=Y: IF EXIST Z:\CDROM_NT.5 SET CDROM=Z: COPY /Y %CDROM%\I386\SVCPACK\REG.EXE %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\reg.exe SET KEY=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx REG DELETE HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx /v Title /f REG DELETE HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx /v Flags /f REG DELETE HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx\101 /f REG DELETE HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx\102 /f REG DELETE HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx\103 /f REG DELETE HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx\104 /f REG DELETE HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx\500 /f REG DELETE HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx\800 /f REGSVR32.EXE /s %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\mlang.dll REGSVR32.EXE /s %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\browseui.dll REGSVR32.EXE /s /i %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\browseui.dll REGSVR32.EXE /s %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\shdocvw.dll REGSVR32.EXE /s /i %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\shdocvw.dll REGSVR32.EXE /s %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\urlmon.dll REGSVR32.EXE /s %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\browsewm.dll REGSVR32.EXE /s %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\mshtml.dll REGSVR32.EXE /s %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\msrating.dll REGSVR32.EXE /s %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\plugin.ocx REGSVR32.EXE /s %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\sendmail.dll REGSVR32.EXE /s %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\asctrls.ocx REGSVR32.EXE /s /i %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\inetcpl.cpl REGSVR32.EXE /s /i %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\mshtml.dll REGSVR32.EXE /s %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\mshtmled.dll REGSVR32.EXE /s %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\proctexe.ocx %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\mshta.exe /register REGSVR32.EXE /s %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\dxtrans.dll REGSVR32.EXE /s %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\dxtmsft.dll REGSVR32.EXE /s %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\mstime.dll REGSVR32.EXE /s /i %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\comctl32.dll REGSVR32.EXE /s %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\corpol.dll REGSVR32.EXE /s %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\imgutil.dll REGSVR32.EXE /s %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\pngfilt.dll REGSVR32.EXE /s %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\msxml3.dll REGSVR32.EXE /s %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\csseqchk.dll REGSVR32.EXE /s %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\actxprxy.dll REGSVR32.EXE /s %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\cdfview.dll REGSVR32.EXE /s %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\inseng.dll REGSVR32.EXE /s /i %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\iesetup.dll REGSVR32.EXE /s %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\webcheck.dll REGSVR32.EXE /s %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\occache.dll REGSVR32.EXE /s /i %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\occache.dll REGSVR32.EXE /s %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\iepeers.dll REGSVR32.EXE /s "%ProgramFiles%\delade filer\Microsoft Shared\MSInfo\ieinfo5.ocx" REGSVR32.EXE /s %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\msident.dll REGSVR32.EXE /s %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\cryptdlg.dll REGSVR32.EXE /s /i:HKLM %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\digest.dll REGSVR32.EXE /s /i:HKLM %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\wininet.dll REGSVR32.EXE /s /i:HKLM %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\urlmon.dll REGSVR32.EXE /s %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\msieftp.dll REGSVR32.EXE /s %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\tdc.ocx REGSVR32.EXE /s "%ProgramFiles%\delade filer\Microsoft Shared\VGX\vgx.dll" REGSVR32.EXE /s %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\inetcomm.dll REGSVR32.EXE /s "%ProgramFiles%\Outlook Express\msoe.dll" REGSVR32.EXE /s "%ProgramFiles%\Outlook Express\oeimport.dll" REGSVR32.EXE /s "%ProgramFiles%\Outlook Express\oemiglib.dll" REGSVR32.EXE /s "%ProgramFiles%\delade filer\System\directdb.dll" REGSVR32.EXE /s %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\msoeacct.dll REGSVR32.EXE /s "%ProgramFiles%\delade filer\System\wab32.dll" REGSVR32.EXE /s "%ProgramFiles%\Outlook Express\wabimp.dll" REGSVR32.EXE /s "%ProgramFiles%\Outlook Express\wabfind.dll" EXIT You should edit the lines with "delade filer" to your language, in english it's "´common files", and then package it with iexpress. See greenmachines page on how to use it. This file also assumes that the folder i386 is in the root of the cd. It should be able to make all of this with an inf instead, then there is no need for reg.exe from winxp, but I will look into that when time is available.... Add this file to your svcpack.inf on the line after ie6setup.exe as shown below: ie6setup.exe /Q:A /R:N IE6_ROE.EXE /Q:A /R:N I have included a zip with this post that you can use. The reg.exe is from a swedsh version of WinXP, but I hope that doesn't matter, and you should make your own ie6_roe.exe with the proper lines in the cmd file. I've included the sed file so you can make your own iexpress package. Hope this will help you to get this working. EDIT Sorted out some typos.. Thanks to Bilou_Gateux! EDIT IE6_ROE.zip

In nero point to 'recorder' and 'burn image', find your iso, and Nero will identify it as a dvd-iso. When you start Nero, you have a little drop-down list in the 'new compilation' window where you can choose between CD or DVD. That is if Nero has support for your DVD-recorder. If it turns up when you go to 'recorder' and 'choose recorder' you're all set.

What version of nero are you using?

I make the iso with CDimage_GUI, check it out with Daemon Tools before I burn it with Nero.

Available today, August 24, 2004.

According to many sites there is known cd-labels for Windows XP Home volume license, but does that really exist? According to microsoft there is none: http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/resourc...ol/default.mspx Does anyone know? Thanx ToBe

You should cab it to this if you use my entries in txtsetup.sif and dosnet.inf: royale.theme >> royale.th_ royale.msstyle >> royale.ms_ shellstyle.dll >> royale.dl_ background bitmap >> royale.bm_ Then the entries in txtsetup.sif will rename it to the right names during install, as well as placing them in the right directories.

Right on the spot! This should be a locked topic now since the problem is solved and other things get out of hand. A few people in here needs to calm down a bit...

Here's what I did to make it work: First make a .theme file: ; Copyright © Microsoft Corp. 1995-2001 [Theme] DisplayName=MCE 2005 Theme ; My Computer [CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\DefaultIcon] DefaultValue=%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe,0 ; My Documents [CLSID\{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}\DefaultIcon] DefaultValue=%SystemRoot%\SYSTEM32\mydocs.dll,0 ; My Network Places [CLSID\{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}\DefaultIcon] DefaultValue=%SystemRoot%\SYSTEM32\shell32.dll,17 ; Recycle Bin [CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\DefaultIcon] full=%SystemRoot%\SYSTEM32\shell32.dll,32 empty=%SystemRoot%\SYSTEM32\shell32.dll,31 [Control Panel\Cursors] Arrow= Help= AppStarting= Wait= NWPen= No= SizeNS= SizeWE= Crosshair= IBeam= SizeNWSE= SizeNESW= SizeAll= UpArrow= DefaultValue=Windows default DefaultValue.MUI=@themeui.dll,-2043 [Control Panel\Desktop] Wallpaper=%WinDir%\Royale.bmp Wallpaper.MUI=%WinDir%\Royale.bmp TileWallpaper=0 WallpaperStyle=2 Pattern= ScreenSaveActive=0 [VisualStyles] Path=%ResourceDir%\Themes\Royale\Royale.msstyles ColorStyle=NormalColor Size=NormalSize [boot] SCRNSAVE.EXE="%WinDir%\System32\3D Windows XP.scr" [MasterThemeSelector] MTSM=DABJDKT ThemeColorBPP=8 Save it as royale.theme. I also added the 3D Windows XP screensaver, looks kinda cool.... Then i cabbed the required files using makecab, and placed it in my i386 folder. (You can use jcarle's utilities, compression bin, for the job. Excellent program! ) The files were named like this: royale.theme >> royale.th_ royale.msstyle >> royale.ms_ shellstyle.dll >> royale.dl_ background bitmap >> royale.bm_ 3D screensaver >> 3dwin.sc_ After that I added this to my txtsetup.sif under [WinntDirectories]: 80 = Resources\Themes\Royale 81 = Resources\Themes\Royale\Shell\NormalColor And this in txtsetup.sif under [sourceDisksFiles] 3dwin.scr = 1,,,,,,,2,0,0,"3D Windows XP.scr" royale.mst = 1,,,,,,,80,0,0,Royale.msstyles royale.the = 1,,,,,,,129,0,0,Royale.theme royale.dll = 1,,,,,,,81,0,0,shellstyle.dll royale.bmp = 1,,,,,,,1,0,0 And this to my dosnet.inf, in the [Files] section: d1,3dwin.scr d1,royale.mst d1,royale.the d1,royale.dll d1,royale.bmp This puts the files in the right folders during the install of Windows XP. I made the background to a bitmap and placed it in the windows dir. Finally, in winnt.sif I added this: [Shell] CustomDefaultThemeFile = "%WinDir%\Resources\Themes\Royale.theme" You don't need a patched uxtheme.dll to use this, since it's an original microsoft theme. Hope this helps.

You can make your retail version unattended as well, the only difference is that you'll have to activate it within 30 days of your install (that can also be done unattended). With some search of this forum I think you'll find ways to save your activation file for later if you use the same computer everytime.