Whats that CBS?

TranceEnergy, I think CBS is Component-Based Servicing. It is the way Vista installs updates and I guess includes slipstreaming. If XP have it, I suppose we could slip IE8. Enjoy, John.

Again, I succeeded just fine in installing IE8 unattended in XP x64, just using a batch-file that kills itself after auto-logon.

Put a .bat in $OEM$\$Docs\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\ on the image.

In that .bat put something like this:

@ECHO OFF
FOR %%I IN (D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z) DO IF EXIST %%I:\uniquefileinCDroot.txt (SET SOURCE=%%I:& GOTO DONECD)
ECHO.  
ECHO. Can't find the install CD, can you put it back in please?
ECHO. 
PAUSE
FOR %%I IN (D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z) DO IF EXIST %%I:\uniquefileinCDroot.txt (SET SOURCE=%%I:& GOTO DONECD)
:DONECD
CLS
@ECHO OFF

ECHO.  Voila, installing the monster that is IE8

%SOURCE%\Your Folder On CD\IE8-WindowsServer2003-x64-ENU.exe /quiet /update-no /no-default /norestart

SHUTDOWN /r /f /t 10 /c "Restarting 64-bit XP with IE8"
CLS
@ECHO OFF
ATTRIB -R -A -S -H "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\*"
DEL /F /Q "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\desktop.ini"
DEL /F /Q "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\*.bat"

I want to do this with the final version of IE 8 in Win XP x86. Will this work with the final?

Obviously I'd have to change the file names in the .bat.

TedJBrown, I install out of a .cmd file run from nLite's RunOnce and it works fine with the RTM. You should need to change nothing, even the name is the same. Have fun, John.

MS is shooting themself in the foot with this. I will never install vista for personal use (again), and i will never use IE8 either if the final is not possible to integrate into xp, x64 xp in my case. Also the RC1 is totally unusable for me.

simple solution: firefox

here the localized version of my Internet Explorer 8 Final Addon (Org. was for German):

http://sereby.org/_downloads/IE8-Addon-ENU-v1.0.0.7z

MS is shooting themself in the foot with this. I will never install vista for personal use (again), and i will never use IE8 either if the final is not possible to integrate into xp, x64 xp in my case. Also the RC1 is totally unusable for me.

simple solution: firefox

or chrome...

here the localized version of my Internet Explorer 8 Final Addon (Org. was for German):

http://sereby.org/_downloads/IE8-Addon-ENU-v1.0.0.7z

Link has changed due to Update: http://sereby.org/_downloads/IE8-Addon-ENU-v1.0.1.7z

Link has changed due to Update: http://sereby.org/_downloads/IE8-Addon-ENU-v1.0.1.7z

what do you mean by 'localized'? is this IE8 in English or German?

ENU = English

Localized means that Sereby has localized his orign german addon to EN.

thanks! I'll give it a try now with a new nlited XP64 installation and see if it works

does it work on XP64? please say yes

rebelo, sorry, it is a 32 bit XP AddOn. Perhaps you have the knowledge to convert it. Enjoy, John.