opopanax666 Posted January 2, 2009 Posted January 2, 2009 Hi guys,After doing a re-install of my system, I usually put a shortcut to notepad.exe in my SendTo-folder, so to be able to easily open text files without launching them (e.g. *.bat).Since Nlite exists, why not automate that, but I'm having trouble finding a efficient way of doing this...I already found out that in the install timeline, the $OEM$ folders are created during the text part, and the actual user folders during the GUI part, so using the $OEM$ folders directly is a "no go"...I'm pretty sure someone here has a solution Thanks for all the feedback!
nomadturk Posted January 2, 2009 Posted January 2, 2009 Why do you oppose using OEM folder structure?What disadvantage do you have by copying your file while at text mode?Just convert your links to %windir%\NOTEPAD.EXE instead of C:\...
opopanax666 Posted January 2, 2009 Author Posted January 2, 2009 The shortcut has to be copied to the SendTo-folder inside the User-folder. If you use the $OEM$ method a user folder is created (with the shortcut) during the text part. When creating the actual user folders during the GUI phase, the one created during the text phase is overlooked and a new one is created, with the extension ".WINDOWS". So you end up with a folder "username" with the shortcut, and with a folder "username.WINDOWS" with the regular contents, including the regular SendTo folder, but without the shortcut, and it is this folder windows uses (is this clear? For someone used to working with $OEM$ it should be...).
nomadturk Posted January 2, 2009 Posted January 2, 2009 Are you installing it with OOBE? Unattended or what? Do you use SVCPACK or RunOnceEx.cmd?Did you try putting that in to Default User\SendTo folder instead of User\SendTo ?
opopanax666 Posted January 2, 2009 Author Posted January 2, 2009 I just customized the installation using Nlite, that's it. I'm not using OOBE, SVCPACK or RunOnceEx.cmd, because I have no experience with any of them. Hence my question: do any of you (more experienced) guys now of a efficient way of doing this. Since you mention these three, I presume they can all be used to get where I want?
johnhc Posted January 2, 2009 Posted January 2, 2009 opopanax666, I suspect your problem is that the user account is not created yet. It does not get fully created until after the last reboot. I use WPI to accomplish lots of things including installing programs, changing Registry entries and I think it can be used to do what you want and is easy to used. Please see the WPI forum a couple below this one. Enjoy, John.
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