Not quite Unattended

[Stuntgp2000]

Hello,

I am thinking these days to make a second cd of windows Xp

the first Cd now is about 667Mb (will all updates + 12 Logons + 18 Themes + 6 Windows Media Player skin + 8 Wallpapers)

the 2nd one will have many softwares and MANY cause to me some problems because.

I don't want to have all softwares installed.

Now i am trying to find a solution.

till now i have 3 suggestions :

1) if you can do some programming try to create a programme that will do this but it must be dynamic not each time recompiling it and in order to do this it may depend of INI file that may guide it.

2) Create a Web page that installs the programmes you want but you have to put in mind that Web page need IE and I think you cannot use IE during installation.

3) is to create a cmd file that ask you everytime about the softs you need

and if find a solution then i will post it as soon as possible.

[prathapml]

Heya there,

Some code from my old batch-files, might help you in your requirement, or give you an idea of what to modify:

@echo off
TITLE Registering Installed Programs
COLOR 85
ECHO.


:LOOP
SET Choice=
SET /P Choice="Do you want to register installed programs ? (Y/N)"

IF NOT '%Choice%'=='' SET Choice=%Choice:~0,1%

ECHO.
IF /I '%Choice%'=='Y' GOTO Auto
IF /I '%Choice%'=='N' GOTO Plain
ECHO Please type Y (for Yes) or N (for No) to proceed!
ECHO.
GOTO Loop


:Plain
ECHO Installed Programs were not registered >> %systemroot%\Temp\instTime.log
ECHO Finished.
GOTO END

:Auto
ECHO Open Opera browser and register it now.....
start /wait %systemroot%\custom\opera7.exe
ECHO Open UltraISO and register it now.....
start /wait %systemroot%\custom\UltraISO.exe
ECHO Finished.

GOTO END

:END
ECHO.
EXIT

Maybe setup a chain of .cmd files. Run a main.cmd which then calls the rest one by one.... You get the drift. Upto you to utilise if it seems good.