Blackbox

[dams007]

Hi !

Someone know exactly how to install Blackbox in a unattended ??

Thanks for help.

[SiMoNsAyS]

excuse my ignorance... what is blackbox?

[dams007]

Blackbox is a different EXPLORER.EXE like a linux distrib

It's run with a batch file but I don t know how to install in my unattended

[SiMoNsAyS]

i see... it has take me a time to find something official... http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=56991

i'm a big fan of shell replacements and i didn't know about it. don't look bad at all

well you can do it 2 ways, by $oem$ folders:

place your blackbox dir on $oem$\$1\blackbox for example.

create a shortcut to "%systemdrive%\blackbox\blackbox.exe" or "%systemdrive%\blackbox\blackbox.cmd" depending on the file you use to launch the program. place the shortcut on "$oem$\$Docs\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Start" (be aware that in localized versions of windows this path could be different, mine is "All Users\Menú Inicio\Programas\Inicio").

second way; more "proffesional":

create a self-estracting archive with winrar to be silently extracted on "%systemdrive%\blackbox" and to be called from cmdlines.txt with /S switch.

then we'll use a reg entrie from a .cmd file, for example startup_blackbox.cmd from cmdlines.txt with the content...

REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run" /V "Blackbox" /D "%SYSTEMDRIVE%\Blackbox\Blackbox.exe" /F

hope you can find some part interesting...

[Tsunami]

I'm not sure if Blackbox does this by itself, but if it doesn't, I'd recommend the following regtweak to run it:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
"Shell"="%SystemDrive%\Blackbox\Blackbox.exe"

This way, explorer.exe doesn't load anymore.

[tommyp]

If you copy blackbox over via a CD, make sure you change the attributes so it's not read only. BB will not keep any settings if you don't change the attributes. Have you looked at BBLean? I like it better than BlackBox.

[webmedic]

goto the xoblite website. It's a version of blackbox for windows.

I dont remember the command right off to replace the windows shell but xoblite will autoinstall it self as the shell if you pass it the --install switch.

here is the site

http://xoblite.net/

here are some picks of my desktop

http://www.deviantart.com/view/13939852/

http://www.deviantart.com/view/13939799/