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How do I install my IE Favorites as part of my unattended install, so it comes up when the user click on the "Favorites" Button?

:hello::} If this has been answered please direct me to it!

John

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in 'WINNT.SIF'

[FavoritesEx]
   Title1="Hu-Testers.url"
   URL1="http://www.hu-testers.com/phpbb/"
   Title2="Hu-Testers Member Script Download Page.url"
   URL2="http://www.hu-testers.com/amember/member.php"
   Title3="Ella Computers.url"
   URL3="http://www.ellacomputers.com"
   Title4="Factory Direct.url"
   URL4="http://www.factorydirect.ca"
   Title5="Google.url"
   URL5="http://www.google.ca/"
   Title6="ICQ.url"
   URL6="http://www.icq.com"
   Title7="411.ca.url"
   URL7="http://411.ca/"
   Title8="Canada411 Phone Directory  service .url"
   URL8="http://canada411.com/"
   Title9="Canada.com.url"
   URL9="http://canada.com/"
   Title10="Toronto.com.url"
   URL10="http://www.toronto.com/"
   Title11="Government of Canada.url"
   URL11="http://www.gc.ca/"
   Title12="Yahoo! Canada.url"
   URL12="http://ca.yahoo.com/"
   Title13="Toronto Sun.url"
   URL13="http://www.canoe.com"
   Title14="Toronto Star.url"
   URL14="http://thestar.com"
   Title15="<<spam>>.url"
   URL15="http://www.<<spam>>.net"
   Title16="MSFN.url"
   URL16="http://msfn.org"
   Title17="G-Mail.url"
   URL17="https://gmail.google.com"
   Title18="Price Network Canada.url"
   URL18="http://www.pricenetwork.ca/"
   Title19="RED-FLAG-DEALS.url"
   URL19="http://www.redflagdeals.com"
   Title20="Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP.url"
   URL20="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx"
   Title21="Canada Kicks a**.url"
   URL21="http://www.canadaka.net/"
   Title22="mIRC - IRCSPY.url"
   URL22="http://ircspy.com"
   Title23="mIRC - PacketNews.url"
   URL23="http://packetnews.com/"
   Title24="My Compaq Yahoo!.url"
   URL24="http://compaq.my.yahoo.com/"
   Title25="My Compaq Netscape.url"
   URL25="http://compaq.netscape.com/compaq.adp"
   Title26="My Presario Club.url"
   URL26="http://www.hp.com/united-states/cpc/presario/index.html"
   Title27="Compaq Presario R3200 Notebook PC- Software & Driver downloads.url"
   URL27="http://www.hp.com/united-states/cpc/presario/index.html"

Edited by dl0711
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Thats nice ... :)

And how about if I want to put it under "Links", and maybe in a folder under "Links". This is cause I normally create a folder and group the Favourites under Links as "Music", "News", "Banks" and so on...

Cheers

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It´s much easier to compress your favorites into an .exe file with winrar and run it from main_batch.cmd lite this;

start /wait %systemdrive%\Install\Favoriter\Favoriter.exe

At least, that is what I do, and it works for me.

An alternative program that works very well for favorites, mailaccounts and mailfolders is Outlook Express Backup Genie - tried it and I like it.

/ SwedenXP

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If yer using RunOnceEx.cmd, you can throw this line in the cleanup.cmd file.

xcopy "C:\install\favorites\*.*" "C:\Documents and Settings\Steve\Favorites\*.*" /E /C /Q /Y

As long as its before these 2 lines...

RD /S /Q %systemdrive%\drivers\

RD /S /Q %systemdrive%\install\

This presumes i have an account named "steve" created.

(cmdlines.txt file below)

[COMMANDS]

"useraccounts.cmd"

"RunOnceEx.cmd"

(useraccounts.cmd file below)

net user steve abcdefg /add

net localgroup Administrators steve /add

net accounts /maxpwage:unlimited

REGEDIT /S autologon.reg

EXIT

and I've copied my Favorites folder to the "install" folder;

C:\XPCD\$OEM$\$1\Install\Favorites

Does that make sense?

(sheesh, just found you guys/girls Monday. 14 Virtual pc installs later... :wacko: )

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Always the old batch file method too:

@echo off

COPY "%systemdrive%\install\Favorites" "%UserProfile%\Favorites"

CD %UserProfile%\Favorites

DEL /Q "Links"

MKDIR "Downloads"
MKDIR "Games"
MKDIR "Image Hosting"
MKDIR "IRC"
MKDIR "Music"
MKDIR "My Web Site"
MKDIR "News"
MKDIR "School"
MKDIR "Search"
MKDIR "Urban Terror"
MKDIR "Windows Problems"
MKDIR "WinXP - Tech News"
MKDIR "WinXP Forums"

COPY "%systemdrive%\install\Favorites\Downloads" "%UserProfile%\Favorites\Downloads"
COPY "%systemdrive%\install\Favorites\Games" "%UserProfile%\Favorites\Games"
COPY "%systemdrive%\install\Favorites\Image Hosting" "%UserProfile%\Favorites\Image Hosting"
COPY "%systemdrive%\install\Favorites\IRC" "%UserProfile%\Favorites\IRC"
COPY "%systemdrive%\install\Favorites\Music" "%UserProfile%\Favorites\Music"
COPY "%systemdrive%\install\Favorites\My Web Site" "%UserProfile%\Favorites\My Web Site"
COPY "%systemdrive%\install\Favorites\News" "%UserProfile%\Favorites\News"
COPY "%systemdrive%\install\Favorites\School" "%UserProfile%\Favorites\School"
COPY "%systemdrive%\install\Favorites\Search" "%UserProfile%\Favorites\Search"
COPY "%systemdrive%\install\Favorites\Urban Terror" "%UserProfile%\Favorites\Urban Terror"
COPY "%systemdrive%\install\Favorites\Windows Problems" "%UserProfile%\Favorites\Windows Problems"
COPY "%systemdrive%\install\Favorites\WinXP - Tech News" "%UserProfile%\Favorites\WinXP - Tech News"
COPY "%systemdrive%\install\Favorites\WinXP Forums" "%UserProfile%\Favorites\WinXP Forums"

EXIT

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