Can these taks be done unattended?

[drscouse]

Was just wondering if I could automate some of the following tasks I always do after a clean install... its quite time consuming, but I dont know if some can be easily achieved with regedits, scripting or some fore of automation...

1) Assigning of drive letters

I always have a seperate partition I call X, on a seperate HD for pagefile, temp int files... etc... Could I also move the location of such files, and Docs and Settings onto this X (CACHE) partition during UA install?

I would imagine that this could depend on the partitions at time of install, so could I not use the partition names to identify them, and re-assign letters accordingly.. I.E., assign partition name CACHE drive letter X ??

I usually like to rename my 2 dvd drives as Y and Z, can this also be done??

2) I have several apps, which after searching thr forum and trawling the net, cannot find a silent way to tinstall user registration details... (regedits dont seem to work for some) is there any means of automating this, I have read about AutoIT, but wondered if there was an alternative method/solution.

3) Sorting the start menu programs... although I assume after all the progs have been installed, I could just delete all user profile start menu items, and copy over some predifined folders/shortcuts...for all users, admin, and myself...??

Ive managed to get a few UA's working great, but just want to extend their functionality to achieve the automation of all the repetitive things I do after a clean build...

Any help would be appreciated....

Thanks

[drscouse]

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Anyone...?? Drive mappings during UA install would be handy..???

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After a bit of hunting about, think I may have found what I was after...

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documen...s/diskpart.mspx

diskpart.exe commandline disk administrator.... will give it a go...

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Some apps wont work if I try to install their serial/registration details via a reg key, usually if its encrypted in the registry... how can I get around this..??

For example, I believe UltraISO has this prob, whereby it encrypts the key, and it does not seem to import very well as a regedit.... prog still asks for user details when first run...???

Edited August 17, 2005 by drscouse

[MHz]

I have never had an issue with UltraISO and entering the username and serial via registry. Export those values from the registry, import, and it will work.

[drscouse]

Have not had a chance to try, I had just read somewhere... that some of the newer versions, where the code is encrupted, that some people have had problems, where they are still asked for details when first running the prog...

Is the encrypted key unique to the pc on which its installed???

Thanks