a quick question about being bord durning installation!!!

is there any way to play a game durning installation

i only ask as my dad has seen my local computer shop instaling xp and playing a game while it was instaling

i am not sure wat game it was but it would be good to pass the time!!

thank you for reading any comments would be cool thanks:)

Have [DetachedProgram] launch something like solitare.exe - note that the game will have to be very basic and completely standalone, with no registry or video acceleration needed.

exelent idea ... wonder what games ppl could come up with ... hmmm wonder if you could get some popcap games to run...

nice one welard

Have [DetachedProgram] launch something like solitare.exe - note that the game will have to be very basic and completely standalone, with no registry or video acceleration needed.

thanks if anybody can help this would be cool chears

Edited October 30, 200520 yr by welard

The DetachedProgram variable is called under the [GuiUnattended] section, and is of the form

DetachedProgram = <path to application>

There's not much more to it, really. Just make sure it's a standalone application.

Press Shift+F10 and you will get a cmd prompt.

Now you can run all kinds of tools. Like sol.exe (Solitare).

But sol.exe is not extracted to the hd for a while. But you can manually extract it off the cd and play it.

Press Shift+F10 and you will get a cmd prompt.

Now you can run all kinds of tools. Like sol.exe (Solitare).

But sol.exe is not extracted to the hd for a while. But you can manually extract it off the cd and play it.

thanks Siginet it works!

Press Shift+F10 and you will get a cmd prompt.

Now you can run all kinds of tools. Like sol.exe (Solitare).

But sol.exe is not extracted to the hd for a while. But you can manually extract it off the cd and play it.

Lawls...This is what I do in an unattend. If I need to fix some info before the first boot I'll open a command prompt and change the AutoUpdate settings and the machine name/network.