Super Windows XP SP1 CD :-)

[Sunil]

Thanks ArronXp, quite a load off my mind and resources used on the system.

Sunil

[Aaron]

Question: Anywho the silent install of DX9a fails for me everytime. I have tried your switch Aaron (/opk) plus many others and they all fail. Does anybody have the proper silent command line switch to install DirectX9a??

Download and extract: dxsetup.zip

Its been hex-edited to accept the /opk switch, but I don't know what was edited. This file came from http://unattended.netfirms.com, which isn't there anymore.

Don't use this on an unattended Windows 2000 install, it made a mess of things for me.

[SiR_CharLZ]

You absolutley kick butt.

Many Thanks!

--Charlz

[codeblue]

Impressed? You can get started with making your own by following a simple guide to get the Windows Setup part done automatically at TackTech, and then if you want to go advanced and install applications, and reg hacks etc. go to Unattended.netfirms.com.

Unattended.netfirms.com. This link doesnt work? Any idea where i can find out how to go advanced and install applications, and reg hacks etc.

thanks all

baz

[Aaron]

Unattended.netfirms.com.  This link doesnt work?  Any idea where i can find out how to go advanced and install applications, and reg hacks etc.

thanks all

baz

It's been replaced with another site, and work discontinued. He's given me his work, so give me time before I put it online.

[draxx]

Question: Anywho the silent install of DX9a fails for me everytime. I have tried your switch Aaron (/opk) plus many others and they all fail. Does anybody have the proper silent command line switch to install DirectX9a??

If you know someone who is a registered OEM system builder on "oem.microsoft.com", you can get them to download the OPK versions of DX9a, WMP9 & Movie Maker 2, all of which support completely silent installs.

They work great

Also, you can get hold of the current leaked build of SP2 (build 1213), which appears quite stable so far (I'm using it now!!!), then there is only about 10 hotfixes to install, instead of the 50+ that are available for SP1a.

Hope this helps you and everyone else....

PS: this is not to undermine AaronXP in anyway, however I did find this tool from HERE, which is very handy for creating super Nin1 CD's ) They have taken it down while building a new version, but a quick google search, and you can locate a mirror.....

[Aaron]

PS: this is not to undermine AaronXP in anyway, however I did find this tool from HERE, which is very handy for creating super Nin1 CD's )  They have taken it down while building a new version, but a quick google search, and you can locate a mirror.....

Balder multiboot looked pretty good when I had a look at it last week. The CD I've created here isn't an Nin1 CD though, just XP with the extras that silently install.

[dtmunir]

For AaronXp:

Amazin pal..just amazin...stupendous.....brilliant...fabulous....nice work too...

Ok...now for some help:

1. I went thru ur unattend file, and i saw ud added the following:

[GuiRunOnce]

%systemdrive%\install\hotfixes.cmd

%systemdrive%\install\main_batch.cmd

%systemdrive%\install\applications.cmd

%systemdrive%\install\restart.cmd

what i want to know is, where do i need to place these files, ie the hotfixes.cmd, main_batch.cmd, applications.cmd and restart.cmd?

2. for your applications.cmd file:

where do i need to place the installation files for media player 9, direct x , uxtheme.dll etc. What i mean is what does %systemdrive% refer to, and is INSTALL a folder I have to create on the CD.

I know my question may sound trivial, but Im a newbie, so detailed help will be greatly appreciated.

Anxiously awaiting your site...

For Everybody else:

Can anyone help me on how to install OfficeXp silently, as well as stuff like avant browser, getright, winzip 8.1, msn messenger 6, plus for msn messenger and real player one?

Also, i need to know how to add my own drivers to the installation, including Nvidia Detonators, my LAN drivers (xp doesnt autodetect my Lan Card), and my intel chipset drivers (i have a D850Gbev2)

All and any help greatly appreciated

Danish

PS: This board ROCKS!!!!!

[Sunil]

For AaronXp:

Amazin pal..just amazin...stupendous.....brilliant...fabulous....nice work too... 

Ok...now for some help:

1. I went thru ur unattend file, and i saw ud added the following:

[GuiRunOnce]

  %systemdrive%\install\hotfixes.cmd

  %systemdrive%\install\main_batch.cmd

  %systemdrive%\install\applications.cmd

  %systemdrive%\install\restart.cmd

what i want to know is, where do i need to place these files, ie the hotfixes.cmd, main_batch.cmd, applications.cmd and restart.cmd?

2. for your applications.cmd file:

where do i need to place the installation files for media player 9, direct x , uxtheme.dll etc. What i mean is what does %systemdrive% refer to, and is INSTALL a folder I have to create on the CD.

I know my question may sound trivial, but Im a newbie, so detailed help will be greatly appreciated.

Anxiously awaiting your site...

For Everybody else:

Can anyone help me on how to install OfficeXp silently, as well as stuff like avant browser, getright, winzip 8.1, msn messenger 6, plus for msn messenger and real player one?

Also, i need to know how to add my own drivers to the installation, including Nvidia Detonators, my LAN drivers (xp doesnt autodetect my Lan Card), and my intel chipset drivers (i have a D850Gbev2)

All and any help greatly appreciated

Danish

PS: This board ROCKS!!!!! 

Hey dtmunir, welcome to MSFN.

Ok here we go, the %systemdrive% basically means the partition in which your current os is installed, so you would need to place all files there in the ROOT eg. the root of the c drive is C:\..

2 This will need to be used in conjuntion with the oem preinstall switch in the winnt.sif script you would have created when you wanted to do a unattended installation. YOu will need to place all the files into a folder called $oem$ in the root of the cd, and create a script file called cmdlines.txt and place the code in the file, however you cannot launch the setups from the cmdlines.txt file you need to use batch file to do this see examples 1. 2.

cmdlines.txt

_____________

".\WMP.bat"

use the quotation marks

WMP.bat

______________

.\wmp.exe [strings]

you can place the executable anywhere ybut you will need to specify the path..

Hope this helped..

Sunil

[Aaron]

1. I went thru ur unattend file, and i saw ud added the following:

[GuiRunOnce]%systemdrive%\install\hotfixes.cmd

%systemdrive%\install\main_batch.cmd

%systemdrive%\install\applications.cmd

%systemdrive%\install\restart.cmd

what i want to know is, where do i need to place these files, ie the hotfixes.cmd, main_batch.cmd, applications.cmd and restart.cmd?

They go into the X:\$OEM$\$1\ folder on the CD. You can make any folders in the '$1' folder. Setup instructs the contents of $1 to be copied to the root of the hard drive. A folder I chose is called 'install' and when Setup copies that over, it becomes c:\install\

To make this sound simplier:

X:\$OEM$\$1\MyFiles\hotfixes.cmd will be C:\MyFiles\hotfixes.cmd

It's recommended you use %systemdrive%\MyFiles\ incase you install on a drive other than C:\

2. for your applications.cmd file:

where do i need to place the installation files for media player 9, direct x , uxtheme.dll etc. What i mean is what does %systemdrive% refer to, and is INSTALL a folder I have to create on the CD.

Read above, you can make your own folders, many as you like, and make sure the paths to them are correct.

%systemdrive% refers to the hard disk that Windows XP is being installed to. (C:\)

%systemroot% would be where C:\Windows or C:\winnt is, and so on. (Try typing these commands at Start > Run)

Can anyone help me on how to install OfficeXp silently, as well as stuff like avant browser, getright, winzip 8.1, msn messenger 6, plus for msn messenger and real player one?

Also, i need to know how to add my own drivers to the installation, including Nvidia Detonators, my LAN drivers (xp doesnt autodetect my Lan Card), and my intel chipset drivers (i have a D850Gbev2)

MSN Messenger 6: rename Setup.exe to a suitable filename, e.g. msnmsgs6.exe, then use:

msnmsgs6.exe /Q:A /R:N

Messenger Plus is /SilentInstall or /SilentInstallNoSponsor

As for the other apps, you will need to experiment with the switches, sometimes the app will tell you the switches by typing appname.exe /?

I haven't got to the part of installing drivers yet, I have instructions for doing the Radeon Catalyst drivers and hoping it will be a base to help me study silent installations for other drivers.

EDIT: sorry sunil, didn't see your post above, spent 15 mins typing this up

[SiR_CharLZ]

OK Guys after some research, testing, and trial and error I have a way to disable services during the automated setup! There are many services that are enabled by default which are useless, security risks, etc that can safely be disabled.

An example of such services can be found here: http://www.overclockersclub.com/windowsxps...pservices.shtml

Okay now I found the part of the registry hive that holds all the services information. It can be found here: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services]

An example registry entry for the alerter service is:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Alerter]
"Type"=dword:00000020
"Start"=dword:00000003
"ErrorControl"=dword:00000001
"ImagePath"=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,\
  74,00,25,00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,73,\
  00,76,00,63,00,68,00,6f,00,73,00,74,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,65,00,20,00,2d,00,\
  6b,00,20,00,4c,00,6f,00,63,00,61,00,6c,00,53,00,65,00,72,00,76,00,69,00,63,\
  00,65,00,00,00
"DisplayName"="Alerter"
"DependOnService"=hex(7):4c,00,61,00,6e,00,6d,00,61,00,6e,00,57,00,6f,00,72,00,\
  6b,00,73,00,74,00,61,00,74,00,69,00,6f,00,6e,00,00,00,00,00
"DependOnGroup"=hex(7):00,00
"ObjectName"="NT AUTHORITY\LocalService"
"Description"="Notifies selected users and computers of administrative alerts. If the service is stopped, programs that use administrative alerts will not receive them. If this service is disabled, any services that explicitly depend on it will fail to start."

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Alerter\Parameters]
"AlertNames"=hex(7):00,00
"ServiceDll"=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,\
  00,74,00,25,00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,\
  61,00,6c,00,72,00,73,00,76,00,63,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,00,00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Alerter\Security]
"Security"=hex:01,00,14,80,90,00,00,00,9c,00,00,00,14,00,00,00,30,00,00,00,02,\
  00,1c,00,01,00,00,00,02,80,14,00,ff,01,0f,00,01,01,00,00,00,00,00,01,00,00,\
  00,00,02,00,60,00,04,00,00,00,00,00,14,00,fd,01,02,00,01,01,00,00,00,00,00,\
  05,12,00,00,00,00,00,18,00,ff,01,0f,00,01,02,00,00,00,00,00,05,20,00,00,00,\
  20,02,00,00,00,00,14,00,8d,01,02,00,01,01,00,00,00,00,00,05,0b,00,00,00,00,\
  00,18,00,fd,01,02,00,01,02,00,00,00,00,00,05,20,00,00,00,23,02,00,00,01,01,\
  00,00,00,00,00,05,12,00,00,00,01,01,00,00,00,00,00,05,12,00,00,00

All you need to know from the above settings is the ""Start"=dword:0000000x" setting. The "Start" setting is what tells the service to do when the computer starts. Use the following legend:

"Start"=dword:00000002 = Automatic

"Start"=dword:00000003 = Manual

"Start"=dword:00000004 = Disabled

So if you add the services to a reg file (For example the reghacks.reg) that executes when the PC is being configured from the main_batch.cmd then your services will be set after the next reboot!! It really does work flawlessly and you can have all your services preconfigured before you even start using your machine. Good stuff.

--Charlz

[Aaron]

Thanks for the reference SiR_CharLZ

Update: Silent install of MsgPlus will attempt to open MSN Messenger 6 at the end of the MsgPlus installation, and opens Internet Explorer as well. It didn't affect the rest of the batch in any way, but felt uncomfortable that 2 apps were open when the batch was installing my other applications.

I've also done the driver install and must say it was pretty good, nice to have Catalyst 3.6 installed on first boot up, along with ATI control panel.

Didn't have any luck on getting to install the Netgear v1.30 drivers for my FA311 NIC, and the extracted LiveDrvUni-Pack.exe (10th March 2003) for my Sound Blaster Live! 1024 though.

[Sunil]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Alerter]
"Type"=dword:00000020
"Start"=dword:00000003
"ErrorControl"=dword:00000001
"ImagePath"=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,\
  74,00,25,00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,73,\
  00,76,00,63,00,68,00,6f,00,73,00,74,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,65,00,20,00,2d,00,\
  6b,00,20,00,4c,00,6f,00,63,00,61,00,6c,00,53,00,65,00,72,00,76,00,69,00,63,\
  00,65,00,00,00
"DisplayName"="Alerter"
"DependOnService"=hex(7):4c,00,61,00,6e,00,6d,00,61,00,6e,00,57,00,6f,00,72,00,\
  6b,00,73,00,74,00,61,00,74,00,69,00,6f,00,6e,00,00,00,00,00
"DependOnGroup"=hex(7):00,00
"ObjectName"="NT AUTHORITY\LocalService"
"Description"="Notifies selected users and computers of administrative alerts. If the service is stopped, programs that use administrative alerts will not receive them. If this service is disabled, any services that explicitly depend on it will fail to start."

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Alerter\Parameters]
"AlertNames"=hex(7):00,00
"ServiceDll"=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,\
  00,74,00,25,00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,\
  61,00,6c,00,72,00,73,00,76,00,63,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,00,00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Alerter\Security]
"Security"=hex:01,00,14,80,90,00,00,00,9c,00,00,00,14,00,00,00,30,00,00,00,02,\
  00,1c,00,01,00,00,00,02,80,14,00,ff,01,0f,00,01,01,00,00,00,00,00,01,00,00,\
  00,00,02,00,60,00,04,00,00,00,00,00,14,00,fd,01,02,00,01,01,00,00,00,00,00,\
  05,12,00,00,00,00,00,18,00,ff,01,0f,00,01,02,00,00,00,00,00,05,20,00,00,00,\
  20,02,00,00,00,00,14,00,8d,01,02,00,01,01,00,00,00,00,00,05,0b,00,00,00,00,\
  00,18,00,fd,01,02,00,01,02,00,00,00,00,00,05,20,00,00,00,23,02,00,00,01,01,\
  00,00,00,00,00,05,12,00,00,00,01,01,00,00,00,00,00,05,12,00,00,00

All you need to know from the above settings is the ""Start"=dword:0000000x" setting. The "Start" setting is what tells the service to do when the computer starts. Use the following legend:

"Start"=dword:00000002 = Automatic

"Start"=dword:00000003 = Manual

"Start"=dword:00000004 = Disabled

--Charlz

Excellent Work..Charlz

Sunil

[dtmunir]

hey AaronXp and Sunil

thx a bunch for ur help guys

im gonna try ur stuff tomorrow and let u know how it works

and bug u with more problems then.....

thx again

Danish

[rstryker]

I've also done the driver install and must say it was pretty good, nice to have Catalyst 3.6 installed on first boot up, along with ATI control panel.

can you give the instructions for Cat 3.6 w/ control panel?