Adding Favourites to unattended

[fillalph]

I am trying to add my favourites to an unattended install. The problem I am facing is that I want to include then organized, in my folders and subfolders. I wasn't sure how to set this up in winnt.sif, but I know I could always just copy the favorite folder to to my installs folder and copy it to my account using a batch file, but is there another way?

]Bonkers[

[b0r3d]

Whats wrong with that way ?

[Aaron]

You should be able to use XCOPY so you copy the subfolders as well, keeping your favourites directory structure how you like it.

[DaveXP]

look that this link for how to do favs in an unattended CD

http://www.MSFN.org/board/index.php?act=ST&f=70&t=7751

[JamesWCavanagh]

To add favourites easily, without haveing to worry about codeing, just put them on your CD here:

CD-root\$OEM$\$Docs\username\Favourites\filename.url

eg.

D:\$OEM$\$Docs\All Users\Favourites\IT News\MSFN.url

more info on $OEM$ directory here

[DaveXP]

for some reason i cant do it your way i tryed before i cant error message

[fillalph]

Could someone verify the $Doc folder. (I checked another site on the similar topic and they didn't mention that folder either.)

]Bonkers[

[vortex]

what i did to copy my favourites is i created a SFX archive of the favourites folder, and under SFX Options -> General: i set the path to extract to %USERPROFILE%\ and under the Modes tab i set the Silent Mode to Hide All and overwrite mode to overwrite all. then used the batch file to install the exe file.

ECHO Installing Vortex's Favorites
ECHO Please wait...
start /wait $OEM$\Favorites\Favorites.exe /s
ECHO Done..

and this is the SFX command generated by winrar:

;The comment below contains SFX script commands

Path=%USERPROFILE%\
SavePath
Silent=1
Overwrite=1

hope this helps.

p/s: im using winrar 3.20.

[JamesWCavanagh]

I have used $Docs before and it works, are you using $Doc or $Docs, it needs to be plural.