i want to integrate my favorites into the unattended cd, how to to that?

maybe just copy them to the userdir, but how to find it? i don't want to copy it to an path like c:\.... because of different languages. is there any %userdir% or something like this?

I compress my favorites, quick launch icons and start menu shortcuts into a rar file and then use unrar.exe (I copied it to the system32 directory to make things easier) to extract the file. Simply use a path like %systemdrive%\whatever you want. Of course, this won't help if you're using different usernames so in that case I can't help you.

are you looking for this?

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well that would add them to your winnt.sif. By the way what does that portion of winnt.sif look like?

[FavoritesEx]

Title1="MSFN - Where People Go To Know.url"

URL1="http://www.MSFN.org"

Title2="<<spam>>.Net.url"

URL2="http://www.<<spam>>.net"

Title3="Betas Intercom.url"

URL3="http://betas.intercom.net"

Thx, sounds great... what tool you are using?

He's using Setup Manager from the Windows XP Deployment Tools. More information on that can be found here: http://www.MSFN.org/unattended/xp/gettingstarted.htm

thx, should read more, but i'm new to MSFN... but - thank god - i found it

That's great if you've got a couple of favourites but i've got in the region of 100 probably more so adding them one by one would be quite tedious :|

im sorry, but i know nothing about coding, i only know mirc scripting, i could do an little addon that would be able to convert explorer favorites to winnt.sif format... but i think its not useful

Besides, it doesn't seem as though one could put any favorites in folders using this method. I don't know about you guys, but I like things nice and organized.

Try this.

In your batch file, copy your link shortcuts to:

%systemdrive%\Documents and Settings\%username%\Favorites

That ought to do the trick

this is exacter

%USERPROFILE%\Favorites

or change your Registry-Entry of Favorites to a folder of d:\Favorites.... or e:\

Some people use an SFX archive to extract the favourites silently. Or the %USERPROFILE%\Favorites using XCOPY like the others have suggested.

Good idea Aaron

Edited September 11, 200322 yr by b0r3d