I am up for making a unattended xpsp2 cd and m almost done. But i am unable to find and do the integration of registry enteries in the cd. Actually i want to make a cab file [if possible] which includes all the registry keys which i want to have. I don't want it to run from runonce or something else like WPI etc..

The reason m asking u is coz i have seen same in nlite, it integrates registry keys directly in to a cab file. So please help me out with this.

Thanks in antcipation.

Hmm, not sure how a .cab file will help you.

You can integrate in cmdlines.txt with this command

"regedit /s tweaks.reg"

Or if you don't want people to see your file. Use something like reg2exe and make it an executable. Then just install it with your hotfixes or cmdlines.txt

Actually I believe nLite adds them info one of the setup INF files.

^^ exactly wat i want! can anyone please explain how to do this.

Find the attached REG2INF.40.CAB, download/extract it, right click the Reg2Inf.inf and click "Install" sans quotes to have REG2INF.40 in your right click Send To menu. This app was developed by n7Epsilon and I use an addon developed by ricktendo64 on RyanVM's forums to slipstream the app into XPSP2 install.

Create a file named "Entries_Settings.ini" sans quotes; convert your .reg file to inf format using Reg2Inf.40, copy the resulting lines in the inf file to Entries_Settings.ini.

Below is an example:

[general]
builddate=2007/06/27
description=Tweaks for nLite.
language=English
title=Tweaks
version=1.0
website=http://www.nliteos.com/
[registry_addreg]
HKCR,"*\shell",,0x10
HKCR,"*\shell\notepad.exe",,0,"Notepad"
HKCR,"*\shell\notepad.exe\command",,0x20000,"""%11%\notepad.exe"" ""%%1"""
HKCR,"*\shell\PaintDotNet.exe",,0,"Paint"
HKCR,"*\shell\PaintDotNet.exe\command",,0x20000,"""D:\WindowsMediaTools\Paint.NET\PaintDotNet.exe"" ""%%1"""
HKCR,".cmd\ShellNew","NullFile",0
HKCR,".reg\ShellNew","NullFile",0
HKLM,"SOFTWARE\JGsoft\Dictionaries","InstallPath",0,"%11%"
HKLM,"SOFTWARE\JGsoft\Dictionaries","Name0",0,"English (American)"
HKLM,"SOFTWARE\JGsoft\Dictionaries","IgnorePrefixes0",0,";'"
HKLM,"SOFTWARE\JGsoft\Dictionaries","IgnoreSuffixes0",0,";'"
HKLM,"SOFTWARE\JGsoft\Dictionaries","Files0",0,"English.dct|American.dct"
HKLM,"SOFTWARE\JGsoft\Dictionaries","DataFormat0",0,"win1252"
HKLM,"SOFTWARE\JGsoft\Dictionaries","Count",0x10001,02,00,00,00
HKLM,"SOFTWARE\JGsoft\Dictionaries","Name1",0,"English (Canadian)"
HKLM,"SOFTWARE\JGsoft\Dictionaries","IgnorePrefixes1",0,";'"
HKLM,"SOFTWARE\JGsoft\Dictionaries","IgnoreSuffixes1",0,";'"
HKLM,"SOFTWARE\JGsoft\Dictionaries","Files1",0,"English.dct|Canadian.dct"
HKLM,"SOFTWARE\JGsoft\Dictionaries","DataFormat1",0,"win1252"

Open nlite, navigate to your Entries_Settings.ini and install it under "Hotfixes, Addons and Update Packs"; nlite will, then, automatically enter the lines into nlite.inf to be applied during install. Special thanks goes to ricktendo64 for bringing this to my understanding; visit RyanVM's, n7Epsilon's and MSFN forums to view more info about the app and download the addon.

Edited July 5, 200719 yr by RickSteele