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I've been asked to look at ways to install XP without using the XP installing.
Let me clarify that. 
A client wants to install a very cut down version of XP.
He doesn't want to circumvent the activation either.
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Any ideas on the best way to approach this ?
Regardz
Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
Warning Link to the minion's animation, do not use.
It's a real shame that people as stupid as you can work out how to use a computer. said by Christian Graus in the Soapbox
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Colin Davies wrote:
A client wants to install a very cut down version of XP.
He doesn't want to circumvent the activation either.
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Any ideas on the best way to approach this ?
Some ideas:
. Sysprep from Microsoft
. an automated installation response file (sorry, I don't recall how to create it, but on Technet you'll surely find it).
. If a high degree of "cutting down" is required, you could use Windows XP Embedded Edition, which will allow you to remove almost everything but the kernel and HAL from Windows XP.
It's not the fall that kills you: it's the sudden stop - Down by Law, Jim Jamursch (1986)
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Got some wacky things of my own to report - don't know if you can help, though.
Explorer pops up to the front when any explorer sends a change message.
Explorer navigates to "C:\windows\desktop\desktop" and then complains that "C:\windows\desktop\desktop\desktop" has been moved or removed
Explorer turns all drive/folder/virtual folder icons to folder icons and removes their names.
It does all of this whenever it feels like. 
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you - Jesus
An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind - Mahatma Gandhi
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I feel horrible that I cannot find the answer to this myslef by searching around the computer but ... the darn thing is in German.
I have a computer that is at a friends house that has been played with by a bunch of young kids that love to mess around with different settings. Well, one of them managed to switch the system language (actually it seems to be contained within Window Explorer and Internet Explorer) to German instead of English.
Nobody will fess up to doing and the heck if anyone else knows how to fix it ... I have searched through all of the option menus in WE and IE, even the options available under the Control Panel. Any suggestions? I hope I am just missing an obvious section.
Thanks in advance ... 
Wally Atkins
Newport News, VA, USA
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Control Panel->Regional Options->Change the Menus and Dialogs combo to the desired language.
Of course, the items won't be called "control panel" and "regional options" anymore, so finding them in German is left as an exercise for the reader. (hint, the Regional Options is the one with the picture of a planet that looks nothing like Earth) 
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The first page of Regional Settings (the world icon) under Control Panel.
[new edit]
Looks like I began posting almost the same time as you, Michael!
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you - Jesus
An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind - Mahatma Gandhi
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Does anyone know how to force Windows Explorer to retain a certain size permanently?
I have a problem where Windows Explorer will frequently resize itself to something other than the size I set it. Symptoms: Windows will quickly but visibly hiccup (the screen goes through a quick redraw). The next time I open Windows Explorer, it will be a different size than when I last set it. This new size is always consistent.
Is it just me or has Windows Explorer become more buggy with each successive iteration?
-Sean
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Shag a Lizard
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I want to know how to write batch files in Unix.
can anyone give me example if i want to create bath file for the following commands just to avoid a typing every time
like
start java ChatClient
this is in case of Windows but how this work can be done in Unix?
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Write the commands in a file and make it executable with chmod +x. You can add
#! /bin/sh as the first line, but that's not required.
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I have installed Office 2k on my XP box and everything works fine. My problem is whenever I log into windows using a different user name for the first time,and I start any office application, a windows installer will appear prompting me to install Office. I'd like to know if there's any way to not see this for every new user?
Notorious SMC
The difference between the almost-right word & the right word is a really large matter - it's the difference between the lightning bug and the Lightning
Mark Twain
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please
Mark Twain
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The Windows 2003 Server Release version is available for download on MSDN subscriber downloads, if anyone is interested...
Jerry Dennany
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Is .NET Framework 1.1 Release also available?
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Arun Bhalla wrote:
Is .NET Framework 1.1 Release also available?
Not yet - I read that the Framework 1.1 is supposed to be downloadable in "Mid-April".
Jerry
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Hello,
The problem is: sometimes you have to do automatically configuration (logonscript, etc) in the context of the user-account. But somtimes you don´t have all the rights in the user context to do all this configuration.
In XP there´s runas.exe, which works fine, but is not scriptable. And its not smart to call exe´s from vb-scripts. The better way would be using a COM-Object. I know the solution from the MSDN (many lines of code) but does anyone know a *simple* API (eg. a Shell-api), that does the same thing like runas -> use the environment and profile from the logged-on user, but has the rights of another user (like administrator).
ps.: I know you can give a password to runas, when you use /netonly, but in this case you have no local rights!
has anyone an idea ?
thx, martin
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 I need make a program that hooks calls to API function like: DuplicateHandle, HeapAloc, HeapFree...
How make this???
Help me!!!!!
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you can make this in VB6 very eassy whit the API Text Viewer, you copy this code in a module and call you api whit one botton or in a action, you can find more documentation about one api and who to call in the VB help
Para seguir la trayectoria:
mira al maestro,
sigue al maestro,
camina junto con el maestro,
mira a través del maestro,
conviértete en el maestro
(this is a poor traduction)
To make you trayectory:
Look your master
Follow your master
walk whit your master
look across you master
become in your master
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Hi guys,
HAve any of you scripted the use of this tool, or know if its possible to use it in a script and specify the directory (unc path) to have the files and folders timestamped?!?
Cheers
Darian
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Hello, my computer is running incredibly slow at time and I think I figured out why.. whenever it tries to find a file type or create a new file I think it searches my network and takes FOREVER. I noticed this when i tried to open a folder with a word perfect document, and it hung for almost a minute. is there any way to disable extended searching for file types?
thanks
steve
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Hi guys, hope there are a few networking gurus online today. I have two machines, a Win2K box and an XP box. I set up the Win2K box with a static IP address and configured it as a DHCP and DNS server.
When I first boot up the Win2K and XP boxes, the XP box gets a valid IP from the DHCP server. In addition running "nslookup" on the XP box shows that all is well.
However, after a few seconds of being able to access the default share on the Win2K box from the XP box (with me so far?) I get an error message on the XP box stating that the network connection is no longer available. Running "nslookup" on the XP box now returns the infamous
"DNS request timed out"
"timout was 2 seconds"
I'm also unable to ping the Win2K box by name (obviously) OR by IP address. It's like suddenly the DNS server doesn't exist.
Mind you, I'm unable to ping the XP box from the Win2K box either. Soon as I reboot the Win2K box though, everything is fine until I again dare to browse across the network. Back to square one.
Any ideas?
ASP.NET can never fail as working with it is like fitting bras to supermodels - it's one pleasure after the next - David Wulff
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I wish I could help, but all I can do is commiserate. I've had Win2K Server running DNS for over a year, and it's never worked correctly. I've read books, online articles, every single "solution" in the MS Knowledge base, yet nothing works. It can't find anything if I use it instead of my ISP's DNS, and it seems to be at the root of the problem of the server freezing up every few days. A reboot restores everything, and the DNS even seems to work for a while, but it shortly begins malfunctioning again. Just out of curiosity, are you getting a ton of NetLogon 5774 errors in the Event log?
Ancient man conquered his rivals with the jawbone of an ass; modern man uses the jawbone of a politician.
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Roger Wright wrote:
are you getting a ton of NetLogon 5774 errors in the Event log
Nope, I clear the Event Log and it remains clean as a whistle. It's just that all of a sudden I'm unable to contact my DNS server after a few seconds of browsing. It's totally frustrating. I've even done a step by step configuration using Mark Minasis' excellent book on Windows 2000 server. Nothing helps. I've ruined one mouse already after slamming it against the wall in frustration.
Setting up a DNS server is not rocket science, especially when the "network" is only 2 PC's big and not connected to the internet in any way.
I just don't know.
ASP.NET can never fail as working with it is like fitting bras to supermodels - it's one pleasure after the next - David Wulff
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Senkwe Chanda wrote:
I clear the Event Log and it remains clean as a whistle
Must be nice! I clear mine every two days, as it fills completely with 5774 errors.
You're right, it's not rocket science, and it shouldn't be hard at all, especially with your configuration! Mine is similar, two hosts (though one is rarely switched on), but I have a dual-homed server with one card on the LAN and the other on the Internet. I set up DNS using the automatic settings created by the windows installer, including the Default-Site zones that not one of the books on the subject mentions. I'm tempted to create another zone and configure it manually, then delete the defaults, but I'm chicken...
Good luck!
Ancient man conquered his rivals with the jawbone of an ass; modern man uses the jawbone of a politician.
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how to make a intallable for linux operating system with only those components installed which are required for our software. in this installer afer instaling linux our softa=ware should also be installed. for all this i have to make one installer CD. how to do this
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I mentioned a while back that we had "lost" our Windows XP Pro CD. It was from an MSDN pack as we are an MCP company.
Someone mentioned that I could go to the MSDN subscribers download area and download an ISO image of Windows XP Pro.
Well I went and for the life of me I cannot find it. Anyone care to point me in the right direction? Thanks 
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
Macbeth muttered:
I am in blood / Stepped in so far, that should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er
DavidW wrote:
You are totally mad. Nice.
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