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  1. Thanks wanted to make a complete tutorial of how I do a deployment start to finish
  2. Okay first you need to copy your iso of XP to the root of C. Then you right click it and choose extract to folder Now you make sure you have the latest driverpacks and slipstream app. Update, it's best to add the driverpacks at the end as they will clean up after themselves if you do DrverPacks Base is the name od the app and here is where it's found: http://driverpacks.net/DriverPacks/download.php?pag=b Make sure you download the driverpacks and put them in the driverpack folder that is made when you run the self extracting APP: Folder layout of Base Apps Driverpacks Folder: Now fire up Base: Browse to your XP folder: Next select all driverpacks: Next check Method 2 As method 1 does not work T:-J= Click next at the next few screens Pick which ATI: Now Hit Slipstream Slipstream of DriverPacks in Progress Now get your update pack and addons ready Update Pack: Update pack up to date but lately Since it's creator is on a break, it's only up to June 2007 http://www.ryanvm.net/msfn/ Addons in folder: http://www.nliteos.com/download.html Then you fire up N-lite, making sure you have your addons ready I use the ones above and they are all here on this board: now Browse to XP Folder Again: You will now see this screen It shows the OS version and Service Pack level, since I'm assuming you already have XP with Service Pack 2, we'll skip the integration of service pack. Task Selection menu Select Hotfixes, Unattended, Options, Tweaks, and bootable Iso. Notice I skipped Components as removing components is not needed here and is a bad idea. they can be disabled later with my tweaks menu, you will be using. Now select your addons and they will be added as shown here: you add your personal settings here Such as tpye of Install, choose fully unattended and add your key here as well as screen rez, Users, timezones, Regions, add themse, set default themes. Next is the options menu I don't change anything here, but if you want the classic setup like windows 2000, it is here you can set that. Some people like eXperience state that setup takes less time if you set it to classic, I don't really know for sure. Next is the Patch Menu You can patch TCP/IP USB polling, Unsigned Themes Patch, and System File Protection Tweaks Choose from a large number of tweaks here, but be careful as in Version 1 of Black I chose hide run button and several people complained about it, like where is the run button. I only tweak the star menu context menu attributes. Time To Compile Iso and test it in Vmware while starting the next step Next Step is To start Vmware and test it I'm not going into too much detail here as Vmware is very user friendly, just start it and browse for iso like in image below and hit the play button. Next, add wpi files to root of XP folder Download WPI here: http://www.wpiw.net/downloads/WPI_v6.3.rar I prefer to use The WPI 6.2 as it's bug free: http://www.gizabitspace.com/tools/WPI.rar Now you copy files from the right to folder on the left Now we will be adding apps to the wpi menu. Apps are added to /install folder. Only apps that run silent will be added, some don't. For example, msi installers always run silent. Now Windows Post Installer has the universal Silent switch finder built in, you can add app to it and test it for a switch or you can test the apps with SetupS builder: I will address USSF first So study the image below, then we will continue: Okay where you see command 1 is where you browse to the app which is in the install folder. At the end of the line is an icon with a magnifying glass, that is what you click to run the switch finder. Example: NOd which is an msi which I extracted using Universal Extractor. I will cover that at the end of tut. After you click the USSF button it will pop up with the app loaded into it with the switch. Now you hit the + button at the buttom corrosponding to command 1, that simple it is now added to the menu and you hit save. now a little bit of advanced stuff: A problem with some installers like Ashampoo is that they have popups after it installs which will interrupt your silent menu, so I use a usefull little tool made by ron that uses pskill to take care of popups. Only bug in his program is the odd time you have to pskill his program. SilentS Builder: http://www.gizabitspace.com/tools/SETUPSBUILDER.EXE Screen This tool launches the USSF also to find the silent, it goes further that Under Build option you pick a folder destination and it creates an ini file that will run like a script with the silent switch added to it. Now the good part is thatwhen you find an app that has reboot or launches a web page, you can add on the next line of the ini file the process that launched the pop up,web page, or reboot message and add: Example Advanced Encryption Package 2007, has it pop up the folder, so you have to launch task manager to trace the process to kill: <Title> <URL> <Install> install.exe /VERYSILENT /SUPPRESSMSGBOXES /NORESTART /SP- pskill explorer.exe <Description> <Selected> No <Catagory> Category <Flags> KeepInFolder = 0 KeepDesktop = 0 KeepQuickLaunch = 0 AlwaysSort = 0 <AppPath> %ProgramFiles%\ <StartMenuDestPath> Start Menu Destination Path Kazz Start Menu Destination Path LastXP <StartMenuSourcePath> Start Menu Source Path <ShortCutNamesKeep> <InstallInstant> No <DuringSetupOnly> No <End> Now I traced its process to explorer.exe and added a command to kill the process so the folder will not pop-up now. I traced it this way: I launched Task Manager and saw folder listed in running apps Notice the folder listed in the task manager Now right click it : Then, go to process Now you can see the process that caused the popup: Which is explorer.exe SO you add pskill to the ini file which resides in the same folder as the app. That's it Now you just fill up the menu with apps that all run silent. LAST STAGE For the last Stage, I use UCDC, which will finish my project as well as create a javascript that will launch the wpi menu after windows installs: Next you browse to iso like all the steps before. Now hit Work In Source Directory Okay at this point we are not going to use all the features of this program, we are going to use it to run the WPI menu at the end of install. Now it will pick up all your user specified details from N-lite except time zone, you will have to set that again for some unknown reason. You set it here Now to Add the menu to launch If you look at image below you see Software description, there you type a name like: "Launch Menu" Then you check "Install Directly From Source" and browse to WPI.hta in the root of the XP folder. This is the menu executable and location of it in root: You will see it here, now you have to click the Select button on the bottom right and browse to wpi.hta again and then click the add button below the select button After you add it, it will be here: If you miss this step, the program will remind you and fix it All Done!!!! Now just click save and then Create Iso Image Test in Vmware
  3. I was wondering about a dll error I get after integrating the sidebar, it has error only when I'm installing or running certain apps. For example I can't install Power Producer as the dll error pops up. The exact name of the dll I can't exactly remember, but it starts with a p*.dll.
  4. Hi, just registered. I like doing unattended windows and especially experimenting with new themes and silent installers. Linked up here from Ryans'. :thumbsup_anim:
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