[maxXPsoft]

You using XP now? has to be same architecture as the Target Vista/Seven OS
Works with source dvd Vista x86/64 SP2 and Se7en x86/64 RTM

NOTICE: Right now if you have the old Vista WAIK it needs to be uninstalled and it usually tells you to reboot. I am working to resolve that.

• Please read my first 5 or 6 posts after this one and then if you have ? ask.
  
• Read this post here by ar_seven_am Ok, here's the additional notes for someone who got problems with Se7en_UA, I've test it with XP SP3 x86, Vista SP1 & SP2 x86, Windows 7 x86 :
  
• This is not a very complicated application. It is like a teaching tool so new people can learn the structure and layout of Windows Unattending. Most can click on the text next to a checkbox and it will explain what it's going to do.
  
• I structured it this way where you click one item at a time and complete them step's before allowing it to move on. Thing's have to be done correctly in order for you to create a sucessful Installation DVD.
  
• This will work for those know nothing of Unattended setups. You can use the basics from this or refer to other posts here in this forum or the Unattended Vista forum to find answers.
  
• I know that may be annoying to veteran unattenders but let's help the new people.
  
• Working now with 64 bit images.
  
• USE SAMPLE XML first try of this. I don't have all settings and you can mod it after.
  Let me know if I need to add something!!!
  
• Does not use the WAIK if installed or Windows directories unless you don't have waik or Win 7 then it only copies a few files.

You can move your Appswitch.dat to new folder. Edit it and change the Paths

Don't hotlink these file's directly, I make changes and will only update my link
Do a favor and let people download the latest.
Mediafire download. If you need a different download I'll upload to rapidshare. Let me know
Se7en_UA.exe Current Version Always Here
Rapidshare Se7en_UA6.3.3.zip

Release Notes: Included in Version.txt

Testing in VM
Virtual PC won't do 64 bit guests.
VMware crashed with a vmx error
Virtual Box does do 64/64 but won't support Slic 2.1 Bios yet
VMWare will support Slic 2.1 with a mod - look for it on Google

This post has been edited by maxXPsoft: 03 July 2010 - 01:35 PM

[maxXPsoft]

XP has to use same architecture as Target OS
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This post has been edited by maxXPsoft: 20 March 2010 - 12:50 PM

[maxXPsoft]

2009-09-21 06:49:44, Error				 CSI	00000001 (F) 80220006 [Error,Facility=FACILITY_STATE_MANAGEMENT,Code=6] #165# from CWcmScalarInstanceCore::PutCurrentValue(options = 0, value = { type: 12 (0x0000000c), bytes ( 14 (0x0000000e) ): 2000660061006c00730065000000 })
[gle=0x80004005]
2009-09-21 06:49:44, Error						[oobeldr.exe] SMI data results dump: Source = Name: Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup, Language: neutral, ProcessorArchitecture: amd64, PublicKeyToken: 31bf3856ad364e35, VersionScope: nonSxS, /settings/Themes/DefaultThemesOff
2009-09-21 06:49:44, Error						[oobeldr.exe] SMI data results dump: Description = Value is in invalid format.
2009-09-21 06:49:45, Error						[oobeldr.exe] User input error was detected in unattend file. Error: [0x0]

Causes a major crash with an xml in Win 7. You get an ugly little box and thats it, you're history.
1 mistake in an xml will take you down.

I create a Panther.cmd on either a floppy, Usb, other drive. Then if crash I CD there and run it,
will copy the Panther folder so you can figure out whats going on.

Color 0A
cd /d %~dp0
@ECHO OFF
robocopy %systemroot%\Panther /MIR %~dp0$Panther
robocopy %systemroot%\System32\sysprep /MIR %~dp0$sysprep

REM  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd744535%28WS.10%29.aspx
robocopy %WINDIR%\Setup\State /MIR %~dp0$State
ECHO.
type %windir%\Setup\State\State.ini
ECHO.
Pause
Exit

On above error will most likely get an error says something about Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup
simple, go to your Panther copy and do a search for that cause error may be within one of the sub folders

This post has been edited by maxXPsoft: 20 March 2010 - 12:52 PM

[maxXPsoft]

[Help] buttons
select 1 and it should open the app\Help. choose unattend.chm
choose another [Help] button and select the UXP_Vista_7_UA.exe
both are now added to the buttons

[maxXPsoft]

Applications


APPS folder should be on the root of any drive. That way the Se7en_UA will see it regardless of where its installed or what drive APPS is on.

Example Firefox 3.x.x:
Make a folder called Mozilla.Firefox_3.XX in the APPS folder
place the Firefox Setup 3.*.exe there

Appswitch.dat

[Mozilla.Firefox_3.xx]
REM	 http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
REG ADD %KEY%\iAdd /VE /D "Firefox 3.xx" /f
REG ADD %KEY%\iAdd /V Inum /D "CMD /C Start /Wait %SystemDrive%\APPS\Mozilla.Firefox_3.xx\Firefox_3_autoit.exe" /f
REG ADD %KEY%\iAdd /V Inum /D "CMD /C Start /Wait SLEEP.EXE 3" /f
REG ADD %KEY%\iAdd /V Inum /D "CMD /C RD \"%USERPROFILE%\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\" /S /Q"" /f
REG ADD %KEY%\iAdd /V Inum /D "CMD /C Start /Wait SLEEP.EXE 3" /f
FLAG3=%USERPROFILE%\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox
REM	 FLAG3=%ProgramFiles%\Mozilla Firefox\plugins
FLAG3=%ProgramFiles%\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins
REG ADD %KEY%\iAdd /V Inum /D "cmd /C INIMAN \"%ProgramFiles%\Mozilla Firefox\application.ini\" \"Crash Reporter.Enabled=0\"" /f
REM	 http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
REG ADD %KEY%\iAdd /V Inum /D "CMD /C Start /Wait %SystemDrive%\APPS\Mozilla.Firefox_3.xx\install_flash_player.exe /S" /f

Firefox_3_autoit.au3 included get autoit and compile and add to the folder
select the folder when you add Applications, thats it. ALL your current settings and bookmarks are included.
been using this since 2.x


FLAGS

FLAG1: REG copy
copies registry entries from your current registry. The program needs to be Installed when this is done. BUT If you copy once then it saves it to the [APPS] folder and any future Installs will use that. If you have it installed then it overwrites the current file = SWEET HUH? 
FLAG2: FILE copy
Copy any File from anywhere to be placed in same directory on Target computer. 
FLAG3: FOLDER copy
Copy entire Folder's to be placed on Target computer's. Handy for Fox/Tbird/Trillian if you don't want to lose anything
FLAG4: Special
is special and copies settings from the Registry from the HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxx-xxxxxx-1000 reg keys and on setup if reg part S-1-5-21-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxx-xxxxxx-1000 has changed it will automatically enter your new SID

All of these are pretty handy for an Unattended Install. You need to place them as you need them called in the Appswitch . Plenty of example's in the Appswitch.dat

Whats best?
All of them, it keeps everything up to date. If yesterday/last month I used this and copied say a Folder with a FLAG3 entry and today I wake up and realize it's changed so I copy again at the APP Installer. If it exists Installed then it delete's from your APPS Folder and the APPS folder from dvd sources and re-writes everything. Otherwise it uses what I had done last time I copied it in.

I've been copying my Firefox and Thunderbird and many more for year's with same methods. Just drop new Fox or whatever in same APPS folder.

My Settings, My files, My folders, My Registry, SERIAL NUMBERS all up to date.

Attached File(s)

•  Firefox_3_autoit.au3 (2.78K)
  Number of downloads: 73

This post has been edited by maxXPsoft: 13 November 2009 - 08:12 PM

[jamesbebby]

hi, ne chance of that .cmd to remove C:\zMountDir? try everything just cant get rid of it!
cheers james

[maxXPsoft]

Go to your Tools\architecture\ folder and open Admin cmd prompt. Or make the cmd line look like this
E:\Se7en_UA\Tools\amd64\imagex /cleanup E:\zMountDir

I only get that if I uninstall and try to copy back too fast, darn Seven locks the folders down.

This post has been edited by maxXPsoft: 20 October 2009 - 06:50 PM

[TheWalrus]

So this is, in the principle, similiar utility as vLite?

[urie]

TheWalrus, on Oct 21 2009, 01:14 PM, said:

So this is, in the principle, similiar utility as vLite?

Only in principle Se7en_UA will do complete unattended install with applications e.c.t not just addons far more advanced

[Chester^]

I'm getting a run type error 13
type miss mach...
any ideas?

[maxXPsoft]

Chester^, on Oct 21 2009, 03:04 PM, said:

run type error 13

can you explain where at?

also if you haven't gone very far you can reinstall right over the top of it, or uninstall and try again.

This post has been edited by maxXPsoft: 21 October 2009 - 03:36 PM

[Chester^]

OK. so here it goes:

1. install program - fine.
2. open program 1st time - fine.
3. check first option select win7.iso and copy is done - fine

after this the program exits by default, reopening the program gives the run time error.

reinstalling goes back to 1.

This post has been edited by Chester^: 21 October 2009 - 04:29 PM

[urie]

You need to unpack the win7.iso to a folder or copy from the dvd.

[BKR III]

first of all thanx to awesome program.....

i cant mount my image

please help me

[maxXPsoft]

Chester^
yes you copy the unpacked not an iso

BKR III
Did you install to a root folder like C:\Se7en_UA? I'm lazy and this won't work from Program files or any long path with spaces.
What is your OS and x86/64?
Copy the Dvd sources, Extracted as above.
Exactly where is it not working as Chester explained above

[maxXPsoft]

Features and Packages new addition on next release

Attached File(s)

•  FeatPack.gif (17.06K)
  Number of downloads: 512

[MrJinje]

new gif looks good, are they static or pre-populated from the /GET-FEATURES command ?

How about the Packages, are you using Install_WIM_Tweak.exe or something else to enable the rest of them ?

[TheWalrus]

So will a person like me, with zero knowledge about xml and all the manual setting/scripts, be able to use this utility in same way as vLite? Without having to configure it somehow.

[maxXPsoft]

MrJinje
Not static. Hadn't gotten that far yet just loading them from the /GET-FEATURES > txt file 110 in features = 2 pages, as we know MS will come out with a SP and probably be new stuff.

TheWalrus
Yes should be able to use this easily. Click the labels next to [] boxes and has a short summary on a lot of them. The help file is close, hadn't updated since Vista but Seven and Vista are close, just Seven is lot better. Start with Sample.xml and you can go from there, i give the basics to get you to partition selection, select and it will auto run. I just don't want to lose my backup drive and I dual boot so want to choose carefully there.

This post has been edited by maxXPsoft: 22 October 2009 - 06:00 PM

[TheWalrus]

Allright, my W7 box is arriving early next week, so I'll play with this
On a side note, can you give me rough directions where to look if I wanted to educate myself in this particular field? I might be interested in a little more than selecting components to remove.

This post has been edited by TheWalrus: 22 October 2009 - 11:42 PM