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General Category => Software => Topic started by: edmon_cu on February 10, 2003, 01:23:57 PM
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If following this pattern of installing M$ addons like DirectX, IE6, WMP9 under Win2k installer, I was wondering, at what part of the Win2k installation do these addons become installed?
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The last screen shown by Windows Setup, just before it reboots for the 2nd time, has 4 progress bars. Something like:
- Creating start menu Items...
- Registering components...
- Deleting temporary files...
- Saving settings...
The command lines under [SetupHotfixesToRun] in svcpack.inf are executed during the Registering components phase, when the progress bar is about 50%. Immediately following this, it executes the commands in Cmdlines.txt. This takes the progress bar to roughly 75%.
Does this answer your question?
Also, note that at this point it is using HKLM.DEFAULT as the current user hive and %ProfilesDir%Default User as the current user directory.
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I see, thanks.
I realized, the use cmdlines.txt is case sensitive. I initially tried naming it with caps, but it did not load. I only realized that when I renamed it w/o using any caps.
Btw, I have slipstreamed IE6SP1, DX9, WMP9 with my Win2k installer in unatteneded mode already. Thanks so much for this very helpful forum.
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