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Fresh2002

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« on: February 03, 2002, 09:35:27 PM »
during unattended install of windows 2000 all the shortcuts that are suppose to be in the All Users folder are now in All Users.WINNT folder. how do I avoid this?
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« Reply #1 on: February 05, 2002, 03:49:21 PM »
Is the machine set to join a domain or workgroup?  The .WINNT looks a lot like a copy of the local account but in the .WINNT domain/workgroup.  Hopefully that makes sense to you.  I am not too sure of the question?
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« Reply #2 on: February 05, 2002, 09:05:52 PM »
well, my shortcuts in the All Users folder is made before Win2k setup makes the \"real\" All Users folder. since this folder exists, it creates a \"All Users.WINNT\" folder and everything exists over there.

I\'m trying to avoid this. Perhaps a batch file can take care of this?

thanks for reading this. i decided to do unattended install after going to your site!
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« Reply #3 on: February 07, 2002, 12:07:51 PM »
I would have to say timing is the issue here.  Off the top of my head I can\'t recall running into this problem.  For shortcuts I copied them to default user desktop folder.  That way everyone got the same, but I added it under GUIRunOnce as a cmd file.  I also copyed over the ntuser.dat as well to give everyone the same desktop properties.

When do you create the ALL Users folder?
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« Reply #4 on: February 07, 2002, 09:16:57 PM »
Well, it\'s already in the $OEM$ folder, and I did the unattended install by copying the files to the hard disk.
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« Reply #5 on: February 08, 2002, 05:12:08 PM »
Okay set the autologin to at least 1.  Have your last unattend command add a new runonce command for your script in the registry and then force a reboot.  Next time it boots it will login and run the script that copys the shortcuts to the correct folder.  Or it should.  I don\'t really see what is happening on your system.  Please try this way and post if it works.  If it does then timing is the issue.  The command is somehow running too soon.  If it does not then I need to ask some other questions.

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« Reply #6 on: February 09, 2002, 04:27:06 PM »
Hey, twinkie. i built myself a self-extracting program with the shortcuts. i am going to test this. let\'s see how this goes...

BTW, timing was the problem and i\'m going to see if the self-extractor works...

thanks for the help Twinkie http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':)\' />
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« Reply #7 on: February 10, 2002, 10:12:28 PM »
the self-extractor did it! no more all users.WINNT folder. thanks for reading though.
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