Making Unattended and Customized Windows XP CD (Part_01)
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hi Dear friends
This is a long time that i want to write a tutorial about Making Unattended and Customized
Windows XP CD ,but there was some problems:
__This tutor is not an small tutor and will have a lot of pages,so it will take a long time
to make it ready.
__My english is not so good to say every thing as i realy mean.i have forgotten many words of
english language ,so some times when i want to say some topics,i do not know the real word,
and i try to explain that by using basic words that i know.
Any way i desided to write this tutor,but the tutor will be as below:
1.The tutor will have several parts,because i will explain every parts at the times that i can
get free of job.
2_I will try to divide sections so that Each Part will be enough for one or more purposes.and
user will not need to read all the parts to do his need.
3_If the tutors had enough readers,after last part i will make all the parts in one PDF formt
and will upload to great BootLand site.
4_I would like to tell the ways to do yourself.but ofcourse i will talk about softwares that
you can use to make your works easyly.
5_Hope you nice friends will help and will say your exprementes in each parts to complate the
topic and to have full description of unattended and Customized XPCD at the end.
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I think that i talked a lot,for this part i am going to say :
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Step_(1) How to Customize Windows XP "Setup.exe" Images
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Setup.exe Can be customized any way you like,you can change picture,text items,icones color,and....
for example see My_setup.png from attachment.
1_Download freeware software "Resource Hacker" from link below:
http://www.users.on....resourcehacker/
2_Run "Res hack" and open xp "Setup.exe" by it,then click on "Action" button on menubar and
select "Save all resources..." and save them in some place.(See Picture_01 from atachment)
Now you will have all images,icons,and cursors used in making setup.exe.
You can change all of those images and icones and cursors by your favorite ones.Just remember
that you have to use the same sizes and formats.for example if you want to replace "Bitmap_21.bmp"
you should make your favorite image "397x180x24b , and BMP format".
So in first step begin to make your favorite images,icons and cursor,then go to step 3
3_Here i will show replacing one of the images and replacing others are the same.
Open "Setup.exe" by "Res hack" , extand Bitmap section by clicking on "+" sign near Bitmap
folder,Then again extand "112" section and click on "1033" under that.
Now you will see an image in right panel of resource hacker.(see pic_02a)
4_Here i suppose that you have made your favorite image befor by the name of xx.bmp and you have
placed it (for example in C:\xx.bmp).
Now Right click on number "1033" and select "Replace resource...".in coming window click on
"Open file with new bitmap.." button (see pic_03) and give address of "C:\XX>BMP" ,then as
pic_04 click on "Replace" button.
5_Now if you go to file menue and select "save",the resource hacker will place your image in setup
exe.By this way you can change all of the images inside setup.exe.
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Step_(2) How to Customize Windows XP "Setup.exe" Icon and TEXTS
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1_ Open "Setup.exe" by "Res hack" ,extand that as pic_05 you will see all the texts in right panel
write your favorite words in that places,then click on " Compile Script" as pic_06 then save it.
Now the text is replaced in your project.
2_ For changing setup.exe icon ,you need to prepare your favorite icon.and replace that as you did in
steps above.just remember that setup.exe uses an iconpack inside itself,so you should make ready
your favorite iconpack if you want to change all icons.
Because the setup.exe uses an icon for exe file,an icon for showing when exe runs and ... so if you
change just one icon, only that special one will be changed.
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I am waiting for your questions and giving more options in this topic.Because there is more things hear
to say.but i will if you liked.
have fun
shirin zaban