Re: Windows XP SP2 transform?

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From: Carey Frisch [MVP] (cnfrisch_at_nospamgmail.com)
Date: 11/17/04 

Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 12:45:53 -0600

That file (update.inf) is not intended to be edited or changed.
That is the primary installation file for the Service Pack.
Changes to that file could break Service Pack installations. 

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"Dave Dewire" wrote:
| Ive already looked at all those links and gone through alot of 
| documentation.  I see nothing anywhere that discusses applying a transform 
| to the SP2 .msi, most of it was about modifying a new windows install not 
| just applying SP2 to an existing install.   I did come across the Windows 
| firewall.inf docs but the docs are not very clear, the netfw.in_ isnt a 
| plain text file so I dont dont know if I can just replace it with an 
| existing netfw.inf in the I386 directory or what.
| 
| Is there some way I can just tack on a list of registry changes to be made 
| at the end of the SP2 install or running an extra .exe to make make tweaks 
| by modifying one of the INFs somewhere?  I havent seen any examples out of 
| the many pages documentation Ive seen.
| 
| The bottom line is that I need to tweak the SP2 install and I still dont see 
| any way to make the registry changes I need to make even after looking 
| through all that documentation.  I can see some of the keys in update.inf 
| that I want to modify but I dont think it will let me modify update.inf

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