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Well I can only tell that my current installation is without wmi, (though removed with nlite, not HFSLIP) and I haven't seen any need of it for a very-very long time. I used nlite because for some reason hfcleanup left in many compontents i asked for removing. One of them was wmi. Unfortunatly I can't give the exact setting, but since I'm still affraid of using hfcleanup, I'll try to do so: I was using fdv fileset on a win2000 sp4 installer with all the hotfixes + dx9, but nothing else. I was using full full hfcleanup.zip fileset without the extra stuff in the "2000-only.zip". One of the first unusual things was the rather big SOURCESS folder. With the above mentioned setup I was only able to reduce the source to around 200 mb, which is in my oppinion is interestingly big, considering that if I run nlite on a source with hfslipped hotfixes+dx9, removing everything, making a barebone-minimalistic-totaly-slimmed-down-nothing-left-in installer, it will be around 60(!) Mgs (hehe... quite radical, eh? many times I only just leave dhcpclient, eventlog, activedirectory, codecs, and opengl in... it's works well on xp, though I experienced some odd things with 2k. By the way, currently I'm writing under such a 2k system, and working well since summer without mayor problems, though there are those stragie thingies ) When I installed the above mentioned 2000, (the hfslipped, which is around 200mg sources, NOT the nlited one) I experienced that many components was left in. One of them was for example wmi. Do you have any clues why did that happenned? Unfortunately, I think I'm not able to recall more datails

Hmm... and beside that do you think it's safe to remove? As I said I haven't met any program which needs it, but this can be because of my minimalistic sofware needs...(Vim, TC, Opera, acrobatreader 4/5, foobar2k... ) well if something didn't work I figured out how to solve it. For example I removed 16bit support, but with that I wasn't able to install Adobe Reader 4.05 becuse it uses 16bit installer. To solve the problem I simply extracted the Adobe 4 and 5 installers, and replaced only three of the installer files in 4.05 from 5.05. Hehe Installs like a charm So can there be any issues with wmi removed?

Can HFCLEANUP completly remove wmi..hmm? By the way, why do you need wmi... I mean I have been using windows for a year without wmi with no problems at all. What is it for anyway, does someone know?

Don't use IE remover, or use some other help file viewer like xchm, or use a chm2html converter.

um..sorry.

Sooo... I read a bit about this stuff, and so it says that hivedef is the hku\.default, but still don't know what the heck is hiveusd. What I was trying to do is to switch hivedef in Mr FDV's set to an edited one of mine in the FDV folder. Run HFSLIP on the source (hotfixes + FDV with my edited hivedef, nothing else, no HCLEANUP or anything) I made tried to make the following changes but nothing happened: Removed a lot of scheme entries, only windows classic left, and renamed the folders in user profiles, like "Application Data" to appdata and such. Quite drastic, but it was just a test. And again, failed... nothing happened with the folders. I can't do it this way, because 2000 for some reason installs helluva slow (half an hour) compared to XP. Why is that? I always loved 2000 for it runs with fewer mem, but it boots like a snail, and installs even slower than that. Can't this be helped somehow? Oh wehehell...

Hi everyone! I was just qurious if I could find some help on this. First of all I was looking inside these files HIVEDEF.INF and HIVEUSD.INF, and compared the unmodified ones with the ones in FDV's fileset, and with nLited mods also. What are the difference between these two files? Seems like they both modify mostly the same stuff, both have references in LAYOUT.INF, DOSNET.INF, and TXTSETUP.INF. The only difference I see is that HIVEUSD modifies something HKR, which i don't know what means. HIVEDEF modifies keys and values in HKCR, so as I suppose - since then there is no "current user" - it modifies the .DEFAULT user. Am I right? Correct me if I'm wrong please. So I'm a bit confused with this because HIVEUSD has exactly the same entries, but the registry paths are not valid. What I'd like to do is to remove a few entries bloat, like unneccesary power config settings, and schemes on the first run, but I don't know which file is the one I need to edit, and what the other one is up for then. I was thinking that it's enough to comment out the stuff I want in FDV's fileset, so I don't have to bother with FIX folder. Or are there other ways to do it?

Thank you very much TAiN. The first link was exactly what I was looking for in this subject! Quite exhausting to read trough tough

Thanks for your reply TAiN. I think I can agree with you, and I'm not the one who likes running after the newest version all the time too, so probably I'll try to find some of the more general and stable codecs to slippstream. Suppose if I read this and tommyp's topics, then I'll have a clue which ones are those, right? Another thing I might ask you is about the codecs which come with windows... (I dont know if 2000 has them but XP does) Intel Indeo 2-3-4-5 I think, and those ACM stuff. Back from nLite I was always wondering what might those be... may you explain it to me? EDIT: Sorry for asking this much in one time, hope you won't get angry on me So one more thing I don't know: do I need wmfdist to be slipstreamed if I'm removing WMP COMPLETELY? Is it useful for other players too?

Hello gentlemen First thanks for this great program, or script, or how should I call. I like it it so much I was even struggling to put myself on HFSLIP worldmap (failed though, I'll try again I promise ) As I was reading this topic, I thought I might ask one-or-two thing. (I don't know too much about this subject, so sorry if I ask some noob questions ) First, I thought codecs are such things which get updated rather frequently. Isn't that a problem to integrate (or slipstream.. difference?) them, then reinstall every time you want to update... but then you loose the whole advantage of the nonbloated slipped version. Second, there is a codec pack known as CCCP, I was surprised no one mentioned it. What's the reason of that? Maybe it's not general enough... I mean as I know its mostly made by anime fans, maybe it does not support enough wide range of other formats? Is that? Again, I adore your achivemnts and this community here. I'm following your work for quite a time and I rarely see as lively buch of people... and exeptional knowledge. You are GREAT!

Just a question: what about xchm? I'd like to rename it to hh.exe and have it in system32 alonside with that ming*.dll, but I can't figure which folder should I put it to not interfere with fdvs fileset. Also, what should I do to make it the default app for chm files without having to associate it manualy after install? PE: And alsoo... I wanted to change its icon to the original hh.exe's but ResourceHacker says the executable is compressed. How can I resolve that? PE2: Win2000 I'm using, if it matters

@Killgore I do exactly how tommyp said. So what?! You don't even have that much duplicate entries as 100 megs: only the ones used by multiple sources have to be redundant (around 20 Mb) This way it's well organised enough, I think. If that 20 Mb still too much, use hardlinks