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thanks for all the help!
Here's the preset where it gives me the errors: (it came off the cd that has the errors)..
Did the "Parameter is incorrect" message appear during the nlite process, or somewhere during setup?
If during the nlite process, do you recall _which_ driver it was integrating at the time the error popped up?
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It would be really nice if we could import our own reg tweaks (via an import button that parses just a standard reg file), so that we can have them applied "the nlite way" instead of having to have everyone come up with their own custom way of importing them at first logon.
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Well I guess that answers that. I had no idea that use on a business system was forbidden...
Floppy drives are cheap - that is true. However, many new computers (servers and workstations alike) are being shipped without them.
That's not to say you can just grab one and install it - there is no floppy controller on the motherboard. Sure, you can get a USB floppy drive, but there's no telling until you get it whether the system's BIOS will recognize it and give it that all-important A:\ label that Windows OS's need to install the Third-party driver.
(Sigh!)
This business really sux sometimes!!
I agree. Perhaps you could send a PM to nuhi and explain your situation and get his agreement to let you use the program even though it is a business environment.
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;# Služby #
Application Layer Gateway
CTF Loader
Faxové služby
Hlásenie o chybách
Messenger
Obnovenie systému
Služba indexovania
Vymeniteľné jednotka
Vzdialené registre
Záložná kopia jednotky
Záložný zdroj napätia (UPS)
I cannot read your language, but I assume that one of those services would have something to do with the Server service.
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one thing I've noticed in nlite for a while is "extra" components appear after removing some the first time. Most obvious with Keyboards & Languages. For example even though I checked the box to remove all for both, if I reopen nlite and do component removal again I can continue to remove these new components:;# Keyboards #
Bosnian Cyrillic keyboard
Inuktitut Latin keyboard
Luxembourgish keyboard
Nepali keyboard
Pashto keyboard
;# Languages #
;Arabic
Pashto
;Cyrillic
Bosnian_Cyrillic
;Indic
Nepali (Nepal)
;Western Europe and United States
Filipino
Frisian
Inuktitut (Latin)
Irish
Luxembourgish
Mapudungun
Mohawk
Romansh
I also notice in the section from LAST SESSION.INI I copied above that some languages are commented out even though I checked the whole section.
The ones that are commented out are actually just notes to show where the start of the removal of the different dialects for that language is. Just like there is US English and UK English, there are varying dialects of Arabic, etc.
As for the items above not appearing until after removing all of the others, I'll have to let nuhi answer that one.
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Here are my instuctions for making a Pre-Activated Windows CD. To complete these steps you will need an OEM windows CD of the same edition(Preferably a Hologram CD but using another vendors CD should work as long as the vendor didn't make too many changes) and a working Pre-Activated PC.
snipped rest for brevity.....
Ouch, now you guys are making my brain hurt. And I just got up this morning and am still on my first cup of coffee.
The file copying, editing, etc I follow easily enough. As I've stated, I'm not a complete computer newbie.
What's making my head hurt is all the different info and views about this licensing or product key thing.
Probably it's just that I'm sort of dense, slow thinking, and a knuckle dragger pretending to be a homo sapien.
I'm probably misunderstanding. But some of the info here sounds like methodology to circumvent having a LEGAL copy of Windows and using it.
What makes me reasonably certain my impression is wrong is that in numerous posts to this Foum which I've read, the majority of posters appear to honest and intent upon not doing that. Ohhh, some may push the EULA thing by making hacks or changes not approved by MS. I'm not against that. Have done it myself with Win98. I just don't expect MS to provide customer support if I change their original stuff. And all I change is my own personal copy of the OS. (In the case of Win98, I haven't even tried to do such with XP as I know far too little about any of the NT based versions of Windows.)
My conclusion? My head hurts. And I know I've gotta be misunderstanding something.
I THOUGHT ... that the product key or COA, whichever as I'm not sure of the difference, was the equivalent of my "Proof of Purchase". A method to prove to MS that I did indeed buy and pay for one valid copy of a Windows OS, which I could freely use on ONE machine at a time.
Thus, that has been the principle I've been going by. For each machine in my home, plus a few in my adult children's homes, I can produce one original CD, with the product key factory printed on it. I've got a CD storage cabinet with assorted and sundry original CDs in it. For various versions Windows, MS Office, etc. I do have backup copies of the CDs, with product key penciled in on a label. But if required can produce matching original. The backup is just that, a backup.
Now, some of the machines in my home are running XP. And I've one copy for each of an original CD. Tho, not one for my wife's new machine, as it didn't come with a CD. Which caused my original question.
How do I make a LEGAL backup of an install type CD, that I could legally use to rebuild her system if the HD crashed or something. Legal, as in she could reactivate HER copy of XP, go to MS's website without worrying for customer support, to get updates, etc. She could let em run their validation tool, with no worries, and so forth. Because she could demonstrate she has a valid license. Honestly gotten.
I avoided asking any such question at any Warez or crackers group or forum, figured somebody on such would know, but also figured I might get questionable (as concerns legality) answers.
I'm not particularly afraid of the boogey man, or MS trying to track me down, or anything. If I wanted to go an illegal route, I would. Simple as that. And figure my personal chances of getting away with it are pretty good. I'm not in the class with many of the folks whose posts I read here, but I do know a thing or 2. And have muddled my way thru reverse engineering a few times. (It's been a while, tho.) Even have all the basic tools and am not totally lost when dealing with assembly, C, C+, etc. And am quite aware one can find sites where one can download updates, fixes, upgrades, etc without ever pinging MS's sites.
But I am a practical man. I'm not against MS, or any programmer, making an honest buck. (I am myself a programmer, but within a rather specialized field) Besides, if you're a legal owner of a liscense, you can reasonably expect at least some customer support and help. ie In my work I own legal liscence for a few specialty programs which I use daily. I quite reasonably expect that if one does not work as advertised I can call maker and complain. Have em fix problem, or tell me what I'm doing wrong, or provide some sort of work-around, etc.
This is what I've been trying to maintain with MS. I don't use or like ALL of their apps. In some cases I think others do a particular chore better. And I'll use an app made by someone else instead of the MS equivalent. But my world, work world, is a DOS and Windows world. (Yes, DOS is still being used here and there. A number of things I work with still employ DOS, or a version of it. Sometimes embedded.) And most of the tools I use for automation work; dedicated controller setup, controller programming, GUI front-end creation, etc; are based upon the Windows platform.
On the home front, I don't want my wife, for instance, to have to come to me for every nitpicking little thing as concerns her machine. I want her OS to be at least reasonably compliant and standard, so it'll run the things she uses without unnecessary hassles, I want her to be able to openly just click on "Updates" and get the latest changes, and I want her to be able to openly go to MS, her computer hardware maker, etc and ask for help when she has issues ... no problems ... because she's a legite customer.
Sorry for being so long. But I'm trying to be clear. There are very good and valid reasons for being a LEGITIMATE customer. I wasn't asking for any illegal hacks or cracks.
Not that I know that was what some of you were offering, I don't. I'm just confused about this product key/COA thing I'm guessing. I'm evidently not the least bit familiar with how it actually works.
I was presuming it was something like a method we use for products we sell. Customer gets a unique "key", if yah want to call it that. Although other info is also required, such as customer name, address, ec. Copy of software CD is freely copiable. Make all the backups yah want. Want to put software on a different puter? Be our guest. But first wipe it off the original puter. The software does "phone home" so to speak. We don't care about customer's personal business. Or whether or not customer moves software once a year, once a month, or once a day. <Shrug> Customer's copy, do as yah like. But if TWO running copies with same identifier "phone home", we're gonna ask questions. Or if one copy "phones home" and has an identifier we have no record for. There are ways to defeat this, of course. I haven't done so, but could probably do it myself. But I won't.
Want to run software on 2 machines at same time? Buy 2 copies. There is a discount for this. Also site licenses for running many copies.
I'm guessing MS's system is not like this? Must be. My head is still hurting. But that's not at all unusual for us knuckle draggers. We're always behind the times and have trouble with new concepts. :-)
Am I being told I can copy, for instance, my original ... it has the holograms and everything, Windows XP CD and use it to restore/reinstall my wife's system, as long as we enter that code on the sticker on the side of her new puter? Granting it's the same version of Windows? And everything will be legite?
I appreciate everything everyone has said so far, and REALLY appreciate the patience you've had with this Neanderthal.
The COA is your "Proof of Purchase" along with an original disc. However, each CD has a unique "Product Key" that uniquely identifies that copy of Windows, different from "CD Key" which is global. Windows Product Activation takes a snapshot of your hardware, and ties that with your "Product Key" and sends it to Microsoft to make sure that that "Product Key" is not installed on another machine at the same time. If you did not receive a CD with your Wife's PC, then the OEM has the CD on the hard drive on a recovery partition, or possibly somewhere under the Windows Directory...
Now, with that being said, you should be able to tell that you cannot legally use one of your other CD's and install it on her machine, as the hardware is different, and therefore Microsoft would know it is installed on 2 machines at once.
The CD Keys that the original poster was talking about are CD Keys designed for Manufacturers to use that are publicly available to get Windows installed on the machine.
Who manufactured your wife's new machine? Perhaps one of us could help you locate the CD's files on the Hard Drive.
One indicator that the OEM used a recovery partition is if you have a choice when booting to pick Windows XP or something else, and the other is if, when you look at the Hard Drive total capacity in Windows, it looks _way_ off from what the manufacturer said the total capacity would be (IE manufacturer says it is a 300GB drive and Windows reports it as a 250GB drive) If it says 279 GB, then that is fine because that is what my 300GB drive shows as and mine was bought at a retail outlet.
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You know, now using 1.3 RC I was experiencing a similar problem where I created user accounts for my kids and wife and when after booting into windows for the first time and attempting to log off it would just throw me back into the admin account. All I did was set up the user accoutns during first boot and then did a full restart and then all was fixed. I then had a login screen with all users and no admin showing, hope that helps you...
Gov
Your issue is because you set your computer to autologin as administrator one time, and so when you rebooted, it turned that off (no logging off does not do it, like you would think that it should..)
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No it isn't. If you integrated IE7 with RyanVM's 2.1.5a pack, you need to hit NO for browseui.dl_, shdocvw.dl_, and shlwapi.dl_.
Please make your own thread for this, as hijacking someone else's thread can get you in trouble.
Show Desktop is a known issue when integrating IE7.
Ok thanks for your fast reply!!
but still, I dont know what u mean by hit No for browseui.dl_, shdocvw.dl_, and shlwapi.dl_.Hehehe... Do you mean remove files? or keep? Please explain...
I ve found the solution for the desktop icon
run:
regsvr32 /s /n /i:U shell32
(then reboot)
Oops:P for hijacking someone else's thread
Then you integrate Ryan's pack and IE7 at the same time (like u are supposed to), you get a prompt keep the newer file (because IE7 uses an older version of a file). If you say yes to keep that file for those 2 files, you get IE7 with an IE6 UI which is pointless. Make sure you said no to those. This prompt appears during the actual integration process.
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bledd your comment throws up a question for me now. maybe if you come across this thread again you may want to answer this (or someone else who knows).
why do you believe one should refrain from using nLite on Business Computers?
is it because MS does not offer support for nLited systems?
or is there a severe consequence in some way to be expected?
please do not complain about this sort of question. I just figured i should maybe think about this issue since i haven't done this yet. I am actually using nLite on a business machine, well did use since its setup and working now ;-)
thx for your time...
Because the nlite license strictly forbids it. It is free for personal use, but use in any type of business environment is not allowed.
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Hi,
Dont know if this is a bug or something, here it goes:
"Show Desktop" icon on the quick launch is missing after intregrating IE7 with nLite.
Does anybody else have that problem too? Or is it just me?
Oh and a last question:
My IE7 ui looks like IE6; is that normal??
No it isn't. If you integrated IE7 with RyanVM's 2.1.5a pack, you need to hit NO for browseui.dl_, shdocvw.dl_, and shlwapi.dl_.
Please make your own thread for this, as hijacking someone else's thread can get you in trouble.
Show Desktop is a known issue when integrating IE7.
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I'm on 1.3RC
Are you using a clean source? This issue was fixed in 1.3RC and I haven't seen anyone else reporting it.
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Please, help me!!!!
In order to help you we need to see the file called 'Last Session.ini' in the root of your CD.
Thanks
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Yea! I came across hacking the msstyles file a couple of days ago.
I know alot of people have come across fonts not being applied on first boot.
I'm not sure if it can be done at all with .inf .reg or .cmd files as when a user logs in for the first time it applies the system's theme for the first time, and its within actuall .dll's and msstyle files that the font is chosen from.
I think the only way people can accomplish changing the fonts for first boot is by hacking these files.
Would be fantastic if nuhi was prepared to implement this feature!
Actually if you put a cmd file that has the right commands to register the font as default into
$OEM$\$1\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
then it will load it from the All Users Startup which gets run _after_ the desktop loads, and therefore afer the themes are applied.
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Hi everyone, I'm kinda new to this nlite thingy and I really love it. Thanks alot to nuhi for this. My system runs much faster and smoother.
But I have two problems which I hope someone can help me solve.
1. I want nlite to run a reg file automatically at the last stage of windows unattended installation. After reading around I belive it can be done with runonce function. But I don't know how to set it. How do I tell "runonce" where is the reg file located and to run it once windows has been installed without any yes/no to continue popups?
2. I have a unknown device sitting in device manager. I removed all drivers in windows and integrated all drivers my motherboard needs and other cards I have in my computer. Is there a way to find out what is the unknown device? (I have removed some of the hardware support which i don't need/exist in my computer like floppydrive, via ide, intel ide, battery and so on) Is there something I should not delete as windows will use it as a generic support for other things?
Thanks alot in advance. And once more thanks alot to nuhi for having made such an excellent software and giving it away FREE!!!
You can go to the Unattended Section of nlite and under the runonce tab, type regedit /s file.reg
File.reg should be the full path to the registry file on your CD.
To answer your other question, we need system specs (motherboard manufacturer and model, and manufacturer and model of any addon cards). We also need you to attach your 'Last Session.ini' file (should be in the root of the CD, please do not paste it).
Thanks.
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Thanks for your replies...
It's been a messy day with this server. HP shipped it with only one of the two RAID hard disks, and I went ahead and prepped it, thinking I could just add the other disk later and synch it up. Wrong - with this particular SATA RAID controller, the RAID configuration wipes out all existing data on the disks.
That's how I discovered that the drives are currently using the controller as a standard atapi drive.
Anyway, it's an HP ML150 G3 server with an on-board SATA RAID controller. The textsetup.oem file calls it:
"Adaptec SATA Drive v1.00 (Windows 32 bit for 2000/XP/2003)"
I figured if it was being loaded, I could press F6 anyway, and before I put the disk in the A: drive it would show the drivers already loaded and offer to load more. However, the list of drivers loaded was empty - the atapi driver wasn't there either. I'm wondering if the RAID actually has to be enabled in order for this thing to reject the atapi drive and look for something else...
No matter what, I will need to install the driver. I'm trying to do it without having to try it first (using the nLite CD) and then running out to find a floppy drive just to install the driver...
This nLite looks great for this sort of thing - I'm eager to play around with it and see what it can do. While the integrated driver feature brought me here, there are lots of interesting features...
**** UPDATE ****
I figured I had to reformat anyway, so I ran through the install. While formatting, it said "Formatting DISK 1 on atapi..." or something to that affect. So, I guess these disks appear like a standard disk drive unless the RAID is created first in the BIOS.
I'll know more when I get the second drive.
Thanks for your replies...
Based on your description of it, that is correct. RAID cannot be enabled unless you have 2 disks in the machine (on any RAID controller). Well it can be enabled, but it wont let you use the drives if there is only 1 drive in there. So while the drive is in IDE mode it will function like a normal ATA controller, however when you add the other hard drive, and enable RAID, you will _have_ to reformat again. Since you dont have a floppy drive, I recommend going ahead and nliting your CD so that the RAID controller drivers are on there for when you do have to reinstall.
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Hi
I'm using the latest nLite and have created a 7GB image with all my desired apps on as well so I don't have to have lots of discs lying around.
The current nLite buring is bust as reported so I use it to create the image then burn with Nero, the burn is fine and on bootup it gets to the "Setup is checking you..." then it either hangs or promptly resets the PC.
Is this a hardware/bios issue or can you not have Dual Layer boot DVDs?
Any help/thoughts appreciated
Si
Dual Layer DVD's should work fine, so it may be a hardware issue, however your normal CD may not exhibit the same problem.
Could you attach (don't paste it) your 'Last Session.ini' file? Thanks
Also, what version of Windows XP is your original CD? (Pro, Home, Tablet PC, MCE 2002, MCE 2005; Gold, SP1, or SP2?)
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I just got a brand new HP server. It has a SATA RAID controller (on-board), which has its own driver, but will also use a standard atapi driver. Instructions say to use a floppy disk (you know, Press F6...) to install during setup, but the blasted server has no floppy drive. (Stupid HP!) And HP, in their infinite wisdom, shipped the server withonly one drive (contrary to the specs on the web site) with a partially preloaded install script. I can't just add a second drive, becasue the SATA controller won't retain the ionformation on the existing drive - it wipes it out completely!
So, I have resigned myself to redoing from the beginning...
If I use the atapi driver, I get no RAID. Without a floppy drive, I gotta use nLite to create an install Disk1 with the driver integrated. How will I know (before I reformat the blasted thing) if it actually is using the driver I integrated or if it's using the standard atapi driver?
Can anyone advise me?
Without reformatting there isn't a way. However if you integrate the driver, and make your CD, then when you pop it in and boot from it, look for the name of the controller along the bottom. If you see it, then you know it is using the driver. If you get an error before you get to the reformat section then the driver didnt integrate properly, and if you get prompted for the disc for your "devices that could not be identified" then it didnt integrate at all.
However in order to make sure that it does NOT use the atapi driver, edit your txtsetup.sif file and go to the [sCSI] and [sCSI.Load] sections and remove the lines starting with atapi. Of course if you do this, it may still not work, as the SATA RAID controller may still need the ATAPI driver in order to read the CD and the driver you are trying to integrate may work in conjunction with the ATAPI driver, I am not sure.
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I recently created a Windows XP CD using nLite, slipstreaming in various addons and setting it up to be an unattended install. But whenever I try to boot from a CD created by nLite, I get the message: "Please insert the disk labeled Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 CD into drive A"
The CD I'm using to get the setup files already has Service Pack 2 on it and everything. I've done some searching on the internet, and found that the problem is often caused by a missing WIN51IP.SP2 file (or win51ip.sp2 apparently capitals matter). On the CD I have, the file is there, spelled in lowercase. After applying nLite, the file becomes uppercase. I tried changing it back before making the ISO, but it didn't help.
I've tried running the ISO in Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 and qemu, as well as burning the CD and trying it on my laptop. Still the same error.
Does anyone have any ideas on what's wrong?
Please attach your winnt.sif file (dont paste it, attach please).
I will guide you. Was the original CD a CD like a Dell reinstall cd, or a HP reinstall CD, or something like that?
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but how can i fix this in a already installed system without using nlite?, a mean how can i change de registry values?
Right click on the key and click Permissions
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Hi,
The Notepad2 addons I've found don't work nicely.
One installs in the program files folder. And another one doesn't replace the original.
The original Notepad has version 5.1.xxx and Notepad2 has version 1.0.12.
So nLite asks during the process 'Would you like to keep the newer file?'.
No, I don't. What I would like is to change the addon so Notepad2 is copied.
The current contents of the entries file are:
[general]
builddate=23/12/2006
description=Notepad2
language=English
version=1.0.12
website=http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.htmlI know you can manually hack the executable and change the version, but is there another way?
Maybe with obsolete_files or something? Could you give me some info?
Thanks.
flags=IgnoreFileVersions
That goes just below the website= line and is exactly what you are looking for.
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Okay that din't work, having chosen only specific drivers (chipset,audio,video,lan,wlan etc) gives me the exakt same result, Plug & Play monitor pops up during the unattended device identification process...
What to do???
Do you happen to have an external monitor hooked up to the pc or to a dock? If so, it is probably that windows is detecting that
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Here's the file from the cd that i burned that had both the "parameter is incorrect" message while trying to integrate the drivers and gave me the "disc 2" needed prompt...
As for the parameter is incorrect, this message appears while nlite is running, during the integrating drivers stage of "nlite-ing" your cd, correct?
If so, look in the root of the CD or in your nlite\presets directory if you havent already reformatted and attach the file called 'Last Session.ini'.
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Here's the file from the cd that i burned that had both the "parameter is incorrect" message while trying to integrate the drivers and gave me the "disc 2" needed prompt...
The txtsetup.sif file is looking for disc 2 of your Dell Windows CD's it looks like, in order to restore Dell apps and crap.
I'll check the parameter is incorrect in a minute and see what I can come up with
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I'm unsure why the tooltips.reg file you posted has contents as follows:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Visu-alEffects\TooltipAnimation]
"SetWindowPos"="HwndInsertAfter, Hwnd_Top"
"SetForegroundWindow"=dword:00000001When it should be this:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\TooltipAnimation]
"SetWindowPos"="HwndInsertAfter, Hwnd_Top"
"SetForegroundWindow"=dword:00000001I checked this in both Notepad and Notepad++.
Strange byte you got there.As I said, this was taken from Google Groups, the code is not mine. Why it has a hyphen in it I dunno and why it works with the hyphen I dunno. @Tarun, read the post directly above yours.
Hell I'm gonna edit the first post now so it dont have the **** hyphen because it isnt in the original post on GG but it gets pasted when I paste into notepad... who knows?
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but still, I dont know what u mean by hit No for browseui.dl_, shdocvw.dl_, and shlwapi.dl_.
1.3 RC "Parameter is Incorrect" message
in nLite
Posted
Well there isnt a debug log unfortunately. Looking at your last session.ini though, for some reason I have a hunch that the culprit is the SATA RAID drivers.
Rather than manually adding each driver one-by-one, though you can narrow the list down a lot faster by just taking half of the drivers out. If it gives you the error, then take another half out, leaving you with ...well you get it.