[two simple questions]

about 1 I am not sure.

for 2, however, nlite can burn a dvd. Just stick a dvd in the drive and it will detect and burn just fine. If you want, though you can make an iso, and then burn it with your favorite program, its up to you

[msconfig missing?]

Title and description explains it all, however I think that this is due to:

msconfig.exe = 100,,,,,,,,3,3

should be:

msconfig.exe = 100,,,,,,,2,3,3

in txtsetup.sif.

2 being the system32 directory in WinNtDirectories

It is possible that whatever component that removes msconfig by default has modified the line and the keep files (msconfig is listed there by default) isnt preserving the copy-to directory..

ini is attached.

P.S. That only started with 1.3 as far as I know

LAST_SESSION.INI

[Used nLite on Dell Reinstallation DVD -> WFP comes up a lot now...]

I have never seen WFP prompt me to insert original install CDs before but now that I have use nLite to make a installation CD from a Dell Reinstallatoin DVD it is coming up after every driver install (mouse, video, sound, monitor, etc). Does anyone else know why this might be the case? I have been told WFP is usually on but again, I've never seen this happen with ALL of my device drivers before...

Any info would be great,

Thanks!

Known issue. It isn't anything to do with the PC being a Dell or the fact that it's on a DVD.

It's triggered by slipstreaming or integrating SP2.

If SP2 isn't slipstreamed or integrated, this problem isn't known to occur.

This must only happen on certain CD's then cause I have an OEM (non-corp) Pro SP1 Hologram CD that I slipstreamed SP2 to, and I have no problems. I have been using nlite on that for a while now.

[nhelper error ... something to do ? patch ? help please]

hello,

i have the nhelper error .... i know, there is no more problem with the new nlite version, but i would like to know if it is possible to patch my PC to remove this error .... i have spend 3 hours to install -))

thanks for answer

have someone send you the file uncompressed and just download it to your windows\system32 dir

[silent install]

they both dont work

the silent thing with kaspersky doesnt work, /passive does but the /norestart doesn't work so it will still restart but i dunno if that will happen during the install of windows.

and for nod it just doesn't work

for Kaspersky (Installshield), extract file to a temp folder, go to temp folder and delete setup.iss

then run setup.exe with -r

Choose your options, and make sure you pick do not restart at the end.

Then go to windows dir and move setup.iss from there to the temp folder you installed from.. Then when you run setup.exe run it with -s and it will install silent and not restart..

/norestart was actually for nod32, not kaspersky, so try /norestart on nod32 and see if it works.

[user creation in unattended failing]

**bump**

anyone??

Are you using 1.3 BETA or 1.3 RC? Try 1.3 RC and it shouldnt happen

[Weird desktop problem]

Thanks, I'll test that out when I get back to my regular computer. Hopefully it's just those, since nothing else I've tried has been able to fix it.

what order are you integrating them in? I do ryanvm update first then wmp11 then the others, and havent seen this before.

[nLite 1.3 RC2 - Santa's patch 2]

@nuhi - Is possible for you insert my personal new feature request in to one of the next build of nlite?

My requests are:

UPDATE

- Remotion of "Malicious Software Removal Tool"

- If removed "images and background" preserve "luna bliss wallpaper" (if this is not already implemented)

- If removed "screen savers" automatically preserve "logon.scr - scrnsave.scr - ssmypics.scr" (if this is not already implemented)

- If removed "telnet service" automatically preserve "telnet.exe" (if this is not already implemented)

TWEAK

- Add "Turn off Automatic Updates" (security center related settings)

- Add "Show Quick Launch" (taskbar related settings)

- Add "Turn off Advanced text services" (keyboard/language related settings)

FEATURES

- From "unattended" tab of nlite "misc" options: add ability to "Turn off Security Center" (monitor section and service)

- From "unattended" tab of nlite "misc" options: add ability to "Disable UPnP" (like grc.com upnp disabler)

- From "unattended" tab of nlite "misc" options: add ability to "Disable Messenger Service"

- From "regional" tab of nlite "keyboard" option: insert ability to add more keyboard layouts (for example english keyboard with english - italian - french - and spanish layouts)

- From "patches" tab: add ability to set dos mode windows installation video @ 1024x768

- From "patches" tab: add ability to enable "RAID5" support

- From "patches" tab: re-add usb freq 1000

DEPENDANCE COMMENT

- If "Terminal Services" are removed event log report infrared error (for full remotion of terminal services remove also infrared support and drivers)

FIX

- Burning problem (direct burning and image burning)

Thanks!

UPDATE

- Remotion of "Malicious Software Removal Tool"

Remove files section (same place keep files is) put MRT.exe

- If removed "images and background" preserve "luna bliss wallpaper" (if this is not already implemented)

already answered

- If removed "screen savers" automatically preserve "logon.scr - scrnsave.scr - ssmypics.scr" (if this is not already implemented)

already answered

- If removed "telnet service" automatically preserve "telnet.exe" (if this is not already implemented)

already answered

TWEAK

- Add "Turn off Automatic Updates" (security center related settings)

Already implemented (unattended section)

- Add "Show Quick Launch" (taskbar related settings)

Good request

- Add "Turn off Advanced text services" (keyboard/language related settings)

Good request

FEATURES

- From "unattended" tab of nlite "misc" options: add ability to "Turn off Security Center" (monitor section and service)

This would be nice too

- From "unattended" tab of nlite "misc" options: add ability to "Disable UPnP" (like grc.com upnp disabler)

Dont matter to me but I guess some people want it

- From "unattended" tab of nlite "misc" options: add ability to "Disable Messenger Service"

Already implemented, from options, under services just change from default to disabled

- From "regional" tab of nlite "keyboard" option: insert ability to add more keyboard layouts (for example english keyboard with english - italian - french - and spanish layouts)

Can this even be done manually?

- From "patches" tab: add ability to set dos mode windows installation video @ 1024x768

Changing textmode resolution would be a BIG plus IMHO

- From "patches" tab: add ability to enable "RAID5" support

Just use the addon that is on RyanVM's site

- From "patches" tab: re-add usb freq 1000

Requested before, nuhi said no

DEPENDANCE COMMENT

- If "Terminal Services" are removed event log report infrared error (for full remotion of terminal services remove also infrared support and drivers)

These shouldnt be tied together.. Bug?

FIX

- Burning problem (direct burning and image burning)

Already reported (by me), nuhi is testing and will fix or ask for additional info

[new installation, cant login]

1.3 beta had this problem, 1.3 RC does not. Make sure you are using 1.3 RC

[Scsi driver integration problem]

You are most likely correct. Try removing components first, then in a separate session add your driver, and it should work.

[(bug) Integrating IE7 using Win2003 R2 don't work]

Hi

I was using a Windows Server 2003 R2 (standard edition) disc with nLite, it works without problem with drivers and hotfixes but is impossible to integrate internet explorer 7.

The process in nLite complete with no warning or other but the system installation goes bad a lot before than the serial number, regional setting, computer name, etc.etc. are asked.

An error popup appear with a message about something to do with LSASS.EXE for less than one second and then the system automatically reboot.

after that windows try to resume the install process and again the LSASS error and a new reboot in an endless cycle.

This only occurs with the combination of Windows 2003 R2 and IE7 integrated (with or without other hotfixes/addons), there are no problem using Windows 2003 R2 integrated with hotfixes and then manually installing IE7

Sorry for my bad english but is not my first language

Sounds like a bug with nlite integrating ie7. There are still a few small issues with it and it seems you ran into one of them. Nuhi may have a fix in the next release. Are you using nlite 1.3RC or an older version?

[SIF error: WinNTDirectories Value 0 Key 307 and $OEM$ folder]

I added the line from the Dell DVD file to the nLite file and things seem to work great. I also deleted the $OEM$ directory and saved almost 2 gigs off of the DVD that nLite burned... Not sure why it did not delete all that itself but the program rocks!

nlite wont remove your oem directories itself, you have to remove it manually. However you could go to unattended setup and turn off the OemPreinstall. That will stop the $OEM$ folder from being copied to your HD from the CD, and stop everything in it from being installed too, however deleting it works better and saves space too!

[[REQUEST] Change Display Fonts - Add to Tweaks section?]

You have your own fonts, and integrated them with setup, and then have a reg tweak that sets them as the defaults, correct? But they dont apply until after rebooting.

If that is the case, it sounds like you are applying the reg tweak at RunOnceEx (after first boot)

Your best bet would be to make a second tweak file specifically for these fonts, and have cmdlines.txt call "regedit /s fonts.reg". Make sure you put the correct path to the fonts.reg file

If that doesnt work, try adding that same line to your runonceex.cmd file without the reg add stuff in front of it, and that should do it.

[agp440.sys missing ("Keep files" broken?)]

I changed the title of the topic: it seemed everybody thought "problem solved".

(see previous post)

I think the easiest way to fix this would be to manually add it to txtsetup.sif and i386. Take your original CD, and extract the file from driver.cab. Search txtsetup.sif for the line that starts with that file's name and has a bunch of commas in it, and copy it to another file.

Then run nlite on the CD

Then after it is finished, go back to txtsetup.sif, to the same section you copied the line from and paste it back in. Then copy the file back to the i386 dir, and go to i386 in a command prompt.

In the command prompt, type makecab agp440.sys

That will make agp440.sy_ so you can delete agp440.sys

That way the file is there....

[Used nLite on Dell Reinstallation DVD -> WFP comes up a lot now...]

The easiest way is to remake the disc, and under the options section, in the patches tab, disable SFC.

You can also search the forums or google for Disable SFC

To do it on your running copy, go to System Properties (Right click My Computer, click properties), Hardware tab, click Driver signing, and click ignore. Make sure the check box at the bottom is checked, click ok, ok again, and reboot.

[focus and bring to front]

Thats easy lol. Get tweakui from the ms website. The enable and disable for it is in there as well.

[focus and bring to front]

focus and bring to front? focus what and bring to front, specifically? Is this a tweak, or addon, or what?

[Classic start button/taskbar not wanted..]

I was able to get nLite to make my Dell XP MCE DVD much more like what I wanted but post-install I have a classic taskbar and start button... I'd like to get the green button and blue taskbar back, how can I do this? I have ensured the themes service is set to automatic but I'm not sure how to change the themes and having the service started hasn't helped anything...

Thanks

Windo

I have this same thing happen as well. It seems to stem from one of the addons (or possibly the number of addons I integrate at once). When I cut my list of addons to integrate at once down to around 10-12 it works fine, if I do more, then it happens, but I am thinking it is one of the addons I integrate over the 12, as I do them in a specific order. I am testing this one out to figure out the problem.

However I have always (AFAIK) been able to get the themes to show up once I manually chose classic, applied, and then chose xp again and applied again.... Try that and report back if it doesnt work. Since I am in the middle of testing this, once I figure out which addon, or if it is the number of addons, I will keep this topic updated.

Could you post your "Last Session.ini" file so I can compare the differences? Please dont paste it, just attach it with the attach button. Thx

[Tweaks and different options pages in Control Panel]

bump.. any ideas?

[SiS drivers will not integrate!]

The reason the error occurs when you go to install while using the floppy is because txtsetup.sif is looking for the file on the CD and it isnt there (which is why it is not loading during the f6 part when you dont use the floppy). use makecab to compress the sisraid.sys file, then look thru txtsetup.sif for sisraid.sys (you are looking for a line that has a bunch of commas on it), the first number after the equal sign is the folder it is trying to find that file in, so go back to the top of the file and do a search for that number. Once you find it under the winntdirectories section, copy the sisraid.sy_ file you made with makecab into that folder..

nuhi's method is definitely easier lol but i just figured i would give you some more info

[Feature Request (Drivers used during textmode setup)]

When I said that something was causing textmode to bluescreen, I figured out that it was the way I was integrating my SATA RAID driver.. I copied the hardwaredeviceids incorrectly to my txtsetup.sif... Once I corrected that everything loaded perfectly..

As for using nlite to remove the scsi drivers completely and that stopping them from loading, the reason I dont do that is because I currently have no use for the ones that load during textmode, however I still want the SCSI drivers there post-install, in case I later add a SCSI card and only need an MS driver, not the OEM driver from the manufacturer. It's weird I know but I'm finnicky lol..

EDIT: Turns out that the bluescreen mentioned above was due to that but then I re-edited and apparently took something out that caused the darn thing to bluescreen again, so I will test and figure out what it is. It seems to do it even without my sata driver tho too, so I know its not a combination of both my adding the driver and taking something else out. Once I know, I will post it.

[Feature Request (Drivers used during textmode setup)]

well it depends on which drivers you are wanting to prevent loading.

For SCSI I remove from [sCSI] and [sCSI.Load]

I will note that people need to be careful with this, as one time, I apparently removed something that was used by my system and caused _textmode_ to Bluescreen, I ended up having to remake the whole CD.

[Tweaks and different options pages in Control Panel]

So basically, I set some tweaks, like having the Control Panel icon in the Start Menu Display as a Menu, and then install (tested on XP style, only not classic).

Then go to Control Panel -> Taskbar and Start Menu, click Start Menu tab, click Customize (next to Start Menu, not Classic Start Menu), then click Advanced tab, and all of the options in the middle are gone..

If I enable the tweak: disable and remove recent documents list from start menu, then the text, checkbox, and button for Recent Documents all go away.

EDIT: Another one that gets disabled is when you set System Restore in the unattended section, it is hidden in System Properties. Same for Remote Desktop and Automatic Updates. This only started happening with the RC, beta1 didnt have this problem.

Seems like nlite is setting some group policies to disallow access to things, even though IMHO it shouldnt be set.

[Feature Request (Drivers used during textmode setup)]

In txtsetup.sif there are a couple of sections that load drivers for various controllers and the like for use during textmode setup, that I will never use (Adaptec SCSI controllers, heck any SCSI controller, Dynamic Disk Support, PCMCIA since I am on a desktop). I can manually remove these drivers from the file, causing them to not load, and therefore decreasing the amount of time before setup prompts me to format my drives by at least a minute or two.

It would be nice if, within nlite, in the component removal section, there was a textmode drivers section in the tree where I could remove the ones I never use, instead of having to do so manually after each time I re-nlite my source.

All that needs to be removed to prevent loading for use during textmode is 2 lines per device from txtsetup.sif, none of the actual driver files need to be removed, so it doesnt really decrease the source or install size (a few kb is all), but it does lessen the setup time. If you want assistance in doing this manually or, nuhi, if you want to know what sections I remove lines from, so that you can have nlite take care of it, just post here and I can tell you.

[nLite 1.3 beta - Santa's confession]

Someone said to check my PM's. If they mean the inbox on this site, it's always been empty.

Hmm, I'll resend the message then. I will email you the file for 1.3 beta if you will PM me your email address..