Martin H

I personally install Fx with a 7z switchless installer like this : start /wait setup.exe /S move override.ini "%programfiles%\Mozilla Firefox\" move /y bookmarks.html "%programfiles%\Mozilla Firefox\defaults\profile\" move /y localstore.rdf "%programfiles%\Mozilla Firefox\defaults\profile\" move /y mimeTypes.rdf "%programfiles%\Mozilla Firefox\defaults\profile\" move prefs.js "%programfiles%\Mozilla Firefox\defaults\profile\" move flashplayer.xpt "%programfiles%\Mozilla Firefox\plugins\" move NPSWF32.dll "%programfiles%\Mozilla Firefox\plugins\" move NPSWF32_FlashUtil.exe "%programfiles%\Mozilla Firefox\plugins\" for %%g in (*.xpi) do "%programfiles%\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -install-global-extension "%%g" "%programfiles%\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -setDefaultBrowser -silent One thing that is beginning to drive me mad is that when making a for loop to install two extensions globally, then only one of my two extensions get's installed. If i instead ditch the for loop and just use two seperate lines to install the extensions, then only the first one listed will be installed. When i reverse the two lines, then the other extension gets installed, as it's now on top, but not the other one on the line beneath. On Ryan's forum, then i read someone saying that he had tried to add a pause between the installation lines in his batch file and that this also didn't helped any, but if i don't hear anything else, then i will test this myself tomorrow also.. Thank's in advance.

'ndntenst.exe' : Standard(non-admin) english retail edition for NT/2K/XP/Vista. 'nentenst.exe' : Standard(non-admin) english trial edition for NT/2K/XP/Vista. Yes, both editions uses the same reg entries and accepts the '/silentmode' switch.

@Macstorm Thank you for your explanation, mate I'm pretty surpriced at your discoveries i must admit, but however i do believe what your saying, though I generally just look at the total detection scores on the AV Comparatives tests(instead of checking e.g. trojans or viruses by itself), so i don't really know what the tests says about NOD32's specific trojan detection capabilities. Personally, then i have never been infected with anything myself, but still use NOD32 just in case, and so i generally just trust the AV-Comparatives scores, as i don't really have much experience with this myself. Anyway, thank's again for elaborating, mate CU, Martin.

Huh ??? NOD32, Kaspersky, AntiVir and Norton/Symantec AV is among the very best when detection accuracy is concerned(AV Comparatives). I personally use NOD32 because of it's great detection rates, low memory footprint, unbloatedness, nice clean interface and as it dosen't bother you much and you just set it and forget it.

@FrizzleFry There is a 'Allow receiving Remote Assistance' tweak in nLite. If you wan't to remove 'Remote Assistance' completely, then select 'Terminal Services' under 'Components > Services'. This will also remove the 'Remote Assistance' shortcut in the startmenu and the 'Remote Assistance' folder located in '%programfiles%'. Beware however, that this last option will additionally also break 'Remote Desktop', 'Fast User Switching' and 'Terminal Server'. CU, Martin.

I had once previously looked at regshot, but quickly ditched it again since it, like most others, didn't supported outputting the captured registry entries into a reg file or in reg file format. I mean, just the bare though of having to e.g. manually import a wealth of seperate registry entries from regedit.exe and copy/paste them each into a reg file with notepad.exe, just to be able to make a 7-Zip, foobar2000 or Media Player Classic 7z switchless installer with all it's supported file type associations pre-enabled, was simply to much to bare. But now after albator had recommended regshot in this thread, then i decided to check out the regshot homepage once more and about halfway down the page, then i saw mentioned a modification of regshot done by Paraglider, which added reg file format output capabilities, and now after having tested it out briefly, then i can happily say that i will be using this fine regshot mod instead of RegSnap from now on. It always makes me happy when i can get to exchange propriotary software out with freeware or open-source alternatives which functiones just as good or even better than the propriotary packages many times. I really love the simplistic interface of regshot, and that it does exactly what you need and not a penny more, so i just wanted to say many thanks to albator for his recomendation of regshot, since it lead me to discover this absolutely awesome modification of regshot, done by Paraglider, which makes an allready great app even more genious I really appreciate it, mate Paraglider's modified version of regshot v1.7.2 : http://regshot.blog.googlepages.com/RegShot1725.cab CU, Martin.

1. Start WMP11 and minimize it. 2. Start RegSnap and press F2 and select 'Registry snapshot only' and 'OK' and wait till it's done. 3. Maximize WMP11 and make the change you need captured and close the app. 4. Maximize RegSnap and press F2 and select 'OK' and wait till it's done. 5. Then press F5 and select 'Show modified key names and key values' and 'Generate REG files' and disable 'Truncate long dunps' and select 'Map keynames to current user' and then 'OK'. Now you can see the new or changed registry entries listed, and in '%programfiles%\RegSnap\', you now have two reg files; One which ends with 'Redo.reg' and one with 'Undo.reg'. The 'Redo.reg' is the one you will need. I personally always look the reg files over first, and if there are some entries which is set by Windows and not the app itself, or some entries which are redundant, then i delete them.

If you have a big harddrive with much free space, then you will get the best performance from only partitioning your drive into one single partition and keeping the used data consolidated towards the outer tracks. Each additional partition made, will be located more and more towards the inner tracks and hence, will decrease it's performance more and more also. However, even though it's not optimal in terms of performance, then i personally always partition my drive into two seperate partitions. One system partition for Windows and all installed apps and then a data partition for all the other personal data, like backups, movies, music and document etc. The reason for me doing this is because of two simple, but for me very important and top priority reasons : I can make a backup image of my system drive onto my data drive for easy and efficient backups, and i can reinstall Windows or restore an image without having to copy all my data back from DVD+Rs afterwards. Some ppl will also install all there apps on a different partition than the system partition, but as Zxian very correctly previously stated, then that dosen't make any sence at all, since many apps have countless of registry entries, files and shortcuts still stored on the system partition anyways. Personally, then i really don't understand the need for making more than just the two standard partitions. As i said, if you have much free space, then you will loose performance from each extra partition made, and although i don't think that it's logical to make only one partition, except purely performance wise, then i also don't think that it's logical to make more than two. The second data partition can store everything besides Windows and installed program files, so the extra partitions that some ppl make for e.g. storing their 'Documents and Settings' folder, or whatever, i just feel makes better sence to just place in a folder on the data partition also. Just my two cents Edit: Made seperate paragraphs for better readability.

I personally use RegSnap to capture the reg entries of the program changes i want to retain and which isn't easily distinguished manually. There are several of these registry tracer type of apps, but RegSnap can e.g. export the captured entries directly to a regfile, include a 'Undo' regfile, convert all instances of 'HKEY_USERS\<current-user-ID' to 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER', while also listing any possible file changes. There's a 30 day free trial and the Standard edition costs 39 USD or 31 Euro. Most ppl dosen't need the Professional edition, as it merely adds a command-line interface and remote registry capturing capabilities.

@prathapml Thank you very much, my friend I really appreciate your kind words and help, mate @all I have just found out that if wanting to do boot time defragging with UltimateDefrag, then the file 'UDBDef.exe' explicitly needs to be placed in '%windir%\system32\', as else 'UDEFRAG.EXE' cannot locate it and boot time defragging will fail to start. I just wanted to make this correction, since i previously wrote that 'UDBDef.exe' could just be placed in the programs local folder. Btw, i have now completely made up my mind about which defragging app in my oppenion is the very best at what it does and to me it's defenetely UltimateDefrag which takes the first place I have now completely uninstalled PerfectDisk v8.0.64 Pro. from my system, since i have no use for anything else when having the encredibly versatile UltimateDefrag installed. Not to say that PerfectDisk isn't good, since it really is a very good app, no doubt about that, but i just think that UltimateDefrag is better. There are only two very minor things which i don't like about UltimateDefrag, but as it's not related to it's defragging strategies, then i can perfectly live with it anyways; It dosen't retain the last window state(maximized) and also not the 'Put directories close to MFT' setting of the 'Auto' mode. I am really glad that i read this thread, so that i would get to learn about this awesome piece of software, so i would just like to express my sincerest gratitude towards the nice person(s) who recommended it Thank's alot, mate(s) CU, Martin.

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Sorry for being somewhat off-topic, and i promise that this is the last post about this... I just wanted to give a little tip to others who also want's to make a 7z switchless installer of UltimateDefrag, and the tip is relevant no matter if using the installer or not to install the app. When making the 7z switchless installer, then you of course include the xml file which stores your configuration settings, so that when the app is installed, then all your changes are restored and so you don't need to waste time making those changes again. But then when you start UltimateDefrag v1.54 for the very first time, then it will still ask you to questions which aren't stored in the xml configuration settings file, so those dialogs will still come up, even though you include an xml file where you allready have answered those questions. Those two questions, or warnings as they actually are is a) if you want to turn Windows own boot optimize function off, which is enabled by default, and which will mess with UltimateDefrags own strategies and b] if you want to set UltimateDefrag as the default defragging app on your system. It is recommended to answer 'OK' to both of these warning/questions, and then the answer is stored in two registry keys, and not in the xml settings file. To avoid those two dialogs upon first run of UltimateDefrag, then add a reg file into your 7z switchless installer/nLite addon, which includes the following : Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\DefragPath] @="C:\\Program Files\\UltimateDefrag\\UDEFRAG.EXE" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Dfrg\BootOptimizeFunction] "Enable"="N" Note : You need to change the path of the first reg key to match the correct path for where you have UltimateDefrag installed. The above used path is the one i myself use, but that's because i install the app myself with the 7z installer and don't use the official installer, and since i like this path better than the default one, but if you use the installer, then the correct path is : C:\\Program Files\\DiskTrix\\UltimateDefrag\\UDEFRAG.EXE Note : You also need to change the %programfiles% path if using a localized OS version. Then if you do like me and bypass the installer, then you of course also need to include one extra reg key, which is the one that i posted in my previous post, so that the reg file then becomes : Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AeDebug] "FRAGIA"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\DefragPath] @="C:\\Program Files\\UltimateDefrag\\UDEFRAG.EXE" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Dfrg\BootOptimizeFunction] "Enable"="N" Final note : As prathapml also kindly mentioned previously, then during install of UltimateDefrag then a file called "UDBDef.exe" is placed in '%windir%\system32\'. This file isn't needed for normal defragging jobs, but it's a good idea to include it anyway, since it's used for boot time defrags(just place it in the folder where the main exe is, if you aren't using the installer). Again, sorry for being somewhat off-topic, and i will rest my case now, but i just thought that i would post this so that hopefully someone else would be able to benefit from it CU, Martin.

Hi prathapml. I just wanted to say many thank's for trying to help me out with this issue, i really appreciate it Also, many thank's for the PM, it's was very kind of you, my friend It was a very good guess to think that you would need the 'UDBDef.exe' file from 'system32', but i actually allready knew about that file, since i saw that it was made during install with a file/registry monitor i used to capture the registry entries and file changes with during the install(RegSnap) and the very first thing i tried was to place that file in the apps directory(and afterwards in 'system32'), but that wasen't the reason for the app wouldn't start, and infact, i don't know what's the use of that file at all, since defragging works perfectly without it ? I think that it's probably something about scheduling or something like that, but i personally always just manually defrag. Anyway, after almost have gone mad finding a solution to this problem, then i have finally solved it When i first captured the reg entries during the install, then there where some entries which looked very much like it was Windows itself which had made them and not the installer, so i filtered them out manually and only kept them that i could see was made by the app, but as the big id*** that i am, then i haden't even tried to merge the complete captured reg file with all the entries, and now after having thought of that and trying it out, then it finally worked So then after manually going through the keys and testing which one was the needed one, then i finally located the exact key needed for the main exe to run standalone. Remember that if anyone tests this yourself, then it maybe seems like there isn't an issue at all, and that i'm just fuc**** somthing up myself, but that is then just because that you yourself have run the installer previously before on your PC and even though uninstalling the app, then the uninstaller still leaves the needed reg key behind, so that the main exe can run fine without doing anything, but that will obviously not work on an unattended Windows CD, where i want to avoid the installer. Again, prathapml - I really appreciate you trying to help me out, mate Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AeDebug] "FRAGIA"=dword:00000000

Now after having tryed both PerfectDisk and UltimateDefrag, then i'm mostly leaning towards UltimateDefrag, i most confess. It dosen't have two processes running all the time and taking about 9MB RAM in all, which is another plus also. Of course i can set them to 'manual', but then i'd also have to stop them after each defrag job additionally. I also like UltimateDefrag's GUI the best, although PerfectDisk's isn't bad either, but just a little bit more "eye-candy'ed", but still far less than many other apps out there. The circular diagram of the drive is also a fine detail, but it's not such a big deal to me personally. Then the biggest factor, by far, is how the defragging works in general. PerfectDisk and UltimateDefrag seems to defrag files and space about the same i would say, but the difference is in their file placement strategies. PerfectDisk only has one startegy, which is a good startegy, since it makes future defrag jobs take less time, but however, dosen't really have anything going towards faster access time of most frequently used files. UltimateDefrag has many different strategies, but the one i like the best is simply the 'Auto' one. This strategy will just like PerfectDisk make future defrags faster, but in addition to that, then it will also make most frequently accessed files to be loading faster additionally, in contrary to PerfectDisk. PerfectDisk makes future defrags faster by placing least modified files together at the outer tracks of the drive and then the more frequently modified files after them. This will make future defrags faster since most of the files at the outer tracks will not have to be moved and so the only files needing to be moved are the ones after them and that only takes a minimum of moved clusters to make them defragmented again, but won't speed up file loading of most frequently used files, but actually instead make all the least used files the fastest to load instead. UltimateDefrag, in it's 'Auto' mode, places the least frequently accessed files together at the inner tracks of the drive, so that future defrags will be faster, since these files probably will stay the same. However, all the most frequently accessed files is placed together at the outer tracks, so that they will load the fastest. To me then this last startegy of UltimateDefrag sounds the most intelligent to me, i must say. The only problem i now have is that i don't know how to make a 7z switchless installer of the app's main files and that way bypass the installer, which i don't like to be run as it isn't completely silent unfortunetly. I have tried to use a debugger during running the main exe and when the error message comes up about UltimateDefrag isn't installed proppely, then the debugger shows that the error was : ERROR_SXS_KEY_NOT_FOUND ???. i don't actually have any experience in using a debugger, but as far as i could see then that was the problem shown. All the dll's that were called, seemed to just be standard windows system dlls, so i don't know what that irritating exe needs to run standalone. Dependency Walker dosen't seem to help either, so again, if anybody knows what the main exe needs to run, then i would really appreciate it. The portable versions of previous versions i have seen have all been made with Thinstall, but i would like to avoid using that method myself, as i don't like the extra resources that's being wasted by that method. Also, please be aware that after having installed UltimateDefrag, and also after having uninstalled it, then the main exe can run by itself, so the uninstall process does leave something behind(like a registered dll or something ?), because if trying to run the main exe without having used the installer before, then it displays an error message and won't start. I am so sad about not being able to find a solution to this, since i really want to have this app on my unattended Windows CD, but i don't want to use the installer, but just make a 7z installer which makes a folder in %programfiles% and copies the exe in there and whatever else is needed, and then makes a shortcut to the exe on the desktop. So please if anybody can help me out, then i would really appreciate it. Thank's in advance.

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@nuhi I have just recently switched to using nLite v1.4b instead of v1.3.5 and today i noticed that one of the tweaks isn't correctly applied. In v1.3.5 you could only preset the places bar in one way and that worked perfectly, but when i now in v1.4b selects to precet the places bar just like the way it was done in v1.3.5 i.e. 'C:, D:, E:, Desktop, My Network Places', then i instead get : 'C:, D:, E:, Desktop, My Rcent Documents'. Just an FYI CU, Martin. Edit: Crap! I just came to think about that i of course should have posted this in the beta thread I'm sorry about that and please feel free to move this post to the beta thread or to just delete it. Again, i'm really sorry about that...

OK, i am now testing UltimateDefrag out, so that i can get to decide if i should put PerfectDisk or UltimateDefrag on my Unattended WinXP-Pro-SP2 CD that i'm almost finished with customizing/testing with nLite/WMware. One issue i'm having with UltimateDefrag is that i have seen that it can be made portable, as there are such versions available on the web for older UltimateDefrag versions(not v1.54), but i can't understand how it is done ? What dependency's has the UDEFRAG.EXE ? I have tryed to make a snapshot before and after the normal UltimateDefrag install with the official installer with RegSnap and it dosen't seem to set any reg keys and just some files in it's directory and one in system32(UDBDef.exe, but it's not this one that's needed). Can anybody please tell me how i can get the single exe(UDEFRAG.EXE) + xml config to run without saying "The Ultimate Defrag was not installed propperly" ? During the install, then a command prompt blinks shortly, so i think that some dll is copied and registered maybe, but RegSnap dosen't list any when comparing the two snapshots i made before and after the installation ? I don't really mean "portable", but just that i want to repack the exe and whatever else needed into a 7z swicthless installer, which then just makes an "UltimateDefrag" folder in %Programfiles% and copies the main exe into there + an xml config file(and whatever else is needed ?). I want to do this because the UltimateDefrag installer has only got one silent install mode(/a), and that mode will make the entire screen blue and display the progress bar during the install, and as i am going to incorporate the app into my unattended Windows, then i really hate to have anything shown during the installations of the apps(RunOnceEx). All the other apps i'm including either has a switch to make it completely silent, like e.g. /qn for msi installers and /verysilent for inno setup installers, and /S for some others and the apps that don't have such switches i have just made a 7z switchless installer of there needed files and reg keys, which then is installed with a batch file, but i can't do that with this app, since i can't find out what the main exe is dependant upon ? Also, does anyone of you know where the license(serial) is stored ? I can't find it in the registry or %appdata% or anything ? This is just driving me crazy, so if anyone can help me out with this, then i would really be imenselly gratefull Thank's in advance.

Hi #rootworm Just wanted to say many thanks for your thoughts about these two apps, i really appreciate it CU, Martin.

I'm just interessted in finding out which defragger offers the very best manual strategies for a) defragmenting files b] defragmenting/consolidating free space and c) intelligent file placement. I don't personally care which one is the fastest at doing these things. I have decided to leave Diskeeper out of my considerations, since it's not meant to be used manually(and don't support I-FAAST in this mode). My choises are then between PerfectDisk and UltimateDefrag. I have only tried PerfectDisk untill now, and i really like it, but i am just in doubt about if UltimateDefrag is better, and i always tries to find the very best app for each specific task. After i read that UltimateDefrag lets you decide between using either access time or modification date for it's file placement strategy, then that really made me think about if i was currently just using the second best manual defragging app(PerfectDisk) and that i should switch to UltimateDefrag instead. Since i know that Jeremy has both used PerfectDisk for a long time and also has used and knows about UltimateDefrag, then i really hope that he can tell me which is the best of the two for defragging files, defragging free space and doing intelligent file placement.

@Jeremy Hmm, i have investigated that Diskeeper does do free space consolidation. On the other hand then i have read the tread you have linked to earlier at 'DriverHeaven', and there Michael himself said that if looking for a manual defragger, then one should look other places than Diskeeper, as it have very little development in that regard, and so since i'm only after a manual defragger, then my choises are down to PerfectDisk and UltimateDefrag. Additionally, then i believe that I-FAAST is only available in automatic mode, which means that i wouldn't get to benefir from it in my situation(I hate having things running in the background and using resources all the time, when it's only going to be used sometimes... And i only have a 1700MHZ Celeron with 256MB RAM also.) Then my choices are down to PerfectDisk and UltimateDefrag. I have read up on UltimateDfrag and i must say that i'm really impressed. It seems like you can choose yourself if wanting to use a file placement strategy that either resembles PerfectDisk's(Last modified) and Diskeeper's(last accesed). Also, it's very small, which also is a big plus in my book(I love resource-friendly apps like fb2k, mpc, NOD32, ImgBurn etc). Do you personally think that UltimateDefrag is as good a defragger as PerfectDisk ? Thank's in advance, and i apoligise for keeping bugging you, and i really hope that you don't mind

@Jeremy As i personally really value your oppenion, and have learned alot from reading through old posts of yours, then i would really appreciate if you would please answer a question for me. In the beginning of this thread and a long way through it, then you where recommending and using PerfectDisk. Then suddently on page 18, then you wrote "I use Diskeeper and it [...]", but you didn't mention why you had switched from using PerfectDisk ? So my question is about if you would please tell me what exactly made you switch to Diskeeper ? I have myself for a long time just used the Windows Defragger, but after reading this whole thread through, then i decided that i needed to switch to something better. I am now using PerfectDisk 8 and am really liking it, but as i personally am interessted in using the very best defragging app, then i was wondering about the reason for your switch to Diskeeper ? I'm not personally interessted in automatic defragmenting at all and only want's to do it manually, but i want to use the defragging program which uses the very best techniques for defragmenting, smart file placement and free space consolidation(and what other techniques there else may exist ?), and i'm in doubt about if Diskeeper's techniques is better than PerfectDisk's ? I think that the basic defragmenting operation will probably be pretty much the same in thoroughness between the two apps and just show differences in there efficiency i.e. how fast they do it. Then if Diskeeper also does free space consolidation(i haven't checked yet), then i guess that the big difference between PerfectDisk and Diskeeper is with regards to there file placement strategies. PerfectDisk's SMARTPlacement strategy uses file modification time, wich makes future defragmenting jobs faster and Diskeeper uses files "last opened" strategy, which speedups access time. Which of those two strategies do you feel is most important/best ? And does Diskeeper even do free space consolidation ? Oh, sorry - i can of course google that answer myself... Also, then there is UltimateDefrag, which i haven't investigated that much yet. I know the reports on Raxco's site which compares PerfectDisk 8 to Diskeeper 2007, but i'm just affraid that they are to biased to be completely trusted ? Thank's in advance. CU, Martin.

To anyone which dosen't allready know, then there is an awesome Firefox Extension called IE Tab, which renders pages through the IE core in a new Firefox tab, so if you haven't removed the IE core with nLite, then you can use Firefox to pass WGA checks and use 'Windows Update'. You simply click the left mouse-button on the 'IE Tab' icon to have the current page re-rendered through the IE core in a new tab, and you can also in advance add all the IE only URL's you know to 'IE Tab's preferences, so that those pages automatically gets rendered through the IE core the next time you enter those URL's.

Sorry - Atleast not any that i'm aware off...

If anybody should be interessted in this, then the correct tweak is : StartButtonBalloonTip = 2 However, it will not work if importing the tweak from RunOnceEx, Guirunonce or SVCPack.inf etc. The reason for this is that the tweak only works if being imported after explorer.exe has been fully loaded. A workaround is to instead import the tweak from e.g. HCKU/Runonce which will start after explorer.exe has been fully loaded, if however, another key has been used before that, like e.g. HKLM\RunOnceEx, since if only using HKCU\Runonce without any preceding keys run, then HKCU\Runonce is run before explorer.exe has been fully loaded(dispite popular belief...)

Hi coucou I'm sorry that i didn't catch your post before now, but i can see that you have found it out by yourself anyway, so that's good to hear CU, Martin.