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Yes, the XP ISO size was around 1##MB after nliting. I have used nlite only with XP. Before XP, I used 98lite [http://www.litepc.com] for ME which I used for years without a single problem and then XP2000lite from the same company for Win2K. The excellent MaximumPC mag had a small sideline on this software and my home OS'es havent been the same since. My stripped ME and stripped Win2K builds on a PIII CPU ran about as fast as stock XP does on the latest P4s so I was pretty happy at the time and still am. I was going to go with the same program for XP but I found nlite by then and it worked before installation which I found to be a lot more in synch with my thoughts on how stripped/tweaked builds should actually be created. IE core DLL/engine was retained in my gamer image {I think} and my surfer image {I know} but no games [that I play] have needed IE. HL2 and its 2 episodes definitely dont need it and I just finished EP2 two days ago so trust me on that one. I removed IE so I wouldnt have to worry about anti-virus/spyware/adware issues. I have not used any anti-virus/spyware/adware/ANYTHING programs EVER in any of the 15 PCs at home for the last almost 10 years and have never had any virus issues even with the 9x OS'es. It becomes a royal pain when someone asks me to suggest a good anti-virus program as I am in IT so I have to give them an answer. 99% of viruses are written to take advantage of "features" tied in to IE. I have downloaded and run viruses and they just sit there in the TaskManager and dont do anything. In fact, some of them have even crashed themselves. Instead of IE, use Firefox, or my favorite which is Opera as I am a keyboard guy and try to minimise my mousing. Instead of Explorer, use Total Commander which is an absolute godsend for hardcore file stuff PowerDVD is a great player instead of Windows Media Player which you cant keep when you remove IE anyway. Outlook Express is a virus magnet and I couldnt keep it after taking out IE anyway so I just use Thunderbird. I will try the registry key and see if that works, otherwise it will be time to re-build an ISO so I can shoot the Garand again. Thanks and keep it coming. Back to work.

Hi all, Th re-install from scratch of the OS WILL fix the problem and I did do a quick-and-dirty about a month ago to make sure that the absence of the firewall was the issue and it WAS. Therefore, I know that will work but its a royal pain to do all the settings again, etc, etc and thats why I was hoping someone would be able to answer this question. There will probably never be a FIX for the MOH: Airborne "feature" because its part of the installation source and not a bug with the game that can be fixed after the fact unless they re-ship a DVD out to me with corrected installation files. In any case, if anyone else has any suggestions, let me know.

Hi all, I made a perfect stripped-out gaming-only image for my gaming rig using nLite and its been humming along fine until "Medal Of Honor: Airborne" came out and it wont install unless the firewall is enabled. I dont mind enabling the firewall except I stripped all that functionality out and I dont know what to put back. I have tried putting back firewall.cpl but it gives an error when you try to run it. My Last_Session.ini file from when I created the ISO for XP SP2 is listed below. I have removed the keyboard and language sections to make it faster to read. Any and all help is very much appreciated. Thanks in advance. [Main] Env = 1.3 RC 2 - 2.0.50727.42.Microsoft Windows NT 5.0.2195 Service Pack 4 Target = Windows XP Professional SP:2 - 5.1.2600.2180 - English (United States) [Tasks] Remove Components Unattended Setup Integrate Drivers Hotfixes and Update Packs Tweaks Create a Bootable ISO Options [Components] ;# Applications # Accessibility Options Briefcase Charmap ClipBook Viewer Defragmenter Games Internet Games NT Backup Paint Pinball Screensavers Wordpad ;# Drivers # Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Cameras and Camcorders Display Adapters Display Adapters (old) Ethernet (LAN) IBM PS/2 TrackPoint IBM Thinkpad ISDN Logitech WingMan Microsoft SideWinder Modems MultiFunctional Portable Audio Printers Scanners SCSI/RAID Serial Pen Tablet Sony Jog Dial Sound Controllers Tape drives Toshiba DVD decoder card Wireless Ethernet (WLAN) ;# Hardware Support # ALI 1535 SMBus Host Controller ALI IDE Controller ATM Support Battery Bluetooth Support Brother Devices CPU AMD CPU Transmeta Crusoe Firewire (1394) Support Firewire Network support Gravis Digital GamePort InfraRed Iomega Zip drive Joystick Support Modem Support Multi-port serial adapters PCMCIA Secure Digital host controller Sony Memory Stick Teletext codec Toshiba PCI IDE Controller USB Audio support USB Ethernet USB Video Capture devices VIA PCI IDE Controller Video Capture Windows CE USB Host ;# Multimedia # AOL ART Image Format Support Images and Backgrounds Luna desktop theme Media Center MIDI audio support Mouse Cursors Movie Maker Music Samples Old CDPlayer and Sound Recorder Speech Support Tablet PC Windows Media Player Windows Media Player 6.4 Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Windows Sounds ;# Network # Active Directory service Client for Netware Networks Communication tools Comtrol Test Terminal Program Connection Manager Dial-up and VPN support FrontPage Extensions H323 MSP Internet Connection Wizard Internet Explorer Internet Information Services (IIS) IP Conferencing MAC Bridge MSMail and MAPI MSN Explorer Netmeeting Network Monitor Driver and Tools NWLink IPX/SPX/NetBIOS Protocol Outlook Express Peer-to-Peer Synchronization Manager TAPI Application Support TCP/IP Version 6 Vector Graphics Rendering (VML) Web Folders Windows Messenger ;# Operating System Options # .NET Framework Administrative Templates Administrator VB scripts Auditing Resource Dlls Blaster/Nachi removal tool Certificate Management Color Schemes Desktop Cleanup Wizard Disk and Profile Quota Disk Cleanup Document Templates DR Watson Extensible Storage Engine (Esent97) Extra Fonts File and Settings Wizard File System Filter Manager Group Policy Management Console Help and Support Help Engine Input Method Editor Jet Database Engine Local Security Settings Logon Notifications Manual Install and Upgrade MS Agent Out of Box Experience (OOBE) Private Character Editor Remote Installation Services (RIS) Search Assistant Security Center Service Pack Messages Shell Media Handler Tour User account pictures Visual Basic Scripting support Web View Zip Folders ;# Services # Alerter Application Layer Gateway Automatic Updates Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) Beep Driver Distributed Link Tracking Client Error Reporting Fax Service HTTP SSL IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service Indexing Service Message Queuing (MSMQ) Messenger Network DDE Performance Logs and Alerts Protected Storage QoS RSVP Quality of Service (QoS) Remote Registry Removable Storage Secondary Logon Service Advertising Protocol Shell Services System Monitor System Restore Service Telnet Terminal Services Text Services Framework Uninterruptible Power Supply Volume Shadow Copy Windows Time ;# Directories # DOCS SUPPORT VALUEADD ;# Compatibility # Compat01 Compat02 Compat09 [KeepFiles] msconfig.exe [RemoveFiles] clock.avi yahoo.bmp swtchbrd.bmp [Options] CABNoHigh ClassicSetup BlackSetupBack DisableFreereq DisableMinMem DupeFiles ProfilesDir = "%SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings" TargetPath = "WINDOWS" temp_dir = %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Temp NoWmpComp NoKeepCp RemoveMUI AdvTweaks [Patches] TcpIp = 50 UsbPoll = 500 DoSFC [services2] AppMgmt,4 Browser,4 CryptSvc,4 DHCP,4 Eventlog,4 PolicyAgent,4 NLA,4 NtLmSsp,4 RemoteAccess,4 ScardSvr,4 Schedule,4 LMHosts,4 WebClient,4 SharedAccess,4 StiSvc,4 winmgmt,4 Wmi,4 WZCSVC,4 WmiApSrv,4 [Tweaks] Boot and Shutdown-Ctrl-Alt-Del at logon-Disabled Boot and Shutdown-Disable automatic restart on System Failure Boot and Shutdown-Disable saving Last Good state at boot Boot and Shutdown-Do not Parse Autoexec.bat Boot and Shutdown-Logon Page-Classic Boot and Shutdown-Numlock-Off Boot and Shutdown-Setup Prefetch-Cache-Disabled Boot and Shutdown-Status Messages-Default Desktop-My Computer icon-Hide Desktop-My Documents icon-Hide Desktop-My Network Places icon-Hide Desktop-Recycle Bin icon-Hide Explorer-Add 'Command Prompt' to folder context menu Explorer-Change Explorer Folder View to: details Explorer-Classic Control Panel Explorer-Disable Autorun Explorer-Disable Beep on errors Explorer-Disable Prefix: Shortcut to Explorer-Display the contents of system folders Explorer-Launch folder windows in a seperate process Explorer-Recycle Bin: allow to rename and delete Explorer-Recycle Bin: delete files directly Explorer-Remove Back Button Explorer-Remove Send To on context menu Explorer-Show Drive Letters in front of Drive Names Explorer-Show extensions of known file-types Explorer-Show hidden files and folders Explorer-Show protected operating system files Explorer-Show Statusbar in all windows Explorer-Show the full path in the Title Bar Explorer-Use small icons in Explorer bar Internet Explorer-Disable Download Complete notification Internet Explorer-Disable Go Button Internet Explorer-Disable Internet Explorer link creation Internet Explorer-Disable Market Place bookmark Internet Explorer-Disable Password-Caching Internet Explorer-Disable sound when popup is blocked Internet Explorer-Keep IE URL-History for-0 Days Internet Explorer-Set Homepage-about:blank Internet Explorer-Set IE-Cache limit to-1 MB (min) My Computer-Add Control Panel to Context Menu My Computer-Add Device Manager to Context Menu My Computer-Add Services to Context Menu My Computer-Remove Search from Context Menu My Computer-Remove Shared Documents Network-Allow Network Logins without passwords Network-Disable administrative shares Network-Disable automatic search for network folders and printers Network-Disable DNS failure cache Network-Disable LM HOSTS lookup Network-Disable restoring mapped network drives on logon Network-Disable Simple File Sharing Performance-Disable Info Tips on Files and Folders Performance-Disable Last accessed Timestamp on files Performance-Disable Optimize harddisk when idle Performance-Disable paging of kernel and core-os Performance-Disable Tracking of Broken Shortcut Links Performance-Disable Warn on low disk space Performance-Disable WBEM logging Performance-Do not cache thumbnails Performance-Processor scheduling-Programs Performance-Run 16-bit Windows applications in a separate process Performance-Use Windows classic folders / No Tasks Sidepanel Privacy-Disable Driver Update Internet prompt Privacy-Disable File MRU-List Privacy-Disable Tracking of most used programs Privacy-Remove Alexa Security-Disable DCOM Security-Disable Screensaver Security-Disable Web Open With prompt Security-Re-Enable user:pass URLs Security-Screensaver Password-Protection-Disabled Start Menu-Clear most recently opened documents list on logoff Start Menu-Control Panel-Display as a menu Start Menu-Disable and Remove Documents List from Start Menu Start Menu-Disable Highlight newly installed programs Start Menu-Disable popup on first boot Start Menu-Do not use Personalized Menus Start Menu-Expand Network Connections Start Menu-Hide Run button Start Menu-Hide Search button in Start Panel Start Menu-My Computer-Don't display this item Start Menu-My Documents-Don't display this item Start Menu-My Music-Don't display this item Start Menu-My Network Places-Don't display this item Start Menu-My Pictures-Don't display this item Start Menu-Network Connections-Don't display this item Start Menu-Number of programs on Start menu-10 Start Menu-Printers and Faxes-Display as a menu Start Menu-Reduce popup delay Start Menu-Remove Logoff User Start Menu-Remove Pinned Apps List from Start Panel Start Menu-Remove Search the Internet from Search Start Menu-Remove Set Program Access and Defaults Start Menu-Remove User name Start Menu-Remove Windows Catalog shortcut Start Menu-Use small icons in Start Panel Taskbar-Disable Balloon Tips Taskbar-Disable Group similar Taskbar buttons Taskbar-Disable Hide inactive icons Taskbar-Lock the Taskbar-No Visual Effects-Active window tracking-Disable Visual Effects-Animate windows when minimizing and maximizing-Disable Visual Effects-Combo box animation-Disable Visual Effects-Cursor shadow-Enable Visual Effects-Fade out selection-Disable Visual Effects-Gradient captions in windows-Enable Visual Effects-Keyboard shortcut underline-Enable Visual Effects-Menu animation-Disable Visual Effects-Menu shadows-Enable Visual Effects-Menu style-Flat Visual Effects-Show translucent selection rectangle-Enable Visual Effects-Show window contents while dragging-Disable Visual Effects-Slide taskbar buttons-Enable Visual Effects-Smooth edges of screen fonts-Disabled Visual Effects-Smooth-scroll list boxes-Disable Visual Effects-Tooltip animation-Disable Visual Effects-Use a background image for each folder type-Disable Visual Effects-Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop-Enable [unattended] ComputerType = Default HibernationNo AutoLogon = Administrator FirewallOff Resolution = 1024x768 BitsPerPel = 32 bit (True Color) Vrefresh = 85 Hz MaximumDataStorePercentOfDisk = 12 RestorePointLife = 30 DesktopTheme = Default|| DataExecProt = 4 AutoUDay = 5 AutoUHour = 15 ProgFilesPath = "\Program Files" CustomNetwork NOMS_PSched [GuiRunOnce] [Drivers] D:\nLite-1.3.rc2\20378raid\WinXP\fasttx2k.INF,FastTrak_TX2K_xp [Hotfixes] D:\nLite-1.3.rc2\RVMAddonsDX9_1.2.7z D:\nLite-1.3.rc2\RVMUpdatePack2.1.7.7z