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Well, it could be network related, after all. Try this: make sure that DHCP Client and DCOM Server Process Launcher both set to Automatic Go to Run > cmd and type ipconfig /release then ipconfig /renew each time hitting Enter. This should correct dhcp client settings. You may also wish to set your ip manually, rather than waiting for dhcp server to assign it ever time you boot. If you want to do it, you can use NetSetMan (http://www.netsetman.com/index.php?s=nsm), which holds up to 6 network configuration profiles in its freeware edition. Go to Start > Control Panel > Network Connections > Local Area Connection click Support tab > Detail to get the ip adress, subnet mask, gateway and dns servers assigned to your PC. Then just copy them to NetSetMan and activate the settings. Or you can do it straight from the commandline in WinXP: netsh interface ip set address "Local Area Connection" static ipaddr subnetmask gateway metric so it would be for example netsh interface ip set address "Local Area Connection" static 192.168.0.10 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.1 1 Another way of setting your ip manually is here: _http://www.home-network-help.com/set-ip.html.

Hmmm. I already pointed out the source of your problem yesterday (because I had a look at your preset, unlike you). Do you mean you wasted the whole day messing around with presets when you'd already been told where the problem was??? What was the point in your asking then? Besides, Kerberos is not needed for all dial-up connections, only for some types. And from your info I saw that this was just your case.

Keep Kerberos Key Distribution Center. Despite its misleading name, the service is needed for certain types of dial-up connections.

Just one quick question: do the symptoms disappear when you disable your antivirus?

If you installed SP3, then you should seach for the missing files there. Open or unpack SP3 and look for your files. If the files are packed in cab archives (with .dl_ or in_ extensions), you can unpack them with winrar, winzip or 7zip. All .inf files should be placed into Windows\inf folder; fp40ext.dll needs to be placed into system32\Setup. You might get more errors, though, needing other files to be restored. If your system needs FP server components (as in this case), do not remove Internet Information Services when nliting your XP.

CPU Don't think it's somehow connected with the components you removed. Try this: [1] Download and run Flash Player Uninstaller [2] Install the latest Flash Player for IE [3] Install CCleaner and use it periodically to clean your browser cache and fix all registry references. (Don't worry, it a safe program.) fyi: all flash player versions can be found here

Well, you you disable WFP, setup will not check for file signitures or populate the dllcache folder during T9-T2, this step is simply skipped. Nothing to worry about, no impact on your system (other than WFP being turned off, of course).

Hm. That's because you deleted something you shouldn't have. Get the original txtsetup file and copy the missing directory string from there. You might want to use WinMerge or similar software to compare the files and make this task easier... You can't just delete any directories from [WinntDirectories] section without removing all references to them throughout the txtsetup file. If you really want to delete a directory, and you know what you're doing, do a search for the files referring to this directory and remove them from txtsetup as well. But this is risky, mind you.

A comment on 1.4 btw. If I remove Printers and Printer support, it still keeps spooler files and service until the first launch. nhelper removes their traces immeadiately after running final setup instructions, but I saw an error in setuperr.log, something about spooler service attributes cannot be changed. Apparently, it tries to change the startup option to disabled, but the service is already gone. Not crucial, but a bit misleading...

Confirmed. Seems like a recurrent issue. Was present in several 1.3 betas, then gone in 1.3.5 final, re-appeared again in 1.4. My guess is that some combination of tweaks or removed componets triggers this.

Oh common! Are you kidding me?! This weird MS tool is needed only once, when you first install Windows and need to go to mozilla.com or opera.com to download an Internet browser.

spidernz Try keeping Network Setup Wizard and Kerberos Key Distribution Center. Also, make sure all modem-related services are running. DNic41 You could have tweaked or disabled something. Check the connection-related services (such as DCOM Server Process Launcher, Remote Access Connection Manager, Telephony, Terminal Services, RPC and Plug and Play) - they all must be running.

No, it was simply a test build codenamed RC test.

No-go with 1.4beta off site or the latest 1.4RC you sent me. Running under XP SP2 Eng with the Regional "Standards and Formats" and "Language for non-Unicode programs" options set to Polish. And yes, FrameworkLite is installed to nLite directory. I attach the error screenshot and the details below. See if it helps... See the end of this message for details on invoking just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box. ************** Exception Text ************** System.IO.FileLoadException: Could not load file or assembly 'ncab, Version=0.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=5c790c52ffa26522' or one of its dependencies. This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800736B1) File name: 'ncab, Version=0.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=5c790c52ffa26522' ---> System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x800736B1): This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800736B1) at ..(String , String ) at ..(String ) at ..(String , StringCollection& , Boolean , Boolean ) at ..() at ..() at ..WndProc(Message& ) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam) ************** Loaded Assemblies ************** mscorlib Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200) CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files/nLite/v2.0.50727/mscorlib.dll ---------------------------------------- nLite Assembly Version: 1.4.0.0 Win32 Version: 1.4.0.0 CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files/nLite/nlite.exe ---------------------------------------- System Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200) CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files/nLite/System.DLL ---------------------------------------- nLite Assembly Version: 1.4.0.0 Win32 Version: 1.4.0.0 CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files/nLite/nlite.exe ---------------------------------------- System.Windows.Forms Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200) CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files/nLite/System.Windows.Forms.DLL ---------------------------------------- System.Drawing Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200) CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files/nLite/System.Drawing.DLL ---------------------------------------- nlgw Assembly Version: 1.1.0.0 Win32 Version: 1.4.0.0 CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files/nLite/nlite.exe ---------------------------------------- Accessibility Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200) CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files/nLite/Accessibility.DLL ---------------------------------------- MCDBNET2 Assembly Version: 1.32.0.0 Win32 Version: 1.32.0.1302 CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files/nLite/MCDBNET2.DLL ---------------------------------------- msvcm80 Assembly Version: 8.0.50608.0 Win32 Version: 8.00.50727.42 CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files/nLite/msvcm80.DLL ---------------------------------------- ************** JIT Debugging ************** To enable just-in-time (JIT) debugging, the .config file for this application or computer (machine.config) must have the jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section. The application must also be compiled with debugging enabled. For example: <configuration> <system.windows.forms jitDebugging="true" /> </configuration> When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the computer rather than be handled by this dialog box.

nuhi, I reported similar problem here http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=99898 However, in my case it was even worse (no languages, no countries). It was only the case with 1.4beta. Please read my message, too. Can it be fixed?

Tried out the new 1.4beta, and everything went off smoothly. Except one thing. After installation the requested system locales were not found. I usually remove all languages except for English (default system language), Polish and Slovak, and make Polish the default locale on my PC. This time only English was present after installation. I couldn't find either Polish or Slovak in the Regional and Language options. And, btw, other Central and Eastern European languages appeared to be missing too - Romanian, Russian, Serbian... (see sshots: http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/3577/sshot1wb6.png and http://img108.imageshack.us/img108/1305/sshot2eh6.png ). Even corresponding codepage files were missing from the system folder, although they were present in the nlited distribution share. And that's pretty strange, since I used the session log from nlite 1.3.5, where I had no such issues. Decided to run the session log again with nlite 1.3.5 and - Wha-la! - no language issues, so it must be the new beta thing. The log's attached. [Tasks] Remove Components Unattended Setup Integrate Drivers Hotfixes and Update Packs Tweaks Options [Components] ;# Applications # Accessibility Options Briefcase Charmap ClipBook Viewer Games Internet Games NT Backup Paint Pinball Screensavers ;# Drivers # Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Cameras and Camcorders Display Adapters Display Adapters (old) IBM PS/2 TrackPoint IBM Thinkpad ISDN Logitech WingMan Microsoft SideWinder Modems MultiFunctional Portable Audio Printers Scanners Serial Pen Tablet Sony Jog Dial Sound Controllers Tape drives Toshiba DVD decoder card Wireless Ethernet (WLAN) ;# Hardware Support # ALI 1535 SMBus Host Controller ATM Support Battery Bluetooth Support Brother Devices CPU Transmeta Crusoe Firewire (1394) Support Firewire Network support Gravis Digital GamePort IEEE 1284.4 devices (Dot4) InfraRed Iomega Zip drive Logical Disk Manager Multi-port serial adapters Multi-Processor Support PCMCIA Printer Support Secure Digital host controller Smart Cards Sony Memory Stick Teletext codec Toshiba PCI IDE Controller USB Audio support USB Video Capture devices VIA PCI IDE Controller Video Capture Windows CE USB Host Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) ;# Keyboards # Albanian keyboard Arabic (101) keyboard Arabic (102) AZERTY keyboard Arabic (102) keyboard Armenian Eastern keyboard Armenian Western keyboard Azeri Cyrillic keyboard Azeri Latin keyboard Belarusian keyboard Belgian (Comma) keyboard Belgian (Period) keyboard Belgian French keyboard Bengali (Inscript) keyboard Bengali keyboard Bosnian keyboard Bulgarian (Latin) keyboard Bulgarian keyboard Canadian French (Legacy) keyboard Canadian French keyboard Canadian Multilingual Standard keyboard Chinese (Simplified) - Microsoft Pinyin IME 3.0 keyboard Chinese (Simplified) - NeiMa keyboard Chinese (Simplified) - QuanPin keyboard Chinese (Simplified) - ShuangPin keyboard Chinese (Simplified) - US Keyboard keyboard Chinese (Simplified) - ZhengMa keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - Alphanumeric keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - Array keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - Big5 Code keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - ChangJie keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - DaYi keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - New ChangJie keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - New Phonetic keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - Phonetic keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - Quick keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - Unicode keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - US Keyboard keyboard Croatian keyboard Czech (QWERTY) keyboard Czech keyboard Czech Programmers keyboard Danish keyboard Devanagari - INSCRIPT keyboard Divehi Phonetic keyboard Divehi Typewriter keyboard Dutch keyboard Estonian keyboard Faeroese keyboard Farsi keyboard Finnish keyboard Finnish with Sami keyboard French keyboard FYRO Macedonian keyboard Gaelic keyboard Georgian keyboard German (IBM) keyboard German keyboard Greek (220) keyboard Greek (220) Latin keyboard Greek (319) keyboard Greek (319) Latin keyboard Greek keyboard Greek Latin keyboard Greek Polytonic keyboard Gujarati keyboard Hebrew keyboard Hindi Traditional keyboard Hungarian 101-key keyboard Hungarian keyboard Icelandic keyboard Irish keyboard Italian (142) keyboard Italian keyboard Japanese Input System (MS-IME2002) keyboard Japanese keyboard Kannada keyboard Kazakh keyboard Korean Input System (IME 2000) keyboard Korean keyboard Kyrgyz Cyrillic keyboard Latin American keyboard Latvian (QWERTY) keyboard Latvian keyboard Lithuanian IBM keyboard Lithuanian keyboard Malayalam keyboard Maltese 47-key keyboard Maltese 48-key keyboard Maori keyboard Marathi keyboard Mongolian Cyrillic keyboard Norwegian keyboard Norwegian with Sami keyboard Portuguese (Brazilian ABNT) keyboard Portuguese (Brazilian ABNT2) keyboard Portuguese keyboard Punjabi keyboard Romanian keyboard Russian (Typewriter) keyboard Russian keyboard Sami Extended Finland-Sweden keyboard Sami Extended Norway keyboard Serbian (Cyrillic) keyboard Serbian (Latin) keyboard Slovenian keyboard Spanish keyboard Spanish Variation keyboard Swedish keyboard Swedish with Sami keyboard Swiss French keyboard Swiss German keyboard Syriac keyboard Syriac Phonetic keyboard Tamil keyboard Tatar keyboard Telugu keyboard Thai Kedmanee (non-ShiftLock) keyboard Thai Kedmanee keyboard Thai Pattachote (non-ShiftLock) keyboard Thai Pattachote keyboard Turkish F keyboard Turkish Q keyboard Ukrainian keyboard United Kingdom Extended keyboard United Kingdom keyboard United States-Dvorak for left hand keyboard United States-Dvorak for right hand keyboard United States-Dvorak keyboard United States-International keyboard Urdu keyboard US English Table for IBM Arabic 238_L keyboard Uzbek Cyrillic keyboard Vietnamese keyboard ;# Languages # ;Arabic Arabic (Algeria) Arabic (Bahrain) Arabic (Egypt) Arabic (Iraq) Arabic (Jordan) Arabic (Kuwait) Arabic (Lebanon) Arabic (Libya) Arabic (Morocco) Arabic (Oman) Arabic (Qatar) Arabic (Saudi Arabia) Arabic (Syria) Arabic (Tunisia) Arabic (U.A.E.) Arabic (Yemen) Divehi (Maldives) Syriac (Syria) Urdu ;Armenian Armenian ;Baltic Estonian Latvian Lithuanian ;Central Europe Albanian Bosnian (Latin, Bosnia and Herzegovina) Croatian Croatian (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Czech Hungarian Romanian Serbian (Latin) Serbian (Latin, Bosnia and Herzegovina) Slovenian ;Cyrillic Azeri (Cyrillic) Belarusian Bulgarian FYRO Macedonian Kazakh Kyrgyz (Kyrgyzstan) Mongolian (Mongolia) Russian Serbian (Cyrillic) Serbian (Cyrillic, Bosnia and Herzegovina) Tatar Ukrainian Uzbek (Cyrillic) ;Georgian Georgian ;Greek Greek ;Hebrew Hebrew ;Indic Bengali (India) Gujarati (India) Hindi Kannada (India) Konkani Malayalam (India) Marathi Punjabi (India) Sanskrit Tamil Telugu (India) ;Japanese Japanese ;Korean Korean ;Simplified Chinese Chinese (PRC) Chinese (Singapore) ;Thai Farsi Thai ;Traditional Chinese Chinese (Hong Kong S.A.R.) Chinese (Macau S.A.R.) Chinese (Taiwan) ;Turkic Azeri (Latin) Turkish Uzbek (Latin) ;Vietnamese Vietnamese ;Western Europe and United States Afrikaans Basque Catalan Danish Dutch (Belgium) Dutch (Netherlands) English (Australia) English (Belize) English (Canada) English (Caribbean) English (Ireland) English (Jamaica) English (New Zealand) English (Philippines) English (South Africa) English (Trinidad) English (United Kingdom) English (Zimbabwe) Faeroese Finnish French (Belgium) French (Canada) French (France) French (Luxembourg) French (Monaco) French (Switzerland) Galician (Spain) German (Austria) German (Germany) German (Liechtenstein) German (Luxembourg) German (Switzerland) Icelandic Indonesian Italian (Italy) Italian (Switzerland) Malay (Brunei Darussalam) Malay (Malaysia) Maltese Maori Northern Sotho Norwegian (Bokmal) Norwegian (Nynorsk) Portuguese (Brazil) Portuguese (Portugal) Quechua (Bolivia) Quechua (Ecuador) Quechua (Peru) Sami, Inari (Finland) Sami, Lule (Norway) Sami, Lule (Sweden) Sami, Northern (Finland) Sami, Northern (Norway) Sami, Northern (Sweden) Sami, Skolt (Finland) Sami, Southern (Norway) Sami, Southern (Sweden) Spanish (Argentina) Spanish (Bolivia) Spanish (Chile) Spanish (Colombia) Spanish (Costa Rica) Spanish (Dominican Republic) Spanish (Ecuador) Spanish (El Salvador) Spanish (Guatemala) Spanish (Honduras) Spanish (International Sort) Spanish (Mexico) Spanish (Nicaragua) Spanish (Panama) Spanish (Paraguay) Spanish (Peru) Spanish (Puerto Rico) Spanish (Traditional Sort) Spanish (Uruguay) Spanish (Venezuela) Swahili Swedish Swedish (Finland) Tswana Welsh Xhosa Zulu ;# 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 Sounds ;# Network # Active Directory service Client for Netware Networks Communication tools Comtrol Test Terminal Program FrontPage Extensions H323 MSP Internet Connection Wizard Internet Information Services (IIS) IP Conferencing MAC Bridge MSMail and MAPI MSN Explorer Netmeeting NetShell Cmd-Tool Network Monitor Driver and Tools Network Setup Wizard NWLink IPX/SPX/NetBIOS Protocol Outlook Express Peer-to-Peer Synchronization Manager TAPI Application Support Windows Messenger ;# Operating System Options # .NET Framework Administrative Templates Administrator VB scripts Auditing Resource Dlls Blaster/Nachi removal tool Color Schemes Command-line tools Desktop Cleanup Wizard Disk and Profile Quota Disk Cleanup Document Templates DR Watson Extensible Storage Engine (Esent97) Extra Fonts FAT to NTFS converter File and Settings Wizard Help and Support Input Method Editor Jet Database Engine MDAC MS Agent Out of Box Experience (OOBE) Private Character Editor Remote Installation Services (RIS) Search Assistant Security Center Service Pack Messages Shell Media Handler Symbolic Debugger (NTSD) Tour User account pictures Zip Folders ;# Services # Alerter Application Layer Gateway Beep Driver COM+ DHCP Client Distributed Link Tracking Client Distributed Transaction Coordinator (DTC) DNS Client Error Reporting Event Log Fax Service IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service Indexing Service Internet Authentication (IAS) IPSEC Policy Agent Message Queuing (MSMQ) Messenger Network DDE Network Location Awareness (NLA) Network Provisioning Performance Logs and Alerts QoS RSVP Quality of Service (QoS) Remote Registry Removable Storage Service Advertising Protocol SNMP System Event Notification (SENS) System Monitor System Restore Service Task Scheduler TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper Telnet Text Services Framework Uninterruptible Power Supply Universal Plug and Play Device Host Volume Shadow Copy WebClient Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) Windows Management Instrumentation Windows Time Wireless Configuration ;# Compatibility # [KeepFiles] helpctr.exe logon.scr msconfig.exe sti.dll wmadmod.dll wmasf.dll wmidx.dll wmsdmod.dll [RemoveFiles] clock.avi telnet.exe [Options] CABMerge CABNoHigh DisableFreereq ProfilesDir = "%SystemDrive%\Application Data" TargetPath = "Windows" temp_dir = %SystemRoot%\Temp NoKeepCp RemoveMUI AdvTweaks [Patches] TcpIp = 20 UsbPoll = 125 DoSFC [Services2] [Tweaks] Boot and Shutdown-Auto-End tasks immediately Boot and Shutdown-Auto-Kill hung applications immediately Boot and Shutdown-Auto-Kill hung services immediately Boot and Shutdown-Disable automatic restart on System Failure Boot and Shutdown-Disable logging on System Failure Boot and Shutdown-Do not Parse Autoexec.bat Explorer-Disable Autorun Explorer-Disable Prefix: Shortcut to Explorer-Disable shortcut arrow Explorer-Display the contents of system folders Explorer-Show hidden files and folders Explorer-Show the full path in the Address Bar Explorer-Use small icons in Explorer bar Internet Explorer-Disable Market Place bookmark Internet Explorer-Disable Media Player 6.4 created bookmarks Internet Explorer-Disable Password-Caching Internet Explorer-Keep IE URL-History for-1 Day Internet Explorer-Set Homepage-about:blank Internet Explorer-Set Internet Explorer to accept 10 connects at a time Network-Allow receiving Remote Assistance-Disable Network-Disable administrative shares Network-Disable automatic search for network folders and printers Network-Disable DCOM protocol bindings Network-Disable DNS failure cache Network-Disable extra SMB notify-change traffic Network-Disable LAN-Manager from caching passwords Network-Disable LM HOSTS lookup Network-Disable Microsoft-DS (close port 445 TCP/UDP) Network-Disable restoring mapped network drives on logon Network-Remote Desktop-Disable Network-Remove remote-computer NameSpace Performance-Disable Last accessed Timestamp on files Performance-Disable Tracking of Broken Shortcut Links Performance-Disable Warn on low disk space Performance-Do not cache thumbnails Performance-Run 16-bit Windows applications in a separate process Privacy-Disable Driver Update Internet prompt Privacy-Disable Tracking of most used programs Privacy-Remove Alexa Security-Disable Web Open With prompt Security-Disable Windows Script Host (WSH) Start Menu-Add Administrative Tools menu 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 the 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-Hide Search button in Start Panel 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-Display as Connect to menu Start Menu-Reduce popup delay 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 Taskbar-Disable Group similar Taskbar buttons Taskbar-Disable Hide inactive icons