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i understand that. I've gotten into a few bad spots with altered installs but as long as you understand what the files are there is little danger for example, if you delete WIN9XMIG, WIN9XUPG and WINNTUPG that gives you 37.6Mb alone. and the only feature you lose is you can no longer upgrade from 9x/NT -but when was the last time you needed that feature? the trick is to remove only the features that youll never need without sacrificing the OSes integrity.

Yeah if his OEM doesnt supply Vista 32 bit drivers im sure theyll be posting drivers for XP. hes gonna have to go on a driver hunt either way. <soapbox mode>OK step 1: Ditch AOL. Drop them like a bad habit. uninstall it, delete all the restore points, and burn the installation media. Their software is more vile and disgusting than most of the malware I clean up on a daily basis. </soapbox mode> as for my reasoning Vista 32 over Vista 64, Vista 64 does not support 16 applications that just about eliminates all old DOS programs. You would be surprised what runs on Vista 32. It'll run nearly anything XP can. also you wont need a second license and as I stated above, you are more likely to find good working drivers for Vista 32 than XP.

yeah i just knew if i didn't mention itanium somebody would 'correct' me. this is the Internet after all.

have you tried logging in in safe mode?

any PC running a 64 bit OS can use a 32 bit OS (and before anyone correct me -except itanium but thats not what were talking about) i would say youd be better off stepping down to Vista 32bit (you can use the same license) IMO though

Teh tech, there a MASSIVE difference between Mcafee Consumer and Enterprise versions. I would not recommend the consumer variety. neuro. speaking of false positives. http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=10067 Split to a new topic so were not technically threadjacking anymore

i would just slim down the extra crap they leave in there. i can trim 193 MB off of a 593 MB x:\cmpnents x:\DOTNETFX x:\DOCS x:\SUPPORT x:\VALUEADD x:\I386\WIN9XMIG x:\I386\WIN9XUPG x:\I386\WINNTUPG most of those are from this article http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/57/ you can also use nlite to recompress the driver.cab and sp3.cab heres the size of the ISO i use when i want a 'vanilla' install (not oembios, no driverpacks, no unattend, no functionality removed from final install) WXP_SP3_LITE.iso 400 MB (419,485,696 bytes) I have almost 2 GB DVD version that is full unattended, has every driverpack, copies office2007 source to the HD, installs 10-20 misc apps, and has a ton of tweaks that i use frequently but the _LITE version is the one i fall back on when i either dont have a PC with a DVD drive or the driverpacks dont wanna work right.

depends on what you want to do after you are booted into the OS. for drive imaging / backup I use: http://ping.windowsdream.com/ for starting XP setup i have used: http://winner.windowsdream.com/ there are others but these 2 are the most open ended ive encountered. AFAIK, there is not away to boot XP itself over PXE just imaging/installers (though im guessing theres a linux thatll do that)

Moved to Vlite forum

um you know the way you phrased that it sounds like youre just putting faith in a placebo. "I've worn a cross around my neck for the last 4 years, and in all that time I have never been attacked by a vampire!" I've ran systems for years without any AV but as I deal more and more with users contaminated systems, AV became necessary. I use Mcafee Enterprise now and its far from perfect but its easily superior to Norton. I use and Recommend Mcafee and will occasionally install AVG on someones PC that doesnt have AV (or if their PC came bundled with Norton) I absolutely refuse to use Norton because I cannot count the number of times Norton has deleted legitimate Anti Malware programs from my pen drive because they are "Potentially Unwanted Programs" -but the PC im attempting to disinfect has 37 IE toolbars and 54 systray 'deal' icons that are apparently 'wanted' simply because the user didn't purchase Nortons Anti spyware product. And thats just the most annoying one in their string of false positives Mcafee has its faults too. I have a machine in my office that it detects cutwail.dll on and it fails to clean it about every 5 minutes. im gonna have to attempt a manual removal on that one. it cleans 4-5 files but always fails on one of 'em. only difference is I can use other utilities(hijackthis, RKu, icesword, etc) to disinfect that machine without having to disable the AV first.

AFAIK, noting like that exists. however all the code is here if you wanted to make your own.

While Microsoft did set the system requirements for Vista too low, they didnt want to. You can thank Intels s***ty embedded graphics for that. as for the people that say Vista will run terrible on a minimum spec system compared with XP, When was the last time they ran XP on its minimum spec? i think youd see very similair slow downs. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sysreqs/pro.mspx

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBWPf1BWtkw I like it. Much better than the ads were "I'm a PC" upgrading to Vista is major surgery and "I'm a Mac" not being upgradeable is somehow better than that.

the "Newbie" title can be edited here and may be edited by any user regardless of the "newbie-ness":

your best bet would be to use a router between the PC you are setting up and the Internet. While a router is not a real firewall, in most cases it will keep a PC inaccessible to the outside world while still allowing you access to the outside world. also, im moving this to the XP unattended forum as it has little to do with nlite.

the fix posted above would only work if you CAN ping the address but cannot browse to it. you likely have a DNS issue. general DNS troubleshooting: Start - > Run -> cmd ->"ipconfig /flushdns" check your DNS settings in network properties if using a cable/DSL modem, reboot the modem (unless you know it work because its hooked to another working machine) if using a router, reboot the router (unless you know it work because its hooked to another working machine) Start - > Run -> cmd ->"ipconfig /release" (unless using a staticly assigned IP address) Start - > Run -> cmd ->"ipconfig /renew" (unless using a staticly assigned IP address) Start - > Run -> cmd ->"ipconfig /all" -> attempt to ping the DNS server shown (if any)

No. the only edition which has a different set of system requirements is 'Vista Home Basic' but IMO, you are gonna need more than 1gb of ram for any Vista system if you plan to do ANY kind of multitasking. Microsofts Official Vista system requirements

Shamelessly ripped from a google cached EE answer that will FORCE a shutdown at the time specified regardless of if the user is using the PC or not. making the PCs shutdown when idle is a little harder.

I say crack it open, blow the fans out with a can of compressed air (dont go nuts -the air is often more expensive than a new set of fans) if that doesnt fix the problem you can try powering down, disconnecting non critical fans (chassis fans etc) and see if the noise stops.

just recreate the default users profile: SELF QUOTE!: http://www.msfn.org/board/Windows-Theme-Ch...nt-t114606.html

sorry I cant help. I need to read the stickies myself. (too busy bandaging together aging XP boxes to deploy Vista properly)

http://www.msfn.org/board/Forum-Rules-Upda...ead-t18408.html As for your question, take a look at the sticky topics in this forum.

http://www.teamviewer.com/ -not what you are looking for but is a lot more like 'remote assistance' than *VNC (VNC would be more like Remote Desktop)

I think your looking for an argument where there isnt one to be had. All I was saying is if you dont have admin rights or permission to install a game on a given computer, its probably not yours (a school/work PC) in most cases, these types of computers arent going to provide a good gaming experience anyways. as for my initial post from january, that was created to steer the topic away from CD cracks. Which regardless of how legal and necessary you think they are, are against the forum rules and any topic which promotes their use will be locked/deleted.

YAWN. when Force unleashed hits in a few weeks I dont think anyone will care about Jedi Academy anymore. IMO if youre really trying to make a game portable, that means your prolly running it on a machine that you should be playing games on anyways (school/work PCs) if it wont allow you to install it, i doubt its gonna be high end enough to truly enjoy playing a 3d game on anyways.