Etz

Basically question was about final... (It`s not released yet, I know that) But It`s better to make experiiments earlier to obtain some know-how for that time, when final comes out...

Hi Actually I have a Original M$ XP PRO Disc... Then I Integrated SP2 (M$ Disc too) via nLite... (nothing removed, no changes, etc...) Question is... Is Better to... 1. Integrate SP3 (final) to my already SP2 integrated disc...? 2. Start From Source: Windows XP Pro SP1a (Original Disc) and integrate SP3 (when final) right on? As far as I understand M$ service packs, they should contain, all older fixes and SP`s... So far, integrated SP3 build 3311 RC2 (still haven`t found any big differences, besides after install footprint...) Later Removals, is of course on my responsibility... Any suggestions... ? EDIT: Last Thoughts: I guess that, it should be just fine to Integrate SP3 to a Original Disc (and then "castrate" the result with nLite) But Guessing is not enough for me...

Also my VLK disc, without any pidgen.dll replacement...

Try "read-only" mode...

I will soon post a small guide how to do that nLite & vLite don`t support that Windows Version... If someone has a decent guide to, strip & customize it... I`m also interested...

Vista Home Basic 32-bit... Why Home Basic? I only need a stable Windows based platform , for some minor tasks... Less Stuff to "throw out"... (Lower Licence cost ) I dont care about "glass" effect, and some other stuff.. And I`m Linux user BTW, so I`like "modular" Installations, where I Can add some stuff... exactly what I need & for what I need... + Some great Windows only games, for my younger brother... Anyway here is my "stable" preset... Without SP1 of course (I`dont care about M$ Beta stuff, their final products, look as pre-betas to me... ) BTW! I Realy appreciate NUHI`s work... He made Windows (XP & Vista) usable again ; vLite preset file [Information] Version = 1.1 RC on 2.0.50727.1433 Microsoft Windows NT 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Target = Windows Vista HOMEBASIC 32-bit - 6.0.6000.16386 - English (United States) [Compatibility] [Components] ;# Accessories # Accessibility Mobility Center Speech Support System Information Welcome Center Windows Sidebar and Gadgets Wordpad ;# Drivers # Display adapters Diva Server Modems Printers-Apollo Printers-Brother Printers-Canon Printers-Citizen Printers-Dell Printers-Diconix Printers-Epson Printers-Fuji Xerox Printers-Fujitsu Printers-Generic printer Printers-Gestetner Printers-HP Printers-IBM Printers-Infotec Printers-Konica Printers-Konica Minolta Printers-Kyocera Mita Printers-Lanier Printers-Lexmark Printers-Minolta Printers-Minolta-QMS Printers-NEC Printers-NRG Printers-Oce Printers-Oki Printers-Okidata Printers-Olivetti Printers-Panasonic Printers-QMS Printers-Ricoh Printers-Samsung Printers-Savin Printers-Seikosha Printers-Sharp Printers-Sony Printers-Star Printers-Tally Printers-Tektronix Printers-Wipro ePeripherals Printers-Xerox QLogic Fibre Channel Adapter Scanners Sound controllers ;# Games # Game Explorer Inbox Games ;# Languages # Japanese Korean Simplified Chinese Table Driven Text Input Processor Traditional Chinese ;# Multimedia # Movie and DVD Maker Music and Video samples Sample Pictures Sound Recorder Windows Calendar Windows Media Codecs Windows Media Player Windows Photo Gallery ;# Network # Internet Information Services (IIS) MSN Installer Network and Sharing Center Remote Desktop and Assistance Windows Collaboration ;# Services # Computer Browser Distributed Link Tracking Client Error Reporting IP Helper IPsec Policy Agent Microsoft DFS Replication ReadyBoost Remote Registry Secondary Logon SuperFetch Universal Plug and Play (UPNP) WebDAV (WebClient) Windows Remote Management Windows Search ;# System # Beep Disk Quota Help IMAPIv2 Burning Support Jet Database Engine Malicious Software Removal Tool Manual Install (Setup.exe) MDAC Microsoft Agent Natural Language Parental Controls Remote Differential Compression Run a legacy CPL elevated Sync Center Zip Folder Tablet PC Windows Backup Windows Defender Windows Easy Transfer Windows SAT (Performance Index) [Options] DEP (Data Execution Prevention) = Default User Account Control (UAC) = Disabled AntiSpyware Realtime Protection = Default AutoPlay = Disabled Paging Executive = Disabled Power scheme = High performance Hibernation = Off Memory requirement = 256MB Control Panel - Classic View = Enabled Show hidden files and folders = No Show protected operating system files = Yes Show extensions for known file types = Yes IE Phishing Filter = Enabled IE Phishing Verification Ballon Tips = Disabled [Protection] [Drivers] [Unattended] SpecRegional AcceptEULA SkipAutoActivation ProtectPC = 3 [Hotfixes] [LanguagePacks] *.iso size= 579,3 MB ; RAM = 230MB ; Installation=1,16GB, without updates & "Pagefile" Installation time (boot from CD to desktop) = 7m 33s (Q6600@3,2GHz+4GB RAM) Again, great job from Nuhi, whitout him it wasn`t possible

Can You Nuhi do for a vLite , place where to "preconfigure" services (Default; Automatic; Manual, Disabled) , like nLite has... Or is it`too much work... So far it`s only option, that I`m missing after last release... Regards Etz

Why Bother , Beta and RC releases... We all know thar M$ final releases are always as good as pre-Betas... I better wait, when Nuhi gets ready for SP1 final... BTW... NUHI , great Job on vLite & nLite... Regards... Estonian BF2 Community