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I want to extract the vol1.dat used in goshs reducing the size guide by myself. How can i do that?

Yes, thats german. And of course did i set the bios defaults as well as trying my own settings or whatever. nothing worked. i will try the xp media center edition tomorrow...

well, i really tried everything (Bios settings, change drives, tried different xp/2k versions). it should work as it did before. i dunno why it cannot load this dll... i guess this is since the windows installer in xp crashed and from then on its somehow damaged... But how could that affect a new installation from cd?... i will try some other things to get the installation working. System is Abit IC7 Max3, P4C HT 2.8GHz, 2*512MB Corsair Dual Channel XMS 3200, 120GB IBM IDE, 250GB Maxtor IDE, GFX 5950U, PS2 Keyboard... This .dll thing is really annoying. I dunno...

Hey all you professionals out there Im trying to install Windows XP but all i get after copying the files and reboot is "Couldnt load KBDGR.DLL. Turn your PC off please!". Same if im trying to install Win2k. Tried about everything and searched a lot but nothing found. Read something about KBDGR.DLL is Win32 and need the Windows Installer... I dunno... Anyone knows what to do?

Thats what i use. http://www.virtualplastic.net/html/ui_cntxt_dll.html. You can change the picture (up to 96*96 in size) in the byblos.dll with a resource edtior and register it with regsvr32.exe (Windows\System32\regsvr32.exe). After that it will show your pic in the rightclick menu. But not in systemfolders like the control panel.

How can i do that? Thought it only shows whats in the resources folder.

But first: Big thanks to gosh, GreenMachine, RaveRod, flyakite, techtype, jdeboeck, b0r3d, Wraith, Allanoll, Numinous, DaveXP, WebMedic, AaronXP, Alanoll and all the other members of MSFN. What im asking for is permission! A guy on another forum stopped me posting my guide of how to install XP / 2000 in unattended mode, asking me if i wanna write an article with his help for how to do it which would be introduced on the main site. The forum is part of a news reporting and windows help site! My guide has 36 pages (written with word 2003) with about everything in it thats directly useful or nice in an unattended installation. All i did was read almost everything here, translate it, and rewrite it so most people can understand what ive written. Would that be ok? (of course, everyone will be recognized in my guide) // its in german and the site im talking about is wintotal.de. whoever wants to read it can download the actual version here! Its a Word2003 .doc. //well, its not really written in word, its converted to word from a post in another forum. i only have the ubb version and a lot of textfiles.

Hi all, i dont wanna see pictures oder zipped files in there anymore. Can someone tell me how to do this? And how to set the amount of files that will be remembered? Thanks in advance!

Only the SYSDIFF command was new to me. I guess it should be mentioned in that thread...

Taken from here: Paul Thurrotts SuperSite for Windows Looks like its only available through Winnt32.exe...

Ive copied this from this Website: Microsoft & .NET Magazine Network Havent read something about this method here and i already took a deep look inside this board. Shouldnt this method be added to the thread about editing the hive files? Or is it already mentioned there?

Hey all, i found this while searching the web for something. Should be easy for everyone to modify the Hive if this works: Or do this belong to the old news section? Normally, you must modify the registry or use a GUI to modify settings for all users of computer, after you install Windows 2000. If you install from a distribution share, you can make the modifications prior to installation. There are five (5) .inf files in the \i386 folder that are used to create the registry hives for the installation: Hivecls.inf creates Classes in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE. Hivedef.inf creates HKEY_USER\.DEFAULT and the Ntuser.dat for the default user. Hivesft.inf creates HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE. Hivesys.inf creates HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM. Hiveusd.inf does not create accessible hives. If you wanted to implement some of the settings in tip 2517, you would add the following to Hivedef.inf: HKCU,"Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced","CascadeControlPanel",0,"YES"HKCU,"Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced","CascadeNetworkConnections",0,"YES"HKCU,"Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced","CascadePrinters",0,"YES"HKCU,"Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced","StartMenuAdminTools",0,"YES"HKCU,"Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced","StartMenuLogoff",65537,1HKCU,"Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced","StartMenuScrollPrograms",0,"YES" All users who log on will have the following configured: Expand Control PanelExpand Network and Dial-Up ConnectionsExpand PrintersDisplay Administrative ToolsDisplay LogoffScroll the Programs Menu You can also change the values of default entries in these .inf files. The easiest way to get these entries is to start with a clean install. Then: 1. Run SYSDIFF /SNAP on the computer. 2. Make the changes you want through the GUI interface and/or registry. 3. Run SYSDIFF /DIFF. 4. Run SYSDIFF /INF /M to record the registry changes to an .inf file. Copy these to the .inf file(s), in the logical order. Place HKLM,"X\Y\Z" after HKLM,"X\Y".

Will that work for directories too? i havent tried much but running some system diagnose tools. its about a folder with a space at the end of it, "Command and Conquer Generäle Die Stunde Null " i dont know whats wrong with it but no contextmenue can be opened on this directory. i hope that hint will kill this directory.... dont work, still there!

Thanks. ill try to find out tomorrow. i hope the bootlog.txt will show everything i need to know... cYa , gn8 & post if you know something...

Nah, its really not that complex what im trying to do. we are not living in 1995 anymore Im using a ramdisk that will start directly after the bootmenu! the ramdisk driver is the first driver that will be loaded on startup! it can be configured to be a harddisk or to be identified as a true ramddisk. an image can be loaded right after the driver. and the disk can be up to the size of the whole systm memory - 256MB (256->Thats what XP reserves! anyone knows a hint to change this value?). 768 in my case. there are many options available on how to update the image. putting my swapfile on it is really easy but too much waste of memory. i dont want everything in my memory! best would be to build an explorer shell installation package... but i dont know. at first ill have to make it work by myself! the rest is in the edited part of my first post! most wanted is a list of all explorer shell files... maybe some dll`s and explorer files are enough to make it...

I wanna make the explorer shell to run completely from my memorydisk... I guess i need to know every file and every registryentry to do this. Or whatever you think i should know to make it. So if anyone here could tell me some tips i would be really happy. Doesnt matter what kind of tip. the more things to think of the better. Thanks //edit Actually im running LiteStep on my RamDisk. And i am wondering how much faster some programs can start only because of this (5 to 10 times faster from ACDSee up to MS Word 2003 / Adobe Photoshop). neither i have tried it with a normal disk yet nor i will. but i would really like to test this with the explorer shell. So... what files are for explorer shell? Anyone knows?

easy... litestep running from a little ramdisk makes it sooo much faster than explorer!! acdsee on explorer shell took me about 15 seconds to load every time for viewing a little picture! with litestep it only takes about 1,5 seconds! for every picture!

Btw, im done with explorer shell... i only hope litestep will run without problems... ****, i love this lite step theme...

i dont remember, got it from belchfire.net or deviantart.com... let it load and save it if you want (its 1280*1024)

I know that something similar can open the controlpanel. Can someone explain me how this works? Can i convert this into readable data? There are many keys in the registry where somthing similar is used! Could help me alot if i only knew how this works...

RCC 2000 (Right Click Commander) can do most of what i want. Not the way i want it but take a look at the picture.

Ohh, got it. Good to know but do you know a way of adding a menu like this to the desktops contextmenü? in the registry?

maybe i didnt get what this tweak will do... its 2 am here, maybe thats why...

Ehm..., will it show all files in this folder or only allow to open a folder in explorer through rightclick context? cant logoff for testing, so i just ask...

Finally i can add folders to my rightclick context! TTTHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNKKKK YYYYYYYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU