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No. Anything nLite removes, is gone. The only thing you could try, is to copy and register the ocx file by hand.

Hehe. Anyway, your co-workers test doesn't show or prove much. It might as well have been a flaky drive. Such tests should be done on a much larger scale to get any 'semi-decent' test results. On topic. Fragmented drives stress hardware too, since the drive heads have to move all over the place to gather data from it. But like jaclaz said, overdoing defragmentations isn't that good in the long run either.

True that jaclaz.

Google is your friend.

You need to disable SFC (nLite has an option to do so). Then you can remove them, and you can move the Admin Tools menu as well.

Taskbar settings are stored in: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams\Desktop] and: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StuckRects2] Setup the taskbar as you want it. Then log off, because changes to these keys are not written to the registry as long your session is active. Login again and export the keys.

Not at all. GRUB4DOS can boot right from the DOS command line, after DOS has finished booting, or from config.sys or from autoexec.bat. It behaves as a common dos .exe program. Although you can install GRUB4DOS to the MBR or to the partition boot sector, it's by no means a requirement to do so. Read the Grub4dos Guide to learn more about it. XOSL is fine. But GRUB4DOS is way more versatile, and is an on-going project, for which there is a lot of support.Now, regarding Ghost (Norton Ghost up to 2003 or Symantec Ghost, afterwards), it can image from whole disks to individual partitions, and restore them perfectly. It depends what type of image you ask it to do. Once you have a full disk image you can only restore the full disk, though, and not just one specific partition from inside the image. But if you create and individual partition image, then it'll restore just that, and not mess with any other area of the disk. From the guide.... So to boot the HDD, it still uses the MBR. It's totally unlike EFI, OpenBoot, SRM, or many of the other advanced firmware procedures. The x86 BIOS architecture has major drawbacks, hence why x86 vendors want to go EFI so badly....

Basically, nLite can integrate service packs, post service pack update packs (like Xable's, RyanVM's, RedXII and OnePiece), strip Windows components (and thus reduce size, and sometimes increase speed), integrate stand-alone hotfixes, drivers, and other (nLite) program add-ons, manage services, and apply predefined service settings, registry adjustments and miscellaneous other tweaks.

nLite Guide How to create nLite addons Unattended Guide ~ WINNT.SIF Reference

Hmm, a simple task like copying files is still dang slow with both Win7 and Vista compared to Win2K and WinXP.

Windows 7's build-in firewall is quite good actually, for AV I use McAfee VirusScan Enterprise (which is not free unfortunally, but their consumer products are not nearly as good).

You're not the first one requesting WUD from overwriting the older downloads. But as far as I know, this feature was never implemented. Offline Update only downloads files that are actually new and required: it maintains log files. About the general help, I'm not sure if there is such thing in English, but the program is pretty simple and straight forward to use. Edit: Another viable alternative for offline updating would be AutoPatcher.

Agreed, measure first. See what is actually causing the problem. It might be a poor written SQL query (or whatever database that application uses), or application code, or whatever, as well. Poor written queries and code bring the fastest networks and servers to their knees, and are in 95% the actual cause of slowness and problems. At least from what I've seen in over 15 years of professional experience. Not needed if their network is Cat5e based, since Cat5e is fully certified for 1GB.

Oh, I replied in your previous topic. His last update is from Dec, 2008.

c't Offline Update does more, is better maintained, and does an overall better job. No disrespect to jcarle intended.

As far as I know, all boot managers modify the MBR. For a good reason, because it's not possible for a boot manager to reside within an OS due to x86 architecture limitations.

Can't confirm this, my Outlook 2003 still works as it should. Also, the June 9th update only updates Outlook's Junk E-mail Filter? Edit: For the record I'm running Office 2003 Pro ENU, not NLD.

In fact, 1920x1080 is full HD in 1080p in 16:9 aspect ratio. 1920x1200 has a 16:10 aspect ratio, and is capable of full HD, but it'll leave a black unused area on the top and bottom of the screen.

Sysinternals' Process Explorer can reveal what instances and child processes each svchost process is running.

That driver statement had some truth in it...about 3-4 years ago? ATi's drivers are as good as nVidia's these days. Anyway, at the moment, the ATi HD4770 and HD4850 will give you the best bang for the buck, especially with the recent announced price cut for the HD4850.

Try this: IE8 Registry Tweaks

Also, if you still have the 9.1 switchless release from the tutorial, extract it, download and apply the 9.1.2 patch* and rebuild the SFX. * Thus: "msiexec /p AdbeRdrUpd912_all_incr.msp /a AcroRead.msi /qb"

Quite probably, yes. It's what Vista should have been.

You're welcome!

It makes a lot more sense to integrate SP3 and a post-SP3 update pack, like RyanVM's, Red's, OnePiece or Xable's. Your source will be up to date from scratch, install much faster, is much smaller in size, and it eliminates the need to apply any patches afterwards.