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In the Addons page, you can add: 1) Microsft updates/hotfixes (KBxxxxx.exe) including, for instance, IE7.exe 2) Zipped (.rar or .7z) packages with software or MS Hotfixes (e.g. Xable's or RyanVM's packs) 3) Compressed programs (.cab files) Add them as they are, en block - do not try to exctract! nLite will incorporate them in your installation, yes. So, when Windows are installed, these programs will also be installed (in the Add/Remove Programs, you will see 7-zip, Adobe Reader, or whatever else you added - note that you will not see the MS updates, though). In the Unattended page, you can change settings so that the installation is done with or without user input. You can add your windows key, name, computer name, etc., so that the setup does not stop for these things waiting for you! There is nothing really related to the addons here.

You are welcome. Maybe WMP 6.4 core does not do much without the Win Media Format Runtimes; that would be my guess. Now, the WMP folder under Program Files is not really a big deal as you say, but did you remove WMP6.4/9 and also disabled WMP compatability at the end? Did you try to delete the folder manually? (don't try that now that you have kept WMP core and also installed WMLite, eh!!!) PS: And yes, you can keep WMP6.4 core and disable future WMP compatability; I was wrong at the beginning it's only when you keep both WMP6.4/9 that nLite presets that option to enabled.

what time is it in Australia??? anyway, keep secondary logon then. But as I said before, the easiest/safest thing to do it is, right now, from within windows, create a secondary hardware profile and disable all the services you think you don't need and see how things work.

Remove them. nLite will not blindly remove the content of these directories - it will remove anything not needed according to your selections on hardware/services/etc.

I guess, what did you expect within 30min or so, eh? The software you mention does not usually depend on base Windows services; all that stuff (antivirus, adobe, etc., etc.) add their own services when you install the software. Now, it depends whether your PC is a stand-alone (i.e. you are the only one using it or are there other users as well). For a stand-alone, I think it is safe to remove these: alerter beep driver error reporting IMAPI (have Nero or something equivalent?) Indexing IPSEC Messanger Network DDE QoS RSVP + QoS Remote Registry Removable storage (only keep if you are using iomega) Route Listening RPC Locator Secondary logon Service advertising Simple TCP/IP SNMP NetBIOS Telnet Uninterruptible power supply (if you don't use a UPS, or you don't need to manage it through windows) The easiest thing to do is keep all of them, then try disabling the ones you think you don't need (for instance, create a 2nd hardware profile) and see if eveything works, and so on. Once you end up with the list you don't need, remove them with nLite.

You didn't give us a rundown exactly, but you can try keeping these and see how it works: Bluetooth + Infrared (if you have bluetooth) Brother (if you have any such printer/scanner) CPU AMD Firewire + network (if you have any FW or iLink ports) Floppy (if you have FD) IEEE 1284.4 (if you print/scan via USB) Iomega (if you have zip) Joystick (if you use any) Logical Disk Manag. MS Color Manag. Modem support (if you plan on using dial-up; PCI or external) Ports Printer SD host and Sony MS if you use any Teletext (if you watch TV on PC) USB audio (if you use any portable audio device) USB ethernet (this is not for LAN; it is for USB ports coming out from your motherboard via ethernet; keep if you are not sure) USB video Capture (if you use a webcam) Video capture Windows Image Acq. You might also consider keeping some PCI/IDE controllers if you are not sure; I don't keep them, but it's like 10KB each! And, if you are planning on upgrading your PC, you might also consider keeping other things you might need, e.g. CPU Intel or Multiprocessor (for core duo or AMD X2) or whatever. Or make another nLite compilation at that time! Be aware, though: it's all about trial and error... Hope eveything works for you!

MSMail/MAPI under Network?

Media Center has nothing to do with it. Are you sure you kept WMP 6.4? Check again. I was under the impression that, if you keep WMP core, nLite at the end does not allow you to disable WMP compatibility - that option is only available when you remove WMP altogether (I think). It is weird that you kept WMP6.4 and yet you cannot play WMV. Can you watch WMV online? If you don’t want WMP, you should remove WMP 6.4/9 but at the end keep WMP compatibility enabled. Then, you can use WMLite (one of the two below) to install Windows Media Runtimes (to play WMV with the player of your choice) and the browser plug-in (to watch WMV online with the browser of your choice). WMLite 2.4.0 from http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Windows_Media_Lite.htm WMLite10 2.1.0.36 from http://ksphere.free.fr/site/codecspackage.php

Here you go: Be aware of the following: 1) This is for an ASUS R2H UMPC. 2) Target is XP Pro with tablet features integrated. 3) It's a no sounds/themes and no WMP install. 4) Some (perhaps 5 out of 80) hotfixes included in Xable’s 7z pack show up again post-install (I ignored them). 5) I keep the latest hotfix for IE7 (now it’s the KB942615) and apply it post-install. For some reason, IE7 refuses to launch due to something going on in the urlmon.dll, but applying the update resolves this (this is not the case when you integrate it; I have no idea why). I've never had issues 4 and 5 with XP Pro (without Tablet) so I guess they have something to do with adding the tablet features. ================== [Main] Env = 1.4.1 - 2.0.50727.832.Microsoft Windows NT 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Target = Windows XP Professional SP2 - 5.1.2600.2180 - English (United States) [Tasks] Remove Components Unattended Setup Hotfixes and Update Packs Tweaks Create a Bootable ISO Options [Components] ;# Applications # I only kept defrag ;# Drivers # Removed all ;# Hardware Support # (removed most but be careful- what else you might need) AGP filters ALI 1535 SMBus Host Controller ALI IDE Controller Brother Devices CMD PCI IDE Controller CPU AMD CPU Transmeta Crusoe Firewire (1394) Support Firewire Network support Floppy Support Gravis Digital GamePort Intel PCI IDE Controller Iomega Zip drive Joystick Support Multi-port serial adapters Multi-Processor Support PCMCIA Ramdisk Smart Cards Teletext codec Toshiba PCI IDE Controller VIA PCI IDE Controller Windows CE USB Host ;# Keyboards # Removed all but US-Intl and Greek ;# Languages # Removed all but Western Europe and Greek ;# Multimedia # (among others, keep Tablet PC and Speech Support) Acm Core Codecs AOL ART Image Format Support DirectX diagnostic tool Images and Backgrounds Intel Indeo codecs Luna desktop theme Media Center MIDI audio support Mouse Cursors Movie Maker Music Samples Old CDPlayer and Sound Recorder OpenGL Support Windows Media Player Windows Media Player 6.4 Windows Sounds ;# Network # (among others, keep .NET) Active Directory Services Client for Netware Networks Communication tools FrontPage Extensions H323 MSP IP Conferencing MAC Bridge MSN Explorer Netmeeting NetShell Cmd-Tool NWLink IPX/SPX/NetBIOS Protocol Peer-to-Peer Share Creation Wizard Synchronization Manager TAPI Application Support Windows Messenger ;# Operating System Options # (among others, keep Agent and IME) Administrative Templates Administrator VB scripts 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 Group Policy Management Console Help and Support IExpress Wizard Local Security Settings Manual Install and Upgrade MS XML 2.0 Out of Box Experience (OOBE) Private Character Editor Remote Installation Services (RIS) Search Assistant Security Center Service Pack Messages Symbolic Debugger (NTSD) Tour User account pictures Zip Folders ;# Services # Alerter Beep Driver Error Reporting IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service Indexing Service IPSEC Policy Agent Messenger Network DDE QoS RSVP Quality of Service (QoS) Remote Registry Removable Storage Route Listening Service RPC Locator Secondary Logon Service Advertising Protocol Simple TCP/IP Services SNMP System Restore Service TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper Telnet Uninterruptible Power Supply Volume Shadow Copy ;# Directories # DOCS SUPPORT VALUEADD ;# Compatibility # [KeepFiles] msconfig.exe ntprint.inf ipconfig.exe [RemoveFiles] clock.avi yahoo.bmp swtchbrd.bmp [Options] ClassicSetup BlackSetupBack DupeFiles ProfilesDir = "%SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings" TargetPath = "WINDOWS" temp_dir = %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Temp CleanBiosInfo AdvTweaks [Patches] TcpIp = 100 DoUxTheme DoSFC [services2] [Tweaks] Boot and Shutdown-Auto-End tasks immediately Boot and Shutdown-Ctrl-Alt-Del at logon-Disabled Boot and Shutdown-Disable saving Last Good state at boot Boot and Shutdown-Do not Parse Autoexec.bat Boot and Shutdown-Logon Page-Welcome screen Boot and Shutdown-Numlock-Off Boot and Shutdown-Setup Prefetch-Cache-Applaunch and Boot enabled Boot and Shutdown-Status Messages-None Desktop-Internet Explorer icon-Hide Desktop-My Computer icon-Show Desktop-My Documents icon-Hide Desktop-My Network Places icon-Hide Desktop-Recycle Bin icon-Show Explorer-Advanced Search: preconfigure options Explorer-Change Windows Explorer folder view-Details Explorer-Classic Control Panel Explorer-Disable Autorun Explorer-Disable Beep on errors Explorer-Disable Prefix: Shortcut to Explorer-Launch folder windows in a seperate process Explorer-Preset Places Bar to-Desktop, My Computer, My Network Places, C:, D: Explorer-Recycle Bin: allow to rename and delete Explorer-Show extensions of known file-types Explorer-Show Statusbar in all windows Explorer-Show the full path in the Address Bar Internet Explorer-Disable Market Place bookmark Internet Explorer-Disable Media Player 6.4 created bookmarks Internet Explorer-Disable sound when popup is blocked Internet Explorer-Keep IE URL-History for-10 Days Internet Explorer-Set Homepage-about:blank Internet Explorer-Set Internet Explorer to accept 10 connects at a time My Computer-Add Device Manager to Context Menu My Computer-Add Registry Editor to Context Menu My Computer-Add Software to Context Menu My Computer-Remove Search from Context Menu My Computer-Remove Shared Documents Network-Allow receiving Remote Assistance-Disable Network-Disable administrative shares Network-Disable automatic search for network folders and printers Network-Disable restoring mapped network drives on logon Network-Remote Desktop-Disable Performance-Disable Last accessed Timestamp on files Performance-Disable Tracking of Broken Shortcut Links Performance-Disable Warn on low disk space Performance-Disable WBEM logging Performance-Do not cache thumbnails Performance-Enable USB Idle Endpoint support Performance-Speed-up Access to AVI Media Files Privacy-Disable Driver Update Internet prompt Privacy-Disable Tracking of most used programs Privacy-Remove Alexa Security-Disable Web Open With prompt Security-Screensaver Password-Protection-Disabled Start Menu-Control Panel-Display as a link Start Menu-Disable Highlight newly installed programs Start Menu-Disable popup on first boot Start Menu-Do not use Personalized Menus Start Menu-My Computer-Display as a link Start Menu-My Documents-Don't display this item 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-Number of programs on Start menu-6 Start Menu-Printers and Faxes-Don't display this item Start Menu-Reduce popup delay Start Menu-Remove Logoff User Start Menu-Remove Search For People from Search 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 Start Menu-Remove Windows Update shortcut Taskbar-Disable Hide inactive icons Taskbar-Hide Volume Control Icon in System Tray (Normally, for XP Pro, I also disable the Language bar, but not for Tablet because it gives you fast control over the mic [on/off] and speech [dictate/command]) [unattended] UnattendMode = 0 ComputerType = ACPI Uniprocessor PC HibernationNo AutoLogon = faimag MaximumDataStorePercentOfDisk = 12 RestorePointLife = 30 DesktopTheme = Default|| IISInstall = 2 AutoUpdates = 3 AutoUDay = 5 AutoUHour = 15 ProgFilesPath = "\Program Files" [GuiRunOnce] [Drivers] I have never been able to integrate all of them successfully, so I just use the driver CD once after installation to put them all. [Hotfixes] F:\Hotfixes\Xables-November-SP2-UpdatePack.7z F:\Hotfixes\Xable_WindowsUpdateEngine-v1.1_addon.cab H:\Hotfixes\Windows Genuine Advantage v1.7.59.1\Validation\xable_WGAV-v1.1_addon.cab H:\Hotfixes\Windows Genuine Advantage v1.7.59.1\Notification\xable_WGAN-v1.1_addon.cab F:\Hotfixes\IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe F:\Hotfixes\WindowsXP-KB936357-v2-x86-ENU.exe F:\Hotfixes\WindowsXP-KB937894-x86-ENU.exe F:\Hotfixes\WindowsXP-KB941568-x86-ENU.exe F:\Hotfixes\WindowsXP-KB942763-x86-ENU.exe F:\Hotfixes\WindowsXP-KB944653-x86-ENU.exe

Hallo. I would like to share with you all my experience with nLite-ing Windows XP Tablet PC ed 2005. Windows XP Pro has always worked fine for me, but Tablet turned out to be a bit tricky. You may already be aware of these peculiarities, but here they are anyway: 1) Removing .NET Framework (under OS Options) kills the Tablet's on-screen keyboard (you just get an empty frame) and does not allow Tablet Input Panel to launch. I wasn't able to correct these problems post-install with dotnetfx 1.1, 2, or higher. 2) It's self-explanatory that you need to keep Tablet PC and Speech Support (under Multimedia), but this is not all. For the Speech feature to function properly, you also need (possibly) MS Agent and (definitely) Input Method Editor (under OS Options). In one installation without either of the two, Speech just crashed all the time. I installed the MS Agent core components and SAPI 4 post-install but that didn't work (that's why MS Agent gets a "possibly"). In another installation (with 10-20 others in-between!) where I kept both Agent+IME, everything worked and the Tablet finally listens to what I have to say! Well, that's it! Hope you find this useful.

I am not sure I understand the 3 CDs you have. XP Tablet and Media Center is simply XP PRO with added tablet or media center features. Hence you should have one XP PRO CD and another CD with a CMPNENTS folder only (with these 3 subdirectories: NETFX, MEDIACTR, TABLETPC). There is also a CMPNENTS folder in your XP PRO CD, usually with a NETFX subdir (the same as the NETFX subdir in the second CD) and perhaps incomplete TABLETPC and MEDIACTR subdirs (without the respective CABs, which are located in the second CD). I guess what you need to do is copy the TABLETPC subdir from your TABLET PC CD and ovewrite the TABLETPC subdir in your XP PRO CD (under CMPNENTS) and do the same with the MEDIACTR subdir from your MEDIA CENTER CD (overwrite the MEDIACTR subdir in your XP PRO CD). So, you will end up with a CD that can install XP PRO, TABLET or MEDIA CENTER, depending on the windows key you use - you need to provide the respective key for Pro, Tablet, or Media Center, otherwise the additional features will not be installed even if you have them in your installation CD. However, this will work only if all three CDs (or keys) you have are the same type, i.e. retail, OEM, or VLKs. Because there is the file setupp.ini in the I386 folder that instructs the CD what kind of keys it will accept (eg. if you have a retail XP Pro CD and an OEM XP Tablet CD, you will not be able to make it work both ways, I think).