vaughancoveny

Hi I uncompressed the .rar archive into a directory. Ran nlite: selected addons, hotfixes etc. then selected the .exe switchless installer file began the process but it comes up with the error: not expected type of hotfix. Why doesn't nLite support swithchless installers anymore? The file size is correct, 54MB. Its version is 2.4. Of course it may be bodgy. Its hard to use RyanVM integrator because service pack 4 needs slipstreaming first, and I have used nLite to do this, or should I enable RyanVM's advanced options and run WIN2K_SP4.EXE with the /integrate switch and leave RyanVM window open. It recommends starting over from scratch if you've previously integrated hotfixes using this method. I expect service packs are treated the same. I'm running nLite wizard on Windows 7 to integrate previous versions of Windows, like this Win2K server for personal use. Last Session.ini

In order to do so, I will need to install and run .NET Framework/Mono? under Wine for nLite to work correctly. I'll be asking/searching WineHQ and Mono forums/database too. But has anyone got these programs to work? Be useful to goto another unattended site with help of writing answer files manually to save effort getting microsoft's setupmgr.exe deployment wizard from support tools to run. The Windows 2000 source will be transferred to wine's CDrive. Once the process is complete will run under QEMU. As my system is slow I've heard QEMU can be accelerated to native speeds. Then again, I mainly need to run Barca for Email and PIM, which Fred Vorck recommends, because I don't know if Linux email programs can import the format; aswell Wine can provide full Internet access for Windows applications. Barca does install, but cannot register serial number or download email. If anyone has any past experiences this will begin the research. Much appreciated.

With the advent of cloud computing, how will nLite and HPFSLIP limit Operating System gas by removing features. Of course one of the points of Unattended CDs/DVDs is they may take less disk space in which the time benefits to load of the Hard Disk/Flash RAM is pretty rapid. Could/Should it hook into the server to only download what it needs or would Microsoft Windows do that anyway. If the servers are Microsoft's, and proprietry we wouldn't have post vLite. If it is Open Source or forced by the European Union to give out its code, but nuhi might need a complete course in Networking Operating Systems. There would be a lot more or less jobs for nLite and its users.

I did but it did not remedy the problem. You may be getting confused with COM (ActiveX). Security programs often allow you to Disable DCOM, like DCOMobulator which phased out a few years ago, but there are other programs that do allow. Distributed COM, Distributed Transaction Coordinator and Task Scheduler all occupy, transmit and receive through port 135 and are dangerous. Unless you need prefetch functionality use Freebyte Task Scheduler instead or do things manually.

PC Tools OnDemand issued an "VERY HIGH" alert during .Net framework 3.5 installation for MSIEXEC.EXE. I Quarantined it. Internet Security won't let me restore it. Neither will System Resore. Now Windows Installer won't work. The service cannot be re-enabled, access denied. The service won't start up automatically. I've disabled DCOM. Any way of saving the Event Viewer Log also? I can place it here.

Firstly, xpAntiSpy has the AVG-AntiSpyware tweaks section included with it for free. Google for AntiSpy, as you can pick it up from anywhere. Just don't remove support for Windows Product Activation like licdll.dll down the bottom and make sure you press Apply on the status bar. Easy enough even for a techie to forget. No tweaks are happening! I am fond of PC Tools Internet Security and ThreatFire from the same site. Includes Spyware Doctor. Can be a pain to configure the firewall, so maybe a tech support person may need to come and help, use theirs or any specific or MSFN like forum. Cost about $70 Australian Dollars together for one year, not sure if limits are placed on number of PCs. Not an Aussie product though, just use Universal Currency Converter to convert their price into yours. Make sure you run the free updated versions of the manual scanner/removal tools from the main commercial websites. I don't mean buying their security stuff. And only use one real-time protector at a time. Ask for manual removal of infections without security software from these forums. If forum cannot be accessed then use a live Linux rescue CD like Insert (60MB download - must burn ISO to CD the proper way) or use some other computer without infection. Insert has support for a Firefox download through the right click menu. Might need some help with Fluxbox though. Ask through the Other Operating Systems though. Can eliminate Windows malware without Windows. Gathers updates too, of course. Can be installed to a USB bootable storage device, and be copied straight from slow Hard Disk to fast Memory. Lastly, read software licence agreements to detect spyware or whether security software juristictions are up to the Romanian law courts like with BitDefender. Most people cannot understand them, but their worth attempting to decipher the hidden traps. If it says Free Software Foundation or freebie BSD licence, like with Firefox or OpenOffice or WINE for BSD, read these too, as many get frightened by security risks, plagirism, copyright infringement and believing FSF software is always free of charge.

Has anyone used this product and found it a helpful security complement? An XP and Vista only product as far as memory goes. Do a google on it to find out more including what its purpose is. It's not like that VMWare Firefox Linux product. It does not Virtualise Guest Operating Systems, only Windows applications. A bit like Virtual Sandbox but for programs, not just VBS Scripts. I suppose you could run these under it too. Much more user friendly than Virtual Sandbox. It's free for personal use, or a generous 120-day trial for other uses. Only trouble is, its a Symantec company. All their security suites, including SystemWorks which has/had antivirus software, use insecure ActiveX to protect us from insecure ActiveX. Sounds like an endless programming loop, no wonder SystemWorks and Internet Security are bloatware. Then again, most major company security software requires versions of Internet Explorer. But the best free Avira Antivir and the worst free AVG Antivirus can be fooled by Fred Vorck's replacement fileset for comprehensive removal of Internet Explorer from Windows 2000. If AVG needs fooling. Altiris probably doesn't do this. It ain't bloatware, no skins, its performance is second to none. One option on its Create New Layer in the Admin tool uninstalls products after doing a Single Program Capture when Install an Application is selected. Only after 1st use then a reboot/shutdown. This could be frustrating for some, blessing for testers.

Forget the "n00bie weird nLite problems" discussion. It doesn't apply to this bug. After you select everything, that is: Service Pack, Addons or Hotfixes, Driver Integration etc. up until make bootable CD; It exits at variable times after "Do you wish to start this process" and corrupts the source. Selecting a few tasks at a time is a workaround. Hopefully the previous problem of going a little at a time, then rebooting after other Windows requirements, doesn't uninstall nLite 1.4.1 itself nor get rid of files that exist in completely different directories to nLited CD source or nLite itself. Probably software conflict as discussed in this first line. But don't eliminate optional OEM folder if it contains special drivers that you cannot integrate to make XP work, nor integrate out of date drivers eg. have year 2001 written on them, nor integrate .NET Frameworks and Silverlight through addons at least without special intervention. I did all these 3 things. Maybe the bug is me. I'll give it another go.

Both of us will have too much difficulty learning English if we reading a confusing Wikipedia article. Knowing what OCD is doesn't help a Half-Dutch born in Australian man, meaning me. But the Wiki is right in saying OCD is often a off-hand turn of phrase, and I used it in that way, way off topic. My apologies. To the moderators as well.

You are not Obsessive Compulsive Arie, I am. Using too many confusing words. This is not the case. I a running nLite itself and not a created CD from nLite. nLite failed before I got to that stage. Altiris does not run Operating Systems on top of other Operating Systems, unlike Virtual PC. It is a security measure that runs Windows software in a Altiris software virtual environment. This is not Operating System creation. It is free for personal use or a generous 120-day trial for companies. Search for Altiris Software Virtualisation Agent under Google, a very useful program and there is barely anything like it. An original idea. But it may not be Altiris or my mistakes with OEM and components folder deletion in My Computer instead of using nLite to perform this task. I am not doing both now to see if the problem does not happen. Helpful for Nuhi I suppose.

Nuhi something in Tweaks about 2nd of DCOMs being prone to worms, should the first Tweak ought to be disabled also? What about COM+ for DCOM tweaks, you say there isn't much danger in removing it, but one nLite tutorial on the Internet begs to differ? Don't have it bookmarked. Then again, he prefers to keep WordPad when AbiWord is so much better and/or secure. The only distributed stuff I am going to eventually use is Windows 2000 Server connectivity, networking in my Dad's IT Support college course which requires Windows and Office XP or later so I better watch what I touch. Not even Windows Update I am going to use, but since system administrators loathe poor deployment, I doubt whether that is part of the course. Courses often have vague description. Could Background Intelligent Transfer Service, QOS application awareness and Network DDE be eliminated? Also Distributed Link Tracking client needed for MyTheatre application amongst other things I suppose. Hopefully VBS scripts are not needed otherwise if Altiris Software Virtualisation cannot execute them then I'll need to use complicated programs like Virtual Sandbox. Same goes for insecure netshell, which is scripted so it might depend on VBS anyway.

Nuhi, You said it is possible to remove without loss of other functionalities. Could you or others give some examples please? If this only includes NT 4.0 Server or WINS compatibility under Windows 2000/XP/2003 then great. Hopefully it has nothing to do with Active Directory/MDAC/Jet/MSXML or even Simple File Sharing. I generally disable the latter.

A little Obsessive Compulsive Arie. Effort involved in a complicated problem. Okay the Windows installation was located in C:\WinXPSP2. The "do you wish to start the process" begins and exits after the 7-Zip Addon. Corrupts the installation source. But only on the 5th time after going through all but the "Bootable ISO" step. I integrated Service Pack 3 RC 1 into 1.4.1 but did not remove the Security Centre according to nliteos.com news. All addons before and they worked thru but only Service Pack Integration, Hotfixes etc, Drivers and Component removal were done. When addons worked I ran the nLite installation program through Altiris Software Virtualisation shortly after reinstalling XP, PC Tools Internet Security, .NET Framework 2 on a full XP Pro system. The kitchen sink. Now the Altiris program creates its own virtual machine for Software by not using a guest OS under Windows etc. Running nLite under this (because of insecure .NET Framework bloat - I could use nuhi's alternative), the first 4 steps worked, but after a shutdown/restart nLite was uninstalled, the changes to Windows source lost, and most mysteriously some files from other folders that I downloaded vanished. I changed the configuration under Altiris but that is when the Windows source became corrupted. Although I deleted the components and OEM folders using My Computer instead of nLite. That could be the problem. Ignore Altiris for a while because I am going through the nLite procedure without it. And use nLite to delete folders. Has anyone heard of a conflict between nLite and Altiris, or would I rather not bother? I suppose that is not the only question I can come up with. For some part, I would bother with a few addons/runonce, despite version upgrade criticisms. Hopefully the illegal stuff disappears in the Addon forum because I wouldn't want it to disappear. The moderators do warn us. Read the disclamer please.

Reply re-worded IE 7 doesn't need require an addon as part of SP3 RC1 - its there by the sounds. I have never used SP3 beta, which may not work. You see without XP SP3 RC1 integration, on the compatiblity box before removals, is one checkbox - Internet Explorer 7, to enable compatibility. With SP3 integration, it just says Internet Explorer. No 7 at the end. As IE 8 pre-release whatever is not for public download. Clarify this reasoning please someone. Unless this is a nLite bug and typo. wacko.gif This post has been edited by vaughancoveny: Today, 12:11 AM

Clarification needed here. The Service Pack 3 RC1 did not corrupt the folder, Windows nLite that is, what do you call this? This problem belongs my first reply. Even post previews don't work out always.