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  1. Nightthief, This is brilliant! It explains alot. You're the first person I've come across to mention these two different Start Menus. No doubt you just happened on this 'feature' somewhere in the public MS lit, but it's not coming up on anyone else's radar, that's for sure. Many, many thanks! I'll give these things a shot, and if I still have issues, expect to hear a reply in another day or so. a.k.a.
  2. LOL! (And I actually did.) Exactly! And no one from MS is replying in the MS forums to this question. Surprise, surprise, surprise. a.k.a.
  3. If any of you find the default folder structure in the Start Menu of Vista / Server 2008 to be unecessarily chaotic, you may have tried to customize the folders into which apps/tools reside so the display is more streamlined and logical. As soon as you did this, you probably ran into some of the following problems: 1. Some folders you've changed the names of recreate new versions of their former selves 2. Other folders won't delete. 3. A number of shortcuts break when placed in different folders. (The OS only renames what you see in the Start Menu, and doesn't always rename shortcuts or folders within Properties.) Any thoughts on how you'd surmount these sorts of barriers to the most basic customizations? Maybe you have to leave everything as is, and just create one new folder, putting fresh shortcuts for frequently used apps into them. There must be a more elegant solution, though. Cheers, a.k.a.
  4. Hola, If anyone is curious what that NVCACHE partition is doing on your hard drive setup, so was I. It's part of the infamous Intel Turbo Memory gimmick (also known as Robson). I have found no info on what it's actually used for. I thought the whole idea of the 1GB NAND chip that Intel was pushing was that you would need FEWER writes to the HDD. Sheesh. If anyone has any information about how this partition should be sized, or formatted, it would be great to circulate that to this forum. Even the MS forums are clueless. Just as a reference point: My 1GB chip has a screwy 513MB partition associated with it. Apparently, if you're constantly getting "disk is almost full" warnings, you're supposed to reduce the size to 450MB or below. Thanks, a.k.a.
  5. Arneh, Ok, thanks! I see that now: It's the difference between using ImageX for an installation image and for an OS image. Where ImageX drops the metadata and becomes problematic is the latter case, when used as a backup tool. Aviv00, GimageX is ImageX, just with a friendly graphical user interface. So yes, it means ImageX shouldn't be your backup software of choice -- it's used for clean (re)installs of Vista at best. a.k.a.
  6. Hi Dino et al., Just wondering, as I'm new to vLite, what it uses to build the stripped installer? Is it using ImageX? If so, what do you make of KB935467, saying ImageX shouldn't be used to build backup Vista images? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/935467 Also, as a newb, could you possibly sticky a few more posts -- ones that do a good job of describing what exactly vLite is doing behind the scenes? I don't want to pester everyone to rehash this kind of stuff. By the way, this is an ACE piece of software! Thanks a million! Glad there's such a good support base for your work. Best wishes, a.k.a.
  7. Hi Dino, Here's another scenario under which I got the same error: I had already loaded the entire set of files from an install disc into a folder once, and then restarted vLite. When prompted to load the install files all over again, I got the "copy and replace?" prompts from Explorer, and opted to "skip." At that point, vLite wouldn't let me proceed, giving me that same error. If there's a preexisting set of install files, maybe there should be an option in vLite to use those, without having to have them loaded from the install disc again and again and again. Best wishes, a.k.a.
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