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Some reg to inf conversion software in this list: http://www.bootcd.uni.cc/BartPE_Plugins_Utility.php

I have prepared a set of batch files you can run on windows 98 that will prepare a slimmed down version of windows xp if you have a winxp sp1. You can download here: http://home.earthlink.net/~storageplace/jdeboeck98.zip I ran it fine, but without removing internet explorer, remote desktop connection, and shell images. The zip includes removing these. Let me know if any bugs, though ofcourse there shouldn't be. <quote from the included readme.txt> For more info, go to http://jdeboeck.msfnhosting.com "Windows XP SP1 in 185MB" OVERVIEW: - Files and folders should be placed at the root of the windows xp installation files (where i386 is an immediate subfolder). - Prep.bat copies winxp from cd drive g:\. If this is not where your winxp cd is, then edit prep.bat to reflect this. If you already have your winxp files on your hard drive, skip prep.bat and start jdeboeck.bat, which will automatically apply all of the batches sequentially. If you do not want all the batches applied, edit jdeboeck.bat (remark out lines "rem ..."). - If your system complains about expand, findstr, or makecab, use the ones supplied in "jdeboeck\98ish coms\". Copy these to your "windows\command\" folder. You may want to back up your originals, if they exist. - When I changed JDEBoeck's original batches, I remarked out the original lines as "rem orig ...". Files changed have a "98" in the filename, except for r-msnexplorer.bat, which I think has an error I fixed. IMPORTANT: - Since prep.bat will delete everything, before anything I copy the following files to my i386mini folder: dosnet.inf runonceex.inf txtsetup.sif winnt.sif - I have found the need to delete the unattend.txt that comes with winxp cd. Prep.bat does this. - I had problems with similar file names, like accessories and accessibility, so I accessibility reads as cessibility. MISC: - xpboot.bin is the cd boot image file for the winxp cd. xpcd.nrb is for Nero cd burning software. Double click on this, drag your xpcd files and you are ready to burn (assuming xpboot.bin is located in d:\xpcd\setup\) - Shortcuts in setup folder point to d:\xpcd\i386\ runonceex.inf shortcut is in case you are using help from http://gosh.msfnhosting.com </readme.txt>

Hope this isn't too lame... Inf File Generator: http://www.poromenos.org/download.html Inf-Tool: http://www.inner-smile.com/dl_inf.htm UltraEdit32 can do custom highlighting, and you can download inf file highlighting template below (though pretty old): http://www.ultraedit.com/downloads/additional.html <quote gosh> Software to create inf files Back in NT4 we had sysdiff, that would create a registry snapshot and save it as an .inf file. This was very handy. However sysdiff won't work in windows XP or higher. As far as I know there is no other Microsoft tool to create inf files. There might be 3rd party apps </quote>