Nick_White

I use THIS installer. It's without Acrobat.com and Adobe AIR. Used it with RunOnce and installed without any errors or problems. Used the command: AdbeRdr90_en_US_Std.exe /sAll

$i=1 While ($i<=10) If (WinActive("Window title")) Then ExitLoop EndIf $i = $i + 1 Sleep(1000) WEnd

What Adobe Reader silent installer are you using?

Yes, you can.

What about if you copy a lot of files and a file is corrupted? In Windows XP the whole copy process stops. What happens with TeraCopy?

MicroXP is made with nLite by removing components and others. You can make your own "legit" MicroXP by removing unnecessary components (to you).

Using self-extracting archives, you can do it very easy. You can do it with WinRAR and 7-Zip (with a modified SFX module).

Re-enabled them all, but the same problem. After that, I disabled them again and disabled some more: Smart Card Application Experience Background Intelligent Transfer Service (Auto DS) IP Helper IPsec Policy Agent Secondary Logon WebClient After this, Vista now starts as expected (pretty fast).

Vista can be fast if you optimize it. I have disabled 27 services (out of 80 or whatever) and it works like a charm.

I have a small request: If I remove the "Windows Sounds" component, there is a small cosmetic problem: the default selected sound scheme in Windows still contains references to missing files. This could be fixed by nLite by automatically selecting the "No sounds" scheme - since all sounds were removed.

Disable unneeded services and startup programs if performance is what you're after and not disk space.

What do you use for backing up existing (installed) drivers? Af far as I know, drivers' files are mentioned in a .INF file, so backing up those files mentioned should be an easy task by reading the .INF. This is how software like Driver Magician, Driver Genius, DriverMax, Smart Driver Backup etc. work. I used those programs to backup drivers for two computers, but when restoring them, some files are always missing. So what solution can I find for backing up ALL necessary driver files for a correct restoration?

Could you tell me how you made the addon? I mean the unattended part. On the Avira support forum, they say they have no silent installation mode for the free version.

I already have .NET 3.5 SP1 for x86 which is 86 MB big, but it installs too slow for my taste. And the apps I use are built only on .NET 2.0 so I don't need to install newer versions. I have found a quicker solution for installing .NET 2.0 with SP2: there is a .NET Framework Client Profile which is lighter, designed for runtime only. It can be found here. It's very large, but inside there is a small .NET 2.0 SP2 installation package. It's size is 13 MB and it installs pretty fast. I installed it on a VM and checked to see if apps are working OK. So far, no problems, checked CDBurnerXP and my own apps.

The latest version of .NET Framework 2.0 is SP2, but there is no standalone installer for it. It is just included in the .NET 3.5 SP1 offline installation package. Running the .msi doesn't work, it's saying that I have to run Setup. Anyone know how to install it?

SP1 brought some new drivers in SP1.cab SP2 brought some additional drivers, so SP2.cab contains SP1 drivers + SP2 drivers. The same goes to SP3. So if you slipstream the three SP's, you get three SPx.cab's, two with redundant driver files. I could be mistaken about SP2 containing SP1 drivers, but SP3 contains the previous ones (thus you can use it with RTM version of Windows XP).

What changes are you talking about? Present us how you tried to customize your Windows installation disc using nLite.

ash* are processes belonging to avast! Antivirus.

VLC uses internal codecs so you don't need any DirectShow ones. ffdshow tryouts also decodes AC3, MPEG2 and H.264. It has subtitle support too. Media Player Classic includes splitters for FLV, MKV, MP4, 3GP and others.

Currently, at work, we have no antivirus solution on our Windows Vista notebooks. When a colleague's computer began to behave strange, we downloaded Avira Antivir Free and scanned our computers. At least two viruses were found. Scanning also with Spybot Search & Destroy and BitDefender online scan, we found further threats. Unfortunately, Avira is free only for non-commercial use so we can't use it legally. What solution can we adopt? So far, I have found 3 possibilities: a ) ClamWin: - free and open source - no on-access scanning - not a great detection rate - slow on-demand scanning b ) BitDefender Free Edition: - no on-access scanning - better detection rate - slow on-demand scanning c ) PCTools Antivirus: - buggy d ) Comodo Antivirus: - not a great detection rate - still in beta stages e ) Online scans only: - no on-access protection - depends on a working browser (in most cases, Internet Explorer) and a fully working Internet connection

As you all know, Vista starts many many services and disabling some unneeded ones can bring great performance improvements. I disabled the following ones: ReadyBoost Security Center SBSD Security Center Service Superfetch TabletPC Input Service Themes Windows Error Reporting Service Windows Search Windows Time Windows Update Volume Shadow Copy (Manual) Microsoft Software Shadow Copy Provider (Manual) Offline Files Now Vista works much faster, but with a problem: When it starts up, I enter the password for my user account and I wait for the desktop to load. The waiting lasts like 5 minutes with the "Welcome" text and loading icon showing and NO hard-disk activity. After a long wait, the desktop shows up and everything is OK. When I hibernate instead of shutting down, at start-up the loading lasts a couple of seconds which is OK to me. This is the workaround that I use now. The same thing happened to other two notebooks (same configuration, same software installed).

If I'm not wrong, Nero 9 doesn't bring any new version of Burning ROM, just some new "Nero *" programs.

The current version of Nero Micro, 1.17.1.0 doesn't apply the serial number. Tried using normal and silent install. The previous version, 1.17.0.1 works fine though.

I understand that the Repartition from Winnt.sif removes all partitions, creates a new one and formats it. But I need to know: 1) Does it do the same thing when the hard-disk contains a Windows installation? 2) The auto-created partition is quick-formatted or full?