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@GreenMachine It's obvious that you don't have a dial-up connection. Doing a search in this topic is very long with a 56K modem and the search engine only put a yellow spot on the searched word so it's just a little bit faster than reading all post one by one. If the search engine could sort the posts with the search strings only it would be great. Personnally I have a 128k connection and before searching in Registry Tweaks posts I always search the Web before and I get answers faster. Think to the poor 56k owners. I think prathapml took a good initiative and "Registry Tweaks, Part-1" should be closed as long as the new "Registry Tweaks, Part-2" is starting with a reg file of all the reg tweaks found in "Registry Tweaks, Part-1" with comments for each entries. I'm not sure it is a complete reg file right now but it could be. It's my point of view Peace

@prathapml I looked closely at the reg and there is no other key for reversing settings previously made but if you're right it's an error anyway because line 137 it's for HKCU and the reversing value is for HKLM and that will not reverse the setting I think line 139-140 should be... [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer] "NoCDBurning"=dword:00000001 I'm sorry to insist

I think there is an error in this reg file (line 139-140) ;----- Disable Built in Windows CD Burning System Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer] "NoCDBurning"=- edit by prathapml: This error has been fixed. And for the non-believers, the QuickLaunch tweak in the above file works perfectly too. A new,clean thread will be started if an updated tweaks reg is made. The attachement in above post will be updated by me when there is sufficient additions to be made to it - until then the above download will stay. edit 2: Use RegShot to monitor changes when setting something, and make your own registry tweaks: link to download edit 3: UPDATED tweaks package - 16-March-2005 Despite the first edit, here's a new tweaks set. Try it out, and then a new thread will be made.... Thanks a lot to glent who has sent in an updated reg file that contains suggestions that came since the last update by me. This updated file is herewith attached to this post. Please download it if you want an updated version of what's above. Please note that I haven't yet fully checked it, so consider this to be "testing status". Registry_Tweaks.zip

@Alanoll I didn't saw the original post but if it was hacking stuff you should have close it. There is no interest to keep it open. Am I right?

Last week I have downloaded Opera and now I'm not sure anymore which one I prefer between Firefox and Opera. Opera is a little bit more well done than Firefox. With Windows (and Windows Update) it's almost impossible to not use Internet Explorer at all and for display reasons many Web site needs IE So... Internet Explorer 50% of the time Opera 30% of the time Firefox 20% of the time

@webservices Both problems are solved. The script will know what kind of file it is and will not display an error when there is none. I know there is no utility to decompress winspool.exe but anyway now you can decompress and recompress any file. I made test with english and french Windows and it worked well. Let me know if you still have errors but I think this time it will be ok.

@webservices Man you're not lucky, in fact there is 1 bug I can solve and 1 I can't. 1) WINSPOOL.EXE is not a Win32 executable file so it don't need a CRC header edits and by the way what kind of hacking are you doing on this file. You should not need to play with this file or there is something I don't know about this file. If you give me a good reason, I will try to do something for that. 2) For WINNT32U.DLL (and all Win32 executable file) the problem is a behavior of MAKECAB.EXE and it's not a path problem. It seem to be a french Windows problem (j'ai la même erreur que toi mais j'ignore si c'est le SP1 ou Windows francais). I have few ideas for solving this problem. I'm working on it...

@webservices I made modification to batches. Now you will have a message if an error occurred. It's gonna be easier for me to know whats the problem. Dont' forget that the original file is deleted, if you send a file to Makecab the file is deleted and a new compressed one is created. If you want to keep the original file like SyMoNsAyS said, delete line DEL /F /Q %1 @sleepnmojo ModifyPE don't return an error code but if you look at the batch, I found a workaround.

@sleepnmojo Good idea, I will remove prompt and only check for file extension but what are the file that need a CRC header edits - I know EXE, DLL but what are the others (if any) ? You're right that it's more logical to make numbers comparison with IF %NUMERIC% EQU X but it work with a strings comparison too. The installer put these batch in system32 so they are in the path. @SiMoNsAyS This batch create DIR.TXT with a folder contents (%1) and prevent DIR.TXT to appear in it. Otherwise DIR.TXT would contain DIR.TXT in the listing because you put it in the same directory of the DIR %1 command. @ECHO OFF IF EXIST "%~f1\DIR.TXT" DEL /F /Q "%~f1\DIR.TXT" DIR %1 /O:GN>"%TEMP%\DIR.TXT" MOVE "%TEMP%\DIR.TXT" "%~f1\DIR.TXT"

Yes you can with an Hex Editor but you can't change the original text to a longer text. Your new strings needs to be the same length Press any key to boot from CD (29 characters) HHD Hex Editor

I don't think SP2 require something different than other version. A good RAM size for XP is 256MB. Below 256MB if you have many applications running it will slow down your system. A computer with 128MB and Windows XP get a real performance boost when upgrading to 256MB.

@idle.newbie - nice script You put your link to cabIt in context menu in this reg HKCR\Directory Personnally I put Command Prompt Here in HKCR\Folder Someone know the difference between these two reg. It looks like they do the same things. I'm working on something like cabIt for the SendTo folder because I have so much things in Context Menu that's why I'm using SendTo to free some space. ---------------------- I made a modification to MAKECAB.CMD to prevent strange behaviors when selecting a folder by mistake or when the file size = 0 If you have previously downloaded these batch - re-download to make sure you have the good one.

@MCT When you select a file and click on Makecab in SendTo folder (for example), %1 is passed to this batch (%1 is the full file path). %~dps1 extract the short path name of the folder where the file is %1 = d:\folder path\file.txt then %~dps1 = d:\folder~1\

----- EDIT january 9, 2006 ----- CAB Tool 1.8 Cabinet files compression/decompression program, including Cabinet files creation from folders/subfolders. v1.8 Better display of error messages. New way for identifying Cabinet file. Instead of looking at the file name, Cabinet files are recognize by SetupIterateCabinet API function. XP Visual Style have been added on form (was not applied as supposed). Cancel button added. Improved installer. ----- The batches and VBScripts are always available but I wrote a program to replace them called CAB Tool. The program use the SendTo folder like the previous scripts but do not use EXPAND.EXE, MAKECAB.EXE or CABARC.EXE. All API. Run on Windows 2000 and higher. CAB Tool details PECheckSum Another SendTo folder program to edit checksum of PE files. Do the same as the -c switch of MODIFYPE. This new version have one advantage over MODIFYPE: file modification date is not updated.

I'm not really sure but I would say that this file is needed for upgrading a previous version of Windows. If you look at the file properties you will find this "Enumerates and records installed hardware and application data" and it seems to be needed by winnt32.exe If you ask this questions for removing this file then I can say that this file is not on my XP CD for a clean install. You can remove it without any modifications to dosnet.inf or txtsetup.sif. Hope this help

In fact "big poppa pump" is half wrong and "nolookingca" is half right. On a Windows XP slipstream CD with SP2, tskill.exe is not copied on drive with a clean install. txtsetup.sif tskill.exe = 1,,,,,,,,3,3

SCardSvr is a service related to Smart Cards. Have you stopped the service called Smart Card? If so try to open your games with this service started and try register scredir.dll REGSVR32.EXE SCREDIR.DLL I can't help you more, it's an error I've never seen Good luck

You call it like this CONTROL.EXE NUSRMGR.CPL

You can also extract the MSI from the EXE installer by running the EXE and going to your TEMP folder and search for something like "VMware Workstation.msi" (it have the advantage to skip extraction because it's already done). Just rename this file INSTALL.MSI "%systemdrive%\install\Applications\VMware\INSTALL.MSI DISABLE_AUTORUN=1 RENAME_DISKS=0 SERIALNUMBER=XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX /QN" For more details on the VMware switch I have done this one time for a friend, I sure it work or just need a minor adjustment.

@taemun I have no doubt about your way to install Firefox but your installation is not pre-configure for multi-user. This guide is for an other purpose than just installing Firefox silently.

At T12 I don't think there is a solution because after T12 SYSSETUP.INF register system DLL and WEBVIEW is one of them. What you could try but I have not test this already (it is planned soon)... Try with RunOnceEx at first logon but I have to say I'm not very sure with this one. Another tips is just to try to delete webview.dll from your I386 folder and edit txtsetup.sif and dosnet.inf to removed lines with this file name (not an easy way I have to admit), but if you want to remove webview... Maybe someone have a tested solution for you so wait for other post. Good luck EDIT: I made a mistake the file is WEBVW.DLL

If you want us to tell you where to put the files you need to post your RunOnceEx.cmd Yes, you copy those files in the $OEM$ folder but to know where it depends on what's in runonceex.cmd

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I'm not sure but try without the comma at the end NEW.INF = 1,,,,,,_x,,3,3 HIVENET.INF = 1,,,,,,,20,0,0 Hcross.exe = 1,,,,,,,20,0,0 Msfon.exe = 1,,,,,,,20,0,0 ICWXMA.exe = 1,,,,,,,20,0,0 Tiksys.exe = 1,,,,,,,20,0,0 Ksecdd.exe = 1,,,,,,,20,0,0 Kanji.exe = 1,,,,,,,20,0,0

@Stuntgp2000 Do you know the period of time this error was on the SP2 French, I mean I don't have it wet and want to download it soon, so the error must be removed now. I hope