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fgaine

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  1. You are right. Although I selected multiple and single drivers properly, it did only integrate one .inf files from each multiple drivers folder every time instead of integrating the lot. Does any one know how to force nLite to take all the files from a folder?..
  2. Here it is. Cheers. Any suggestion on what i am doing wrong will be appreciated. Happy Xmas to you all. LAST_SESSION.INI
  3. I can't see any case of nLite simply "refusing" to run on a valid installation. Do you get any error message during the drivers integration step ? Or maybe you remove components that are needed for those drivers to run properly. Were you able to install those same drivers on the running machine after that same install ? I don't get any error message when i put the drivers in nLite. But once my nLited version of XP is installed, you find out that the drivers haven't been installed. I am not removing the needed components as I can install the drivers afterwards with no issue...
  4. Do you mean that you would like to see my last session.ini files? how do I attach it to a post? You can't run it twice against the same source as it would refuse to do it any way...
  5. I am currently working hard on slimming down XP for the AAO netbook; I put all its drivers for integration, but every time the install is finished, I realise that the drivers have not installed during setup. I drop all the extracted .inf files fro from the driver CD, but for some reason, they don't integrate. Anyone hqs successfully integrated AAO drivers in their nLited version of XP?...
  6. Do you have the latest drivers both firmware and software for your Optical drives? Are you running AnyDVD in the tray and the latest version of that? Is there any other Burning software (Nero? Lightscribe?) taking partial control of the optical drive. In particular Nero early versions (<7.0) were not Vista compatible Frenchy it is an Advent laptop i bought new in March this year, and there are no software or firmware updates for it around. AnyDVD is not the problem, and it is a recent version. I do have Nero7 installed on it, but I only use Nero Backitup to back up my partitions - and I need a Nero file in the system for the DVD players and other disc applications to work properly. Should I try and upgrade to Nero 8? (hich I hate)
  7. OK I'll try that and get back to you - cheers I'm not sure how to do this. Can anyone tell me?
  8. I've had to install Vista on my main PC as for some unsolved reason I now get a BSOD error every time I try to install XP. Anyway, since I've had Vista, ripping a DVD is a challenging nightmare. I get an error message most of the time on most of the discs Program freezes and I have to abandon the ripping. At best, when it does rip the DVD, it does it at 1.9X when XP could do it at up to 9X, so it takes ages. Any tip on what I can tweak to improve this? I've tried smartripper, DVDShrink and CloneDVD with the same results...
  9. this is not true... Can you please develop? Because I've tried 3 or 4 times to optimize my booting time with bootvis but it doesn't want to do it_ it needs the Windows defragmenter which apparently needs the task scheduler to work. i've tried defragging with a third party app then run the optimization again. But it still doesn't work. if you know a way of making bootvis without task scheduler, you are welcome to explain: I can't find the task scheduler in TinyXP09 and I suspect it's been removed.
  10. OK I'll try that and get back to you - cheers
  11. I actually reformatted the drive first (several times) then I partittioned it. Jaclaz, thank you for the suggestion but surely I cannot wipe out the 1st 100 sectors of the disk without destructing my partitions, the files on them and my vista install? or can I do that on just one partition? cheers
  12. Run a malware and/or virus scan on your computer... Run msconfig.exe and click the Startup tab... It should display a list of startup programs. Browse thru the list, uncheck suspicious items or items you don't want loaded with Vista. It simply was a virus. How could I not think of this?! Thanks mongo66 for help and accurate suggestion - much appreciated . Thread can be closed.
  13. It is not a CD problem. It places the install files fine on the HDD. It's when it does its first reboot to start the windows setup that it goes wrong. BIOS problem is more likely. I 've been trying to find a bios update for my laptop for the last 5 days. Without any success. It's a Phoenix BIOS and even Phoenix don't seem to give any hint on where to download a bios. Any suggestion welcome.
  14. Since yesterday, when My Windows Vista has started up, I get the 2 following pop up windows: Could not load or run "C:\Users\GAINE specified in the registry. Make sure the file exists on your computer or remove the reference to it in the registry. Could not load or run 'FAMILY\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Manager.exe" specified in the registry. Make sure the file exists on your computer or remove the reference to it in the registry. I do not have any Adobe software installed on my PC, so where does that come from? I have tried the following 3 solutions: -system restore. But it failed - how helpful is that? -restoring a previously backed up registry state from when that did not occur. -fixing the registry with the Registry Fix software I also tried to go in the registry to find the faulty entries, but that was a bit of a long shot and obviously did not find them Nothing worked. What else can you suggest?..
  15. I have formatted the whole drive. There was nothing left on it. And I was able to install Vista... Some suggest that because the laptop was supplied with and conceived for Vista, I might need a BIOS upgrade - but I've installed XP on it before! What do you think?
  16. I have tried installing XP first when nothing else was on the HDD. It does not change anything. And I don't want Vista on top of XP, I want a dual boot from 2 separate partitions. Which I used to have. cheers.
  17. It's an Advent 9515, but I've installed XP 3 or 4 times on it since I've had it.
  18. I have a laptop (my main PC) with a 320gb partitioned HDD. One partition used to be a primary drive with Vista, another one a primary drive with XP (default OS) and the rest an extended drive partitioned into several bits. After an experiment that went wrong (tried to installed a Ghost image of a XP install from another PC, then tried to use the recovery DVD for Vista which deleted all my partitions.) I recovered my files with a partition recovery software, reformatted the entire hard drive and repartioned it as it was before. I have re-installed Vista on one of the primary partitions, and I have been trying to re-install XP on the other one for a week: The CD installs the setup files, reboots, starts the setup process then a window pops up and says something on the lines of "lack of resource prevents API" or something. And the computer just shuts down. If i restart it, with a boot from HDD, the XP setup seems to restart but within seconds, I get the blue screen of death. I have checked the BIOS, checked the drive for errors several times, reformatted it and even installed Vista on it (which I don't want as a default OS) I just can't understand why it refuses to install a perfectly valid XP CD, which have done billions of time in the last 5 years. Help!..
  19. ThanX for the advice ki_supergeek. I got SP3, IE7 and WMP11 slipstreamed and they installed fine with Windows. I am really struggling with hotfixes though: 1 of the 3 IE7 hotfixes did not install and none of the WMP11 want to. I might have to give up on those and stick to using Windows update after install.
  20. I have searched around the forum and the only advice I found there on how to integrate IE7 in the install (XP Pro) is by dropping the IE7 installer in the 'addons & updates packs' section. It does not work_ anyone managed to integrate IE7? Also I successfully slipstreamed WMP11 but nLite does not accept its patches and fixes Lastly, I also successfully integrated SP3 but nLite rejects every single one of the 12 or so post-SP3 Windows update. Any reason? Anything I am not doing properly?
  21. Guys, everything you advised me to do worked. Cheers for the help. One concern though: it did not install my VGA driver (audio, WAN and LAN installed fine) and I don't know how to integrate the CPU driver_ help would be welcome there. My next step will be to try integrating IE7 and WMP11. See ya.
  22. Ponch and Kelsenellenelvian, thank you so much for your help and suggestions. I like the fact that you didn't just tellme to search the forum (as established members usually do in forums). It makes me save a lot of time and hassle. I'll do this and get back to you. Cheers!..
  23. Hi there, Rather than keeping doing 'trial and error' I'd like to use your knowledge of nLite to tell me what boxes to tick for the following: How do I get a totally unattended install? -I entered name of the computer and it is still asking for a full name_ I entered the administrator name and I don't want a password: it asks for one during install. -I set the screen res. in nlite to the maximum it can take with the default vga drivers 800X600 in 32bit), and it still asks me permission to adjust the screen res (to put it to the actual settings I had preset in nLite) during install -I don't want the blue interface with the blablah and the time count during install, how do i get rid of this? -I don't want the prompt from security center and the welcome screen after install_ how do I disable them? Cheers...
  24. Thanks for the advice. I tried that but that wasn't the problem. I found out it was one of the additional desktop themes I had added that would make nLite crash. I since made a working .ISO but it can't apply some of my added themes although they are in the right location and Windows' theme protection is patch/disabled. How come?
  25. I tried to create an unattended custom XP pro with SP3, all windows updates and patches, and a few unneeded bits removed. Which took me about an hour to set up. When nLite started processing the job, it crashed after a few seconds! Of course, none of my selections were saved and I had to redo it all over again. I then decided it was because I was making too many changes to my OS in one go, that maybe some hotfixes and patches were causing this, and I decided to only customize the Unattended part (nothing added or removed from the orginal CD). It crashed just the same. So what is wrong? Please help...
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