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well i took captures of the main forum page so colors and degrees (not sure if this is the word ) are from the forum itself. then i thought on something familiar like the animation of messenger when a new contact arrives; after mixing, that was the result if you really like it i can do some variations just point what you expect

ok i've recolored/modified a couple of things, older versions plus big sized can still be found here: on the others i tried to mantain the look of the msfn forum, the next two are just to fit my Aero-Signature and will be the last fun is that some areas are transparent so they can be seen different over different backgrounds @TheBlackMan, doesn't look bad

is there an external download link? i'm not registered at aqua-soft

plz don't post questions under multiple topics, check the forum rules link at my signature also this doesn't fit the the apps installs subsection http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=41582&hl=

@Major, that is user account dependant [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MSNMessenger\SQM] "OptInRefCount"=dword:00000000 "randomstrings"=dword:ffffffff"randomstrings" will be a ten numbers string dependant on your account so log-in first and then export the key

try disabling security center service or search for "blackviper's service list", also disable unneeded startup items would help

it is easier to point the new icon on a .theme file search the net for a template

then i won't visit your website more :P @Highor there are multiple ways, most of them using transfers but we better don't continue this way... you know the "malicious user" can read this, can't he Highor??

mmm you sure? have u tried "/S" (case sensitive)...

rightclick>install?

acrobat sucks, 7.01 update and 7.0 isn't translated yet to spanish i'll take a look to Foxit PDF Reader but i guess nothing will be as compatible as acrobat

ok i won't give up, this set without windows flag, small and big sizes more here ps: there is also available a SWF version of the small animated button

ermmmh what?! we need more details. what theme? you mean on a .theme file like a wallpaper? as part of a custom .msstyles file?... if you mean .theme then only if you use a web page (active desktop). if .msstyles then no.

SCREENSHOTS Top image is desktop after being loaded, explorer is running. Bottom left shows how hardware is being detected and drivers are installed. Bottom right is XPe plugin loading service and taskbar. Startup Plain Desktop after everything is loaded. Start Menu shortcuts. nu2Menu. Device Manager shows Omega Radeon and Audigy drivers plus SATA HD installed. Multimedia applications; Winamp playing a song, BSPlayer, WMP9... A few Applications up and running. XPized paint, icons, wizards... Shutdown dialog.

INTRODUCTION I've just finished my 2nd BartPE project. First one was only able to run a few commandline utilities plus nero under a NTFS environment, size was small (less than 250mb) so it could be the perfect recovering system. Problem came when I needed to access a SATA and/or SCSI drive... so second project started with this idea. Built time (including burn process and Virtual PC tests) was less than 48h. I've used most the knowledge on this forum so I thought shown it will be a good idea. FEATURES *Built over my uA Windows XP SP2 Spanish *XPize 3.0 integrated *Hotfixes Up-to-date *Default BarPE tools *RAMDisk (which sets automatically its size depending on the system) *BartPE XPe plugin and some others by Sherpya, including the hardware detector / driver installer *Adaptec ASPI drivers *DriverPack MassStorage (Oct 17 2004) by Bâshrat the Sneaky, so I'm able to access my Sil3112 SATA drive *Unattended Codec-Pack 2.5 (Jan 18 2004) by swgreed, so I'm able to play most of all the common multimedia files including QuickTime, Real or DivX from BSPlayer, Winamp, WMP9... *Omega 2.5.90 Video Drivers and Control Panel, able to play OpenGL games like Quake *Creative Audigy Drivers, able to play a DVD movie with 5.1 sound *Explorer shell fully working *Multiple filemanagers. Explore2FS can access linux ext2/3 partitions; Winternals ERD 2003 explorer, registry editor, password recover... *Some useful programs included, like ACDSee32, BSPlayer, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Nero, Office 2003 Viwers (Word, Excel and PP), Partition Magic 8 (floppy image to boot from and able to format/change any partition), UltraISO, Winamp (having problems with this because of read-only files, fully working if I copy the dir to the RAM disk partition), WinRAR, WMP 6.4 and WMP9. *Customization from my uA CD. Regtweaks, wallpaper, oemlogo and oeminfo, logon, boot, shutdown dialog, start menu, quicklaunch and one of the things I'm most proud, custom icons for image, compression, burning, and multimedia files. All of the batch file windows are hidden by CMDOW. *uA CD replacements are still present here, Notepad>Notepad2, Calculator>Microsoft Calculator Plus... PROCESS XPe boots without asking any user intervention. Loads textmode drivers including MassStorage so it will boot without problems on any SCSI drive supported by Bâshrat DriverPack (I suppose issues with his pack are present on my XPe). Bootscreen loads and after some seconds main desktop is shown. nu2menu is now available RAMDisk is autosized. Codecs start to register and associations and custom icons are set. Here goes an important part, drivers are loaded with HWPnP, only for PCI\VEN and IDE devices. When all the drivers are installed (still without user intervention), video mode is set to 1024*768 (32Bit). It is supposed that new drivers present on SP2 like nForce drivers will be installed without problems, although I haven't had the oportunity to test it. Regtweaks are imported plus Rightmenu entries. "Command Prompt Here" or "Open with Notepad" are now available. XPe loads, services are started. Taskbar and Start Menu are now present. Finally my custom shortcuts are extracted. Now everything is up and running. This whole process takes a total of 10~12 mins to complete, most of it registering codecs (I suppose regserv32.exe needs to start some necessary services) and installing devices. The last 2 about 8mins. CONCLUSION I think I've finished achieving most of my start objetives plus a couple more Some things to test: play some DirectX games that doesn't need advanced registry entries, password protect a folder on a NTFS filesystem to make it private and see "what happens" when trying to access it, encode a XviD movie to test how many time it takes... It is easy to build your custom PE-XPe version, just take your time to find the necessary plugins. Thanks to people from this forum that without knowing helped me much on building this

some of them are really awesome and they're big! nice site

could say more but this fits pretty good

i heard that before, i hope my mom to not be like that

looking pretty cool, i'll definetly use 3 of them

@iwod, install xpize on your host machine and export winrar.exe to your winrar's silent installation

maybe this is basic but i would start with what jasinwa pointed: uninstall all the drivers (if you use "drivercleaner" better), then reinstall drivers and control panel (separately). if this doesn't work you can also try to reinstall directx.

this will be the easiest solution; there are multiple ways: you can change some registry settings using a .cmd or a .reg file, the cleanest way could be winnt.sif or using nlite. there is a lot of info around here on the forums, do a little search.

you can use a batch file to add the propper registry entries. to do this search for the topic "registering file extensions unattended".

@eben, has been thought before, problem is if you read this thread that some chrome files point the full path to files so if your profile is in other drive, or path... you better try to install extensions and themes from the command line and that's all @fluid, firefox will always be installed on %PROGRAMFILES% doesn't matter if it's drive C: or D: if you want to change the location to install you'll need to edit config.ini from the main firefox installation and if you use batches adapt the code to your new path

you can make a little search on the forum, i writted a bit on how to shrink w95. jaclaz made something similar about w98. you can also use 98lite (google is a good friend )