mgancarz

Update on this, It looks like this is a bug in Windows itself?! I did a new install of Windows x64 recently, not touched with nlite at all. Out of curiosity I set the 'Launch folder windows in seperate process' while setting my folder options, and tested the network connection, and BAM, same thing. So nLite is not doing anything wrong, it windows that has the actual bug with using this setting.

Sorry, wasn't clear on it, but yes, my preset containing all my changes except removing the problem Tweak works fine. For KB938127 and KB956391, they are both IE updates. I install the Hotfix pack first, then I install IE7, so it makes sense that I would need to re-include the updates for IE7. I might change the order around to be IE7 then the hotfix pack and see the result.

Great to hear that you managed to re-create and it's not just a freak occurence or something wrong with my source. Thank you for the suggestions and the time taken to reproduce it. I never got any error message from nLite during integration when testing for this bug, so that may be unrelated.

I've narrowed it down to this tweak: Explorer-Launch folder windows in a separate process Clean Windows XP SP2, nothing selected but this tweak and the unattended settings. LAST_SESSION.INI I'm curious if someone has the time and a Windows XP SP2 CD if they could try this tweak as well and let me know if the bug occurs for them as well? IE: Open Control Panel -> Network Connections -> Double click on a network connection and see if Status opens or not. I have confirmed that the attached last_session.ini generates the bug, both on a Dell desktop and in a VMWare Workstation VM.

I'm not actually sure if those are all the files nLite modifies. It's just the ones it modified in the I386 directory, starting at WINNT.SIF and going down. The other ones above it you can ignore, since it's just sorted by date modified. I'm slowly making my way through the tweaks, I've identified that these are safe now: Network-Disable automatic search for network folders and printers Network-Disable Simple File Sharing Security-Disable Firewall notification Security-Screensaver Password-Protection-Enabled Start Menu-Add Administrative Tools menu Start Menu-Control Panel-Display as a link Start Menu-Printers and Faxes-Display as a link Start Menu-Remove Search For People from Search Start Menu-Remove Search the Internet from Search Start Menu-Remove Windows Catalog shortcut Taskbar-Disable Hide inactive icons Taskbar-Disable Language-Bar Taskbar-Disable Windows Tour popup Taskbar-Lock the Taskbar-No Windows Media Player-Accept Privacy Statement Windows Media Player-No visualization while something in these causes the bug: Boot and Shutdown-Ctrl-Alt-Del at logon-Enabled Boot and Shutdown-Disable automatic restart on System Failure Boot and Shutdown-Logon Page-Classic Boot and Shutdown-Status Messages-Extended Desktop-Internet Explorer icon-Show Desktop-My Computer icon-Show Desktop-My Documents icon-Show Desktop-My Network Places icon-Hide Desktop-Recycle Bin icon-Show Desktop-Wrap icon titles-Enable Explorer-Associate additional file types with Notepad Explorer-Change Windows Explorer folder view-Details Explorer-Classic Control Panel Explorer-Display the contents of system folders Explorer-Launch folder windows in a separate process Explorer-Restore previous folder windows at logon Explorer-Show extensions of known file-types Explorer-Show hidden files and folders Explorer-Show protected operating system files Explorer-Show Statusbar in all windows Explorer-Show the full path in the Address Bar Explorer-Show the full path in the Title Bar Internet Explorer-Disable Market Place bookmark Internet Explorer-Disable Outlook Express link creation Internet Explorer-Keep IE URL-History for-5 Days Internet Explorer-Set Homepage-about:blank Internet Explorer-Set IE-Cache limit to-8 MB My Computer-Remove Shared Documents Just splitting them in half and creating a CD, installing and testing to narrow it down now.

Here is mine:

I don't see any attachment....?

source is Open volume license distribution disk.. ie: OEM pretty much Further testing shows something strange.. I've disabled all the tweaks and even prevented nLite from performing any sort of tweaking by outright removing the nlite.inf file from the ISO. Performed the re-install and the bug still occurs even though nlite.inf clearly did not run since it was giving me errors about not being able to find it. I'm going to create another version, with every tweak unselected, but the tweak section still highlighted. Will let you know how that goes. *Update: It seems that works. Will keep testing further.

Yes I have: Clean Win XP SP2 CD, added only tweaks, unattended install info and textmode drivers. LAST_SESSION.INI Same exact bug manifests itself and is once again 'removed' by toggling Start Menu to Classic. It returns once the Start Menu is returned to the normal setting. So this bug is completely unrelated to the hotfixes I was applying since it appears even without any hotfixes applied. I'm going to start going tweak by tweak now to try and narrow it down.

I've narrowed it down.. the bug only happens when I enable the Tweaks in nLite. I haven't narrowed it down yet to which tweak, but something in the Tweaks section is causing it. I made two exact same builds, the second one just had the tweaks section left blank. The one with tweaks didn't work, the one without did. Also enabling Classic Start Menu fixes the bug. The second that I go back to the non-Classic Start Menu, it occurs again. I also have to close the Network Connections window and re-open it after switching to Classic. So it seems something in the registry tweaks done by nLite can cause this. Next I'll probably try to run Process Monitor to see if I can narrow down whether it's something that is getting denied or what exactly is happening. Seems to be faster then working tweak-by-tweak to eliminate it.

I'm leaning towards thinking it's not the update packs since I integrated those files earlier and did not notice the bug, though I may just have not tried it then. IE7 is not in the update pack, and the updates are in order. However I did notice KB938127 and KB956391 are in the Update pack, though they show up as needed after IE7 install unless I integrate them seperately, which I did. Is it possible removing QoS RSVP and Quality of Service (QoS) in the Components section could be the cause? I guess there's no easy way to check except for me to test each case and see.

I am actually having the exact same bug right now. I start from a fresh WinXP Service Pack 2 CD each time, and use this Last Session.ini: Last_Session.ini Installed it on a VMWare virtual machine and a Dell desktop, both exhibit the same issue. Double clicking on the Network Connection does not work. Right Clicking and selecting Status does not work. It only works if I set it to display an icon in the taskbar and I double click the icon. Any suggestions?