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Config? Dunno how that should be helping, but this is easy: Asus A8R32-MVP Deluxe, Opteron 148 250x11 (2750MHz), 2x 512MB rams 2.5-3-3-6, PNY 6800 GS 470/550MHz, WD 160G HDD, WinXP SP3. That it is. I would like to hear your suggestions, but everything is on low already. Lowering resolution did not bring even 1MB more. Still 59MB (at start 60, then59, 58 sometimes... 1024x768x16bit)... complete end of Explorer shoudl be much better solution.

WOT like World of Tanks... Resolution is a nice idea, but what about ending Explorer completely? Much better, nope?

Guys, because of some VERY unfortunate evets, I have to play demanding game (WOT) on friend computer, that have only 1G of ram in two sticks and I did not have any ram that can go at 233MHz with 2.5-3-3-6, so... WOT won't run on W2k SP4, it does fail even on XP SP1.0a and therefore I ending up using XP SP3 However I would kindly like to ask for tips, how to lower the memory requirments by even trivial amount - anything goes. For example WOT stoped (mostly) crashing, when desktop resolution is lowered to 16bits (no 8bit choice, bad)... So a batch file that can exit Explorer and start WOT and then start Explrer could be handy too! I started going usual way, by the services and using Autoruns I disabling things, but I need the internet to work, so, that is the only one limitation. Not using DHCP, just direct IP, so a DNS service is enough, etc. Managed to knock the memory requirments down to 59MB (desktop 1280x1024x16bit no background, W2k look) but still need more. Every kBy counts, please! For example I disabled the WFP, but I would like to disable the protection that checking when starting executables... ...and sure there are others to disable. I will post the list of services and the Autoruns screenshot, if anyone cold help to disable everything that is possible. On Win2k I even edited some dll files, that containing the animated bitmaps for windows and replacing that bitmaps with small one frame ones also could help... Yes, it is as desperate, as this. Every kBy is wanted, please! Nothing is too hardcore there, editing system32.dll - I'm not affraid! Just to shave some kBy of ram usage down, please!

jdoe - thank you very much! Your sfc_os.dll (patched) with the original 4k sfcfiles.dll I use on WinXP SP3 (czech) and it does work for me just fine. I didn't need to touch the sfc.dll and it is working fine! Thank you a bunch! Sticky?

I noticed, that the size of the swap file is very dramatically reflected on the size of R-DriveImage backup of the system (Win2k SP4). That clearly indicate, that the data in swap file are not that well compresable and that lead me to idea, that if I can run some utility prior starting R-DriveImage for the backup, and that utility clear the swap file (all zeroes seems to be the best for compression), then I can have a much smaller backup files and much faster the time of restore. When experimenting with Duron class CPUs (even underclocked, sometimes), this could be welcome speed up. So I do wonder, if some utility like that does exist or if it can be done using some Win system functions, like the registers setting that clear the swap on reboot/shutdown. Anyone know, if that could be done "on the fly" and not only on reboot/shutdown?

Guys, I wonder, if there is a way, how to modify the Windows 2000 SP4 install that way, so one can set the size of the pagefile the system will try to use. It usually look for other drive(s), but if there is more, then it fail to find the HDD and at end, the istall fail. Solution is to disconnect these drivers for install... but this is just lame. Is there a way how can I accomplish it?

Since a long time I was wishing to be able to create a batch file, that would stop all the unnecessary (at least for my machine and needs) services. There are two problems. First - I had no idea how to use the net command to change the service config in turn to enable/disable auto startup. Turns out that sc from Windows 2000 Resource Kit can do the job, so a line like this: net stop Alertersc config Alerter start= demand...for each undesired service will work just well. Not the Second thing. I need list of all of those pesky services. Their names are nowhere near to be found, till I stumbled upon this: sc query state= allThat is supposed to show me all the service names. And it does, untill: Enum: more data, need 4286 bytes start resume at index 51 ****! Never expected this one to stop me. Any ideas, what to change and where to get more (preferably all) of the resulting output? I tried: sc query state= all > trodasservices.txt ...but in the 4275 bytes long file it ends with the same cursed message Please help. Ah! Finally I figured out the bufsize and I can fix the problem with just: sc query state= all bufsize= 32800 Hoooray! PS. sometimes one space go a long way, lol. Never managed it to work w/o the space after the "=" ...

I tried to describe it as well, as I can there: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/162523-winxp-sp10a-czech-setupapidll-hack/ ...but if the ksecdd.sys is really required (it was not in W2k file, so I removed it) as part of the core, then it might explain all the issues I having. Hence new test must be done with the ksecdd.sys back in the Filesystems.Load section of TXTSETUP.SIF. So, back to testing - thanks for the first sight! Now I removed also the "_x" to prevent checking the files, so we see, if the install can work with modified files - that is the goal.

So, jaclaz, there are the Win XP SP 1.0a czech files LAYOUT.INF and TXTSETUP.SIF. Both with their original state and my modified state. What I did wrong? I just cleaned out the files, removing empty lines and stuff and removed many of the ".Load" files to get the install rid of many of the unwanted files. Is this that big crime, so the install should crash, as it does? WinXP SP1.0a CZ layout+txtsetup files.zip

jaclaz - you are quite possible right. I'm a novice in the windows modification and a stubborn one, so I have to learn all by myself. Usually a trial&error (or terror?) However I would not refuse to accept some help out there, lol. For example I was fairly sucesfull in the Windows 2000 SP4 install modification - now it support the LBA drives AND I did not need to enter the CD key. That is IMHO great (at least for me) and there is only a very slight annoyance - and that it that I failed to disable the FireWire 1394 driver to be loaded in the whole beginning of the installation of W2k. This is really a minor thing, yet the last thing I wanted to accomplish. If you can check out these Win2k SP4 LAYOUT.INF and TXTSETUP.SIF files: layout+txtsetup.zip ..and please tell me, what can I disable to kill the unnecessary loading of the FireWire 1394 driver on the install initialization to make it faster, that would be great. Because I can attempt it myself, but that probably not end up well, like the WinXP SP 1.0a case. I'm going to meddle with the XP later, lol. I never give up on the mods, till they are done. PS. It probably is quite easy (not to load the FireWire 1394 crap) - in TXTSETUP.SIF, there is the "[busExtenders.Load]" and there is the "sbp2port = sbp2port.sys" and this is later defined as "sbp2port = "... IEEE 1394 SBP2 Storage Port", files.sbp2port,sbp2port" ... so just removing this line cause this bus extender are not being loaded on the Win2k SP4 install startup. Gotta test this idea in reality PS2. And indeed it work! So using quite simple WINNT.SIF file (without any Unattended.txt file!) it give me all I wanted: not need to enter the CD key, skip EULA and default network components installed as well, as not waiting for many keys during install - hooray! [Data]AutoPartition=0MsDosInitiated="0"UnattendedInstall="Yes"[Unattended]OemSkipEula=YesFileSystem=*DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore[UserData]ProductID="xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx"[Networking]InstallDefaultComponents=Yes[Components]msmsgs = Offmsnexplr = Offfreecell = OffAutoUpdate = OffCertsrv = OffCertsrv_client = OffCertsrv_server = OffChat = OffDeskpaper = OffDialer = OffDtcnetwork = OffFax = OffFp_extensions = OffFp_vdir_deploy = OffHearts = OffHypertrm = OffIEAccess = OffLicenseserver = OffMedia_clips = OffMedia_utopia = OffPinball = OffPop3Admin = OffPop3Service = OffPop3Srv = OffRootautoupdate = OffSpider = OffTemplates = OffTerminalServer = OffTSWebClient = OffZonegames = Off...now is time to look on the WinXP SP 1.0a

My windows crashed and are unable to boot after I used this patcher. I won't recommend ANYONE use it. Back to dos, put the old original file back and Win XP SP 1.0a are kicking fine again. Ufff! Bad idea! Sorry, I was wishing it to work, but it does NOT work Still no idea what to change in the comdlg32.dll file... I'm willing to do ANYTHING to get the normal view into the dialogs! ResHacker or binary hacking - whatever it takes! It worked just fine in Windows 2000... why M$ had to screw it up?!

A the left, major part of the image, is shown up the Open - Save dialogue that show the cursed Icons by default in Win XP SP 1.0a... I do wonder, if I can modify the comdlg32.dll somehow (or registry?) to FORCE the Open-Save dialogue to open always default with the list view, as shown in the right part of the image: I tried hard searching on Google for the comdlg32.dll internals, but did not found anything usefull. I think that it will be something in the dialogue no. 1547 (when one have disabled the places bar, witch places it will be the no. 1552) in comdlg32.dll file: 1547 DIALOGEX 0, 0, 537, 334STYLE DS_MODALFRAME | DS_CONTEXTHELP | WS_POPUP | WS_VISIBLE | WS_CLIPCHILDREN | WS_CAPTION | WS_SYSMENUCAPTION "Otevřít"LANGUAGE LANG_CZECH, 0x1FONT 8, "MS Shell Dlg"{ CONTROL "Oblast &hledání:", 1091, STATIC, SS_LEFT | SS_NOTIFY | WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | WS_GROUP, 3, 4, 49, 8 CONTROL "", 1137, COMBOBOX, CBS_DROPDOWNLIST | CBS_OWNERDRAWFIXED | CBS_HASSTRINGS | WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | WS_VSCROLL | WS_TABSTOP, 53, 1, 149, 300 CONTROL "", 1088, STATIC, SS_LEFT | WS_CHILD, 211, 1, 88, 16 CONTROL "", 1120, LISTBOX, LBS_NOTIFY | LBS_NOINTEGRALHEIGHT | LBS_MULTICOLUMN | WS_CHILD | WS_BORDER | WS_HSCROLL, 1, 18, 535, 284But all these dropdown lists show only 4 numbers, witch is basically their position and size... Not what is pre-selected by them. So, maybe I have to edit the dialog this way? I don't know, but any ideas are more that wellcome! Thanks!

Not need the course on how to navigate thru the internet, just need a course on how to make the WinXP SP1.0a accept modified TXTSETUP.SIF and LAYOUT.INF files. It does refuse to accept these modified by me.