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First, I really like Windows 8. Everything I have seen and read make me like it even more. Up until now, I have been managing my data manually. Use “Program X” to synchronize two folders… use “Program Y” to sync to Skydrive. Now, from what I’ve been reading, Windows 8 will do it all on its own. IF I set it up correctly. Keep in mind that I am coming from XP so I am slightly unfamiliar with the new features from 7. I may be missing simple tricks that came about with 7. I have a Live account. (SkydriveA) My wife has a Live account. (SkydriveB) My son has a Live account. (SkydriveC) We all have our separate logins for Windows 8. All of our Skydrives work nicely in Explorer. I have two folders, each on a separate internal partition on separate physical drives, with mirrored folders for pictures. (PicturesA and PicturesB) I want Windows to mirror these folders for me. So that any change to one is caught in the other. In the event of one of my drives dyeing, I will have the other drive with the identical data. I have read a little about the Storage Spaces. But it looks like using that will erase all of my existing data. I also read a little about using Mirrored Volumes. Is there a downside to this? What would be the best way for me to do this? Now that I have two folders syncing each other… I want Skydrive to sync the data in those folders. Can I get Skydrive to sync to a mirrored volume? Will a junction link to a mirrored volume? What if I want both mine and my wife’s Skydrive to sync to the same folder? Can I create a junction to two separate locations? And for my son’s Skydrive, he wants his music files to sync. But we all want to access the files from our respective local accounts on the computer. Does Skydrive sync to a folder while another user is logged in and working on the folder? I know this is a confusing post but hopefully someone knows what I am talking about. Sorry.

I assume it is CCLeaner. I don't use anything else to mess with the reg. I'm not trying to give CCleaner a bad name, I assume it is working as it should. I associate say paint.net to .jpeg files and theKMplayer to avi files. It three or four days the associations are gone and the avi and jpeg icons are the default blank ones. No big deal. I just want to stick the associations.

That sounds cool g-force. Thanks, I'll look into that. -x- how do I set the permissions? in CCLeaner or in regedit?

I like to put portable software on my computer. I have a seperate partition of only portable software. I don't know why, I just think it is nice to copy a piece of software when I need it to go fix my mom's computer, or go to a friend's house, or whatever. I like when software writes nothing to the registry. BUT I want to associate a few programs (Paint.net to jpegs) and add a few context menu entries (Folder2ISO for a directory). But every time I do, I inevitably run CCleaner and don't pay attention and lose the registry entries. Is there a way to make them stick? Am I an id*** for even asking if I can make registry entries for a portable application?

I have the free version of Returnil 2.0.1.9002. I think that is the latest. Anyway, I just want to do an unattended install. Does anyone have any ideas? I have never tried autoit. I may have to start. I did some looking into repackaging but I can't get into the installer. I noticed that I may be the only one on the web looking to do this with Returnil. I like the program and use it often. I like to mess with stuff and often break my computer but with Returnil all I need to do to fix it is restart. Is everyone else using a different program?

Thanks for the reply. I had no idea what the OEM folder was for.

I am new to nlite. I have poked around and built a few iso’s with tweaks and smaller size. But now I’m done messing around and want to build a perfect disc. I hate Edison and don’t want to waste days and days stabbing in the dark. I want to think and plan for days and days and then make lightning on the first try. I have read the forum (awesome!!!) and a few others and picked up a lot of great tips. I think though that along with the great tips, I picked up a lot of questions. I would like this thread to be my planning phase. Hopefully I will have my questions answered here and will be able to implement an xp disk that I can be proud of. Here is my wish list and I have no idea how to go about getting it to work. 1. Slipstream sp3 - nlite makes this easy to do. 2. Incorporate Programs (IE8, AVG 8.5free, OrbitDownloader 2.8.10, VirtualCloneDrive 5.4.2.5, CiscoVPN, Gladinet, Returnil, LiveMesh, Comodo, and .net3.5) -should these be added in addon/hotfix or should I write my own Inno to be run by nlite(how would I do this? I know Inno but not how to run it with nlite) 3. Remove Components -I think I got this, I will just need to make sure I don’t take something important off, but that is what testing is for 4. Unattended is very easy with nlite 5. I also want to do some of my own registry tweaks. (Hide Desktop Icons, Copy to and Move to Context Options…) and a few other. I know where the keys are but don’t know the best way to do it. With nlite? With my own Inno? With just a .reg file? 6. Create folders and shortcuts. Same as above, how to do it best? 7. Copy the settings from AVG, IE, Comodo… they are just files but I don’t know how to do it best. 8. And finally, my custom system files. I want to create and copy modified files like explorer.exe, shell32 … I also have a theme/msstyle, cursors, icons blah blah bling. How to move them best. Do I need to turn off windows protection or can I do it before windows loads? Then move the files into windows and backup directory so it is replaced with new file. I am sorry this post is so long (so I’ll make it longer by apologizing) but it seems these are all common tasks. I am just looking for suggestions on how you guys go about doing this. Any help/tips/criticism on any of the above topics will be greatly appreciated. Anything I forgot? Am I making this too hard? Thank you.

Here is two ways to do it in VB. Process.Start("C:\WINDOWS\system32\taskmgr.exe") Dim DTMGR As Integer = FindWindow(vbNullString, "Windows Task Manager") SetWindowPos(DTMGR, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, &H80) Dim Pinfo As New System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo("C:\WINDOWS\system32\taskmgr.exe") Pinfo.WindowStyle = System.Diagnostics.ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(Pinfo) and to turn it off Dim CTMGR As Integer = FindWindow(vbNullString, "Windows Task Manager") SendMessage(CTMGR, WM_CLOSE, 0&, 0&) A "work around", I know. But it does the job. Of course you have to Declare the windows API's first.