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look into SHELL.INF once you make all changes i will link from my site to your fileset!

agreed -- this whole "myth of services" will not gain you any performance when you shut them all down. turn what you can back on. i don't quite get how you got commit so low, i have only seen 38 to 40 in win 2000... a default install of win98 will use 18 megs of commit, so what you've got is impressive, yes, but with the problems that will probably crop up, maybe not worth it. time, i think, to add some things back in for your dad so he doesn't have to put up with that kind of delay. or, if he just surfs the net and writes a few letters, set up kubuntu or something

hey man, i am familiar with the fdv fileset! and with quicken, too (said in an annoyed way). i run without ie on all the comps at work, because hey, why create more hassle for myself? i need to spend time learning linux for the future because i SURE as anything am not going to do this ridiculous "vista" thing. anyway. so i had the same problem but instead of hanging the proggie said "updates not applied" although it looked like it was going through the motions. well, i call tech support. the tell me it's my firewall. i say doesn't it go out over port 80? port 80 is open, i say. they dont know what i mean. they say ie is not required. well, ie components ARE required. long story short, for the machine i had quickbooks on, i had to reinstall and leave ie in. our bookkeeper won't use anything else, so ok, her comp gets locked down. but nothing short of having ie is going to solve that dilemma, unfortunately. fact is, they're simply not going to change. i have been round and round with them. i got cd's in the mail to update with, and the only difference? the cd says 'update applied' but it NEVER is. one time i manually moved the files and replaced old for new ones from a cd and that worked, but that was one time only. every other time the software just bombs. were it my business, i'd ban the program. i already do not use software that requires int exp like Norton System-Slow or Symantec Compu-Mule Version 8. ok here comes a rant about windows generally. long term i am making plans to migrate users to linux... this is a ways off, but it will come, with WINE and something like suse or kubuntu, open office, but i have not looked into bookkeeping software. the fact is, the costs of microsoft software will eventually equal the support cost of my time for free software, so it's an even trade to me, and support costs eventually go down. using windows-based software means that we will ALWAYS be paying lots of money for less and less productivity on harder-to-use platforms. i'll use a friggin' mac before i'd consider using vista. i don't like apple's interface and their approach to ui design (hide everything!) seems idiotic to me, but that's how frustrated i am with the windows world where things are becoming more and more stupefyingly dumbed down... that '7 clicks to delete something' feature i read about i am sure will change, but come on... i use kubuntu 6 and it is maddeningly difficult and an uphill battle, but then, windows nt 4 was too back in the day, but the thing is, i think learning linux will pay off later. i simply cannot afford the costs of what the windows world of software is putting me through from an IT Department standpoint. so, sorry for the rant... on another note, you're quite welcome on the 38mb version of windows! it blows my mind that people prefer XP for pretty icons and more drivers and, ummmm.... 40 MORE MEGS OF MEMORY TAKEN???!?!! hey, each to his own, but when people here on msfn tell someone that there is really no difference in speed, i just show 'em the cold facts...

offtopic i know but it has to do with old OS's i recently "rediscovered" a game i LOVED, sierra bought the rights to Lode Runner in 1995 or something, i forget. anyway, it's available as a free download now! the only catch... you have to run win 95 or 98 to get it to work. well, i dug up my old copy of win95c, but it kept giving errors in VMWare, so i tried an old 98lite'd version of windows 98. it worked in VMWare. now that i know that, i am going to take an old pc, a pentium ii, and install win98 and run this lovely game. trust me, it's worth it, the graphics were awesome! as a side not of interest, i ran procexp from sysinternals. total commit was, iirc, 18megs or so. pretty nice. fdv, who can't wait to play his fave game again... and speaking of that, i recently compiled a ver of mame to run a few oldies like qix and robotron on a pentium one 200mhz... better than sending it to the dump!

if your commit is that low, the os is probably spending all of that time looking for DLLs that aren't there. i mean, you'll have a commit of 20 without internet explorer; to get it down 2 more megs you're probably ripping out a little more than most people.

i keep fixing it in quotes and original posts, but i must be mssing some... http://www.vorck.com/data/hfcleanup_2kextra.zip when i said the link was fixed, i meant the link on my page. i don't keep data files in the root, but in /data. so... is this issue fixed now? i still havent tested it. i am in the middle of moving and for now have non-nerd stuff to do (and i dont like not being able to devote time to my nerd stuff

? this is odd... they show up for me, or at least i thought they did i will set up a virtual pc and give another test. anyone else got this prob?

Thank rChaz. We fixed this in Dec '05. TommyP is on the bal!!

i am sorry goodly sirs, but a drunk monkey with a handgun has come and taken all of my notes. he soiled my drapes, and before leaving, went to my old Smith Carona and typed "in its box of sky grey and cornerless, the sky rattles like a fragment of angry candy." TRUER WORDS, MY FRIENDS!! truer words. i just had some doritos and chili. see, i like making chili (i do it the HFSLIP way) but my wife makes it with CARROTS! carrots, can you believe that? she's irish maybe that means something. actually i am irish as well and i dont use carrots. maybe it's that she has some viking in her, being 6 foot, having red hair, and getting angry at the drop of a hat. ANYWAY carrots do not belong in chili! i dont think the chili is going to cure this cold.

ohhhh.. soryr dudes. oh man i feel like i have a cold or something?? hey gents i am watching PCU and i have to admit it's pne i loved but it's super old i admit. but its helping me get through. i feel kinda loopy. i maybe need a beer or something. uh i fixed the link, BTW. hey forget this windows garbage, download this. i'm'a post now and uh do something else like maybe go to bed.

Shootin' for the obvious, here. Check your original CD for scratches. Check your hotfixes to see that they are all valid. Check your hard drive for errors. This sounds like a corrupt file from a bad filecopy.

Thanks for the heads up Kiki, the link is fixed, sorry about that

First post has been edited, 2003 Registry Cleaner is final

New reduction set out. This one is mostly universal to Windows 2k, xp, 2k3 but is for English language. Your mileage may vary. Read here: http://www.vorck.com/hfexpert.html#hfcleanup Note that in Step 2, there is a Registry cleaner for 2003 that is disguised as a system INF file that you put into FIX.

Don't forget, the registry cleaner for windows 2003 does absolutely nothing at all for Windows XP...

[Obsolete info]

well, i dunno -- remember that nlite's specialty is file/component removal, not registry editing. editing the registry in windows 2000 makes a huge difference because windows loads the whole thing. editing the registry in 2003 doesn't make a huge impact (it is NOT loaded completely into the page pool) except making the shell a little more responsive (in other words, calls to things in the registry are never completed if the keys are missing, so control returns to the OS faster) and the biggie -- registry editing makes certain junk completely nonfunctional. IE won't even work after my regkiller, whether or not the files are there. i have to repost the file because i am at work and don't have the latest version. it is going to be integrated into TommyP's reduction set, which i am very pleased to say is coming along amazingly well, he's overcome some major errors the OS used to throw out. i will also be sure to add your edits, Camarade_Tux... thanks for the additions.

my dad's car keys it was a bobby-pin for me... i have often wondered why others don't post their pictures as avatars. i especially don't get the whole Family Guy Avatar Thing. WTF is with that? anyway, it never really occurred to me to use anything but my own image and real name... if anyone Google's and finds me "here," i have no problem with them seeing that i'm a nerd i'm part of a highly esteemed technical community Are we done in red sector, I vote we go paisley sector next ?! NO! NOT YET!!! We have to get tommyp's bearer bonds back from the vampire circus clown selling hot dogs on seventh avenue!!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Kramy, you came thisclose to owing me $5, I nearly pi??ed my boxers laughing

Well, here's the deal. It's nothing I did, it's just that Microsoft keeps issuing new hotfixes to Internet Explorer. In these hotfixes are shell files. Many of these new versions have subtly changed little things in Windows. Shdocvw.dll, for example... The Shell32 and explorer files are new in the rollup, etc. It's no registry tweak. If you use my fileset with IE6 files (why would you want to, but just for example here) whenever you click 'search' and click a resulting file and go to File, Open Containing Folder, it doesn't work. It's just something we can thank Microsoft for.

We have to keep a healthy level of insanity here at HFSLIP. I hear they take things so seriously over at nLite, never mind down the hall at USP/Hotstream Looks around for his lampshade

Hey TAiN is this a perma-link? I'll linkie on my instructions. I'm too lazy to PM

Agents, I hope that this missive reaches you all and that Rawlings has had time to brief you on the situation in Donnington. It would seem that our old foe Lord Chassley has taken certain steps to ensure that both Super-Magician and Tomcat76 fail in their efforts to unify the warring factions in Europe that we last spoke of. A bit of poisoned cognac was all it took to send TAiN into a seizure and subsequent hospitalization. He'll be fine, worry not, but TommyP has sent a cable to Washington advising them that the road to recovery will be long and hard since hospitals in Donnington aren't known for their curative powers. We have sent him strippers and Napoleon brandy. Tomcat76 is doing all he can to acquire the information you have all asked for. The daily HumInt coming in requires more manpower than we've got to decode the voluminous meanderings of nattering mistresses on telephones we probably should have thought thrice about tapping, since in X-pert’s findings, few heads of state reveal much to these supine tarts. We're still working on that massive tome the Delta Team assembled from the shredded reports you have all recovered from the waste hopper outside the Embassy in Malta. Wela paying the schoolboy to dress up as a panhandler in order to distract the Duke's attention was a bit of genius, reminiscent of the time Squeeto and Kramy did their “drunk sailor and cheery dictionary salesman” ruse to distract a museum curator long enough to purloin an executive execution order disguised as a 15th century manuscript, or the time Kiki Burgh employed hypnosis on a wandering musician. But then, I don't need to remind you of how well Operation Sea Pig came off thanks to my ingenuity, TommyP’s lyrics, and the barmaid's incontinent pet monkey. It would seem that the information has something to do with stolen bearer bonds that were seized when a car pulled up to the depository and the trunk opened to reveal a midget with a broadsword. The midget, who was later identified as a retired jockey apparently talked into the caper after several shots of Absinthe, managed to snatch the bonds and the word on the street is that he was last seen passing the financials off to a vampire circus clown selling hot dogs on Seventh Avenue. A report with full details will be available from Miss Hollensbeck the afternoon of the fifth. Until then, I advise you all to rest up, because you will be leading Extraction Team Alpha into the Red Sector at 00:30 hours the following morning on the sixth. God keep you and best of luck to you.

Squeeto, Kramy, that's pretty funny you're that close... TommyP and I are less than ~3 hours apart. Funny story, when we met up, he was surpised to find that I am actually an eccentric millionaire shut-in with 36 cats and I was shocked to learn that he works for a defense contractor, sending robots back in time to eliminate government enemies in the past! Not really, I only have 35 cats

Though the topic has strayed, this should be answered for others. The steps below are not so much aimed at you as others who might stumble on this question. When I reinstall, or in fact most of us, we simply: 1. visit a pinned hotfix list by the_guy or tomcat 2. get the newest hotfixes into HF... their lists will tell you what replaced what 3. redownload the latest version of HFSLIP 4. read its changelog 5. run HFSLIP, it will delete your old SOURCESS directory and re-create it, and make you a new ISO if you have MKISOFS.EXE (or whatever). As for your question, Squeeto, you should not re-use the I386 folder from an older build. You could do it and not see any problems, but we don't support that -- in other words, yeah, it might work for a long time, but if one day you get an oddball error because you should have started from a fresh source, it will be that much harder for us in the forum to track down what's going on with an old I386 source folder. Without thinking too much about it, I am going to guess that using an old I386 from previous HFSLIPs will probably get you into trouble because HFSLIP parses files and looks for certain strings to be in place. I don't think the program "expects" to see it's own files, it needs original source.