vinifera

err doing tests in VM are... like what the hell... do it on real machine

ouch for you then I can tell you as ex-heavy modder via skinstudio that XP with winblinds could have any UI you wanted even animated, later even glass with blur, at that point XP only got bunch of light replacements of what vista had, from file managers to sidebars

i still don't get it since i never did this ...

now this is some nice info ! btw, for last thing regarding %systemdrive% you say its always X:, but I am searching for "installed OS" you say search for "special tag file" how, and what is that ?

if you gonna sell it then you better make it clean without any screwup - and this is big responsibility, as you can't sell something and put label "I am not responsible for damages caused by ....."

I wouldn't use "8" either it should be official that MS just blew it Vista as much as major thing was, UI-wise was terrible, and for some reason MS only partially enhanced it in "7" (file manager and taskbar are better) but everything else is still too **** complicated to find so instead fixing this in "8" and "10", no... lets screw it even more well I always repeat myself but until they freaking start to THINK how to make decent OS, I'm staying on "7" if XP wasn't that obsolete, I'd stay on it

well if you gonna charge it then situation stays the same

good luck tracking all the registry entries

so let me explain yes I slimmed down my win7 as much as I could at the expence of any recovery SO my question would be this how to do this: DVD boots into a DOS/BAT type program where I have 2 selections to choose 1. Install Windows 2. Recovery if 1. is selected, the win setup starts if 2. is selected, it would invoke 7zip cmd line arguments to extract specific folders from install.wim and here lies the problem - how can CMD environment variables detect what letter is CD/DVD drive and parse it to 7zip cmd line - how can CMD environment variables detect %SYSTEMDRIVE% and parse it as temp variable to 7zip to extract files to ---- i have never done this nor I know how yet instead using some custom PE, I think this is fastest and easiest, but again I don't have knowledge of that any help ?

modified with latest updates sfc won't work as I removed every instance of backup and recovery seems to me whatever was in that .cab can't update some crap yet if IE is standalone since vista, it should install with no problem

pretty much any duplicate file finder big bonus gets those who can mark folders and not just files for deletion you can go heavy way by any fast search program, but then you need to watch out by DATE and BUILD number also the whole Backup folder is to be removed but as you noticed you don't spare too much space from SxS folder alone, 100 MB somewhat while Backup folder might vary from 500 MB to more in fact the only real clean SxS I ever saw done correctly was eXperience guy who made "Tiny7" but hell one has to know what exactly to remove as most files are linked to .cat (catalog) files and manifests all in all its bul*****

Yes, but the new driver model and the NT major version change have been in Windows 10 since RTM. What I got out of this is that the "biggest kernel change since Vista" happened between 10240 and 10586, and if that is the case, I am really curious into seeing what it is. (they probably integrated telemetry into the OS at a kernel level) hmm probably that then

win7 boots within 40 secs so 30% reduction is what ? 12 seconds ??? gee my world is gonna spin now with that blazing fast boot time reduction

i guess it belongs to those bugs, if nobody notices it then its not worth fixing

he wrote biggest kernel change SINCE VISTA 6.0 to 10.0 to us ordinary users thats nothing to devs, its new driver type (since number changed as it didn't follow up 6.x numbering), and probably some API hooks beneath

seems like Linux is indeed the future

*od damnit I hate microslop ! oh and thanks

I've noticed that .reg file does NOT accept environment variables as %APPDATA% or %SYSTEMDRIVE% or %PROGRAMFILES% but it has ti be written fixed location as C:\Program Files which is freaking stupid considering that deployement of NT 6 can be automatic just as NT 5 was so how do i bypass this ? what if user chooses to install OS on F or G drive, then fixed path would be worthless...

i wouldn't ordinary make this topic but for some specific reason I was forced to install IE-11 but it rejected: here is full log, if anyone can figure out (or do i must install IE 9, then 10 and only then 11 ??? ) 00:32.110: INFO: Windows 7 operating system detected.00:32.110: INFO: Service pack major: 100:32.110: INFO: Service pack minor: 000:32.125: INFO: Service pack name: Service Pack 100:32.125: INFO: Version Check for (KB2834140) of C:\Windows\System32\d3d11.dll: 6.2.9200.16570 >= 6.2.9200.16570 (True)00:32.125: INFO: Version Check for (KB2670838) of C:\Windows\System32\api-ms-win-downlevel-user32-l1-1-0.dll: 6.2.9200.16492 >= 6.2.9200.16426 (True)00:32.141: INFO: Version Check for (KB2639308) of C:\Windows\System32\Ntoskrnl.exe: 6.1.7601.22948 >= 6.1.7601.21863 (True)00:32.141: INFO: Version Check for (KB2533623) of C:\Windows\System32\api-ms-win-security-base-l1-1-0.dll: 6.1.7601.18229 >= 6.1.7601.17617 (True)00:32.141: INFO: Version Check for (KB2731771) of C:\Windows\System32\conhost.exe: 6.1.7601.18229 >= 6.1.7601.17888 (True)00:32.141: INFO: Checking for correct version of C:\Windows\Fonts\segoeui.ttf.00:32.157: INFO: Version Check for (KB2786081) of C:\Windows\System32\taskhost.exe: 6.1.7601.18010 >= 6.1.7601.18010 (True)00:32.157: INFO: Version Check for (KB2888049) of C:\Windows\System32\drivers\tcpip.sys: 6.1.7601.22648 >= 6.1.7601.22444 (True)00:32.157: INFO: Version Check for (KB2882822) of C:\Windows\System32\tdh.dll: 6.1.7600.16385 >= 6.1.7601.18247 (False)00:36.141: INFO: Download for KB2882822 initiated. Downloading http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=324540 -> KB2882822_x86.MSU.00:36.157: INFO: Waiting for 1 prerequisite downloads.00:36.688: INFO: Prerequisite download processes have completed. Starting Installation of 1 prerequisites.00:36.766: INFO: Launched package installation: C:\Windows\System32\dism.exe /online /add-package /packagepath:C:\Windows\TEMP\IE16552.tmp\KB2882822\Windows6.1-KB2882822-x86.cab /quiet /norestart01:14.297: INFO: Process exit code 0x000006BE (1726) [The remote procedure call failed. ]01:14.297: INFO: The neutral pack was not successfully downloaded from the internet. Installation will continue using the extracted package.01:14.297: INFO: Waiting for 0 language pack downloads.01:14.313: INFO: Language pack downloads completed. (exit code = 0xffffffff (4294967295)).01:14.344: INFO: No reboot logic message NrApiStart(0), lParam=0x00132588 returned 0x00000000.01:14.860: INFO: No reboot logic message NrApiScan(1), lParam=0x00000000 returned 0x00000000.01:26.188: INFO: No reboot logic message NrApiDecisionDialog(2), lParam=0x00000000 returned 0x00000000.01:32.266: INFO: No reboot logic message NrApiPreInstall(3), lParam=0x00000000 returned 0x00000000.01:32.266: INFO: No reboot logic message NrApiStartInstall(4), lParam=0x00000000 returned 0x00000014.01:32.266: INFO: Installing with the extracted package. C:\Windows\TEMP\IE16552.tmp\IE11-neutral.Extracted.cab01:32.297: INFO: Launched package installation: C:\Windows\System32\dism.exe /online /add-package /packagepath:C:\Windows\TEMP\IE16552.tmp\IE11-neutral.Extracted.cab /quiet /norestart01:45.594: INFO: Process exit code 0x00003712 (14098) [The component store has been corrupted. ]01:45.594: ERROR: Neutral package installation failed (exit code = 0x00003712 (14098)).01:45.625: INFO: No reboot logic message NrApiInstallDone(7), lParam=0x00009c59 returned 0x00000000.01:48.938: INFO: No reboot logic message NrApiPostInstall(8), lParam=0x00000000 returned 0x00000000.01:48.938: INFO: No reboot logic message NrApiStartFinish(11), lParam=0x00000000 returned 0x00000000.01:48.954: INFO: No reboot logic message NrApiFinish(12), lParam=0x00000000 returned 0x00000016.01:48.954: INFO: Waiting for Active Setup to complete.01:48.954: INFO: Waiting for Active Setup to complete. ({89820200-ECBD-11cf-8B85-00AA005B4383})01:53.954: INFO: Waiting for Active Setup to complete. ({89820200-ECBD-11cf-8B85-00AA005B4383})01:58.954: INFO: Waiting for Active Setup to complete. ({89820200-ECBD-11cf-8B85-00AA005B4383})02:03.954: INFO: Waiting for Active Setup to complete. ({89820200-ECBD-11cf-8B85-00AA005B4383})02:08.969: INFO: Waiting for Active Setup to complete. ({89820200-ECBD-11cf-8B85-00AA005B4383})02:14.110: INFO: PauseOrResumeAUThread: Successfully resumed Automatic Updates.02:18.438: INFO: Setup exit code: 0x00009C59 (40025) - The neutral cab failed to install.02:18.469: INFO: Cleaning up temporary files in: C:\Windows\TEMP\IE16552.tmp02:18.625: INFO: Unable to remove directory C:\Windows\TEMP\IE16552.tmp, marking for deletion on reboot.02:18.625: INFO: Released Internet Explorer Installer Mutex

its standard crap like any other auto-tweakers

chrome + ugly ui

by logic it should but if you have multicore cpu with ssd then i guess it don't matter

no they didn't, they just didn't document new changes in favor of using .net XP still has Visual Studio 6 and (disgusting) .net 2.0 and 3.5 for use (dunno if 4 works on it)

they will rise with winblows 11