vinifera

remove winsxs and you have FUBAR OS

PDF XChange gets my vote

i've noticed that 2005 has some... issues... MS offers 3 versions to download redist 2005 redist 2005 SP1 and redist 2005 SP1 update but they seem to clash? with each other, the newer removes older while in 2008 case, both 2008 and SP1 co-exists bit odd

I'd like to add to my nlited installation Visual C++ redist's is it enough to just add 2005 SP1 and 2008 SP1 or ALL 2005, 2005 SP1, 2005 SP1 ATL security update, 2008, 2008 SP1 ?

some people say that 1.1 and 4 are enough since supposedly 4 covers CLR2 this true or all 1,2,3,4 are a must ?

has anoyne tried using ReactOS lately ? I personaly hate where vista and anything above went seeing only XP/srv2003 being last good OS-es come from MS I consider jump to ReactOS when XP's loses its support and by then I hope they will release the "everyday use" version

it could be some malware if your scanners can't find anything my recomendation would be repair (not format) of OS then again thats only my opinion usualy explorer.exe takes high resource if something of 3rd party is hooked to it and using it

problem is I can't regshot since .net I wish to "give" to XP would be from Longhorn build 3718 and I think its early .net version differs from final ones

and copying just folders won't do anything at all ? I mean, sometime when an app requires dll and user downloads it and puts it into same folder it will work...

bare with me in this situation if i didn't install .net (1.1 or 2, no matter), but just copied folders from \Windows\ directory (assembly, Microsoft.NET and WinSxS) from another installed XP that had .net installed what needs to be done, to "register" that components so windows can see them and use them ? and do i need to export/import some reg entries ?

could be ntkrnlpa.exe as its identical to boot screen

ok then thanks

yes i know the last SP is enough i was just worried as in past, i came across discussions (on net) that some people consider it is safer to do slipstream of SP3 ontop of XPSP2 rather than ontop of XP RTM dunno was it some security issue paranoia or did they had valid reasons so i asked here if it makes no difference or is there something init

sorry for sucky title i am just curious is it ok to slipstream XP's SP3 over XP SP0/RTM source or is it "wiser" to do it over XP SP2 or it doesn't make any difference ?

thanks

is this something serious ? will i have problems connecting to internet or LAN (i only test it in vmware)? or i can ignore this ?

in event viewer i have some weird events happening i slipstreamed XP RTM (SP0) and SP3 and added all hotfixes till this month this is what i am getting anyone have idea what it means ?

yea i have that already thanks for reply

got a question does FFDshow works in combination with XP's default WinMediaPlayer 9 or integrating it just with that player is useless ?

the only way i would do it, is to search dll or exe file that contains that icon (small shield) and replace it with blank icon, then icon would still be attached to UAC protected "icons" but it would be blank/invisible

oh this is nice thank you for answering

so i made custom nlited XP but it is too big for CD, ISO gets out as 730 MB and looking at these 3 folders in XP install cmpnents SUPPORT VALUEADD they are 50 MB in size, so deleting them would be joy but how critical/important are they ?

ok nevermind workaround is to extract MSI files and use their switches which work correctly

i tried to have "preinstalled" both MS Word and Excel viewers 2003 in T-13 time when user can install programs with switches these say that /Q is quiet installer but they obviously ignore it since i got all dialogs crap and user interaction... is there any workaround this ?

reducing ISO size is not that hard you can untick few options even in vlite and you will get 1.4 GB size of it think its bigger issue to reduce installed size, you can max it to about 4.5 GB which to me is still bloat for OS itself only eXPerience managed to make it 1.5GB with his tiny7