vinifera

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

oh thank you, will look into it

before ~8 months i made unattended XP install using nLite but i noticed that when i wanted to repair OS (not format) the option was not available when booting from CD is this effect from unattended installs ? or because i deleted VALUEADD folder and not included on CD (needed space) ? i add my last session just in case LAST SESSION.INI

you can change for some for WINVER, or System Properties and Desktop Watermark (won't tell you since its illegal here) but OS info is resident in almost any system file so unless you have source code of XP to recompile which you don't answer is NO

i changed in setupreg.hiv everything that needs to convert server 2003 to workstation ("XP pro") but for some reason even if i replaced setupreg.hiv with new settings the isntaller ignores it and installs by default server 2003 again any pointers to why its ignored ?

so basicaly, when user enables address bar in explorer you get "Address" written when you enable for toolbars to "show text labels" you get labels below buttons (back forward views...) i'd like to remove them - yes i know buttons can be changed to have no txt labels, BUT i'd like to replace the labels with blank space (don't ask why ) i searched in explorer.exe, iexplore.exe, shell32.dll and mshtml.dll and i couldn't find anything (or maybe i'm blind?) any pointers regarding this ?