vinifera

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 ?

yeah i do that but that behaviour of OS is still stupid to me system won't restore them anyway nor user can restore them via sys restore seems more like bug to me than feature as its unusable

i have XP SP3 in my VM and i noticed that whenever i rename sys file in order to replace it (both in safe mode) that OS makes backup in _RESTORE folder (C:\System Volume Information\_restore{F1F7736D-517F-4539-9498-EE266889A1A0}\RP5) but why does it OS do, if no restore point is set for that date when files are renamed/backuped ? to me it only seems it takes additional space for no reason

not to spam with new thread is it possible to duplicate toolbar (have 2 of same) or add empty one to explorer ?

ah nice ! didnt thought it can be that simple thanks

hmm how about this when i already change what buttons i want, and how my toolbars are set and all that do you know which key saves that since i'd like to improt that key so i can have on custom installs same UI as the one i customized ? i tried to import from VM customized key you gave into my host PC and nothing changed i killed explorer and re-run, again no changes

when user right clicks on button bar and has dropdown list for Buttons with text, and without text does anyone know which registry entries are for that "on the fly" change ?

sweet, working now, thanks ^^

on XP SP3 (+ post SP3 patches) i have set in registry [HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop] "PaintDesktopVersion"=dword:00000001 it simply refuse show it any particilur reason ?

ok problem resolved usage of imagecfg did the job

Ponch those are for desktop watermark, i know ho to do that (but thanks) i more interested in global version build change, and yes i'm aware some things wouldn't work

don't know how much this goes into "illegal" things for this board feel free to warn or lock the thread if so i'm interested in changing XP build number (not the desktop via registry) so people on some boards said files needed to hexed are win32k.sys and ntoskrnl.exe but in there i don't find anything related to "2600" (regarding XP build number) anyone can tell what needs to be edited ? (maybe im blind)

hmm never noticed it for previous SP's still weird thing to brand it like that

i use XP SP3 + later patches, and noticed that some system files (like explorer) have changed build number to 6.0.2900.5512 (while CMD ver and winver still shows 5.1.2600) shouldnt all XP files post SP3 have build of 5.1.26xx.5512 ? and why did they brand it as 6.0 (vista) ?

i have removed that app and replaced with "dud" http://www3.telus.net/_/dud it helped me when verclsid started to cause troubles with image thumbnails in explorer but can help you also if you have some error problems with no reason

ok, thanks