vinifera

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

kinda weird... this is how only 2000/XP works or any NT above too ?

btw if pagefile is completely disabled & deleted why does Taskmanager in process list under "VM size" shows any VM usage at all ? same goes for Everest under Motherboard -> Memory ?

hah... that sucks for uninformed people... thanks for clearing it up

will try tho last time i got that yellow "attention" icon in sys tray and popup by windows saying "vm is to low bla bla bla, windows is resizing page file size"... funny thing now, even if my PF is deleted and non existant System Info and Everest still report it exists and is being used while defragmenter i use (not by MS) and Task Manager don't see the PF :S

registry editing helped (thanks !) and yes i always hit "set" before apply but it seems OS leaves pagefile.sys to be there, had to remove it via unlocker... only then i could re-enter new (small) values i wonder, if i may ask another question when i re-entered smaller values (min 2MB, max 4MB) can be something be done so OS doesn't automaticly starts to resize PF ? as i only wish to leave small PF for minidumps if BSOD happens but nothing above 1 or 2 MB, so the RAM can take everything else isntead HDD ?

so using XP SP3 Pro tried to lower my PF to 2 MB, rebooted OS only enlarged it then ticked to disable it, rebooted no effect any help on why this happening ?

will try with KernelEx then thanks for info guys

i try to run 1 prog made for winME but it reports that PSAPI.DLL is missing so i downloaded one from dll-files.com but then i get error message from program "PSAPI.DLL is linked to missing export NTDLL.DLL" the dll can't even be registered to regsvr32 and via google i can't find any compatible psapi.dll for winME any help ?

you would need to resource hack and change over dozen dll's and few other files wich would probably at the end bring system breakdown and incompatibility with some apps as i see you didn't even took time to find that out, theres realy no point to teach you

at the cost(s) of users and their bad experience of OS or games

so lazzyness is answer

i'd like to know why they removed it in first place ...

doubt they will ever make improved version of NTFS maybe when WinFS becomes finished to attach itself onto NTFS

your installed size is big coz of Page File (virtual memory) which is set up by OS itself 1.5 x your RAM (if i'm not mistaken with multiplier) also WinSxS component adds another ~500 MB to installed size + some others... people usualy use DISM to get ridd of such components coz vLite is sensitive in removing them

only with properly defragmented partition and strict placement of system files theres no other way since after a while files get scattered around very much and other files start to take their places (gaps) so seeking is longer

thanks for info