vinifera

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

- should go infront of hive [-HKLM\...

thanks for sharing

thanks

recently i removed this process and replaced it with "dummy" file that doesnt do thing and unloads fast (dud) because verclsid started to choke my PC whenever i was opening/browsing folders with high quantity of HQ/HD images (and no it wasnt a virus), anyways now it runs fine without it but since original verclsid validates shell extensions in explorer will it make system unstable or giving possible BSOD's in future ? obviously before SP2, XP ran fine without it and this was implemented more for some security check but i find that it does more damage when installed than when its not present (atleast performance wise)

yeah something like that, so i can choose if i want nlited or normal XP install i saw many people who used nLite to incorporated on DVD XP Lite Home XP Lite Pro XP Lite x64 Server 2003 Lite etc... and user could on DVD boot select which version to install

so i'd like to have 2 XP installation types on CD (or DVD if its necessary) something like normal XP and XP nlited so i'm wondering how do people who modify installs do this ? can it be done via some BAT script (the menu and different install type to choose from) ?

it is, open explorer.exe with some resource editor under Bitmap section there are resources for that image (166 for Home, 167 for Pro) you just need to replace one of them (depends what version you use)

not that hard to replace that picture after all its not hardcoded string, its just bmp file

thanks

since MS offers bloat of over 100 MB to download, i would like to know where (paths) does it get dumped in system ?

spining orb is in theme file as i wrote above use restaurator to modify content and if you cant patch it within OS, do it while in PE mode

from another forum (regarding logon frame) can't verify since i dont have that file, and im on XP

frame is in explorer.exe under Bitmap section resource numbers 7013, 7014, 7015 and 7016 but doesnt look it shares the one in logon screen as for cursor, take a look in aero.msstyle, under stream section

thats odd, look at this screnie from Vista, but same was on Win7 (disregard the red arrow, i was showing something to my friend via this screenie) in any case the MemTurbo program doesnt support DWM so was themed as classical window while DWM worked on everything else http://i49.tinypic.com/eith5c.png

i know this my question was how to do it in 1 step do apply for ALL hives so me/you/people dont have to do this for each key they stumble upon to be protected

so whenever user has to change system protected registry key or entry one has always rclick on that key(s) and do this ownership annoyance... is there a way to do this via BAT file, but that it gives ownership for COMPLETE registry hives ? i know this might be complicated since registry entries are actualy stored somewhere along $MFT$ so its not just something like taking ownership of single file, but did anyone ever tried this ?

look in event viewer, does it say something ?

true, my comment was more directed toward Prefetch and .exe and .dll files which "settings" are stored in Prefetch and most used by user/system