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i make nlited XP and at the end folder is 696 MB big which is nice for CD but when i select nlite to create image it makes it 705 MB so what is so big that it has to enlarge the installation by 9 MB ? isn't just packing it into iso pure storage with some small compression ? it shouldn't be so big...

thank you

hi & thanks for reply regarding post #6 wouldn't this only execute once and be worth only for current created user and not for future created ones ?

heres the thing that bit bugs me in my custom installation i have portable program which instead its parent folder stores settings under Documents and Settings\Current User so naturaly whenever new account is created these settings would not be read by the program my question is, is there a way via commands to make winXP always copy specific folder/files into Documents and Settings\Current User, when new acc is loaded (when new account gets upon first run the Theme settings, profile settings and all that...) hope someone understands me any idea is welcomed

i read in both nlite and vlite sections that if XP ISO is nlited under vista OS and vista ISO under XP OS that installing such installation goes wrong and people recommend to nlite under XP and vlite under vista so is this some OS rule or some limitation or doesnt have to be like that ?

hypersnap 6 will give you screencap with video capped but you wont always get sharp result, with some codec it has trouble showing pixelised video capp

can someone explain me how can prefetch actualy speed up things if lets say user disables task scheduler (crappy service anyway) and doesnt defragment hard drive/partiton effectively i mean, MFT already contains position of files, and prefetch has the same but only with most used files so disk actualy has to SEEK-->MFT--->SEEK FOR PREFETCH LIST-->SEEK FILES and if disk/partiton is fragmented this would slow it down i always defrag my system partiton to have EXE and DLL files on outer tracks of HD so seeking is smallest and MFT is close to outer tracks too, without prefetch this is fast, but with prefetch its double the seek/acces or is my logic wrong ?

nice ! it works, thanks so much ++ thanks to others for giving me good info/reply

i have the same thing, and it turns well for me, atleast in VM

forgive me for being stupid but heck... i never "played" with these things i am using Sereby's IE8 addon to install IE8 and official MS hotfixes for IE8 since you call this addon and is in 7zip, do i add this in addons/hotfixes section or something else ? (sorry)

ahaa now i get it hmm your pack is as i see for x64 tho got any for 32bit ?

yeah my bad, i did crappy expression but i am still curious why some reg tweaks only work for HKCU like the one i attached above if you make multiple user accounts, and apply with changed key to HKCU then kill explorer and run it again, the addressbar will be gone BUT if you apply the same reg tweak with HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT while installing OS, or within account, and then create again multiple new accounts all those new accounts will still have addressbar

i may confused you all here, ill try to explain more detailed regarding registry, i posted above a reg entry that is supposed to remove addressbar in both IE and Eplorer (file manager), it works if entry is added under HKCU, but not for HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT, which would be for ALL users, so my "goal" is that addrbar is gone for any created or current user, this does not work at all, thats why i asked if it can be forced upon windows i even tried to run the reg key inside OS (not only while installing nlited os), it refuses to take change... as for net 1, i ment, is it esential component for XP OS, i know 2, 3 and 3.5 are not even they do have 1.1 inside but i think .net 1 was offered via Updates with SP1 (at the time), so i ask should i have it (only if OS uses it) heh hope you understood

johnhc & mooms, thanks for answers 5eraph, yes, but i guess this is windows limitation itself i was just wondering is there any way to force it accept it

not to spam for each small question new thread.... - regarding security center, nlite doesn't "red" as some vital component and only tags it as message nager but trough this win update and firewall is set up by user, so if i remove this, will there be some complications with XP without it ? - .net 1.1, is this essential for XP to have ? (i know 2.0 is totaly different, but 1.1 was their starting point) - i noticed some post SP3 hotfix provide new tcpip.sys, but since i select nlite to patch it for more open connections, and naturaly it overwrites newest version, does this pose some security issue or last downloadable build already has latest tcpip.sys init ? - and here comes one regarding registry, i have noticed that some registry entries are only acceptable for HKEY_CURRENT_USER, and never for HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT (all users) (example attached, hide_addressbar.reg), is there any way to force this upon system ? again sorry, for multiple questions, but in my opinion its more clean than to spam 4 separate threads Hide_Addressbar.reg

ok... so i made new clean custom XP, this time with tablet components inside and i get no win file protection dialogs/errors i wish to thank you all who helped here i apreciate it

i dont have it in custom XP folder (normally coz i removed the thing lol) but i do have it on my system it is located in C:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386 C:\WINDOWS\system32\CatRoot\{F750E6C3-38EE-11D1-85E5-00C04FC295EE} guess ill have to leave it in altho i see no purpose of it

i always start with fresh copy but i load always same session.ini maybe thats why some funky things happen... i guess i will have to try always fron zero not using any saved settings will report back with fresh info

holy heavens... this is more stupid than i thought haha in event viewer this is the only thing i found regarding win file protection and what i do with my customised XP, is to leave everything intact except removing few languages/keyboards AND tablet pc components if this is because of that....

yes i surely want to continue and thanks for having the will for help file that ends up at the end is the one i copy from $$\system32 (original unpatched SP3 dll) unfortunately dialog does not say what it searches for

bump from me... how offtopic it is staff should decide... but if i use defragmenter which is set up to put .exe and .dll files on the outer tracks (edges) of my system drive, then app prefetch is useless right ? cause windows would not only have to access some of same files twice but would also lurk more around hard drive for prefetch data instead just picking up closest location (outer track data) true ?

the disabled nlited dll is different in hash but has same size as (SP3 original one) they even share same build number (5512) as for the new way, i indeed created system32 folder in $$ one, put the original dll init with another name, and from runonce runned the batch script that renamed disabled one (from nlite) and copied SP3 original one then applied reg enable, then rebooted OS - dialog again pops up upon next boot

yes i have read the link you posted, but unfortunately i still see that question stayed opened regarding dialog problem as for cd, i have SP2 cd that i slipstream SP3 over it in nlite, and then hotfixes - now i made it clean, SP2 -> SP3 -> hotfixes, compared the hash of dll no hotfix updated it, it is same as in my host pc (using SP3) system32 @Spoiledbrat, thats weird also..., by the build its from SP1 or close to it

nah, i still get the dialog when reversed reg to last command, i did compare the renamed .dll with one i copied, they are different, but i can't compare which one is newer since theres no digital signature on it as for looking in Modified info, i only get todays date (for one installed, i guess its the one nlite patched) my only desperate try would be, to rename and copy the dll in t-12 stage when i am adding some reg entires for explorer - and then to add reg entry to enable SFC as i did for now, in first GUI boot lol does that make sense ?

here ^^ also in Patches tab in nLite, it is set to Disable X_LAST.ini