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Frankly speaking I don't understand you either You have Chinese Traditional support installed, the track titles display fine (in Chinese Traditional? in Windows Media Player or in other player?). But Windows Media Player v11 doesn't recognize it - doesn't recognize what? Doesn't recognize the track titles or something else? His settings is more thorough but I found that my simple ones are working too

You should install Chinese Traditional support only in order to view Traditional Chinese characters. If you don't want to type with Traditional Chinese characters you don't need to install input locale for it.

The structure looks fine (though I don't know and can't check all the values for input languages you need). About the glitched - yes, they may happen. It's the cost of using Chinese only programs with menus in Chinese You choose Or you may switch to Chinese system locale any time you need to use such a program. I doubt it is possible to get rid of these glitches if you happen to find right fonts settings. But I don't think it'worth spending time on it (and the results are not for sure).

You can define Documents and settings folder name and location in HIVESFT.INF: change the value of DEFAULT_PROFILES_DIR under the String section. I'd be interested to know about Program Files folder too. But it's not as easy. Maybe it's hardcoded in on of the system DLL files.

System locale is for programs to show menus in choosing language (you especially need it for installing Chinese only programs). Input locale is for typing Chinese characters in such programs like Notepad, Write, MS Word, MS Excel, Outlook Express, etc.If you need only the ability to type Chinese characters you only need to install Chinese input. If you need install a program that only have Chinese menus and doesn't install in your English version of Windows you need Chinese as system locale. Just try it - it doesn't hurt and you can switch back any time. It's INTL.IN_ in i386 folder (file is compressed. Or it's INTL.INF in WINDOWS\INF folder (this folder is invisible, to see it you should enable showing system files and folders in options). Wrong! Russian need only one setting. One of these settings is for English US keyboard

Turn your system locale to Chinese Simplified. It doesn't effect English input and ability to read in English in any program or file format. Now all new programs will install with Chinese menus (if they have language file for it). If a program doesn' have Chinese language file it will just install with English menu. If a program installs with Chinese menu but you need English, just change the language in options. Some Chinese only programs won't have English menu - for example Chinese version of QQ messanger. It doesn't metter as they don't have English menus in a system with English system locale anyway. PS After changing system locale to Chinese some programs menus may have menus that are a bit distorted (readable but not... how to say it - not as good looking as before). Experiment with font settings for this program if there are any in program options.

Interesting. Could you be more specific: what this loader is doing? I didn't find it when loading disk...

Unfortunatelly, no way... But if we are talking about English and Chinese - they can work together in system with Chinese system locale.

Here are my settings for Chinese Simplified (PinYin input method) and Russian: [RegionalSettings] LanguageGroup=5,10 SystemLocale=00000419 UserLocale=00000419 InputLocale=0409:00000409,0419:00000419,0804:e00e0804 Some notes for easy understanding: 1. LanguageGroup=5,10 - install Cyrillic (5) and Chinese Simplified support (10). Chinese Traditional should be 9. 2. SystemLocale=00000419 - Russian as a system language (installed programs will have menus in Russian). 3. UserLocale=00000419 - Russian as a default language for default user. 4. InputLocale=0409:00000409,0419:00000419,0804:e00e0804 - keyboards or input methods for 3 languages: US keyboard (0409:00000409), Russian keyboard (0419:00000419), Chinese (Simplified) Microsoft PinYin input method (0804:e00e0804). You can find out the settings for your languages in INTL.INF file inside the distro.

Oops... I did it again You can use Universal ATA driver for Windows NT3.51/NT4/2000/XP With PATA/SATA support. Worked fine for me If you don't want to install this driver in your system you just need only one file UNIATA.SYS. Some editing of TXTSETUP.SIF is needed.

morland Well, theoretically it should work (and works for me with only Intel iaStor.sys and Intel Chipset Device software applied after installation on Toshiba Satellite L401 But I've just tried it for a short time and not sure if there are any drawbacks with such a simple way. Windows is a bit more complicated then PE. Maybe you should use nLite to integrate the driver

I don't have Ghost v9 right now, so I can't be sure there is no TXTSETUP.SIF editing needed. But as far as I remember it's not necessary for PE environment. Make an image of your Ghost v9 CD with some tool like UltraISO (it's not free but there should be alternatives). Download Intel Matrix Storage driver from Intel website. Or find it in your system (or on a disk with drivers for it). You only need one file: iaStor.sys. Place iaStor.sys into i386\system32\drivers folder inside image. Burn new CD using this image. Should work PS Acronis is not so universal and also has some unsupported controllers. IMHO DOS versions of Ghost or DeployCenter (DriveImage) is better for simple tasks of partition/disk imaging

Should be faster. Adding your SATA/RAID drivers can be made through boot image editing (for example, use UltraISO make image of your Ghost v9 CD disk and then add mass storage drivers to the image). May be slower. But works perfect on SATA drives without adding any additional drivers. Just use command line switches (read the manual) For example, use this in your AUTOEXEC.BAT: GHOST.EXE -noide

Disable SFC and delete all files in C:\WINDOWS\system32\dllcache.

DeployCenter component from Symantec Ghost Solution Suite - former PowerQuest DriveImage Pro. There is also a universal solution - Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery (build on PQ DriveImage basis) Both are not Ghost but separate programs

This worked for me: c:\windowsxp-kb936929-sp3-x86-enu.exe /S:C:\xpdist XPDIST is the folder with i386 and marker files. Works fine. I gess if manual integration is possible HFSLIP will integrated it just fine. At least you may rename SP3 file with SP2 name and it should work too As for post-SP3 updates, read here.

iceangel89 For reading you should have some NLS files installed. And even if you didn't check Chinese for removal you probable deleted something that is installing needed NLS files. In current nLite languages are a bit tricky. And I also as you need Chinese (but Simplified) and I made it I mean: if you need leave Chinese support you shouldn't choose Input Method Editor under Operating System Options section for removal. Even if you don't need Chinese input but only reading

Well, as far as I understand two files you are providing are not very usefull for recovering from HDD. They are for partitioning purposes (delete/creat partitions). There is a topic in Unattended section about recovery partition, look for it

This is just like nLite is doing when you don't choose SFC disabling on the tweaks page During installation nLite uses patched SYSSETUP.DLL, and by the end of installation it is replaced by original file. But there is probably some bug with SFC here that is why disabling SFC permanently was recommended in this case

Chinese language support needs Input Method Editor component (in fact, files from this component are not needed but some regestry settings). If you are installing Chinese as a third language (say English + you native language + Chinese input) Text Services Framework component is also needed for Language Bar and for not messing up with some other languages.

I agree that is difficult to implement automatically Some time ago I tried to collect regestry settings from hot-fixes and place them all in one INF file... But I never had time to make this work on constant basis And now when there are A LOT of hot-fixes I'm just affraid to approach this metter Maybe some time in future

If I'm not mistaken, nLite change this setting in NLITE.INF (NLITE.IN_ in i386 folder)?

Yeah Ideally I'd prefer only one HFSLIP.INF file Just jocking It needs some manual work.

It's OK to edit but it's DIFFICULT to edit right Some tweaks just won't work this way.

Or copy patched SYSSETUP.DL_ somewhere else, rename to SYSSETBCK.DL_ and replace the file in i386 (I don't remember the exact file name, take a look in i386 folder and you will find something like this). This will also disable sfc.