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Let me make double sure I understand: what is the left and right panel? Which one is feature dis/enabling and what is removing the stuff from the image?
On the right-hand side of the picture are programs that are installed by default. When you initially start the program, what is check marked on the right-hand side is what Windows will install by default. Un-checking any of those items will cause them to not be installed. Likewise, check marking features beyond what it already checked will install them. Now, when you load a lastsession.ini file, whatever you chose to install or uninstall on the right hand side should echo what you removed during your last session.
The left-hand side, meanwhile, gives you finer control over what is removed. However, if you have Internet Explorer unchecked on the right-hand side, for example, (not to be installed) the option to remove it will be grayed out on the left hand side. You can't remove something from the left hand side without first having it marked for installation on the right-hand side. Does that make sense?
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I must also point out that the components removal screen is somewhat bugged. After some clicking in both left and right panel some of the features on the right panel stayed grayed out as if they were selected for removal, although they weren't (I assume the left panel is what to be removed and right one is turning stuff on and off, ticked ones being on). I am not really sure how to reproduce it, but I believe loading previous session was involved (that saving works by the way, but only to the point of auto save in RT7's program folder with no control over it).
That was an issue in prior builds, but loading last session files is now working perfectly in that regard. At least for me. That is, what was selected or deselected for installation in the right hand panel should be exactly the same as the last time you used the program. Likewise, anything you chose to remove in the left hand column is still selected for removal. I'm beta testing, and I'm sure the old issue has been resolved for at least the last few builds. If you are so inclined you might see if Ben needs an additional beta tester...IMHO, a wider cross section of potential users would certainly help root out issues.
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Ok, I tried 1.6.0 today after a long time since 1.3 or something. I am quite disappointed because several things are still not fixed, and I tried to report them more than once, for example:
Wow, good thing you didn't actually pay MONEY for it, or you would have really been disappointed, huh? Maybe, just maybe, there are more pressing bugs to sort out than your own minor quibbles.
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Thanks again, myselfidem.
In right partition of feature removal option, does clicking the checkbox of the applications enable or disable the application?
A check in the box indicates the component WILL be installed.
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I've tried that, it didn't work.
That's odd; I've done it myself. Not on the desktop, But in the Windows root folder.
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Alright thanks alot man, my other question now was to get my own folders to appear on the desktop so it was there when windows finished installing anyway of doing this? i tried mounting my image then moving folders to admin's desktop but...it didn't work lol if only it was that easy.
Start RT7 lite. Once you've pointed the program to your windows image, and it finishes loading, you should be able to navigate to C:\Users\current user\AppData\Local\Temp\RT7_Mount\ and paste your folders right in the desktop folder. Of course, you'll want to do this before RT7 lite does it's thing and rebuilds the image.
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alright how come my drivers wont integrate like i put the .INF's but once installation is complete they werent installed and is it possible to have my own custom folders on the desktop once its done?
Are the drivers signed?
no idea lol they're ATI graphic drivers...k yea they are signed by "Microsoft Windows Hardware Compatibility Publisher"
I don't know about ATI, but Nvidia drivers haven't been directly integrateable for about a year now...signed or not. However, you can try a driver pack from http://driverpacks.net/driverpacks
The only downside is that the drivers aren't always the latest...their last Nvidia update was in July. Something else you can try is to get drivers from Windows Update. In order to do this, I uninstalled and deleted all of my current Nvidia drivers, rebooted, and then had Windows Update
download and install the drivers. Afterwards, you can navigate to C:/Windows/System32/DriverStore/Drivers and arrange the folders by date, then copy the folder to integrate into your image. Worked like a charm with Nvidia drivers.
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alright how come my drivers wont integrate like i put the .INF's but once installation is complete they werent installed and is it possible to have my own custom folders on the desktop once its done?
Are the drivers signed?
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Intresting.I will try this tho i won´t expect much luck.
Believe me, I was very skeptical. Nobody could have been more surprised than I was when I had fully functional drivers and control panel upon first boot. I guess I knew that they were going to work, because after the first reboot during my image install, during the hardware detection phase, the screen went blank temporarily, then came back with the correct 1680x1050 resolution.
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****.I have a problem:
Seems that due to Nvidia installer changes as of driver version 260.xx i can´t integrate any drivers newer than 259.xx to Win7 image.
Tryed both DISM 7600 and 7601 - No luck.System starts in 256 colors and no driver installed.nv_disp folder just has the .inf file in it.Nothing more.
Tryed RT7Lite - No luck.Program reports succesful integration and nv_disp contains all nessesary files but still no driver installed.
Tryed to integrate copy of System32/drivers/DriverStore/nv_disp folder - No luck
Tryed to unpack installer with UniExtract and integrating extracted files - No luck.
So has anyone been able to integrate Nvidia 260.xx series drivers into Windows 7?
Windows 7 SP1 RC x64 (ISO with SP1 RC integrated by MS)
Nvidia Display Driver 260.99
RT7 Lite 2.4.0
Dism 7600/7601
(SNIP)....Otherwise get it from Microsoft catalog updates. It will work...
Tomorrow:
I can confirm that if you get the driver from Windows Update, it can be integrated. I just picked up an Nvidia GT 430, and the driver pack I had used in the past didn't support the new card. I deleted all of the current Nvidia drivers installed, rebooted, then WU found the driver and downloaded it. I went to \\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\, found the nv_disp.inf.xxxx folder, and copied it for use. I integrated the folder to my latest RT7 Lite image, and it worked like a charm. Although the drivers do not appear in the in the installed programs listing, I can confirm that the 260.98 build of video driver, control panel driver, and PhsyX drivers were installed.
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@Billar: Did you checked your inbox?
Yep....I'm on it as we speak. :-)
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Billar...I checked that after you said. I saw the registry settings in untouched OS but its 1 by default not 0. I checked in every version. That's not before or after the usage of rt 7 lite.
Wow...that's just bizarre. I don't understand that! If you look on Google, you'll see that the setting should be 0 by default...at least it has been until now.
It's weird, because if you set Windows Backup to image the root drive everyday, it'll only have one image - the latest. But if you set it to zero, it'll keep daily, incremental backups.
Edit: Well, I just read that it is set to "1" by default in Windows 7. I can't imagine why they'd break functionality in backup for the sake of a minor speed tweak.
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I would like to conduct an informal survey. I find that I am having to set the registry setting "NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate" to zero. It should be "0" by default, but somehow after using RT7 Lite, it has been set to "1". Windows Backup needs this to be set to "0" so that it can see when files have been changed in order to make incremental backups. I would like you to check this registry setting yourself, and if you haven't already changed it, please report in this thread what you have it set to. You'll find the setting here:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem]
"NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate"=
Some people toggle it to "1" to save some disk activity and thus improve performance; the default setting should be "0".
Thank you.
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I received no such error, nor had any problem whatsoever integrating wave SP1 RC Wave1 (windows6.1-KB976932-X64.exe
Did the image work normally when you tested it?
Yes...I'm using it now. I went away from my desktop to watch television while the integration portion took place, but there were no errors, and the GUI was prompting me to proceed to RT7 Lite to continue. The system applet shows Service Pack 1, v.721.
Edit: Well, it appears that maybe I don't have Wave1 after all. My x64 service pack is about 650mb, while the Microsoft download is 865mb.
The sp I have is as follows:
Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 RC x64
BUILD: 7601.17105.100929-1730
FILE: Windows6.1-KB976932-X64-INTL.exe
SIZE: 644,616,752 byte
SHA-1: B8E8935D782599B977D3D0FF15D8B3B539CA39C8
MD5: 59BA49FE307B89C20EBBE8D4C95622B0
CRC: 5329BB53
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I received no such error, nor had any problem whatsoever integrating wave SP1 RC Wave1 (windows6.1-KB976932-X64.exe
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Is 2.4.0 compatible with the 64-bit SP1 RC (windows6.1-KB976932-X64-INTL)?
I can confirm that it is.
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IMHO the images loads need to be fast, you can ask for a pizza and wait for the deliver and images aren't loaded.
It can only be as fast as your hard drive. It has to be written to disk before it can be opened for modification.
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Thanks for your suggestion, I'll add this in the next few days.
I only hope that some people would like to share their discovery for integrating them in the post.
I don't think that'll be an issue
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Maybe edit this list?:
I hadn't seen that before...thanks.
Lately i have had idea that i won´t simply remove anything else other than languages and drivers.It simply takes too much time to troubleshoot and test if i really wan´t to remove other things and in the end i might find some nasty suprise again(meaning something is not working/missing).You and me both. I still have not been able to narrow down dependencies for a scanner and winSAT, but as it happens, both will soon be important to me. My last build was basically to eliminate extra languages & drivers, with customization and tweaks. Not as svelte as I am accustomed to, but what I need to work, works.
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Some users reported a problem a while back. The problem was that they were unable to assign security settings of files (you know the allow/deny thing ;p, it affects setting the ownership as well) to the user group "administrators" or to their own username because the system said that this user or group do not exist. The problem occurs when the component "Windows Contacts" is removed so please fix it or add a note to that
Thank you, that's good to know. I think an "absolutely do not remove" thread would be helpful. For example, removing telephony results in not being able to activate Windows 7.
Removing Windows Media Manager will render most media devices inoperative. The Viper service tweak for Software Protection, (delayed start, instead of automatic), will make Windows "think" it's not activated. Let's have everyone weigh in with their respective caveats and perhaps we can make a sticky with a list.
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After clicking apply RT 7 went through the motions, once finnished, i clicked on create ISO saved the ISO into a folder. I then started VMWare and used that ISO that was created, but when Windows 7 had finnished installing there were no changes made. I will give it another go.
If you like, post your lastsession.ini and I'll have a look at it.
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Where does RT 7 Lite save the ISO file? I have even created an ISO within RT 7 but when i install it on VMWare nothing has been changed.
Sorry, but RT 7 isn't very user friendly.
If you had created an .iso, you'd know where it is because the program prompts you *where* to save it. I'd say you've missed a step.
I have found the program to be fairly intuitive.
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Oops...nevermind. The above solution is probably more elegant.
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I got both my WinSAT and scanner working with the attached profile. It only occupies an additional 500mb on the Windows install, so it was a good compromise.
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RT Seven Lite - RC build 1.7.0 and Beta build 2.6.0
in Unattended Windows 7/Server 2008R2
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Yep, I got that part bassackwards. The whole right side thing is counter intuitive, for sure. I had a hell of a time the first time I used the program.