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Problem solved. Problem related to running Windows XP SP3 in Oracle VirtualBox. It is a problem with VirtualBox when trying to run Skype inside the virtual machine. SOLUTION: Change Compatiblity Mode of Skype.exe to Windows 2000. Skype no longer crashes.

Hey guys, Can someone help? I have an nLited version of XP SP3 in which I have installed Skype on. Skype installs, loads, signs in, and as soon as it signs in, it disappears off the screen and exits. No warning, no error, nothing. I can't get it to run. Here is my nLite preset. I know 'IP Conferencing' being removed could be a problem or THE problem but is there anything else in the list I have removed that is causing Skype to automatically close?: [Main] Env = 1.4.9.1 - 2.0.50727.4927.Microsoft Windows NT 6.1.7600.0 Target = Windows XP Professional SP3 - 5.1.2600.5512 - English (United States) [Tasks] Remove Components Unattended Setup Tweaks Create a Bootable ISO Options [Components] ;# Applications # Accessibility Options Briefcase Calculator Charmap ClipBook Viewer Defragmenter Games Internet Games NT Backup Paint Pinball Screensavers WordPad ;# Drivers # Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Cameras and Camcorders Display Adapters Display Adapters (old) Ethernet (LAN) IBM PS/2 TrackPoint IBM ThinkPad ISDN Logitech WingMan Microsoft SideWinder Modems Multifunctional Portable Audio Printers Scanners SCSI/RAID Serial Pen Tablet Sony Jog Dial Sound Controllers Tape drives Toshiba DVD decoder card Wireless Ethernet (WLAN) ;# Hardware Support # AGP filters ALI 1535 SMBus Host Controller ALI IDE Controller Battery Bluetooth Support Brother Devices CPU AMD CPU Transmeta Crusoe Firewire (1394) Support Firewire Network support Gravis Digital GamePort Infrared Iomega Zip drive Modem Support Multi-port serial adapters PCMCIA Smart Cards Sony Memory Stick Teletext codec Toshiba PCI IDE Controller USB Audio support USB Ethernet VIA PCI IDE Controller ;# Keyboards # Albanian keyboard Arabic (101) keyboard Arabic (102) AZERTY keyboard Arabic (102) keyboard Armenian Eastern keyboard Armenian Western keyboard Azeri Cyrillic keyboard Azeri Latin keyboard Belarusian keyboard Belgian (Comma) keyboard Belgian (Period) keyboard Belgian French keyboard Bengali (Inscript) keyboard Bengali keyboard Bosnian Cyrillic keyboard Bosnian keyboard Bulgarian (Latin) keyboard Bulgarian keyboard Canadian French (Legacy) keyboard Canadian French keyboard Canadian Multilingual Standard keyboard Chinese (Simplified) - Microsoft Pinyin IME 3.0 keyboard Chinese (Simplified) - NeiMa keyboard Chinese (Simplified) - QuanPin keyboard Chinese (Simplified) - ShuangPin keyboard Chinese (Simplified) - US Keyboard keyboard Chinese (Simplified) - ZhengMa keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - Alphanumeric keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - Array keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - Big5 Code keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - ChangJie keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - DaYi keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - New ChangJie keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - New Phonetic keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - Phonetic keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - Quick keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - Unicode keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - US Keyboard keyboard Croatian keyboard Czech (QWERTY) keyboard Czech keyboard Czech Programmers keyboard Danish keyboard Devanagari - INSCRIPT keyboard Divehi Phonetic keyboard Divehi Typewriter keyboard Dutch keyboard Estonian keyboard Faeroese keyboard Farsi keyboard Finnish keyboard Finnish with Sami keyboard French keyboard FYRO Macedonian keyboard Gaelic keyboard Georgian keyboard German (IBM) keyboard German keyboard Greek (220) keyboard Greek (220) Latin keyboard Greek (319) keyboard Greek (319) Latin keyboard Greek keyboard Greek Latin keyboard Greek Polytonic keyboard Gujarati keyboard Hebrew keyboard Hindi Traditional keyboard Hungarian 101-key keyboard Hungarian keyboard Icelandic keyboard Inuktitut Latin keyboard Irish keyboard Italian (142) keyboard Italian keyboard Japanese Input System (MS-IME2002) keyboard Japanese keyboard Kannada keyboard Kazakh keyboard Korean Input System (IME 2000) keyboard Korean keyboard Kyrgyz Cyrillic keyboard Latin American keyboard Latvian (QWERTY) keyboard Latvian keyboard Lithuanian IBM keyboard Lithuanian keyboard Luxembourgish keyboard Malayalam keyboard Maltese 47-key keyboard Maltese 48-key keyboard Maori keyboard Marathi keyboard Mongolian Cyrillic keyboard Nepali keyboard Norwegian keyboard Norwegian with Sami keyboard Pashto keyboard Portuguese (Brazilian ABNT) keyboard Portuguese (Brazilian ABNT2) keyboard Portuguese keyboard Punjabi keyboard Romanian keyboard Russian (Typewriter) keyboard Russian keyboard Sami Extended Finland-Sweden keyboard Sami Extended Norway keyboard Serbian (Cyrillic) keyboard Serbian (Latin) keyboard Slovak (QWERTY) keyboard Slovak keyboard Slovenian keyboard Spanish keyboard Spanish Variation keyboard Swedish keyboard Swedish with Sami keyboard Swiss French keyboard Swiss German keyboard Syriac keyboard Syriac Phonetic keyboard Tamil keyboard Tatar keyboard Telugu keyboard Thai Kedmanee (non-ShiftLock) keyboard Thai Kedmanee keyboard Thai Pattachote (non-ShiftLock) keyboard Thai Pattachote keyboard Turkish F keyboard Turkish Q keyboard Ukrainian keyboard United States-Dvorak for left hand keyboard United States-Dvorak for right hand keyboard United States-Dvorak keyboard Urdu keyboard US English Table for IBM Arabic 238_L keyboard Uzbek Cyrillic keyboard Vietnamese keyboard ;# Languages # ;Arabic Arabic (Algeria) Arabic (Bahrain) Arabic (Egypt) Arabic (Iraq) Arabic (Jordan) Arabic (Kuwait) Arabic (Lebanon) Arabic (Libya) Arabic (Morocco) Arabic (Oman) Arabic (Qatar) Arabic (Saudi Arabia) Arabic (Syria) Arabic (Tunisia) Arabic (U.A.E.) Arabic (Yemen) Divehi (Maldives) Pashto Syriac (Syria) Urdu ;Armenian Armenian ;Baltic Estonian Latvian Lithuanian ;Central Europe Albanian Bosnian (Latin, Bosnia and Herzegovina) Croatian Croatian (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Czech Hungarian Romanian Serbian (Latin) Serbian (Latin, Bosnia and Herzegovina) Slovak Slovenian ;Cyrillic Azeri (Cyrillic) Belarusian Bosnian (Cyrillic, Bosnia and Herzegovina) Bulgarian FYRO Macedonian Kazakh Kyrgyz (Kyrgyzstan) Mongolian (Mongolia) Russian Serbian (Cyrillic) Serbian (Cyrillic, Bosnia and Herzegovina) Tatar Ukrainian Uzbek (Cyrillic) ;Georgian Georgian ;Greek Greek ;Hebrew Hebrew ;Indic Bengali (India) Gujarati (India) Hindi Kannada (India) Konkani Malayalam (India) Marathi Nepali (Nepal) Punjabi (India) Sanskrit Tamil Telugu (India) ;Japanese Japanese ;Korean Korean ;Simplified Chinese Chinese (PRC) Chinese (Singapore) ;Thai Farsi Thai ;Traditional Chinese Chinese (Hong Kong S.A.R.) Chinese (Macau S.A.R.) Chinese (Taiwan) ;Turkic Azeri (Latin) Turkish Uzbek (Latin) ;Vietnamese Vietnamese ;Western Europe and United States Afrikaans Basque Catalan Danish Dutch (Belgium) Dutch (Netherlands) English (Australia) English (Belize) English (Canada) English (Caribbean) English (Ireland) English (Jamaica) English (New Zealand) English (Philippines) English (South Africa) English (Trinidad) English (Zimbabwe) Faeroese Filipino Finnish French (Belgium) French (Canada) French (France) French (Luxembourg) French (Monaco) French (Switzerland) Frisian Galician (Spain) German (Austria) German (Germany) German (Liechtenstein) German (Luxembourg) German (Switzerland) Icelandic Indonesian Inuktitut (Latin) Irish Italian (Italy) Italian (Switzerland) Luxembourgish Malay (Brunei Darussalam) Malay (Malaysia) Maltese Maori Mapudungun Mohawk Northern Sotho Norwegian (Bokmal) Norwegian (Nynorsk) Portuguese (Brazil) Portuguese (Portugal) Quechua (Bolivia) Quechua (Ecuador) Quechua (Peru) Romansh Sami, Inari (Finland) Sami, Lule (Norway) Sami, Lule (Sweden) Sami, Northern (Finland) Sami, Northern (Norway) Sami, Northern (Sweden) Sami, Skolt (Finland) Sami, Southern (Norway) Sami, Southern (Sweden) Spanish (Argentina) Spanish (Bolivia) Spanish (Chile) Spanish (Colombia) Spanish (Costa Rica) Spanish (Dominican Republic) Spanish (Ecuador) Spanish (El Salvador) Spanish (Guatemala) Spanish (Honduras) Spanish (International Sort) Spanish (Mexico) Spanish (Nicaragua) Spanish (Panama) Spanish (Paraguay) Spanish (Peru) Spanish (Puerto Rico) Spanish (Traditional Sort) Spanish (Uruguay) Spanish (Venezuela) Swahili Swedish Swedish (Finland) Tswana Welsh Xhosa Zulu ;# Multimedia # Acm Core Codecs ActiveX for streaming video AOL ART Image Format Support Images and Backgrounds Intel Indeo codecs Luna desktop theme Media Center Mouse Cursors Movie Maker Music Samples Old CDPlayer and Sound Recorder Speech Support Tablet PC Windows Media Player Windows Media Player 6.4 Windows Sounds ;# Network # Client for Netware Networks Communication tools Comtrol Test Terminal Program Connection Manager FrontPage Extensions H323 MSP Internet Connection Wizard Internet Information Services (IIS) IP Conferencing MSN Explorer Netmeeting NetShell Cmd-Tool Outlook Express Peer-to-Peer Share Creation Wizard Synchronization Manager Web Folders Windows Messenger ;# Operating System Options # .NET Framework Administrative Templates Administrator VB scripts Blaster/Nachi removal tool Color Schemes Command-line tools Desktop Cleanup Wizard Extensible Storage Engine (Esent97) Extra Fonts File and Settings Wizard Group Policy Management Console Help and Support Help Engine Input Method Editor Jet Database Engine Local Security Settings Manual Install and Upgrade MS Agent MS XML 2.0 Out of Box Experience (OOBE) Private Character Editor Remote Installation Services (RIS) Search Assistant Service Pack Messages Symbolic Debugger (NTSD) Tour User account pictures Web View Zip Folders ;# Services # Alerter Error Reporting Fax Service HTTP SSL IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service Indexing Service Message Queuing (MSMQ) Messenger Network DDE Performance Logs and Alerts QoS RSVP Quality of Service (QoS) Remote Registry Route Listening Service System Restore Service Text Services Framework Volume Shadow Copy ;# Compatibility # Compat02 Compat04 [KeepFiles] msconfig.exe iis.dll iis.inf [RemoveFiles] clock.avi yahoo.bmp swtchbrd.bmp [Options] ProfilesDir = "%SystemDrive%\Users" TargetPath = "WINDOWS" temp_dir = %SystemDrive%\Temp AdvTweaks [Patches] DoUxTheme [Services2] [Tweaks] Boot and Shutdown-Auto-End tasks immediately Boot and Shutdown-Auto-Kill hung applications immediately Boot and Shutdown-Auto-Kill hung services immediately Boot and Shutdown-Disable logging on System Failure Desktop-Desktop icons size-47 Desktop-Internet Explorer icon-Hide Desktop-My Computer icon-Hide Desktop-My Documents icon-Hide Desktop-My Network Places icon-Hide Explorer-Add 'Command Prompt' to folder context menu Explorer-Advanced Search: preconfigure options Explorer-Change Windows Explorer folder view-Details Explorer-Disable Prefix: Shortcut to Explorer-Disable shortcut arrow Explorer-Show extensions of known file-types Explorer-Show hidden files and folders Explorer-Show the full path in the Address Bar Internet Explorer-Disable Internet Explorer link creation Internet Explorer-Disable Market Place bookmark Internet Explorer-Disable Media Player 6.4 created bookmarks Internet Explorer-Disable Password-Caching Internet Explorer-Keep IE URL-History for-0 Days Internet Explorer-Set IE-Cache limit to-8 MB Internet Explorer-Set popup-blocker to high My Computer-Remove Shared Documents Network-Allow receiving Remote Assistance-Disable Network-Disable Simple File Sharing Performance-Do not cache thumbnails Performance-Minimal Power Management Privacy-Remove Alexa Security-Always show Updates under Software Security-Disable Antivirus notification Security-Disable Firewall notification Start Menu-Control Panel-Display as a link Start Menu-Disable Highlight newly installed programs Start Menu-My Computer-Display as a link Start Menu-My Documents-Display as a link Start Menu-My Music-Don't display this item Start Menu-My Network Places-Don't display this item Start Menu-My Pictures-Don't display this item Start Menu-Network Connections-Link to Network Connections folder Start Menu-Number of programs on Start menu-6 Start Menu-Printers and Faxes-Don't display this item Start Menu-Reduce popup delay Start Menu-Remove Search the Internet from Search Start Menu-Remove Set Program Access and Defaults Start Menu-Remove Windows Catalog shortcut Taskbar-Disable Hide inactive icons Visual Effects-Animate windows when minimizing and maximizing-Enable [Unattended] ComputerType = Automatic CustomLocales Resolution = 640x480 BitsPerPel = 32 bit (True Color) MaximumDataStorePercentOfDisk = 12 RestorePointLife = 30 DesktopTheme = Royale Remixed|Royale Zune|Normal AutoUDay = 5 AutoUHour = 15 AUMinor ProgFilesPath = "\Program Files" [DesktopThemes] D:\xptheme\Royale Remixed.theme [NetAdapter1] connname = "" macaddress = "" ipaddress = "192.168.0.1" subnetmask = "255.255.255.0" defaultgateway = "" dnsserver1 = "" dnsserver2 = "" winsserver = "" netbiossetting = "0" ipxnetworknumber = "00000000" ipxnetworkframetype = "0xFF" [GuiRunOnce] [Drivers] [Hotfixes]

Does anyone know the xact files to add back and where they are located in the I386 OR Is there a way I can continue to fool my PC into never thinking that my 30 days of activation have expired? SO far, I have restored from an image made just after the OS installation and put the date back in the BIOS and that seems to work. However, does the OS keep a DayCount of days when it is used? I.e it won't matter if the date is back, it will keep a record count of days the OS is used? Is there a quick and easy way to fool the activation from kicking in?

Hi everyone, I have a problem with my nLited version of Windows XP Home SP3 PL (Poland). I have a genuine version of XP Home SP3 PL CD with genuine key, and I wanted to give nLite a go to reduce my XP environment. During the nLite process, I entered my Windows CD key in the Unattended Setup section and I have been successfully using my nLited copy of Windows. However, I started to receive a message reminder before logging into Windows about activating this product. AFAIK, I had provided my CD key and everything should be fine. However, it still asks me to activate. When I clicked 'YES', I received an error message, so I had to click 'NO'. Now the grace period has expired and I can no longer log into Windows because I can't click 'YES' to register. Upon further investigation, I booted into Safe Mode (because I can still get in that way and proceeded to run): C:\WINDOWS\system32\oobe\msoobe.exe /a However, in the 'oobe' folder, there are no files. Nothing at all. I suspect I may have removed these important files during my nLite process. What do I do now? I am not sure what I selected to remove that indeed removed these files. Unfortunately, I no longer have an EXACT copy of the LAST SESSION.ini file used, but I have a copy that I would say is exactly the same from my English XP Pro SP3 nLited CD. The file from this was used to make the XP Home PL SP3 nLited CD. Do I have an option to manually add these files back into my current nLited Windows environment and repair my mistakes, or do I have to make a complete nLite re-build of my XP CD and start all over again? (I would prefer not to do this if I can get away with it). Many thanks. Chris. EDIT: I have just looked at my LAST SESSION.ini and notice the 'Out of Box Experience (OOBE)' entry. Is this what is causing the problem, and more importantly, ONLY this (is there another entry in my .ini that has an affect on this also?). Is it possible to manually add these files back into my installation without having to re-build. If so, I obviously have no idea how to do this. LAST SESSION.INI