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Heres your clue - standaard About the HKU HKCU HKLM thing HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ - This information is used for all users who log onto the PC Therefore if everyone is already getting these (global) settings from HKLM, there will also be no point in setting it in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER and HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT keys too.

Just remove the ; at the very first character of your file. i.e. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

@ sixpack for the reasons stated above, you would with that code theoretically end up with a multiple swap file system, with one of fixed 700 meg residing on each of drives C: D: & E: You could probably therefore code something like this using the MULTI_REG_SZ data type, to tidy it up: [version] signature="$Windows NT$" [DefaultInstall] AddReg=PageFile.AddReg [PageFile.AddReg] HKLM,"System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management",PagingFiles,0x10000,"c:\pagefile.sys 700 700",""d:\pagefile.sys 700 700","e:\pagefile.sys 700 700"

this is for a fixed swap file of 700 mb on D: , you can change it as you want. NB : If you want the os to decide of the size type "(drive letter):\pagefile.sys 0 0" then follow gosh's guide to load it... Using this code, if you were to omit the DelReg Section, you would end up with a pagefile on C: and one on D: ! This is because you have used a REG_ADDREG_APPEND data type which does not remove the current setting, it appends the new setting to it. Therefore if XP defaults to C:\pagefile.sys at 1.5x RAM, then you would have that plus an additional 700 meg pagefile at D:\pagefile.sys

Yes, my comment may have been misconstrued! In the inf I posted, I used %24% which is inf lingo for %SystemDrive%, I made the comment for reasons of portability, since you would need to have a clean formatted drive with a known assigned drive letter to use it on another drive. This would then be hard coded into the inf, and need replacing on each different system you use it on.

No, it will do this: OS [C:] Storage [D:] Split into 2 Partitions [E: & F:] dvdrom & cdrw [G: & H:(G: for master device or earliest IDE controller)] You will probably then need to change your drive letters using Disk Management in XP.

@ MyDomain When you do 'slim down' your file, bear in mind that there are spelling mistakes and also if you apply a tweak to HKLM it doesn't also need applying to HKCU and HKU. You shouldn't be applying settings to ControlSet001 just CurrentControlSet.

Is it really a guide? or is it a program for performing tweaks? I'm only asking since it appears to need installing, and is an msi file. The screenshots just look like CHM output, if so it would be a guide, and should be distributed as a chm. If it is in fact a tweaking program /utility, please say so instead of 'guide'. After all a guide, helps you find your way, it doesn't do it for you. Please explain!

You should have found this thread of mine in your search Adjust it to suit!

You could use this single boot disk for Windows XP. With it you should be able to partition and format the drive, then begin the XP installation from CD. Its a self extracting WinImage file, so just stick a floppy in the drive and double click the wxpboot.exe file; it will format and fill the floppy for you automatically.

How did you change it? Gui - .reg - .inf - .cmd Part of unattended or on existing installation etc.

Key : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem Value Data : NtfsMftZoneReservation Data Type : REG_DWORD Data : (valid range is 1-4) Default : 1 1. Reserves one-eighth of the volume for the MFT. 2. Reserves one-quarter of the volume for the MFT. 3. Reserves three-eighths of the volume for the MFT. 4. Reserves half of the volume for the MFT. Recommended Setting : 2

@ Jeremy (and all) Read this, if you don't understand it, don't make recommendations! if you do understand it, have you changed your mind?, if not why?

Read This!

also, unless you are needing to change the filename or extension of the file you are copying you do not need to reference it twice: ::to keep copied filename the same COPY "%systemdrive%\install\a folder\filename.ext" %systemroot%\System32\ ::or to rename the copied file COPY "%systemdrive%\install\a folder\filename.ext" %systemroot%\System32\newname.ext

Did you not try it as I said in my previous post: ProgramFilesDir=\apps CommonProgramFilesDir=\apps\_common i.e. no drive letters

So you didn't install sp2 with a slipstreamed CD then! If you slipstream sp2 into the XP CD-ROM, it updates the console. You could always use nLite, to do a slipstream, and use that as the location in the command line. Start => Run => path to slipstreamed files directory:\i386\winnt32.exe /cmdcons => OK

Of course if the second hard drive is slower, then no.

Put your XP CD in your ROM Drive, Start => Run => CD-ROM drive letter:\i386\winnt32.exe /cmdcons => OK reboot when done!

The folders should be read only! You do not write to a folder, you simply put files etc. inside it. Just check the properties of the files inside your folders, they're the important ones

Yes, but I dressed it up a little

Try adding this: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced] "Start_ShowControlPanel"=dword:00000002

I would suggest that for creating your winnt.sif file you try: » Winnt.sif Creator - by b0r3d Do a forum Search for it » Setup Manager from the XP Deployment Tools Using this tool, if you input as little information as you possibly can, the wizard will let you know what is required as you go!

Right, so you are saying that it's your computer system, but you are not the Administrator! I do apologise for my bigotry, but I'm afraid that if someone were to try to post a well laid out, laymans terms tutorial on 'how to hack someone elses computer' in this manner, the moderators would have to remove it and prevent its viewing anyhow. Now if you were to try to use the WWW to learn to hack, 'trusting that the hacking sites have not also been blocked by your Administrator', then that's your best option; not a public forum!