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I was using Comodo, but had some issues with it, and it also started to feel bloatware. I recently read about Kerio Personal Firewall 2.1.5 from -X-, so what about: -Avira Antivir (quarantine its own spam files) -Kerio Personal Firewall 2.1.5 -Palemoon (Firefox fork) with -Adblock Plus -Adblock Plus Pop-up -BetterPrivacy I don't know what Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware is for, can't it be done with Avira?

"Fixed". I had to disable "Intel xHCI Mode" on BIOS, it will cause to disable USB3, so that's another point to count for Intel (probably more than Asus) and their one sided and subversive war against XP (or everything that smells "old"). The driver for the internal Intel HD 4600; well, it looks more like a dummy driver than anything else. I'm not getting any benefit from it: -slow playback on full screen on youtube (if I disable HW acceleration in flash it runs smooth) -slow playback on MPC in full screen, if I RMB click over screen (the Windows GUI interferes and playback loses GPU focus) -slow playback on full screen sopcast -HD audio driver wasn't installed (so no audio over HDMI) is it me or all my issues are related to Intel? danm them! btw, still wondering about: If nobody has it clear I might dedicate an unique thread for each, thank you!

Around 2002 I changed Windows ME or 2000 (can't remember) for XP because I was having serious issues capturing a video with pinnacle, somebody over IRC recommended me switching to XP, and that was a revelation. I don't know about other tasks but I think that for multimedia XP was more ready. The company killing XP is not Microsoft (the guys have been giving support much longer than any company would for their own product), the baddies here are Intel. We are buying Intel hardware that have no support for XP. No AHCI, LAN, USB3 or Graphic drivers, no Intel QuickSync, and who knows what else. The problem is they have no competition, the other one is AMD and it's not up to the game, every other mobo bundles an intel component so you are screwed.

Yes, "GetWaikTools" and so what? I ask again, what do you want me to do with this and what does it have to do with uninstalling DISM? make yourself clear. -Chipset driver, installed already the last supported driver before video drivers at the time (I installed OS), did I say otherwise? :S -Video driver, the oldest and most recent version of the video driver is only a single one (v14.56.0.5441), there's not other version supported that I know of. The one you imply, as older (v14.51.11.5437) is only up to 3rd generation, check your sources before demanding them to be read. edit: I actually just bought a Quadro 600 card, besides the display issue explained above, the driver wasn't installing the internal audio drivers for when I plug a display (TV) to the system via HDMI. Actually I have been looking for the faulty yellow driver on Hardware Manager since a few weeks with no success. HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_8086&DEV_2807

I still fail to see what you want me to do. Download WAIK? for what? I downloaded WAIK over a month ago to make unattendeds for Win7. FYI, it's 1.7Gb, do you want me to install more crap to uninstall crap? I tested disabling "Fast Reboot" and no change. I'm going to contact ASUS. Yes, the driver at station-drivers is the exact one I have (v14.56.0.5441). They say it's not official on station-drivers and official on touslesdrivers, but IIRC it's a driver for a certain 8 series board, that now is being used as for all 4th generation HD graphics on XP. It installed correct, yes, as Intel Haswell HD Graphics - GT2, the issue is not about Intel QuickSync which is known to not work on XP, the problem is that I was yesterday watching a video on sopcast, and when I went to fullscreen it transformed into slow motion. Over Seven it played nicely. This has a radical and odd solution, buy an nvidia card... oh well...

I'm going to try to disable Fast Reboot on BIOS. Anyways, I don't think I can foresee any more, this is a issue of USB "driver" not being capable to unhook from one OS to another, and that's BIOS related, nothing to do with OS. If that doesn't work I will contact ASUS (the board is a Gryphon Z87). I updated BIOS to latest rev. one week ago so that's out too.

Sure I gave a glimpse, it's 55 posts across 3 pages, what do you want me to see? What is it supposed to extract? WAIK tools from ISO? I don't understand you. With copyright bul***** you can get as picky as you want, try not to say pepsi or you will be infringing copyright laws. I don't remember where I got DISM from, it's inside Wintoolkit and there are plenty of places you can get it from built-in or standalone by searching on google (FYI; based in USA), and not in those "warez" pages you try to hint. I used Wintoolkit on my old system over a month ago to build an unattended 7 on XP, because every other tool didn't support XP. -Any help with USB? I tried both things on BIOS and didn't work. Do USB relies on AHCI drivers or Chipset drivers? Video driver was intel, yes, I don't know any other drivers available, not even modded. But if you wonder, no, you can't find them on official Intel webpage, and if you wonder again, no, no warez, or maybe yes... or maybe I don't surf the net marking what is warez or not as long as I can make my system work. You curious right? Check here.

Yes, my mind was on Grub4DOS since I used that before. But was waiting confirmation for BCD, whether it was possible or not. I entered Safe Mode and USB works, so it's probably a driver thing¿? Anyways I enabled on BIOS EHCI Handoff and now will disable USB for fast boot options. Dude, how I hate this, I don't even like computers XD and now I also have issues with fullscreen video because apparently the driver I installed is not suited at all with XP (Intel HD 4600). I f... hate Intel. DISM should be legal, it comes inside Wintoolkit for XP too. Just test it over a VM. Why would I need WAIK?

Yes, this morning I tested the F8 thing because I read it elsewhere. It is "fine", but I wonder if there's a more proper way, not only because I want a safe mode entry, but because I load XP with flags. In that circumstance it is very DUMB to load a boot manager that loads another bootmanager that.... you know, if I can find a boot manager that deals with all these straight all the better, if I knew from the begginning... :/ Screen also flashes before running 7's boot manager, taking like 4 secs of the total 8 secs, and it feels "hacky". That jaclaz post is nice to research with, I was reading the thread yesterday. I installed DISM on XP a few days ago in order to remove a 7's failed install stub folder with SYSTEM privilegies. Well, the partition was almost empty, so I ended up with a format, but I'm left with DISM installed on XP, it's an installable program, search for "DISM Installer_v105". I couldn't find anything on any entry, built-in Windows Installed programs, CCleaner, Geek, the self DISM folder, or an uninstall flag in DISM, I probably have all DISM scattered on my system. I recently had to do a manual uninstall with picaview (for 7) and please god, no more! USB use drivers¿?? the only drivers I knew I had to install for USB were the USB3 for 7. XP uses no drivers, still I installed some (modded-obscure) drivers that claimed to make USB3 possible on XP, but I uninstalled those also and no change. Before you tell me, yes, mouse and keyboard are on the rear panel USB2 only (not blue) USB ports. The critical thing here is not, do they (driver) work? it rather is, why aren't they powered? Maybe it's a thing of the BIOS, but I set everything to legacy so I don't know.

I would avoid TeraCopy as the pest, latency for copy/paste is a joke, and horrible 4K performance, plus you cannot ctrl+z it. The good thing about TeraCopy (or other for instance) is "control" not speed precisely.

I installed 7 as explained here. Placed the boot.ini, ntldr and NTDETECT.COM inside the partition for Win7 (2nd partition, XP 1st partition), and the 7 boot manager imported the settings correctly. I'm currently testing, first and foremost, can I remove any of the partitions' boot.ini, ntldr and ntdetect.com files? The problem I'm experiencing is similar to this one. If I go from XP to 7 it is fine, but if I boot to XP from 7 it freezes just right showing the desktop, I need to reboot and then is fine. I deleted Avira and PerfectDisk since they have low level access to OS, but no change, I thought it could be a thing of my USB Wifi, so plugged it out, then later I realised that my mouse and keyboard had no power input, I thought... ah yeahhh, that's why my USB Wifi wasn't loading either. So what I thought was a "freeze" is just USB not being powered, the mouse laser turns off as soon as I choose XP to boot. That explains why I couldn't find anything when running procmon on boot. With this said, what can I try? -Also to ask, is it possible to add XP Safe Mode to 7 boot manager? And flags (DEP off, /PAE, etc)? -And a quicky, how do I uninstall DISM? Everything I google is uninstall things with DISM. Windows Legacy OS Loader------------------------identifier {466f5a88-0af2-4f76-9038-095b170dc21c}device partition=C:path \ntldrdescription Windows XP Professional SP3 (x86)Thank you.

If your browser cache shares drive with J or F then I wouldn't be surprised. Anyway the drives should be fast on the 4K benchmark for browser cache. You should also inspect your PC with sysinternal tools, autorun, procmon, procexp are my preferred.

I just installed Win7 on Dual Boot (with jaclaz' help from a few months ago I -must and should- admit, that has to be said) and everything seems fine. I spent some time installing drivers and programs, and used EasyBCD for changing the boot manager countdown and OS titles. One thing to note, I had to actually hide everything (partitions) I didn't want involved in the installation. So far I was using the "lis vol" and "assign letter" commands to reorder my volumes and get the profiles on my "D: storage" partition, the issue is that by some reason E: was being assigned D: (surely my sata plug order was quite random but...) and so forth I had to reinstall W7 up to 3 times. I just used the set ID's commands to hide everything except C: and D:. My XML isn't anything out of this world. I posted it several times, it works except for the dialog for creating a new user account. After check, it seems that my unattended.xml user account fails to get a group (user/admin) so that's why I'm prompted to create a new one (and also get all those public folders scattered on root D:). I don't know if it's mandatory because that stage is also a good chance to enter audit mode so without this halt I don't know how it could be possible. http://www.mediafire.com/view/nbpknlhqnc05b9s/Autounattend-m2.xml Everything is quite simple, I followed this guide for the FirstLogon installs. Sorry I can't check now your links, I don't know why but internet is very slow now, probably the drive fragmented after installing all profile files. edit: btw I have one remaining Profile folder on E: which now I can't delete, I tried by getting into XP safe mode, but still unable.

I'm starting to think you have really understanding issues, specially text/semantic related. The act of provoking doesn't deny one to help either. The problem is that you provoke either when you help and when you don't help indistinctly. I appreciate the help as much as I condemn your fodder posts. That said, I installed the Win7 image I had since a few weeks ago and now it worked, it read correctly the paths. The only different thing that changed is new system and latest VBox version, the latter being IMO the main reason for this now to work on VM. After following a link of submix8c I entered audit mode, checked and everything was fine, specially read the setupact.log inside the UnattendGC folder, (it is possible I could find the reason for this other issue there), and I could read: 2014-01-22 10:04:03, Info [Shell Unattend] FolderLocations: Moved 'C:\Users' to 'D:\Profiles\Usuarios'2014-01-22 10:04:03, Info [Shell Unattend] FolderLocations: 'ProfilesDirectory' set to 'D:\Profiles\Usuarios'2014-01-22 10:04:03, Info [Shell Unattend] FolderLocations: 'Default' set to 'D:\Profiles\Usuarios\Default'2014-01-22 10:04:03, Info [Shell Unattend] FolderLocations: 'ProfileImagePath' set to 'D:\Profiles\Usuarios\Administrator'2014-01-22 10:04:09, Info [Shell Unattend] FolderLocations: Moved 'C:\ProgramData' to 'D:\Profiles\ProgramData'2014-01-22 10:04:09, Info [Shell Unattend] FolderLocations: 'ProgramData' set to 'D:\Profiles\ProgramData'I made an install again without edit mode, and it worked again, so I'm now going to install Win7 for real. Thank you.

I was busy finishing a project, so I left the research on halt until this day. First things first. First, bphlpt, do not consider my crossed posts with jaclaz as ontopic matter, or posts to consider to judge a person by. This guy just goes around provoking people playing with what he might (or not) actually know, as in this case, just throwing himself into a discussion with no real valuable input. Second, I didn't exhaust anyone, I said I would come here after I did some research, I did that. Came back with a solution for WindowsXP, let you guys know about it, and expected some, "ahaaa! that's analog to this other file/method in 7", because I know 0 about 7. Now jaclaz and everybody come here saying that 7 is a totally different thing/beast, which is a bit of "stating the obvious" and a bit of "a fallback" for justifing not to look for a solution. I proved submix8c wrong by finding a solution for WinXP, what makes you think he knows about 7 not being capable when I proved it did was with XP? But the good thing about him, unlike jaclaz, is that he is trying to help out. And that's what I'm gonna do now, now that nobody knows anything about my find, I'm going to search on his links, and put my hands on the job.

Tiny beast point 1 is. Only writing one line on winnt.sif, are you playing, trolling or what are you doing here? Do post some meat and no random non-sense. submix8c, I come later after I do some further research. Thanks for help.

It's funny how on your first post, 2 weeks ago, it was like: When I actually had to only edit the winnt.sif file. The problem now, and if you read my OP correctly, is that the XML answer file is not working, despite pointing the profile paths correctly. So here is where similarities end. They might be both the most "primitive" ways to answer steps for an unattended install, and yet they differ on how the profile path is passed to the system. unattend.xml surely has more in common to last_session.inf than anything else. I really wonder if there is any more manual (but native, not actually changing paths) than this xml file (which I repeat, is not working). edit: I might just be bumping into a dead end as is suggested in this thread (the guy wants unsucessfully to change the dir names), in which case I could try the subst program suggested by bphlpt, this is indeed doable, I'm thinking what might be the least painful way.

OK, I tried first with WinXP as a starting point, and it was easy. Just pointing the path inside winnt.sif. For reference: [GuiUnattended] ProfilesDir="D:\Profiles\Documents and Settings (XP)" This actually works. I'm trying to find something similar to winnt.sif but for 7 however I only get references to the deploying tools, which when I got my hands onto them were nothing more than some tools to create an answer file like unattended.xml. This is similar to the XP unttended last_session.inf which was not working, so I wonder if there's anything more primitive than this unattended.xml file.

That's the answer I was fearing. My question is more towards disabling unnecessary writing processes from the perspective of overall system optimization. Thinking on a global scope. I think that what is above is pretty much the minimum necessary so it's ok, unless someone wants to add more details.

I got WMI through wmimgmt.msc->properties->registry disabled. So what it is monitored here is something else. I never missed the option so I'm not too worried about that. Probably this is the most a system can be stressed before compromising serious aspects.

Thank you, I was searching and found that I shouldn't disable WMI (wmiprov.log), I may disable WIA (wiaservc.log and wiadebug.log) if I'm not to use scanners or other image importing devices (?). What I'm left is with the wbem, config and CatRoot2 folders I wonder if there's some way to disable any of their logs, and/or they are not necessary. edit: I never said that what I posted were processes, semantics again lol, either way these are the processes if they tell you something: svchost.exe services.exe lsass.exe explorer.exe

Yes, I use a SSD, and I know many will say, it doesn't harm, you shouldn't worry, but my intention is to go beyond (thinking optimization), for example I disabled the helpsvc service because it was causing unnecessary writes, I realised I didn't need it for anything so that's what I did. Using procmon I monitored my system and grabbed some other processes which I don't know if are necessary or can be avoided in some way, I copied one entry for each file: C:\WINDOWS\wiaservc.logC:\WINDOWS\wiadebug.logC:\WINDOWS\system32\wbem\Repository\FS\OBJECTS.MAPC:\WINDOWS\system32\wbem\Repository\FS\OBJECTS.DATAC:\WINDOWS\system32\wbem\Repository\FS\MAPPING2.MAPC:\WINDOWS\system32\wbem\Repository\FS\MAPPING.VERC:\WINDOWS\system32\wbem\Repository\FS\INDEX.BTRC:\WINDOWS\system32\wbem\Logs\wmiprov.logC:\WINDOWS\system32\config\system.LOGC:\WINDOWS\system32\config\systemC:\WINDOWS\system32\config\SysEvent.EvtC:\WINDOWS\system32\config\software.LOGC:\WINDOWS\system32\config\softwareC:\WINDOWS\system32\config\SECURITY.LOGC:\WINDOWS\system32\config\SECURITYC:\WINDOWS\system32\config\AppEvent.EvtC:\WINDOWS\system32\configC:\WINDOWS\system32\CatRoot2\edb.logC:\WINDOWS\system32\CatRoot2\edb.chkC:\WINDOWS\system32\CatRoot2\{127D0A1D-4EF2-11D1-8608-00C04FC295EE}\catdbC:\WINDOWS\system32C:\WINDOWS\system.ini

I'm "buying time", I don't want to do this lightly. I want a few things to get done (personal projects) before this in case I fail and have not access to PC anymore, yes, I'm always so pesimistic, but it's good for prevention. Probably next week I get my hands on it. Sorry I didn't reply, I didn't realise your edit. I'm first going to try to get to the core file where this path is written in stone and edit it, I don't remember which (probably jaclaz knows better), TXTSETUP.SIF, or whatever it is, I will do the research next week, switch back to my old computer and test that on VM. If it keeps changing path to root I try stub and if not your try. I really don't want to reinstall the OS because I also need to pay attention as I'm building a Dual Boot at the same time. For me the pain is these 2 weeks, then I will just need to read a custom made fool-proof readme so I don't need to remember anything (I don't trust forums lasting forever). And Win7 being my future XP as it seems, I really don't care to invest now what I will use in so many years forward.

jaclaz: I think you are losing the point, on the long term having 3 or 4 less folders on your work drive to look for makes a difference. If you think folder (or general) organization never brings nothing to the table I have to strongly disagree with you, because organization is the base for smooth and correct work. Now if you think it's only an "aesthetic" matter, we surely are talking 2 different things here. bphlpt: thanks for input, precisely because it's my own system I want to be careful to do things correct, not only for this install but also for the years to come. Guess that if you didn't have any problem with that method then I shouldn't worry too much, but I'm going to research both, because the hard way might be a little bit too hard so I will have yours as a fallback. You run the script at the (unavoidable) account creation screen right? entering audit mode with ctrl+shift+f3? The script seems to be down on that page. The hard way is to do by hand what the unattended is trying to do, but bypassing all the screens and going straight to the point, just do the **** thing manually. I guess steps are around, so I am not going to bother asking here about that. If that fails I will try to use subst. Thanks a lot.

I only wondered how it is possible that nobody since WindowsXP tried to do what I explained here. And if I had to ask, it was this place foremost, although I also asked in wincert. I don't know of any better place for people who might have tried this. I can go testing different unattended procedures (moving mountains) just to find that it might work (I fear not) or plainly not, and then come here at point 0 and ask again, why this? is there a workaround? So much to lose that it really justifies the opening of this thread. Hopefully you now get my point, forum threads are precisely for that, to don't reinvent the wheel.