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Solved. Finally! As you know from the other posts I had to make an XP install CD from the installation on the C: drive. So I used the MS setup.exe on the C: drive to set up a copy on the indentical size D: partition (1st logical drive). I then booted to this partition and used the MS MUI rollback tool to remove the other languages. I then made a drive image of the D: drive with Image for Windows 1.64 and extracted the files from the image to a folder on the F: partition using TBI View (Two really good software tools from TeraByte Unlimited in Las Vegas) so that I could use nLite to cut it down to size and make an ISO. So I then formatted the D: partition (1st logical drive) and re-installed from the nLite ISO giving me XP Pro SP2 (OEM) without any unnecessary junk and practically no MUI. (Some keyboards did manage to get past this process but got picked out and deleted from the remaining MUI cache using Reg Organiser.) As the SP3 downloaded file turned out to have corrupt .cab files, according to the Avast AV, (Previous post) I downloaded the US SP3 ISO and burned it to CDR. I then re-installed and ran the subinactil.msi tool from MS and proceeded with the SP3 update which went in flawlessly. (Contrary to those who claim that SP2 has to be - fully - updated - before - SP3 will install.) I then added IE8 and all my other software archived on the F:partition, cleaned and optimised the registry, ran chkdsk, defragged the drive, and telephoned MS USA to validate the install. 1 - click later, back up and running. :-) Just had to go online to update the AV, complete the validation, and add all the many security updates. Made a new drive image of the, fully functional, D: drive to archive and then 'restored' it to the C: drive. Re-booted to the C: drive edited the boot.ini file and formatted the ... 1st logical drive ... in the extended partition ... where the new install ... had been prepared..... Login - Logoff works perfectly, as all settings are US English, even with the Belgian (Period) keyboard. (There is a Belgian (Comma) keyboard, but they are quite rare.) I now have - NO - 'Teefer' (for NT) and 'wpsdrvnt' (Windows PS Driver NT) errors in the event viewer as there was no PS/2 keyboard and PS/2 mouse attatched when the initial installation was done and these legacy drivers no longer appear in the hardware device manager. Hooray! So - VERY MANY THANKS - to all of you on the Forum for your help, which has proved to be invaluable. Hope you - ALL - have a great day. Ian. PS Just - two - little things... See above. Now my primary partition shows as Local Drive D: (System with boot files) and the ... 1st logical drive ... shows as Documents C: ... \Ö/ Checking the Event viewer reveals that MS, in its infinite wisdom, chose to re-assign the drive letters so that the 'system' (Big Brother) could keep track of things. Arrrggg !!! I feel like Winston Smith from 1984! Anyway, that is three up, one down, which has to be good and the entire system is much more responsive. 'Apply' is very much quicker, for example. Also the registry is as new and very much smaller. Tonight I will see if it is possible to re-assign the drive letters using Boot-IT NG....

Now I see that it probably depends on the original language setup as this machine was setup in UK English and the 1 keyboard is 00000809 I tried changing all the 1 keys (all six of them) to 00000813 which is the Belgian keyboard and the 2 keys to US English 00000409 Now I can't get in at all and will have to restore from the original drive image. \Ö/ So with an nLite .ISO of this US version of XP Pro I installed on the D: drive choosing US English as the input language and then adding the Belgian keyboard layout. Works fine on the D: drive and has the benefit that the old legacy Teefer for NT PS/2 mouse and keyboard drivers were NOT installed as only USB hardware was connected, so now the errors no longer appear in the Event Log. (Teefer and wpsdrv failed to load.) I think that the plan now is to work up the D: drive make an image and restore it to the C: drive with all the correct settings and none of the legacy drivers. I know that the registry is set so that Ctrl/Alt/Del is not necessary. Sincere thanks to all of you for all of your helpful suggestions. Ian

If I may, this looks more like logical: C: [C_XP_PRO_1] D: [D_XP_PRO_2] E: [E_Documents] F: [F_Videos] and, actually for NO apparent reason , a nice related thingy: http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/trench/11597.html and some variations of the idea (both cool and uncool): http://www.sevenforums.com/customization/17838-show-drive-letter-drive-icon.html http://rubenerd.com/scrabble-drive-icons/ http://www.pauahtun.org/DesktopIcons/DriveLetter.html and (should it be needed) remember that Explorer can use somethig different from actual Label of the drive: http://www.tweaklibrary.com/Display/Files-and-Folders/40/Changing-Drive-Labels-in-Explorer/11102/ I guess that disk management (and the chkdsk) use the Label value and not the Explorer Registry one, so you can have a Label of C_drive, D_drive, etc. BUT an Explorer name XP PRO, Documents, etc. jaclaz Thanks Jaclaz, The TweakLibrary looks good to me. I will post back ASAP. Ian

Can you try pressing CtrlAltDel twice at that point to enter your password and check keyboard is properly configured (typing in 1st box where you can see what you type)? Note that if I remember correctly, from there you should be able to login as Administrator as well. Only in XP Home do you have to get in Safe Mode to log as Administrator. Check the registry keys "Keyboard Layout/Preload/1" for both .Default user and your account. If not the same, that might be your problem. Thanks Ponch, I will check the registry keys out when I get home tonight. Yesterday I tried out a new logon screen (Logon Studios). As soon as I clicked 'Apply' I got a notice to say that the computer was locked - enter your password. Same thing "Password invalid." Re-booted and all is fine. I will let you know about the registry. After what you said I am guessing that the preload is USKBD.DLL = 00000409 Problem being that this keyboard is a Belgian Point KBDBE.DLL = 00000813 As I have an 'm' in my password, it is in a different place on this AZERTY keyboard. Makes it difficult to use in DOS. So I am thinking that you are right.

Yes I do, but the Admin account only shows in Safe Mode.

Looks like that is the possible answer. To re-name them in alphabetical or numerical order. C: [A Local Drive] D: [b Local Drive] E: [Documents] F: or... C: [1 Local Drive] D: [2 Local Drive] E: [3 Documents] F: [4 Video Archive] I'll give your suggestions a try out tonight. Thanks all!

The drive is partitioned [C:][ + EXTENDED + [D:][ E:][ F:] partitions.] C: Local Drive Win XP SP3 PRO 01 D: Local Drive Win XP SP3 PRO 02 currently nLite (used to copy to a bootable USB drive and handy for comparison purposes.) E: Documents/Pictures/Music F: Video Boot.ini is as shown below... [boot loader] timeout=8 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="WIN XP SP3 PRO 01" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /TUTag=NFCXW2 /Kernel=TUKernel.exe multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="WIN XP SP3 PRO 02" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /sos multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="WIN XP SP3 PRO 01 (TuneUp Backup)" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /TUTag=NFCXW2-BAK If I take the TuneUP Utilities entries out it looks a bit better... [boot loader] timeout=8 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="WIN XP SP3 PRO 01" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect / multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="WIN XP SP3 PRO 02" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /sos Is that any help?

Just a little niggle. When I run Windows defrag or TuneUP Utilities defrag the drive partitions appear in the right order, C: D: E: F: But when checkdisk runs at startup the drives are shown as D: E: F: C: (I don't use a bootscreen, using /fastdetect /sos in boot.ini) The same is true if I use Disk Management. Clicking on the drive section just jumbles things up into a different order! Is there any way to get Windows to always put them in the right order.? (Nope!) I am striving for perfection here! ;-) I have given up on this since the 'Distributed Link Tracking Service' changed the primary from C to D and the 1st logical from D to C. jaclaz pointed out that it would be difficult to change back and the MS articles did not help any so I just upped the letters on the other drives. To: [ D: Primary ]{ [ E: 1st Logical ] [ F: 2nd Logical ] [ G: 3rd Logical ] And made the DVD drive H: Just had to change the paths to the folders on the newly lettered drives. Easiest way out, otherwise I would have to delete all the partitions and re-partition the drive. Too bad. Works just fine though and all the other problems have now been resolved. Thanks to all of you and have a nice day. Ian

What's on your screen at the point you have to reboot ? Do you use Welcome Screen or CtrlAltDel ? XP Pro/Home ? Using built-in "Administrator" account ? Hi Ponch, When I logoff no problem. But when I try to logon again it says that my password is invalid so I have to re-boot. Until I find the answer I have removed the logoff button for the time being. This is XP Pro SP3 fully updated with the MUI rolled back and then removed by nLite. I use the standard Welcome screen and have full Administrators account. The built in administrators account does not appear on the Welcome screen, just my personal account. To get to the Administrators account I have to go in via Safe Mode. I know that you can modify the registry to get the Admin account to show as well, but I am told that this is not recommended.

Never having used the - Logoff - before I find that although I can access ALL accounts with no problem, when any account is running and I - Logoff - so that I can safely leave the comuter running, then I cannot simply - Logon - again and have to re-boot. Fast user switching is off, is this a problem maybe? Thanks for all previous advice. PS Tried out the 3D Pinball cheat codes last night. Amazing! E.G. When the game is running in Full Screen. 1. Type: hidden test 2. when the game is playing press R several times to gain promotion. If you don't have 3D Pinball you can download it in the form of a .rar file. The same site has all the cheats for the game. Just Google. Have fun! (Score without cheating to date: 5,125,450)

I just found out that you can download new definitions and install them manually, so I will try that this evening. Windows Defender Offline is a complete stupidity as it wants to format an already formatted USB stick and won't allow you to burn your own image insisting that the MS IMAPI v2.0 is installed. Problem is that - this - particular computer doesn't have a burner.

Why not try the official MS Royale theme? I use TuneUP Utilities 2010 but can not find - any - professional themes. What I do have is the Great Sunset boot screen which is - VERY MUCH - nicer than the MS black corporate offering. (Light Pyramid boot screen is good too.) ( I used to have no bootscreen using - fastdetect /sos - in boot.in and use the older logon system.) As the TUU boot screen is a .tbs file you need TuneUP Utilities to load it. TUU will also load logon/off screens and themes, and is probably the safest way to go as MANY bootscreen.exe files are packaged with viruses, adverstising and links to pathetic porn sites.

So? I am old anyway! I found the answer to a problem I posted FIVE years ago only yesterday! A registry modification for 2000 which nobody knew worked with XP. (NT based...) This is an 11 year old 1.0GHz 512MB RAM 2000 system which has had 98se, ME (ugh!), Vista (ugh!) and XP Pro MUI on it. Beats my original Win 3.1 with a 128MB hard drive...

I have TWO on mine I have to confess - \Ö/ - but they are both identical XP Pro SP3 installations produced using nLite to remove all the unnecessary 'features'. One on C: and one on D: If anything goes wrong on one I just switch to the other and sort it out easily. E.G. Deleting the pagefile.sys is a piece of cake and defragmenting with the standard defrag plus Sysinternals Config produces perfect file structures with no pagefile.sys in the way. ;-)

It is using the - NT AUTHORITY\LocalService - account.

After installing Windows Defender (2006 is the - latest - version!) I find these reports in the Event Log. ************************************************************************************************************* Event Type: Warning Event Source: WinMgmt Event Category: None Event ID: 5603 Date: 20-May-12 Time: 7:04:45 PM User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM Computer: XXX-XXXXXXXXXXX Description: A provider, Rsop Planning Mode Provider, has been registered in the WMI namespace, root\RSOP, but did not specify the HostingModel property. This provider will be run using the LocalSystem account. This account is privileged and the provider may cause a security violation if it does not correctly impersonate user requests. Ensure that provider has been reviewed for security behavior and update the HostingModel property of the provider registration to an account with the least privileges possible for the required functionality. Event Type: Warning Event Source: WinMgmt Event Category: None Event ID: 63 Date: 20-May-12 Time: 7:02:15 PM User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM Computer: XXX-XXXXXXXXXXX Description: A provider, CmdTriggerConsumer, has been registered in the WMI namespace, Root\cimv2, to use the LocalSystem account. This account is privileged and the provider may cause a security violation if it does not correctly impersonate user requests. Event Type: Warning Event Source: WinMgmt Event Category: None Event ID: 63 Date: 20-May-12 Time: 7:02:11 PM User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM Computer: XXX-XXXXXXXXXXX Description: A provider, HiPerfCooker_v1, has been registered in the WMI namespace, Root\WMI, to use the LocalSystem account. This account is privileged and the provider may cause a security violation if it does not correctly impersonate user requests. ******************************************************************************************************************************** Does anyone know what these are about and how to remove them? Could they have occured after installing a game? (Paintball.) Thanks for any useful info

Started over by using setup.exe to install to the, freshly formatted, D: partition (ignoring the warning about the SP3 install being newer.) and have a dual boot for a while. Nice clean install with a perfect registry, just added the I386 folder and the three WIN files, as above. Had to give myself permissions to copy the new install with its System Volume Information to a folder on F: and then ran nLite again and got a 2.2 GB .ISO with no bloatware included. Good as new. Perfect! Thanks again. Ian

Server problem = double post.

Which malware cleaner were you using?

Did you run sfc /scannow or sfc /scanboot ? (followed by sfc /revert)

When you have moved the icons to the correct place you then use layout.dll to save their positions 'Save icon layout. If they move then you simply right-click on the desktop and click 'restore icon layout'. No?

Multi-boot? They never learn. ONE - OS on - ONE - computer.

I disabled and uninstalled the (hidden) MS Mouse and Keyboard PS2 drivers and re-booted. As the hardware manager came on and started to re-install them, for hardware that is no longer there, (!) an MS message came up to say that the (MS) drivers had not passed MS logo testing !!! But then they date back to 2001... Need a new computer really, this 1000 MHz PIII is not really up to running modern software. Thanks to everyone on the forum for their help.

That seems to have worked, thanks. I did not think that it was applicable to XP.

submix8c - nLite ran no problem aftert taking your advice. Thank you! I imaged the drive to the F:\ partition and then stripped the C:\ drive installation down to the bare essentials, cleaned up the registry manually and then imaged the remaining installation. I then opened the image and extracted everything to a folder and ran nLite using this folder leaving the three WIN files on the C:\ drive. Perfect! I have got rid of the MUI, additional languages and keyboards, NT Backup and all the rubbish, themes, screensavers and wall papers. Mess-enger is gone too. Did not see any way or removing MovieMaker though. I left the additional permissions on the C:\ drive System information file as a precaution but have now removed them. I now have the .ISO I needed to do a fresh install with all of my settings. You have been a great help! Good forum!