Jump to content

Tihiy

Developer
  • Posts

    2,452
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    21
  • Donations

    230.00 USD 
  • Country

    Mauritius

Posts posted by Tihiy

  1. Ok, so i got my fresh 6001.18000.080118-1840_x86fre_Client_en-us-FRMCFRE_EN_DVD.iso and of course the first thing to do was vLiteing!

    First, i've tried Ultimate version with my previous preset (all [+winsxs] removed except Aero, nForce storage controller and... Paint, lol :blushing: )

    There were some some errors:

    sp1ck8.png

    And resulting image weren't booting with 'cannot load volmgrx.sys' error.

    So, to be safe, i've excluded Storage Controllers and Dynamic Volume Manager and went with Home Premium.

    Same 'registry' error, but now everything was installed properly!

    asste2.png

    Oh, and Vista still a slow a**. But we have some hope :rolleyes:

    So be aware. Exclude those components for now.

    ....

    And now some shocking news (to me, at least):

    Windows Update and Remove programs are working even with winsxs removed! (I dunno, maybe they were working for someone after integrating some updates - but not for me... or may be registry error is the culprit??)

    lolhowvp4.png

    The driver for VMWare audio was found and installed.

    Some sizes for comparsion:

    - Windows folder: 1,24GB

    - WinSxs folder: 151MB (8,060 files, 336 folders)

  2. May i suggest more extremal cutting?

    - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\COMPONENTS contains tons of sensitive information which is nice to be removed

    - .NET frameworks

    - More boot.wim cleanup (there are tons of system/install files not needed for clean install)

    - Along minor surgery: CardSpace, Digital Locker, Windows Update / BITS / other services, Windows Anytime Upgrade, Guided help, XWizards?

    - Get rid of TrustedInstaller at all?

  3. There's one way to boot 9x from NTFS: grub loader for DOS. It provides emulated hard disk or floppy drive image to boot from via int 13h, from FAT or NTFS. Then, in theory, some Windows 9x NTFS driver will load itself and disable int 13h hook. And on shutdown, it will write updated registry back into image. However, with existing tools, it is a hard and unreliable solution.

  4. With custom build of this driver and special patched shadow bios i was finally able to get my native 1280x800 resolution on notebook with 915GM!

    And holy crap, it works awesome, i was even able to watch videos. Still no audio, lan or wlan, though, but i'm sure that sometime i'll be able to solve this :rolleyes:

    If author gives me permission, i'll release this version for 915GM, otherwise anyway sometime version with support for non-standard resolutions will come. :sneaky:

    Edit: here it is! I hope someone will find it useful! :hello:

    i915GM.zip

  5. Good news!!! I've managed to patch shell32.dll to support 32 bit icons to some icons that imageres could not do it.

    Not good. Modifying shell32.dll leads to crashes with RP7 (and maybe without RP7 too) very often (Lupus suffers from this crash, for example). That's why imageres.dll was born.

  6. If you're serious with this project, consider this solution:

    DEInf - deintegrate things from 98 SE distro

    It's forgotten now, and i have no source anymore :( But it can help you with some things.

    If i'll ever start creating my custom Windows, i'll use 'imaging' solution - minimal archived windows installation + apps separately. Consider visiting Reinstalling hardware after Windows installation

    Also, i should repeat, this project is already done (integrated/removed componets, updated files, IE6, included apps, etc). Unfortunately, only with Russian version: http://bust.narod.ru/98if.html

  7. Well, they're extemely awesome to my taste!

    If happens to be icon packs support for RP8, it will be the my first choice!

    I think i need you (in addition to marxo) for RP8 design. :rolleyes:

    But if you could release those icons as icon set (for existing program like IconPackager, or standalone as ResPatcher), it would be extremely nice!

  8. Bad Tihiy.
    Bad me! :realmad:

    Sorry, but Radeon 9xxx has been already confirmed to work.

    So far, this driver has been confirmed working on the following chipsets not supported by Windows 9x: Intel 915G,GM,945G,GM,965G

    Other cards (except Radeon 9xxx) are mostly not working :(

    So i'm preparing release which will contain only Intel cards support...

    BUT WAIT! FROM THE AUTHOR OF LEGENDARY NT VESA DRIVER:

    Universal VESA/VBE Video Display Driver (for Windows 9x x86 Architecture)(very alpha for now)

    Check it out!

×
×
  • Create New...