Tihiy

Is DMA on?

Well, i doubt it is so deeply broken specially. If it is implemented according to normal USB specs, it can be ported. Upload it / PM me.

Thanks for releasing sources, they're awesome and hilarious. Now, tell me please about what have you achieved Does it work better with some cards? What about VMWare? Well, are you sure it is bad? Ideally, some Windows structures or undocumented interrupts should be checked.As for scandisk issue, i think that video state/palette save/restore will work, if it does not hang system. I must build a real system with nVidia card to test that.

Uh-oh. I've tested wbl on real system with i915GM, worked fine. But! When i've tried it in VMWare, if was kinda catastrophic. First boot, after fade-in (with no animation) Windows started registry restore and was rebuilding registry for a long time. Second boot, complete hang, no activity, no animation. Third boot, scanreg started -> system halt. I should say that in VMWare video register manipulation often produces unexpected results. (With latest WLL, it is fine, even hang problems solved). Also, i've noticed that you're fade-in before actually starting win.com? Then it should be like that, i think: - Zero palette - Load picture - Save bricks - Erase bricks (empty shaft) - Animate palette in ~500 ms - Start animation from invisible left - Start win.com Otherwise, no profit. And uh... you're already 3KB, are you shrinking memory on loading procedures? And I would like to see source, and help you (or take all good things for my profit ). You can always contact me via PM or ICQ... Edit: oh, simulate dirty bit? That's awesome if you can, since i was unable to

Now that's awesome! I'm glad my code was any help to you! If you are be able to fix scandisk bugs (blue screen without anything) on nVidia cards, that'll be super nice!

I think this belongs to subforum. I advice you to start with UberSkin, try selecting classic theme or uninstall it...

Edit gdi.exe with Resource Workshop/ExeScope and change MS Sans Serif string with Tahoma. Set Tahoma everywhere in Display properties.

Why would one launch WLL under Windows? And oh, reading \msdos.sys (\winboot.ini) is a nice idea.

So you're saying it's hanging when searching for winbootdir variable? That's the first time i've heard of it. It may happen randomly? With specific DOS settings? Weird code

Would USB load ok if you don't use wll? Are you sure it is freezing on usb loading? Does animation stop when it happens? Your logo is marvellous, however, i think progress bar should be changed to look more elegant for this logo. Or logo should be enlarged.

Aha, got it now. In newest version, wll won't load non-256 color bitmaps, just FYI. Looking forward for your logo! When/if you finish it, post full color version too, please!

What do you want to say? It was working some time ago for you, but now is not? Was working with other version? Other DOS settings? Other logo? Does svgacom work? Old wll?

So did you find this? Really lame, since program for this was in thread you originally asked.

WLL updated <--?? Yeah, after 2 years of inactivity, i've updated it. If it will work okay with video cards it can work with, i'll include it into RP8. Otherwise, it dies. - Fixed behavior when \logo.sys is not found or not appropriate; - Improved timer hook to fix problems with reentrability, race conditons and unhooking. WLL.zip

Then you can't say 95%. progrstep=8 progrmax=progrstart+8*13 progrbegin=progrstart-8*3 progrend=progrmax+8*3 = progrstep=8 progrmax=progrstart+progrstep*13 progrbegin=progrstart-progrstep*3 progrend=progrmax+progrstep*3 Do you get it now? I'm absolutely uninterested in this project unless it will fix bugs for me Latest available source i've recovered from marxo is attached. WLLupdated.zip

rename taskmgr.exe?

Just 5 topics lower: http://www.msfn.org/board/Generic-display-...rs-t109548.html

Well, i'm also unable to reproduce it on ME shell. I'm not really sure if i'd seen it on 9x boxes.

Yeah sure... waste 20+ MB of memory just to fix that damned thing lol. I must include it into UberSkin/RP8 then.

Oh hi. See search box above? http://www.msfn.org/board/LameSkin-Themes-t97889.html http://www.msfn.org/board/Blacksnow-Lameskin-t108902.html http://www.msfn.org/board/ThemePack-lamesk...es-t106842.html

OK. Although i got a lot of popups about higher file versions (and not every file i should keep; for example cdvfs.vxd which we discussed to replace).

Hm. You can install UberSkin which provides Lock Taskbar functionality... But does this bugs you so much?

Oh, instead of 1MB of Paint you have 10MB of Paint.NET and 400MB of .NET Frameworks? Perfect reasoning.

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 ) There were some some errors: 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! Oh, and Vista still a slow a**. But we have some hope 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??) 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)

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?