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On MSAgent_DeleteAddon.7z at Entries_MSAgent_DeleteAddon.ini file the line TXTSETUP.INF|52 = msagent||1 should be TXTSETUP.SIF|52 = msagent||1 and TXTSETUP.INF|53 = msagent\chars||1 should be TXTSETUP.SIF|53 = msagent\chars||1 as there is no TXTSETUP.INF. Then there is no need for rd /q /s %SystemRoot%\msagent line on MSAgent.bat Also what is that [Obsolete_Entries] section? As far I know there is no such thing and deleting that whole section produce exactly the same resuts. On Agnt_rem.inf the [NLS.DelReg] section can be deleted as [ExtraFileEdits] from Entries_MSAgent_DeleteAddon.ini can perfectly delete double lines. eg. to delete the following lines from HIVESYS.INF: HKLM,"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\GroupOrderList","SCSI CDROM Class",0x00030001,\ 02,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,02,00,00,00 On [ExtraFileEdits] section type the following in one line: HIVESYS.INF|HKLM,"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\GroupOrderList","SCSI CDROM Class",0x00030001,\<NEXT>02,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,02,00,00,00<NEXT>||1 <NEXT> is used to proceed to the next line, and the last <NEXT> is used to delete the last CRLF, so the resulting file won't have holes/empty liines. Be carefull to include leading/trailing spaces exactly as they are from your source HIVESYS.INF or include successive lines both with spaces and without spaces, if the source file previously exported form nlite. Also wrong is the line which contains Arabic|INTL.INF| which must be Arabic| on Entries_MSAgent_DeleteAddon.ini file and those traling tabs must be deleted from the same "arabic" line.

I have headache to deeply understand how to copy files from inside an cab to program files. My inf create the shortcut correctly and when I add the CopyFiles relevant directives I was asked for .lnk file. I want a simple inf example that can copy files from inside a cab file to the Program Files\myapp1 folder and that I got so far (missing the CopyFiles, DestinationDirs and the rest copy directives) [Version] Signature = $Windows NT$ [DefaultInstall] OptionDesc = "my app1 program" Tip = "whatever" Modes = 0,1,2,3 AddReg = MyCustomApp1Reg ProfileItems = myapp1 [MyCustomApp1Reg] HKCU,"Software\Myapp1\SomeTweakedOption","Option XX",0x10001,2 [myapp1] Name = myapp1 CmdLine = 16422,%Myapp1FolderUnderPrgFiles%,myapp1.exe SubDir = %Myapp1FolderUnderPrgFiles% WorkingDir = 24 InfoTip = just a test for myapp1 [Strings] Myapp1FolderUnderPrgFiles = "myapp1 folder"

OpenVPN installer does not work on XP. When I install openvpn_v2.5.4_20220123_for_XP.7z and assign .ovpn extension to notepad4 (eg notepad.exe) and reboot openvpngui shows the config file inside notepad4 as should be (eg. command->Edit Config work as intended). Anyway, if you have a problem you can open your_config.ovpn directly with notepad4 and then restart openvpn. If you try to edit your_config.ovpn or any other .ini or .inf with official notepad you should have a big headache cause ms_notepad lacks colors, language recognition, etc.

Maybe upload them to mega or to the archive collection or to mdl or even as a torrent initially serving from your local disk. Also a notepad4 replacement addon which overwrite notepad.exe would be a good idea. eg. entries_notepad4.ini for RyanVM Integrator [general] builddate = 2024/8/5 description = Replaces XP's build-in notepad by notepad4 24.07 r5332 (7565d186) language = English title = Notepad4 version = 1.0 flags = IgnoreFileVersions website = https://github.com/zufuliu/notepad4 [dosnet_files] d1,note4dar.ini d1,notepad4.ini [txtsetup_files] note4dar.ini = 100,,,,,,,2,0,0,"Notepad4 DarkTheme.ini" notepad4.ini = 100,,,,,,,2,0,0 notepad4.ini [Notepad4] Notepad4.ini=%systemroot%\system32\notepad4.ini DarkTheme.ini=%SystemRoot%\system32\Notepad4 DarkTheme.ini [Settings] OpenWithDir=%USERPROFILE%\Desktop Favorites=%CSIDL:MYDOCUMENTS% WindowPosX=302 WindowPosY=16 SaveRecentFiles=1 SaveFindReplace=1 FindReplaceUseMonospacedFont=1 HighlightCurrentLine=1 AutoCMinWordLength=3 AutoCFillUpMask=10 AutoInsertMask=384 MarkLongLines=1 ShowBookmarkMargin=1 MarkOccurrences=0 FixTrailingBlanks=1 OpenFolderWithMatepath=0 EscFunction=2 FontQuality=0 FullScreenMode=0 ;https://www.flos-freeware.ch/doc/notepad2-FAQs.html#q46 [Settings2] ;UILanguage= ;SingleFileInstance=1 ;ShellAppUserModelID=Notepad4 Text Editor ;ShellUseSystemMRU=1 ;ReuseWindow=0 ;ReadOnlyMode=0 ;MultiFileArg=0 ;RelativeFileMRU=1 ;PortableMyDocs=1 ;DefaultDirectory= ;FileCheckInterval=1000 ;AutoReloadTimeout=1000 ;NoFadeHidden=0 ;OpacityLevel=75 ;FindReplaceOpacityLevel=75 ;SimpleIndentGuides=0 ;NoHTMLGuess=0 ;NoCGIGuess=0 ;NoAutoDetection=0 ;NoFileVariables=0 filebrowser.exe=... ;DateTimeShort= ;DateTimeLong= ;TimeStamp=\$Date:[^\$]+\$ | $Date: %Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S $ ;GoogleSearchUrl=https://www.google.com/search?q=%s ;BingSearchUrl=https://www.bing.com/search?q=%s ;WikiSearchUrl=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s ;CustomAction1= ;CustomAction2= [Recent Files] [Recent Find] [Recent Replace] [Toolbar Images] ;BitmapDefault=Toolbar.bmp ;BitmapHot=ToolbarHot.bmp ;BitmapDisabled=ToolbarDisabled.bmp [Custom Colors] [Styles] FavoriteSchemes=1 3 27 2 4 54 29 32 33 28 26 25 [Suppressed Messages] rename notepad4.exe to notepad.exe rename "Notepad4 DarkTheme.ini" note4dar.ini cabarc.exe -m LZX:21 N notepad.ex_ notepad.exe cabarc.exe -m LZX:21 N note4dar.in_ note4dar.ini cabarc.exe -m LZX:21 N notepad4.in_ notepad4.ini pack with 7zip the notepad4.in_ note4dar.in_ notepad.ex_ and entries_notepad4.ini as notepad4_replacement_addon.7z and integrate it with ryanvm.

Of course. I simply write a good alternative solution for people having similar major issues with crappy bios. If I post that workaround in another thread alone, no one is going to find it as a solution to USB connected to motherboard with bugged bios and WinSetupFromUSB can't do it this time.

I was find the fastest method possible that work on all computers both old, new and with bugged BIOS. I copy I386 to the root of hard disk's active partition (usually a second hard disk in the active partition that will be any partition, not only the first one.) Delete \ntldr form that partition (the partition which now has the i386 folder). If \ntldr is hidden, read only etc., attrib -R -S -H \ntldr then delete it or use the Total Commander or any other orthodox file manager On TC the Ctrl-T make a new tab, Ctrl-W to close a tab, Tab goes to other panel, Numeric +/- makes a set selection/deselection, * makes the selected one deselected, and the deselected selected, Insert selects/deselects a file or folder, Alt-left arrow to go back in history, Alt-right arrow to go forward in history, hidden file view Configuration->Options->Display, side by side compare by content two files or two folders eg. a backup copy and the working one. Ctrl-PageDown to go inside the ms packed two character and a bottom line extension like .ex_, .iso, .cab, .zip, .7z etc. by iso.wcx and Total7zip.wcx plugins which without TC to see them I have to call expand.exe on two separete folders for one file and for the other which had to work. Ctrl-D for folder bookmarks, separate editor with F4, internal TC file associations and many more copy \i386\setupldr.bin ..\ntldr copy \i386\ntdetect.com .. So on the root I now have setupldr.bin renamed as ntldr and ntdetect.com Inside \i386\txtsetup.sif replace the line [SetupData] as: [SetupData] BootPath = "\I386\" SetupSourceDevice = "\GLOBAL??\C:" and save it. copy \i386\txtsetup.sif .. So now on the root I have the modded txtsetup.sif Connect that hard disk to the computer which the real setup will take place and boot from it. P.S. The second hard disk should have at that partition boot record as NTLDR (the Process PBR button on bootice tool and press Install/Config button if needed). The MBR on that hard disk should be Windows NT 5.x/6.x at which the bootice came handy because I was used a backup taken place earlier of the MBR and any PBRs to revert that disk to the previous state. (\ is the root of the drive)

Unpack wmp11 with 7zip and run wmfdist11.exe The mtppk12.exe (Media Transfer Protocol Porting Kit) and Microsoft MTP Device Driver 1.0.0.0 for XP cab are bs in my case.

Since I came from the XP where there is no roaming folder inside the appdata or LOCALAPPDATA variable (eg. the set console command (cmd) indicates that appdata points to C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data), now it's clear why they had to change that. It must be cache data that had different usage from the user settings. Probably XP wasn't able handle cache/user data that efficient on true roaming profiles which reside on a server. Wonder why they don't see that at the XP era. Anyway the overwhelming majority don't use domain server and roaming profiles.

I don't have roaming profiles but on a new user which belongs to administrators group, the AppData goes to C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming. I think that it should be C:\Users\username\AppData\Local Which system settings affect that? Which one is the correct?

Dear Wunderbar98 where I download the libpng dos binary? I download some files from http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html but I only find some source code for linux etc. and nothing like the dos .com or .exe executables.

winnt32.exe /unattend:[file produced by nlite, which shows partition selection in text mode setup when run from usb] and selecting the directory which will windows will install later etc. options from winnt32 wizard ends-up with the usual folders $WIN_NT$.~LS and $WIN_NT$.~BT. Then I modify the \$WIN_NT$.~BT\winnt.sif to include the [Unattended] and other sections which winnt32 removes from my original winnt.sif. I have Autopartition="0" flag at all times in [data] section. When the computer begin the text mode phase, it continue to install windows in C drive without to show any question or the text partition manager screen with the modify winnt.sif while by the originally made winnt.sif by winnt32.exe it show that screen but that file lacks all other options of my nlited unattend file. Is there a combination of settings which ignores the Autopartition="0" and bypass that screen, or, how to enable disk partition menu to show when text mode setup begins from $WIN_NT$.~LS and $WIN_NT$.~BT temporary hard disk folders?

I didn't say otherwise! It was revert to UP. BIOS reported one processor on any clean XP 2003 etc. installation I was trying, so both Device Manager and Task Manager shows what they think they find. Also I was try to force install the MP HAL (also try all the other options it has that menu) using F5 key on a new XP setup, but again windows shows one core. The problem solved by reloading the BIOS default settings (although the settings are the same). PS. Some years ago I was see the following peculiar problem: The PC doesn't POST and doesn't boot. Believing that the GPU had fail (from my previous experience with PCs I was thinking the capacitor plague issue), I replace it with another GPU and the PC POST/boot as usual. I then replace the new GPU with the old GPU and the PC, again, doesn't POST or boot. I was try many times add/remove memory DIMMs, changing PSU, keyboad etc. The PC by no god wasn't able to POST/boot with the old GPU. Then with the new GPU I reflash the BIOS from pure DOS. Then I install the old GPU again and the PC POST/boot as should be! Maybe that was the time it revert to UP, don't really know. Now I have the new GPU which is faster laying around because the old is fanless (although I had a small fan to keep it cooler in summer times).

If it is exists and it isn't something else, like BIOS rootkit which control the other core individually from the OS by side channel, it must be hidden. There isn't any setting like this anywhere in the BIOS tabs. I can take pictures of the BIOS if you don't believe me.

Problem solved by reload default BIOS settings (F9 in this m/b) and suddenly 2 processors appear in device manager. The previous BIOS settings and the "new" reloaded defaults are the same as I double check them before and after!!! Another mysterious aspect is that before the reload to defaults action, I had try to change the NoExecute memory protection and the Enhanced Halt State to Enable but then the XP stays forever in a blank screen so I have to press the hardware reset button. XP detect the reset and they boot to safe mode just fine, but then they won't boot to normal mode as long as BIOS NoExecute memory protection and Enhanced Halt State settings are enable. When I set them to disable XP boot as always with one processor available. Probably ACPI BIOS got "corrupted" as described by Mark Shuttleworth at wikipedia's ACPI article. Now with ACPI multiprocessor PC in the computer's device manager and the two performance columns in the task manager, wPrime benchmark needs half the time to finish when wPrime advanced settings is set to 2 threads. It even boot whatever the setting I have at NoExecute memory protection and Enhanced Halt State. After 4 days of waste research the conclusion is that the defaults BIOS values are not internally equal as those I had seen on the screen, although they appear the same.

Msconfig shows one CPU and the numproc value isn't in use (none of the options is in use). In fact I never use Msconfig. Occasionally I use autoruns. Also the new test installations I was saying in my first post didn't have any chance to run msconfig. This motherboard BIOS doesn't have the OS compatibility setting which had earlier motherboards. What you mean by reset the BIOS? Load default values or re-flash it again with the same BIOS version? If is that the case, that should mean that a very sophisticate BIOS level firmware is sitting there...