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Thanks for the update and the link!

Thanks for the update! I did not know about these and neither did DriverMax much to my surprise... Did you by any chance also find an official Intel location for the 9.1.0.1012 Inf drivers? (I'll stay on 9.1.0.1007-Rev1 until somebody does)

Really like your effort, but I think I found a bug. Personally I would like to install a set of programs that is in between the micro and the lite installer. Therefore, I was really happy to see that the lite version offers a dialog in which one can use checkboxes to (de)select which components one wants to install. Unfortunately these checkboxes are ignored and all applications available in the lite edition are installed anyway... Can you have a look at that? And solve it? EDIT: not completely true; CoverDesigner and BurnRights were installed although deselected, Express indeed not installed while deselected (so less clear what's wrong)

No Results Found - 38750 Weird. The card is listed (XP 64-bit, Radeon, 4350 series), but gives no result... However, the drivers are generic as far as I know. In fact, if I take a look at the 8.12 inf file (most recent) that I've installed, I see that there is a 4350 entry in there as well. So you might download the 8.12 set and try to install it anyway. Might just work!

I have an Asus 3450 (no typo), but I never use the Asus drivers. I suggest you use the ATI drivers from their website. Run the installer and wait until you get a dialog asking for your confirmation. At that point browse down in C:\ATI where you will find the driver. Copy it to another location and cancel the installation. Clean up C:\ATI if you like. You can now integrate the copied driver with nLite. That's the way I do it... and it works fine for me!

Is that the OS and all application software, or just the OS?

Check your sfc_os.dll on http://virusscan.jotti.org/ and see what other scanners think about it.

This is what an original should look like according to Microsoft: It looks like yours is fake because of the white background behind the 25 character product key. Is it like that on your COA? (of did you fake the image? ...) (the link has some additional info on how to determine whether the COA is real)

Check out RyanVM's Windows XP Post-SP3 Update pack. (in fact: check one of the packs on his forum, they are more recent: I use the AIO one from OnePiece which includes IE7 and WMP11)

Possibly a virus... That's what ClamAV thinks of it (it found Trojan.Agent-26117), but strange enough that's the only scanner from http://virusscan.jotti.org/ that found anything (and I do no trust ClamAV that much). I might be curious, but definitely not curious enough to run the executable activate.exe that's inside the archive. Even without a virus/malware it most probably still is illegal software that should no be on this board.

Check that: - the four OEMBIOS.* files are identical to the ones on your original Dell CD - the key used is identical to the one on your original Dell CD (so NOT the COA on your PC)

You are talking about System Locked Preinstallation (SLP). As far as I know, nLite does NOT break it. It works fine for my SLP'd HP system.

If I choose the unattended install option in nLite, partitioning is actually the only thing that still needs to do by hand... (and that's the way I like it)

8.6.0.1007 available (for specific boards?)

I think that already happens when you change the default theme (that's what I see on my PC).

nLite works good. Very good!

Ah, I think I finally understand...

I had this problem too with some other (add-on) devices in my PC and solved it by removing (only!) the oem*.inf files in c:\windows\inf that were pointing to old(er) drivers for this hardware. I'm not sure this is safe with motherboard drivers though...

If nLite copies the files (before it starts), instead of you, there is still no speed increase to expect...?!

Why don't you store the contents of your original XP disc on the hard disk yourself? Just copy all files to a directory, or create an ISO image of the CD and use a virtual CD drive. Works fine for me!

Yes, should be possible.

There should be a topic floating around about how I tried to enable VSS to run SyncBack. I've learned my lesson: I no longer remove components; I only disable services...

I've done so (with success) very recently for on-board audio and network drivers (and video drivers for a PCI express card). In fact, I even removed all remaining driver leftovers after uninstall by running Driver Cleaner/Sweeper (and removing all related oem*.inf files in WINDOWS/inf) before I re-installed any drivers.

Hm. Is it right to conclude that nLite does not patch a file if a 3rd party application thinks it still needs to path that particular file? Probably not, because I use the option in nLite and can use unsigned themes (which to me appears to be a more valid test).

Freeware tool xpy does some of these things. And Microsoft's own TweakUI as well.