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Really? ****. Sorry. Wonder why that is. Anyway, please close this topic or ignore - didn't realize there weren't that many hotfixes since sp3, so I'm grabbing them and merging myself.

Actually my company does own the corporate keys, used across 10 branches, though only two are on XP at the moment. Thanks for your help.

Hi, I'm having a few teething issues with my nlited XP setup. I'm using the latest version, 1.4.8 and I'm encountering the following problems : 1) During setup, these files cannot be copied, though they are present in the i386 folder : - ieframe.dll.mui - msfeedsbs.dll 2) Overall setup is slow, much slower than SP2, especially during the initial section before detecting drives and during hardware detection - at that point, a simple VGA res XP window with "Please wait" sits there for minutes on end. 3) After installation, there is no cleanup of root - txtsetup.sif, $LDR$ and the base $WINNT-whatever folder is still there. I'm using the Microsoft.Windows.XP.Professional.Corporate.SP3.Integrated.July.2008-CZFXP torrent off thepiratebay(*), which is a continuation of ETH0's integration work. I'm using the same (with minor differences) session.ini for this ISO as I did with SP2.Integrated.July.2007-ETH0. The SP2 setup I've used for a year with no problems - 3 minutes before I reach the desktop. Now, 10 minutes plus errors. What gives? (*) Disclaimer : I own 95, 98, 2000, and XP. Oh, and DOS. Yes, I still use it. Last_Session.ini

I hope you have a boot disk or some other way of accessing DOS. From the DOS command prompt, do the following. CD F:\OS\SetupME (WinME source location. If this is the CD, so be it. Folder must contain source cab files) CD C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND EXTRACT.EXE /a F:BASE4.CAB SHLWAPI.* MOVE SHLWAPI.DLL C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM Done.

Under a normal boot/startup, the 'device manager' you get in 9x will only display entries whose hardware is still connected/present. Under safe mode, every piece of hardware the OS has known about is displayed. For example, if you switch monitors or get a new graphics card, the old device is still there but as a ghost. When copying to a different PC with a different mobo, 9x will do the detection thing from scratch. The system boots using VGA mode for the display. It then detects everything and prompts for drivers. Several reboots will be needed, but it will eventually finish. The only potential problem area I can see is moving from an APM based to an ACPI based system.

What, not a single comment? Hmmm, seems I misjudged this board just a tad.

I use the "Maximus Decim Native USB ver.2.0", filename is nusb20e.exe. Installs extensive support for storage devices (card readers, pendrives, flash drives, etc). Been using it at work on 40ish workstations, had people come in with all sorts of wierd stuff. Worked on most of them. One 5-in-1 card reader caused a crash when I stuck it in a p4p800 mobo, but it worked like a charm on a p4p8x. Go figure. Think I got it from one of the forums here. Try searching for it.

To lock down the station, use Folder Guard (www.winability.com). It'll do that plus more. I use it myself for similar purposes. Haven't had a virus infection on any of my 40ish 9x boxes for 2 years now, plus its great fun watching kids going through the paces of installing a multi-cd game only to find out that none of the EXE or DLL files can be accessed, LOL. =)

9x isn't as unfriendly regarding multiple installations as NT/XP. Install, clean-up, arrange, tweak, Winzip it. Extract/copy contents to a fresh hard drive, then slam it in. It will re-detect all the hardware, no problem. Been doing this for a few years now, no probs. If you're using different hardware and you're keen on minimizing registry fluff, purge the devices via safe mode before copying. If you don't, it won't cause a problem. *edit* Every comp at work has a clone of my home 9x installation running either as main or dual-boot emergency.

My dream MS OS is thus : - Bring back the console please, not that kludge wannabe they have for XP. Bring me DOS 8. Call it NTDOS if you want or NTCL, but give me the same functionality as the original DOS plus more. Buy out JPSoft and assimilate 4NT, best option. - XP, without all the fluff. Relegate Media Player, IE, blah blah blah to optional components you can toggle at install time. - A defragger with the customizing features of Speed Disk 9x. I want the cleanliness of 95 but with the core of NT/XP. Do that, and I will ditch linux and 9x like a 4 week old turd. Hell, as the company IT head, I'll force the entire group plus franchises to license it and potentially start a chain reaction... our company has alot of influence here in indonesia, ya see, and I maintain the home networks of a few members of parliament.

This is my first post here, so bear with me. I've been using a pretty complicated boot script for years now. Its been a long time since I last changed it dramatically (aside from commenting it for this post) so, IMO, its pretty stable. Basically, it uses CONFIG.SYS's menu capabilities to branch off sections in AUTOEXEC.BAT. Its currently optimized for both LAN and single PC usage. Off the top of my head : - Boot into linux - Boot directly into Partition Magic (or whatever) - Run specific driver combos for old games and boot into them - Load SoftICE as required - Provide a testbed for new/uncertain drivers - Allow a SysAdmin to do what he/she does best : be lazy In its current incarnation, it requires either 4DOS or NDOS to take advantage of IFF and various colouring routines. I have no idea if it works with other COMMAND.COM alternatives. I say 'requires' though it does allow for only COMMAND.COM being present, but in that case functionality is pretty spare. I'm pretty sure I could make a COMMAND.COM only version if there is sufficient demand, though. Beyond that, its pretty hard to describe. I suggest you guys try it out. I'm kinda eager to see what you make of it. If you're a n00b at batch files, don't go anywhere near this. ... Ack. Just realized there's no attachments here. Grab it from this page, which I whipped up in a hurry : DOSBoot @ Stone-D's Homepage The main page, as you may suspect, is at Stone-D's Homepage Its a tad slow at the moment, so bear with it. A) its got a bad upstream and B) I'm hijacking the company line to grab a bunch of stuff via p2p. Besides, they're all small files, and DOSBoot10.zip is all you need to download : 3-29-2005 1:12 4,775 AUTOEXEC.zip 3-29-2005 1:12 1,091 CONFIG.zip 3-29-2005 1:12 6,275 DOSBoot10.zip 3-29-2005 1:12 453 MSDOS.zip