GrofLuigi

In addition to johnhc's excellent advice, the most probable culprits (IMHO) are: Ethernet (LAN) Wireless Ethernet (WLAN) RasMan,4 RasAuto,4 (less likely) You can't remove everything and expect it to work. I suggest you try starting RasMan manually and see if it works. Then, if you don't want to redo everything (and are persistent enough), there's always ProcMon. GL

No, nothing will be really installed until you get the Repair option.After having repaired what you want, you can simply reboot and remove the CD. Consider this scenario... I remove, lets say, Alerter service (or something from Hardware support section of nLite, or pretty much anything in nLite). I install this nLited CD and later I perform a Repair installation with full XP CD. Won't I end up with Alerter service installed? (It has been a long time since I last experimented with nLite). GL *Edit: this post is now redundant, after I've seen X's answer.

I thought i have seen forum posts confirming my belief, but now, after lot of searching, I can see no conclusive one. @all: So when is Repair install removed? Also when using Unatended? Do 2. and 3. go together every time? Won't it re-add the services (and other things) nLite had removed? (I also don't do this.) GL

Let's try to clear it up. You get three chances to perform some kind of Repair when booting from the XP CD. In order of appearance: 1. You get prompted to press F2 in order to do ASR (Automatic System Recovery), which people rarely use because you need to prepare floppies(?) when the system is working and there are much better backup solutions. 2. Press R to get Recovery Console. In nLite, you lose it if you chose anything else than Prompt Repair on the Unattended page. But, regardless of your choice, you get it when you press F10 at the prompt for F6 during booting from XP CD. 3. Press R (much later) to get Repair Install of your Windows. In nLite, you lose it if you remove "Manual install and upgrade" <- what to put here? Did I get it right? GL * Edit: clarified (I think? )

Wow! I just saw this. Fortunately, it will be fixed. (I haven't experienced it.) That was the idea of this thread - to report these things and possible fixes. GL * Edit: ProcMon confirmed it read the temp folder, IE's temporary internet files and fonts folder. I'm this close to erasing it. * Edit2: I'm not paranoid, I just won't surrender to stupidity.

Two times today for me. I hope it gets solved soon. But no additional error messages once I'm logged in. GL

Well I do if they are so well hidden. Which don't actually do anything unless you set some up yourself. They contacted some servers (don't remember now which ones) without my knowledge/approval (and I didn't set anything up). GL

Seems very interesting. Before I download it, I picked one of their tests as bullsh*t detector (but still not forgetting it comes from the webkit crew): The SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark Their results can be seen in your second link. My results (with what I have): Firefox 3.5: 1513.6ms +/- 2.5% Safari 4.02: 848.4ms +/- 0.3% Opera 9.64: 5127.8ms +/- 2.2% IE 6.0: 27227.8ms +/- 0.9% Acceptable for me (I don't care about actual results, I wouldn't switch browsers based on this or any other tests, just picked it up out of curiosity). And since it's open source, it's promising regarding this thread's topic. (While I was testing, CoffeeFiend wrote a reply, which I agree with mostly (about QtWeb)). GL

nLite = dog catcher. GL *Edit: added link

Currently my primary browser is Opera 9.XX with some opera servers blocked in hosts file. I would gladly support ads for a valuable program or website, but this sneakiness (of all of them) really pi**e* me off. And I don't want programs to do any services (favors) for me, just as I don't want Windows to. GL

@ geek: I didn't mean Chrome OS (but I don't have anything to say about Chrome browser firsthand anyway). @ CoffeeFiend: I might just set up a packet sniffer (in the distant future, when I have a lot of free time and energy ) cause I'm very interested in what those browsers communicate to "home". I remember when I tried Firefox 2, Kerio 2.15 went bezerk. (I don't have it any more). BTW it was feeds updates - I forgot those. @ herbalist: thank you, I know about them, but I'm a little tired of searching and trying... And to continue my general rant, ever Firefox 2 didn't bring anything new for me - I don't use spellcheck and feeds. I didn't notice much difference about the improvements in rendering engine - I guess I don't go heavy sites often? And obviously I don't have anything against a healthy dose of paranoia. ( Edit: to avoid misunderstanding, this line was about me ). GL

Finally I understand why they call some bloggers "firefox evangelists" - they only praise the new features, not a speck of criticsm there. Or they copy/paste press releases for AdSense rating, whatever. Was that directed at me? No, why would it be? I was just continuing my comment from above (some parts missing) - I searched on how to remove those new features and I found only ways to readd them, nobody even considered that some people would like to live without them. GL

Yeah, blue folders in bookmarks - Recent Bookmarks and Recent Tags (I got rid of another one after lot of searching). Finally I understand why they call some bloggers "firefox evangelists" - they only praise the new features, not a speck of criticsm there. Or they copy/paste press releases for AdSense rating, whatever. I also think the whole Tags idea stands on shaky ground. What is it useful for when folders can be made in bookmarks? And who will use it? I guess near 100 % of users will try it, but 1 % will remain to use it regularly for whatever reason. Meanwhile, it's forced into our throats and it can't be switched off (Tags can, but Recent Tags can't?!?!) OK, maybe it's just a bug (I hope), but, as I said, too many coincidences... Geolocation is "disablable", but it's enabled by default (and how many users will bother to find it?) And it's one of many. GL * Edit: typo

It's still a spark in Larry and Sergey's eyes. GL

I've noticed a trend that's too widespread to be random. While on one hand they include "private browsing" feature, on the other hand they make the defaults VERY VERY intrusive on the user's privacy and CAN NOT BE DISABLED EASILY OR AT ALL. And these are all good-standing companies that are in no need of immediate money as far as I can see to have to resort to spyware. Because that's what this is - DATA MINING (done on the server side where they can easily connect all the dots). It's disguised as 'making life easier for everyday (read stupid) user', but it's obviuos that on this scale, it cannot be true. I guess human greed knows no limits... Let me list some of them: 1. Firefox 3.5 (no extensions) - I went through EVERY about:config entry and I counted AT LEAST 30 locations it connects to Internet regardless of the user's wish or knowledge - geolocation feature, "safe browsing" (who will police the police?), updates, updates to extensions, updates to search engines... See for yourself: filter "http://" entries. And of course, the greatest annoyances: the blue RECENT * everywhere that cannot be deleted. They recreate on next start. Believe me, I've searched high and low and edited userchrome.css till I got blue in the face and nothing. 2. Opera - I haven't tried the 10, but from what I read it sets up Opera's servers as proxies (Turbo feature) - all your traffic goes through them? And 9 is no angel either - it bluescreened my old laptop frequently by UPDATING ITS HISTORY DATABASE WITH EVERY KEYSTROKE IN THE ADDRESS BAR. It also connects to many places by default - checks for updates, updates its compatibility list, 'safe' browsing, checks extended certificates... (again, who will police the police? Comodo and Verisign have sold their souls to the devil in the past). 3. Safari - just installed 4.02 on Windows - Top Sites will not go away (and it fetches them from Internet). Not to mention Apple Software Update and Bonjour... 'nuff said. 4. Chrome - haven't ever installed it, but I hear it generates more traffic to google.com than to whereever you're browsing... 5. IE - haven't used it a long time. Hope others will chime in. I don't have any questions, just needed to get this out of my chest. I guess I'll return to browsing OffByOne or Mosaic. Also, I'm sure I've got some things wrong (or have fallen prey to rumors), but on the other hand I've left out many minor annoyances that would make this post too long (as if it isn't already ). So please don't flame me, maybe you can just state your 'favorite' annoyance with your browser instead? GL

There is. In biosinfo.inf. (and the tweak above is correct -> it disables S1, S2 and S3 states.) GL

In nLite it's under: [Tweaks] Network-Disable Simple File Sharing (You want to have default behavior, so don't tick it). GL

how come disable it ... u said be4 the other fine computers has it enabled cuz it enabled by default on xp and i might be disabled it so it show's the user and pass login .. so i should enable it not disable it ?? to be like other computers wat u think Make other computers like this one. Disable Simple Sharing for improved security. On all computers. On the next connect they will ask you for a password, you will enter it and they will remember it, so they won't ask you again. Or if you're not confortable with that, then OK, enable it on this computer and live like before. Just make sure that they all are the same. My opinion is that "the default" is not always the best choice. GL

Slackware (a long time ago). Puppy USB now. GL

An offshot... Did you enable "reserve dma buffers" in device manager - system devices - somedevice / properties? It must be somewhere in the links you posted, I just wanted to remind you. GL

How? I found it through Google. Replace 00000000 (disabled Simple File Sharing) with 00000001 (enabled Simple File Sharing). But I recommend you to DISABLE it. GL

I think you had "Simple file sharing" activated on previous installs, and not on this one. Keep it, it's more secure this way (redo your other computers). Simple file sharing is activated by default on normal XP installation. GL

Assuming you mean service pack 2 for XP x64, which can be used by nLite, it's here. GL

Hi, welcome to the forum. Read their section again (caveats). Don't use LargeSystemCache if the machine is not a server (serving files). I don't have conclusive opinion about DisablePagingExecutive. I haven't noticed much difference on any machines I've tried. But I suspect your issues (or expectations ) are something completely different: 1. Prefetch 2. PAE Read/investigate on these. I hope someone more knowledgeable than me in these areas will answer. GL

oldefoxx, welcome. See this (most concise I could find) or any of the topics on the forum. GL