Delprat

hullo, If your using XP, you don't need WinME, APGMe and Win2k for sure ! You must keep those in WinXP... and I don't know for the "AGP" folder. Generally speaking, to know wich folder to keep you can : - look for a *.CAT file, required for WinME, WinXP & Win2k3 (and look into its "details" in properties for the "signature date") - look into the *.INF files, they can show some useful comments Of course, you will have no problem if you keep too much files (except if size does matter...) @+ PS: I'm dealing with the same drivers for now, and I'm not sure that BTS DP contains all the need : I have a "VIAAGP1.SYS VIAAGP1.INF VIAAGP1.CAT" driver installed...

hello, There's nobody because that's impossible I was willing to do the same, but.... it an hardcoded limitation ! So you'll need to hack some "smelling" setup files to do this... It seems like the only "existing" way to do this is using a BartPE disc. OR you can do as me (for now) : copy/move your files to another partition, do a "normal UA install", and then copy/move back your files... bye

What a good idea ! Backing up all your settings and restoring them after a reinstall ! BUT... what is the purpose of the reinstall then ???

- RAM is faster than iRAM, so virtual memory on iRAM is slower than the same amount of RAM - many BIOSes can boot from USB devices (cd, dvd, flash, hard drives), and it's much more powerful than iRAM (datas does not fly to heaven after 12h) - many BIOSes support the "suspend to RAM" functions, wich allows XP to "restore" in less than 5 secs (on my computer, the screen takes longer than that to power on !) I can't see any usage for this thing... @+

Sad to see there's always "european foreigners" knowing better than we who we are (huuu... I'm not sure to speak english).... I don't drink whine For the french people, this referendum is the first consultation since 1992 (Maastricht) : 13 years ago ALL politicians says that voting YES will lead us to a better future. The facts during these 13 years clearly showed the contrary. Nowadays, the same was done : we ear during weeks that voting YES is the good way, that this "constitution" is the best, etc. But it's not easy to see from outside of France... for instance, our president, Chirac, was elected by saying all the bad he could about the EU (yes, there is people here sensible to these words... as in USA there is racist people : not more, not less IMHO), and we see foreign press saying that he is a "pro-european" : don't you see something wrong ? We're not egoists, we're not against baltic states or Turkish people (at least for 75% of french people, if you trust polls) : we simply don't trust people that lies and lies and lies... I voted NO because of things I mainly can't explain in English, but I'm pretty sure that this is NOT the "path to start" : the "constitution" provides more problems than solutions for our workers, our students and our "willing-to-work" people (I don't know the word, sorry) @ SiMoNsAyS : you're wrong when saying : "with this constitution, that weight would be smaller" : this would have been the contrary, at least for France ! And the text of "our" constitution was not the same as spanish's one ! we had got 400 more pages to pronounce on... (about "economical politics") bye

My 2-cents-guess : check your BIOS settings : - disable APM (windows only needs ACPI) - sets the "state after power failure" to OFF and if possible, try with another power supply bye.

Registry Key : HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop Values (REG_SZ) : "Wallpaper" : for backward compatibility (BMP) "OriginalWallpaper" : wallpaper shown (BMP) "ConvertedWallpaper" : real wallpaper (BMP, JPG, GIF, etc...) But you will need to refresh the desktop... I don't know if this can be done by a script bye.

+1 @+

It does not work at all... After erased (full) & re-burnt an new iso, i've got problems with driver.cab (in text-mode) ! It seems like my cd-drive is broken, but only during XPSP2 setup !!! (i reinstalled with my original CD without problems, and my XPSP2 cd is read without pb under SP1. I'll continue my tests with differents drives/burners/cds... I'm now sure you're right when saying that's not a Windows problem... Thank you !

Hi everyone ! After reading the unattended guide on this site, I dedided to give it a try. To begin, I took my XP Home OEM SP1a CD, and slipstreamed SP2 (using no third-party tool). Then I burnt my ISO to check if I can continue with hotfixes, drivers, applications, etc. All worked fine during text-mode setup, but after the first reboot, at the very beginning of the GUI-setup (T-39), I got this strange error : « Invalid character in GDIPLUS.CA_ » (I translated it, my XP is a french one) The setup stops on the error, asking me for a reboot, then shows me the same error, then asks for rebooting, etc. I checked my CD, which was burnt at 10X, and the file GDIPLUS.CA_ was there, binary identical to the one on my original CD (I checked that with WinMerge 2.2.2). Since it's a cabbed-CATfile, I can't get another one from another source (the GDIPlus package from MS does contain only the DLL) Any idea to solve this issue ? Or am I condamned to installing SP1a then SP2, loosing hundred of MB on my "small" 10GB drive ? (I prefer having more MP3's ) Thanks for reading that ! PS: the file is far into the tree : CD:\I386\ASMST\10100\MSFT\GDIPLUS\GDIPLUS.CA_ (not sure if it's the exact path, but you should find it easily with that)

Hello So that's all... I don't like loosing time talking about myself I'll post my first question now