Camarade_Tux

I thought we were in May. Oups, got work to do now.

Ghost on Orbit: Litestep (Ghost theme, I translated into French) + OrbitDock on an nLited and XPized Windows XP Pro. PS: I didn't like Obsidian theme : not easy enough to customize, but this Ghost theme is 100% made for me : all entries, evars, menus...

I tried to install .Net 2 at T-12: it is not possible. This is not nLite's fault.

All these "icons pack" use reshacker and directives files. You need to find which files have to be updated, expand them, patch them, cab them. I managed to do it with Bricopacks, but these installers are the worst. The installation method used in this icon pack is slightly different but will make everything easier for me. (with bricopacks, I had to put a file in a specific location and make it read-only..., real pain) PS: integrating bricopacks was in fact a "proof of concept".

LiteStep+RocketDock. RocketDock will stay behind al windowses until you press Ctrl+M. The nicest imho.

I was speaking about the registry size with the "modded" shell32.dll. Fast no size change. At least, I got rid of "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CD Burning" and such things. So, modifying dlls that can be registered does not look as promising as I thought. :/ edit: Maybe something to do with NTFS compression ? I don't think so, NTFS compression is to be transparent and could not be stored in the registry.

That's strange : it seems XPize'd shell32.dll results in the smallest memory footprint, modded Xpize'd shell32.dll comes in second and vanilla one has the biggets memory usage. As for the registry size : they seem to be the sames. :/ But how could a xpize'd shell32.dll have lower memory usage than an MS one ?? :/

It is kept if you want it to be kept.

mencoder /me is already out.

Just to let you know it is possible. Not the easiest thing but possible. I'll maybe try this week-end. You will probably loose some things though.

Thanks for your addon. I noticed the CAB file was smaller than the 7z file it contained. How do you 7zip it ? Normal compression ? I got a computer with 1GB RAM so I can compress it with Ultra profile if you want. It saves 200KB. And btw if someone wants to reduce the size of the file : I guess you can remove some of the adm files in \Windows\inf. They are localizations.

Afaik you can't prevent x64 from using more memory. It is not because of windows, it is because of 64 bits. Just think that every variable has an address and that it has to be stored somewhere. On 32 bits machine, this address is 32-bit long. On 64-bit machines it is 64-bit long. I hope I did not wrote something wrong. If you want to check this, make windows use PAE. This should have the SAME effect on memory usage than running x64. See http://www.sysinternals.com/information/bootini.html

Thanks for your answers. One day I read in a newspaper Media Player Classic would use too much memory. Since it is by default packed with UPX I thought it would be a good test. I just opened it, and used ProcessExplorer to see how it looked. Left is no UPX, right is UPX. It uses much more memory. Moreover it needs 30% more time to start (tested many times to be sure cache would not impact on the results). It still starts in a few hundreds of milliseconds but it shows UPX slows down things (which is easy to understand btw but I wouldn't have thought it would impact that much).

[quote name='Jeremy' post='509328' date='May 21 2006, 02:06 AM']Probably because you're the only one using it? hehe, just kidding man. Relative of eDonkey? [/quote] Now, 2% of the ed2k-network are mldonkeys. Ok, not 2%, rather 1%, or in fact 0.7%. But it's so nice : all networks in one, light, can be remote controller, cross-platform. I think I'll make an AveDesk Docklet for it and it won't be hard. And last, it came before eMule.

WolfX2, I love your wall.

Btw, I'll probably test my "modded" shell32.dll (removed cursors, reg keys, some animations) and see how it impacts performance, memory usage and registry size. Should I also check if it makes windows buggy ? And, I just checked something else : DESC_CDStagingFolder = "Dossier de travail du Bureau pour l'écriture de CD" With these editings, I hope I will reduce amount of bytes read on startup, let windows place more files into cache (or the same number with reduced mem usage). And I guess windows loads the whole registry before unloading some parts. Moreover, some of the keys I pointed out are used by explorer.exe and thus are maybe kept in memory. PS: nlite also modifies hives.

Hi, Albuquerque I'd like to compress my BartPE with UPX. Have you had any problem with UPXed files ? Thanks.

And I managed to write something wrong.

Hi, paste this in a .reg file. Then import it. I think it will solve your problem. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\open] "BrowserFlags"=dword:00000010 "ExplorerFlags"=dword:00000012 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\open\command] @=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\ 00,5c,00,45,00,78,00,70,00,6c,00,6f,00,72,00,65,00,72,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,\ 65,00,20,00,2f,00,69,00,64,00,6c,00,69,00,73,00,74,00,2c,00,25,00,49,00,2c,\ 00,25,00,4c,00,00,00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\open\ddeexec] @="[ViewFolder(\"%l\", %I, %S)]" "NoActivateHandler"="" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\open\ddeexec\application] @="Folders" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\open\ddeexec\ifexec] @="[]" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\open\ddeexec\topic] @="AppProperties" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Folder\shell\open\command] @=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\ 00,5c,00,45,00,78,00,70,00,6c,00,6f,00,72,00,65,00,72,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,\ 65,00,20,00,2f,00,69,00,64,00,6c,00,69,00,73,00,74,00,2c,00,25,00,49,00,2c,\ 00,25,00,4c,00,00,00

I found 2. No, in fact, I only found 12. Or more : The one in the bottom-left corner is maybe upside-down and you'll probably better see the one in the top-left corner on a "clean" image. edit: I also found a bunny. /me should maybe slip.

And has anything been changed since last test release ? Btw, I think a new "test release" post should be used, the current one is 40-pages long.

Add another drive (Y:) to your VM and mount VMWare's windows.iso in it, then add a script that checks if "Y:\VMware Tools.msi" exists and if so, install it. No space lost on your isos, no time lost ever....

I said I would post more details: I never understood why I had some CDBurning things in my registry after nlite. See this screenshot: Also, inside reshacker, search for: [RegOpenWithStuff] HKCR,".tar","PerceivedType",,"compressed" HKCR,".TGZ","PerceivedType",,"compressed" HKCR,".GZ","PerceivedType",,"compressed" HKCR,".Z","PerceivedType",,"compressed" HKCR,".zip","PerceivedType",,"compressed" HKCR,".wmz","PerceivedType",,"compressed" HKCR,".wsz","PerceivedType",,"compressed" What is the use of having these files perceived as compressed files when Windows has nothing to read .tgz, .z, .z files ? Also, if you install a file archiver you don't need this either. Now if you search for: [RegAdvancedOptions] you will find many tweaks, for example: HKLM,"%ADV_FOLDER%\HideFileExt","Type",,"checkbox" HKLM,"%ADV_FOLDER%\HideFileExt","Text",,%DESC_HideFileExt% HKLM,"%ADV_FOLDER%\HideFileExt","HKeyRoot",%REGDW%,0x80000001 HKLM,"%ADV_FOLDER%\HideFileExt","RegPath",,"%PATH_EXPLORER%\Advanced" HKLM,"%ADV_FOLDER%\HideFileExt","ValueName",,"HideFileExt" HKLM,"%ADV_FOLDER%\HideFileExt","CheckedValue",%REGDW%,0x00000001 HKLM,"%ADV_FOLDER%\HideFileExt","UncheckedValue",%REGDW%,0x00000000 HKLM,"%ADV_FOLDER%\HideFileExt","DefaultValue",%REGDW%,0x00000001 HKLM,"%ADV_FOLDER%\HideFileExt","HelpID",,"%SHELL_HLP%#51101" By the way, notice how many lines are needed for this! (500B only for this) And last, at the end of this, you can find more than 300 different CLSIDs. Maybe that nlite's forum will be more appropriate.

Those drivers don't work on my Comuputer (ACER).

I edited shell32.dll with ResHacker and I found something really interesting. It seems the dll can be registered (you know, regsvr32.exe thing) and when it is registered, it adds a lot of things to the registry. It should be possible to edit the section in ResHacker. (will post more details tomorrow)