Kramy

Interesting I find that interesting too. Recently I started hacking my system files to put WinXP icons in them. I discovered that lots of icons are old though, so got to fixing them up by merging certain XP ones with others. I'd really love prettier icons, so post a link to your project. I can also help make a few icons too if needed, since I've eliminated most ugly ones from Explorer.exe and Shell32.dll already.

Oh, it's possible. It just means that SWKotOR has p*** poor saving. Each saved game is either 30mb or 50mb(can't remember), but apparently 98% of the data within them never changes. There's no point to save it if it doesn't change, but for some internal design reason they decided too, so 7-Zip does awesome compressing all that junk. Other games yield less awesome results...but 7-Zip is the winner for SWKotOR saves.

I once 7-zipped 1.5gb of SWKotOR saved games into about 10mb.

Woohoo, I was the first voter! Nails on a chalkboard drive me insane. It's not so much the noise as the thought of all those vibrations on their nails, slowly filing them into the ground!

I share that sentiment. I was under the impression MicroWinX was going to support Win2k, while Mindows was an XP/2k3 thing, and XPGE was XPE only. I thought they were all different projects for different OS's, mostly. Well, I still want a link to XPGE and MicroWinX once they're done.

.net2.0 install didn't take that long on my system, but I guess I'm not following the rules. I don't know when you tried it, but it's possible that he updated the silent installer or something. It's also possible that slipstreaming USP5.1 had some positive effect.

I don't have any clue. I just made it so it can grab all the files from their proper subfolders and shove them into the same place, as well as not activating HFDRV if there are no .inf files in those subfolders. That way I could also add an _UNUSED folder for archiving older drivers and stuff. For the drivers I tested it worked fine(display drivers), but I still had to use nLite for the textmode portion. A little off-topic, but could you change this line: START /WAIT SP\i386\update\update.exe -u -n -o -q -s:%~dp0SOURCE\ To this? START /WAIT SP\i386\update\update.exe -u -n -o -q -s:"%~dp0SOURCE\"

Without some modifications. Actually, right now I'm rather stumped on how to get my SATA drivers working at textmode. For now I just keep nLiting it, but once I learn more about how it's done I'll happily incorporate it into HFSLIP. That'll probably be a while though, since nLite makes it so much easier.

RyanVM's installers all work fine(in HFSVCPACK). The problem is on the user's end - they need to have Windows Installer 3.1 in their OS prior to installing .net2.0. It seems currently HFSLIP is the only tool that lets you do this? I know nLite can't. I've tried it 3 times so far(Win2k only), and it works flawlessly every time.

Good, actually. Costco is nice and cheap here. (nice guess )

Hence the reason this paranoid Canadian isn't adding himself. Hey Squeeto, I'm nice and close to you - within driving distance.

The registry edits would probably take hours alone, even if you knew exactly what to do. Getting the proper files in the proper places is also going to be extremely annoying. Your best bet though, if you really want to attempt it, is to download HFSLIP. It's a slightly less featured command-line alternative to nLite, but it's a *must have* for slipstreaming things into windows. nLite integrates most things with silent installers, while HFSLIP slipstreams them into the CD as "fake" actual components. It has IE6 slipstreaming. If you're to have any hope, you'll have to download HFSLIP, open it(it's a .cmd script) and muck around for hours until you figure out how it's all done and what you require(assuming nLite didn't break anything else). Or you could just reinstall. IE core is one of those things that is a b***h to put back. In my messing around I managed to windows not to load all IE required DLLs, and believe me - Maxthon is one slow startin' browser!

Ahh, missed what bbie outputted. Well, either way, the file has to be renamed or the script changed. Good to hear it's fixed in the next release.

That's from the April 1st version(60401). I tried adding in a call to :MAKEISO at the same location, but it failed(likely from missing variables). That's why I said remove, and not change. I thought you'd be happy to know there's a new mkisofs.exe version out. One that apparently has increased performance, no less.

Most of you probably know I've been using nLite until now. Yesterday I started messing with mkisofs.exe to build the ISO, but it kept spitting out error messages. Here's a couple changes... IF "%AHTEST%"=="HFDRV" SET HFDRVSOLO=1 IF "%AHTEST%"=="hfdrv" SET HFDRVSOLO=1 IF "%AHTEST%"=="MAKEISO" CALL :MKISOFS & pause & exit IF "%AHTEST%"=="makeiso" CALL :MKISOFS & pause & exit IF "!HFDRVSOLO!"=="1" CALL :HFDRV & CALL :MKISOFS & pause & exit IF "!DIAGNOSTIC!"=="1" SET CompressionMemory=21 & CALL :FOLDERPREP & CALL :CABEXPAND2 & CALL :HFCLEANUP & CALL :CABCOMPACT & CALL :MKISOFS & RD/Q/S WORK & pause & exit IF NOT "%AHTEST%"=="I HAVE READ THE INSTRUCTIONS" IF NOT "%AHTEST%"=="I have read the instructions" IF NOT "%AHTEST%"=="i have read the instructions" ECHO Read them NOW & Pause & Exit :MKISOFS doesn't exist anymore. Can probably delete that bolded stuff. REM ===================MAKEISO============================================================ :MAKEISO IF EXIST HFTOOLS\BOOT.IMG IF NOT EXIST HFTOOLS\BOOT.BIN REN HFTOOLS\BOOT.IMG BOOT.BIN IF NOT EXIST HFTOOLS\BOOT.BIN IF EXIST HFTOOLS\BBIE.EXE CALL :GETBOOTBIN IF NOT EXIST HFTOOLS\BOOT.BIN GOTO EOF SET SOURCE=SOURCESS IF NOT DEFINED ISONAME SET ISONAME=WINLite.ISO IF NOT DEFINED ISOTITLE SET ISOTITLE=HFSLIPCD IF NOT DEFINED CDIMGSW SET CDIMGSW=-h -j1 -m IF NOT DEFINED MKISSW SET MKISSW=-relaxed-filenames -d -D -N -J -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 TITLE %T1% - Creating ISO Image ECHO. ECHO Creating ISO... IF "%CDIMG%"=="1" HFTOOLS\CDIMAGE.EXE -l"%ISOTITLE%" %CDIMGSW% -bHFTOOLS\BOOT.BIN %SOURCE% "%ISONAME%" IF "%MKISS%"=="1" ( COPY HFTOOLS\BOOT.BIN SOURCESS HFTOOLS\mkisofs.exe %MKISSW% -b BOOT.BIN -o "%ISONAME%" -V "%ISOTITLE%" %SOURCE% DEL/Q/F SOURCESS\BOOT.BIN ) ECHO. ECHO Your ISO is here: %PREP%%ISONAME% ECHO. GOTO EOF REM ====================================================================================== The bold indicates the case sensitivity problem on my system(before some BOOT.BIN references were uppercase, and other boot.bin references were lowercase). Last I checked my computer didn't generate short fs names either though, so it may just be me. Anyway, to make this topic not totally useless...what you need to make your ISO quickly and easily with HFSLIP: 1) Newish HFSLIP version with ISOconf.txt 2) modifyPE.exe in HFTOOLS 3) bbie.exe in HFTOOLS 4) mkisofs.exe in HFTOOLS(I'm using that one and so far my computer is still alive - though it being a new version is probably the cause of the case sensitivity issues) 5) The above :MAKEISO changes(you can open HFSLIP and edit it yourself fine - use Notepad's find feature to locate parts quickly). 6) Your Win2k CD in your CD-Rom, ready to have the boot files extracted near the end of an HFSLIP run. After that, no more need for the CD - just need mkisofs.exe to remain in there, and probably modifype.exe for other things. You can delete bbie.exe so long as you keep BOOT.BIN around. Just a thought, but maybe the site could be updated with a few of those simple steps?

Ooh, nice! You just confirmed IE is making good use of that system memory. I've got two CD drives - one is a DVD/CD burner, and the other is just a CD burner. If I make one of them a slave to the other, about 80% of the time windows won't detect it. On the other hand, if I slave one to a HD, it almost always detects just fine. This is only in an nLited windows though - on a normal install they always detect. Apparently the nLite SCSI driver removal issue(CD drives vanishing) only pertains to certain hardware setups. Makes me think windows is doing something wrong, and somehow those drivers cross/double check it.

Why not get it right off betanews? They seem to mirror all that stuff anyway without requiring authentication. Man...I wonder what kind of download servers they have - their fileforum is huge!

Couple days ago I removed Window 2000's ability to recognize Left and Right mouse clicks through a totally unrelated tweaks program. Ironically, the mouse wheel still worked, but I had to use the keyboard briefly for everything else. All control panel options were set fine, so I'm positive this program caused it. 2000 is so much quicker than XP - even a heavily reduced XP. For 32bit, Windows 2000 is probably the best workstation NT OS. tommyp: I've only had a couple BSODs before. One time I tried to change my FSB from 166(333)mhz to 66mhz, which did it, and another time I unplugged my HD to see what would happen. For Windows XP, I managed to get a BSOD during installation, and later after trying to install AVG Antivirus. XP didn't like it AT ALL, and would no longer boot, so I had to use Win2k to delete AVG. A few days later I discovered I disliked the interface and games ran significantly slower, so I wiped out XP and went back to Win2k.

Can't say I've really seen the Win2k3 shell. I'd use it though, so long as it has Win+R Edit: Oh, and no lame folder resizing like XP's Explorer. Folders should adapt to fit the number of files in them perfectly! I don't want huge whitespace when I have 40 windows open.

If you're keeping explorer.exe for that device install phase, your best bet is to alter that registry entry with a reg file in HFSVPK. I've changed quite a few settings on my system, and aside from the recycle bin sound they all seem to apply properly. If you really want to clean things up after, log all useless junk into a cleaner batch file and stick it on the desktop. Ahh...I'm too crude.

DO IF EXIST %%i:\I386 SET HFSLIP=%%i --> DO IF EXIST %%i:\ IF EXIST %%i:\I386 SET HFSLIP=%%i It shut that error message up right away. I also verified that the IFs actually fire, because my knowledge of batch is pretty skimpy.

Yep. I can say 100mb ISO w/ nLite & All Drivers Integrated. I can also say 250mb windows dir, and 10mb 'Programs And Apps'. I'm going to be looking into alternative reduction methods aswell soon - nLite leaves too much registry junk lying around.

My "Odd" configuration isn't perfected yet. Someone asked me to put together easy instructions on how to get an extremely lite Win2k("easy" as in for people that can follow simple instructions, but have no intent to learn). I modified some things to get HFSLIP to not complain about USP5.1, slipstreamed dx90c, and left IE5. I got a vgx.dll and msvidctl.dll copy error when removing IE but keeping the IE core with nLite. Adding both to keepfiles fixed that, and then I tried integrating IE6(which seemed to work fine). I haven't posted anything on this yet though because some USP features don't seem to want to stick, which somewhat negates the point of being "easier". I was told USP has a pre-hacked explorer.exe that enables full-colour systray icons, but my USP-slipstream does not.

I haven't seen the latest versions, but I noted recently on one computer an error in the same location. HFSLIP checks if a Drive\i386 dir exists, but that creates an insert disk error for me. HFSLIP then pauses, and if I hit "Try Again', tries again. If i hit "Cancel"(or equivalent), it finishes the script properly, and if I hit "Continue" it evaluates every single "if" afterwards as true, creating plenty of errors. Echo Remember to reboot your machine after installing echo from the SOURCESS folder. ECHO. REM Modified Lines: Kramy IF EXIST HFTOOLS\MKISOFS.EXE ( IF NOT EXIST HFTOOLS\BOOT.BIN CALL :GETBOOTBIN IF EXIST HFTOOLS\BOOT.BIN CALL :MKISOFS & pause & exit ) IF EXIST HFTOOLS\CDIMAGE.EXE IF EXIST HFTOOLS\BOOT.IMG CALL :MAKEISO & pause & exit ECHO. REM ====================================================================================== :GETBOOTBIN REM Modified Line: Kramy FOR %%i IN (D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z) DO IF EXIST %%i:\ IF EXIST %%i:\I386 SET HFSLIP=%%i IF EXIST HFTOOLS\BBIE.EXE HFTOOLS\BBIE.EXE %HFSLIP%: & COPY IMAGE1.BIN HFTOOLS\boot.bin & DEL /F /Q IMAGE1.BIN GOTO EOF REM ====================================================================================== Changes made to v60317. Feel free to remove my name.

I get a vgx.dll missing error with an odd HFSLIP + nLite configuration. Adding vgx.dll to the nLite keepfiles section fixed it, so that may be another new thing to add to this list.