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Interesting, but I didn't much like how you have to add each section of the file yourself. There is a much easier to use (in my opinion) winnt.sif program that adds everything automatically for you, and has some extra features like creating custom registry tweaks. You can check it out here: http://www.MSFN.org/users/b0r3d/index.shtml Thanks for sharing though

Yeah, that was the problem with Windows NT 4.0 for example. If you weren't there to remove the CD after setup restarts, it would boot from the CD and setup would start all over again.

It already does that in the winnt.sif section. You can choose to use the classic theme and start menu as default, or a third party theme of your choice.

What video card do you have? A lot of older cards and budget versions have very poor RAMDACs, and at higher resolutions the screen becomes jittery and painful to look at, even with the refresh rate cranked up.

Huh? There is no Windows 2000 Home Edition. That's only for XP. Windows 2000 wasn't very good for home use when it was first released, but after the last few service packs it is just as well supported as XP is. There are official drivers for all 3D cards and other hardware, and games work perfectly fine with it. Many new games even state they are win2k compatible right on the box. There is no need to tweak it for home use (the way you must do with server 2003). It does cost quite a bit more than XP Home Edition, and it's not quite as up to date and is certainly not as nice looking as XP, but there's no reason you can't use it as your home desktop OS.

Looking great, one of my new favorite programs. I just wanted to mention that your "Open Command Window Here" tweak does not work though because you left off the quotation marks at the end. It should look like this: [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\cmd] @="Open Command Window Here" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\cmd\command] @="cmd.exe /k \"cd %L\" I have not tried the other tweaks. Only other thing I noticed is there are a few spelling errors throughout the program (regristry, custoimize most notably). Excellent program!

Installing XP over 98 or ME is always a bad idea in my opinion. They are totally different architectures, and the existing programs and drivers from 98 can cause all sorts of problems in XP. I highly recommend formatting your drive and doing a clean install (after backing any files you wish to save of course). You might want to check your CD also, and make sure there are no scratches or fingerprints on it.

I don't think you can change the location after Windows is installed. The only way to change it that I am aware of is during the installation of Windows using an unattended setup file with the following line under the GuiUnattended section: ProfilesDir="Custom Location Here" I highly recommend the winnt.sif creator by b0red; there is a thread about it on the forums here. Once you have created your answer file just put it on a floppy disk and Windows will use it during setup. Good luck

Hope it works, I just happened to remember seeing it on Betanews earlier. Couldn't resist looking that up on Google. I've learned it is from the show Bo Selecta and from what I could gather it basically means "great or excellent". I'll have to add that to my vocabulary. I used it on a friend of mine a while ago, but I just got a really confused look in return.

Actually they have a link to it on this very site, so I assume it is ok. http://www.MSFN.org/win2k3/tweaknt.htm

Would this work? http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail.php3?...3?fid=974112202

Are you sure? I'm almost positive I have used it to create a single extended partition on a second drive once. Just choose "Create DOS partition or Logical DOS Drive" and then "Create Extended DOS Partition". The way that DOS (and Win9x) works is they label primary partitions first, then secondary, then removable disks. As far as I know there is no way to change this, other than having only one primary partition and then making the rest of them extended partitions. If you can't get FDISK to do it for some reason, you might try a third party program like Partition Magic or the one Thanatos mentioned. Windows 9x is still going to skip over any NTFS partitions and label the next FAT32 it finds, so you might want to put all of those at the end of your drive. Even if you do that it's going to change the drive letters on any CD-ROM or removeable disks it finds. The only sure way I can think of would be to have no NTFS partitions, but you wouldn't want to do that I don't think.

This page might be helpful: http://www.storagereview.com/guide2000/ref...partLetter.html

I'm still using a 1.2 GHz Tualatin Pentium III, and all my software runs smooth as silk. So I'm not wasting any money on unnecessary upgrades for a long time. I voted Pentium 4, but like some other's have mentioned it will probably be the successor to that; only time will tell though. All I know is it will be an Intel chipset.

I ordered the evaluation copy of 2003 just to play around with it, and here's what I thought. It does make a very fast and stable workstation, but it's a lot of work to get it set up properly. Meanwhile XP is also very fast and stable once you turn off visual styles and some useless services. Once both operating systems are set up properly I really don't see much difference in speed and stability. One thing that 2003 has going against it right now is driver support. Intellipoint will not install on it, and some of my other hardware was a bit flaky. Sure it makes a great OS for gaming but better than XP? Not really in my opinion. Bottom line to me, it just is not worth the trouble to set up as a workstation, and it's not as well supported as XP for consumer type programs and hardware. Throw in the fact that it costs a LOT of money (for those who still pay for their software these days) and it's a no brainer. Stick with Windows XP.

If you are using the leaked volume license key you cannot use Windows Update; that key is blocked. If this is the case, you are out of luck; I also wouldn't ask any more about that here because I believe this site frowns upon that sort of thing. If you have a legitimate copy it should work fine, unless the update site is having problems. You might have to wait and try again later.

What drivers are you using? Since 3dfx is gone and support stopped a long time ago there aren't even official drivers for Windows XP, let alone Longhorn. You may want to give some of the hacked XP drivers a try but if you want to use Longhorn I would recommend a newer card.

I believe she is talking about the old type of themes used with Microsoft Plus!, like Falling Leaves for example. I don't know any sites offhand, but a Google search for the above theme would probably be a good start.

Here is something I always add to my unattended file. I don't like the location that Microsoft now uses for the profiles directory, "Documents and Settings". I also do not care for how long that name is, it looks a bit cluttered in Explorer. So I use the following line to create it where it was in Windows NT 4.0 and earlier: [GuiUnattended] ProfilesDir="%systemroot%\Profiles" You might want to add that as an option so users can specify where they want to store their profiles directory.

Glad I could help.

Yes, works fine. You can also use the Windows Update Catalog (click Personalize and Show Catalog) to download all of the available patches for 98, 98SE, ME, XP, etc and save them to a CD.

Very cool, thanks.

XP doesn't actually run on DOS, it's just a command prompt that looks like it. But that's not really important here. I believe the command you are looking for is simply Logoff. If you type a /? after it there are a few options you can use as well.

I second that, Regcleaner works really well. I had no idea that it had gone commercial though, but the free version that's already out isn't going to stop working or anything. I guess they deserve a little something for it anyway, so more power to them. Here is the free version by the way: http://www.downseek.com/download/21692.asp

I slipstreamed it the day it was released, and I've had no trouble with it that I'm aware of. I definately recommend it because it fixes a lot more problems than it may possibly cause.