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ok, so i installed my nLited XP last night, took about 40 minutes to get all situated, install everything and connect my music. when i created the .iso i think i left out the option to open new explorer windows in a new task, and explorer.exe has crashed on my a couple times while going through rapidly deleting unused things, and freeing up as much disk space as possible. does anyone know the registry tweak? i've googled it and come empty handed for that specific one, but i've come across a few others. thanks in advanced

well, i'm using the XP i nLited last week right now, theres just one program i have yet to install. its a 38.1GB HDD, i'm using 3 of those gigs, with 10 programs installed. all my music and pictures are on a seperate drive. i actually plan on transferring all this to a different hard drive, and for the computer i have upstairs, i'll be using a 6GB HDD. an nLited XP can be easily used as your main OS, unless you really mess it up, its just smaller and faster than what you had. it installed in 20 minutes, thats less than half the usual time for XP to install. using this now makes me not want to go back to the full thing, because this is lighter, and easier for me, everything i don't use is already gone, i don't have to get rid of it post-installation. basically, the point i'm trying to make is that nLite doesn't make XP any less than what it really is, it just kinda puts it on a user-based diet. for instance, i do lots of audio editing, so i left in certain media programs, whereas someone else installs their own, and saves room by getting rid of the media programs. i removed OOBE because i just skip through it, whereas someone else may have to keep it for their activation. its turning XP into something specific to your needs, not something anyone could install and use.

my sound system does that to my room, its not that big a deal, because if an outlet is unused, levels of electricity pipeline themselves, then when something else turns on theres a dip in power because now another thing is being powered. it'll happen with anything over 250W plugged in if im not mistaken.

i've used slower, but i wouldn't want to run windows XP on it. 2k is fine, same with anything before then, but XP has too many services that kinda overwork 800MHz..at my schools radio station we run windows XP on 866MHz processors, which is bad enough [when the server goes down, its down and out] the best computer down there is a rack mount 2.66GHz P4, with two highspeed fans in the back to make up for the lack of a heatsink. its quite liteally, 1.25 inches tall, everything is onboard from audio to LAN, it sports a CD drive and a floppy drive. too bad its a little loud for the studios. but honestly, its XP, my PC has a 1.1GHz processor and its slow enough with XP, and i really don't use it for much.

in the multitude of options nLite has, theres a tweak that removes the "Press any key to boot from CD" messege. once thats gone, theres no getting it back, just start over. also, i don't use nLite to burn either, i just create the .iso in nLite to test it for what unattended features i can get to work at any given time. the main reason you should use a virtual machine to test it is because of endless reboot cycles, and to check your unattended features. it saves burning a CD and possibly formatting a hard drive that you didn't want to format if the installation doesn't work. things like that do happen. also, when you don't properly back up your system..the list goes on. this machine may be old, and pretty darn slow, but it runs, and although it takes a long time to install on a virtual machine, i've gone through 6 .iso files that helped me. your best bet is to recopy the original CD, and start over. that way, you can retrace your steps and make sure you didn't remove something that would be causing this.

i'd just leave it without windows though. only 800MHz processor...not too great for XP, although anything 2k or older would be fine.

well, i'm not too worried about what i'm doing, its what the school computers have and will share. my school has several open wireless networks for the schools laptops [so open that i've seen the connection name, type, speed, and IP on the laptops] and i'm kinda unsure as to if i should trust the networks to not have little viruses floating around them. last night i switched the firewall on this computer to Comodo because of what i read somewhere else, and i have to say, i like it better. being slightly dyslexic at times gets annoying with little green and red bars moving around at the bottom of the screen, and this doesn't give me those little popups either, which i usually miss because i'm typing at the time it comes up. later today i'm going to install my nLited XP on this, to see how well it runs. my main issue is that my PC doesn't automatically boot from CD, even if i tell it to, so i'll have to use Daemon Tools to do it, but i can handle that. its how i installed Vista when i still felt inclined to use it. i'm pretty eager to see how well it will work with, being around 1/4 the size of the original XP.

it looks really nice, theres probably a way to get windows on it too, if you can order it with a swap partition. with a 2.5" drive you could probably [not easily though] get a larger drive in there. it would take quite a bit of trouble to do it though. im not entirely sure as to if the way im thinking of would work.

the user count is a little low for dual CPU, but if thats what you really want to go with, aim for a Dual Xeon setup, its a little old school, but the L2 cache is higher and is meant for a heavier workload. i have a dual Xeon board that im slowly trying to get into a case [but i haven't the time or money really] its just a work in progress. it'll be for music editing, because the L2 cache on the processors it has is 512 a piece, its an old board, but very reliable. Xeons were meant for servers, so its somewhat a natural choice. a dual core would do the same job with less voltage on the other hand, so its a tossup on really what you're aiming at. Xeon boards usually have room for insane amounts of RAM, i've seen up to 8 DIMM slots on a single board just for RAM on a quad Xeon custom server setup. can't remember where exactly, but it was definately custom. dual core would be cheaper in a sense and easier to troubleshoot, but if you're egging for dual processors, get Xeon.

ok, im pretty sure i'm getting a laptop soon, but i don't have too many specs for it. i do know that i'll be installing an nLited version of Windows XP Pro SP1 on it, automatic updates are gone. basically, since it'll be going wireless in school, i want to know what firewall and what a/v software would be best for it. right now on this PC im using Avast 4 Home Edition, and ZoneAlarm, and its done pretty well for what i do. knowing that my school only uses IE, and Symantec internet security, i think i can safely assume that half the computers are completely effed up with trojans, and i don't want any to share with me, so what would people suggest? there are a few programs that i'll be installing like Adobe Audition and Winamp and all my music, trillian, and firefox, and WMP10 [not 11]. im mainly looking for advice when it comes to antivirus and firewall.

if you disabled the "Press Any Key to Boot From CD" message, then you'll enter an endless reboot cycle. guaranteed. the CD may not have burned properly. have you tried installing it on a virtual PC to test it?

fixing that will be no easy solution. one option would be putting in the windows server install CD, and 'exploring' it, going into the System32 folder, and manually replacing the original files. reason you have trouble with nLite is because you can remove things, and some programs are tied together, removing one thing can remove a part of another, so that may have caused the problem. nLiting a server edition of windows for use as a server computer isn't something i see as safe, because this sort of problem comes up. not to mention Symantec isn't the most reliable of companies either. if manually copying the files doesn't work, the best thing to do is back up the system and install the full version of server. i know it doesn't sound like much of a solution, but then theres a much lower risk of the problem occuring again.

when i noticed you could remove it in nLite, it would only be a matter of time for this run AdAware SE, when its done scanning, it'll come up in the list, where you can check the boxes, click next, and it will delete it. Alexa is only triggered when you install a toolbar on IE, everything you type in the searchbar gets sent out. but its still good to get rid of. i think that this was a good question to ask, all should read this.

ok, so i have my nLited XP SP1 set to be unattended, but it doesn't auto partition the drive. i went and booted once, within 15 minutes, it finished copying files for setup, but when it rebooted in the virtual machine, it started over. i don't exactly think that was supposed to happen. my virtual drive is 16 gigs, 70mb of RAM [don't have much to spare either way]. is there something i did wrong to cause this?

the MS one should work fine, the mobo one is a last resort. that is as long as you're using onboard sound.

i gotcha LLXX, its my dads vacation so i can't do much messing with my other computer right now, he doesn't like the fact that i have it, its better than what he got me and the whole thing was free.

you run into the same problem with the original recovery disks for home edition. dont quote me on this, but i don't think that you can use nLite on multi-CD installs. i could be wrong on this, but to what i know is that you need the entire i386 folder for nLite, and with multi-CD installs the i386 folder is split up.

you might try replacing the sound driver, that could be at fault. check all speaker connections, and also all audio cables inside the computer, for example, the 4 pin cable on some ODDs into a sound card [if you have them]. i think its a driver problem though.

im not the original owner, so i can't give you too much about it. the computer it came in was an eMachine with 48xCD-RW and a DVD drive, AMD2200+ and ATi Radeon 9200. thats about as much as i went into on that computer when i fixed it for my friend. i ended up swapping his WD100GB for a Maxtor 40GB [sounds mean but that maxtor is running well for what it is]. anyway, i have partition magic 8 and swissknife to use on it. earlier when i first booted my machine, it said that there was a SMART error with the drive and that it should be backed up and replaced. when i first put the drive in and booted it didn't give me that error, but in my computer it was only recognized as a drive, it couldn't give me a size for it. low format, how could i do that another way? i've never used Fdisk before, so if possible avoid that one.

not sure what to tell you about that...maybe IE just isn't something to use then? [or even integrate]

thanks, i'll check that out ASAP. i resorted to PM8 for now, the drive already failed to partition 3 times...there was an error on the partition table around 63%, said it would repair on reboot, so i've got it trying again in the hopes im forcing it. i managed to get it to format in FAT32 i think a couple weeks ago, but then my computer didn't recognize it when i rebooted...not sure what to really say about it.

even though i only started using nLite today, i think that its good that you don't have the autopartition. if you slipstream XP, and then want to dual boot with 98 or ME or 2k, having the autopartition would be murder. same with creating dual boot cds, having the autopartition would be a waste, it would just get kicked off. i plan on having two versions of the XP i slipstreamed and compressed today. its 173.66mb, and its going onto a miniCD, because that would just look cool and it would be pocket sized [quite literally] and its for a laptop. one will have the auto partition, one wont..the autopartition XP would be great for a first time install for a computer that will only use XP...the other CD would be for an upgrade, or a repair, or if the autopartition doesn't work. but just picture finishing installing everything on your computer and forgetting you left the CD in if it has autopartition enabled. all the work you just did is now gone with the wind. not to mention any music you put on [i have 17 gigs and i don't want to loose any of it].

the topic name basically sums it all up. i tried using Swissknife on it, but swissknife encounters some failure and has to close whenever i try to select the drive, even if just to look at what it can say. i do have partition magic 8, but its given me problems before, so i avoid using it. would it be worth trying to use PM8? i'm running the P4 rig right now, its got an 80GB master with a 40GB slave and also a 100GB slave, but i can't do anything with the 100, and i want to turn it into an external. any thoughts?

if you took the setup files from a CD to do this, then just take them from the CD again. if you didn't use a CD to do this, then theres no way to get them back.

i hope this isn't a bad time for this question, but i've got two. i may be getting a laptop soon, so im wondering if the installation requires boot disks of any kind, or will it go to the install screen as long as the laptop is configured to boot from CD? only reason im asking is because when i saw this for the first time it interested me because i don't have many high capacity drives, really i have a single 80GB drive, and two 40GB drives. the 100GB drive i have doesn't work. not knowing how big the drive will be in the laptop just makes me wonder if i'll still be able to fit all 17GB of my music on it without too many problems. my second question is that is there someone with a .iso of it that could send it to me via messenger or a place where i could download it because i don't really want to mess up somewhere [as good as i am with computers i can see it happening] and then not have a computer to use. i congratulate gdogg on it, for its very well made, i must admit, and i'd like to give it a try, but don't really want to risk messing it up.