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I would say LG but its not in your list. Pioneer 106 I had a while ago went west on me and stopped reading or writing discs. Maybe I just had a lemon or something but my LG drive has lasted probably the longest of any drive I have ever had. Hang on a minute, WTF is a "SATA DVD-Writer Driver" when its at home? Are you guys talking about DVD writers or did I miss a meeting somewhere? Whats the point "burning" data to a SATA drive?! Just copy it there, sheesh.

None of those are integrated. I know, I was just saying, you missed a few... but those can't BE integrated with nLite, it will tell you its not a conventional hotfix, because it doesn't use /Q /O /Z switches. You have to manually (silently) install those afterwards. I never had this problem and I include about 115 hotfixes.

I don't think a hotfix would cause this. Were you installing programs before you tried to install Alcohol 120%? Try deleting the contents of your %TEMP% folder... Windows Key + R > type: %TEMP% and delete everything in that folder. Also, kill any instances of msiexec.exe that are running already in Task Manager... and try the install again. Well actually, kill msiexec.exe before trying to delete the contents of %TEMP%. Thats not all hotfixes what about KB890830 (Malicious Software Removal Tool) and KB917344, KB913433 and the MSXML 4.0 and 6.0 hotfixes? They won't integrate with nLite, you have to do a /quiet silent install on first boot.

No one replied to you in more than 18 months? WTF?! I am trying to set this theme myself with tweaks and its not working. Maybe try this: I will post back my results, I am not using the DefaultStartPanelOff tweak you're using. EDIT: You don't need any entries in WINNT.SIF. Just use this reg tweak: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Themes] "InstallTheme"="%ResourceDir%\\themes\\Windows Classic.theme"

You could just use CCleaner... http://www.ccleaner.com/ v1.37.456 - [1st Feb 2007] - Improved Vista compatibility. Don't forget to untick Firefox and Opera (and IE if you use that, giggle) otherwise you'll have to log back into all the forums you might be a member of again.

Because I was answering a question about Windows Vista. Me hating the bloated POS doesn't mean people don't need help with it. Its not BBS its an Invision Power Board, the same type as MSFN. No, I am not the maintainer, but I know plenty of people here have copied Bold_Fortune's 4 years of hard work, and given him no credit whatsoever in return. I think he deserves more credit than he gets, so I link to his forum. Why, there's nothing on this MSFN forum, or indeed on the entire internet for that matter, that comes remotely close to the level of detail on Bold_Fortune's site. If there was I would probably be linking to it and not Bold_Fortune's site.

Sorry. Certain DLL files are gonna be hooked into svchost.exe so yeah, I am wondering the same thing about those "Vista Transformation" packs. Look at the software that sometimes says "windows must reboot to continue uninstalling and delete files that are in use". For example, Windowblinds does that. Have you tried the "inuse.exe" command line app? From M$'s own page: File-In-Use Replace Utility (inuse.exe): InUse is a command-line tool that performs on-the-fly replacement of files that the operating system currently uses. To download this tool, click the following link: http://download.microsoft.com/download/win...EN-US/inuse.exe Although since you're using Windows 2000, that small program is in the "Resource Kit Tools" How to use it: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/228930

CD file systems... we all know UDF is the king! It allows 255 characters. I don't think CDIMAGE.EXE can do UDF though.

You can always use a live "PE" disc, I don't know if you can make one out of Windows 2000 but if you have an XP CD then you can make a PE disc, which is a live Windows environment you can boot from off a CD, then you can deal with your system whilst it is not even booted up, you can just copy the files into system32 that way, it cannot possibly stop you doing this because the Windows 2000 OS is not even running! http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

Vista is crap thats why. It probably has security boxes for the security boxes for the security boxes. I say just delete the contents of the temp folder and ignore the POS.

Honestly, some of the answers on here beggar belief at times. If a guy asks "How can I put Fast User Switching on Server 2003" why do people ALWAYS have to answer the same sh1t every time, like "Duh, why would you want to do that". The guy wasn't trying to provoke a debate on whether he "should or shouldn't" be doing "this or that"... he obviously WANTS Fast User Switching on Server 2003 otherwise he wouldn't be f**king asking in the first place! Sorry, it just bores me senseless when all I ever see is these SAME OLD REPLIES every time re: Server 2003. What if the guy posting actually bought Server 2003 for gaming to use it as a workstation? Why the hell does MSFN have an actual guide telling you how to convert Server 2003 to a workstation if this is how people asking straight forward questions are going to be treated? Treated like a three year old who shouldn't be trying to put Fast User Switching on Server 2003. Its no wonder the guy never came back! Nothing annoys me more than seeing know-it-alls who have ZERO imagination telling people what they want and thinking they know what people want more than the people themselves do. Don't you guys ever stop and think, hmmmm, well hang on a minute, this guy is asking how can he implement Fast User Switching in Server 2003, therefore, maybe the best thing to do is explain how to do that, not just ignorantly tell him he shouldn't be doing it? Honestly, its just the mentality of it. Anyway, Server 2003 kinda does have Fast User Switching, if you press Winkey+L you go to the locked computer screen and you have to type, oh dear, type, the user name in + password and thats it "Slow User Switching"

I want to set Windows up so when it installs, you can just go straight to to Google Video or YouTube in IE7 and it works. Yes, I know there are silent installers for Flash Player, but they take ten minutes to install for some reason. I don't want to "install" it, I just want to put the flash DLL in the right place to make Google Video and YouTube work. This is no problem with Firefox or Opera but when it comes to IE7, its tough, WHERE IS the plugins directory for IE7? It doesn't even have a GD plugins directory! Even if I try to install Flash Player normally it says it cant find my browsers plugin directory. If I go to YouTube, it want to install some "ActiveX" version or something... d4mn man this is ridiculous... Does anyone know where the flash DLL should go for IE7?

Read Post #69 http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...st&p=580692 Search string "46 da 74 03" does work at 2003 SP2 too. If its changing "74 03" to "EB 1A" at hex address 0x2060 it doesn't work on SP2, I tried it.

Why not just use nLite? It worked for me.

No. I will leave those tweaks out and install Windows again, see if it still happens. I am also putting these tweaks in via nLite: Its also disabled there too! In the NLITE.INF those tweaks translate as follows: It seems to be the correct tweak but it is set to not add music to the library. Thats the library though - its the PLAYLIST I am having the problem with... ummmm.....

I am integrating Windows Media Player 11 with nLite. I can click a media file and it plays, but then when I click a 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th file, instead of it playing, it just gets added to the playlist. Under "Tools > Options > Player > Add media files to library when played" that box is unticked, so it shouldn't be behaving like this. Here are some reg tweaks I am using for WMP11, could any of these tweaks be making it not work?! The only tweak I can see that relates to this is the last one "AutoAddMusicToLibrary" and this is set to "0" in other words no, don't "AutoAddMusicToLibrary". Sheesh... I don't get it.

I got it to work - IT IS those driverpacks causing it! I left out the driverpacks and it has installed fine! I might pull apart those driverpacks and try to add them to the OemPnPDriverPath I was using "Method 2" when I put the packs in. Can't believe this is why it wouldn't work. This is from Bashrats BASE program... Thats why its not working "and then update the DevicePath key in the registry" it is not looking for "OemPnPDriversPath" if you use method 2. I know the favoured method is method 2, I don't know why, but if I use method 1 then I can just add ";DRIVER" to the end of the line. D4mn it - I just don't read! I should have read properly what Method 1 and Method 2 are doing!

Maybe it is the spaces in front of the lines, but if it is then the only line being affected is the OemPnPDriversPath, all the other lines are fine. When you integrate bashrat driverpacks, that puts a tab/space in front of the lines it puts in, like this: [GuiRunOnce] [TAB --->] command9="%SystemDrive%\DPsFnshr.exe" I am testing it again right now with no driverpacks.

Me neither... heres what I am using: Server 2003 SP2 with Bashrats Driverpacks - MassStorage, LAN, CPU, Chipset, WLAN. Let me guess, you're not using any Bashrat Driverpacks?! That is the only thing it can possibly be. I am not knocking Bashrat, but I just think its conflicting somehow, I know there is a "Driver Signing Policy" thing built into BTS driverpacks and I know it resets something in the registry, but I dunno if this has anything to do with it. softice you have been a great help already, I never knew I could just cab those files... it should work but it isn't, not for me at least. I got to get some sleep, its 4.30am here I am going to test again tomorrow without integrating any of the Bashrat drivers. I will post back with the results... just give up on it if you want though dude, its just impossible it seems... if it still doesn't work without Bashrats drivers, then I dunno, maybe I could 7-zip those driver files into one of Bashrats driverpacks, I am not sure how it works... or use just "D" as a directory, since this is what the Bashrat drivers unpack to and they do work, lol, one can only assume, its in VMware though so the "hardware" inside that is limited. The only device in VMware (with or without modifying Windows) that is not installed is that pesky Audio device.

Yes. After the install is complete, I have the folder on the C: drive... C:\DRIVER I chose to "re-install driver" on the Multimedia Audio Controller in Device Manager and it will install the drivers smoothly from that "C:\DRIVER" folder! This is so wierd. When I was doing it the other way, dumping all the files in I386, it had to be pointed to I386 twice but this way, it is a smooth install, but still this is only AFTER Windows has installed... its not working doing it with "OemPnPDriversPath" in WINNT.SIF. I tried all these combinations: OemPnPDriversPath="DRIVER" OemPnPDriversPath=DRIVER OemPnPDriversPath="DRIVER\" I also tried it having the actual .SYS files (all uncabbed) in the DRIVER folder, this won't work. I am using bashrats Driverpacks with this but I don't see how that could stop the install working. Its a shame he doesn't make a XP > Server 2003 driverpack because it would only be about 20Mb.

Sorry, double posted.

[quote name='fdv' post='188809' date='Sep 13 2004, 03:40 PM']Open LAYOUT.INF in 2k / xp. Search for "layout" In 2k: layout.inf = 2,,244801,,,,_x,20,0,0 In XP: layout.inf = 100,,408600,,,,_x,20,0,0,,1,20 In either case, that "_x" tells the installation to check the filesize. If there is a mismatch, the install will bomb. If the "_x" is missing, setup will not check. So in other words, layout.inf is checking itself.[/quote] So, before I Ctrl+H and ruin LAYOUT.INF........... Do you only replace [b][color="#0000FF"]_x[/color][/b] or do you also take out the comma that comes after it? Example, do you remove this (in red)..... [b][size=3]layout.inf = 100,,408600,,,,[color="#FF0000"]_x[/color],20,0,0,,1,20[/size][/b] Or this..... [b][size=3]layout.inf = 100,,408600,,,,[color="#FF0000"]_x,[/color]20,0,0,,1,20[/size][/b] Sorry for replying to a topic thats more than 2 years old... I did search in topic titles for LAYOUT.INF and this was the only topic that actually explained any of it. I often wonder what MSFN be like without people like FDV and Nuhi [img]http://members.aol.com/thebodie/laugh.gif[/img]

OK this is really freaking me out now... I tried it the way you said softice, cabbing the driver files, but it didn't install the sound driver in VMware. I put all the driver files and INF files into this folder: I put this line in winnt.sif... I have both these files in that DRIVER folder: es1371mp.sys wdma_ens.inf It just doesn't work: Since I did exactly what you did, what could possibly be going wrong?

Can't you just set Nero to burn a DVD and not a CD? If you set it to ask for a DVD and put a 900Mb CD-R in, what does it say?

Why would installing .NET Framework v1.0 resolve the problem? AFAIK there is no v1.0 of that, and even if there is you shouldn't be using it now, theres only v1.1 SP1, v2.0 and v3.0 of .NET Framework.