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I know this is always asked, and Nuhi does this for nothing, and its not implemented in vLite yet but... what is the smallest HDD size you can install a super stripped Vista on? I have heard 13Gb? Although the MS requirement is 16Gb. Sorry if its been asked a million times but... I can't even install it in VMware until that requirement allows for a 5Gb partition or something like that size, oh unless a new 250Gb drive or the funds to buy one just drops in my lap of course.

Why don't you just slipstream SP4 and the hotfixes? http://www.vorck.com/2ksp5.html Before Microsoft stop supporting windows 2000 altogether.

It doesn't come with Windows. You need "Setup Manager" (setupmgr.exe) to make a WINNT.SIF Then WINNT.SIF goes in I386. Look on your CD\Support\Tools\Deploy.cab "Setup Manager" (setupmgr.exe) is inside that CAB file.

[quote name='-I-' post='620015' date='Jan 31 2007, 02:25 PM']how about changing %programfiles% - to \appz and make it the default for windows.... mine is [quote] c: [u]\ Profiles[/u] {documents and settings} ... [u]\ TEMP[/u] { all temp folders: also those in windows, and %userprofile%\temp} ... [u]\ Software [/u] { program files } ... [u]\ WINXP[/u] { windows / winnt }[/quote] verry nice (and easy to do sniff the msn forums) .... but than again - this post is getting a verry big bit off-topic.... [/quote] Not really, the topic is [color="#0000FF"]Mozilla Firefox Unattended[/color] and all I am asking is how to have it install with Google.com as the homepage and it already set up. Firefox does not alter the registry when you do the "Import my homepage from Internet Explorer" and I tried it by making an SFX out of the Mozilla Firefox folder in Program Files and that doesn't work either... hard to believe Firefox is open source, its easier to get answers about proprietary software than it is Firefox, plus they don't bother fixing 4 year old bugs.

Thanks man, this works a treat!

I will be honest and say I am not reading 22 pages to find the answer to this question OK... its only a simple question... When you first run Firefox, it asks if you want to import your settings from Internet Explorer. Well, Internet Explorer is ripped out with nLite, but it has Google as the homepage so yes, I want Google as the homepage on Firefox and I don't want it asking things like "You are about to send information" blah blah blah when I am searching Google for the first time - so how can I install it so it does not ask about a homepage or leaving a secure page to a non secure page etc etc? Just f**k it and make an SFX from the Program Files folder?! I know from the past it works standalone but it is a mess of JS files and I don't want to have my IP address if its in there amongst the tons of JS files... all I want to do is run it without it asking me anything, however it seems that Firefox does not change anything in the registry, d4mn you Mozilla why do you have to make it difficult?

What is the "User Mode Driver Framework" (umdf.exe) used for? Is it best to install this, or best to not install it? If it should be installed, should it be before or after the runtimes + player? I was going to do it the same way Boooggy has his above: 1 - umdf.exe (User Mode Driver Framework) 2 - wmfdist11.exe (Windows Media Runtimes) 3 - wmp11.exe (The player itself) Then there is the case of the /nobackup switch - what does this mean? I want to be able to uninstall WMP11 again once its installed, does using /nobackup mean you cannot roll back to the previous version?

I also "lost" the program compatibility tab on exe file properties. I am running Server 2003 SP2 RC full version on my main machine and its there (its there on XP SP2 and Server 2003 SP2 only I think) but on one I am testing in VMware (stripped down Server 2003) in nLite I kept 16-Bit support and removed the "Application Compatibility Patch" and indeed it has removed the tab altogether on the file properties for exe files, so Nuhi its not because of 16-Bit support... it must be the "Application Compatibility Patch"..... I will post back and let you know if keeping that "Application Compatibility Patch" has kept the tab. Its needed because now on Server 2003 SP2 you can install WMP11 WITHOUT all the messing about with INF files - all you do is extract the WMP11 file from M$ and change the compatibility of the 2 files wmfdist11.exe and wmp11.exe and it will work Now I wonder if theres some way of setting it in the registry to run those 2 files in compatibility mode so you don't even have to right click them EDIT: Yes the only reason the "Compatibility" tab is missing is because the "Application Compatibility Patch" is removed, keep that one component and the tab stays there.

I click Start > Run and type INTL.CPL I click the drop down box next to "Customize" and choose "English (United Kingdom)" Then I click the bottom drop down box and choose "United Kingdom" Then I click the "Languages" tab and "Details" button. Then I click "Add" and choose "English (United Kingdom)" and click "OK" When I get back to the "Text services and input languages" box and click "OK" at the bottom I get this message: "Windows could not properly load the English (United Kingdom) keyboard layout" Just wondered what causes this? I did remove Input Method Editor in nLite but in the past I have always removed this and it has never caused this error to happen. I have checked system32 and I do have the file "kbduk.dll" (I never remove any keyboard layouts) I am using nLite v1.3 RC2

I tried this on Server 2003 and it would not work. Can thiese two commands be put into a registry file that is the same thing? [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx77] @="Active Guest Account" "1"="net user guest /active:yes" I tried the command line commands and the registry script way - neither way worked after a reboot. Why does the command go into the sub-key "077" ? After further testing I found this to work: ENABLE: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce] @="Active Guest Account" "1"="net user guest /active:yes" DISABLE: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce] @="Active Guest Account" "1"="net user guest /active:no"

Server 2003 does not have "Simple File Sharing" in Control Panel > Folder Options like it does in XP. Is there any way to get Server 2003 to work the same way as XP does with regards to it being in a workgroup? Someone said "create identical user accounts on the Server 2003 machine with the same name and password as the workstation you want to connect to the Server 2003 machine and they won't have to type any password in to access your shared folders on the Server 2003 machine" Nope - doesn't work. They said "Set up a domain" but I want some way to add Simple File Sharing to Server 2003! Isn't there any tweak or even a 3rd party program that could "install" this functionality into Server 2003? Before anyone says "its not meant for Simple File Sharing" I never said it was OK, I just want to know how to make it work in a workgroup without going round the houses setting some crazy policy thats buried away in the OS (I mean I want to do it unattended so its all working like it does on XP) There are guides on converting Server 2003 to a workstation and yet they never mention the fact that XP has Simple File Sharing and Server 2003 cannot (easily) do this. Most things ive read searching Google, people cannot even share anything, never mind whether or not passwords are involved, they just can't even get to that stage! I want to get to that stage and go past that stage by making it function the same way as XP so its enabled after Windows is installed, so it has to be the registry and a batch file I guess, but how - how can it be done? In XP to enable or disable it in the registry you use the "forceguest" entry under [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa] but I don't think this entry exists in Server 2003 and just creating it doesn't do anything, well why would it since the entire "Simple File Sharing" applet is missing in Server 2003

In I386 the files are all cabbed so where you have say shell32.dll is appears as shell32.dl_ But 7-zip would save space, for example the file shell32.dll as a cab file is 4.31Mb but the dll file as a 7z file is 3.70Mb. This would take a lot of hacking about to do it, you'd have to probably scrap all the references to all the cab files in TXTSETUP.SIF and find some other way of doing the whole setup but still, I bet you could save about 50Mb or something even from a moderately nLite'd OS. EDIT: OK so I took roughly 3,500 cabbed files from I386 and you do indeed save a lot of space if you could have them as 7z files... CAB files = 176.8Mb 7z files = 133.7Mb More than 43Mb saved! The reason I think this might be possible is because Bashrat The Sneaky managed to make a "fake setup" to deal with SATA drivers on an unattended installation. It would take a lot of work to do this 7z thing but I think its possible!

Microsoft suck a$$ and bloat everything out it seems on purpose. If you use Windowblinds on XP/2003 with the Ironjer AeroGlassXP theme from DeviantArt, you can have glass in VMware and that has... 2Mb video? This is the #1 thing for me, theres three requirements to consider though: CPU RAM HDD space On nLite the CPU is left out of it but it never matters since everyone now has at least a 500Mhz or something along those lines, with Vista though its different, the minimum spec for a CPU is 800Mhz or something. This is the #1 thing..... and so on and so on He didn't, it got stuck!

XP can't do "fast user switching" unless it has 64Mb RAM. So I don't have to resize my current 10Gb partition up to 20Gb again, thank god. Doesn't this leave your ISO the same size and only picks off what you set it to? A bit like the Office 2007 thing - I was real disappointed to see the ISO didn't even change size after ripping "OneNote" and "Groove" and all the other crud.

I would normally search for such a tweak but it has the term "Control Panel" and all I keep finding is HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop etc etc. While im here, has anyone else found it a bit tough searching MSFN when it does not allow short words? Even in double quotes it won't allow "display as a menu" because of the terms "as" and "a". Normally in Windows, the "Control Panel" on the Start Menu is a link that opens Control Panel in a Window. I just want to find the registry tweak that displays Control Panel as a menu on the Start Menu (like the picture below) so when you hover over it, the Control Panel expands out...

Just a quick question... Does nLite know which OS you're using (2000, XP, 2003)? What I mean is, I loaded up Server 2003 and indeed, theres a tweak to remove the "Manage your server" shortcut... which does not appear in XP... so I can only guess that nLite changes accordingly depending on what OS you're using? Nuhi deserves some sort of award for nLite! People have argued for years about how with Linux its all in modules but you have to put up with XP as one big lump of an OS... Nuhi has changed all that though, he has done what Microsoft were NEVER going to do for us in a million years and yet Nuhi does this for FREE. Swear to god if I could donate anything I would do... I always feel bad for not donating, but I can't at the moment.

When you first visit Windows Update, the website says: Checking if your computer has the latest version of Windows updating software for use with the website… Then if you don't have "the latest version of Windows updating software" you have to install it. Is there any way to integrate this "software" (whatever "software" it might be) into the setup so when you visit the Windows Update website, it does not have to go through the installation of that software? Does anyone even know what that software is or how it could be integrated? Ideally I just wanna visit the site and press the "Express" or "Custom" button straight away, like you can after you have installed that software on the first visit. From another forum: The website uses ActiveX controls to determine which version of the software your computer is running. If you see an ActiveX warning, make sure the control is digitally signed by Microsoft before installing it or allowing it to run. So then, it is going to be some sort of OCX or AX file? The above statement only says it uses ActiveX to "determine" which version of the software your computer is running. Since there arn't that many of those in system32 I will have a look and try to solve it... ... no - you can remove every OCX and AX file from system32 and the Update website is still working as per normal, hmmm... I think I worked it out according to this page: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/319585/ It says to delete the ActiveX controls look for files named iuctl.dll and Iuengine.dll which I guess are the right files, sheesh, lets see then... ... OK since there is no such file as iuctl.dll on the system, it is down to just "iuengine.dll" and indeed - if you remove that dll, Windows Update goes through the process again of asking you to install the software needed - so all thats needed then is to put this file "iuengine.dll" in $OEM$\$$\system32\ and it will already be updated when you visit Windows Update. The file "iuengine.dll" does not need to be registered and works as is, although I have yet to see if just dumping it in $OEM$\$$\system32 works... .

"How to use InstallRite" but then the topic is actually ASKING how to use InstallRite. I love it. Moderators should change these misleading topic titles IMO.

I just tried this InstallRite, wow, its amazing! Could it be used to finally do painful installs like Kaspersky Antivirus? Only one way to find out... EDIT: With the Webroot Window Washer problem - heres what I did... 1 - Created a silent installer with InstallRite in VMware on XP but... 2 - Before I built this installer I deleted the desktop icon for Window Washer, just because I dont want it there and also I took the startup entry out from the registry with a script, or you can do it manually, the InstallRite program takes ALL of this into account so long as you do these two things before building the app. 3 - I copied the Webroot folder from the start menu, the whole folder "Webroot" and made a 7z file out of that folder called STARTMENU.7z 4 - I copied the file C:\WINDOWS\Unwash6.exe to a folder and also compressed this as a 7z file - I called that WINDOWS.7z 5 - I now have 7za.exe/WINDOWS.7z/STARTMENU.7z and install.bat in a folder along with the Window Washer silent installer which I called WinWash.exe 6 - In the bat file "install.bat" I put the following code: start /wait WinWash.exe 7za.exe x -y -aoa WINDOWS.7z -o"%WINDIR%" 7za.exe x -y -aoa STARTMENU.7z -o"%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs" exit 7 - Then I made a "Ghost Application" from the batch file with "Quick Batch File Compiler" just for the sake of hiding the command window. So then I made an SFX exe with WinRAR from all 4 files so it extracts to the %TEMP% dir and runs that "install.exe" (batch file): 7za.exe ---> So the 7z files below can be unpacked on the command line install.exe ---> This was "install.bat" (see above code) I only made it an exe to hide it. WINDOWS.7z ---> This is the Window Washer uninstaller "Unwash6.exe" from the C:\WINDOWS directory. STARTMENU.7z ---> This is the entire "Webroot" folder from the Start Menu with the shortcuts in it. WinWash.exe ---> This is the InstallRite created installer for Window Washer. I even gave it the Window Washer icon Doing all that with the 7z files solved the problem of installing on other machines of it not having the start menu entries and it saying it cant find the uninstaller for the program. Its a long winded way, but it did work.

Its on v0.81 now and it opens up IEXPLORE.EXE after the "silent" install, thats not silent! It would be easy enough to kill BitComet.exe but it doesn't even run - it just opens IE Time to check out the standalone zip package and tweak to register torrents with BC I guess...

In this post on the first page, this is all it says, there is no attachment. Did they all go west when the board was recently "maintained"? Same with other posts here with attachments, all it says is "kav6.0.0.300en.mst" in plain text like that, no link. Latest build of Kaspersky is 6.0.1.411 and it still has this DIS-functionality! Kaspersky just don't give 2 s**ts about it.

Funny because thats exactly what I thought when trying to do the Vista Unattend.xml without the WAIK = impossible. How stupid it is to even use XML files, why not just use HTML or INI or something thats (almost) in plain English and far more people will understand? Because its Microsoft.... "How annoyed do you want to be today?"

I think it doesn't matter now, because I have sorted it out the MSP way Now I also want to stop it creating that huge MSOCache folder on the systemdrive, that folder is 555Mb Almost as big as the Office installation itself! There doesn't seem to be anywhere in the "Office Customization Tool" that mentions any ability to disable the creation of the MSOCache folder. The fact that its a hidden folder is annoying too... there will be people all over who are thinking WHY have I "lost" half a gig on my C drive?! Microsoft are experts at knowing how to anger people. They make it easy to silently install Office 2007 but then when it comes to really customizing it, EG stopping the creation of a pointless 555Mb folder oooooooh no its different then - they don't tell you! Excuse the French but.... w4nkers! Just total w4nkers! The whole of the Office 2007 setup is there on the CD okay... so then theres no need to dump 555Mb of baloney on your drive! Why do it? Apart from to deliberately annoy people? Someone prove to me that Microsoft are NOT trying to annoy people! Prove it!

This will export the file "Exported.reg" to your C drive, it is the correct registry path for what you want exported... REGEDIT /E C:/Exported.reg "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Printers" Simply put it in a .BAT or .CMD file and run from anywhere. REGEDIT - runs regedit.exe /E - Tells it to "export". C:/Exported.reg - Name of your registry file that will be exported "HKLM/../../../../.." - Registry key to be exported.

So now theres OCT, MSP and XML. Sorry to have to say this but no, this isn't "more simple" than it used to be. To install Office 2003 silently all you had to do was use this switch: SETUP.EXE TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb- Now with Office 2007 we have to mess around with XML files, or is it MSP files, or is it OCT.... next someone will be saying theres another way.