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Aston is "Setup.exe" which is 62Kb and "Setup.r" (the RAR archive of files) and I cant make any sense of WinInstall 2003. Don't you have to begin with an MSI installer to start with?! Aston Shell is not an MSI installer, its a tiny setup.exe which attaches to a main archive. Its a setup with the full screen blue background etc, no silent switches exist for it. I can just get the files from the archive and dump them in but then, NONE of the reg settings would be in place then! a big no no! BUT - isn't there a way to take a totally clean system, or just a snapshot of the registry, then start an app to monitor what one single program changes (Aston Shell) and spits out the changes made by that program? Am I dreaming here or did I see such a program, somewhere....

This might help someone, somewhere.... http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=73023&hl=

Did anyone ever fix the error: [Window title] MAPI Repair Tool [Error] LoadLibrary: GetLastError = 126 I know in the remove list by FR, mapistub.dll is removed and I have not tried putting that back in yet, just wondered if it is this, it seems like it but I don't want to add something if there is no need to PS: All the (gone) files in this list I have not removed, so sfmapi.dll is not removed. Its got to be that mapistub.dll Still got to take the Luna Theme out, a few more services, then again I will try still removing the mapi dll. When installs are this quick who needs to rush!

It uses 800Mb of RAM so, no f***ing way am I using it, case closed as far as I am concerned. I'll stick with my nLite'd XP thanks, it runs on 41.5Mb of RAM with all the functionality I need You gotta ask why one needs 800Mb and one can run on 41.5mb. I bet M$ pwns IBM, betchya then wouldn't the whole fiasco make FAR MORE sense? Would to me. Think of how a doctor is not interested in CURING you, because then how does he make a living from being a doctor if he removes the source of his income? My guess is, Willy G has shares in IBM etc, maybe so may that there is a "conflict of interest". Answer? Don't use Vista, people are only just upgrading from Windows 2000 to Windows XP in corporate environments, take a hint!

This works for me (from a CD) where SILENT is the folder containing all the installs... CLS @echo off if exist d:\SILENT set cdrom=d: if exist e:\SILENT set cdrom=e: if exist f:\SILENT set cdrom=f: if exist g:\SILENT set cdrom=g: if exist h:\SILENT set cdrom=h: if exist i:\SILENT set cdrom=i: if exist j:\SILENT set cdrom=j: if exist k:\SILENT set cdrom=k: if exist l:\SILENT set cdrom=l: if exist m:\SILENT set cdrom=m: if exist n:\SILENT set cdrom=n: if exist o:\SILENT set cdrom=o: if exist p:\SILENT set cdrom=p: if exist q:\SILENT set cdrom=q: if exist r:\SILENT set cdrom=r: if exist s:\SILENT set cdrom=s: if exist t:\SILENT set cdrom=t: if exist u:\SILENT set cdrom=u: if exist v:\SILENT set cdrom=v: if exist w:\SILENT set cdrom=w: if exist x:\SILENT set cdrom=x: if exist y:\SILENT set cdrom=y: if exist z:\SILENT set cdrom=z: ECHO. ECHO Installing Office 2003 Professional ECHO Please wait... start /wait %CDROM%\SILENT\Office2003\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb- That runs at the end of WINNT.SIF along with all the other installs, the usual MSFN way... [GuiRunOnce] %systemdrive%\install\start.cmd No need to copy that Office to your hard disk, just use the above code (but ONLY put that C to Z drive section in ONCE at the top!) So if your Office was bunched with a load of other programs then it would only appear as: ECHO. ECHO Installing Office 2003 Professional ECHO Please wait... start /wait %CDROM%\SILENT\Office2003\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb- Office 2003 is 600Mb or something... this can be done with most silent installs, not Daemon Tools but apart from that, pretty much all software can install from the CD or DVD this way, with no copying to your hard drive required saves a good 20 minutes sometimes.

Its called Microsoft Corporation.img but I don't know if cdimage.exe supports IMG files the same way it does BIN files, you can only try. You cant just burn files and expect it to boot if you don't make the ISO bootable, forget any programs with a GUI - just do what I posted with cdimage.exe. Have you even tried that? If you can't get a boot.bin file from anywhere, use Microsoft Corporation.img and RENAME IT as boot.img - then use this code, but don't blame me if it won't work - you should use a bin file... ...on second thoughts, setupldr.bin is the XP boot file I am sure, I dunno, I hate it when this stuff goes wrong so I stick to my method and don't swot up too much on this now. start cdimage.exe -lLABEL -t04/23/2006,19:21:00 -h -j1 -m -o -b\XPCD\boot.img \XPCD C:\XPCD_IMAGE.iso

Get CDIMAGE.EXE from somewhere. Put it in system32. Get boot.bin from somewhere (sorry but I have no clue where my boot.bin even came from) Put the boot.bin file into XPCD Assuming your XPCD folder is on your C:\ drive, put this text into a .cmd file... start cdimage.exe -lLABEL -t04/23/2006,19:21:00 -h -j1 -m -o -b\XPCD\boot.bin \XPCD C:\XPCD_IMAGE.iso Run that .cmd file on the root of your C:\ drive so it is with the XPCD folder. LABEL is the ISO volume label, -t is the timestamp (date+time) -b makes it use the boot.bin file, last is your ISO name, here called XPCD_IMAGE.iso. You can output the ISO to any drive by changing the C:\XPCD_IMAGE.iso part at the end, to any drive letter E.G. H:\XPCD_IMAGE.iso This is good to maek it bootable, but still, I dunno a way to make an ISO with cdimage NOT bootable! Haha, so its good that we met then I guess. B)

Thanks for this man, goes to show, there is ALWAYS an answer somewhere if you look!

I just wanna know - how could you put a blank entry in the config.js file so it will push all the programs after it along one? This is hard to explain without a screenshot but I mean, I have a "Category" called "Office" and it has ONE program underneath it on the menu. I even ADDED a program before it just to push it along and it didnt work, still it looks bad with one category at the bottom and one program under it. I want to push the category AND the program along, so thats 2 blank entries I need then. I tried to do this already but I got the tick box, so I guess the question is, how do you remove the tickbox as well meking it blank (but hopefully it can take up some space and push the programs along to make it look a lot neater) Hmmmmmmm, the order they install, I am really not too sure if this would even work or put the gap in the right place. Since ppl here must know this WPI inside out I had to ask! All it really is, is the HTML equivelent of <BR> or <P>

Has anyone come up with a way to remove files after install? Or have tickboxes with description in nLite so that REM script is built in? Thats how people get 200Mb footprints! But in nLite, these files are not represented - I know, there are hundreds of files, its a silly idea.

Can anyone translate this... REG ADD %KEY%\048 /VE /D "Alcatel Speed Touch USB Modem" /f REG ADD %KEY%\048 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\Software\Speedtouch\Speedtouch /s" /f REG ADD %KEY%\048 /V 2 /D "%SYSTEMDRIVE%\Speedtouch\Setup.exe /S -f1\"%SYSTEMDRIVE%\Speedtouch\setup.iss\" -f2\"%systemdrive%\Alcatel.log\"" /f Into the normal commands? Should it be.... ECHO. ECHO Installing Alcatel Speed Touch USB Modem ECHO Please wait... start /wait %CDROM%\$OEM$\$1\drivers\ALCATEL\Speedtouch.exe /s start %SYSTEMDRIVE%\Speedtouch\Setup.exe /S -f1\"%SYSTEMDRIVE%\Speedtouch\setup.iss\"-f2\"%systemdrive%\Alcatel.log\" With the last 2 lines on one line, assuming I have these files in these directories! ?

Wow I never knew Windows alone could make silent installers like this This is way more details than I needed! Especially the reg tweaks too, thanks

Easy question?! WPI has checkboxes. What would have to be altered to change the checkboxes into images, and link a path to an exe from the image, therefore making a one screen GUI to run any programs you want from it, please, I wanna avoid C#. WPI is ALMOST what I want to do!! But the checkboxes need to be (custom) icons and these buttons link to the exe. Can be done so spybot, ad-aware, lots of things can be done with it!

WPI is a life saver and easy to use, there is one thing I would love to be able to do... replace the checkboxes with images of the actual program icon - like a GUI (WPI is a GUI already but with checkboxes!) and assign your path to the image, this is not to install programs, but would be an interface to run certain things straight from clicking the image, like Ad-Aware, Spybot, whatever will run without install, or from CD, you could have a 1024 x 768 screen with it all laid out nice! How cool would that be! Such hacking of WPI sounds difficult but if it were a GUI builder, wow, then you would have a free tool that rivals Visual Studio! and its only a variant of WPI really. Just the same, with Java code

You can put any standalone apps in a folder called APPS and any shortcuts inside folders named for that app and put THOSE fiolders all into a folder called SC Then the below script can be run, just put APPS and SC folders in the same folder as the script. This way you have no scripting to do! Just make sure your shortcut (for start menu) goes into its own folder like Adobe, Cyberlink, Acme, or whatever and THAT goes into the SC folder, then APPS has a folder, say "Aida32" and in there is the EXE the shortcut relates to, its a bit of a pain because you have to make the shortcut initially by having the app in your own program files to begin with, but that shortcut, once created, can be placed into the distribution folder. Script... XCOPY APPS "%PROGRAMFILES%" /i /s /e /r /v /k /f /c /h /y XCOPY SC "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs" /i /s /e /r /v /k /f /c /h /y Two simple lines of code! This is a foolproof method for AFTER Windows has installed in case, like you said, some files in $Progs and $Docs do not copy over **** Microsoft. Here are a lot of progs that are standalone... Aida32 CPU-Z CWS Shredder Disk Speed DLL Viewer eMule HijackThis Media Player Classic uTorrent Regmon (any sysinternals progs you care to add in fact!) RAM Tester Space Monger TCP View VirtualDub All of which do not touch your registry! Just copy over to use!!

I always assume it is impossible to run any FAT32 OS on NTFS but is it really impossible? Would be nice to see my NTFS drives using 98 or Me.

I can't! I have about 5 on the go at once and anyway, imagine the one posted by gdogg in the first post but with every RAS .dll and.exe left out (out of the ini file, IN windows) Rather than sift through all those files, it would be easier to just find out what Dial-Up Networking depends on to run, the DLL files, EXE files and services... those 3 things. I have asked this a lot now and are probably gona ask M$ themselves soon enough, been Googling for 3 days and nothing to explain what DUN depends on... and we call ourselves modern?! Jeeeez! I want really what the first ini posted here by gdogg does, but with LAN and DUN to get onto the net... Doesnt matter what else it comprises of, I have a running OS now but with no connectivity, it is useless to me. I am not clued up enough to know if this INI from gdogg does let you access the net, I mean, my modem is really bad, just so bad, the most buggy device I ever have known of! But I know it is DUN missing in windows and not the modem! Finding out whats safe to delete takes ages and ages... all credit to gdogg for abusing Windows in this way

Anyone know which service(s), DLL files and EXE files are required to make "Dial-Up Networking" function? I have stripped too much out but this is the only thing to fix.

This sounds really hard to do! What about: find the EXE that runs the new user account applet/wizard/window and make a CMD file to run that and then delete the CMD file - can a CMD file delete itself?! I guess so :S The CMD file (on what sounds like a "semi-unattended" setup) would be here: $OEM$\$Docs\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup Then to delete itself after install... DEL "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\STAR~1\Programs\Startup\newuser.cmd" Although the fact that the system reboots after installing windows means to me, how can you get it so you turn the PC on and there is the new user account screen?! What about some kinda bootable CD?

In the nLite "Remove Components" section, under "Multimedia" make sure to keep "MIDI Audio Support". This is +2.93Mb BTW. I know what, why don't I ask this same question yet again... Which DLL and EXE files are required for Dial-Up Networking?

You superstar you! But now I need to find out which DLL and EXE files not to take out to keep that in! I dont remember seeing Internet Authentification, is this a Service? If it is a service then heh, I can run XP leaving only five services in and my modem works perfectly, in fact I usually only get 60kbps and with stripped version I can get 270kbps. Explain that! I know I ain't gonna explain it to my ISP thats for sure! Example - downloaded the 12Mb "WMP10" in under 12 seconds! HOW? That is excellent but, impossible, unless ISP's rely on Windows files to, how can I say this, restrict users who have paid for a certain service and give other users 2Mbit or 4Mbit lines... roughly working it, it does work out about right, 12Mb in under 12 seconds is approaching 4Mbit. So it is as if my modem can handle 4Mb, there is nothing to restrict this apart from Windows files that are now banished, so it just goes as fast as it can! Getting insane speeds, just insane, not on things like the ED2K network or the BitTorrent networks, but direct http (and I guess FTP if that isn't stripped out) are silly fast, just SILLY FAST compared to what my download speeds usually are - about 6 to 8 times slower. But if IAS is a part of what nLite strips out... it cannot be the thing stopping my modem working because it would always have been stripped out I know for sure is fine to strip everything out with nLite except "modem support" because I have tried that and my modem works fine... It is just these EXE and DLL files afterwards, I am deleting one or two files too many I think. What I must ask now is - hehe, did I really have to include all those RAS files as well then? I reckon I dont have to keep all those RAS files, but I don't know, it was not the modem that was the problem, because like I said, green tray icon, green lights on modem, so then it has to be supported?! But as you know it just wont dial-up... if this don't work then I really am giving up! Like when I tried learning C, urgh, what a nighmare that was!

Sorry to bump so soon but look... MODEMUI.DL_ This is in my build anyway, so can be ignored. There was only one other file - the file I was gonna try last but thats me ADSLDP.DL_ This is strictly to get dialup working! Since this is the functionality version then... this RAS support only adds about 500Kb, bad I know but not being able to dial up scares me, all I have ever done is use dial up to connect the last 5 years! Just not when I remove so may cab files hehe! Testing this now...

I am also getting the same problem as post #11 (by Slimzky) I can rip every single thing outta XP with nLite and my (Alcatel) modem works (ADSL). Only when I remove all the DLL's and EXE's it does not work. After Windows installs I put in the "Alcatel Speedtouch" driver and update. Everything looks fine, green tray icon, green lights on the modem, expectantly I click the Dial-Up connection to type username and get... "Could not find or create Alcatel Speedtouch Connection" It is a "Dial-up" connection. It was mentioned this is really old now but if support is removed for this then - no Dial Up?! So, I left in these files... rasauto.dll rasauto.exe raschap.dll rasdial.exe rasmans.dll rasmontr.dll rasphone.exe rasppp.dll rasrad.dll rastapi.dll rastls.dll and changed these Services from 4 (disable) to 3 (startup)... RasAuto,3 RasMan,3 Then I made another ISO with these 8 DLL files, 3 EXE files and two services all there and still get that same inane error about not finding or creating! Aaaaaagh! When you are screwing Windows "every which way but loose" (sorry just a Clint joke) then you encounter these problems but it is knowing how to fix it. So far, I am only going to include a file from post #11 that I never even considered... I will include just modemui.dll and build ANother ISO, shesh its a good job these are small! Then if that fails to allow Dial-Up I will include another "obvious, sort of" file - adsldp.dll This is driving me crazy and I feel like I am spamming asking this in too many places on MSFN now! I say never start a topic, search first, thats how I found this thread, but this weird modem of mine... then, it is dial-up, same as post #11 but there is no mention of which modem. So far I don't think there has ever been a problem worth fixing that has not been fixed!

Got one down to 97.6Mb as the ISO and it is excellent! One single problem, although I left modem support in I can't get my "RAS" modem to work. It is Alcatel, I can install modem drivers, system tray icon is ok (green) and light on modem are ok (green) and I even left all these files beginning with RAS in when stripping... ####### rasauto.dll rasauto.exe raschap.dll rasdial.exe rasmans.dll rasmontr.dll rasphone.exe rasppp.dll rasrad.dll rastapi.dll rastls.dll ####### Still, the "RAS capable device" does not work Exact error message is "Could not find or create Alcatel Speedtouch connection" when you click to dial-up. No reason why anyone should investigate this for me and I am only asking if this problem is common or I have no chance of really knowing WTF makes this modem supported. I know for certain it is the DLL removal that is doing it because nLite alone is totally safe! Huh, as long as I leave in "Modem support" and yes take the drivers out, thats fine, its nothing to do with drivers, just some, or lots of DLL files missing for that one particular thing! Its things like this that probably drove that geezer who owned Apple to lose his sanity... either that or Billy spiked his drink(s).

No, you're not allowed, because Micro$oft said so! All their software should be free I think, or we just stop fixing it for them for free, or stop using it but, aaah, I remember now, we can't because they stole all the code they needed 20 years ago. Can't really express my opinion on M$ here, it would lead to instant ban, heh, another thing to keep us all in line I guess? Indeed, just shut up and get your wallet out