buroja

I have a weird anomoly. As far as I know and believe, I'm running Windows XP MCE 2005. The "About Windows" box in Explorer says I'm running "Version 5.1 (Build 2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519 : Service Pack 2)". The Software Version page in Media Center says I'm running WinXP MCE 2005 "Version: 5.1.2715.2773 (xpsp(wmbla).051011-0745) Update Rollup 2)". But, the other day, when I accidentally clicked on "Help and Support" in the Start Menu, beneath the "Help and Support Center" text in the upper-right, it says Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004. ??? This is an OEM copy of XP MCE that I got from Dell, then used nLite to customize and shrink down from one DVD to one CD. I'm not seriously worried at all--clearly I'm running Media Center 2005, but what the hell is "Help and Support" thinking? Is this just a tiny little text bug that slipped through the cracks, or what? The system wasn't upgraded from MCE 2k4, the OS was done as a clean install. Oh, one last thing: even though XP always says Version 2002 in the My Computer properties page, they really ought to change that for MCE systems. The first time I installed and went to that page, I thought I'd gotten seriously screwed by Dell.

Found and removed. Thanks very, very much.

For my first post, I hope I've posed this question to the right sub-forum. I have a Dell OEM disc of Windows XP MCE 2005 that came on a DVD. Naturally, the desktop also came with 1001 pre-installed programs that I wanted nothing to do with. So, the first thing I did was to format & reinstall with the Dell MCE disc (which specifically noted the lack of pre-installed third-party content.) Well, it was ALMOST, but not quite, free of material that I didn't want automatically dumped on my hard drive. ESPN Motion and almost two gigs of example audio/video files were present after a fresh install. I decided to go to work. After doing some homework, reading some posts, and studying some FAQS, I found almost all the answers I needed. With nLite 1.0 RC1 by my side, I sliced and diced my OEM MCE disc, creating a fully unattended install disc that went down from ~3.5GB to 702MB. And, when all was said and done, it was a successful endeavor. The disc boots, Windows installs, and I don't have any unwanted content upon install. So, what am I here asking about? One, tiny, little, annoying issue. After partitioning and formatting the drive, while copying files to the hard-drive, XP wants to copy three OEM files which are not present on my retail copy of XP Pro: !DELL_XP.CAB, !DPCHFEN.CAB, and !PCVENXP.CAB. These three files are 7K, 20K, and 7K respectively. Additionally, they seem to be completely unnecessary and unimportant to the installation and function of Windows. When Windows asked for these files (which I had intentionally removed,) I told it to skip them and everything continued just fine from there. So, ultimately, it's just something that bugs me. I'd like to recreate my stripped-down disc in such a fashion that the Windows installer doesn't look or ask for these three files. Any ideas, folks?