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It would be pretty cool to have entire movies playing in your sig, movies that normally couldn't be turned into a regular gif.

Anyone know how to stream a movie file into a sig? It should be possible. Just tell the player application to output the move to a 30 frame animated gif every second. Whoosh, 100 kb streaming gif movie player. I have no idea what I'm talking about.

That's really cool looking, linux phr3@k! Lots of weird gauges on your desktop. Make any cool music with FruityLoops?

Playing UT2003 with some friends. Also playing Ultimate Survival Paintball, a mod for UT2003. Red Orchestra is also pretty fun, another mod for UT2003. I'd have lots more mods for UT2003 except that Fileplanet.com is always bogged down.

Congrats and good luck

I use Stardock's ObjectDock. It seems to crash the least (compared to YZ'Dock and MobyDock) Here

My Desktop It's chaotic, yet soothing. I like my desktop simple.

I don't know about everybody else, but I use Virtual PC/VMWare to take screenshots of OS installs. Awesome guide b0r3d! One question, what theme are you using in XP from that first screenshot? I like it.

should be C:\SP1\Update\Update.exe -S:C:\XP-SS\ (Note, not into I386 folder)

What pages did you find usefull information? I can't stand reading those crap posts in between. I'd like to thank Gosh for his cut-down XP guide. Gosh rules!

Good point 996, I forgot about that. And anybody with the Optorite DD201 (Here) Can burn even more on a mini-cd. 996, I'd appreciate if you could find that thread. I think I've seen it before but it was at a time when stuff like that didn't interest me. If 210 or 250 megs is our goal, and somebody has already got it down to 100, then I beleive its an obtainable goal.

Try looking at your startup; open up MMC (Start-Run-mmc) Then add the snap-in "Services". Follow a guide to remove services you don't need: http://www.techspot.com/tweaks/winxp_servi...ces/index.shtml

Those two words are the exact thing I'm trying to stay away from. What I need is a FULL version of Windows XP, just like the regular install. Well, not full exactly, there's a few things I can do without like SCSI support. I was just wondering if its do-able. Windows PE Info: Windows XP Embedded Info:

I would be impressed if it was an exact look-alike version of XP, with the full set of options normal XP Pro users have access too. I'm guessing you're talking about using TweakNT, a hacked explorer.exe (a pain) / or ERD commander, and just other utilities using Barts PE Builder 2.0. As far as I know, the 2-cd guide only worked for putting apps on another cd, not parts of the XP install. I didn't read the guide too in-depth, though. I'm confident there's a way to cut down the install cd even more. I mean hey, somebody got Windows 95 in 4.47 megs... Why not XP in 210?

No, a network share setup is not what I'm looking for. Is there any way to edit and remove drivers from the Drivers.cab file? It is 73 megs, and I'm sure not all of them are necessary. Most of the computers I would be dealing with don't have SCSI or tape drives or anything, so those drivers could go. And with WinPE, don't you only have 24 hours to mess around? Or does the -minint command remove that?

I thought of that, however, based on my experience with WinPE and considering I basically need the full OS install, it is not what I'm looking for. (By experience I mean booting up and seeing that there's no explorer.exe) I thought about using an explorer replacement such as Aston shell, but still it does not meet my criteria. Another option I looked into was Windows XP Embedded. The problem with that was, as far as I know, it only works on the target computer you design for. I've heard rumors about "generic drivers" that allow you to run it on anything, but searching produced no results. Then there was the theoretical hybrid XPEmbedded-WinPE approach; Build a stable, streamlined kernel using XP Embedded and somehow combine it with the run-on-all WinPE image. That wasn't my idea, and I haven't heard anything about it past speculation. Long story short: I need a regular XP install divided in half. Pipe dream? Maybe. But hey if somebody knows something its worth asking.

Can a slimmed-down version of Windows XP Pro be put on a 210 megabyte Mini-CDR/CDRW? I know I can get the image to 338 megs using the pinned topic "Unattended Secret: Reducing Size Of Source", but I need to cut out another 120 megs to produce the desired result. Having an slipstreamed cd is not important for this venture: I simply need an XP-install cd I can carry around in my pocket. (I've been getting too many odd looks from people seeing a large circle in my pants ) I have no need for any other sweet options such as multi-os's or silent app installs, although an unattended install would be nice. The cd would only need to be English, if that makes a difference. Any help would be much appreciated, as would any speculation.

I have Longhorn 4029, and I cannot find how to change the version string from "onghornLay omeHay ditionEay" to regular English. It bugs the heck outta me. <info from WinInfo> Where is this mysterious single piece of code? I'd very much like my LH desktop to say "Longhorn Home Edition". Thanks for any help.