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I read the sticky's and did a search and came upon the thread which explains how to slipstream catalyst drivers and control center but is it still viable? http://www.msfn.org/board/How-To-ATI-Catalyst-t33028.html The guide is 4 years old.. The drivers have changed as has nlite.. I want to format in a few days and make a new nlite disc with the latest catalyst drivers and control center slipped in.. I'm just making sure that guide is still the right way to do it or if anyone who slips these things into their installs has a new or better or simpler way to do it.. Thanks, Adam

I've been using nLite for quite some time now to slim down my XP installs. I love it and have seen a definate improvement in the responsiveness and speed of the OS in general... My question is, why does this happen? I have a pretty beefy system and even with a dual-core processor and lots of ram (2gig) I still can tell the difference between an OS I tweak and one I do not... It seems odd to me why it would improve performance to such a degree when there's a powerful system behind it.. - What advantages does slipstreaming drivers give as opposed to installing over the default windows drivers after a format? - What kind of advantages are there to disabling services? Is it just about memory usage or does it go deeper than that? - In terms of slipstreaming hotfixes and such, does that make any difference over installing the hotfixes post-OS install? Any other info you can provide on this would be much appreciated.. I'm just curious and looking for some technical info from some of you more savvy folk Thank you!

Great, thanks!

Just wondering if the fact that RyanVM's post SP2 update pack having the hotfix for dual core cpu's is an issue on single core systems? I seem to remember there's a registry setting you have to change to 'activate' the hotfix but I'm not 100% sure on whether or not this hotfix will present problems on single core cpu's. Thanks! Adam

Thanks for the clarification nuhi

Thanks very much dale for the reply.. At least I know I'm not alone in this

So I used nLite for the first time the other night.. Everything worked awesome, except the audio drivers didn't QUITE install all the way.. It was odd actually.. After formatting and booting into windows, everything looked as if it was perfect.. I noticed the little speaker icon was in the tray so I was like ok cool sound drivers were installed all right.. I didn't notice a problem until I actually put on my headphones and noticed there was no sound... odd.. So I went into device manager and checked it out, nothing had exclamation marks or whatnot, and it seemed like a bunch of drivers were installed for the various sound blaster items.. What was weirder was when I double clicked the speaker icon, i got access to very few volume options, instead of normally having access to all of them.. So I just installed the driver that I had slipstreamed over what was already there and it fixed the issue. However I did notice one new item pop up in device manager (Creative SB Audigy 2 ZS (WDM)).. I'm just wondering why it didn't get fully integrated? One thing of note is, when I was telling nlite the driveres to implement, I noticed that you can only select one .inf file from a folder, and the creative labs sound driver folder had multiple inf's in it.. I know nlite only needs one, but could this have caused the issue? Do I need to make seperate folders for each of the infs or something? One other thing I should mention is these drivers are the latest beta drivers that came out recently.. Normally if I wanted to install the older non-beta drivers it requires installing THREE seperate drivers.. One as the base driver install, and then two updates on top of that, all requiring reboots (sigh).. I don't think them being beta should be an issue as I installed the latest beta drivers from nvidia and it worked fine.. Like I mentioned before I'm using a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS.. My motherboard is an Asus A8N-SLI Premium (1008 bios).. All other drivers that I slipstreamed installed perfect which include: nvidia 81.87 beta video drivers nforce4 chipset drivers 6.70 (nvraid/nvata, ethernet, smbus) dell 2405fpw driver Thanks a lot for any help