Ponch

Thanks. Gonna try it. Been using 2.5 for.... days. I like the fact it does them all (zip, cab, ace, rar...) and allows you to expand them automatically in C:\temp\blabla.

Confused about where you are ??? Are you busy nLiting or installing XP or using XP after it's been installed ??? Or all at the same time ? Have you set up 2 user aside frop the administrator ? or "2 administrators" in which case, one is "the" administrator and you need to use that account to check the other one (Control Panel / Administrative Tools...) to see if it has been disabled. About your password, if you let it blank but did not allow autologin, I guess you just enter a blank password aswel to login.

I only got fooled by 1.2 beta. I wanted to "quickly" make an ISO and destroyed my install B) . Latest version is much clearer. I hadn't installed it yet before posting.

yeah, and those Blaster and Sasser were just rumors anyway.

Topic is SFC. Enable means enable, disable means disable. Right ? That was it. It's all right, there is no reason to blush. I for instance got confused by the new main menu (SP, drivers, unattend, tweaks, removal, ISO etc...) , blank meaning selected and grey deselect, when all the rest of the screen is blank, the deselected actions look highlighted instead of ... inactive.

Tweaks section, 2nd line. "NumLock enabled". no good for laptops.

from the "login" or account name, not the full name. If that was your question.

the winntdirectories part of your winnt.sif ?

The updates are considered "build in", that's why they don't show up.

If it is XP already installed and you have an "Upgrade version", I suppose it can't "upgrade" XP to XP nor cant it can't get rid of the first XP to upgrade from nothing. So yes, it does matter.

Do a search, the question has been asked yesterday, I think. Or browse the FAQ, this is one of them.

Never heard of it but a search reveals drivers are included in XP as hardware is older than 2001. (Could have guessed it from the "16"). If what you want is remove other sound drivers and integrate only your, you can use "Double Driver" for instance, to extract all you drivers on a non nLited or working XP (with that sound card installed).

Apart from the "ComPlus Applications", I don't have any of these. But I start from a Pro-SP2 source.

Correct for HDDs, but I think CDs spin at variable speed (constant linear speed). Otherwise you'd have rpm indications on cd drives. As for writing cd going faster at the end... never noticed. I'm curious wether anyone could tell I'm wrong in saying that... the "start of the partition" is the outer part of the disk. I've done hundreds of HDD read/write tests and the fastest part obviously is were the boot sector is.

the answer is in your question: the manual install. (winnt.exe, winnt32.exe and all those stuffs needed for manual install).