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Usual answer would be "start from an original set of files". I think it applies here. I think the rule is that you can take more off in a second nLiting of your files but you get into problems trying to add hotfixes on top of an already processed cd. You can still reuse your first "Last_session.ini". Hope this helps.

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).

There is almost a thread on missing keyboards or languages every week. Do a search, you can't miss them.

+ the bigger your first partition, the slower the part of the disk for your 2nd partition.

If you skip OOBE, there is no user created and the only user is "Administrator" (also "Guest" if you did not disable it). I think you cannot logon as administrator in normal mode in XP Home (is it ?). So if you set logon type to 'Welcome Screen', there will be no user shown. And if the administrator's password is not blank, you can't auto login. You have to make a better choice in the nLite options.

then try to read at least the first post. He has the key.

You had an answer to your 1st question on the very first day, then you come one day later and be surprised you thread has moved a bit... hum. Search the forum for "OEM", your question has indeed been answered a few times and people have managed to do it.

Then as Bledd suggests, it's probably the software that doesn't work with your keys. One of your keys is a sort of generic key that's put on all that serie of machines, the one on your sticker is an other one that can also be used (or maybe not with all languages if your PC came with different languages) but both need the same version of Windows that came with your computer. Maybe you can extract the i386 from your recovery partition and work with that.

Then we are all wrong. Francesco, I did check the italian and again, there is no opposite question asked. There is the option to use a patch that modifies Windows and the modification is "disabilita SFC" as by default SFC is "abilita (predefinito)" (read my previous post ?). If you don't know what you are doing, don't touch it, you will be fine (I'm not patronising, I'm proving my point). If you know what SFC is, you know that it's normally part of Windows, and if you want to disable it then use the patch and change it to "disabilita". Right, Nuhi could change the box to "SFC enabled (default)" instead, but this has nothing to do with the translations.

no offence here but as you don't precise... did you tick the "always use the selected program... " box ? If you removed WMP, all associations for video files are lost and it's a normal behaviour. If not... ?

The first name you are prompted for is the computer's name (e.g. as seen on a network). The other one is the name of the first user to be set in the usual "Microsoft philosophy". This user (the first one) has administrator rights and is the one you are supposed to work with at first. This account is created in order to NOT use the "ADMINISTRATOR" account as default account. That "administrator" user was automatically created during setup aswell as the "GUEST" account. So you cannot use "administrator" as 1st user as it already exists. I cannot remember the computer's name restrictions. nLite enables you to rename the "administrator" account (in the tweaks section I believe) and to work with it without having to create an other account (so it doesn't ask you for a user's name). I think Computer name is entered in the "unattended" section. There is no way you can miss those.