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I guess the 1st is part of the Plug&Play system and there is no direct option in nLite that can change that. You will need a reg tweak for that. Skipping "Out Of the Box Experience is done by ticking the "skip OOBE" box in the "unattended" section. Removing it (yes you say "remove... activation", it removes activation, if you do understand what this mean) is done in the components section, in Operating System Options. Note that for XP Home, skipping OOBE is a delicate operation as you have to have a 2nd Admin User.

I have to add, once you've spent a lot of time learning about nLite, you'll gain a little time each time you'll reinstall your computer. This is not "tweaking" your computer. See, nLite was originally (I wasn't there, I must admit) designed to cut down on the place XP takes on a hard disk. this was interresting for HDD under 4Gig that we had back in 98 or so. This was a bit of tweaking but is far less interresting today when any HDD is bigger than 20Gig. The problem is that a lot of removed components can not be readded (or some can but not easily). 2nd use of nLite is to put the tweaks in the install cd. But those tweaks could be performed after install as well. 3rd use is to integrate drivers so that you don't have to install them after install, idem with Service pack or MS updates. This is still not "tweaking your computer". An other point is to integrate mass storage drivers for Harddisks that are not recognised by original versions of XP, so you don't have to use F6 and a floppy drive when installing Windows. As you see, this is still not tweaking your computer but nLite is interresting if you reinstall you computer quite often (unattended install can take less than 15minutes). Cheers.

This looks black and white to me, not gray. You're a naughty administrator. I'm out.

Are you going to ask every week ?

Either you know where your cd comes from or you are talking warez. + nLite is for personal use only.

I don't know of any equivalent to VFD that runs under Win9x. But something is not clear. Why not directly save the application or files that make the 6 floppies instead of making (virtual) floppies and then remake images and save them images ? Is it simply not possible ? Or do you have a different strategy for using them images if/when needed ? There are a lot of floppy imaging programs. Some let you create exe's that write a floppy, like this one . Some tiny like this one.

Why has this turned to a useless "bash Vista" thread ? This is not the "bash Vista" forum. Have you used a properly configured Vista on the best of machines ?

Check this. You'll need a few minutes reading about BartPE (link on the page), the pluggin listed in the page and an XP disk and . I'm not sure the pluggin contains all needed files, you might need to copy some from your running DriveImage folder.

An other software that shows T°: PCWizard.

No CPU fan on a PIII, I say no, no no.

Sorry then, I'm obviously wrong for the writing part (which was the point here).

To be clear, you've now tried 3 different hard drives (one bad 2 good) and 4 different CDs (3x XP and one Vista), changed RAM 3 times and you still get stuck at the same point ? Reset BIOS is my only idea.

Something weird here: you say you tested two harddisks without the BIOS seeing them ? There must be a confusion somewhere. BTW, there is a new BIOS for your laptop (not related to your problem but fixing a battery charge issue). For your actual problem, if applicable, try zeroing the beginning of the drive (if you can boot anything else on that laptop).

Noticed they talk "rpm" only for HDDs and not for optical drives ? CDs & DVDs rotate at various speed, keeping the linear speed constant. There is no faster part on a DVD. "16x" is a constant write or read speed.

It is right. Some parts of the motherboard are supposed to be "grounded". What is important is that the motherboard is not bent and that no other part (than where the screwsare holding it in place) is touching anything.

Genuine "MS Windows XP MCE" cd ???

Sorry, nLite is for personal use only.

I hope so. I've had that problem as well (using SP3) but did not have the time to investigate (ended up integrating it manually post install ).

What was the state of the notebook prior to that ?

Don't forget that nLite is for personal use only (you accept that when installing).

See this thread in the software forum as starter.

Maybe these are the same you already have, I don't know (the HSF for Win98): http://www.conexant.com/support/md_driverdownload.jsp Com port don't have to be active in BIOS for the modem to take the good port. At the contrary, if the adress is taken by the motherboard's com port, the modem is shifted to a further adress (here Com 5 as you have). Maybe you should remove the modem in "Safe Mode" before trying to reinstall it ?

We're defragging 350 PCs every monday at 13.30. According to your maths, most HDDS should be dead after 5 months. I can obviously not confirm that. We have about 6 dead HDDs a year. + Sorry but your links are not really fact based.

Some users also request the program to be noob friendly, so such dangerous option is not included and will never be (it has been made clear by the developper himself). You can search the forums for easy workarounds involving modifying winnt.sif before making the iso.

Welcome to the forum. A minimum reading is required when using any programs. What is confusing you in this sentence; "Select the components you want to remove" ? By default, with no box ticked on that screen (I assume you're talking about the "components" screen as your link is not working for me), nLites leaves Windows as is, leaving all components from your source included. If you're talking about the tweaks section though, ticking enables options that are still not default in XP. Cheers.