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do this for /f %i in ('dir /b') do makecab %i delete the original files EXCEPT the .INF you need. Delete the compressed .IN_ as it will be useless. You should end up with the same number of files, but requiring lot less space. Nothing else is required.

there are additional versions of ntoskrnl and variants in driver.cab and in sp1.cab (sp2.cab)

i think gosh's reg adds it to the folder options menu , while your key just removes the 'feature' nicely done gosh

dosnet.inf is only the windows part of install. TXTSetup.sif controls the actual textmode part of the file copy, which is where filecopy errors would be. If framedyn and so are not in txtsetup.sif they are not copied.

windows explorer can access windows update to get the updates. So can MyIE2. There is no need for iexplore.exe on your system.

look in the nvidia driver inf, if it goes to an nvidia app, the reg key must be there it should be under a clsid for the desktop, and it won't have the "digital display" in the registry because its in a shell extension dll, like winzip. The winzip context menu aren't in the registry either, they're in a dll

28, pretty old huh

AccessOpt = On Accessibility Wizard? Nope, acc wizard AND cursors Dialer = On Network Diallers??? nope, its the phone dialer OEAccess = On Outlook Express? just the shortcut to it WMAccess = On Windows Media internet accessability? Nope, its the shortcut to win messenger why don't you just look em up yourself findstr /i /c:COMPONENTNAME %WINDIR%\INF\*.INF that should give you the filename where the component is defined. Look in there for more info.

not quite what we were on about, maxxpsoft. Those are the categories for the kiddie control panel. In sysoc.inf, almost everything has a 7 flag, so it can't be accessibility all the way can it.

i have all those services disabled/removed and no problems. Your problems are probably caused by RPC not starting. Is anyhing on your CD tampered with? OOBE? Product Activation?

uxtheme.dll is the dll for xp visual styles, or at least one of them. It is is built to allow only MS-signed visual styles (which means just luna) and that's why everybody wants a patched version of it. A patched uxtheme.dll will display any visual style, just like styleXP... That is all patching uxtheme does tho

i have to start sometime... there will be changes from RC1 to final, but all I need is an accurate filelist. Many filelists haven't changed from sp1, so RC1 is a good time for me to start working. After all RC1 is for testing, not a final product...

@davidyang: The filenames will not be hard-coded anymore, so the >> issue will be fixed. this was just a typo, it doesn't matter if files with ,3,3 flags in txtsetup.sif are removed or not. I didn't know the filesystem was case sensitive, I'm pretty sure I have a working CD with all lowercase filenames. Furthermore, Ntldr is not touched by the batchfiles... Installing afterwards works for a lot of components, but not all. Some have their files copied by the component inf, but have the dll's registered by syssetup.inf... Doing it 'at a later time' will only copy the files, not register the dll's... so there's no easy way to do it. Just remove what you don't need, and if in doubt don't remove it. only if you promise not to use them on a longhorn alpha

The batchfiles are for SP1, you're using SP2/RC1. Apart from that they do what they are supposed to do. MSN will be removed. But you get errors because SP2 contains a different version of MSN.

Does it say on my site to delete the .cab files yourself? Anyway you messed up. You're getting errors because you already ran the batchfiles. Restart from a clean cd. and that's just from the last ten replies, it should be clear where the batchfile must be placed

@hajj: Read the site for complete instructions. Put batchfile in CD root, next to i386. Make sure source is not readonly. Run batchfile. If there are errors, you did one of these things wrong. Remember there is no need to mess with anything yourself, not even in winnt.sif. All you have to do is run the batchfile.

I like CorelDraw Graphics Suite, there's a demo on corel.com

looks like about 2200 files will be removable in batchfiles for SP2, not counting drivers, up from about 1800 files for SP1, not counting drivers... really hope SP2 will come out smaller... stay tuned

@hajj: if you set messenger and msnexplr off in winnt.sif, the files won't be needed. However just removing them will cause errors when copying files. moviemaker 1 and media player 8 are not installed by XP SP2 RC1, I mentioned that the files were not removed from the source. This means they take up space on the cd, but are not in dosnet.inf or txtsetup.sif... It is possible the slipstream process will be cleaned up, but SP1 had similar issues (ati drivers in i386 among others, which carried over to SP2)...

my guess is they are a decimal representation of three bitflags (1, 2 and 4) but I have no idea what they would represent. What I find even stranger is why the two entries that do not have an INF file associated, have one field less in the comma seperated line; and why they don't have to be hidden ... NtComponents=ntoc.dll,NtOcSetupProc,,4 WBEM=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,wbemoc.inf,hide,7 Display=desk.cpl,DisplayOcSetupProc,,7 Fax=fxsocm.dll,FaxOcmSetupProc,fxsocm.inf,,7 does anyone know how this works or what ntcomponents and display actually do...

delete entries in [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] to stop them from running at startup.

When for instance IE is removed the directory is not created as usual. I believe Windows File Protection (SFC) is (re)creating the directories, when it is run at some point during setup. I have no idea where SFC gets the list of directories to recreate

are you using a patched UXTHEME.DLL? Visual styles will not work without it. Or are you trying to apply Blue, Silver or Homestead which are included with XP ?

I wrote a simple INF parser in perl, which reads through INF files and parses CopyFiles statements. For stuff that is not copied by an INF file I look up the target directory (filename=1,,,,,,%TARGETDIR%,0,0) in txtsetup.sif.

My batchfiles will optionally create the bootfolder. Any files that are not in dosnet.inf will be removed from the source. This should slim down nearly as much as gosh's reduced source, but still give you the option to install from windows, and decide on removing optional languages manually...