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Burn it and boot from the CD and all your troubles will go away. Until then copy i386\NLDRV into the C:\$WIN_NT$.~LS\I386 or point it to the original folder which has NLDRV. That winnt dos initiation is quite problematic with nlite so I don't recommend it.

monohouse, they just have a hard time adapting to a change like you seem to do. Relax a little, it's not like you can't choose.

monohouse, what idiots, I don't get it. - drivers are processes, if they crash they are restarted, less prone to BSOD - new is better in software since standards change and need an update - it is safer, go to microsoft.com and read why - it is nicer to me - you can do same with 98 unless you want new stuff to do things faster - dx10 is great, check the specs - do you know of a video player with asio support?

What is that faulty logic now about? Lets see the facts: - Vista is new, I like new - Safer - Nicer - More user friendly and more productive - Dx10 - Internal sound processing at 32bit - More stable in case of crash ... Don't confuse your size obsession with my goal to have less enforced processes running.

tsk, nope can't confirm that. Try to avoid quick reboot tweaks like autoend services or tasks... In essence avoid any system registry tweaks other than visual or funtional for some period. Not to mention if you overclock or have incorrectly set memory or even cpu. And the most assured guess would be a bad (or weak) HDD.

I get what you said and I think it's quite impossible if you want Vista for what it is. Well we can do a simple comparison in maximum removals, Win98 is like few MB, 2k is smaller than XP, it's natural to assume that Vista must be bigger than XP. Simply look at Explorer.exe, not to mention all the other files that you'll have to keep. Now if you think about res hacking...not worth the trouble, use XP or 2k.

monohouse, nlite will be getting the updates but anything further removed gets less user-friendly and less people would remove that component...and above all I don't expect any big speedups beyond already achieved. Lets not change the subject here but 100MB Vista, c'mon I bet only DX10 is that big. And if you don't need it for example then stay at XP, nothing wrong there.

How about setting Autologon to none in Unattended - Users If it creates oem again delete it manually, i like to have it there for reapply reasons as well. Windows overwrites more than one entry during install.

SFC isn't SFC patch which disables it. Disable disables it.

Just one note: if you do this disable-enable thing don't post about SFC popups later on because nLite doesn't filter out the protection when the SFC is disabled. And for those who get the popups anyway I hear ya.

Oh it was there before but since in 2k that's not the case and one quick test proved it not true I removed it...but I missed something...gonna return, thx.

Zamiel, ok, I thought that No works. shoeman, it's only good to preserve official newest dlls in case some program tries to overwrite them with older versions but anyway all installer programs do that check also so it's useless IMO. Do you think that virus maker would make it susceptible to sfc? They are sneaky...

It won't remove battery on it's own, if it does then maybe yours are some modified windows, oem version for laptop specific? Anyway when files are kept it does work if nlite would have removed the specific file, if it's "just" an error of some kind the component will still fail of course. Errors you described are not normal, it would be good to find the reason. For start default all services and clean keep/remove boxes then go from there if it works.

Have you tried this: // Disable enforcement – no signing checks Bcdedit.exe –set nointegritychecks ON // Enable enforcement – signing checks apply Bcdedit.exe –set nointegritychecks OFF // Disabling integrity check on an alternate OS // specified by a GUID for the system ID Bcdedit.exe –set {4518fd64-05f1-11da-b13e-00306e386aee} nointegritychecks ON Taken from MS

Madhits45, I just saw you're heavily configuring your services, try with all reset to defaults, seriously. And clean out the keep files section, what's that with battery.

LeveL, I like your style One clarification though. It uses certain percentage of the RAM for cache, that's why it seems it takes almost all what you feed it with. But it's actually pretty useful...whatever you run it stays copied in memory for faster access if it wasn't changed on the HDD too. So, 2GB of ram will be filled but for example recopying WinXP installation files takes few seconds if you already did it few minutes ago or even more depending on the usage and changes. And when that extra RAM is needed the cache is purged, no conspiracy About processes, that's where the gold is.

Ok I'll review that again, haven't looked at it for a long time since it's kinda complicated to remove protection from removed files and not break kept files protection in the process. And people who used nLite in the beginnings almost all disabled SFC so I gotta adjust, at start no one minded. Anyway have you tried pushing cancel and then yes or whatever is the right key for it to ignore that specific file until it's solved?

I am removing services preinstall, not just disabling, not that much yet but soon, and I do feel the drastic improvement versus the full version. Thing is that I remove multiple components like Sidebar, Defender and such, if I saw correctly it takes 100MB of RAM less on first logon. Anyway if it's "only" on copying new files imagine the frustration when I constantly moving (copying) Windows installation files over and over while testing my tools. And above all if it's only 5 seconds of indexing I gotta ask why? For that monthly search...heh...I don't want a database of my files hashed because of that, it's funny to say the least.

Just check in Task Manager 3 processes taking CPU time for that indexing. I'm on Core 2 Duo 6600. It's not like it's going two times faster with it disabled, it is in the response time, slight but there. And then multiply that by 20-30 useless services to me and you get a significant boost.

Yeah suure...small impact seems small because machines which are running Vista are usually dual core and have 1GB ram or more. Disable Search indexing and tell me you don't see a speedup. To index constantly only that search which I do once a month can go quicker is insane but that's just my opinion.

Can you two please filter yourself from pirate talk You shouldn't have the RTM already...if you do I don't want to know, just tell me it's RC version or something.

Camarade_Tux, niice...daamn

What's with all the sevens Merlin7777, I have the same motherboard so if you need any help just ask. Remove SCSI drivers, integrate AHCI or SATA raid depending on what you enabled in bios. But you know what select them all when prompted in textmode prompt you won't do a mistake, they are all for 32bit Windows if you downloaded that version. As for second controller, the JRaid...integrate only floppy folder with again all selected. I select only 965 SATA Raid and in second one RAID.

For unattended Windows questions you have another sub-forum where you can get your answers faster, just don't talk about nlite while you ask for OOBE setup. If you try nLite with autologon to none and OOBE kept you'll see it starts. If not then you can call it a bug and I'll try your preset.

Are you kidding me. You basically haven't used nLite for Unattended settings and you call it a bug.