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@Milgathia, will do, both of them...i'm waiting sp1...i only got sp1a

@AztecMystic, first i'm glad it was a false alarm

(T-9 > T-1), never heard of it, probably something you added for unattended install...it's definatelly not nlite soo...

About COM...have you removed Distributed Transaction Coordinator ??

I'm glad it's almost working flawless ... enjoy in tha' speed

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@bucketbuster, scrnsave.scr is just an example how can you save single file from component removal (and i like that "blank screen saver" )

About printers...it's hard to tell because they are all in one file, listen what you can try...edit ntprint.inf in your i386 folder and find section with your printer, copy file names used in that particular printer and put it to "File keep box", it may work.

@AztecMystic, that's a serious problem, tell me, you experienced that only on virtual machines or in the real pc too ?

Normaly virtual machines have their own emulated hardware, windows will not see it as nforce.

@Famer, acctually i was thinking about it, when "16bit" and music sample bug are solved it could be named rc1.

In a week probably.

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@Hamner...ok, i have made some kind of tooltip when you cross over Make ISO button, will be in next release...i still don't want all page for making iso, maybe later.

Winnt.sif...well, as Milgathia stated you can put your own in data or overwrite before making iso...it's not crucial, you can put any winnt.sif, just it's good to have those sfc and driver signature entries.

Winnt.sif maker tool exists, made by bored i think. Search for it.

@Rudi1...yey...about empty folders, i'm still searching from where they get made, i'm affraid if it's syssetup or layout then there is no cure, they have signature, can't be touched.

@Markymoo,

@bigman1, just don't select Music Sample option...this is second time i got this bug report, putting it on known bug list, thanx

About cursors...i'll see that, it's a new option so there could be an error

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@bonedaddy, what large spaces...you mean default txtsetup or nlited ?

Nlite trims many unneded ones.See default and you'll notice a difference.

Either way it doesn't affect speed.

@Jazz, yes, there is an option, just for you

I kept scsi disc support and scsi class...so there shouldn't be a problem installing your own drivers...if there is let me know and it will be fixed.

I haven't experienced lesser reduction but it happened in the past, maybe i missed something again....will check it

edit: try and see is your driver.cab bigger because of new compression routine

@AztecMystic, you can spread the word, i'm not into the licencing stuff...maybe i'll write something...for now just warn them to test it first on virtual machines.

Automatic logon...use TweakUI.

Nforce bug...hmm...try not to select any drivers and let me know does it work then.

@CuBie, in month or so, it will support win2k, win2k3...but then first debugging before it's mass usable

@kalavera useful as always.

Link bug, about, ok

Optional sfc, ok

Estimated size...i can make it automatic for everything except drivers where i can leave it blank or write manually.

Readonly attributes are allready automatically removed when that calculating size... is active

Uppercase is when you make iso...see inside iso

I may make it on disk uppercased also but it's not crucial.

Uxtheme, too big...and to hard to crack automatically, it's not easy like oobe

XPcreate...why do you think i'm here to make the same mistake microsoft made...i won't be a part of monopoly game

Whell, more build more bugs, and public don't like that...i may send it to you by mail next time.

@[bM]Crusher, file names would be very helpful...just don't tell me they begin iac25_32.ax

ir41_32.ax...

Will it be better if i put components to detect if they are allready removed and disable them or even remove them from tree ?

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@evilvoice, you are probably right but i'll wait, i made my share of bugs

Yes, descriptions are kinda shifted...thanx for the tip and you pointed one more bug...i forgot to put $oem$ to hidden directory list...will fix it later

We don't want people to delete that

edit: there, fixed i need to remake descriptions these days

as for the post below

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@evilvoice, great link

It's just i want to be sure it will work for default sp1, slipstreamed.

I'm using ms java vm on sp2, made one click install folowing similiar instructions.

Problem is i need infs to clean.

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@stinkywea, try beta9, i added some kind of fix, even it's not my problem

@AztecMystic, it's driver.cab recompression issue, not iso.

beta9 uploaded

- updated inf parser, some extra driver files found

- added component: Music Sample

- added component: Drivers - SCSI (thanx to jdeboeck for tips)

- separated component from IIS: Experimental - Message Queuing

- separated mouse cursors from images

- cleaned some removed services reg leftovers

- changed driver recompression routine little bit (thanx GreenMachine for the tip)

- fix for missing indeo files even this was not my fault (iac25_32.ax,ir41_32.ax...)

There is still no java option because i don't have sp1, only sp1a, going to get one in a day or two.

Let me know if slow exctraction problem is more or less solved and try scsi removal, it speeds things up in text mode startup

edit: redownload...mouse cursors added...corrected (it would remove modem drivers) if you were faster then this edit

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...try that winnt.sif entries, it may be enough, it will leave better part of wmp but that's better, so that you don't need to install codecs

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@BeenThereB4, yes, he just sent me a message with that solution, it's just i didn't connect those two...can you beleive it

@kalavera & Jazz...my apologies, apparently you have found a bug

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dcromwell, i don't get it, what do you mean by "there has to be a way"...have you even tried nLite

[Digital Moon, 1024 * 768]

It's good...relaxing

just the stars are weird...maybe little brighter would be better, i don't know, try to make it just spots, not distorted somewhere, if you know what i mean.

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@Jazz, why don't you just remove modem drivers, i never experienced such a problem and to be honest i don't see how is that possible...but it's ok, keep me updated

@bonedaddy, ooo yeah, great...i just hope that guys at litepc won't hate me

@Milgathia, hehe, actually there will be some new stuff in beta9 later tonight.

edit: it seems that sp2 rc1 build 2135 beta is leaked

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@kalavera, weeeird, mine installation is way faster...try it on real pc, i don't know

I'm using vmware and it's faster there too.

Do you have in your todo list the readonly and uppercase problem?

Both sorted out...see the changelog on the first page.

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@Markymoo,

You know what?.... "I have been nLited"

hehe, good one...have you seen one with a vacuum cleaner or what

Just to let you know i sorted half of the bug...whell the more important half.

There is no need of copying smss.exe anymore...it was usetup.exe error...it gets renamed to smss.exe during setup...grrr i missed that

now only thing you need to do is to change msdosinitiated="1" to msdosinitiated="0" if needed.

beta 8.5 uploaded, nothing new except that big issue

I think now the bugs are reduced to good number...maybe it's time to continue REDUCING

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@Markymoo, thanks to your help it's little simpler.

You are right, only copy smss.exe to BOOT\SYSTEM32\SMSS.EXE (or PRO1)

but....that winnt sif you mentioned, it's not nlite generated, it's windows..

only error is msdosinitiated="1"

needs to be changed to msdosinitiated="0" and it works...no temporary files error

Test it and if i'm mistaken correct me, i'm going now to find a source of the problem.

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@Markymoo, thank you, thank you

I just tried your fix and it works, but i needed to copy smss.exe from original i386\System32\smss.exe to BOOT\system32\smss.exe and i386\system32\smss.exe

Winnt.sif i used from nlite...

edit:

@AztecMystic,

@Markymoo, yes, you are right, only in BOOT\SYSTEM32\smss.exe

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@bonedaddy, i still haven't got time to look into 16-bit problem, i will put it in changelog if it becomes fixed

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beta 8.4 is out.

- fixed manual installation (temporary fix by Markymoo)

- fixed missing txtsetup entry for help and tour (home edition bug and maybe some others)

- moved Distributed Transaction Coordinator to Experimental

edit: o yes, and big thanx to Markymoo for his manual install help

If you are building AIO cd then after gosh slim you got session_3 error see below.

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@Milgathia, gladdyxxx just sent me instructions so that i can integrate it faster, thanx goes to him and you know that will be effective only on windows xp and windows xp with sp1.

Sp1a and sp2 don't have jvm in them.

@ZuluDC, OO YEAH...finally good news, now just to fix home edition problem and i'm on the road again.

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Just received Rudi1's email, he has Home Edition, so maybe that was a problem.

Now i got his infs and will check that later.

If you have some other language then english on a Pro version please try 8.3 from my previous post and let me know is it working...on email will be better.

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I think these are

[Components]
mplay = Off
wmaccess = Off
wmpocm = Off

but it won't remove it completely, if you want that and you are using english windows, try this

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@Milgathia, nice...so even if mplayer is removed i may keep drm component, i'll see if it can be clensed from others

@ZuluDC, yahoo!...but that's weird, hoTy3k had error with beta8 and he has german windows too

@rudi1, i still haven't got your original, pre-nlite infs, so you could experience same problem.

@evilvoice, i don't know if you are aware of it but now it's all selectable, docs, valueadd, they will apear if detected

@hoTy3k please test this version and let me know.

If it hangs there again, try without selecting any driver.

Do you have the same problem with beta7 ?

I just reinstalled test version with your infs and it was ok.

There was ie, 'show desktop' and no language faults.

Others download only if you are willing to test and report language issues.

dreadful beta8 third version download here.

- changed encoding detection a little bit

- changed cdimage attributes, some problems could be a result of small letters as someone warned me

- fixed issue remembering last selected drivers and processing them

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@ZuluDC,

What, i always keep ie and it never failed...hmm, it's beta8 bug, ignore beta8, i hope you'll forgive me

What, coding issue for you is gone ? That's because i used your infs in testing, now when i test those two and make modifications it should work.

@Milgathia, thanx, as soon as language bug is solved there will be multiple components added

(ok, in the future i'll try to see why ie can't be reinstalled, maybe because of registry leftovers, i haven't delete them yet)

@hoTy3k, appreciated

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@hoTy3k and rudi1, thank you, that was fast, but both of you sent me post-nLite version, and both have different errors...weird

Now i'll need original versions of those files after the slipstream...please so that i can fix this annoying problem.

@ZuluDC, **** you, **** you to hell

For now on, everybody, don't report any errors until multilanguage bug is fixed, thank you.

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@Jazz , ok, i'll see

(you can extract from you full version of windows *.cu_ files in windows\cursors folder)

@hoTy3k, o no, can you please send me compressed your original

hivecls.inf
hivesft.inf
hivesys.inf
hivedef.inf
intl.inf
txtsetup.sif
dosnet.inf

And you too rudi1.