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beta8 uploaded, multilanguage problem fixed ?

@ZuluDC, i'm all positive just can't wait to solve multilanguage bug so that i can continue shrinking, it's what i like the most.

I tested beta8 and to me "1" seems solved if the '3' is the weird 'n'.

About "2", have you unselected Distributed Transaction Coordinator service ?

Going to bed now, see ya tomorrow, i hope for good news.

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Yeah, i made a big mistake in this one, but the main thing is that multilanguage problem will be history and i will take a vacation...i think there will be a fix in a 30 minutes, stay tuned.

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edit:

Thanx, well...about that...there is a problem, it would work only on german windows, use beta 7, tommorow i'll upload beta 8

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Thanks for compliments again, i needed that after all those bugs

@bonedaddy, in a day or two

@seapagan, thanks for answering

@Rudi1, oo...don't worry, i'll test it later...it works on principle of detecting is there win51ip.SP2 file being created, going to change that in next ver

sooo after 5 installs i got german bug sorted out..and maybe every other language as well.

Please test it as soon as possible if you had language bugs and i don't wan't to hear bad news

Now if it works you can try selecting more language releated stuff like service pack messages, lang dir ...

Others, there is nothing new.

pre-beta8 posted

- fixed german bug (maybe multilanguage)

- changed description of Distributed Transaction Coordinator service, it was responsible for disabling Component Service snap-in

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@ZuluDC, ok, i'll try something else later

@bonedaddy, ok, do you have command.com, config.nt and autoexec.nt in system32 ?

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@GrimSage, it's on mine, redownload, fixed, thanx

edit: fixed another thing, when selecting new dir or after slipstream there could be an error due to new directory tree, fixed, also silent update, redownload if you had such a problem.

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@ZuluDC,

And i even googled for "nlite" before releasing it and haven't found anything similiar

@GrimSage, try beta 7 without selecting Terminal Services and any experimental

See if you are still getting the same problem so i can list it as known bugs.

@Sgt_Strider, since i haven't tried it with nLite because of full schedule and i'm using newest beta of windows so no need, Jazz seems to know something, listen to Jazz

beta 7 uploaded with some delay, but it still has some known bugs, still better that beta 6, but to be sure i'll leave beta 6 in download too.

- tree of scanned directories (like valueadd, support, docs...), only available if such directories exists

- progress bar (needs tweaking)

- remote desktop moved to Terminal Services (read new description)

- component service fixed but shows missing firewall.cpl if firewall is removed, fixing

- saves last custom files lists

- some more bugfixes, can't remember

When obvious errors are fixed there is going to be a lot of services and components added.

About unicode problem...german and chinese windows, try this one and just let me know if it's fixed, if not, i still have more options to try. (haven't tried it myself, no time, **** finals)

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@serialzs, you mean from installation ? It's just deleting, no undo, you have original cd and do it again, i don't see a problem.

@GrimSage, i have that problem since...ever, don't worry about it, the hotfixes are installed, if we ever find out what it is i'll let you know.

@RyanVM, oh i didn't know that, then it's alright

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@Sgt_Strider, if you remove media player then on windows update they will prompt you with full version of player and it's hotfixes

MDAC no, OOBE only if you don't need to activate windows (corporate version)

@Jazz, I think it will be best that you first run nLite and then XPCreate without unneeded hotfixes

@RyanVM, yes, so then it's ok to keep that option ? No legal issues ?

@ladybird, hip hip huray

@Markymoo, interesting sollution, but i don't see why a working nLite stripped windows will pose any problem

I mean if you test one installation and it works, there is no way that nLite can cause problems if setupldr.bin is tampered

Try this...leave manual install option, nLite it, do gosh's slimming rutine and then boot folder you can tamper all you want, but leave i386 as the main thing.

That should work, if you can't make it work contact me on email.

About reg options, that's low priority at the time, maaaybe one day but i doubt it

@AztecMystic, please next time write it down and you can see in nlite log what option caused that error, tried variations but can't find what file that was

About QoS packet scheduling, can you tell me what kind of connection do you have so i can put it in description warning (but i don't see how that can affect it, maybe it's some beta 6 general bug, wait and test beta 7 later)

New updates will be possible to integrate without fuss, i will see about it because you have xpcreate, it was here long time and it has tradition

Don't worry, next time just delete partition and recreate it, that's common unattended practice.

Directx is under way.

Next time test in VMWare and VirtualPC.

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@gandalfgrey, I think it's true, can't even test it now, started to work on new version and planned not to release it until 2k reduction support works properly but i see now i'll have to fix this first.

Ok, tomorrow may be a next version, fixed, i hope.

@Alanoll, , silly me, I knew what winPE is, but i thought that the public versions are all made with batch like bartPE, or is the bart's the only public version available ?

And one more thing...is it advisable to remove OOBE from components, jodeboeck just warned me that it can be a legal issue ?

@ZuluDC, will fix it, thanx again

@Mohammed, i just tried downloading it and it works, try to use some download manager like Flashget

@bonedaddy, going to take your word on it and take special concideration when tweaking new version

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@ZuluDC, of course, i'm not implying that you are the only one , it's just you see all those hard traceable little thingies

@bonedaddy, weird, that file is a part of Media Player...at first glance i can't find the problem, gonna try to reproduce it later. So i will check only MSAgent and test it.

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@ZuluDC, you are my best beta tester, seriously

@Jazz, sorry pal, I never use Fast Switching so never had a chance of eliminating the bug, that's why this is still in beta phase...now wait till all the known bugs are eradicated or else you will get frustrated

@gareththegod, hmm, not a bad idea about bartPE/WinPE generator support, but that's up to bart (for WinPE i don't know who is author) if he gives me permission...I'll keep that in mind

About multi-menu, I think it will be best that you make it manually, somehow I don't see it in nLite.

@AztecMystic, thanx

Weird problem, we will wait to see if anyone else has hanging shutdown bug.

@RyanVM, yes i may put those lines to remove them every time if those files are not there, just to be sure

Just tried nLite to slim win2k...results are amazing, on cd it's down to almost 100MB, when installed 250MB !

Of course that version is not ready yet

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@bonedaddy, i will slow down, it is still in beta and i'm acting like it's 1.0 and the world depends on it

About the other stuff, hush, hush, yes it is, off for some candy

@ZuluDC, (me writes down, terminal services, offline files, character bugs, fast user switch) Probably all due to Terminal Services (except characters, which are unicode bug)

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@Jazz, going to check that FastUser switch bug

@mrmx, ok, so that and "German" bug are the same, stay put for updates tomorrow, today i'm kinda busy

I'm steps away from removing Language Support, it's not reducing much but causes most problems

@ZuluDC, so it's related to Fast User switching bug ? It's ok, that component needs ordering, it's one of those made with least love, there is nothing that you people don't see

edit: The component i'm refering to is Remote Desktop, don't select it, and user switching problem will probably go away

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And try this

[Unattended]
     UnattendMode = DefaultHide

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@Nemesis300, I'm going slightly mad

@SibTiger, thank you, Russian version works...Slowly conquering all Languages, now there is a German bug

If you read few posts before, nLite almost became bloatware, it's hard to resist the dark side

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@ZuluDC, i can verify it, even under xp

Fixed, will be uploading when test install finishes

Receiving mail...that will be fixed tommorow, i'm done for today.

edit:

beta 6 uploaded

- fixed readonly bug (building file list bug)

- slightly faster file processing

- reduced another 3-4MB no matter what you select

- msconfig.exe moved to CustomKeepFiles box

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@Datalore, thanx, will change it

@ZuluDC, many thanx, so i need to remove read only attribute, probably that was the main problem all the way, finally pinned down, until it's fixed, everybody, remove read only from your files and folders

I sent you PM to send me your hives, so i'm asking you again, rar, send, me fix it

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beta 5 uploaded

- new gui

- cleaner layout of processed files

- removed DRM directory, thanks datalore (and jdeboeck)

- removed images and schemes registry leftovers, thanx ZuluDC

- remembers last selected components

- new component: Error Reporting Service

- moved services to their own group

- works under win2k (still only winxp reduction!)

- added abillity to make iso without reduction (under options, make iso button)

- added custom file list section, now you can add additional files to remove or

some to prevent nLite from removing

Tested to run from win2k on original and with sp4, no hanging, let me know if you have problems.

edit: @GreenMachine:

I am too busy making my XP CD bigger, but you sure have woken the natives! If you need some advice on crowd control, let me know! (And mostly, keep up the good work.)

will do, nice to see you here

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@RyanVM, that's nice to hear, now i'm remembering it too, it's not infra red, it's some kind of intel codecs !

@bonedaddy, oo i see, it seems like in the near future there is going to be automatic tree with every installed option in inf automatically generated

That won't be so hard, maybe a week or so

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Today i installed win2k after a long time and i can say they are fast, even without slimming, can't imagine what they will look like in a few days

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@ZuluDC, with what i said to you about staying on the topic i meant that you don't need to compliment me just to say hi to a friend, just say hi

Now about your idea, yes, i need to cleanup the reg, that's for sure, thanks for noting it, not boring at all, to me it's just putting "Control Panel\Patterns" and "Control Panel\Screen Saver" to a filter and they are all gone

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@RyanVM, no, i'm not, actually I may fail some exams but i can do them on the summer

Reason why I can respond to this forum so often is because on my college we have computers all over the place and I just log on now and then.

Do you believe me that I'm controlling myself, workaholic

@bonedaddy, great !

@homiebrah, hmm, it should work, try reinstalling Framework or something

Or wait and try new version tomorrow

@ZuluDC, staying on topic just in case, aren't we

@Stinger12348, well, maybe i would if there is no sp2 which have all these integrated, maybe you're waiting for final, that's ok...glad you like it

@Alanoll, you're right, giving up on $oem$ stuff, long time passed since i inserted another component for removal

@Rudi1, ok, i'll stick to mine side of the yard, going to put myself in making profiles (for people who wants to safely remove stuff), more components, win2k and win2k3 support

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1. Remove the line containing agentanm.dll in those two files:

DOSNET.INF and TXTSETUP.SIF in i386 dir until you find out why

2. Look here

3. Depends, what's your root of a cd, C:\WINXP\ or C:\WINXP\XPCD\ ?

I keep mine in

$OEM$\$$\Temp\Updates\updates.cmd

And winnt.sif line looks like this

[GuiRunOnce]
    %SystemRoot%\Temp\Updates\updates.cmd

edit: RyanVM takes the first place

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@GrimSage, was going to but drivers are compressed and there was no easy way of autodetecting size (like for apps)

@shadowfla, just got them...installing in a few hours, will be fixed

@homiebrah, win2k, enough space on hdd, clean windows copy ?

@kalavera, hehe, step-like gui is allready done, just waiting to add more functionality to call it a new version.

The other suggestion would have to wait, as i stated above it's the drivers, can't scan them unless extracted, but thats not economic