Jeronimo

Tried fooling around a bit with these tools from the WAIK, but they don't quite seem to work that well. I can integrate 3 out of 6 updates, which is not that great. Posted info in general vista topic here

I tried integration and it did not really work that well. I have made a batch-file for integration where you pass along as 1st parameter the directory to which the DVD was copied. However it can not integrate 928089, 931573 and 932246 (which is half of what I want to integrate). Also peimg cannot "prep" my image, I tried with my vLite'd installation as well as the original. See the attached file for details. Can anyone help me out?

You would still need the WAIK to mount the image or does pkgmgr work with the install.wim?

You can tell IE not to checdk if it is the default browser and in Control Panel you can set your default program to Firefox insteand of Internet Explorer.

If nuhi could provide a possibility to pause the installation for users to add the updates manually to the image, then that would be a big help I think.

I have Home Basic and get the same result as well.

MPC has a different subversion rev 611 which is not shown in the main versionnumbering, I do not think this maked a difference but I can not say if Klite uses this one. Since it is open source everyone can compile his own version and as far as I know rev 611 is not available from the author. The other issues are quite strange, I would definetely install Vista clean and Vista Vlite'd a second time to see if vLite is the issue or merely this installation went wrong or is corrupted.

MPC I use very frequently and no issues with that I use it from this site. While testing RTM I also had a blank screen during installation. Seems normal and I think I read about it in release notes or so, don't remember and my new system has an Nvidia card.

I have it enabled under Home Basic64 and Smartfan 4.332 shows the temperature for my WD1600YS drive. It should be a setting dor a SATA "slot" in the general screen of your BIOS. I have a beta BIOS for my P5B (vanilla) cause of issue I am having with Hardware Monitor and now when AHCI is selected I have no access to my HD details. When I put it to IDE my SATA "slots" appear and underneath is SMART setting amongst others. With my prvious BIOS I thought I had the same view with AHCI as if it were set to IDE.

There was a post in the Vista forum on how this is done or at least a link to another forum. Can not find it that quickyl,but it should be possible with the use of a couple of tools.

From drive properties you can disabled indexing, I will try and see if this helps. However I always remove Windows Defender and Windows Search. Searching I also rarely do and mostly "dir *file* /s/a" works fast enough on a drive with 50K of files. side note: ad-aware does a better job for me and I think Avast! and Avira (which I will use in about a week: Vista release 10/04) have similar realtime protection.

I think you are suffering from the same issue as me. At first I thought it was Superfetch reading data from disk to memory. But a process "System" uses around 10% CPU-power for 6 minutes (for a total of around 35 seconds CPU-time) with quite a bit of HD-activity. After that my pc settles down and byt then I would consider it as finished starting up.

Maybe I should shut up now with my Home Basic Vista: Tablet PC (which Snipping Tool is part of) is only available from Home Premium and upwards.

In IE7 I had this once, but now under software it shows 2 installs and it works fine. On a side note: in Firefox when using NoScript, you need to allow the website or it does not detect that the Flash player is installed.

I had the same 1 time with the classic view of explorer, only a restart of explorer would solve it.

You can call me stupid if you must, but where is the option to keep the Snipping Tool, if there is none, then add me as well. I do not think I will be using it, but currently I have no access to it.

With 4Gb of memory I really can not say it depends on so much things. If you use superfetch then I would say yes as Superfetch will always use a big percentage of your memory. If you have a lot of applications open when playing games, this also might require a swapfile. Best is to check task manager on how much memory is used (with superfetch enabled this will not give a proper read-out). If you never use the complete 4GB, then I would think of disabling the swapfile as this would improve performance (if this is noticeable, I doubt it). However Vista places certain parts in the swapfile and I would think it would be intelligently placed there. I did some testing under XP in the past, I think in 3Dmark05 and the difference was around 1% in performance. This is well below the tollerance stated by Futuremark which is around 3%. This is a theoretical benchmark, so in practice I would guess a gain of less than 1%, which is not noticeable and not worth the trouble. If the rest of your system is at the same standard, then I asume you have a pretty good and large HD and you can spare the 6-10GB in HD space for a swapfile. I would put it at a fixed size so Windows does not need to resize it (at least a fixed limitted size of say 6GB). It seems quite a lot, but I am just keeping the 1.5x - 2.5x in mind, I have no experience with this much memory so it is really hard to tell how much would be required.

I have 2 for the clarity, multiple partitions should not be necessary for NTFS. Seperate partition for swapfile is not needed, only use a different partition if that is also a different drive then what the OS is installed on. Size of a partition should not be below around 12GB for NTFS volumes otherwise it might be better to use FAT32. To use games in both OS, your question would differ per game. Some might work without installing twice, but most would probebly work if installed twice to the same location. This can only become clear from a trial an error basis: some games write registry settings (during installation) and if those are not present the game does not start), other games write settings to file and if those use drive/directory-structures then this might also be a problem (1 OS D:\Game, while the other has E:\Game). If there are or come games with 64-bit specific files, then this will become a completely different story (and installation to 2 seperate locations might be needed).

Maybe I am thinking about the wrong solution here (as preventing problems is better than fixing them), but why not put SnippingTool.exe in the "keep files"-list. Has it any file-dependencies that prevent this from working?

Ok, so it is only upon first boot, not upon every boot (which I asumed).

I wanted to ask about a new feature in this version for quite some time, but I forgot it constantly: I looked a bit in my new installation, but am curious how this is done. I do not see any programs, which are run from registry or an additional icon. Task scheduling can be disabled, so I asume it does not work by using that. So how is it done?

Would be nice indeed, I googled around a bit and stumbled upon a guide. From the looks of it, this should not be too difficult to do yourself. Only thing is you need a tool which is 700MB in size, that is quite a bit more compared to the size of vLite. So I understand why people want it there :-) The guide: WinBeta - Windows Vista Hotfix/Ultimate Extras Integration Guide

This does not conern me that much, but I am always willing to give a helping hand. If it is of any help: attached file from Vista Home Basic x64 ran by vLite 0.95. Preset file is the same as from my MPC topic in this forum.

Off course. Information MPC shows when it does play in Vista vLite'd 0.9: Audio: Windows Media Audio 8000Hz mono 8Kbps [Raw Audio 0] Video: Windows Media Video 9 160x120 15.00fps 30Kbps [Raw Video 1] In XP I knew under Audio in configuration screen you could see the installed codecs, but under Vista I do not know if and where I can see this. Come to think of it, this is quite a "poluted" installation. I have installed codecs in the past (all sorts) and all have been removed for sure, but how strict those uninstaller do their job, that I do not know. Maybe a codec is left behind, which causes it to be allowed to play. However I doubt this is the case. Just a point of notice though.

On a side note, I did not get DPC Latency Checker working with Vista x64 HP vLite'd by 0.95. This might be because not all hardware is recognized as I need to install my audio drivers, but I do find it strange (it should not make a difference for what it is intended to do).