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i use 64bit xp so i then use %Source%Silence\Windows-KB890830-x64-V1.40.exe /Q and that goes into guirunonce, or you can start a batch file from guirunonce. Search microsoft for Windows-KB890830-x86, probably, and u will find. Always latest version. This is not direct integration but silently running it upon, before 1st login, system finished install.

Todo list: Check eventviewer Search google f.ex on the various appropiate keywords. Attach last session.ini, and if anything unordinary components used in the process, custom kernel or anything like that, say so. Or: Download either OpenOffice or Open Office Portable version. Stick with that, learn it, be happy. OpenOffice is taken more and more serious as a valuable office skill, in my country you can take classes to learn it, and it gives valid points when applying for office jobs. Also its much better imho. Thirdly, office 2003 is old, consider updating.

I'm afraid other then saying thank you to nuhi, this post of yours makes absolutely no meaning what so ever. Nlite 1.45 works awesome, i can remove more then ever before, and everything just works. Nuhi IS a genius on windows and its various dependencies, and that is no exaggeration, dont know if thats spelled right. Your topic title is also very, well, weird..

Offtopic, but a good alternative to IE is GreenBrowser, i even think you can get russian language for it. It supports windows update, needs automatic updates and BITS service, like IE does, but it works perfect. Also it is portable, very lightweight and fast. Faster then Maxthon and works better for WU in my experience. Very nice software. Tested with nlite install and i had removed IE and almost everything else too. Works very well. Love that it is portable...

Sometimes it helps to just simply STOP if something goes not as planned, and try to think what could be done otherwise and backtrack your steps, quickly looking over what could be the culprit.

In order to trouble shoot, did you remove anything, what did you use as source, can you attach a last session, the preset you used. Also google is nice.

Most likely it is custom modified version by dell to suit install of programs intended for the computer oem setup. I'd stick with a clean, as in standard/default/original, xp source when slipstreaming servicepack and nliting too of course. Seems there is a question every second day or so that would be prevented had people used clean windows as source, not some custom modified, slipstreamed of non-english sp2 and such.

Yes.

Im quite sure if you read what it says in nlite program and/or anywhere else for that matter you would already know the answear. SP3 = every hotfix and service pack past it, so to speak. You dont need sp1 or sp2 to install or slipstream SP3. Infact, its better to start with clean windows source with no hotfixes or service packs. Just run SP3 installer and copy the files from the temporary directory created by the sp3 installer itself. Tested and works, tho i wouldnt recommend starting to update sp2 into sp3 by copying over files 1 at the time.

New Microsoft Desktop Search 4.0 for Windows xp/2003 x64bit edition available. WindowsSearch-KB940157-Srv2K3_XP-x64-enu.exe /q /u /z /q is for quiet install, /u for unattended mode, /z for norestart. Download link here It install Windows Search service as seen in Vista. Searchindexer.exe (26MB memory used by process) and WindowsSearch.exe (8MB memory used by process), are running after installation. No reboot required. Might be needed for uninstall if you have not closed programs. Depends on having Terminal Services installed. Do not remove if you want this program. MDS 4.0 is not to be confused with indexing service, you dont need that installed for this to work, as far as i can tell. Tested with /u /z parameters. Flawless install.

According to Xpero himself, there is no such thing support for 64bit. And it makes sense, as it gives the reason why there is no xpize support for 64bit. I found a tool called PE Explorer which can modify 64bit os but there seems to be no other way then to manually update 1 icon at the time, so unless you go back to a custom file after a windows update of the file u modified, there is nothing we can do. This is quite sad i think. =(

There are 2 tweaks at least in the TWEAKS section in nlite, you didnt enable them? On a general notice there are many problems that arise from using different languages on a system, f.example should a system file that is not in the same language as the windows native language you installed with, well problems. It's one of the reasons why Vista came with the Winsxs folder which is while bloated, in the end a good thing, to avoid such conflicts.

New Installer for Microsoft MSI 4.5, 64bit individual version available. Many programs use MSI as installer, and having latest version of this is good then i would assume? Program link here contains link to x64 versions. Choose WindowsServer2003-KB942288-v4-x64.exe, 4.5 MB for xp/2003 64bit. Silent install is possible. /quiet /passive /norestart for example. Other parameters include /nobackup and /overwriteoem. There's also a /integrate parameter, but how that would work i dont know. If its ment to integrate with xp source and what not. update: more info on new installer, apparently it is much better in several areas =) One thing i liked, quote : "One major bug fix which developers will appreciate has to do with prior Installers' tendency to clean up too much after themselves, often removing interim components that were necessary to later steps in the process. In a post last month to the Windows Installer team blog, one developer wrote, "When a patch added new content in the form of a new component and that patch was being uninstalled, we used to remove that content, even if that content is shared by other products. This is now fixed in Windows Installer 4.5." Link to quote and info

I think its more of a chipset problem then a cpu problem if anything, as well as sound card issues. But vista still is just too painfully slow and non responsive imho. xp x64 is still far better.

I dont understand what you mean at all, however you should not remove service and then install sp3. That is not good for system. How to display all services, just goto services.msc from start menu/run program.

the way the description of 100% stage processes, reminds me of what will happen if you manually update to sp1, and between rebooting enters safe mode. If you do that, system will most likely go in an eternal loop. Shouldnt happen, but it does. Alas, Windows vista isnt fool proof either. Not that that was any news..

Firefox abbreviation is, afaik, FX, not FF. Portable Firefox here, a true life saver. Also green browser kicks royal major a**, for being able to fully use windows update, with no IE on system, and is truly portable. 2 awesome products.

I would look into getting a resource editor, and quite possibly you could simply change the option to not having to log on from there. Now if i only could find a way to re-apply changes to any files resources in an instant i'd be delighted.

Great work! I have a question im hoping someone knows answear to, im editing shell32.dll among others, but it hit me that, what when/if/probably, windows updates overwrites the file, and all customization is gone? In short, how to quickly reapply changes, when you want to keep the updated file per se, only also with your custom graphics.

Any snowball's chance in hell for the 64bit version?

Awesome must have functionality! Tho i much prefer directory opus over windows explorer anytime! Good job!

I remember my first impression with 1.16 and i was more or less floored of how great it worked. I'm just hoping nuhi will go crazy and start adding some nice performance tweaks, along with the usual gui effect tweaks. Hoping to see win32kseparation and those critical worker thread tweaks would be sweet. Also options to disable mouse acceleration would be nice for both nlite and vlite, kinda been missing for years =) Perhaps posting a last session ini could help in trouble shooting it, but that vlite just plainly is causing faults... I took vista ultimate, 64 bit too infact, and integrated all bloody 36 language packs in it. In other words, i had Vlite process just close to a bloody 500 000+ files, it used to a close 40 or 50 gb, the counter never stopped so i had to guess, of harddrive space. For any windows program to handle all that, is impressive.

If you dont have sfc disabled windows will probably tell you that system files are corrupted or something like that. I have runned windows with sfc disabled for last +5 years, so i dont recall what would happen were it enabled. Rest assured system is more co-operative with regard to using such things as patched tcp/ip files, patched sfc, and patching all .exe/.dll system files with new icons as is the nature of xpize tool. The negative side its assumingly easier to have trojans and viruses affect system, but if you use computer, surf wisely, no need to sweat it imho. While you're at it customizing windows looks i'd like to mention matado, a free 3d desktop kinda tool. Its old tho. Also Blend, and glass2k which are nice transparency utilities for windows. I am hoping to see someone making them a nlite addon somewhere, soon.

If i goto registry and search for codepage, i will found lots of empty registry keys. Now its either higher or lower of codepages under currentcontrolset, cant remember atm, but its there. By there, i mean a folder which contains the codepages name and what language its for. So following logic would then be to delete all codepages that are not used by the language of windows itself, and whatever language you prefer yourself. Nlite has a warning about deleting such keyboard entries will affect office updates, i cant verify that however as office updates have worked here. Not really sure if this is the same thing, but thought i'd mention it anyway.

That would be anything that is not in windows 2000. Isn't that obvious?