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VMware has a free trial but it's an 100mb download! Whereas Virtual PC is like 20mb or something! Kaspersky has a more robust antivirus and firewall engine. I didn't like EZ antivirus because it's the kind of thing for novices (no offence but you can't configure it too much).

The UA guide is your friend Make your prefs etc and export the regkey from [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\TaskManager]

I'm guessing I've seen it used to launch a program before w/a direct program entry on a windows upgrade install.

@chickenfeed (nice username, lol): by default it's turned on, not compulsary. I am using Home Edition w/out Simp. Filesharing...

I always use Resource Hacker. Not so good results w/me

You need setup.htm if you install via upgrade mode. So if you run winnt32.exe basically. Listen to blinkdt... Structure of "Install" folder: <Path_to_xp_source>\$OEM$\$1\Install\ Put O2k3, winamp5.exe etc in here.

Structure: XPCD dirs in XPCD: i386, $OEM$, (optional) SUPPORT, VALUEADD and DOCS (maybe CMPNTS?) FIles in XPCD: WIN51, WIN51IP(or IC on Home Edition), AUTORUN.INF (I deleted mine) and SETUP.EXE (that's crap, I never install in GUI mode anyway).

Your boot.ini Sandro is messed up. That's the boot execution for a normal Windows OS but instead of "Windows Xp Professional/Home", it's "nLite Windows XP SP2 Setup". Try multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\XPCD\WINNT.EXE="nLite Windows XP SP2 Setup"

@BigDaddy and I'm sayin the original Ubuntu is the best Linux distro for me.

... or maybe it's gone for good because you deleted it? How do you undelete? Possible w/services? I tried but no success.

Do you know what installer it uses?

Could work on the UI a bit but I'll try it out. Any mirrors (help me, it's Rapidshare!)?

But a res editor most likely corruptes all exes except SFXs for some reason.

I know that a ghost install disc is bootable, if you can create a gho when booting from it after txtmode onto a REALLY big memory stick or even better, another partition, then you could put it on a dvd or something w/ a BartPE disc and restore it on other PCs. Btw nobody can do that on 1000+ PCs. But you have GOT to be some sort of big company otherwise it'd take ages. Links: http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/download/ Good luck.

Or you can use nLite. Or Google even.

But on the unattended guide, when installing updates, it sez to rename WindowsXP-KBxxxxxxxx-ENU.exe to KBxxxxxxxx.exe. This hints not too long filenames? Who knows, but I haven't been able to go over 10 characters.

Any error codes, is it an admin point or normal install etc. Can you post a screenshot plz?

Lol Alanoll! I've had luck in using search @Terabyte Maybe nLite isn't meant to do everything. I wish buidling ua discs were as simple as nLite...

Yeah, regedit /s works fine as well. It's a bit quicker (0.3 secs if you're picky ).

Probably you deleted all files from %systemroot%\Web\Wallpapers in a cleanup.cmd or something. You have to browse to a custom wallpaper in my documents or something. If there are selections there but it's just greyed out, then I can't help you.

You can't rename it to Zip or Rar, you have to browse to it w/your favourite archiving utility, yes, a 3rd party one. And yep, universal extractor is the way to go B)

In the 98 menu when you boot from CD w/CDROM support, choose that. Type fdisk, enter, partition the drive how you want it. Reboot, and boot w/CDROM support again til you get to the dos prompt. Type "format C:" (Win98 always lists the boot drive as C: anyway) and you have a fresh FAT(32) partition.

They said sp3 for xp will be released after vista.

One word for you... Yes

And open device manager, click View>Show devices by connection. On mine, most of my usb stuff is in usb ports plugged in 2 PCI ports, so my usb devs are listed under "ACPI Multiprocessor System">"PCI Bus">"Intel <some random numbers>FB USB to PCI>"my usb devices".