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I sometimes run into systems where the C is not available, because some other drive takes it. I run the following diskpart script, which so far, the destination letter has always worked: sel vol c assign letter=e exit That will fix your issue with the C being taken my something else.

Yes transparency does work but back in the olden days of computers made for 98, transparency was a big time burden on the system. Even my old computer (Shiva) which was beefy back then for 98 displayed well if you didn't, say move stuff around or try to run a program that used 3D acceleration or shell. I managed to find this screenshot of transparency on Shiva which was taken on Dec 01, 2001 (date seems right, its in the properties of the pic) which actually used whatever the current version of ObjectDesktop was available at the time to do this. Oh it was Windows 98a or, not B or SE or Plus! I am really out of the loop on 98 nowadays... Oh and don't worry. None of those AIM names are active anymore except mine.

I tried to research before making the post. I'm sure it on the Partner network someplace but there's something wrong with my account so I couldn't check. Edit: actually, I forget this is in XP forum. I don't even know if XP has N or Starter versions. Before my time.

If we had a "GRiDCase that went under water and has no power supply and takes 30 minutes to boot off a Toshiba DOS disk when hooked up to a printer power adapter" forum I would have made a better greetings.

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MSSE is not for corporate use. Forefront is the enterprise version, and is supported by WSUS.

Do not assign the System Reserved partition a drive letter. Assign the OS partition the C letter. Then run BCDBOOT.EXE C:\WINDOWS.

See the very bottom of this page: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd772269.aspx

Ah ha, I posted the answer in your other thread. So speaking of which, I am merging the 2 topics. I do not know how to do this with the GImageX implementation you are using. See the DISM commands in Post #2 of this new merged thread.

Also we must remember that some users do not have the same resources that we may have. For example, my WIMs for 7 are just the OS and drivers. I have a custom program that is run after imaging where you can select what programs you want to install. Of course if you choose, say Nero and Office, that's almost 1GB of stuff right there. But in my case, these files are kept on a network server. A bunch of people here are limited to using USB Keys or DVDs and don't have servers to install Windows with, and this is a reason why file size becomes an issue.

Validation, aka whatever the WGA does. Or sometimes when you need to download something from Microsoft, you have to validate first before the website will let you save the file. I am guessing this is what he means. I am wondering if the Canary Islands are one of those places that are designated as N or Starter only.

Easy way is to make a shortcut for your program. Then put that shortcut into the Startup folder in the Start Menu. Remember, making things start when the computer boots will make that process slower. Your other option is you can put it in the registry: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Run

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If you are running this from Normal Mode (aka not Factory or Audit Mode) you may need to run this CMD elevated. I believe you can specify a runas option in a batch file. I've never done it myself.

If there is only one user, is there a specific reason why you want this screen to appear at boot? You could always just turn the auto-logon option on. Then you can say, set your screen saver to prompt for credentials on resume. And always lock your session when not using the computer.

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I checked your hardware ID, and it is not in XP's Driverpacks. I don't like how it has a DEV of 9999, seems bad. Also a SUBSYS of all 0 is suspect as well. I moved your other topic. Use this topic for the driver issue, use the other topic for XP in a VM discussion.

Not to bump my own topic, but I can't move after post on an edit. This is a crosspost of this topic here: Before getting too out of control, I will move this topic to Software Hangout, STRICTLY for conversation about running Windows 98 in a VM, and NOT about the driver issue. Topic will be closed if it continues to be a crosspost.

IIRC, removing components with DISM only removes those entries from the master index. It does not actually delete those items, but they won't be installed. In order to get those unused peices out, you need to export the WIM. DISM with then rebuild the WIM using only the files in the index, which should reduce the size.

I never really understood why you would want to remove stuff from your Windows install. I figured it was just a project that someone did to see if XP or Vista or whatever could run on the bare minimum, then it because its own monster. I could *maybe* see if people were trying to get stuff to fit on smaller media, but then I still remember that you can just get newer (bigger) media. With the size of hard drives, speed of CPUs, size of memory, etc, I do not see a reason for needing to remove things, to make the OS smaller, or run with less resources. Maybe that was a thing of the past and some people just got used to using it, same reason why we have such a large Windows 98 or Windows 2000 base here. Just for fun, here are my image sizes 2.33GB Windows 7 Home Premium x86 3.00GB Windows 7 Home Premium x64 2.45GB Windows 7 Professional x86 3.10GB Windows 7 Professional x64 2.13GB Windows 7 Starter 6.10GB Vista Business x86 We don't really use Vista anymore, but we keep it around. We have XP images too but they are bigger than the Vista one.

Remember that Vista may use different registry paths and DOES use different paths for the User profile and Programs, since there are no Documents and Settings or Program Files folders anymore. So if you are using any absolute paths for XP, you may need to change them. Easiest might be to detect which type of OS it is, and use one method for XP and the other for Vista.

Moving to Antivirus forum

Hmmm I am now wondering if you can run Win98 inside of DOSBOX...

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