Nuno Brito

Can you upload a screenshot of the new theme? Thanks for the new release!

You are wrong.WINE acronym is very explicit by nature "Wine Is Not an Emulator" Most DLL's found on wine distributions will work just good on regular Windows environments, except the ones who have been custom modified to work with custom characteristics required for the Wine project (registry hives handling is such example). I have used them on a few occasions to avoid use of MS copyright restricted software. I suggest that you start by reading the wiki page: And about this: MSDN doesn't document everything and you're bound to get stuck several times trying to understand how the Win32 API actually works. This is also mentioned on the wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software) I've stumbled on this difficulty many times, MS simply doesn't give away their trade secrets. As I've mentioned before - the Wine and ReactOS projects are the best (open source) option to start learning how these things work. On this case I would focus on Wine as they focused for many years on Win9.x and this is still visible today.

The WINE team has produced a lot of code for Win9.x alike OS's and continues working very actively up to our days: http://winehq.org/

Don't forget Winimize in that case: http://winimize.com/

eheh I know what you mean. We share a very good language, it's just too bad that the rest of world doesn't understand it like we do.. It will: unpack the addon file read the inf file and get the command line copy files to the target folder write changes on config.js The complete description can be read from the source code. If you need more features then perhaps we can also add them. See you later!

Quick translation: Can this tool and/or WPI handle other filetypes besides .exe such as themes? Reply: [portuguese] Olá! Realmente é raro ver mais gente da nossa "terrinha" por estas bandas e fico feliz de ver mais conterrâneos. Não faço ideia se seja possível copiar ficheiros de um lado para o outro com o WPI, terás mesmo de perguntar ou ler a documentação para ter a certeza. O meu objectivo era ter uma ferramenta deste tipo para facilitar a conversão dos addons para o formato WPI mas também comecei recentemente a mexer com este método. [/portuguese] Translation: Nice to see more people from our home land. I don't know if it's possible to copy files from one folder to another as you mention, guess you'll have to ask other members or read WPI's documentation to be sure. My goal was a simple tool to convert addons to the WPI format and I've just recently began working with it.

No, I don't think a mod has edited anything because I'm receiving the topic replies on my mailbox. Still believe that an open source project would be the better option on the long run instead of distributing MS copyrighted files..

Glad to hear that!

Not that I'm aware of. DriverPacks is quite complete and a lot of human effort is flowing onto their project to make things work well. If you only need a few drivers, read the documentation from MS regarding unattended installs and learn how to integrate drivers by yourself. But why don't you like DriverPacks and then ask for other similar projects if they would all end up having the same result? ----- You can extract only the drivers you like to have included from their packs but this will imply having to understand how they work..

Glad you like it. This is one of my favourite tools to disable malware as well. The option to remove suspicious services is also very good.

hmm.. Do you want to test out the WPI functionality? Download here: http://nunobrito.eu/temp/WPI.zip Unpack all files inside a folder called WPI

Awesome, will update the first topic. Thank you!

Hi paraglider, nice to see you here! My machine doesn't display a option to uninstall .NET so I can't remove the existent files. Thank you for this suggestion. --- Albert, the web installer hangs while trying to install .NET - I went to the microsoft site to download the whole package but I'm at home and my web connection is simply too slow/limited to consider large downloads as the package you include doesn't work on my machine. I'm looking for a portable tool capable of working on XP/Vista machines without requiring a .NET framework and I'll use the tool mentioned by sp00f. Good luck with your work.

The members of Damasgate translated this program to Arab language: http://www.damasgate.com/vb/t104522.html

Sure there is a way. Download XYNTservice and use this great program to load up a batch file that will only fire up the startup apps you need after a specified time interval. I wrote about it here: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/XYNTService-t3526.html --- For disabling redundant startup entries do look at hijack free from asquared, very good tool.

I'm a regular folk. Moved to Firefox a few years ago and I don't have any reasons to return into to the domain of IE. --- firefox brought a feeling of democracy in a sort of twisted way as we are no longer tied to the wishes of a corporation nor I will have to spend any money to buy licenses or be afraid to pass copies of it to my friends. -- Have built several sites and either FF or IE (6 & 7) work good enough. Other browsers are also good, diversity is welcome to bring more competition.

Tinykrnl had a very similar goal a few years ago and has effectively managed some level of success replace most of the initial boot files used for XP. http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:fBabang...=pt&strip=1 One remanescent of this legacy was WinRoot - a Windows XP based boot disk that is sized in 5Mb. (who said NT was unefficient?) http://winbuilder.net/download.php?view.6 Alex closed down TinyKrnl but he is still active here: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/Native-NT-Toolkit-t3791.html --- The solution for open source OS that you're looking for is called linux. It is smaller, faster and much more adaptable than any MS OS will ever be. Guess the only downside is that MS coded programs won't run very well but these barriers are slowly becoming thinner as web based applications become popular and WINE compatibility moves forward. You can now browse on youtube, wikipedia or post on forums regardless of the OS you use and this is something that MS struggled very hard to avoid. Understanding the Windows API is not easy as there are a lot of tricks and traps that are added along the road to ensure enough headaches for people outside MS to replicate them (no public documentation also complicates things). I remember my own complications trying to reverse-engineer the registry win32 api functions to allow raw file handling and getting stuck on the part where a new hive was not recognized as valid by regedit. http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...t=0&start=0 If you want to spend your time and talent coding better open source DLL's then I really suggest joining the efforts of the Wine Team: http://winehq.org As the saying goes: "The more, the merrier.." ----- btw: But if you're interested in decoding Win32 API then I would have a few requests/challenges in case you're interested!

Thank you! Do you have any idea how runWPI.exe will work? Does it load the registry hives or modify the unnatended part of the XP I386 folder? If I just need to run it then this makes the task of automating this step so much easier.

Good to see Siginet/DriverPacks members actively working on this area, at the moment I was only aware of these talks: http://forum.driverpacks.net/viewtopic.php?id=142 And on the VistaPE side this is also being discussed: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...ost&p=31858 where boot land members are pondering to create and support a new tool from scratch or merge human efforts with other teams more focused on this specific Windows Install area. (our area of expertise are boot disks) But with so many people working on separate sides we're all bound to miss the opportunity to make a good open source tool for everybody to enjoy since this is a much needed feature for the future. I would really be happy to to see a common effort to produce such tool.

Hi Albert! This sounds like a good program but I ran into some difficulties as .NET framework 3.5 is always hanging on my machine and refuses to install as expected. My OS is Portuguese Vista Home Edition x64 Do I really need to install a 200Mb framework to run this program? http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...en#Requirements Just a suggestion, please consider using a more flexible language that doesn't limit your program to be depending on the .NET framework. AutoIt (basic related) is a good example of this: http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3 You'd be able to code a program that would surely run on most windows machines without any worries about including (redundant) .NET frameworks. I personally use delphi 7 (pascal based) for years and it's a heck of a good compiler and many other good options exist for C as well. This would be a plus when compared to other programs with similar functions that explicitly require .NET --- Downloaded beta 3 and used UniExtract to take a glimpse on the binaries you've included. To replace SmartWIM you can use WimUtil (coded in AutoIt by a russian developer called Nikzzzz for NightMan, author of VistaPE): http://vistape.net/beta - very simple to be used as you can double click on the exe to see the instructions. It's free and the developer will likely add any additional functions that you require, he can be contacted here: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/View-Membe...ofile-m711.html oscdimg.exe can be replaced with mkisofs.exe, look for it under the same page I've posted for wimutil and I'm sure that you can find replacements for most of the restricted copyrighted files that you're including on the package. --- I'm quite sure that it's not legal to distribute files developed by Microsoft without their express permission but then again I think that Albert doesn't need to worry that much since vlite is also doing the same redistribution with the wimfltr driver or has nuhi a special permission to distribute files from their WAIK? --- Albert, since you're just starting up. Would you consider an open source development? It would likely relief you from a unlikely court-room process as it would become a non-profit development and also allow many other developers along the road to help you and provide additional features and ensure it would be used by other popular projects. I can help with free website/file hosting for large bandwidth usage and provide testing feedback as this project has potential to become very useful for a few Vista related projects such as VistaPE and Driverpacks but it would require team work to see this program grow instead of falling into oblivion within a few months. Wether open/closed source and requiring .NET or not I'll still be happy to help in whatever needed. Thanks for sharing your work with us. Take care.

Here are my current modifications up to this point: - [added] Parted Magic - [added] VMWARE emulation script - [added] New logo artwork - [moved] Addons folder to root of project - [updated] Using Winbuilder 074 - [updated] WinRoot project with new files - [improved] Clean up button will prepare the project for redistribution - [adding] WPI support.. For Parted Magic to work it will require that the ISO label is "Parted Magic". This can be edited inside the image but I'm thinking on talking with the author to make things easier for those who want to include this OS as an option. I like Parted a lot, very complete and a good looking boot option. --- Because I moved the Addons folder to the root, the nlite scripts are giving some headaches, will likely move it back to the previous location. Also having some doubts with WPI, the script and tool are completed but how should the RunOnceEx entries be created to run at installation time without using nlite?

You can start from scratch or pick a project already in development and join the team effort. BBlean is a good option, open source and very efficient: http://www.bb4win.org/news.php ReactOS comes with an open source shell that you can also use: http://www.sky.franken.de/explorer/ Personally, I recommend getting in contact with an already estabilished project as they can guide you and maybe this way save a lot of time rather than learning everything from scratch.

Glad you liked it. If you improve this tool then you're welcome to post your modified files and I'll surely mention your name on the credits for this development.

Hi Benxhi! This tool was coded using delphi 7. You can download it here: http://mirrors.jx90.com/ And register your copy for free on the borland site: http://www.codegear.com/downloads/free/delphi ---- "comp.bat" will just run "upx -9 addos2wpi.exe" and compress the exe file. UPX is a exe compressor: http://upx.sourceforge.net