GZeus

Hi all First, a big thanks to the moderators and all who participate in this forum. I have learned a lot from both the questions and the answers. I got fed up with an old home PC and decided I was going to get a new one. Then I made a mistake. I read an article (**** Maximum PC!!) that showed how easy it was to put togther your own. So, with a little too much time and money on my hands, I took the plunge. Actually, it hasn't been that bad of an experience so far. I have enjoyed the learning curve... and have a lot more questions still to come. Please be patient with the NuB! B)

Thank you, Woelfman10. That's an excellent point about the graphics drivers. I may just leave them out of the slipstream. ps - in Manitoba, everyone just stare at the snow!

Thanks 5eraph, but...maybe I wasn't clear. I already extracted to files using 7Zip. Its just that when I'm reviewing the files to throw out the ones i don't need, before recompression, i've run into the file extension names with the 'underscore'. I suspect that you are right though, in that they probably should not be edited. Can you confirm that i only need the files referenced in the .inf file? Any suspicions on the second .inf file? Forgive my ignorance but i haven't done a slipstream before but really want to try it this time - good technical challenge and all that. Many thanks for your reply!

Anyone still watching this thread??? I have 7900GT's and want to slipstream my installation. I'm a newbie at this so maybe my question is pretty basic.... I extracted the files from the 84.21 NVidia Driver and have reviewed the files in the .inf file. But I've run into a snag. A lot of the file extensions in the extracted data end with an 'underscore'. (dl_, sy_). I can reasonably guess that those are .dll and .sys. However, do I need to edit these file extensions to ".dll" and ".sys" before adding them to the driverpack in order to make them function correctly? Also, the file contains 2 .inf files which seem to reference the same material. I assume I should include both .inf files in the created driverpack. Is this correct? Big thanks to anyone that can help!