Some problems

[grzesiek]

Hello. I used HFSLIP to slipstream some hotfixes, WMP11 and IE7. During installation when HFSLIP.CMD file is executed there is something it can't find some files in system32\dllcache folder like mshtml.dll, msrating.dll, inseng.dll and so on. When I opened SVCPACK.INF file there were two entries HFSLIP.CMD under SetupHotfixesToRun section, is this should be like that? After installation when I tryed to run services.msc or gpedit.msc I got error that there is some error with mmc.exe application and do I want to send raport to Microsoft. So I can't open services window nor gpedit. When I lunch IE and click on Home Page button or type some address in address bar and press enter IE crashes saying there was problem with Internet Explorer application and it will be closed. I didn't had this problems with older versions of HFSLIP but I also didn't slipstream WMP11 and IE7. I didn't modified anything else only used HFSLIP and added winnt.sif file. My OS is WinXP with SP2. I attached hfslip.log file.

HFSLIP.TXT

[Arie]

After having looked at your LOG-file for two seconds I already noticed several things which do not belong there. You are missing many updates and several included updates should be removed because they are either replaced, unnecessary or not even compatible with your installation. Also, why are SFC_OS.DL_ and SYSSETUP.DL_ in your FIX folder?

The following files in your HF folder should be removed for starters:

Windows-KB913433-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsMedia6-KB925398-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB319740-v5-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB885222-v2-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB887742-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB888111-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB889673-x86-PLK.exe

For as far as I could quickly see, the following files in your HF folder are not required:

WindowsXP-KB884020-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB884883-v8-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB889527-v3-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB896256-v4-x86-PLK.exe

I don't know the following two files in your HF folder, but judging by their names they're codecs meant for Windows Media Player 6 and Windows Media Player 9, so they would not be needed then.

WM9Codecs.exe
wmp6cdcs.exe

Please note that I did not check the following files; I didn't want to spoil all the fun for you

WindowsXP-KB896358-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB896423-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB896428-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB896626-v2-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB898461-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB899587-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB899591-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB900485-v2-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB900725-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB901017-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB901190-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB901214-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB902400-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB904412-v2-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB904706-v2-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB905414-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB905749-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB906569-v2-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB908519-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB910437-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB911280-v2-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB911562-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB913538-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB913580-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB914388-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB914389-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB916595-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB917021-v3-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB917537-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB917953-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB918005-v4-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB918118-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB918997-v6-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB919007-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB920670-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB920683-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB920872-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB921503-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB922582-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB922819-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB923191-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB923414-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB923980-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB924270-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB924667-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB924941-v2-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB925902-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB926247-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB926255-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB926436-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB927779-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB927802-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB928255-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB928843-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB929123-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB930178-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB931784-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB931836-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB935448-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB935839-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB935840-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB936021-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB938127-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB938829-x86-PLK.exe
WindowsXP-KB941202-x86-PLK.exe

Please go through all the above files to see which ones are needed. Check the HFSLIP web site for a basic how-to, extra's, advanced features, et cetera to see which utilitities you're perhaps missing in your HFTOOLS folder.

Hope this helps you on your way.

[Tomcat76]

WindowsMedia6-KB925398 is a security hotfix which applies to every OS that HFSLIP supports. Installing WMP9/10/11 does not remove or overwrite WMP 6.4 (mplayer2.exe) or WMP 5 (mplay32.exe). It's at version 2, though (WindowsMedia6-KB925398-v2-x86-PLK.exe).

WM9Codecs.exe is not supported. Why would you want this anyway when you're slipstreaming WMP11?

wmp6cdcs.exe is only for Windows 2000. I will have WM9Codecs.exe blocked for all OS's and wmp6cdcs.exe blocked for non-2000 systems in the next release.

You are also missing an update which is crucial if you want to slipstream WMP11. This file is on my hotfix list and more info on it can be found on the Important things to know page of the HFSLIP site.

I suggest you compare the content of your HF folder with my hotfix list (after checking IE7, WMP11, and such in the "Update your Windows XP configuration" section) and remove every hotfix that isn't listed -- including XPize47b2Lite.exe. Don't forget the special hotfix for WMP11.

[grzesiek]

Thanks for your help. The sfc_os file is to disable SFP but insted copy also sfcfiles file I copied syssetup, so my mistake. I removed wmv codecs if they are not needed, added some hotfixes and removed unnecessary. But after that I have the same problems. I tryed also instaling without slipstreamed IE7 and I didn't had any of those problems which I mentioned in the first post. So I don't know why but it looks like I can't have slipstreamed IE7. All everything is slipstreamed great but only that IE makes some problems.

[Tomcat76]

Are you using nLite or some other tool after HFSLIP?

Try HFSLIP 1.7.0rc1 (top of this forum).

Nearly forgot:

When I opened SVCPACK.INF file there were two entries HFSLIP.CMD under SetupHotfixesToRun section, is this should be like that?

Yes, it's normal. HFSLIP.CMD is divided into two parts and they need to be executed at different times.

[grzesiek]

Are you using nLite or some other tool after HFSLIP?

Nope, I only used HFSLIP. Of course except cdimage in which I create iso and then virtual pc

After when during installation I didn't had problem with finding those files, I was hoping that maybe this will work now. But I still have this problems with IE and mmc.exe application. I'm not sure but I remember that when I once slipstreamed IE7 with some earlier version of HFSLIP I think I didn't had this problems. This was some first version which supported IE7 slipstreaming, maybe even beta. But the next version yet didn't support this, cause some bugs or something.

Edited November 11, 2007 by grzesiek

[Tomcat76]

What switches are you using with cdimage?

I'd still like you to try HFSLIP 1.7.0rc1 and post a new log file if the problem remains. Did you remove obsolete and not supported updates?

[grzesiek]

I use this batch file which is added to folder context menu to create bootable and normal iso image.

@ECHO OFF &SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS
TITLE Creative %2 ISO of %~nx1
SET "LABL=%~nx1"
SET "LABL=%LABL: =_%"
ECHO/Removing possible attributes on %~n1 and its subfolders...
ATTRIB -R -H "%~f1" /S /D
ECHO/&ECHO/Removing any thumbs.db files from %~n1 and its subfolders...
DEL /S/A/F/Q "%~f1\thumbs.db" 2>NUL
ECHO/&ECHO/Creating %2 ISO...
IF "%2" EQU "DATA" (SET OPTN=-l%LABL:~0,32% -yd -n -x -o -m -d) ELSE (
  SET OPTN=-l%LABL:~0,16% -j1 -m -o -b"%~dp0xpBoot.img")
"%~dp0CDIMAGE.EXE" %OPTN% "%~s1" "%~nx1.iso"
>NUL PING -n 11 127.0.0.1

I already tryed HFSLIP 1.7.0rc1 and as I wrote I have the same problem except that that during installation when HFSLIP.CMD is executed I didn't have problem with finding those files. I also tryed to remove all HF's from HF folder and leave only IE7 installation file but after Windows installation I still had these problems. I don't know maybe I'll just integrate IE7 installation with Windows setup. I attached log file from 1.7.0rc1 version and hope now everything is ok.

Edit.

Ok, I now removed almost everything, leaved only IE7 in HF folder, content of SOURCE dir and modifyPE.exe in HFTOOLS dir and finally this solved my problem. I will later see what exactly caused this.

HFSLIP.TXT

Edited November 12, 2007 by grzesiek

[grzesiek]

I finally know what exactly caused my problem. In HFANSWER.INI I had DELCATS value set to 1 so all cat files are removed during slipstream process from SVCPACK folder. But it looks like that deletes these files are not good when IE7 is slipstreamed. When I set DELCATS value to 0 and slipstreamed only IE7 there were created four cat files in SVCPACK folder which are idnmitigationapis.cat, ie7.cat, KB915865.CAT and nlsdownlevelmapping.cat. I found out that all off this cats can be safely removed except ie7.cat file. Removing this file cause problems which I described in the first post. So it will be good to add in the next release to not delete this file even if there was choosen option to delete cat files. So now I'm happy cause my problem is solved and everything is working great. Many thanks Tomcat76 for help and of course for your work on this great tool. And I hope from the next relese I will not have any problems like that

[Tomcat76]

What if there is already something you can use?

HFANSWER.INI: DELCATS_OVERRIDE=<name of cat file without extention>

The DELCATS_OVERRIDE variable was introduced in HFSLIP 1.6.2 and is discussed on the web site, right here.

I'm not sure if IE7 itself is problematic, but I know someone else reported this before you and the problem was the cumulative update for IE7 then, so you should definitely use:

DELCATS=1

DELCATS_OVERRIDE=KB939653-IE7

If you need to set more than one, do it like so:

DELCATS=1

DELCATS_OVERRIDE=ie7

DELCATS_OVERRIDE=KB939653-IE7

The cat name for the IE cumulative update may change tomorrow on Patch Tuesday.

[grzesiek]

OK then I will try that. Thanks again. Cheers!