Many general questions

[nomadturk]

I'm in to creating an unattended windows release since a few weeks. It's quite amazing to see how customized a windows can be right from the installation. After seeing Black XP, Vortex Vista, WinUtuxu and likes of these i've decided to create my own, in my own language and with my preferences.

After a bit of search, checking through other windows releases and with the help of google i've reached MSFN. The rest came afterwards easily. Now i can add the software i've found on the forums, i can add driverpacks and customize my windows. Thank you guys.

But i've been running into som difficulties and problems now and then. At my first releases i was using a bare windows xp without any service packs at all and was adding service pack 2 then integrating media player 11 and then was applying other windows updates i've downloaded via WUD. But that was mostly causing problems, like non-working media player. And even if i somehow made it work i never could run Autocad 2002 or 2004 which i am trying to learn since we're using that version in our company. (2008 works ok)

So, i decided to work with the already wm11 integrated, sp2 windows cd i was normally using. I took it, i opened nLite, added all the updates i have except the ones that must be run by user since they can't be integrated. Tweaked my XP with nLite, added some sata drivers, created custom $OEM$ folder with wallpapers, oeminfo.ini, custom xp sounds, loads of wallpapers i've even added default profiles with extensions for thunderbird and firefox (which didn't work due to an error adblock was giving. I shall try silence of the foxes next time instead of putting my profiles to OEM folder), skins for BsPlayer, default settings for some software i've installed, custom hosts file and etc. Then added the addons via Ryan's VM.. Oh, i've added loads of them, updated some of them myself, replaced some with Turkish ones... I really liked this thing. I've found many stuff here and Ryan's Forum and special thanks to winaddons.com . There're some really good applications thanks to you guys.

Anyway, afterwards i'm adding DriverPacks to my windows, (Method 2, QSC ON)

Bingo, i've a working windows now!

But.. I still have some questions.

First of all, does integrating a software first or last matter? If it does, does it corrupt the installation to run the Ryan's Integrator twice? Or should i add the the ones to be installed first via nLite whilst choosing addons, hotfixes.. then add the rest via Ryan's?

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Also, about removing services and disabling services.. I need some help here, i really don't know which service could be useful at where? Considering my windows can be used by a regular user or a power user or at a company machine i don't want to remove anything that can be necessarry but i sure am that there're some services that won't ever be used by anyone. But what are they?

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The next step will be working with WPI and creating my own addons, such as SuperCopier2 i want to integrate to my windows since i'm using it and i'm fine with it. Or learning how to run reg files during the installation. These are mysteries for me right now.

How can i set windows to use AIMP to open Mp3 files but not VLC?

Seems i've forgotten installing XnView with this release, but even if i did not, i am sure it would register itself.

How will i register file types for the software i like?

Anyway, it's quite a long post by now, i hope you will read it and enlighten me.

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Edited January 8, 2008 by Yzöwl
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