Classic Folders and Disk Compression

[Antharro]

Hi all,

I'm new here, tho I've been messing around with nLite for some time now. I've only really had a motivation to get into this seriously since I got an 8Mb Dell Mini 9. I gotta say I prefer my Samsung NC10, but the Mini was free... almost. Had to buy a screen for it.

Anyways, I've been playing with nLite, integrating drivers, changing settings, etc. I'm using the Dell XP SP3 for ULPCs CD that came with the Mini. It seems that the drivers for this thing have to go on in a specific order else the install BSODs on its first boot - not helpful. So I got that sorted out, and I think I've even managed to get the couple of drivers that won't integrate to run using RunOnce, although I screwed up the file paths so they didn't work. But still, I'm left with two problems.

1) Despite my double-checking and double-checking again, classic folder view is turned ON. This is annoying and I cannot see what I've done or not done to set this.

2) Compressed folders is turned on. Again, I don't know what I've done to this as I don't recall setting that. I'm wondering if it's something that was turned on on the Dell CD, and if so, how the heck do I turn it off?

I've created four "editions" of the nLited install, mostly to see if I could work out what to do with the drivers. So I've attached all four session INIs. Perhaps someone here could take a look through them and see what I've done or haven't done and point me in the right direction?

Many thanks!

-Anth

LAST_SESSION__205508.13_17.31.50_.INI

LAST_SESSION__205508.13_18.16.28_.INI

LAST_SESSION__205508.13_18.30.30_.INI

LAST_SESSION__205508.16_00.25.20_.INI

[Guest]

You need to start with a clean untouched source when running nLite. It will not remove tweaks applied on subsequent runs.

[Antharro]

Interesting. It seems to have done a pretty good job of integrating the runonce stuff and the additional drivers on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th runs...

Classic Windows is not turned on by default on the Dell install, so it's something that either I am, or nLite is doing.

Also, I just noticed that I totally posted this in the wrong place. My bad, I'll re-post in the nLite forum.

-Anth

[Guest]

It can add drivers fine on more than one run but when you get into things that modify the registry you will get the same keys applied twice. It just makes a mess of nlite.inf.