Help needed

[AllenF]

Hi guys I dont know if this is in the right place so if not please feel free to move it..

I have a problem and cant see what I`m doing wrong.

I changed the

SHELL 32.dll file

MSGINA.dll file

NTOSKRNL.dll file

WINNTBBU.dll file

(basically to make xp look like 7 and install as such without having to run windowblinds or something similar)

When i throw these into the I386 folder and "replace" the old ones the boot it, it seems to throw everything back to the original xp stuff.

How do I make xp keep these modified files?

I have used the MAKECAB command and they now see as .DL_ foles the same as the original files.

What have i missed here I kanow its something silly but cant for the life of me either find it or see it

Cheers

Allen

Edited January 31, 2010 by AllenF

[jaclaz]

I do not understand what you mean:

When i throw these into the I386 folder and "replace" the old ones the boot it, it seems to throw everything back to the original xp stuff.

Are you trying to create a new BOOT CD form a \I386\ folder?

Or are you trying to replace them on a live system?

Do you have WFP (or SFC if you prefer) turned off?

Can you try better detailing what you are trying to do and waht happens?

jaclaz

[AllenF]

Sorry its for a custom bootable cd

WFP is modified to be off

when i copy the new .dl_`s files to the source folder then Nlite does it stuff and i install on a VM then all the dl_`s that i put in have somehow reverted back to the windows original ones even though they were deleted from the source folder

Hope that helps and makes sense

[jaclaz]

Hope that helps and makes sense

It does help , but it doesn't make sense (to me at least) .

You create a .iso with nlite, right?

The files inside the .iso are the modified ones or they are not?

Verify the MD5/CRC of the files you modified and compare them to those in the .iso.

AFAIK "original" files cannot be recreated from thin air, and the VM should "know nothing" about them.

i.e. I presume that the "original" are written to the .iso instead of the "modified" ones.

jaclaz

[AllenF]

p the files in the ISO are the modded ones.

and yes the original files (that were deleted and replaced with the modded ones that check out with iso buster as the modded ones) seem to take there place.

So i get the ORIGINAL install of xp not the modded version of xp

md5`s

modded

2CD602ABA8482E457ACAC5298839EDB4

origina

l8A5EA6D8B09C9ACF2B57EADCC3F839ED

????

now i`m totally lost lol

[jaclaz]

now i`m totally lost lol

And that makes a nice, round, total of 2 of us.

jaclaz

[Geej]

Since your are replacing SHELL32.dll,MSGINA.dll,NTOSKRNL.dll & WINNTBBU.dll in your nlite source,

possible solution might be these 2 references:

http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/64/

http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/66/

Hope this is something useful

[AllenF]

modifyPE doesn`t seem to want to work for me all i get is errors then the BSOD tried it on three different pc`s (three differnt source files all clean install) so i have binned that option

question is the checksums should they be different or not.

Maybe I`m going up the wrong path here.

[powerivan]

YEAH !!!!! THATS ROCKS

Edited April 12, 2010 by powerivan