integrated Drivers out after?

[Creatura]

(again) Hi Folks,

there is one Question I really would like to be answered "once and forever for sure":

Example: I take my (original and untouched) Win-CD and integrate my Drivers into it (GraphicCard, Chip, AHCI, etc.)

directly after this I compile and have now the same Win than before, just included my Driver.

THIS new Version now I copy and start work again on it: I load either Last_Session or my own saved however called Session. Because there is now all informations included I inserted before, surely also the drivers are still in the List. But this Version should have however this drivers already included.

Is it ok to empty this Driver-List or not? (the same to Hotfixes, SPs, and especially for the themes *, etc.)

My guess is YES and I'm 98% sure but, please forgive me that I ask here for go sure 100%

(*) I added two themes in the first session (the one with the drivers) and always when compiling afterwards versions, it tell me "Luna.theme is already included and will be skipped" - this is ok and no problem to understand - I just wonder, because I insertet not original Luna but a changed Luna wich I gave a different Name. Also it never tell me the same for my other inserted theme - this is the reason, what makes me unsure with this topic.

Thank you all

Creatura of the Day

[johnhc]

Creatura, I tell people to always start with a fresh copy of the CD files/folders and run nLite only one time doing all your work. You can get away with some things (like adding an SP) but not others. I cannot tell which you can and cannot get away with, nor do I think anyone can except nuhi (owner/author) and he has not been seen here in quite some time. You can and should reuse your Last Session (using a fresh copy of source). In the future, please attach your Last Session when you have one and a question. Enjoy, John.

[Sp0iLedBrAt]

Confirmed, do everything in one run. At the same time, you can click/tick Delete after install option at driver integration; nLite will take care of the rest.

[Creatura]

hi Johnhc,

first of all, thank you for this fast answer. I have read in a german thread (Multi-sessions of nLite) that this Guy which give a very detailled "How To", always prepair everything - he was saying: first everything in, than everything out.

So I try in the last days also "step-by-step" and reduce Win (starting with a full fresh, untouched) in several steps - if nLite really work, than all the changes must be in the respective actual version/step - this one copying and take as base for the next steps, and so on.

I guess my question was so 'basically' and not specified for a special problem, that it is not necessary to post a session-file - what will you find out in it which helps for answering this question? and also it is german - not everyones language

but however johnhc - thanks for trying to help

[johnhc]

Creatura, Google has a good translator that I use to translate the parts I need to see. There is a file created by nLite called nLite.inf (compressed into NLITE.IN_) that contains many of the instructions to implement what you ask nLite to do. It uses a routine called nhelper.exe and the last thing is to delete itself. When multiple runs of nLite are made, in some cases, nLite adds items to the end of this file that use nhelper.exe. Since it has been deleted, things don't go so well from here on. Enjoy, John.

[Ponch]

THIS new Version now I copy and start work again on it: I load either Last_Session or my own saved however called Session. Because there is now all informations included I inserted before, surely also the drivers are still in the List. But this Version should have however this drivers already included.

Is it ok to empty this Driver-List or not? (the same to Hotfixes, SPs, and especially for the themes *, etc.)

My guess is YES and I'm 98% sure but, please forgive me that I ask here for go sure 100%

To be clear, it's NO. You should NOT load a last session on a different set of files, you'll end up with a different result and also nLite is not meant to be ran on anything but an original set of files (I know we keep repeating this but some people seem to have a hard time getting it through).

As a rule, this is not good. You'll always end up with replies like "it could work but maybe not".

[Creatura]

Hi Ponch,

this NO now wondering me a little bit - if I have a already worked Win, than the orders in this session take response to what I did - for example:

I made a version including my drivers and, let's say... I remove MS Mail - ok so far

in the next Version I work with must the drivers be included - otherwise nLite would be totally senseless. And the MS Mail must be gone. So what is the problem when in the last session for example is chossen: remove MS mail? There is no MS Mail no more wich could be removed.

But ok Ponch, I will try with a fresh everything in each version. I guess you know much bettern than me whats up :-)

(btw,i'm german and so please forgive me my lousy english). But! But for example if I choose somthing which will not get removed, but only setted? like for example: I choose in one Version to let me see the Explorer files as Details and not as thumbs. Does nLite realize, that in the version this thing is already done? nLite has TOOO much possibilites to remember each little setting which was the reason for work with the "last session" (I always save my sessions under different namens e.g. Version-1 Lite, Version-2 more out, Version-3 multiout, Version-4 finalversion)

Each Verson exists only one time. When it is ready, I copy it to another folder and leave the version as it is. The next Step/Version will than be made with the copy under a different name, different sesssion-file etc.

However: the already made and compiled changes MUST be in already - also the Drivers eg. - so it can't be necessary, that the Drivers must be added again and again.

thank you all for your kind help

[Sp0iLedBrAt]

The path to the drivers you want to add and the files you want to remove are written in Last Session.ini, so you just have to load Last Session.ini into nLite at the beginning and all the steps you did the last time will be replicated.

[Creatura]

hi and thanks Sp0iLedBrAt,

this was exactly what I want to know. In the Version where the Drivers are already in... I can delete the drivers entry

in the last session or whatever session I use now (I do it not by hand in the sessoin.ini but via the UI in the related part of nLite - the moe easier way)

so you switch my 98% YES in the moment to 100%

thank you Sire

:-)