Howto: Heavy slimmed down XP WITH functionality

[Fridge-RaideR]

The Making

makin cd atm, just copied files to XPCD directory

starting nLite

choosing the directory

thickin all options, except for slipstreaming a servicepack, coss I use xp pro with sp2 slipstreamed

Now at hotfix point, adding:

RVMUpdatepack1.2.2Lite

XPize uAE (v1.2)

At driver point:

The NVIDIA chipset drivers.

The Marvel network card drivers.

My sata driver (text mode).

At remove components point, I choose these dependencies:

Printers

Camera's

And these components I dont remove:

-Aplications

*Paint

-Drivers

*Ethernet (LAN)

*SCSI/RAID

-Hardware Support

*ALI IDE Bus Driver

*CMD IDE Bus Driver

*Firewire (1394) Support

*Intel IDE BUS Driver

*Logical Disk Manager

-Languages

*Dutch(Netherlands)

-Multimedia

*MIDI audio support

-Network

*Internet Explorer

*Internet Explorer Core

*Map Netowrk Drivers Wizard

-Operating System Options

*Disk and Profile Quota

*Extra Fonts

*File System Filter Manager

-Services

*DHCP Client

Then at advanced I choose these items not to be removed:

msconfig.exe

scrnsave.scr

ftp.exe

ping.exe

route.exe

nbtstat.exe

netstat.exe

net.exe

tftp.exe

ipconfig.exe

tracert.exe

Then at the remove box, I put the files listed in clints nLite.ini.

Then some tweaks, important ones:

do not parse autoexec.bat

dont page kernel

dont precache

Installing and Analizing

Made ISO, put disk.sys in my i386 (somehow nLite doesnt do that) and went installing.

There were some quite file not found errors during install, also in windows.

Internet Explorer didnt function properly, MSN wouldnt start. HELP OMFG WTF DONT U HAVE MSN CLINT? anyway , couldnt get defrag software to work and printerspool service was also gone. also some stuff I needed for webcam was gone.

So I went to the remove files list of clint's nlite.ini to check if I had to keep files.

Luckely I know wot most files do so I took about 25 files away needed for:

internet explorer

defrag software

msn

webcam

printers

network browsing on lanparties ;P

The Conclusion

Now after 2 installs I can run all of my tried programs. Everything seems ok with the printer service and imaging service, though I dont have a printer here, and I wont go through the trouble to get my webcam workin in virtual pc. So the next thing i will do is make one final iso for testing in virtual pc. Just to make sure. And then I willburn that iso, format and go live with that cd. ^_^

difference between his cleanup/pre-removal and my cleanup is.. about 80% wot I remove is the same has he removed.. but where I stopped with unknown files, he went on n just backupped them incase he needed them. I was gonna do the same thing but lil more carefull. with "last acces time-stamp" I was gonna check after 2 weeks of using programs n stuff, wot windows aint using. but he did it the hardway

my nLite brought own xp install down to 290mb, and with stuff of my own, to 224mb... this is with IE, with printers, with dhcp, with imaging stuff.

with my nLite but preremoval from clints ini, my xp install got 274mb.. then with a combined removal of my cleanups and his cleanups it went down to

200mb

quite a record since i use a LOT of programs (n games), and i need a LOT of dependencies.

in the attachments u see:

*my settings from nLite

*my regtweaks, to be used at T12 just like clints, with the $OEM folder way

*1 cleanup file, mine and clints merged there were no files I removed from the cleanup files exept for the ones that werent there when I had a fresh install, apearently nLite removed those.

ps: Oh yeah, feels good to be back in action ^^

Last_Session.ini

RegTweaks.reg

cleanup.cmd

[Fridge-RaideR]

Software I use

Programs

7-Zip (confirmed working)

Absolute mp3 splitter

Adobe Reader 7.0.1 (confirmed working)

AC3filter (confirmed working)

Alcohol 120% (confirmed working)

AMSN (confirmed working)

Azureus

CCleaner

CDBurnerXP Pro 3

Filezilla (confirmed working)

Filezilla FTP Server (confirmed working)

Firefox (confirmed working)

Hitman Pro (Lavasoft Ad-Aware SE Personal,SpywareBlaster)

ImageMagick 6.1.1.3 Q16

Internet Explorer (confirmed working)

IrfanView

Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal Pro (confirmed working)

Microsoft Virtual PC

Microsoft Office PowerPoint Viewer 2003

Miranda

MIRC (confirmed working)

MSN Messenger 7.0 (confirmed working)

NetLimiter

Openoffice

Perfectdisk (confirmed working)

Prime95

Shareaza

SideWinder Game Voice Share

Skype

Teamspeak2 RC2

TightVNC (unstable)

Total Commander (confirmed working)

VideoLAN (confirmed working)

WinBar (confirmed working)

WinRAR (confirmed working)

Xfire (confirmed working)

XviD

Zoom Player (confirmed working)

Games

Command & Conquer Generals (confirmed working)

Diablo II (confirmed working)

Dungeon Siege 2 (confirmed working, played the whole beta out in 7 hours with mate)

Mu Online

Quake III Arena (confirmed working)

Tactical Ops

Unreal Tournament GOTY

Unreal Tournament 2004 (confirmed working)

Functions

Webcamming

Printing

Network browsing on lanparties ;P

Looks

NO theme service, but my own cool aston/xp mixed colour scheme^^

With this Wallpaper.

Colour scheme is attached

Currently at my parents house, not at home. Parents are gone for another 2 weeks, so I'm using that pc with a m8 here.. and I use that pc to test ^^ more programs will follow

theme.rar

Edited August 3, 2005 by Fridge-RaideR

[Fridge-RaideR]

Remove list in nLite

This is the list I remove WITHOUT the gone files, tommorow I explain why I leave some files, dont have more time now, spend 30min on this triple post

adsldp.dll

adsmsext.dll (gone)

adsnds.dll

adsnw.dll

asr_fmt.exe

asr_ldm.exe

asr_pfu.exe

asycfilt.dll

atkctrs.dll

atmfd.dll

atmlib.dll

autodisc.dll

avicap32.dll

blastcln.exe

browser.dll (gone) I wanna browse on the network when at LAN

browsewm.dll

c_037.nls (gone) like bold said, dont want webpages to look messed up

c_10000.nls (gone)

c_10079.nls (gone)

c_1026.nls (gone)

c_1250.nls (gone)

c_1251.nls (gone)

c_1253.nls (gone)

c_1254.nls (gone)

c_1255.nls (gone)

c_1256.nls (gone)

c_1257.nls (gone)

c_20127.nls (gone)

c_20261.nls (gone)

c_20866.nls (gone)

c_20905.nls (gone)

c_21866.nls (gone)

c_28591.nls (gone)

c_28592.nls (gone)

c_28593.nls (gone)

c_28605.nls (gone)

c_500.nls (gone)

c_850.nls (gone)

c_860.nls (gone)

c_861.nls (gone)

c_863.nls (gone)

c_865.nls (gone)

capesnpn.dll

ccfgnt.dll (gone) me keeping internet explorer, think it needs this

cdm.dll

certmgr.dll

certmgr.msc

clock.avi

cmdial32.dll

comres.dll

confmsp.dll

cryptext.dll (gone) I wanna use msn

cryptnet.dll (gone) I wanna use msn

csseqchk.dll

ddeml.dll (gone) nlite removes this

dfsshlex.dll (gone) nlite removes this

digest.dll

dpcdll.dll (gone) need dhcp sometimes

dskquota.dll (gone) I wanna use perfectdisk (defrag software)

dskquoui.dll (gone) I wanna use perfectdisk

dsprop.dll

dsquery.dll

esent97.dll

esentprf.dll

esentutl.exe

exts.dll

fc.exe

fde.dll

fsmgmt.msc

ftsrch.dll

g711codx.ax

gpresult.exe

gpupdate.exe

h323.tsp

h323msp.dll

hidphone.tsp

hlink.dll

htui.dll (gone) printer stuff

iac25_32.ax

iccvid.dll (gone) nlite removes this

icm32.dll (gone) for my webcam

icmui.dll (gone) for my webcam

iesetup.dll (gone) i use internet explorer sometimes

iexpress.exe

ifmon.dll (gone) nlite removes this allready

ipxmontr.dll (gone) I wanna keep ipx stuff for some games

ipxpromn.dll (gone)

ipxrip.dll (gone)

ipxrtmgr.dll (gone)

ipxwan.dll (gone)

ir32_32.dll

ir41_32.ax

ir41_qc.dll

ir41_qcx.dll

ir50_32.dll

ir50_qc.dll

ir50_qcx.dll

itircl.dll

itss.dll

iuengine.dll (gone) I keep internet explorer

ivfsrc.ax

iyuv_32.dll

jgaw400.dll

jgdw400.dll

jgmd400.dll

jgpl400.dll

jgsd400.dll

jgsh400.dll

kbdbene.dll

kbdcan.dll

kbddv.dll

kbdes.dll

kbdgae.dll

kbdgr1.dll

kbdit.dll

kbdit142.dll

kbdmlt48.dll

kbdsmsfi.dll

kbdsmsno.dll

kbdusl.dll

kbdusr.dll

localspl.dll (gone) printerstuff

mapistub.dll

mciavi32.dll

mcicda.dll

mciwave.dll

mfc40.dll

mfc40u.dll

modemui.dll (gone) nLite removes this allready

mpeg2data.ax

mpg2splt.ax

mpg4ds32.ax

mprddm.dll

mqbkup.exe

mqtgsvc.exe (gone) I keep this due to install errors (probably IE)

msaatext.dll

msapsspc.dll (gone) I keep this due to install errors (probably IE)

msctf.dll

msdart.dll

msftedit.dll

msimtf.dll (gone) I keep this due to install errors (probably IE)

msnsspc.dll

msutb.dll

msvbvm50.dll

msvcirt.dll

msvcp50.dll

msvcrt40.dll

msvidctl.dll

mswebdvd.dll

msxml.dll

msxml2.dll

msxml2r.dll

msxmlr.dll

mtstocom.exe

net1.exe

netsh.exe

npptools.dlll (gone) printerstuff

ntshrui.dll

oakley.dll

objsel.dll

odbcji32.dlll

odbcjt32.dlll

odbctrac.dlll

oddbse32.dlll

odexl32.dlll

odfox32.dlll

odpdx32.dlll

odtext32.dlll

oembios.bin

oembios.dat

oembios.sig

openfiles.exe

osuninst.exe

panmap.dll

pdh.dll

pentnt.exe

perfc009.dat

perfctrs.dll

perfd009.dat

perfh009.dat

perfi009.dat

perfmon.exe

perfproc.dlll (gone)

pifmgr.dll

powercfg.exe

prflbmsg.dlll (gone)

print.exel (gone)

printui.dlll (gone)

proquota.exel (gone)

psbase.dll

query.dll

rasauto.dll

rasauto.exe

raschap.dll

rasdial.exe

rasmans.dll

rasmontr.dll

rasphone.exe

rasppp.dll

rasrad.dll

rastapi.dll

rastls.dll

rend.dll

rsop.msc

rsopprov.exe

sdpblb.dll

set3.tmp

setupdll.dll

sfmapi.dlll (gone)

shmgrate.exe

shrpubw.exe

sisbkup.dll

spnpinst.exe

spoolss.dlll (gone)

spoolsv.exel (gone)

srvsvc.dlll (gone)

sti_ci.dlll (gone)

strmfilt.dll

sysocmgr.exel (gone)

t2embed.dll

tapi3.dlll (gone)

tapiui.dlll (gone)

telephon.cpl

termmgr.dll

tsbyuv.dll

twext.dll

unlodctr.exe

vbicodec.ax

vssapi.dll

wavemsp.dll

win32spl.dlll (gone)

winhelp.exe

winspool.exe (gone)

wkssvc.dll

wstdecod.dll

wstpager.ax

wstrenderer.ax

wupdmgr.exe

xmlprov.dll (gone)

xmlprovi.dll (gone)

xpob2res.dll (gone)

Edited August 3, 2005 by Fridge-RaideR

[Fridge-RaideR]

Troubleshooting

This is the post where I explain errors u might encounter and that I encounter

[XPero]

Very handy for newbies and for people who want to rethink about their ways of installing Windows;)

[Fridge-RaideR]

well more like Pro's with problems newbies should stick with nLite (no offence people, but this if u do this, ur bound to experience loads of errors)

and I think dirtwarrior wants to see the oemfolder and thats pretty much it... it isnt bigger.. I manually do my cleanup, dont have extra programs, dont use minlogon

Edited August 2, 2005 by Fridge-RaideR

[dirtwarrior]

hey fridge post $oem$ folder and last session ini Cool

[Fridge-RaideR]

lastsession.ini is in first post

oemfolder is in post 6

theme is in attachment 2, and those 2 links of image shack work

[superleiw]

nice

this should become an useful thread

nice regtweaks u have there ... took me a while to go through all of it

[Fridge-RaideR]

this was mine 3 months ago, even larger ;P but nLite has tweaks now too, so I thinned it out..

regtweaks_full.reg

[slimzky]

ei fridge, u want ur printing service but in ur remove list theres spoolsv.exe & print.exe.. so u mean they arent needed for printing services?

all files beginning with ras (ras.dll, rasauto.dll etc..) are needed for DUN ryt?

modemui.dll, is this necesary for DUN?

i want to add ur list in my current removable list but i dont want to mess with my DUn... so can u post files that is needed for DUn thats in ur list? thnx

[Fridge-RaideR]

where i say GONE, it means clint removes it, but I dont remove it.. the file is gone from my list

DUN=?

[slimzky]

DUN- Dial Up Networking

[Fridge-RaideR]

dial up, man I dont have experience with that.. thats such a long time ago :|

I supose all the ras stuff.. dont know about that other file though

[jmbattle]

Not bad Fridge, although skimming through your software applications list, I cannot see any programs that rely heavily on Windows components - indeed most of those programs are in my "AppsThatDontNeedToBeReinstalled" folder - several megabytes of well coded programs that run straight from the folder, without countless registry entries.

Gotta love 7-Zip too

James