Custom Screens and HFSLIP

[RBCC]

When do I put my custom made setup, boot and login screens in HFSlip folder ? In which folders? Jon

[tommyp]

If you want to overwrite things in the slipstreamed source use the FIX folder. Throw your modified hives and modified dlls in the FIX, run HFSLIP and you'll be OK.

Edited May 6, 2006 by tommyp

[tain]

This is mostly XP stuff, yeah? I know 2k can do some custom screens but I think that XP has much more robust support for such cosmetic things.

[RBCC]

tommyp:

How about the logonui.exe? Where do I put it? John

[Tomcat76]

You can basically use two folders but they each have their own purpose:

FIX--

- these files are copied into SOURCESS\I386, overwriting existing files

- if the file to be replaced in SOURCESS\I386 is compressed, the file in FIX should be too

HFEXPERT\WIN--

- these files are copied into a temporary HFSLIP working folder

- since the files in the temporary working folder are not compressed yet, you don't need to compress your modded files either

- limited to the WINNT/WINDOWS folder and its subfolders

- if the file already exists in the temporary working folder, it will be overwritten if the new file has a newer file date; nothing will be done if the new file is older

- if the file doesn't exist, an entry will be added into TXTSETUP.SIF so Windows setup knows where to copy it to; this depends on where you put the file (see next point)

- you need to know the name of the destination folder and place your files accordingly; eg:

WINDOWS = HFEXPERT\WIN

WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 = HFEXPERT\WIN\SYSTEM32

WINDOWS\FONTS = HFEXPERT\WIN\FONTS

etc.

The safest is to place all those modded files in the FIX folder, but they need to be compressed (eg, LOGONUI.EX_) with MAKECAB if the files to be overwritten are compressed too.