Hihihives cleanup ... duh

[whitehorses]

Hi everyone!

I was just qurious if I could find some help on this. First of all I was looking inside these files HIVEDEF.INF and HIVEUSD.INF, and compared the unmodified ones with the ones in FDV's fileset, and with nLited mods also.

What are the difference between these two files? Seems like they both modify mostly the same stuff, both have references in LAYOUT.INF, DOSNET.INF, and TXTSETUP.INF. The only difference I see is that HIVEUSD modifies something HKR, which i don't know what means. HIVEDEF modifies keys and values in HKCR, so as I suppose - since then there is no "current user" - it modifies the .DEFAULT user. Am I right? Correct me if I'm wrong please. So I'm a bit confused with this because HIVEUSD has exactly the same entries, but the registry paths are not valid.

What I'd like to do is to remove a few entries bloat, like unneccesary power config settings, and schemes on the first run, but I don't know which file is the one I need to edit, and what the other one is up for then.

I was thinking that it's enough to comment out the stuff I want in FDV's fileset, so I don't have to bother with FIX folder. Or are there other ways to do it?

[whitehorses]

Sooo... I read a bit about this stuff, and so it says that hivedef is the hku\.default, but still don't know what the heck is hiveusd. What I was trying to do is to switch hivedef in Mr FDV's set to an edited one of mine in the FDV folder. Run HFSLIP on the source (hotfixes + FDV with my edited hivedef, nothing else, no HCLEANUP or anything) I made tried to make the following changes but nothing happened: Removed a lot of scheme entries, only windows classic left, and renamed the folders in user profiles, like "Application Data" to appdata and such. Quite drastic, but it was just a test. And again, failed... nothing happened with the folders.

I can't do it this way, because 2000 for some reason installs helluva slow (half an hour) compared to XP. Why is that? I always loved 2000 for it runs with fewer mem, but it boots like a snail, and installs even slower than that. Can't this be helped somehow?

Oh wehehell...

[tommyp]

whitehorses - Please keep your questions HFSLIP related as this is the HFSLIP forum. It sounds like you have basic windows setup file questions. Your best bet would be to search/ask in the correct forum and/or search the web.

[RJARRRPCGP]

Sooo... I read a bit about this stuff, and so it says that hivedef is the hku\.default, but still don't know what the heck is hiveusd. What I was trying to do is to switch hivedef in Mr FDV's set to an edited one of mine in the FDV folder. Run HFSLIP on the source (hotfixes + FDV with my edited hivedef, nothing else, no HCLEANUP or anything) I made tried to make the following changes but nothing happened: Removed a lot of scheme entries, only windows classic left, and renamed the folders in user profiles, like "Application Data" to appdata and such. Quite drastic, but it was just a test. And again, failed... nothing happened with the folders.

I can't do it this way, because 2000 for some reason installs helluva slow (half an hour) compared to XP. Why is that? I always loved 2000 for it runs with fewer mem, but it boots like a snail, and installs even slower than that. Can't this be helped somehow?

Oh wehehell...

Windows 2000 is roughly as fast as Windows XP or faster when installing it for me.

But, you are right about booting it.

[whitehorses]

um..sorry.

Edited September 10, 2006 by whitehorses