Ladies and Gents for your pleasure Budster and me present:

Windows XP Enhanced Setup v0.9 beta 7

As most of you probably won't read the tool's readme.txt I decided to post it here, so all of you know what this tool is actually about.

Windows XP - Enhanced Setup v1.0

Lead Programming: Nephilim

Idea and Concept: Budster

Developed with help of the joined forces of MSFN.org

Windows XP - Enhanced Setup (XP-ES) is meant as an additive tool for unattended Windows XP installations.

XP-ES ships with the following features:

  - Add your Applications to setup.ini (Name & Installation Commands)

  - Add your Drivers to setup.ini (Name & Installation Commands)

  - Define Default set of Applications and Drivers

  - Possibility to add "Multi-CD" feature to batches

  - Possibility to add XP-AntiSpy 3.72 like features to batch

  - Define default set of extra features (Multi-CD, XPAntiSpy)

  - Automated exit of program after 10 mins and create batches via default values

  - Your files will be created at the application's directory

XPAntiSpy feature that have been implemented:

  Media Player Functions:

    - Do not acquire licenses automatically

    - Disable identification of player by website

    - Disable automatic codec download

    - Don't add media data to the Media library

    - Don't get Meta data from the internet

    - Don't send information about player usage to Microsoft

    - Don't save data and URL’s in the most recent used file

  Error Reports:

    - Disable error reports

    - Disable error reports for critical errors

  Miscellaneous Settings:

    - Explorer: Turn off remote desktop support

    - Don't synchronize with internet-time

    - Don't show Balloon Tips anymore

    - Don't start MS Messenger with Outlook Express

    - Disable limiting of bandwidth

    - Office XP: Don't send error reports

    - Enable fast shutdown

  Internet Explorer 6:

    - Disable automatic updates

    - Disable scheduled updates

    - Disable Windows authentification

    - Increase MaxConnectionsPerServer to 10

    - Do not autosuggest web forms and passwords anymore

  Services:

    - Disable error-report service

    - Disable auto-updates service

    - Disable timeserver service

    - Disable UPNP Service (Universal plug and play)

    - Disable Messaging Service

  Regsvr32.dll's

    - Regwizc.dll (RegistrationWizardControl)

    - licdll.dll (Disables Windows-Product-Activation) **

    - Disable Zip functionality

** This does not mean that you need not activate your Windows anymore

Features NOT implemented:

  - Clear page file at shutdown (Reason: Increases Shutdown and System start time)

  - Disable task-scheduler service. (Reason: e.g. will also disable Symantec Live Update)

  - Disable/uninstall Microsoft Messenger. (Reason: Not necessary, winnt.sif allows you not to install it)

Known Bugs:

- Some Antivirus Software’s ask you to allow or disallow the implemented script. Please select allow. The Software is completely virus free!!

Here are some screenshots:

If you would like to participate at the beta testing, you may get XP-ES here:

Windows XP - Enhanced Setup

It might occur that XP-ES won't start. Then please download this

MSCOMCTL.OCX

and place it at your applications directory!

Thank you,

Nephilim

PS: Please post any suggestions and error-reports. Thank you.

Edited September 13, 200323 yr by Nephilim

broken link :cry:

Hey that's beta, isn't it?!

Now it works!!

does it need .net?

Just curious my iunstaller installs it really early on so it would be there but not maybe for most others.

very nice program.

me likes

sugestion about XPAntiSpy:

i personally found there stuff that i would like to be turned off, but there is some stuff that i definetely would like to keep.

may be there should be an option to choose?

edit

now that i took a closer look, i would like to keep about half of the stuff that is being turned off so i think option to choose would be a great idea

@webmedic: It's completly .net free!

@vcant: I think that will be possible, but as Bor3d is willing to program that registry tool too, I think that it would be better if I hand him over my sources for the XPAntiSpy part and maybe he can implement that function.

Bor3d if you ever read this, give me a quick reply via PM, okay?

Good thanks. I really like the looks of this progie. You know it would be great if it could make inf files for install.

I think thats what you are getting to above though with the poll. I was looking for a way with batch files to build my installer and then only include what the iuser wnats but it does not look like ot good of a task for batch files so this may be better for a little app like your. Although I already have the driver stuff working like I want that thing would still come in handy for some other driver sets that dont want to install nicely.

On a clean install of xp pro with all the critical hotfixes applied but with no other fixes I get this error.

@Paul365: I uploaded a different version of the tool. Please run this one and tell me if it worked.

@webmedic:

That's too bad. I have no idea how this works, which means that the tool will be in development for a longer time than this one has been.

Is this thread worth to get all necessary knowledge: http://board.MSFN.org/index.php?showtopic=8632

I would be glad to do so, but keep in mind that I have had holiday till now and need to get bad to work on monday and that I am not that much of a programmer.

Nope - Still no go. I have now installed all hot fixes and it still wont run - with b1 or the new b2

I get the time machine and the counting down clock but when i click on the "let me Decide" i get the error the in picture.

As i said this is a fresh install done in VirtualPC with the magic uxtheme added and nothing else.

Keep up the good work as this does look like a great tool.

PS: it runs fine on my normal pc but thats been in use for months now and god knows whats installed.

FINAL EDIT:

I think I found the problem, try downloading again please!!!!

Edited September 12, 200323 yr by Nephilim

link does not work

Sorry dude - Same problem.

I am here for another 20 mins then ill be gone for several hours.