First use report

[aspineux]

Hello

I used nLite for the first time 1 week ago, I give you here my feeling about it.

I hope this report will convince some new user to use nLite and help developers to improve it.

As location I set my CD Drive, but nLite asked me once more a location, and I specified a drive with some free space. nLite copied itself all the stuff from my Win XP CDROM to this second location. Wow !

WHY not create a button "Create repository from Windows CDROM", to make this feature clearly available ?

Then I patched with SP2, and gave no more update.

I gave the VMware drivers (only the i386, I removed the 64bit one)

I removed some useless stuff like :

Games

Internet Games

Pinball

Tour

Out of Box Experience (this is a good idea to remove it)

Then I set lot of tweaks

I did'n got the installation I wanted and tunned the Unattended options a lot of time. (because I'm a little inexperienced with windows unattended installation)

WHAT is not clear is than we have to specify the "Instalation" Username and Company name in the User tab as the Username and Company name of the Administrator !

Finally I got the installation I wanted, but at first boot I got a strange and undesirable display effect:

The selected item in the menu was in a light blue, invisible in my poor TFT screen !

I finally found than I was using a custom theme, I came back to the Classic one and everything was fine.

I never created or do something to have such a custom theme, or anything about theme, I selected the "classic" one from the beginning!

I never was able to get the following tweaks working:

Start menu

Display small icon in start menu

IE Favorite : Disable

Visual Effects

Active window tracking : Focuse on mouse Over

Menu animation : Disable

Maybe a bug somewhere or some incompatibilities with other stuff I selected!

I have to setup them myself in the windows interface after the installation!

nLite is a good tools, the interface is easy to use, and I didn't found anything missing.

I give you my final configurations file in attachement

OPS looking in my own configuration file I found a BUG,

the word "style" is misspelled in the line :

DesktopTheme = Windows Classic|Windows Classic stye|Normal

I will try to fill in a bug

Best regards

Alain

OPS also I forgot : The timezone setup is not working, BUT everybody already know this is a windows BUG

LAST_SESSION.INI

Edited November 26, 2006 by aspineux

[aspineux]

OPS I forgot to say :

All the components (applications) removed from the installation cannot be added latter.

These components dont appears anymore in the selection process!

This could be a good thing to show them in a "disabled" state in the selection process, just to know they were removed !

They are also missing in the current configuration file !

To know all the removed components, I have to look in all the previous configuration file I used as a base for the current on!

This is also not useful for debugging!

Alain

Best regards?

[nuhi]

Thanks for the report, going to take this into a consideration during 1.3 development.

[rado354]

Nice report

WHAT is not clear is than we have to specify the "Instalation" Username and Company name in the User tab as the Username and Company name of the Administrator !

This was reported time ago (by me?), maybe it could be easily fixed with a slight GUI modification or something.

Tweaks not working...

Yes, it's a bit of a lottery

The timezone setup is not working

It's working fine for me.

Edited November 28, 2006 by rado354