nLite - A few questions about it...

[some1]

Where are all the "tweaks" stored/edited on the unattended windows - like remove My pictures from the start menu?

I know it makes its own INI file... but can i edited "winnt.inf" file, and not confuse nlite?

which do people use more nLite or hfslip?

[os2fan2]

The usual places to edit are

Initial load: winnt.sif, unattended.txt

T39: hivefix.inf

T12: cmdlines.txt

Post install

If you need to hide things like creating shortcuts to my pictures &c, you may need a T39 fix. Alternately, setting the MY PICTURES folder to the same as My Documents in hivefix.inf, might well do the same thing.

[some1]

Initial load: winnt.sif, unattended.txt

T39: hivefix.inf

T12: cmdlines.txt

What does the T mean sorry!?

Initial Load? Sorry, english isn't my lanuage!

I have got a few reg hacks which I want to run (and not let the user know about it)

I have got a few app which I wanna run (and let the user know about it)

If i make any changes after nLite, like adding "crashdumpsetting=0"

then run nLite again (to make it bootable, and burn it) the "crashdumpsetting=0" is gone!

So - just before I click burn, i press explore, then edited it all then....

[os2fan2]

T refers to the time remaining on the Windows XP install. Windows XP shows the 'time remaining' on the setup screen. T39 is the first reboot after character mode (when the registry is first created), while T12 refers to a moment in the install when a black screen flashes on the setup. This is cmd.exe attempting to run cmdlines.txt.

T39 occurs at the end of the character-mode setup. At this time, you should have a directory $WIN_NT$.~BT on the c: drive, and $WIN~NT$.~LS on the drive that Windows is to be installed on. At this time, Windows builds the first registry, from HIVE*.INF. The HIVEFIX.INF hack affects this registry.

T12 occurs when the system has built the Windows directory, and the default and all users tree. It is running in a user that will eventually become default, so all sorts of Default-User fixes are meant to be applied here. Note that some of these fixes just don't hold, and there are always alternate ways of modifying the default user after setup.