Bear woke up, checked his stash and standing guard.

Changelog and download

This one is basically to catch up with the updates.
Lets see if it has some tiny worms eating the bits.


Updates:
09.11.2008 - v1.4.9.1
09.04.2008 - v1.4.9 (nlite.exe v1.4.9.1)
09.01.2008 - v1.4.9
07.20.2008 - v1.4.8
07.01.2008 - v1.4.7
06.12.2008 - v1.4.6

Note: I read that some of you think that nLite breaks the floppy F6 method. That is not true, it is a Windows limitation, just disable the OEM Preinstall on the Unattended - General page or integrate the driver.

super......hope is sweet.....

cool a new toy !!! thanks Nuhi

Nice, focust on sp3 and already ie8 support

A little bug; but not on nLite

As usual, thanks Nuhi

Appreciated.


mooms, right on

'Honey' is welcome after long winter hibernation. It rejuvinates and so does 1.4.5b!
Integratation of IE8 and security centre fix are most wanted changes that I wanted to see.
Thanks!

Love this tool! Thanks...

If you could find the time to add a couple more tweaks, I would love it even more.. ; - )

(don't) Display simple folder view,-
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced - FriendlyTree

Do not cache thumbnails,-
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced - Disable Thumbnailcache


Hate these, and always disables them with a reg-file, but would be better in nLite....
Will try the new version as soon as possible, it will probably be OK - as usual.

Hi!
Thank you for the new release!
I try to integrate IE8 in XP SP3, but i've an error at the end of the process...
I don't know why, all what I've done is Slipstream SP3 (on SP2 source), add IE8 executable in the hotfix lists!

A bug, possibly not on nLites behalf. On the second page, when choosing the folder witch contains copied Windows installation CD nLite freezes and ProcessExplorer is reporting that nLite is taking 50% of CPU (because i have Core 2 Duo, if a had single processor i supose it would take 100%). On the same PC i have WinXP and Win200 on Virtual PC and nLite is working fine on those. Ive tried both self extracting and the installer versions - still no joy.

Dino, sta je reci?

looking forward to testing this out, thanks for all your hard work nuhi

Check General->Performance->Do not cache thumbnails

Thanks. This one must have been hiding itself on my computer..

The program works perfect here with me - once again!

WIN XP PRO VLK SP2 Polish
1.4.5 beta doesn't completly integrate those hotfixes for me:

H:\winproLENOVO\I386\SVCPACK

2005-12-10 21:47 5˙223˙664 KB900725.exe
2006-05-14 09:30 4˙712˙760 KB908531.exe
2006-12-02 13:10 693˙048 KB914440.exe
2006-12-02 12:24 694˙584 KB920213.exe
2007-04-29 13:08 1˙653˙560 KB925876.exe
2007-05-13 21:54 1˙273˙736 KB927891.exe

It put them into svcpack folder and adds entries to svcpack.inf - so it works - BUT 1.4.1 Final and earlier versions integrated them completly.
(and I can also integrate them manualy by using /integrate:INSTALL_FILES_PATCH switch)
The only operations done are:
Clean SP2 source (ziped archive used in many many working builds)
WMP11 0.991 + hotfixes (noWGA)
Then
nLite with only those:
-hotfixes option (Winins3.1v2,IE7+2hotfixes,+~120 normal hotfixes)
-100TCP/IP
-uxTheme

Everything works but those ~20MB are precious if you use BTS and .NET on CD.

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EDIT:
Also many files are left on CD uncompressed. Making I386 next 20MB bigger in 1.4.5 beta
for example:
aaclient.dll
aaclient.mui
agentdp2.dll
lhmstsc.chm , exe, dll ,mui
msi31.dll
shell32.dll
xpnetdg.exe, xsl

Same Problem Here, my XP instalation grow 27mb, 6 new kb files in svcpack and 3 new diretories in I386 folder using this nlite 1.45 version...

Sugestion:
Can NLITE verify and remove duplicate files? Then NLITE integrate only one version of this files into instalation and copy additional ones to destinations directories when needed.
in lastest driverpacks I found 41 duplicatated files eating 5mb of disk space and to make a better XPCD each MB is precious....

Sorry for my english...

Tryed the new 1.4.5 beta

I had trouble integrating thise critical hotfixes
KB944533
KB933729
KB927891
kb929213
kb932168

I am slipstreaming a Danish (DK) version og windows xp sp2 (from original cd)
I only slipstream hotfixes and copy my winnt.sif file to source befor making an iso

The same hotfixes work fine with 1.4.1.

I always had a problem getting the wga tool to work, but I extracted it and install it from my runonceex.cmd instead (nlite 1.4.1 and 1.5)


By the way Nlite is cool.
The time I invest in getting my xp source just right comes back 10 fold.

So thank you creator of nlite.

Best regards Michael

lol.2.dol, what kind of error (that is important)?

boyan.sharic, antivirus is scanning all files, set it to scan executables only.
Pozdrav.

anonim1979, good catch, fixed in beta 2, out today.

is there a version of nLite that runs on IA64 ? and can delete files from XP 64-bit ?

Never tried it. If it does not accept normal 32bit then no.
And it does not support IA64 modification, only x64.

how can you disable automatic creation of last session presets ?

You can disable loading it but not creating.
Weird request. You want to run nLite from read-only position?

@nuhi
You are very fast this time. Within a short time you have beta 2 ready for lates sp.
Appreciable, you are still caring for xp users! Thanks a lot!

I may have missed this - but, after using nlite to tweak various user settings are those settings applied to new user accounts that are setup from within Windows after the installation of Windows...?

Hi,
If I had removed telnet in component removal setup that telnet stay in I386.I tried version 1.4.1 but in version 1.4.5 is the same problem.Thanks

When removing "File System Encryption", you spelled "influence" as "incluence" in description area

I don't know if you care, I just know I'm anal about small details

galileo, yes.

ikon2, can you explain a little better please, what do you mean telnet was not removed, which file do I look for to confirm, maybe attach your preset as well.

EGOvoruhk, thx, of course I care.

I think if I had removed ''SERVER TELNET'' in ''COMPONENTS'' that will be removed telnet.exe but telnet.exe is always there.Sorry for my english

In Telnet component description says:
"If you want to remove Telnet Client as well then add 'telnet.exe' to the 'Remove Box'."

I am trying to remember why is it like that. Hm...maybe I should add separate Telnet Client component.

yhea, I get confused all the time, so many " last sessions" that I have no time to read all of them which one was what - manual save/load into directories outside nlite is the only way to keep it orderly and know what is what

manually deleting the presets directory every time before it loads is not convinient, on the border of needing to write a batch script to "properly" load nlite.exe (deleting the directory before it starts every time)
regardless, good version 1.4.5 beta 2 is

[request]

Nuhi, can you split up the 'sound drivers' selection so that there are actually two parts.

One to delete/keep actual sound hardware drivers.
One to delete/keep DirectSound drivers.

Or maybe have a look at a DirectX compatibility button that would force-keep all Direct X, DirectSOund, Direct3D stuff in place.

I'm having some weirdness with VMWare and VirtualBox and it looks to be in the area of DirectSound drivers being available (or not).

It could be that my understanding of DirectSound and it's relationship to heardware drivers and DirectX is faulty too.

thanks!

Here's an odd one. I noticed the size of my merged driver.cab file for SP2 in Nlite 1.4.1 is 60,970,848 bytes (58.1 MB). With 1.4.5 beta2 that shoots up to 65,520,766 bytes (62.4 MB). The contents of both CAB files are identical, it just doesn't seem to be compressing them as well.

I'm using the same exact .INI file for both runs. Maybe the "High Compression" option isn't being passed to the CAB compressor in the beta? I probably wouldn't have noticed except my resulting CD only has about 1 meg to spare and this chews up 3 meg.

Thanks for a great tool!

while on the subject of adding features, there is one thing: is it possible that the TMP and TEMP directories of the environment variables could be "System Variales" and not "User Variables" ? because the setting does not change %TEMP% and %TMP% of the system only the user's

I can confirm that in beta 1 cabed driver.cab was also bigger than in 1.4.1
Didn't have chance to check beta2 - I will do it tomorrow probably and report.

Nuhi, I really like your tool

I don't know if this already has been discussed, but is there a way to Disable Driver Signing as a tweak?
Currently I use a VBS script to automaticly go to sysdm.cpl and pushing the buttons to disable it (with sleep commands to wait for the windows to pop up). But unfortunately on slow or heavy loaded systems it doens't work properly

Maybe if you have the time, you can add this to nLite?

Hi Nuhi!

I'm still experiencing problem when I'm integrating KB888111 (HD audio support). In version 1.4.1 there was no problem with it.

Have a nice day!

Peti

Strange...I've noticed that I can not apply KB888111 only after integrating SP3. However, KB835221 does integrate just fine and my audio seems to work exactly the same as with KB888111.

Might I ask where you downloaded KB888111?

The easiest way is download the Realtek HD Audio System Software (e.g. from www.free-codecs.com), and extract it. In it you can find the necessary file.

Thanks, I will try it today!

While "running the process," I got the old Pure Virtual Function error. I'm using an integrated .net framework pack.

I installed these addons in this order:
- RVM 2.2.1
- DX 9.0 November
- .NET Framework All-in-One 11.2.3.35
- NTFS Link 2.1
- Spybot 1.5.2
- WinRAR 3.71
- Aero 2 Cursors
- ToolTipFixer
- Custom Wallpapers
- HashTab 2.0.8
- Onepiece IE7 2.0.4

EDIT:
I just tried again using the same settings and this time everything worked without problems.

The only two issues i have with beta 2 is Windows Time and daylight saving. Windows Time does not see the net and daylight saving (using MS' latest patch) is completely wrong for New Zealand.

Beta 2 has an issue when adding extra WinXP themes and i have also noticed the it does not add IE7 too. The old 1.4 beta did but 1.4.5 beta 2 do not.

I got this strange problem where nlite mis-identifies my source OS.i copied my xp sp2 to hdd, slipstreamed sp3 with nlite.Did some digging around,tried including media centre files so that my xp-sp3 pro registers itself as MCE...that is, it automatically installs media centre stuff as an original MCE would do. From where does nlite read the product name, version and service pack number from? coz now, my source is identified by nlite as windows XP Professional (Media Centre v3.0), but strangely...the service pack info changed to SP2...wierd!!!


I checked all the *.inf in the i386 folders...proper entries for all SP3 files were seen. I tried changing the SP info from dosnet or layout (forgot which one) from 3 to 3.0.
but stubbornly, the service pack info wont be detected as 3 by nlite!!!
Tried and verified all the proper files win51ic,win51ic.sp2,win51ic.sp3, were present at the proper position ie '/' Removing the .sp3 one changed the info to Windows Xp Professional (media centre v3.0) but sp still gets read as 2.

Tried changing the line
product="Windows XP Professional"
found near where they mention the tagfiles win51ip and disc names in layout.inf, as well as TXTSETUP.SIF to

product="Windows Media eXPerience Custom Edition"

also changed the cd name and tried using my own tagfiles...prince,prince.sp1,prince.sp2,prince.sp3 etc. etc. Well...it works.
Now nlite identifies my source as

"Windows Media eXPerience Custom Edition" and the default boot.ini created when clean installing XP now displays the OS as *****="Windows Media eXPerience Custom Edition" /fast***** and not Microsoft Windows Xp Professional.

But stubbornly, the (Media Centre v3.0) thing still remained.I changed that too from medctroc.inf that takes care of MCE components instal.I dont know where this inf is supposed to be put, so i put it both in i386 and in cmpnents/mediactr/i386.so if someone could tell me that.

i also think i accedentally changed something, for now the service pack reads as SP2.7...
this one got me thinking.
Could i manually edit that info to my liking? And how to do it so that nlite reads it accordingly?? Tried to retrace everything i had done but couldnt find out how this came to be. So wanted to know.
And also whether it would affect installing of softwre if they too ID the OS as not Windows Xp but something else or as having some non-existant service pack?.

Please nuhi, do reply.I used nlite1.4.5 beta2

must say...i love nlite.
Options of including custom registry tweaks directly,and also integrating installation of softwares (silent or not.doesnt matter) , ,copying of special files (for eg, replacing taskmgr.exe with sysinternals process explorer if you include the processexplorer exe file renamed as taskmgr.exe) and such little things at first logon would be really something to have for making unattended OSs, and also for getting nlite declared as the ultimate tool for slipstreamed, customized OS sources.

torospeter, sp3? That is normal, it has that hottie in already *build 5503 and newer I guess.

EneergE, yeah can't catch that one, too rare, I had it like 3 times in total.

princektd, MS said no SP3 for MCE. If you try installing the MCE after SP3 slipstream, even without configuring anything, it is a total disaster.

Hi nuhi!
Thanks you!!! nLite is cool thing.
(Please sorry for my not good English. I am from Russia )

Hi nuhi, this is g-force from german-nlite.

Found (after several try-outs) a bug in nLite 1.4.5 beta 2.
Changing the sytemroot from WINDOWS to SYSTEM isn`t possible.
It`s still WINDOWS after XP-installation (and breaks some of my installs & shortcuts).
Tests with other builds of SP3 (last was 5508) made still the same fault.
Test with nLite 1.4.5 beta -> everything works fine.

Hi

I can confirm this. Integrated b5508 into RTM source applied some tweaks, removed components and changed "WINDOWS" to"WINXP" - but it was still WINDOWS.
Changing the "Documents and Settings" path to "Docs" went fine.
Moreover most tweaks did not work...e.g. show known file extensions.
Integrated IE7 and it works but the quicklauch icon of IE and the show desktop is gone, this is the first time since many installs.

setuperr.log is empty, this was the ini -> Click to view attachment

I have also found our, please do not integrate WMP11 x64 into your nlited WinXP x64 installer disk as windows setup does not like it. I must say after finding that one out Nlite 1.4.5 beta 2 did a brilliant job.

BTW. Its also not recommend to add any IE7 patches to the installer as the install hates those too.

Can I integrate the new Windows Installer 4.5 Beta 2 with the last nlite?