Hi,

I am beginning to realize how much of a pain to keep installing windows xp onto my AMD Machine. It takes a quite a while to go through the process of waiting....for the cdrom to initialize and start up the installation. Not to mention how difficult it is to install any nvraid driver (latest 6.86) for that matter. So, I am here to find out what I can do to minimize the time in reinstalling My windows xp pro w/ sp2 already installed? and What are the unnecessary programs and services that are not needed as well?.

I do have the latest stable version of nLite 1.4 installed and ready to use. And I also have the SP3 (Refresh) installed as well.

wow, 21 views thus far, and not one reply.

to be honest, I am not sure what your asking.

So, here is my take and a bit of simple nLite advice.

Configure nLite with and slipstream SP3.
Add the SP3 sound hotfix, you can find this with google. KB835221.exe is what you need, for HD sound cards and an issue with SP3.
Do NOT REMOVE any programs or services.
Do not worry so much about configuring drivers, all you need is someway of getting the nik driver, so you can update your drivers from the Internet.
If you do have an existing load, then use something like Driver Magican here: http://www.drivermagician.com/ to back up your existing drivers, this will help a great deal with its driver "restore" feature.
Add your addons, and get a bunch here: http://www.winaddons.com/nlite-addons
Then TWEAK your settings to your like.
Then DISABLE or configure your Services, you can read more about what is needed and not needed here: http://www.blackviper.com/

Cheers, hope this helps.

S

Hi Cyntek
You may interest the below link.-
http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:nlitexp

Sorry, for taking so long to get back to my post. I really appreciate the advice. Well, Since this will be my first nLite xperiance. I would like to know how I can copy my Activation key so I will not have to pick up the phone and dial that dreaded phone number for reactivation?.

You never said how long it takes you to install. You could speed things up considerably by copying the CD to your hard drive and installing from there. It takes me 14 minutes to install XP on a socket-754 board with a Sempron processor.