Here ya' go:

Changes and download

My pleasure, don't mention it. Any time. Oh c'mon you didn't have to; they are so nice. They smell nice too, almost like bits.

Updates:
09.12.2008. - 1.2 Final

nuhi my hero! Thanks for the new version

Awesome work (y)

WOW!!! Just went through the changelog, and i see "new 'Digital Rights Management (DRM)"
Finally i can make my vista fly, without these DRM craps

Thanks so much nuhi, your simple AWESOME MAN!!!

EDIT:
2 quick questions:

If i remove 'Digital Rights Management DRM (its says needed for WPM11) will i still be able to use WPM11 to play unprotected movies and musics?

If i remove tv tuner support, (it says needed for Media center) will i still be able to use 3rd party tv software to watch tv?

Oh ,NO man ,you did it again

My poor computer would blame you for that ~

she cant stand up so many reinstallations~

Any wany .非常感謝,a Billion thanks

LMAO...thanx

Yes. I just tried WMP and it played files fine.

Booogy get over here !

I saw this before it came out =) Maybe tcp-ip or usb 1000hz next?

Good job nuhi !

thx u the best nuhi

back to work gr8 on server 2008 whooha

Sorry for stupid question, but what exactly removing DRM removes - WMP DRM or really kernel DRM bits (ci.dll)?

thx nuhi keep up the good work

shahed26, DRM, haven't tested the WMP without it, I set it dependable because it comes in WMP installer usually.
TV Tuner should be needed for tuners regardless of the app, try it but I doubt it will work.

anonymous_user, interesting. Gonna try and adjust dependency, thx.

Tihiy, it removes (WMP) DRM and Right Management services. ci.dll, gonna check.

Thanks nuhi, good work as always

maybe you could add that mdac is needed for icq 6.0

http://www.german-nlite.de/geloest-ICQ-6-s...ion-t14180.html

icq wont install correctly



and "jet database engine" is needed for tvista

tvista dont start




jaykay


edit: why is the installer of 1.2 rc smaller than the installer of 1.1.6 final?

Thank Nuhi, this is how to start well the day

Probably because any version after 1.1.6 wont include the WAIK files.

Thanks nuhi. Will do a quick test and see how things go.

Thank you

Hey nuhi, nice release. But I'm still a bit puzzled regarding the logon-loop.
I've been trying for a few days now to get a vLite install going with no luck. I'm not completely new to it and nothing I'm doing should be out of the ordinary compared to how I normally make my vLite installs. I've been trying to figure out a solution for it without any luck. I made numerous install dvds with the 1.2b and then tried yet again with the new 1.2RC last night - still no luck. It's stuck on step 3 of the SP1 installation the first time it boots up. Is this a common problem with the newer vLite releases or is it strictly SP1-related? Any word on if it's something you can avoid when using vLite?

Other than that, I like your new additions to vLite - can't wait to try them out. Thank you for your time and effort on this marvelous piece of software

Best regards
Christian Rasmussen, Denmark.

Hi Nuhi !
I got V-lite in first time and it work great now.
Many thanks.

jaykay, ok.

aaroe, you mean you are trying to install SP1 on vlited RTM ? Maybe your SP1 was vLite Slipstreamed or MS Preintegrated?
Please read this: http://www.vlite.net/servicepack.html

@ shahed26 & nuhi: Just tested to leave in WMP and remove DRM. It plays other movies fine, but on first login I got 2 register errors about DRM, when starting and configuring WMP I got the same again. It does not fully register WMP in the system (file reg, shortcuts). So I will now reinstall and leave DRM saved.

No, sorry if I didn't explain it properly.
I have a danish Vista Ultimate x64 without SP1. A few days ago I decided that I needed a reinstall and gave the vLite 1.2b a spin. Firstly I slipstreamed it with SP1 and then I began the process of removing the junk from Vista which I don't need. I then rebuilded, burned and installed. When the computer booted the first time, it began to finish step 3 of 3 of the SP1 installation. When it was done with that, it rebooted but when it started up again it began, yet again, on step 3 of 3 of the SP1 installation. This then just continued without be being able to stop the process at any point. I then googled it a bit and noticed that you had written that the 1.2b version should help those who had experienced it. I then assumed I had been unlucky and tried yet again - I had done none out of the ordinary when I made the vLite and removed nothing crucial. My next vLite installation went the same way without me being able to track down why the problem occured or how to solve it. Just immediately after my 2nd failed attempt you released 1.2RC so I thought that third time was the charm and then tried yet again - but now with the new 1.2RC. After building my vLite install I tried my luck but the problem occured again. The computer is stuck in a loop with the 3rd step of SP1 installation process.

I've validated, over and over again, that the SP1 I'm using to slipstream is the correct one and that it's not broken by doing CRC and MD5 checksum on it - I really don't get it.

aaroe, yeah slipstreamed sp1 is quite easy to break and I haven't tested that in a while. Please attach your preset or send it to me.

Has anything changed with the Add features working in Server 2008?

using imagex mount the install.wim on the Vista DVD (sources), in the mount folder goto Windows\WinSXS and delete Pending.xml (its one of the last files in the folder) and then commit changes, there is a guide saying how to mount a folder, etc.. on this forum somewhere. Deleting that files fixes reboot loop.

I do it after integrate 100s of updates since SP1 and windows installs fine afterward and still saying all updates installed

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?s=&...st&p=785811

Same here. Thats the only DRM errors i get on first logon and when i open WPM11 i also get a error about DRM. After that, its gone and no error pops up when i logon or open WMP

hey, i love this, its great, there's just two things about it.

The snipping tool doesn't seem to work without DRM, when trying to start it, it says a component is missing (msdrm.dll)

Also, is there a way to get rid of windows meeting space? I can turn it off in the windows feature selection, but i would much rather have vlite be able to do it.

Otherwise, this is great!

Gonna try the reboot loop issue.generally occurs when integrating some newer hotfixes.Maybe keep Application Experience and then it wont occur?

EDIT:Thanks for the info DemonicHawk.I need Snipping Tool very much so will keep DRM for now.Have you tried copying the DLL file manually?.Maybe then ST will start?

I've experienced this update loop when i tried to integrate Windows Search 4.0 (KB940157). Previous vLited version that I have works like a charm. It has all the updates before WS4 but when I try to add this hotfix to image it just doesn't work. I tried to start from the scratch and added all post-SP1 hotfixes (including WS4) to image and used old Last_Session.ini from working version, but it's still a no go, always a update loop.

I use a Vista 32 SP1 disc from MS as a base. I use vlite to add a couple of drivers, remove some components, tweak the services, but NOT to integrate any other hotfixes or service packs. The result installs perfectly as you'd expect. However, when I start Windows Update to grab the latest hotfixes, it installs them, reboots, and gets stuck in the same loop so many people seem to be experiencing. Incidentally I did have Windows Update checked as a protected feature.

I had this problem on 1.16 and 1.2b, and now still on 1.2RC.

I had a reboot loop problem too, deleted pending.xml reinstalled but now i cant install msn messenger or visual studio 2008 Just with latest version though.

Thats very weird, i never had that problem. I have a MS pre-integrated sp1 vista ultimate x64, and i integrated all post-SP1 hotfixes (including WS4) from Micro Nova. Installed and updated. No problems

@Legolash2o
I have installed MSN messenger and also visual studio 2008, no problems so far.

btw i used this new vLite rc release to make my new vista iso.

ita probably a non-public update and i do remove a hell of alot, i only keep about 6 things. but normally works fine.

I really think it is the non-public updates. Removing alot is fine aswell, coz i installed vista on my second hdd and removed almost everything except a few, and it also worked fine, including MSN and VS 2008.
I will integrate all the post sp1 non-public updates to see if thats the case, or something else.

Screenshot, i think its one of the new ones (non-Public)

We love you nuhi! <3

i had that error with setpoint runing too

i recover the winsxs from the original disk and its fix it

Hi nuhi et al,

I'm currently busy slipping in the hotfixes after having succesfully slipstreamed SP1, but boy it takes like 9 hours to get both these tasks finished and applied!

Although I think vlite is an amazing tool, I wonder why we're even slipstreaming SP1 and all the hotfixes. Isn't that the base that every user wants and requires no matter what they want to change with the Vista install? Why not build a big huge slipstreamed Vista (all versions) and make people torrent that DVD, so they only have to get that one, use that for vlite and that way skip all the hassle with the SP1 and hotfixes?

And like many have written before me:
Why even offer the uninstall option for hotfixes? Is there REALLY anyone on this planet who has EVER uninstalled 1 hotfix?
I'm amazed at how bandwidth ineffective and space-wasting these things still are. In just a few weeks I've been downloading about 50 Gigabytes of fixes, drivers, base iso's, of which half was double (I had it already, just didn't know where since all these tasks are so not transparent). I understand that Microsoft is to blame for most of this (they've stopped offering downloadable Vista x64 images too), but still, I don't think we should have to deal with the repeated hassle of slipstreaming until we have the base vista we need. I have my legal vista-license, dammit. Why the need for the non-stop validation everywhere?

Also, just to be certain:
Is there a way to insert our own registry files (.reg) yet, at the final stages of the install? I've seen this feature on the wishlists of many, but I still don't see it in vlite. Would seem an easy one to add, and quite a good one indeed!

Again, thanks for your helpful tool. Very much appreciated!

this is because you have slipstreamed the Sp1. There are so many pending packages left and integrating more hotfixes will result in more pending packages which must be handled by the Servicing Stack. If you integrated the Updates to a clean MS Sp1 integrated DVD the integration is much faster.

Well, obviously I did not have any SP1 DVD I could use. This only proves my statement:
It would be much easier for Microsoft to simply offer the latest of the latest Vista images to the world, with the latest fixes already in them, and offering them as torrents. Would save them a LOT of bandwidth too. Or the vlite community could offer such images as torrents.

If anyone has a Vista x64 SP1 iso for me, including all recent hotfixes slipstreamed. I only require English language pack, that would be perfect. But I don't see any links to torrents here. Guess it's considered "warez" or "illegal". (I don't even see why this would be illegal, I'm still going to have to use my license key for it, am I not?)

As long as there's no crack or cd key gen or anything like that, I'd assume it to be legal since it's nothing that MS themselves haven't offered to the public.

Anyways, I've been plagued with the reboot loop myself as well as Vlite saying that certain 32 bit updates don't apply to my system as well as vista itself telling me that several updates that the windows updates report returns don't apply to my system???

Well if they don't apply then why did windows update tell me I need them?!?

In particular, update 935509 says it doesn't apply both in Vlite and from within a non SP1 vista. Yet MS says it's a critical update for SP1 to install correctly. (which SP1 doesn't install from within windows if it's a version I've tweaked with Vlite)

I'm in the process now of integrating SP1 into an image of ultimate 32. I'll save it and burn it to disk for future use so I can have a full, unmolested iso with SP1 already integrated to work with for future builds.


It only brings me back to my original question though of how I'm supposed to be able to integrate all the dozens of hotfixes Iv'e downloaded into any future projects? Becuase it seems that once SP1 gets put into the image, it wreaks havoc on any chances of all the hotfixes sucessfully being integrated with vlite (or at least a lot of them say they can't be integrated when they're SHOULD be) and also, if I don't put any hotfixes in with vlite and try to install them one at a time manually after vista loads, at least 10 or so come back saying they don't apply to this operating system when they SHOULD.


Anyone else face this problem?

Actually any non-MS source for a Windows.iso is illegal and will get you banned for posting it here..

Sorry but its just that way and always has been.

It's like some one walking around the mall and giving out homemade copies of vista, even though they are not adding keys they would be paying MS 30% or more of their salary for a very long time...

hey nuhi great work

Some Requests

1.remove windows anytime upgrade which is under system32 and the start menu shortcuts to windows marketplace and windows website
2.remove all those cursors except the aero cursor
3.remove unneeded fonts
4.let the user change the minimum ram needed to continue setup or disable the check
5.add more services under components because there is some which are under tweaks which isnt under components

You dont have to put all these in the next version because im grateful that someone has made this possible

Thanks again on a great piece of software and keep up the good work

SP1 integration went well and installed fine. Running all the windows updates as we speak.

Question (and I'm sure the answer is no) but does the fact that I haven't activated windows yet have any impact on the success of the install of the patches and updates?

Regardless, I'm going to write down which updates fail then try and manually run the install package. If some still don't work, I'll return with a list of the failed patches to see if anyone else has the problem with them.

It'll be interesting to see which of them get successfully integrated in Vlite when I rebuild it again today.

Basically I'm trying to do this one step at a time. I know the oem disk works; I now know that the SP1 slipstream disk works. If the updates all work fine without tossing me into the reboot loop, I'll proceed with another vlite build with all the available patches and updates, verify the success of the install and then finally see whether or not it will let me start yanking components out at that point and still sucessfully install.

Even if Windows isnt yet activated, you can install updates fine.

yup. all the updates installed fine, no loop. I've rebuilt the iso with all the updates and SP1 and haven't modified the components yet. Will be installing shortly.

So? This is precisely what MS did, has done for ages, and will be doing for ages. They've only recently stopped offering the Vista x64 image downloads.

I seem to have lost option of running applications in "compatibility mode" for lower oses. The tab is missing from properties options of executables. Can someone tell me about the dependency which I might be missing out?

Found it!

"Error reporting" has to be selected!

Hi all...

Vista x64/x86 Business SP1 (RTM) Vlited. Reboot after Windows Update, Loops in WinLogon at Step 3 to 3 100%

No problem with older versions.

please post your Last Session.ini