Thnx!

and now most stuff is handles and i got a bit of spare time again, and as promised i'm going to pick up development again.





It should run on an 98se aswell, though it's intended for the winntbbu.dll of xp only.



Hi 'n' Thank ya.
afaik there are already tools that handle the loginui nicely, and i guess i could, but my limited spare time will keep me from doing so for sure, since there is rarely time to put into WinntbbuED, and i defenatly want to bring this project further again





1.) now there isnt, the position is calculated by the dll, and actually dont know where it is calculated and i guess it wouldnt be so easy to change that calculation properly

2.) something like this is already on the to do list, but since not all major features are in yet, it has a low priority for now.




can you share a problem .dll on a public place like rapidshare or so, that i am able to test, since i'm not subscribed to yahoo groups ?!



Hi!

actually there is code which should select the native language if found, but as it seems it aint working properly, so could you please put your dll on a public place, so that i can test and fix the code ?!

Felix try this for the loginUI > ChameleonXP
http://www.geocities.com/outersoftinc/CXP.html
as of this post today it was still there

WB TheMadGuy

This wonderful tool has made its way into the biggest (I think anyways) magazine in Australia... ATOMIC !!!

January is its 5th birthday, hooray!!... So if you people are in Australia, get your copy now and read the awesome guide they have about WinntbbuED

wow that's amazing! Congrats to TheMadGuy wherever you are!

Any chance of getting this to work better on windows 2003?

Is the link to the latest version on the 1st page?

It cannot find syssetup.dll

Windows server 2003 sp1

WINNTBBU.DLL

syssetup: NOT FOUND

make a new folder and place the WINNTBBU.DLL and syssetup.dll from your system32 folder into it along with the WinntbbuED 3.1 and remember to save completed project then place new WINNTBBU.DLL back into your systems 32 folder on your xpcd install.

im using winxp pro corp. i had this problem too. sysetup.dll not found.. where izzit? i open my winntbbu.dll at I386??

its in the i386 folder itself...
just move those 2 files to a new folder, edit them, and move them back to the original place

it's in the i386 folder as cyanide says but its compresed
and it's name is syssetup.dl_
copy this one somewhere on your pc
and uncompres it with 7zip

bug notice (well, not a fonction bug). If you open winntbu.dll without a syssetup.dll, it will say that it found a comperssed one. The message say

"Syssetup could not be found

but a compressed version was.
Do you wish to uncompress?"

I think the word "found" is missing in the sentence lol.

I did not use WinntbbuED, I used the old method (before WinntbbuED).

Anyway, I want to reply to my question in Completed Windows Setup Billboards theme
regarding Language codes editing syssetup.dll

Arabic (Saudi Arabia) 1025
Bulgarian 1026
Chinese (Hong Kong SAR) 3076
Chinese (PRC) 2052
Chinese (Taiwan) 1028
Croatian 1050
Czech 1029
Danish 1030
Dutch (Netherlands) 1043
English (United States) 1033
Estonian 1061
Finnish 1035
French (France) 1036
German (Germany) 1031
Greek 1032
Hebrew 1037
Hindi 1081
Hungarian 1038
Italian (Italy) 1040
Japanese 1041
Korean 1042
Latvian 1062
Lithuanian 1063
Norwegian (Bokmal) 1044
Polish 1045
Portuguese (Brazil) 1046
Portuguese (Portugal) 2070
Romanian 1048
Russian 1049
Serbian (Latin) 2074
Slovak 1051
Slovenian 1060
Spanish (Modern Sort) 3082
Swedish 1053
Thai 1054
Turkish 1055
Ukrainian 1058


Best Regards

Hmmm...I have both WINNTBBU.DLL and WINNTBBU.DL_ in i386. Do I have to seperately edit both?

wtf

lol - I wish there was a little walkthrough for dumbasses like myself.

The reason I ask anyway is because I tried to edit JUST THE WINNTBBU.DLL (no syssetup). It seemed to work, but the install crashed at T-39 with an incomplete catalog type thingy message.

?help please!

-----------------------10mins Later........

Ok..I've figured the DLL and DL_ thing out. as for syssetup.dll, do I recompress to my install disc's i386\system32 or just copy there as is(uncompressed)?

Hey TheMadGuy, honeymoon is over get back here and work on it.

I'd just like to see this advanced as it's a very useful app.

I do hope you're kidding with your first comment...

yes of course
Read above, I said something earlier about same thing saying we had to wait till it was over, guess life took him elsewhere

Oh My Dear God!!! Thank you so much!

First of all, great tool (Finally I can make Windows dis itself! w00t!), thanks for making it! =)

But, as with almost everyone posting in this thread, I have a problem.

During the textmode portion of Setup, I get an error about winntbbu.dll not being copied properly. To me it seems like an error that everyone using this tool should theoretically be getting without some other patch to trick Setup into believing that's the original file... like a checksum or a last-modified time...

Is there a trick I'm missing? Didn't find anything by searching the thread... =\

Look for "modifype" on the forum...
This will make setup happy :
modifype.exe winntbbu_modded.dll -c

Pretty nice app... thanks a lot 2 autor !

It's good work, but not full for me !
Maybe anybody know: what DLL contains resouses, that shows in the end of installation in pages of Windows Firewall enabling & username choise ? I made WINNTBBU.DLL in Windows Olive style & want modify end of installation in this style too...
In advance, thanks anyone for helping me ! (sorry 4 bad english )

hi !

I've got a problem : using this app with xp x64. it won't edit the x64's winntbbu.dll, and leave's untouched the syssetup.dll. and the setup can not use other dlls made for sp2. Can you suggest something ? Oh yes, and if I edited the winntbbu with XN Resource Editor, that wasn't good for the xp setup, and used a dark-blue one-color background instead of the modified dll-s. Do you know something about this ?

All helps are welcomed !
edit: Delprat : what does this modifype do ? isn't so clear. i'll try it anyway

greetings !

»aurelius«

AFAIK that's for Win32, not x64
(in "modifyPE" the "PE" means "Portable Executable", the name of the Win32 executables format)
ModPE can do various things, here it's used with the "-c" option to correct the embedded CRC value (making windows seeing it as "unmodified")

I have no answer for your problem (except that in XP 32 you can replace the "dark blue one-color background" by a bitmap named "setup_w.bmp" in I386)

In this page : http://win32assembly.online.fr/source2.html
there's an email to modpe author.

++

Can we edit WINNTBBA.DLL file. And will same mathed will work for it too as for WINNTBBU.DLL ?
Also why not it edit 4bit background and others.. This will appear when we install xp into Pentium4 or in that
Computer which XP have no driver for it's VGA lik intel845, intel865, intel915 or nvidia nforce etcc..

how can i change color 256 to 16bit? I want's noting changing any more.

When I edit my WINNTBBU.DLL and package the ISO I get an error during installation and can't coninue.....why? should the pics be of a certain size in MB or what?

might be easier to determine what the problem is if you could tell us what the error says

10x for the fast reply....It gives me error 800B100 thingy Windows catalogs...bla...bla...bla....I used RyanVM' Hacks and Patches but I still don't know If i should apply them before or after I modify my WINNTBBU.DLL........Using nLite 1.3RC2 and RyanVM's Integrator and WinntbbuED v3.1 what am I doing wrong? here's a list of Add-Ons I'm Using :



Plzz help I have to finnish it by 2nite..........coz this is the only error I'm getting other than tht all is fine and dandy......

Here's What My XP Will Look like if and only IF I Get This **** Winntbbu.dll Error to go away :



Well....Now I have temporarely deleted (recyclebin) my Winntbbu.dll file and kept the Winntbbu.DL_ and will try it as soon as nLite finishes my ISO.....will tell u then....Cheers.......hehehehehehehehehe

I forgot to tell u all that I'm using windows Xp Media Center Editin 2005.....Does that change anything?

Still the same problem.....what am I doing wrong? That's the only error...I can't believe it 1 error is keeping me up 3 days straight..........grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

No thanks to you guys I finally found the problem....as mentioned in earlier posts (XP Pro Not MCE) I had to put the WinntBBU.dll on the desktop then edit it....coz WinXP MCE 2005 Doesn't have a WinntBBU.DL_ only the DLL file.......and WinntbbuEDIT Creates a WinntBBU.DL_ that's what was Fu**ing the whole thing up......man I had to browse through 100s of forums to find it....well it ain't all bad i sure learned a thing or two here.......

And this forum sure is a saviour..........I Love yous guys........Keep up the good work I will never 4get this forum it' #1 in my bookmarks in my most valued browser ever !!!! OPERA v9.20 !!!!

Keep it up!!!!!!

Now I have other errors to fix.....I hope I can finish it by next week coz it's a project I came up with for my team....I wanna teach them how to customize their XP installation....hehehehehehehe

Hi

I want to change my install screen but how to use this program? Do I have to use it before the creation of the image (iso) or in the image?

Is there a simpler method to use than this one?

This looks like an excellent program!!! only I can't use it
I installed it along with VB6 runtime (SP6 something) and also MODIFYPE.EXE in System32 in case it was needed.
Only thing is that when I open a random WINNTBBU.DL_ from the other topic where every posts them it can't open.
I get an error window with title "Loading aborted" and the message "Expanding the File ... has failed. Can't continue!".
So I tried opening the original file from the CD and this one does open. Only when I edit it and attempt to save it, it won't save. It doesn't give an error only when I look at the location where it was supposed to be saved there will be no file what so ever.
What is wrong? Can anyone help? Tried this on 2 machines, Win XP SP2 and Windows 2003 SP1.

Anyone who can tell me how I can open/edit/make billboard setups with this program?

Thanx

I went across this error when trying to use the program
http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/1967/wi...uederrorhc9.jpg
Windows XP Home Edition / SP1

It happened when I try to open the WINNTBBU file from the I386 directory.



Similar problem as above.

1- Extract WINNTBBU.DLL from WINNTBBU.DL_. A simple way is to rename WINNTBBU.DL_ to WINNTBBU.cab, then use WinZip to extract WINNTBBU.DLL from WINNTBBU.cab.

2- Use ResourceHacker (or whatever) to change graphics/text in WINNTBBU.DLL.

3- Use WinntbbuED to view/review your work and to change text colors to your liking.

4- Use MODIFYPE.EXE to check your new WINNTBBU.DLL.

5- Re-cab your final WINNTBBU.DLL to WINNTBBU.DL_ again.

HTH

Thank you.

شكرا لهذا المجهود المحدود

in English please?

hi! i tried this very recently ... i felt great to be able to change setup screens however, 2 things i noticed: (1) Billboards don't show when XPize is slipstreamed; (2) "Finalizing Installation" is not in Bold like the others ... here are some inquiries: (1) would the font for "Setup will complete in approximately: xx minutes" be changeable too? would it's text depend on syssetup.dll for it to be ready for editing? ... (2) i didn't change the resolution of the bitmap i used ... & it seemed to work ... do still i need to change it to lower resolution (640x480 or 800x600)? ... lastly i just need to confirm: after processing the file(s) with this nice little app, i just have to replace the i386 files with these, right (uncompressed winntbbu.dll & compressed syssetup.dl_)? thanks!

hi! is TheMadGuy still active in this forum? just asking ...

No, my pics resolution is 1024x768 and it shows fine.
Yes just copy the files to your source AFTER XPize'ing.
Nope haven't seen him forever!!!

ey Kel! thanks for the confirmation ... already found out the ans to my Qs due to experiments (as sadly i had to create my build earlier than any reply could be posted ) ... no harm though ... perhaps, interest on this side of the forum has waned a little ... ... posted a resolution to my similar inquiry here ... a sample of what i did here ... thanks again Kel!

does this work in windows 2003 server to modify its files? I am running Winxp ON MY Laptop and this program. However when I try to use this to modify its file it doesn't work. do I have to do it by hand? John

any english versions guys
thanx
sachin

Thnx for this great application!

Great tool, just one question, once you changed the background, how do you save it to replace the original??
tia

File -> Save (do not use Save As)

Cheers

thank alot mara.
got it.

The program works fine only when I try to open packed .DL_ files it gives an error. It cannot expand them.
However if I use windows its own expand.exe they can be upacked just fine. Anyone else experienced this? And how to resolve?