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LeveL
Before anything else when you boot from a Windows disc
you get the blue setup screen with the following:

It says Windows Setup underlined in the top left corner with
the message Press F6 if you need to install a third party SCSI
or RAID driver...
at the bottom, followed by the Setup is
loading files
message when all the other support for hardware
loads in initially.

Then it says Setup is starting Windows at the bottom.

Then at the top it says Windows XP Professional setup (underlined)
with the text The following list shows the existing partitions and unpartitioned
space on this computer


Then you press D/ENTER/L/UP/UP/ENTER or something like that to
delete the existing partition and start formatting the partition (well OK I
always do!) and then you get to a screen saying Please wait while Setup
copies files to the Windows installation folders. This might take several
minutes to complete.
Then under that it says Setup is copying files...
with a progress bar. The whole time it always says the same Windows XP
Professional setup
(underlined) at the top.

What I am asking is

1 - Is all this text a part of the same EXE or DLL file?

2 - If so, which file?


I want to make the ultimate customized setup!

I have already ResHacked the file SYSSETUP.DLL that allows
you to change the Windows screens as it installs (I am using
classic setup done with nLite) but now I want to work on the
very first initial text mode setup screens, these are not GUI
based though and I am not sure (I actually have no clue) where
this file is, whether it is a cabbed file or not (I wonder how it
possibly can be since it runs right away?)

HELP! blushing.gif
colornokia
SETUPLDR.BIN but there is no other way to edit it besides hex editor
LeveL
Hmmmm, then it says "NTLDR is corrupt, the system cannot boot"

I didn't touch NTLDR though!

Maybe its best to just not even bother eh?

It does not mention the name of the OS in SETUPLDR.BIN
where it appears in the top left corner on the blue setup
screen.

"Windows XP Professional setup" does not appear anywhere in
SETUPLDR.BIN aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!!!!
colornokia
Look also at SMSS.EXE smile.gif
LeveL
QUOTE (colornokia @ Oct 20 2006, 10:44 PM) *
Look also at SMSS.EXE smile.gif


SMSS.EXE only has "Version Info" in Reshacker.



"Windows NT Session Manager"

I guess get all the .EX_ files and look at them all?!
colornokia
Nope open it with Resource Tuner (Download Trial Version) Look at Message Table. Here it's a screen shot of the russian version of smss.exe
KNARZ
QUOTE (colornokia @ Oct 20 2006, 11:44 AM) *
SETUPLDR.BIN but there is no other way to edit it besides hex editor


You're right / I can confirm

And there is a String called "Windows Setup"
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