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If the user doesn't get any performance benefit by enabling the AHCI mode with Intel ICH8 chipset mainboards, why do you suggest nevertheless to do it and to load the modified AHCI drivers? Actually, from everything I know and read, ACHI does not improve performance for anyone in lots of situations. At the same time, HD Tach is an old program that isn't even supported anymore. My testing was pretty informal and more software designed to really test the benefit of ACHI v IDE would be needed. Here are a few reasons why you'd want ACHI, hot-plugging and native command queuing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Command_Queuing Here is a reason why you wouldn't want NCQ: "However, the current (as of 2004) technology actually slows down HD access in certain applications, like games and sequential reads & writes, because of the added latency induced by NCQ logic[1]." From my understanding, NCQ is a nice feature for someone who doesn't want to worry about a fragmented hard drive or doesn't do that much sequential read/writing, especially on servers. At this stage in time, I believe NCQ does not really have much of a performance hit anymore (I currently sport a 7200.10 that is 3 generations later). Additionally, in another 4 years I see XP as going the way of 98, most people will be running Vista with the remnants still running it. Vista natively supports ACHI, which means there would be very little reason to not use it.

PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2824&CC_0106.DeviceDesc this strange entry is fixed with this line PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2824&CC_0106.DeviceDesc = "Intel® 82801HB SATA AHCI Controller" In other words, it just sets the display name properly. I fixed this by updating the driver with my newer version. As a side note, I have done performance testing and AHCI has no performance benefit seen in HD Tach. This is compared to vista in IDE, XP in IDE, and XP in AHCI

I can confirm that my system is running in ACHI mode, since everything is set to it in the BIOS, except I have a strange entry in the device manager. NOTE: Missed one line in the .inf file, so I am replacing the one I uploaded at rapidshare. If anyone has used the old one and integrated it DO NOT WORRY as it looks to be just literally a string setting for what name to display in the device manager.

My third try was a success. Patching uxtheme is indeed causing the problem.

I actually have had this happen to me twice right now. The first time I had everything in that .ini plus OnePiece IE7 addon. The second time I removed the IE7 addon thinking maybe there was some sort of strange conflict that happened there, but it still happened. This time I am going to turn off uxtheme and manually patch it. Here is my .ini from my second try [Main] Env = 1.4.1 - 2.0.50727.42.Microsoft Windows NT 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Target = Windows XP Professional SP2 - 5.1.2600.2180 - English (United States) [Tasks] Remove Components Unattended Setup Integrate Drivers Hotfixes and Update Packs Tweaks Create a Bootable ISO Options [Components] ;# Applications # Briefcase Games Internet Games Pinball ;# Drivers # Display Adapters Display Adapters (old) Ethernet (LAN) IBM PS/2 TrackPoint IBM Thinkpad ISDN Logitech WingMan Microsoft SideWinder Modems MultiFunctional Scanners SCSI/RAID Serial Pen Tablet Sony Jog Dial Sound Controllers Tape drives Toshiba DVD decoder card ;# Hardware Support # ALI 1535 SMBus Host Controller ALI IDE Controller Battery Bluetooth Support Brother Devices CMD PCI IDE Controller CPU AMD CPU Transmeta Crusoe Firewire (1394) Support Firewire Network support Gravis Digital GamePort InfraRed Intel PCI IDE Controller Iomega Zip drive Joystick Support Modem Support Multi-port serial adapters PCMCIA Secure Digital host controller Smart Cards Toshiba PCI IDE Controller USB Audio support VIA PCI IDE Controller ;# Keyboards # Albanian keyboard Arabic (101) keyboard Arabic (102) AZERTY keyboard Arabic (102) keyboard Armenian Eastern keyboard Armenian Western keyboard Azeri Cyrillic keyboard Azeri Latin keyboard Belarusian keyboard Belgian (Comma) keyboard Belgian (Period) keyboard Belgian French keyboard Bengali (Inscript) keyboard Bengali keyboard Bosnian keyboard Bulgarian (Latin) keyboard Bulgarian keyboard Canadian French (Legacy) keyboard Canadian French keyboard Canadian Multilingual Standard keyboard Chinese (Simplified) - Microsoft Pinyin IME 3.0 keyboard Chinese (Simplified) - NeiMa keyboard Chinese (Simplified) - QuanPin keyboard Chinese (Simplified) - ShuangPin keyboard Chinese (Simplified) - US Keyboard keyboard Chinese (Simplified) - ZhengMa keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - Alphanumeric keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - Array keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - Big5 Code keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - ChangJie keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - DaYi keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - New ChangJie keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - New Phonetic keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - Phonetic keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - Quick keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - Unicode keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - US Keyboard keyboard Croatian keyboard Czech (QWERTY) keyboard Czech keyboard Czech Programmers keyboard Danish keyboard Devanagari - INSCRIPT keyboard Divehi Phonetic keyboard Divehi Typewriter keyboard Dutch keyboard Estonian keyboard Faeroese keyboard Farsi keyboard Finnish keyboard Finnish with Sami keyboard FYRO Macedonian keyboard Gaelic keyboard Georgian keyboard German (IBM) keyboard German keyboard Greek (220) keyboard Greek (220) Latin keyboard Greek (319) keyboard Greek (319) Latin keyboard Greek keyboard Greek Latin keyboard Greek Polytonic keyboard Gujarati keyboard Hindi Traditional keyboard Hungarian 101-key keyboard Hungarian keyboard Icelandic keyboard Irish keyboard Italian (142) keyboard Italian keyboard Kannada keyboard Kazakh keyboard Korean Input System (IME 2000) keyboard Korean keyboard Kyrgyz Cyrillic keyboard Latin American keyboard Latvian (QWERTY) keyboard Latvian keyboard Lithuanian IBM keyboard Lithuanian keyboard Malayalam keyboard Maltese 47-key keyboard Maltese 48-key keyboard Maori keyboard Marathi keyboard Mongolian Cyrillic keyboard Norwegian keyboard Norwegian with Sami keyboard Polish (214) keyboard Polish (Programmers) keyboard Portuguese (Brazilian ABNT) keyboard Portuguese (Brazilian ABNT2) keyboard Portuguese keyboard Punjabi keyboard Russian (Typewriter) keyboard Russian keyboard Sami Extended Finland-Sweden keyboard Sami Extended Norway keyboard Serbian (Cyrillic) keyboard Serbian (Latin) keyboard Slovak (QWERTY) keyboard Slovak keyboard Slovenian keyboard Spanish keyboard Spanish Variation keyboard Swedish keyboard Swedish with Sami keyboard Swiss French keyboard Swiss German keyboard Syriac keyboard Syriac Phonetic keyboard Tamil keyboard Tatar keyboard Telugu keyboard Thai Kedmanee (non-ShiftLock) keyboard Thai Kedmanee keyboard Thai Pattachote (non-ShiftLock) keyboard Thai Pattachote keyboard Turkish F keyboard Turkish Q keyboard Ukrainian keyboard Urdu keyboard Uzbek Cyrillic keyboard Vietnamese keyboard ;# Languages # ;Armenian Armenian ;Baltic Estonian Latvian Lithuanian ;Georgian Georgian ;Turkic Azeri (Latin) Turkish Uzbek (Latin) ;Western Europe and United States English (Caribbean) English (Jamaica) English (Trinidad) English (Zimbabwe) Faeroese ;# Multimedia # Intel Indeo codecs Movie Maker Music Samples Old CDPlayer and Sound Recorder Tablet PC ;# Network # Communication tools Comtrol Test Terminal Program FrontPage Extensions Internet Connection Wizard MSN Explorer Synchronization Manager Windows Messenger ;# Operating System Options # .NET Framework Blaster/Nachi removal tool Desktop Cleanup Wizard File and Settings Wizard Tour ;# Directories # DOCS ;# Compatibility # [KeepFiles] msconfig.exe [RemoveFiles] clock.avi yahoo.bmp swtchbrd.bmp [Options] OemBranding ProfilesDir = "%SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings" TargetPath = "WINDOWS" temp_dir = %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Temp AdvTweaks [Patches] TcpIp = 100 DoUxTheme DoSFC [Services2] seclogon,3 ClipSrv,3 RemoteRegistry,3 SharedAccess,3 TapiSrv,3 UPS,3 Alerter,3 Messenger,3 [Tweaks] Boot and Shutdown-Setup Prefetch-Cache-Applaunch and Boot enabled Desktop-Desktop icons size-48 Desktop-Internet Explorer icon-Hide Desktop-My Documents icon-Hide Desktop-My Network Places icon-Hide Desktop-Recycle Bin icon-Show Explorer-Add 'Command Prompt' to folder context menu Explorer-Advanced Search: preconfigure options Explorer-Disable Accessibility keyboard shortcuts Explorer-Display the contents of system folders Explorer-Remove Send To on context menu Explorer-Show extensions of known file-types Explorer-Show hidden files and folders Internet Explorer-Disable Market Place bookmark Internet Explorer-Disable Media Player 6.4 created bookmarks Internet Explorer-Disable Outlook Express link creation Internet Explorer-Set Homepage-about:blank Internet Explorer-Set Internet Explorer to accept 10 connects at a time My Computer-Add Administrative Tools My Computer-Add Device Manager to Context Menu My Computer-Add Folder Options Network-Remote Desktop-Enable Performance-Enable USB Idle Endpoint support Performance-Processor scheduling-Programs Privacy-Remove Alexa Security-Screensaver Password-Protection-Enabled Start Menu-Control Panel-Display as a menu Start Menu-My Computer-Display as a menu Start Menu-My Documents-Don't display this item Start Menu-My Music-Don't display this item Start Menu-My Pictures-Don't display this item Start Menu-Network Connections-Link to Network Connections folder Start Menu-Number of programs on Start menu-10 Start Menu-Printers and Faxes-Don't display this item Start Menu-Reduce popup delay Start Menu-Remove Search For People from Search Start Menu-Remove Search the Internet from Search Start Menu-Remove Windows Catalog shortcut Taskbar-Lock the Taskbar-Yes [Unattended] NoPassExpSpec ComputerType = Default HibernationNo AutoLogon = Omnipotenet One FirewallOff MaximumDataStorePercentOfDisk = 10 RestorePointLife = 30 DesktopTheme = Default|| IISInstall = 2 AutoUpdates = 2 AutoUDay = 5 AutoUHour = 15 ProgFilesPath = "D:\" [NetAdapter1] connname = "" macaddress = "" ipaddress = "192.168.0.1" subnetmask = "255.255.255.0" defaultgateway = "" dnsserver1 = "" dnsserver2 = "" winsserver = "" netbiossetting = "0" ipxnetworknumber = "00000000" ipxnetworkframetype = "0xFF" [GuiRunOnce] [Drivers] F:\VISTA SAVED\Users\Omnipotent One\Desktop\Giga\yk51x86_v10.51.1.3\yk51x86.inf,0 F:\VISTA SAVED\Users\Omnipotent One\Desktop\Giga\INFUpdate\Inf\All\5000XZVP.inf,0 F:\VISTA SAVED\Users\Omnipotent One\Desktop\Giga\Intel_Sata_Raid_drivers_v7801012_32bit_packed_by_Fernando\iaahci.inf,iaAHCI_ICH8 [Hotfixes] F:\VISTA SAVED\Users\Omnipotent One\Desktop\Comp New\xable-December-SP2-UpdatePack.7z

Just wanted to add in order to have ICH8 achi/raid support you need to modify the files that site says, which I have done, but have not tested yet. Here are those files: http://rapidshare.com/files/81772146/iaahci.inf.html FIXED VERSION http://rapidshare.com/files/81542029/TXTSETUP.OEM.html It really is easy to maintain the iaahci.inf and txtsetup.oem, since you basically add in a total of 4 entries. Additionally, these files aren't updated that often.

I just wanted to let you know Fernando that plain old ICH8 does indeed support ACHI, http://kerneltrap.org/node/7582 , contains the information about it. You might want to add it in as an "experimental" and a use at your own discrepancy type of warning.

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Easiest thing to do would be for someone else to test out the same exact session and see what happens for them in VMWare Server. I think I'm going to grab Virtual PC 2k4 and see what happens there as well.

Nobody seems to really care that there is indeed something in nLite 1.21 that allows you to not complete an install. In order to find what was going wrong I tested out SP1, a nLite slipstreamed SP2, a nLite based off the splipstreamed SP2 w/ only hotfixes, and a nLite based off a new splipstreamed SP2 w/ only everything else that nLite allows you to change straight from the program and no addon/hotfix packs of any sort. SP1 worked SP2 worked SP2 hotfixes did not work SP2 w/ everything else did not work and froze at 37 minutes just like I previously said Attached is what I ran for SP2 w/ everything else everything else is the following Remove Components, Unattended Setup, Tweaks, Options Last_Session.ini

I tried nLite a second time with more of the same hang, changed one thing and added in something else. [Main] Env = 1.2.1 - 2.0.50727.42.Microsoft Windows NT 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Target = Windows XP Professional SP:2 - 5.1.2600.2180 - English (United States) [Tasks] Service Pack Integration Remove Components Unattended Setup Hotfixes and Update Packs Tweaks Create a Bootable ISO Options [Components] ;# Applications # Accessibility Options Briefcase ClipBook Viewer Games Internet Games NT Backup Pinball ;# Drivers # Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Display Adapters (old) IBM Thinkpad ISDN Logitech WingMan Microsoft SideWinder Modems MultiFunctional Portable Audio Scanners SCSI/RAID Serial Pen Tablet Sony Jog Dial Sound Controllers Tape drives Toshiba DVD decoder card ;# Hardware Support # AGP filters ALI 1535 SMBus Host Controller ALI IDE Controller ATM Support Battery Brother Devices CMD PCI IDE Controller CPU AMD CPU Transmeta Crusoe Gravis Digital GamePort InfraRed Joystick Support Modem Support PCMCIA Smart Cards Teletext codec Toshiba PCI IDE Controller USB Audio support VIA PCI IDE Controller ;# Keyboards # Albanian keyboard Arabic (101) keyboard Arabic (102) AZERTY keyboard Arabic (102) keyboard Armenian Eastern keyboard Armenian Western keyboard Azeri Cyrillic keyboard Azeri Latin keyboard Belarusian keyboard Belgian (Comma) keyboard Belgian (Period) keyboard Belgian French keyboard Bulgarian (Latin) keyboard Bulgarian keyboard Canadian French (Legacy) keyboard Canadian French keyboard Canadian Multilingual Standard keyboard Chinese (Simplified) - Microsoft Pinyin IME 3.0 keyboard Chinese (Simplified) - NeiMa keyboard Chinese (Simplified) - QuanPin keyboard Chinese (Simplified) - ShuangPin keyboard Chinese (Simplified) - US Keyboard keyboard Chinese (Simplified) - ZhengMa keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - Alphanumeric keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - Array keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - Big5 Code keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - ChangJie keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - DaYi keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - New ChangJie keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - New Phonetic keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - Phonetic keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - Quick keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - Unicode keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - US Keyboard keyboard Croatian keyboard Czech (QWERTY) keyboard Czech keyboard Czech Programmers keyboard Danish keyboard Devanagari - INSCRIPT keyboard Divehi Phonetic keyboard Divehi Typewriter keyboard Dutch keyboard Estonian keyboard Faeroese keyboard Farsi keyboard Finnish keyboard French keyboard FYRO Macedonian keyboard Gaelic keyboard Georgian keyboard German (IBM) keyboard German keyboard Greek (220) keyboard Greek (220) Latin keyboard Greek (319) keyboard Greek (319) Latin keyboard Greek keyboard Greek Latin keyboard Greek Polytonic keyboard Gujarati keyboard Hebrew keyboard Hindi Traditional keyboard Hungarian 101-key keyboard Hungarian keyboard Icelandic keyboard Irish keyboard Italian (142) keyboard Italian keyboard Japanese Input System (MS-IME2002) keyboard Japanese keyboard Kannada keyboard Kazakh keyboard Korean Input System (IME 2000) keyboard Korean keyboard Kyrgyz Cyrillic keyboard Latin American keyboard Latvian (QWERTY) keyboard Latvian keyboard Lithuanian IBM keyboard Lithuanian keyboard Marathi keyboard Mongolian Cyrillic keyboard Norwegian keyboard Polish (214) keyboard Polish (Programmers) keyboard Portuguese (Brazilian ABNT) keyboard Portuguese (Brazilian ABNT2) keyboard Portuguese keyboard Punjabi keyboard Romanian keyboard Russian (Typewriter) keyboard Russian keyboard Serbian (Cyrillic) keyboard Serbian (Latin) keyboard Slovak (QWERTY) keyboard Slovak keyboard Slovenian keyboard Spanish keyboard Spanish Variation keyboard Swedish keyboard Swiss French keyboard Swiss German keyboard Syriac keyboard Syriac Phonetic keyboard Tamil keyboard Tatar keyboard Telugu keyboard Thai Kedmanee (non-ShiftLock) keyboard Thai Kedmanee keyboard Thai Pattachote (non-ShiftLock) keyboard Thai Pattachote keyboard Turkish F keyboard Turkish Q keyboard Ukrainian keyboard Urdu keyboard US English Table for IBM Arabic 238_L keyboard Uzbek Cyrillic keyboard Vietnamese keyboard ;# Languages # ;Arabic Arabic (Algeria) Arabic (Bahrain) Arabic (Egypt) Arabic (Iraq) Arabic (Jordan) Arabic (Kuwait) Arabic (Lebanon) Arabic (Libya) Arabic (Morocco) Arabic (Oman) Arabic (Qatar) Arabic (Saudi Arabia) Arabic (Syria) Arabic (Tunisia) Arabic (U.A.E.) Arabic (Yemen) Divehi (Maldives) Syriac (Syria) Urdu ;Armenian Armenian ;Baltic Estonian Latvian Lithuanian ;Central Europe Albanian Croatian Czech Hungarian Polish Romanian Serbian (Latin) Slovak Slovenian ;Cyrillic Azeri (Cyrillic) Belarusian Bulgarian FYRO Macedonian Kazakh Kyrgyz (Kyrgyzstan) Mongolian (Mongolia) Russian Serbian (Cyrillic) Tatar Ukrainian Uzbek (Cyrillic) ;Georgian Georgian ;Greek Greek ;Hebrew Hebrew ;Indic Gujarati (India) Hindi Kannada (India) Konkani Marathi Punjabi (India) Sanskrit Tamil Telugu (India) ;Thai Farsi Thai ;Turkic Azeri (Latin) Turkish Uzbek (Latin) ;Vietnamese Vietnamese ;# Multimedia # Luna desktop theme Media Center Movie Maker Music Samples Old CDPlayer and Sound Recorder Speech Support Tablet PC ;# Network # Communication tools FrontPage Extensions Internet Connection Wizard Internet Information Services (IIS) MSN Explorer Outlook Express Synchronization Manager Windows Messenger ;# Operating System Options # Administrative Templates Administrator VB scripts Desktop Cleanup Wizard Document Templates DR Watson Extensible Storage Engine (Esent97) FAT to NTFS converter File and Settings Wizard Manual Install and Upgrade Private Character Editor Remote Installation Services (RIS) Save Dump Utility Search Assistant Tour ;# Services # Alerter Distributed Link Tracking Client Error Reporting Fax Service IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service Indexing Service IPSEC Policy Agent Messenger Network DDE Secondary Logon Service Advertising Protocol TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper Uninterruptible Power Supply Universal Plug and Play Device Host Volume Shadow Copy ;# Directories # VALUEADD ;# Compatibility # [KeepFiles] msconfig.exe [RemoveFiles] clock.avi [Options] OemBranding ProfilesDir = "%SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings" TargetPath = "WINDOWS" temp_dir = %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Temp AdvTweaks [Patches] TcpIp = 50 DoUxTheme [Services2] Browser,3 MSDTC,3 HidServ,4 dmserver,3 dmadmin,3 NetLogon,4 mnmsrvc,4 RasAuto,3 RasMan,3 RemoteRegistry,4 NtmsSvc,3 RemoteAccess,3 TapiSrv,3 W32Time,4 WmiApSrv,4 [Tweaks] Boot and Shutdown-Setup Prefetch-Cache-Applaunch and Boot enabled Desktop-Internet Explorer icon-Hide Desktop-My Computer icon-Hide Desktop-My Documents icon-Hide Desktop-My Network Places icon-Hide Desktop-Recycle Bin icon-Show Explorer-Add 'Command Prompt' to folder context menu Explorer-Advanced Search: preconfigure options Explorer-Display the contents of system folders Explorer-Remove Send To on context menu Explorer-Show Drive Letters in front of Drive Names Explorer-Show extensions of known file-types Explorer-Show hidden files and folders Explorer-Show protected operating system files Explorer-Show the full path in the Address Bar Internet Explorer-Set Homepage-about:blank Internet Explorer-Set Internet Explorer to accept 10 connects at a time My Computer-Add Administrative Tools My Computer-Add Device Manager to Context Menu My Computer-Add Recycle Bin My Computer-Remove Shared Documents Network-Remote Desktop-Enable Performance-Processor scheduling-Programs Privacy-Remove Alexa Security-Re-Enable user:pass URLs Security-Screensaver Password-Protection-Enabled Start Menu-Control Panel-Display as a menu Start Menu-My Computer-Display as a link Start Menu-My Documents-Display as a link Start Menu-My Music-Display as a link Start Menu-My Network Places-Display as a link Start Menu-My Pictures-Don't display this item Start Menu-Network Connections-Don't display this item Start Menu-Number of programs on Start menu-10 Start Menu-Printers and Faxes-Don't display this item Start Menu-Reduce popup delay Start Menu-Remove Logoff User Start Menu-Remove Search the Internet from Search Start Menu-Remove Set Program Access and Defaults Start Menu-Remove Windows Catalog shortcut Start Menu-Remove Windows Update shortcut Taskbar-Lock the Taskbar-No Windows Media Player-Accept Privacy Statement Windows Media Player-Disable auto-add music to library Windows Media Player-Disable automatic codec download Windows Media Player-Disable license backup prompt Windows Media Player-Disable MRU Windows Media Player-Disable silent acqusition Windows Media Player-Disable starting with Media Guide Windows Media Player-No visualization Windows Media Player-Optimize fullscreen mode behavior Windows Media Player-Remove all context menu entries [Unattended] UnattendMode = 5 ComputerType = Automatic HibernationNo AutoLogon = Omnipotent One FirewallOff BitsPerPel = 32 bit (True Color) MaximumDataStorePercentOfDisk = 2 RestorePointLife = 30 DesktopTheme = Default|| AutoUpdates = 2 AutoUDay = 5 AutoUHour = 15 ProgFilesPath = "\Program Files" [NetAdapter1] connname = "" macaddress = "" ipaddress = "192.168.0.1" subnetmask = "255.255.255.0" defaultgateway = "" dnsserver1 = "" dnsserver2 = "" winsserver = "" netbiossetting = "0" ipxnetworknumber = "00000000" ipxnetworkframetype = "0xFF" [NetAdapter2] connname = "" macaddress = "" ipaddress = "192.168.0.2" subnetmask = "255.255.255.0" defaultgateway = "" dnsserver1 = "" dnsserver2 = "" winsserver = "" netbiossetting = "0" ipxnetworknumber = "00000000" ipxnetworkframetype = "0xFF" [NetAdapter3] connname = "" macaddress = "" ipaddress = "192.168.0.3" subnetmask = "255.255.255.0" defaultgateway = "" dnsserver1 = "" dnsserver2 = "" winsserver = "" netbiossetting = "0" ipxnetworknumber = "00000000" ipxnetworkframetype = "0xFF" [NetAdapter4] connname = "" macaddress = "" ipaddress = "192.168.0.4" subnetmask = "255.255.255.0" defaultgateway = "" dnsserver1 = "" dnsserver2 = "" winsserver = "" netbiossetting = "0" ipxnetworknumber = "00000000" ipxnetworkframetype = "0xFF" [GuiRunOnce] [Drivers] [Hotfixes] C:\Documents and Settings\Omnipotent One\Desktop\RVMUpdatePack2.1.4.7z C:\Documents and Settings\Omnipotent One\Desktop\RVMAddonsDX9_1.0.7z

This nLite iso did indeed fail on a real system.

Only additional thing is Ryan's Update Pack

It seems like from reading another thread that nLite isos sometimes fail in VMWare, but will work fine in a real install like I guessed could be the case. It simply must be an issue of certain files VMWare requires that I removed.

I decided for the first time to check out my nLite install through VMWare and had it hang at 37 minutes. I tried using my sp1 cd and that worked perfectly fine. Here is the preset: [Main] Env = 1.2.1 - 2.0.50727.42.Microsoft Windows NT 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Target = Windows XP Professional SP:2 - 5.1.2600.2180 - English (United States) [Tasks] Service Pack Integration Remove Components Unattended Setup Hotfixes and Update Packs Tweaks Create a Bootable ISO Options [Components] ;# Applications # Accessibility Options Briefcase ClipBook Viewer Games Internet Games NT Backup Pinball ;# Drivers # Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Display Adapters (old) IBM Thinkpad ISDN Logitech WingMan Microsoft SideWinder Modems MultiFunctional Portable Audio Scanners SCSI/RAID Serial Pen Tablet Sony Jog Dial Sound Controllers Tape drives Toshiba DVD decoder card ;# Hardware Support # AGP filters ALI 1535 SMBus Host Controller ALI IDE Controller ATM Support Battery Bluetooth Support Brother Devices CMD PCI IDE Controller CPU AMD CPU Transmeta Crusoe Gravis Digital GamePort InfraRed Joystick Support Modem Support PCMCIA Secure Digital host controller Smart Cards Teletext codec Toshiba PCI IDE Controller USB Audio support VIA PCI IDE Controller ;# Keyboards # Albanian keyboard Arabic (101) keyboard Arabic (102) AZERTY keyboard Arabic (102) keyboard Armenian Eastern keyboard Armenian Western keyboard Azeri Cyrillic keyboard Azeri Latin keyboard Belarusian keyboard Belgian (Comma) keyboard Belgian (Period) keyboard Belgian French keyboard Bengali (Inscript) keyboard Bengali keyboard Bosnian keyboard Bulgarian (Latin) keyboard Bulgarian keyboard Canadian French (Legacy) keyboard Canadian French keyboard Canadian Multilingual Standard keyboard Chinese (Simplified) - Microsoft Pinyin IME 3.0 keyboard Chinese (Simplified) - NeiMa keyboard Chinese (Simplified) - QuanPin keyboard Chinese (Simplified) - ShuangPin keyboard Chinese (Simplified) - US Keyboard keyboard Chinese (Simplified) - ZhengMa keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - Alphanumeric keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - Array keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - Big5 Code keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - ChangJie keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - DaYi keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - New ChangJie keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - New Phonetic keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - Phonetic keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - Quick keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - Unicode keyboard Chinese (Traditional) - US Keyboard keyboard Croatian keyboard Czech (QWERTY) keyboard Czech keyboard Czech Programmers keyboard Danish keyboard Devanagari - INSCRIPT keyboard Divehi Phonetic keyboard Divehi Typewriter keyboard Dutch keyboard Estonian keyboard Faeroese keyboard Farsi keyboard Finnish keyboard Finnish with Sami keyboard French keyboard FYRO Macedonian keyboard Gaelic keyboard Georgian keyboard German (IBM) keyboard German keyboard Greek (220) keyboard Greek (220) Latin keyboard Greek (319) keyboard Greek (319) Latin keyboard Greek keyboard Greek Latin keyboard Greek Polytonic keyboard Gujarati keyboard Hebrew keyboard Hindi Traditional keyboard Hungarian 101-key keyboard Hungarian keyboard Icelandic keyboard Irish keyboard Italian (142) keyboard Italian keyboard Japanese Input System (MS-IME2002) keyboard Japanese keyboard Kannada keyboard Kazakh keyboard Korean Input System (IME 2000) keyboard Korean keyboard Kyrgyz Cyrillic keyboard Latin American keyboard Latvian (QWERTY) keyboard Latvian keyboard Lithuanian IBM keyboard Lithuanian keyboard Malayalam keyboard Maltese 47-key keyboard Maltese 48-key keyboard Maori keyboard Marathi keyboard Mongolian Cyrillic keyboard Norwegian keyboard Norwegian with Sami keyboard Polish (214) keyboard Polish (Programmers) keyboard Portuguese (Brazilian ABNT) keyboard Portuguese (Brazilian ABNT2) keyboard Portuguese keyboard Punjabi keyboard Romanian keyboard Russian (Typewriter) keyboard Russian keyboard Sami Extended Finland-Sweden keyboard Sami Extended Norway keyboard Serbian (Cyrillic) keyboard Serbian (Latin) keyboard Slovak (QWERTY) keyboard Slovak keyboard Slovenian keyboard Spanish keyboard Spanish Variation keyboard Swedish keyboard Swedish with Sami keyboard Swiss French keyboard Swiss German keyboard Syriac keyboard Syriac Phonetic keyboard Tamil keyboard Tatar keyboard Telugu keyboard Thai Kedmanee (non-ShiftLock) keyboard Thai Kedmanee keyboard Thai Pattachote (non-ShiftLock) keyboard Thai Pattachote keyboard Turkish F keyboard Turkish Q keyboard Ukrainian keyboard Urdu keyboard US English Table for IBM Arabic 238_L keyboard Uzbek Cyrillic keyboard Vietnamese keyboard ;# Languages # ;Arabic Arabic (Algeria) Arabic (Bahrain) Arabic (Egypt) Arabic (Iraq) Arabic (Jordan) Arabic (Kuwait) Arabic (Lebanon) Arabic (Libya) Arabic (Morocco) Arabic (Oman) Arabic (Qatar) Arabic (Saudi Arabia) Arabic (Syria) Arabic (Tunisia) Arabic (U.A.E.) Arabic (Yemen) Divehi (Maldives) Syriac (Syria) Urdu ;Armenian Armenian ;Baltic Estonian Latvian Lithuanian ;Central Europe Albanian Bosnian (Latin, Bosnia and Herzegovina) Croatian Croatian (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Czech Hungarian Polish Romanian Serbian (Latin) Serbian (Latin, Bosnia and Herzegovina) Slovak Slovenian ;Cyrillic Azeri (Cyrillic) Belarusian Bulgarian FYRO Macedonian Kazakh Kyrgyz (Kyrgyzstan) Mongolian (Mongolia) Russian Serbian (Cyrillic) Serbian (Cyrillic, Bosnia and Herzegovina) Tatar Ukrainian Uzbek (Cyrillic) ;Georgian Georgian ;Greek Greek ;Hebrew Hebrew ;Indic Bengali (India) Gujarati (India) Hindi Kannada (India) Konkani Malayalam (India) Marathi Punjabi (India) Sanskrit Tamil Telugu (India) ;Thai Farsi Thai ;Turkic Azeri (Latin) Turkish Uzbek (Latin) ;Vietnamese Vietnamese ;# Multimedia # Intel Indeo codecs Luna desktop theme Media Center Movie Maker Music Samples Old CDPlayer and Sound Recorder Speech Support Tablet PC ;# Network # Communication tools FrontPage Extensions Internet Connection Wizard Internet Information Services (IIS) MSN Explorer Outlook Express Peer-to-Peer Synchronization Manager Windows Messenger ;# Operating System Options # Administrative Templates Administrator VB scripts Blaster/Nachi removal tool Desktop Cleanup Wizard Document Templates DR Watson Extensible Storage Engine (Esent97) FAT to NTFS converter File and Settings Wizard Manual Install and Upgrade Private Character Editor Remote Installation Services (RIS) Save Dump Utility Search Assistant Tour ;# Services # Alerter Distributed Link Tracking Client Error Reporting Fax Service IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service Indexing Service IPSEC Policy Agent Messenger Network DDE Secondary Logon Service Advertising Protocol TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper Uninterruptible Power Supply Universal Plug and Play Device Host Volume Shadow Copy ;# Compatibility # [KeepFiles] msconfig.exe [RemoveFiles] clock.avi [Options] OemBranding ProfilesDir = "%SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings" TargetPath = "WINDOWS" temp_dir = %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Temp CleanBiosInfo AdvTweaks [Patches] TcpIp = 50 DoUxTheme [Services2] Browser,3 MSDTC,3 FastUserSwitchingCompatibility,4 HidServ,4 dmserver,3 dmadmin,3 NetLogon,4 mnmsrvc,4 WmdmPmSN,4 RasAuto,3 RasMan,3 RDSessMgr,4 RemoteRegistry,4 NtmsSvc,3 RemoteAccess,3 TapiSrv,3 W32Time,4 WmiApSrv,4 [Tweaks] Boot and Shutdown-Setup Prefetch-Cache-Applaunch and Boot enabled Desktop-Internet Explorer icon-Hide Desktop-My Computer icon-Hide Desktop-My Documents icon-Hide Desktop-My Network Places icon-Hide Desktop-Recycle Bin icon-Show Explorer-Add 'Command Prompt' to folder context menu Explorer-Advanced Search: preconfigure options Explorer-Display the contents of system folders Explorer-Remove Send To on context menu Explorer-Show Drive Letters in front of Drive Names Explorer-Show extensions of known file-types Explorer-Show hidden files and folders Explorer-Show protected operating system files Explorer-Show the full path in the Address Bar Internet Explorer-Set Homepage-about:blank Internet Explorer-Set Internet Explorer to accept 10 connects at a time My Computer-Add Administrative Tools My Computer-Add Device Manager to Context Menu My Computer-Add Recycle Bin My Computer-Remove Shared Documents Network-Remote Desktop-Enable Performance-Enable USB Idle Endpoint support Performance-Processor scheduling-Programs Privacy-Remove Alexa Security-Re-Enable user:pass URLs Security-Screensaver Password-Protection-Enabled Start Menu-Control Panel-Display as a menu Start Menu-My Computer-Display as a link Start Menu-My Documents-Display as a link Start Menu-My Music-Display as a link Start Menu-My Network Places-Display as a link Start Menu-My Pictures-Don't display this item Start Menu-Network Connections-Don't display this item Start Menu-Number of programs on Start menu-10 Start Menu-Printers and Faxes-Don't display this item Start Menu-Reduce popup delay Start Menu-Remove Logoff User Start Menu-Remove Search the Internet from Search Start Menu-Remove Set Program Access and Defaults Start Menu-Remove Windows Catalog shortcut Start Menu-Remove Windows Update shortcut Taskbar-Lock the Taskbar-No Windows Media Player-Accept Privacy Statement Windows Media Player-Disable auto-add music to library Windows Media Player-Disable automatic codec download Windows Media Player-Disable license backup prompt Windows Media Player-Disable MRU Windows Media Player-Disable silent acqusition Windows Media Player-Disable starting with Media Guide Windows Media Player-No visualization Windows Media Player-Optimize fullscreen mode behavior Windows Media Player-Remove all context menu entries [Unattended] UnattendMode = 5 ComputerType = Automatic HibernationNo AutoLogon = Omnipotent One FirewallOff BitsPerPel = 32 bit (True Color) MaximumDataStorePercentOfDisk = 2 RestorePointLife = 30 DesktopTheme = Default|| AutoUpdates = 2 AutoUDay = 5 AutoUHour = 15 ProgFilesPath = "\Program Files" [NetAdapter1] connname = "" macaddress = "" ipaddress = "192.168.0.1" subnetmask = "255.255.255.0" defaultgateway = "" dnsserver1 = "" dnsserver2 = "" winsserver = "" netbiossetting = "0" ipxnetworknumber = "00000000" ipxnetworkframetype = "0xFF" [NetAdapter2] connname = "" macaddress = "" ipaddress = "192.168.0.2" subnetmask = "255.255.255.0" defaultgateway = "" dnsserver1 = "" dnsserver2 = "" winsserver = "" netbiossetting = "0" ipxnetworknumber = "00000000" ipxnetworkframetype = "0xFF" [NetAdapter3] connname = "" macaddress = "" ipaddress = "192.168.0.3" subnetmask = "255.255.255.0" defaultgateway = "" dnsserver1 = "" dnsserver2 = "" winsserver = "" netbiossetting = "0" ipxnetworknumber = "00000000" ipxnetworkframetype = "0xFF" [GuiRunOnce] [Drivers] [Hotfixes] C:\Documents and Settings\Omnipotent One\Desktop\RVMUpdatePack2.1.4.7z Any help would be appreciated. Is it possible that it wouldn't fail on a real system, but fails VMWare??

I've used nLite for the past 2-3 years and since I'm about to build a new rig I came to get the latest version of 1.21. However, I've been reading up and it seems that the latest version has more problems than it is worth especially for what I use it for. I use nLite for the hotfix integration, tweaking services, preferences, etc. I don't use it for any application installation as I prefer to do that manually to always be installing the latest version of things plus I am planning this time to move the Documents and Settings, My Documents, etc. with TuneUp Utillities. So what are your opinions?