[Mistar Muffin]

Longtime user of nLite, but just started trying to use it on a SP3 install. I've tried several different iterations of the disc, but I can only install Windows so many times. After removing the usual stuff, stuff I've removed many times before, Remote Desktop no longer works. The client is on there, I can remote out, but not in. I can go to another computer and use the client and put in the ip, and nothing happens, doesn't prompt for a username or anything. After I click connect, the client just kind of resets itself. To make sure it was nLite, I burned the original XP Pro VLK SP3 iso and installed that, worked fine. I also tried nLite with just a few things removed, and it worked. I tried a few different combos to see if I could isolate it with no luck. Again, it takes too much to keep reinstalling and reinstalling. I'm hoping someone here can help me isolate the problem. And before you ask, yes I did check the box to keep remote desktop capability. Heres the last session ini:

PS, I know I have a handful of services set to be disabled after installed, as you can see below. That is an obvious candidate for the problem, but its not. I got the same error on installations where I didn't set any services to disabled on install like here. This was like my 7th try so I figured what the hell.

[Main]
Env = 1.4.5 - 2.0.50727.42.Microsoft Windows NT 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2
Target = Windows XP Professional SP3 - 5.1.2600.5512 - English (United States)

[Tasks]
Remove Components
Unattended Setup
Tweaks
Create a Bootable ISO
Options

[Components]
;# Applications #
Accessibility Options
Briefcase
ClipBook Viewer
Internet Games
Pinball
Screensavers
;# Drivers #
Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)
Display Adapters
Display Adapters (old)
Ethernet (LAN)
IBM PS/2 TrackPoint
IBM ThinkPad
ISDN
Logitech WingMan
Microsoft SideWinder
Modems
Multifunctional
Printers
Scanners
SCSI/RAID
Serial Pen Tablet
Sony Jog Dial
Sound Controllers
Tape drives
Toshiba DVD decoder card
Wireless Ethernet (WLAN)
;# Hardware Support #
Brother Devices
;# 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 Cyrillic 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
Inuktitut Latin 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
Luxembourgish keyboard
Malayalam keyboard
Maltese 47-key keyboard
Maltese 48-key keyboard
Maori keyboard
Marathi keyboard
Mongolian Cyrillic keyboard
Nepali keyboard
Norwegian keyboard
Norwegian with Sami keyboard
Pashto 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
United Kingdom Extended keyboard
United Kingdom keyboard
United States-Dvorak for left hand keyboard
United States-Dvorak for right hand keyboard
United States-Dvorak keyboard
United States-International 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)
Pashto
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
Bosnian (Cyrillic, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
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
Nepali (Nepal)
Punjabi (India)
Sanskrit
Tamil
Telugu (India)
;Japanese
Japanese
;Korean
Korean
;Simplified Chinese
Chinese (PRC)
Chinese (Singapore)
;Thai
Farsi
Thai
;Traditional Chinese
Chinese (Hong Kong S.A.R.)
Chinese (Macau S.A.R.)
Chinese (Taiwan)
;Turkic
Azeri (Latin)
Turkish
Uzbek (Latin)
;Vietnamese
Vietnamese
;Western Europe and United States
Afrikaans
Basque
Catalan
Danish
Dutch (Belgium)
Dutch (Netherlands)
English (Australia)
English (Belize)
English (Canada)
English (Caribbean)
English (Ireland)
English (Jamaica)
English (New Zealand)
English (Philippines)
English (South Africa)
English (Trinidad)
English (United Kingdom)
English (Zimbabwe)
Faeroese
Filipino
Finnish
French (Belgium)
French (Canada)
French (France)
French (Luxembourg)
French (Monaco)
French (Switzerland)
Frisian
Galician (Spain)
German (Austria)
German (Germany)
German (Liechtenstein)
German (Luxembourg)
German (Switzerland)
Icelandic
Indonesian
Inuktitut (Latin)
Irish
Italian (Italy)
Italian (Switzerland)
Luxembourgish
Malay (Brunei Darussalam)
Malay (Malaysia)
Maltese
Maori
Mapudungun
Mohawk
Northern Sotho
Norwegian (Bokmal)
Norwegian (Nynorsk)
Portuguese (Brazil)
Portuguese (Portugal)
Quechua (Bolivia)
Quechua (Ecuador)
Quechua (Peru)
Romansh
Sami, Inari (Finland)
Sami, Lule (Norway)
Sami, Lule (Sweden)
Sami, Northern (Finland)
Sami, Northern (Norway)
Sami, Northern (Sweden)
Sami, Skolt (Finland)
Sami, Southern (Norway)
Sami, Southern (Sweden)
Spanish (Argentina)
Spanish (Bolivia)
Spanish (Chile)
Spanish (Colombia)
Spanish (Costa Rica)
Spanish (Dominican Republic)
Spanish (Ecuador)
Spanish (El Salvador)
Spanish (Guatemala)
Spanish (Honduras)
Spanish (International Sort)
Spanish (Mexico)
Spanish (Nicaragua)
Spanish (Panama)
Spanish (Paraguay)
Spanish (Peru)
Spanish (Puerto Rico)
Spanish (Traditional Sort)
Spanish (Uruguay)
Spanish (Venezuela)
Swahili
Swedish
Swedish (Finland)
Tswana
Welsh
Xhosa
Zulu
;# Multimedia #
Media Center
Movie Maker
Music Samples
Old CDPlayer and Sound Recorder
Tablet PC
;# Network #
Client for Netware Networks
Communication tools
Internet Connection Wizard
Internet Information Services (IIS)
MSN Explorer
Netmeeting
Peer-to-Peer
Share Creation Wizard
Windows Messenger
;# Operating System Options #
.NET Framework
Blaster/Nachi removal tool
Desktop Cleanup Wizard
Disk Cleanup
File and Settings Wizard
Help and Support
Manual Install and Upgrade
MS Agent
Out of Box Experience (OOBE)
Search Assistant
Security Center
Service Pack Messages
Shell Media Handler
Tour
;# Services #
Beep Driver
Messenger
;# Directories #
DOCS
ETH0
SUPPORT
VALUEADD
;# Compatibility #
Compat01
Compat02
Compat06
Compat09
Compat11
Compat16

[KeepFiles]
msconfig.exe

[RemoveFiles]
clock.avi
yahoo.bmp
swtchbrd.bmp

[Options]
CABMerge
ClassicSetup
BlackSetupBack
DisableFreereq
DisableMinMem
ProfilesDir = "%SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings"
TargetPath = "WINDOWS"
temp_dir = %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Temp
AdvTweaks

[Patches]
TcpIp = 100
UsbPoll = 250
DoUxTheme
DoSFC

[Services2]
Alerter,4
ALG,4
EventSystem,4
Browser,4
TrkWks,4
ERSvc,4
FastUserSwitchingCompatibility,4
ImapiService,4
CiSvc,4
PolicyAgent,4
NLA,4
RemoteRegistry,4
seclogon,4
SENS,4
srservice,4
SharedAccess,4

[Tweaks]
Boot and Shutdown-Disable automatic restart on System Failure
Desktop-Internet Explorer icon-Hide
Explorer-Add 'Command Prompt' to folder context menu
Explorer-Advanced Search: preconfigure options
Explorer-Associate additional file types with Notepad
Explorer-Change Windows Explorer folder view-Details
Explorer-Classic Control Panel
Explorer-Disable Autorun
Explorer-Disable Beep on errors
Explorer-Disable Prefix: Shortcut to
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 Statusbar in all windows
Explorer-Show the full path in the Address Bar
Internet Explorer-Disable Download Complete notification
Internet Explorer-Disable information bar when popup is blocked
Internet Explorer-Disable Internet Explorer link creation
Internet Explorer-Disable Market Place bookmark
Internet Explorer-Disable Media Player 6.4 created bookmarks
Internet Explorer-Disable Outlook Express link creation
Internet Explorer-Disable Password-Caching
Internet Explorer-Disable sound when popup is blocked
Internet Explorer-Enable Google URL-Search
Internet Explorer-Keep IE URL-History for-0 Days
Internet Explorer-Set Homepage-www.google.com
Internet Explorer-Set Internet Explorer to accept 10 connects at a time
Internet Explorer-Set popup-blocker to high
My Computer-Add Control Panel
My Computer-Remove Shared Documents
Network-Disable automatic search for network folders and printers
Network-Disable Simple File Sharing
Network-Remote Desktop-Enable
Performance-Disable Info Tips on Files and Folders
Performance-Disable Last accessed Timestamp on files
Performance-Disable Optimize harddisk when idle
Performance-Disable Warn on low disk space
Performance-Use Windows classic folders / No Tasks Sidepanel
Privacy-Disable Driver Update Internet prompt
Privacy-Disable Error Reporting
Privacy-Disable File MRU-List
Privacy-Remove Alexa
Security-Disable Screensaver
Security-Disable Web Open With prompt
Security-Re-Enable user:pass URLs
Start Menu-Control Panel-Display as a menu
Start Menu-Disable and remove Documents list from the Start Menu
Start Menu-Disable Highlight newly installed programs
Start Menu-Do not use Personalized Menus
Start Menu-My Computer-Display as a link
Start Menu-My Documents-Display as a link
Start Menu-My Music-Don't display this item
Start Menu-My Network Places-Display as a link
Start Menu-My Pictures-Display as a link
Start Menu-Network Connections-Link to Network Connections folder
Start Menu-Printers and Faxes-Display as a link
Start Menu-Reduce popup delay
Start Menu-Remove Search For People from Search
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-Disable Group similar Taskbar buttons
Taskbar-Disable Hide inactive icons
Taskbar-Disable Language-Bar
Windows Media Player-Accept Privacy Statement
Windows Media Player-Disable auto-add music to library
Windows Media Player-Disable license backup prompt
Windows Media Player-Disable MRU
Windows Media Player-Disable starting with Media Guide
Windows Media Player-Optimize fullscreen mode behavior
Windows Media Player-Remove all context menu entries

[Unattended]
NoPassExpSpec
ComputerType = Automatic
AutoLogon = Administrator
FirewallOff
DisableSRestore
MaximumDataStorePercentOfDisk = 12
RestorePointLife = 30
DesktopTheme = Default||
AutoUpdates = 4
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"

[GuiRunOnce]

[Drivers]

[Hotfixes]

Thanks for any help.

[TranceEnergy]

I've never really used the MS remote desktop, always kept to vnc, better freeware alternatives. Have you tried with no tcp ip patch? Also maybe you need to keep Administrative shares enabled, at least that makes sense in my head, at least if you are going to be server, as in the receiving end.

[Mistar Muffin]

TranceEnergy, on May 19 2008, 11:06 AM, said:

I've never really used the MS remote desktop, always kept to vnc, better freeware alternatives. Have you tried with no tcp ip patch? Also maybe you need to keep Administrative shares enabled, at least that makes sense in my head, at least if you are going to be server, as in the receiving end.

Remote desktop works best for me for a myriad of reasons, one of which is that every XP+ computer I use already has the client. I appreciate the suggestion but that's really not a solution. I have set the TCIP IP patch to 100 in every test case, including the one where RDesktop worked without incident, so it's not that. Also, I didn't disable administrative shares, I'm not sure where you got that....

[0d14r3]

Hi, I found this link equal your probelm.
I wait help you.

0d

[rsadix]

Check your services.
I have also been trying to use a Corporate VLK SP2 disk slipstreamed to SP3. I mainly use the RVM integrator, but I used nLite to add a SATA driver and then removed many of the keyboard profiles like in your list. My installation is totally hosed, with missing shortcuts, no IE7 or WMP11...
I checked my services and noticed that many services that were set to Automatic were not started. Here are some of the services issues I have.

set to automatic but are not started
Computer Browser
Cryptographic Services
DCOM Server Process Launcher
DHCP Client
Distributed Link Tracking Client
DNS Client
Error Reporting Service
Event Log
IPSEC Services
Logical Disk Manager
NVIDIA Display Driver Service
Print Spooler
Protected Storage
Secondary Logon
Security Accounts Manager
Security Center
Shell Hardware Detection
System Event Notification
TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper
Themes
WebClient
Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)
Windows Management Instrumentation
Windows Time

The Following are disabled
Alerter
ClipBook
Human Interface Device Access
IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service
Indexing Service
Network DDE
Network DDE DSDM
Remote Registry
Routing and Remote Access
Telnet

Some of the automatics will start quickly like DHCP which I then can get an IP address, others take forever and then error out stating they can't be started. If I log out and log back, some of the serviceces that would not start are now started, but if I reboot they are not started again.

I'm about to give up on SP3 and just go back to SP2.

[Mistar Muffin]

0d14r3, on May 19 2008, 09:53 PM, said:

Hi, I found this link equal your probelm.
I wait help you.

0d

Unfortunately, this guy is trying to access RDP via the activex and couldn't get it to run. I'm using the RD Client. I'm still having this issue. My issues are not as bad as the previous poster, as this is my only issue. Perhaps you have an improperly slipstreamed image? Mine came directly from MSDN so I don't think thats the case with me. Any other ideas?

[TranceEnergy]

At this point,reading over your initial post twice, i dont see a obvious culprit. I would go paranoid here and double check that remote desktop is in fact not been disabled instead of enabled. This kind of scenario just plainly reminds me of that what i have configured, is not being implemented correctly at some stage in the process of making the nlited image. I would also check group policy editor, local and what not.
Eventsystem and SENS disabled is just asking for trouble btw.