[maxXPsoft]

razormoon, on Oct 25 2009, 10:00 PM, said:

Glad to see you're back to work Max. Looking forward to stretching out the app.
I trust the driver portion will be funtional? You know what I'm talking about.......

lol when i was using drivers from my x64 Vista I watched as it installed 127 of them. So I believe it to be working. Cut that back to about 25 grabbing them with driver magician on a working Se7en

[maxXPsoft]

well shoot, I already made Keznews forums with a hotfile download by FreeRyde of the 6.0.0
Instead of adding a reply here saying it worked for him(which to date no one has) he goes uploading it.
6.0.1 is on the burner making that a stupid post

I want to guarantee you are getting what I release so don't download this from any of them places.
Only from my link in first post and then you know it's not messed with. I'll let you know when I upload any updates
Its Rapidshare and at about 7mb is very small so not that big a thing

[TheWalrus]

I tried to play with the program but it seems like I am too dumb or something - anyway this seems to be beyond my understanding and skills.
First I wanted to create some username - huh? Then it copied the whole already copied DVD files elsewhere, restarted several times - or in fact it was doing something and then I had to start it manually again. This was about 3 times.
Then the initial screen appeared again only for me to realize I still can't do anything. There are several tick boxes which I can't tick at all. Addons works, but cannot be unticked.

I guess that's it for me, gonna wait for a program designed for idiots

edit: also couldn't figure out the point of 4 help buttons that give me open file dialog upon clicking on.

This post has been edited by TheWalrus: 27 October 2009 - 08:09 AM

[maxXPsoft]

EDIT: username? have you ever installed a win edition? somewhere along the way it asks for a username and password

http://www.msfn.org/...ua-t138899.html above is the Help buttons' sometimes I wish there was 40 buttons to open any file i have saved for INFO pertaining to what I am thinking of

Did you copy the dvd or an iso? Once you copy the extracted dvd and restart it mounts image to setup image tools
I pause it so someone can copy errors. You have to hit enter at a Pause in the cmd window. That may happen a couple times.
You have to let it finish

This post has been edited by maxXPsoft: 27 October 2009 - 09:06 AM

[TheWalrus]

Ok let me try to describe what I did in more detailed way.
I took my W7 DVD and copied it to some directory.
Then I instaleld Se7en_UA and ran it.
The only clickable button was Copy DVD, ok. I got a popup saying "add your new username here". No idea what that means. Then I was asked to locate bootmgr, so I navigated to where I copied my files to. Then all the files were copied in the directory the program was installed to and that was it. Press any key to continue. No errors though. I started it manually again, command prompt opened again, mounting files. Allright. It finished, started again, this time unmounting. What?.... mount cleanup in progress... Ok I guess? Anyway the program finally started at this point. On the top I see a line with version number of the DVD I copied, so all seems to have gone ok.
BUT I still can only click on Addons, nothing else. Everything is grayed out. If I click Addons, window appears, which makes sense But if I don't set anything and click ok, the checkbox next to Addons stays ticked. From now on it stays ticked and I can't change it. Interesting fact is that if I do this twice, Add drivers checkbox becomes available. At this point (and half million popups) I gave up, unable to set anything up.

Perhaps I am just missing something and probably am too used to the simple way vLite works (select what kinds of things I want to configure, specify that further, and then click apply and that's it).

[MAVERICKS CHOICE]

@ thewalrus

What your describing is how the program works, all check boxes @ least most require propagation before it will progress. I have used the program & successfully produced a fully working W7 UA dvd. Only few problems had were unsigned drivers not injecting & Dism refusing to commit the image a few times. I put this down to permissions in W7. Good luck with it.

[maxXPsoft]

TheWalrus, on Oct 27 2009, 11:43 AM, said:

Ok let me try to describe what I did in more detailed way.
I took my W7 DVD and copied it to some directory.

The program will copy a Dvd also
At some point you can vlite this thing or copy a vlited source folder. I haven't tried since getting on Win 7

Yes you must progress down the boxes 1 at a time and i know vlite was similar cause i have used it but it loads diff pages.

(and half million popups) you must have uac turned on, I disable that

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But if I don't set anything and click ok, the checkbox next to Addons stays ticked. From now on it stays ticked and I can't change it.

Interesting fact is that if I do this twice, Add drivers checkbox becomes available

I'll look at that because I usually add something there like my Wallpapers

EDIT: Just started over and clicked the Addons and didn't select anything and said OK, Was ready to do Drivers when I exited.

BTW,
You have to understand I made this to work if you have XP, Vista, Se7en and diff x86/x64 on each. It took a lot of time to get this right.

So setting up Image tools is a no brainer cause each OS requires different things.

This post has been edited by maxXPsoft: 27 October 2009 - 05:00 PM

[maxXPsoft]

MAVERICKS CHOICE, on Oct 27 2009, 01:20 PM, said:

I have used the program & successfully produced a fully working W7 UA dvd. Only few problems had were unsigned drivers not injecting & Dism refusing to commit the image a few times. I put this down to permissions in W7. Good luck with it.

Thanks MC, someone finally said they done it. I get those permission things in 7 also. Some say they don't get that on x86. What are you running?

[TheWalrus]

Ok then, I will have to try more and maybe get it to work.
The popups is a bit confusing I guess, I meant the interface is a little weird for me - like I said the way vLite works seems great to me, although this tool is far more advanced in terms of what you can do with it. Anyway, what I meant was - I find it confusing to click on something, be presented with options, click again, "popup" windows with some description appears, click ok, then something else... This kind of stuff. But I guess it just takes some time to get used to.

I still have some questions though:

1) What is this username thing when I copy the files? I don't get it at all.
2) How exactly does the addons tab work? It takes the stuff from current installation, ie. from the system Se7en_UA runs on?
3) Adding drivers - do I need to specify all drivers I want to integrate in one step? I assumed so and copied all my drivers (in separate folders) somewhere, then navigated Se7en_UA there. Result, it crashed without any message. Upon restarting and clicking on "list", I got error message "runtime error 339" stating that mscomctl.ocx is not correctly registered. Hmm... The program still stays loaded btw, so killing the process is necessary.

When I get past the drivers integration I will ask further...


I am sorry to ask dumb questions, but I would really like to get it to work, considering vLite being totally outdated.

[MAVERICKS CHOICE]

maxXPsoft, on Oct 28 2009, 09:33 AM, said:

MAVERICKS CHOICE, on Oct 27 2009, 01:20 PM, said:

I have used the program & successfully produced a fully working W7 UA dvd. Only few problems had were unsigned drivers not injecting & Dism refusing to commit the image a few times. I put this down to permissions in W7. Good luck with it.

Thanks MC, someone finally said they done it. I get those permission things in 7 also. Some say they don't get that on x86. What are you running?

My box is 64 able though running x86.

[urie]

TheWalrus, on Oct 28 2009, 07:58 AM, said:

Ok then, I will have to try more and maybe get it to work.
The popups is a bit confusing I guess, I meant the interface is a little weird for me - like I said the way vLite works seems great to me, although this tool is far more advanced in terms of what you can do with it. Anyway, what I meant was - I find it confusing to click on something, be presented with options, click again, "popup" windows with some description appears, click ok, then something else... This kind of stuff. But I guess it just takes some time to get used to.

I still have some questions though:

1) What is this username thing when I copy the files? I don't get it at all.
2) How exactly does the addons tab work? It takes the stuff from current installation, ie. from the system Se7en_UA runs on?
3) Adding drivers - do I need to specify all drivers I want to integrate in one step? I assumed so and copied all my drivers (in separate folders) somewhere, then navigated Se7en_UA there. Result, it crashed without any message. Upon restarting and clicking on "list", I got error message "runtime error 339" stating that mscomctl.ocx is not correctly registered. Hmm... The program still stays loaded btw, so killing the process is necessary.

When I get past the drivers integration I will ask further...


I am sorry to ask dumb questions, but I would really like to get it to work, considering vLite being totally outdated.

1 - Username enter your username you use in windows.

2 - addons yes there are from the os you have installed i,e for example copy favourites from IE.

2 - drivers make a drivers folder inside that you can have subfolders drivers must be unpacked and have inf files not executable package from makers,
use a a driver backup program to grab the drivers already installed on your system. Driver Magician lite version is free.

[maxXPsoft]

TheWalrus, on Oct 28 2009, 02:58 AM, said:

1) What is this username thing when I copy the files? I don't get it at all.

what is your username? For you don't you think it would be TheWalrus?

This seems a little too advanced for you although my 11 year old knows, uninstall this and go back to your lite stuff

This post has been edited by maxXPsoft: 28 October 2009 - 10:18 AM

[TheWalrus]

Allright, what that kind of attitude I think I will hold onto something else.

(and just for the record, it is not that clear, cause why would I have to enter my username when I want to modity files somewhere on the hdd...)

[collector]

Nice app maxXPsoft
Thank you for sharing.

Small bug to report:
When copying from DVD drive Robocopy reports an error

" ERROR : Invalid Parameter #4 : "/MT" "

I got around it by removing the MT parameter from the CDcopy.cmd script Se7en_UA generates. I then ran the CDIMAGE.EXE solo, not through Se7en_UA.exe, because if I run it through Se7en_UA it rewrites the MT parameter into the CDcopy.cmd script.

Once I got around this minor bug all else went smooth with no errors.

[maxXPsoft]

Look that writes the name and uses it later on your xml. Maybe a little ahead of time but whats the big deal.

I pop them windows so anyone can copy error message in case.
If you do get error i need to know
OS and x86 or x64
Target OS and x86 or x64
take screenshot if possible

[maxXPsoft]

collector, on Oct 28 2009, 11:42 PM, said:

Nice app maxXPsoft
Thank you for sharing.

Small bug to report:
When copying from DVD drive Robocopy reports an error

" ERROR : Invalid Parameter #4 : "/MT" "

I got around it by removing the MT parameter from the CDcopy.cmd script Se7en_UA generates. I then ran the CDIMAGE.EXE solo, not through Se7en_UA.exe, because if I run it through Se7en_UA it rewrites the MT parameter into the CDcopy.cmd script.

Once I got around this minor bug all else went smooth with no errors.

Thanks
/MT Is probably only windows 7 robocopy and is multiple threads and makes it much faster. I'll make it not write that on any but Se7en

This post has been edited by maxXPsoft: 28 October 2009 - 10:46 PM

[collector]

Thank You
I have not tested the generated ISO. I just left all your info in the xml file as I have not yet taken the time to understand it, and just wanted to quickly try your app.
Is it ok to put my own support info/name/serial ?

[maxXPsoft]

Thats the beauty of this. It creates the basic scripts, cmds for you.
Feel free to modify any way you want.

[collector]

Thank You
Will this work with the vista service pack 1 dvd and install sp2 if placed in the Hfixes folder ?

EDIT:
just noticed in your first post

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works with source dvd vista x86/64 SP2 and Se7en x86/64 RTM

Sorry for the noob questions. I am new to this.

This post has been edited by collector: 28 October 2009 - 11:24 PM

[maxXPsoft]

No Vista SP2 has been a pain for me and no way that I could find or anyway to do it. Not like XP where it would allow you to integrate SPs into your sources. Not sure if vlite can get it integrated. If it can then you could then copy the source from that. Hate to say that cause then you have the name all over your images.

You can install and then run the sp2. I kind of skipped vista after they came out with seven and quit trying to figure it out.