[fdv]

Martin H, on Feb 5 2010, 06:54 AM, said:

Shouldn't there then not also be added a delreg section under 'DeletePartial', or alternativelly another commented-out entry under infs.always: ie.inf,CoreInstall...

You're right, and I changed the file on 2/2. This section now says:
[DeletePartial]
DelFiles = ie.system.opt, ie.appdir, ie.triedit, ie.vgxcopy

The SYSSETUP stuff actually is correct, but does look weird, I know.
Try re-downloading. Sorry for any confusion

[PROBLEMCHYLD]

You are awesome fdv. My friends will love to get the junk WinXP install off their computers. Thanks

[PROBLEMCHYLD]

Please insert the disk labeled Windows XP Professional in drive A:
This is the message I get. Please tell me how to fix this. I don't have xp professional, only XP SP2.

[jaclaz]

PROBLEMCHYLD, on Feb 6 2010, 02:54 AM, said:

Please insert the disk labeled Windows XP Professional in drive A:
This is the message I get. Please tell me how to fix this.

Check tag files first thing:
http://www.msfn.org/...howtopic=114695
http://www.msfn.org/...showtopic=98177
http://www.msfn.org/...howtopic=111302

PROBLEMCHYLD, on Feb 6 2010, 02:54 AM, said:

I don't have xp professional, only XP SP2.

What do you mean?

jaclaz

[Martin H]

fdv, on Feb 5 2010, 10:04 PM, said:

You're right, and I changed the file on 2/2. This section now says:
[DeletePartial]
DelFiles = ie.system.opt, ie.appdir, ie.triedit, ie.vgxcopy

The SYSSETUP stuff actually is correct, but does look weird, I know.
Try re-downloading. Sorry for any confusion

I think we're talking past eachother

In IE.INF then 'DeletePartial' deletes files which 'FullInstall' copies over, but 'DeletePartial' dosen't delete the optional reg-entries which 'FullInstall' sets...

I did redownload and the revision where set-2b, just like yesterday...

[fdv]

Thanks, PROBLEMCHYLDE
As for the insert disk... that is very odd. In fact the only time it could ever happen due to the file mods I made in TXTSETUP is when win51ip is missing, so the most likely cause is an INF file, a different one, that requires the root files that jaclaz is referring to.
Try adding not only the required files:
WIN51
WIN51IP
WIN51IP.SP2

But also add two more, just in case:
WIN51IP.SP1 and WIN51IP.SP3

Make them all single byte at least. They should not be empty. Put at least one character in them and save them before you proceed.
Maybe I should remove the requirement for the root files altogether.
BTW, since you are using SP2, you are going to get some file copy errors (as in "press ESC to ignore") and they are nothing really to worry about. I really, really recommend that you slipstream SP3 though.


Martin H, ah, I see what you meant now. Ok, I will make the necessary change.
I admit IE.INF is a kludge.

You want to know the truth here -- if I prevent install in the first place like I really want to, the 'minimize to desktop' icon next to the start button doesn't get created. The reg entries to make it are in AXANT5 but one of the IE DLLs actually sets the stage. I am not sure which one... if anyone wants to find out which DLL needs to stay through setup to allow the show desktop icon to be made, it would help me greatly! Then I wouldn't have to do the "install IE first, delete just before first boot" method that is rather boneheaded.



What's everyone findings so far? Anyone not using nLite that is, which would make you rare indeed!!
Anything that is broken? Any software that won't work? I have system32 down to, what, 270megs or so, and I am still optionalizing things. I've been isosizing all week testing various configs. It's scary how many network dependencies there are in XP. I mean if you just look at it funny, networking stops working. It's ridiculous.

Anyway, I plan to use this myself pretty soon as I'm pretty comfortable with it.

This post has been edited by fdv: 06 February 2010 - 02:55 PM

[tommyp]

If you need the show desktop icon in the quicklaunch area, you can put a CMD file into hfsvcpack. Look at the last paragraph of secton 7 of the hfslip's hfcleanup description. There's a download zip file that contains a CMD file that sets you up nicely.

[fdv]

That's the trick I used in the win2k fileset; I was looking for the DLL, wanted to try something new I guess, but really, I might as well do what I did before.

While I have you reading this TP what's your immediate take on eliminating the need for the WIN51* root files? The fileset only needs one now; it would eliminate instances of accidental noninclusion or deletion.

Feels odd communicating this way (for the rest of you TP and I usually communicate 98.7% via email and 1% via going outside and yelling really loud)

[tommyp]

Don't forget the bongos for communicating too. It's far too windy to see the smoke signals.

My take on the sourcess ident files is that the hfslipwu.inf needs win51 there (for xp only). I think layout.inf has something about ident files, but not sure about the rest of the msft setup infs.

[Ambassador]

tommyp, on 07 February 2010 - 05:55 AM, said:

You want to know the truth here -- if I prevent install in the first place like I really want to, the 'minimize to desktop' icon next to the start button doesn't get created. The reg entries to make it are in AXANT5 but one of the IE DLLs actually sets the stage. I am not sure which one... if anyone wants to find out which DLL needs to stay through setup to allow the show desktop icon to be made, it would help me greatly! Then I wouldn't have to do the "install IE first, delete just before first boot" method that is rather boneheaded.

Does it really matter? One only has to right click on the taskbar and click "Show Desktop/Hide All Windows" instead.

[fdv]

It doesn't matter, but the fix was so easy I just did it the old way, which was to do it as I did for Windows 2000. In that method of course no DLLs are used.
New revision coming probably tonight.
Right click > Properties on the Win32 directory says "243mb." And that's -with- Active Directory and non-English keyboard layouts, which will later be moved to INTL.INF.
OOBE is still in because it's got networking dependencies. Which I completely understand, but it would be nice to make it truly optional. I will at some point later. I was also thinking of making the MS Management Console (MMC) optional too, but it might not really save much space.


I got this when replying:
"Your secure key, used to verify you are posting the topic, did not match the one submitted. Please go back, reload the form, and try again."
I -was- logged in. What the heck?

[fdv]

Updated.
If anyone has additional ideas for stuff to remove, let me know. I'm interested especially in unique stuff, not necessarily stuff that nLite removes.
This fileset needs testing so comments are welcome...

[Browncoat]

Well, I know I made a few posts in the Win7 forum but I don't think I'm headed in that direction.
I'm poor and can't really afford M$ prices and hardware too.
So in a sense I'll be 'going home' as for years I used to have had to know Unix until I started up with
the Atari ST and early Macs. I'm going Linux for all my online stuff in a month or so and maybe more
as I already use Firefox,Thunderbird and OpenOffice etc.

However, I'll still need 2000/XP to keep my Home Theatre PCs running as the MDP-130 Linux project has stalled.
So I'm still interested in making reduced footprint versions of XP and 2000, if only to speed up reboots after
a power interruption and XP does have better slumber routines than 2000. In which case I want to turn 2000
and/or XP Home into embedded OSs just to serve the needs of PVR software and DVD playback(& get rid of that danged
DVD player in 2000). I delete it, WFP re-installs it after a reboot, it interferes with seamless operation of the prefered
DVD playback, making me hit the 'no' button in the dialogue that pops up. XP seems to figure it out and stops after the first
instance.

2000 is alright for the most part on its own but I'd like to rip out certain parts of XP, to keep it from phoning home on Sundays
when I adjust the clocks to the NIST servers. As an embedded OS, after slapping in SP3, it doesn't really need to call home as its'
only being used off line without a modem connection. Another irritant with XP are the balloons that pop up if you have no AV
installed, not necessary in a machine off-lined 24/7...apart from the one minute to set the clock. In this case the hotfixes are no
longer that critical. OTOH, in your thread starter I'd like to keep themes, though I only use one now to set my preferred colours
and I like my pointers[cursors] red rather than white, which for this 2000 workstation I found out the Plus! pack works from
W'98, sort of, just to set the colours, then I do the icons and and sound events manually.
I guess maybe nLite may be better for me now, though I'd still like to rip out IE in both.
Whaddya think?

This post has been edited by Browncoat: 20 February 2010 - 07:04 AM

[Ambassador]

fdv, on 19 February 2010 - 09:43 AM, said:

Updated.
If anyone has additional ideas for stuff to remove, let me know. I'm interested especially in unique stuff, not necessarily stuff that nLite removes.
This fileset needs testing so comments are welcome...

Does your fileset remove the HTML-dependant User Accounts applet and replace it with the still-present-in-XP "classic" User Accounts applet? Not a big thing, but hey.

[glaurung]

Ambassador, on 22 February 2010 - 10:37 AM, said:

Does your fileset remove the HTML-dependant User Accounts applet and replace it with the still-present-in-XP "classic" User Accounts applet? Not a big thing, but hey.

Seconded. Lack of Fisher-Price icons is nice, but far more annoying, for me, are all the various training wheels that are turned on by default and which I have to switch off every time I reinstall.

[fdv]

Ambassador: User accounts applet: I'm actually not too sure what you mean. I remove the control panel account wizard; the only one left that's usable is the one that's like the Win2000 one. Describe to me how you open the classic one so I can be sure.

glaurung, let me know if there are more in my fileset to be dealt with and I'll see what I can do to make things normal. Offhand I don't know of much I have left in of the "wizard" crap.

Browncoat, my fileset takes care of all of that stuff you mention (I also keep themes, but everything defaults to classic, that's all). I am working eventually toward a Car-MP3 fileset with nearly nothing in it, just leaving the ability to run media player software. I'm not there yet of course, but it will be worked on. For now, I agree, nLite will probably fit your needs better. My fileset isn't as flexible, but it does yield a consistent result without loading the old session every time, modifying your source, and it puts dozens of popular tweaks right into the HIVE files including fixed timezones right off the bat, and lots of other little things that make it easy for the do-it-yourselfer to get in and see what's going on.

[Ambassador]

fdv, on 25 February 2010 - 11:42 AM, said:

Ambassador: User accounts applet: I'm actually not too sure what you mean. I remove the control panel account wizard; the only one left that's usable is the one that's like the Win2000 one. Describe to me how you open the classic one so I can be sure.

Try either:

rundll32 netplwiz.dll,UsersRunDll

or:

control userpasswords2

in Run.

The default XP (HTML-dependent) one would be "userpasswords".

[fdv]

Ambassador, on 22 February 2010 - 10:37 AM, said:

Does your fileset remove the HTML-dependant User Accounts applet and replace it with the still-present-in-XP "classic" User Accounts applet? Not a big thing, but hey.

ok now that I know what you mean. The file is MSHTA.DLL dependent. I do put that with IE.INF but by default my XP fileset actually leaves IE -in- (see the line in SYSSETUP.INF). If you copy that over to '32, expand it and register it (if it even needs registering -- probably it does) will that, alone, allow this userpasswords applet to work? I wonder. I'll test it when I'm at my VM on Tuesday.

[pcalvert]

Browncoat, on 20 February 2010 - 07:03 AM, said:

2000 is alright for the most part on its own but I'd like to rip out certain parts of XP, to keep it from phoning home on Sundays
when I adjust the clocks to the NIST servers.

You can solve that problem by dual-booting with Win98, Win2K, or Linux. Boot into one of those to adjust the clock and you can keep Windows XP offline all the time.

Phil

[Browncoat]

fdv, on 25 February 2010 - 11:42 AM, said:

Browncoat, my fileset takes care of all of that stuff you mention (I also keep themes, but everything defaults to classic, that's all). I am working eventually toward a Car-MP3 fileset with nearly nothing in it, just leaving the ability to run media player software. I'm not there yet of course, but it will be worked on. For now, I agree, nLite will probably fit your needs better. My fileset isn't as flexible, but it does yield a consistent result without loading the old session every time, modifying your source, and it puts dozens of popular tweaks right into the HIVE files including fixed timezones right off the bat, and lots of other little things that make it easy for the do-it-yourselfer to get in and see what's going on.

pcalvert, on 28 February 2010 - 05:18 AM, said:

You can solve that problem by dual-booting with Win98, Win2K, or Linux. Boot into one of those to adjust the clock and you can keep Windows XP offline all the time.

Phil

Thanks, both of you for your tips and FDV for all your hard work, apologies for being such a noob.
I've stored your responses for further reference to avoid repeats.