[wolfien]

I've stumbled upon a nice little problem with windows installer
and never found any references of it on the web (through google, at least)

This stretch of options, when applied in a .reg file in the $1 folder (called from
cmdlines.txt) will cause problems with windows installer:

;These NTFS tweaks improve file system performance (Speed up NTFS)
;Note: these have been reported to cause non-compatibility with DOS/Win9x-based apps/games
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem]
"NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation"=dword:00000001
"NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate"=dword:00000001
"Win95TruncatedExtensions"=dword:00000001
"Win31FileSystem"=dword:00000000

With these options applied, I couldn't install the VMTools or MySQL server 4.1.
The setup.exe normally unpacks then runs the installer. Instead, it would unpack
then popup a windows installer options page (like if the installer was not called
properly, or couldn't find the msi package to install).

I didn't yet tried these options one by one to see if only one of them causes the problem, but I was wondering if anyone else had the problem?

[mid]

My guess is it's the 8dot3 one. 16-bit installers will puke if you've got that set.

[mc134]

Remove those lines because you will never notice a speed increase only problems like you are having.