[nightrhyme]

I have been using Nlite for some time now trying to make a good install. But it seems everytime I have removed something it has serious side effects. Now I'm back to not removing much and I realize that MSCONFIG is not working.

When i choose run/msconfig I get this enhanced msconfig:



But the startup is empty. And I know there are programs in startup that should be listed. Whats wrong ? Why doesn't msconfig work ?

Is it because I removed Help and Support ?

Hope someone can help me

Thanx in advance

This post has been edited by nightrhyme: 02 November 2006 - 07:05 PM

[sho_gun]

nightrhyme, on Nov 2 2006, 07:55 PM, said:

Why doesn't msconfig work ?

Is it because I removed Help and Support ?

Hope someone can help me

Thanx in advance

I think removing Help and Support is the cause, but I am not sure. I do however know the fix.

On the components removal page, click the "advanced" button and add "msconfig.exe" in the "keep" box and msconfig will work once again.

If you have a saved settings ini file, you could also just add:

;# Compatibility #

[KeepFiles]
msconfig.exe

[Madhits45]

try msconfig2.. its better and might not have the problem. Thats what i use better options to.

[hulkviper]

Autoruns is better for startup entries.
try it


Donwload link:
http://www.sysintern...es/Autoruns.zip

[bledd]

yup

autoruns is better, but i used nlite yesterday on my mums pc, and msconfig is working fine..

i removed this.. (dont have the last session)

 
Components removed:

Accessibility Options
Briefcase
Charmap
ClipBook Viewer
Defragmenter
Internet Games
Paint
Screensavers
Wordpad
Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)
Cameras and Camcorders
Display Adapters
Display Adapters (old)
Ethernet (LAN)
IBM PS/2 TrackPoint
IBM Thinkpad
ISDN
Logitech WingMan
Modems
MultiFunctional
Scanners
SCSI/RAID
Serial Pen Tablet
Sony Jog Dial
Sound Controllers
Tape drives
Toshiba DVD decoder card
Wireless Ethernet (WLAN)
ALI 1535 SMBus Host Controller
ALI IDE Controller
ATM Support
Battery
Brother Devices
Firewire (1394) Support
Firewire Network support
Multi-port serial adapters
PCMCIA
Secure Digital host controller
Windows CE USB Host
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 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
Acm Core Codecs
AOL ART Image Format Support
DirectX diagnostic tool
Images and Backgrounds
Intel Indeo codecs
Luna desktop theme
Mouse Cursors
Movie Maker
Music Samples
Old CDPlayer and Sound Recorder
Speech Support
Communication tools
Comtrol Test Terminal Program
FrontPage Extensions
Internet Connection Wizard
Internet Information Services (IIS)
IP Conferencing
MAC Bridge
MSN Explorer
Netmeeting
Peer-to-Peer
Synchronization Manager
Vector Graphics Rendering (VML)
Windows Messenger
Administrative Templates
Blaster/Nachi removal tool
Color Schemes
Disk and Profile Quota
Disk Cleanup
Document Templates
DR Watson
FAT to NTFS converter
File and Settings Wizard
Help and Support
Manual Install and Upgrade
MS Agent
Private Character Editor
Remote Installation Services (RIS)
Save Dump Utility
Search Assistant
Security Center
Tour
User account pictures
Web View
Zip Folders
Alerter
Application Layer Gateway
Beep Driver
Distributed Link Tracking Client
Error Reporting
Fax Service
Indexing Service
Messenger
Network DDE
QoS RSVP
Quality of Service (QoS)
System Monitor
System Restore Service
Text Services Framework
Uninterruptible Power Supply
Volume Shadow Copy
DOCS
SUPPORT
VALUEADD
Languages
 

[nightrhyme]

Thanx for feedback. Just wanted to clarify a couple of things. It's not that msconfig.exe is'nt present. It just doesn't work. tried downloading msconfig.exe from the net and running it. Same result..

And Msconfig.exe is already in my advanced keep box.

bledd I see you too removed help and support. I really thought that was it..

Heres my ini. Would appreciate if anyone could find the flaw:

Thanx in advance

 
 
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]
Remove Components
Unattended Setup
Integrate Drivers
Hotfixes and Update Packs
Tweaks
Create a Bootable ISO
Options

[Components]
;# Applications #
Games
NT Backup
Paint
Pinball
Wordpad
;# Drivers #
Display Adapters
Display Adapters (old)
IBM PS/2 TrackPoint
IBM Thinkpad
ISDN
Logitech WingMan
Microsoft SideWinder
Modems
Serial Pen Tablet
Sony Jog Dial
Tape drives
Toshiba DVD decoder card
;# Hardware Support #
ALI 1535 SMBus Host Controller
ALI IDE Controller
Battery
CPU AMD
Smart Cards
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
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
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
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)
;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
;# Multimedia #
Media Center
Tablet PC
;# Network #
FrontPage Extensions
Internet Connection Wizard
MSN Explorer
Netmeeting
Windows Messenger
;# Operating System Options #
.NET Framework
Blaster/Nachi removal tool
Desktop Cleanup Wizard
DR Watson
FAT to NTFS converter
File and Settings Wizard
Help and Support
Save Dump Utility
Search Assistant
Security Center
Tour
;# Services #
Beep Driver
Error Reporting
System Restore Service
;# Directories #
DOCS
SUPPORT
VALUEADD
;# Compatibility #

[KeepFiles]
msconfig.exe

[RemoveFiles]
clock.avi

[Options]
ProfilesDir = "%SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings"
TargetPath = "WINDOWS"
temp_dir = %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Temp
AdvTweaks

[Patches]
TcpIp = 100
UsbPoll = 250
DoSFC

[Services2]
Alerter,4
wuauserv,4
BITS,4
FastUserSwitchingCompatibility,4
ImapiService,4
CiSvc,4
Messenger,4
UPS,4

[Tweaks]
Boot and Shutdown-Auto-End tasks immediately
Boot and Shutdown-Auto-Kill hung applications immediately
Boot and Shutdown-Auto-Kill hung services immediately
Boot and Shutdown-Disable automatic restart on System Failure
Boot and Shutdown-Disable logging on System Failure
Boot and Shutdown-Logon Page-Classic
Boot and Shutdown-Numlock-On
Boot and Shutdown-Setup Prefetch-Cache-Applaunch and Boot enabled
Boot and Shutdown-Status Messages-Default
Desktop-My Computer icon-Show
Desktop-My Network Places icon-Show
Desktop-Recycle Bin icon-Show
Explorer-Advanced Search: preconfigure options
Explorer-Change Explorer Folder View to: details
Explorer-Classic Control Panel
Explorer-Disable Autorun
Explorer-Disable Beep on errors
Explorer-Disable Prefix: Shortcut to
Explorer-Disable shortcut arrow
Explorer-Display the contents of system folders
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 Statusbar in all windows
Explorer-Show the full path in the Address Bar
Explorer-Show the full path in the Title Bar
Explorer-Use small icons in Explorer bar
Network-Allow Network Logins without passwords
Network-Allow receiving Remote Assistance-Disable
Network-Disable automatic search for network folders and printers
Network-Disable restoring mapped network drives on logon
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-Do not cache thumbnails
Performance-Processor scheduling-Programs
Performance-Speed-up Access to AVI Media Files
Privacy-Disable Driver Update Internet prompt
Privacy-Disable File MRU-List
Privacy-Disable Tracking of most used programs
Privacy-Remove Alexa
Security-Screensaver Password-Protection-Disabled
Start Menu-Add Administrative Tools menu
Start Menu-Control Panel-Display as a link
Start Menu-Disable and Remove Documents List from Start Menu
Start Menu-My Computer-Don't display this item
Start Menu-My Documents-Don't display this item
Start Menu-My Music-Don't display this item
Start Menu-My Network Places-Don't display this item
Start Menu-My Pictures-Don't display this item
Start Menu-Network Connections-Don't display this item
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 Set Program Access and Defaults
Start Menu-Remove Windows Catalog shortcut
Start Menu-Use small icons in Start Panel
Taskbar-Disable Balloon Tips
Taskbar-Disable Language-Bar
Visual Effects-Animate windows when minimizing and maximizing-Disable
Windows Media Player-Zoom video to windowsize

[Unattended]
ComputerType = Automatic
HibernationNo
AutoLogon = NightRhyme
CustomLocales
MaximumDataStorePercentOfDisk = 12
RestorePointLife = 30
DesktopTheme = Media Center Style|Energy Blue|Normal size
IISInstall = 2
AutoUpdates = 4
AutoUDay = 5
AutoUHour = 15
ProgFilesPath = "\Program Files"

[DesktopThemes]
C:\WINDOWS\Resources\Themes\Luna.theme
C:\WINDOWS\Resources\Themes\Windows Classic.theme
C:\WINDOWS\Resources\Themes\Royale\Royale.msstyles

[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]
D:\-= Installs =-\Nlite + Links\Drivers\Intel_inf\865.inf,0
D:\-= Installs =-\Nlite + Links\Drivers\3Com\AUTORUN.INF,0
D:\-= Installs =-\Nlite + Links\Drivers\ADI1985_Win2kXP-5150-best\2K_XP\SMAXWDM\W2K_XP\smwdmCH5.inf,0
D:\-= Installs =-\Nlite + Links\Drivers\monitor\sm959nf.inf,0

[Hotfixes]
D:\-= Installs =-\Nlite + Links\Updates\RVMUpdatePack2.1.3.7z
D:\-= Installs =-\Nlite + Links\Updates\RVMAddonsDX9_1.0.7z

 

This post has been edited by nightrhyme: 03 November 2006 - 04:52 AM

[bledd]

i'll look through now to see if i can see anything that stands out

i use RVM updatepack, and dx pack too, so its not them

-edit, i removed all you did and more

i didn't mess with my services tho..

try setting the ones you changed back to normal, and restarting pc..

This post has been edited by bledd: 03 November 2006 - 04:53 AM

[nightrhyme]

Tried setting them back to normal didn't work.

I only removed:
Beep Driver
Error Reporting
System Restore Service

Perhaps I will try making a new nlite keeping those + default services status. I would just really like to know that is the cause before doing so

This post has been edited by nightrhyme: 03 November 2006 - 05:10 AM

[bledd]

personally i never use msconfig anyway, and usually delete it from the pc, but i removed less than normal in this one because its my mum's pc and had to make it in a hurry!

autoruns is 10x better, it shows loads more entries

[nightrhyme]

I agree. For me it's just a principle. Functionality has to be intact.

However I fixed it. Seem you were right on the money.
Made a new Nlite disk changing only the remaining services to DEFAULT. That fixed it.
Changing the state back to DEFAULT in the already installed windows didn't work.

Thanx for your help man. You made my day..
Back to making the perfect installation..

[bledd]

did you use exactly the same settings -not including the services?

[nightrhyme]

Sorry been away..

Yes I used the exact same settings..

This post has been edited by nightrhyme: 05 November 2006 - 09:26 AM