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Not sure about Dana and the Money thing. Forrest and Boner first fight to get a contract was Unbelievable. Yet it took the ufc How long to give thoes 2 a rematch?? Na This is not about he money. Maybe not even about Dana. May be Randy's doing. Part of his agrement to come back. Pretty sure Randy is not real crazy about wrestlers in the ufc. Might be Randy wants to teach Brock he is not ready to hang with the big boys.

Randy "The Natural" Couture is to face Brock Lesner at ufc 91. Lesner Is gonna get his A@# handed to him. I think Dana is trying to send a message to wrestling fans or wrestlers that believe they can fight ufc. Should be fun to watch. Hope they put Griffin against Chuck Liddel. Think Chuck is gonna give Forrest a lesson as well. But I figured forsure Rampage would take forrest no problem. Man forrest has some heart and can take a punch.

I am to much of a opera junkie. Will just keep what I have

Lets face it mudd. In general us Americans can be sheep. Yea, lets go kill all the bad guys in the middle east. Just think With Plain and McCain, Could be a Ying, and Yang thing. It would be imho more of a balance, sure McCain wants us to stay in the middle east, With Palin being a mother, I would guess she wants us out Asap. Obama dropped the ball by not tapping Clinton as his V.P. America wants Clinton in the whitehouse. With all the Clinton supporters, Obama should of listened to America and put her in the number 2 spot. Instead, he went another route. Just says to me obama Really doesn't listen or care what America want. While I am not real crazy about another republican in office, What the democrats what in office is something that does not appeal to me. Its still early, there will be Lots more information to come out. Right now, the way it stands, IMHO McCain is the less of the 2 evils.

I really believe with the facts, 17 year old daughter pregnant, When husband was 22 years old (20 years ago) he got busted for DUI, Even the fact she got a ticket for fishing without a license, It just makes her plain and simple LOOK HUMAN!! Remeber ol Bills afair, No one cared except the news and congress, America in general simply did not care. I think the same will happen with Palin, the news will make a HUGE issue out of it only to find, American's in general don't care. Pailin's life is just like everyone else's. She is just a typical American Mother. In fact It could be McCain's camp that released all the information. Palin is just your average american Mother. Noting in her past that millions of american Women have Not been through. The more I read about Palin, The more convinced it was the most brilliant move on McCain's Part.It would not surprixe me If palin Ended up in the White House.

Obama became annoyed when asked about a Reuters news service report that quoted an unnamed senior McCain aide saying that Obama's name appears in liberal blogs speculating about Trig's parentage "in a way that certainly juxtaposes themselves against their 'campaign of change.' " Watch analysts weigh in on the Palins' announcement

Well I finally found the software to unlock it. Problem is the only password (seagate default) just dosent work. So I pitched the harddrive (after spending some time and releasing some frustration on it with some tools), Needless to say thats one harddrive that is dead and forsure can never be recoverd.

Well tried the boot and nuke. Nope. Its locked and I have NO CLUE how to unlock the silly thing. Thanks seagate. Thats fine. If I can not get it figured out I will just get a diffrent harddrive. Thats the one reason I love having a slave drive. One drive goes bad, which happens I still have another drive to run from til I get the bad one replaced.

Yes I have tried to reformat outside of windows with a boot disk. No luck. Its like its locked? Windows sees it but can not access it. I have no clue what else to do?

I have a 250 gig seagate that has me baffled. Windows says it can not access it, I can not format because of "errors". Was fine yesterday. Think its bad? I ran seagate test on it and it says its "locked". Any ideas??

I have been super sick of late with hayfever. Somene offerd an Idea and I am not sure if It is possible. 1. Do you guys have a walgreens pharmacy up there. 2. Can americans order from that walgreens? 3. Do they have "drixoral" medicine in stock?? Drixoral is the only thing that knocks down my hayfever and I have spent tons of money tryting to find something else. No luck. The company that makes it in america is moving a factory and it will not be avalible for another 7 or 8 months. They do have a factory in canada that makes it. I have checked online pharmacys and they are on back order til september. So if one of you fine canadians have a wallgreens. Can give them a quick call see if they have DRIXORAL and can it be orderd from america, I would greatly apreciate it. Oh if they have it how much a box?? Drixoral is over the counter hay fever medicine.

I just triped across this a couple of days ago and so far I am impressed. Especially with the price. FREE. Love the "hunter" option. Just open the hunter, move it to the icon and it finds it. Its a free verson of "your uninstaller". I really like this one.

I so think obama messed up by not having clinton on his ticket. Most would gladly have bill back in office, his wife would be the next best thing. Now people are just gonna see a guy with not allot of experence in politics, wile I hate to admit it, I think obama is gonna loose this one. Clinton supporters will have the whole"told ya picked the wrong person". Plus alot of clinton supporters will be upset she is not in the whitehouse, I can see obama loosing this one. Sorry oprah you backed the wrong canidate.

Yea it matters. Comcast is pretty bad about slowing down thoes that use torrents. Thats the rumor anyway. My self I use utorrent. Its pretty fast. Plus I use utorrent filter. It kinda helps. Blocks bad seeders.

Download a few add ons and extract them to a file. Notice the .ini file. You can open and edit it in notepad. Thats the one you will need to change around a bit to fix any install errors. Here is a example of what you will see in the .ini file. This example is a program called unlocker. Notice the "[Add Program]" Below that word is the install command. In this example the install command would be "UnLocker185.exe /s" [general] build date=08/10/2006 description=Unlocker language=English version=1.8.5 website=http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/ [EditFile] I386SVCPACK.INF,SetupHotfixesToRun,AddProgram [AddProgram] Unlocker185.exe /S Now with the program nlite addon maker I made my own custom "unlocker install" I open the file that the nlite addon maker made for me. The .in file it made was like this. [general] build date=08/10/2006 description=Unlocker language=English version=1.8.5 website=http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/ [EditFile] I386SVCPACK.INF,SetupHotfixesToRun,Add Program [Add Program] Unlocker185.exe Notice the /S was missing from it? Well my addon still worked fine and installed fine without the need of the /S command. But if a install failed, I would edit the .ini to match the example. While installing with Microsoft virtual pc if a error would occur, a pop up screen will tell you what needs to be added to make the install work. I will provide a example of that. I want to install a program called "ultimatedefrag" with my xp install. I wanted to make it a no touch no hassle install. I know if I just made the file with nlite add on maker it would install fine, But I would have to press various buttons and such. So I extracted the files made with nlite addon maker. This is what the .ini file looked like. ............................................ [general] builddate= description=ultimate defrag language=English (United States) title= version=2.01 website= [EditFile] I386SVCPACK.INF,SetupHotfixesToRun,AddProgram [AddProgram] ultimatedefrag.exe .................................................... I made a new .ini file that looks like this. I made it this way so I know the install would fail. .................................. [general] builddate= description=ultimate defrag language=English (United States) title= version=2.01 website= [EditFile] I386SVCPACK.INF,SetupHotfixesToRun,AddProgram [AddProgram] ultimatedefrag.exe /Z ................................................................... I want to stress the important part is the [AddProgram] ultimatedefrag.exe /Z ........................................................................... The Stuff under [general] is really not important or necessary to fill out. But Its nice to have so the choice is yours. So I tried it in virtual pc and got this message. ................................ Illegal command line atom: Z Usage: UltimateDefagSetUpTrial.exe [/a][/b1:"commands"] [/b2:"commands"][/b3:"commands"][/d:"dir"][/n:"name"] [/u:"name"][/r:"program"] /a Automatic Mode /d:"dir" Overide installation directory /b1:"cinnabds" Add commands to the end of the Pre-Installation Batch /n:"name" Override product name /u:"name" Uninstall product by name /r:"program" Run the specified program after a successful installation .............................................................................. So after reading the error message I simply made a new .ini file to look like this. .................................................................... [general] builddate=8/18/2008 description=ultimate defrager language=English (United States) title=ultimate defrager version=2.0.0.51 website= [EditFile] I386SVCPACK.INF,SetupHotfixesToRun,AddProgram [AddProgram] UltimateDefrag.exe /a .................................................... Took the new .ini file I now had, the "svcpack" folder. Put them in a 7 zip format. Tried the add on one more time and it worked fine. Or simply vist a nilte forum. Copy and paste your .ini file and someone will tell you how and what to change in it to make the addon work and install properly. Hope all this helped and made sense. Have a nice day and help others please. If a active mod will let me contact through pm, there is something I want to ask If I can do or not do. Want to ok with a mod before saying anymore.

Ok I have fallen in love with winamp. Wanted something diffrent and was sick of the bloat ware must have quicktime itunes. After playing with serval players I settled with winamp. My question, Can I get Web Videos and youtube videos, all that good stuff to play through winamp?? I mean just the sound. So I am watching my fav por......I mean quality educational video on youtube Can I get the sound through winamp? If so how do I do that?

Ok you now have double driver and know how to use it. How to back your drivers. Your main concern is are my drivers current? Well I can help with that one. http://www.pcpitstop.com/ See the button that has free driver scan? Now scan your computer. DON"T BUY THIS SILLY PROGRAM!! It Wont download the drivers until you pay for it. I did however use "google" and found the drivers I needed. Someone else may know where to download them free. Now the latest drivers may not be the best for your computer. Back up your computer, make sure your computer is fine before you back up and use the new updated drivers for nlite. Just a little tip to help ya out.

Oh to heck with it. I will post it in this thread. Even if you all decide not to make a disk, take a look, feel free to offer advice on changes, someting missed, All that good stuff. I warn ya. Lots of reading. Here it is......... A simple guide to use Nlite. I decided to make this in hopes of helping others make there own "xp restore disk". After alot of work and questions I pretty much have it down. Hope this helps you. Now to make your first disk it will take a bit of work and time. But once you make your first one The rest will be easy. Please read this guide a couple of times before starting. Make sure its something you wanna tackle. It takes time and work. Now don't let all the information scare you. Its really simple to do, I just tend to be a bit wordy. Made this a step by step guide. Something I wish I had before makeing my first nlite program. Sure would of saved time energy and effort. Getting Started with Downloading free programs. Ok. First we need to download some free programs. Make a folder on your desktop and lets put all the programs in that folder. Simply right click on your desktop, create folder. Rename it and lets call it "NLite programs" 1. Download MIcrosft virtual PC. This free program is what we will test your first nlite build in to make sure it works the way you want before you burn it to disk. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=28C97D22-6EB8-4A09-A7F7-F6C7A1F000B5&displaylang=en 2. Now lets Download Nlite. http://www.nliteos.com/ 3. Now lets download a "addon maker for nlite" http://virtualltek.mgbr.net/inicial.php?page=down08 This is in english Lower I think right button click on that to select english. 4. This handy free program will download and silently install programs for you. Like itunes without quicktime. Or you can save to program to your desktop and use the progam and put it in nlite. http://sourceforge.net/projects/tgup/ I am not sure how to do that, Still working on figuring it out this Link may help you. http://www.msfn.org/board/TGUP-addons-t104080.html&pid=744541 5. Now last but no least lets Download something for your drivers. This free little program is handy to have and will really help with you adding your drivers to Nlite and your "xp restore disk" The program is Double Driver, latest verson is 1.3 as of aug 2008. http://boozet.org/dd.htm Ok Now put shortcuts to all thoes programs in to the folder you made on your desktop for "Nlite Programs" Now you have all the free programs Lets Get your disk Ready!! OH NOOOOOOO I DONT HAVE A XP DISK, I GOT MY COMPUTER AT WALL MART WITH NO DISK/oH CRAP i LOST MY DISK!! This is a problem. But not a problem with out a solution. I Pass no judgement. I offer only a hint on how to fix your delema with out a disk. Google. "Xp pro sp3 untouched". I have mixed emotions about that. On one hand it is stealing and stealing is wrong. On the other hand, You have a emachicne you paid good money for with no disk. Its forsure a greay area, I leave you to your own choices. I pass no judgement. Lets face it the hint I gave most people would do anyway. When in doubt google the question, So sooner or later you would of stumbled upon the solution yourself. Oh NOOOOOOO I ONLY HAVE XP WITH SERVICE PACK 2 AND i REALLY WANT XP WITH SERVICE PACK 3!!! No problem. Nlite was built with this in mind. Just download service pack 3 from microsoft and set it aside, maybe in that folder I had you make for nlite programs. Here is a link for service pack 3 if you want it. http://www.softwarepatch.com/windows/windows-xp-service-pack-3.html No you dont have to have or use sp 3 for your custom "xp restore disk". That choice is yours. I promise you will have all the updates you need for Service pack 2. More on that to follow. What Do you mean I need to make Two disks?? We will end up with 2 disks. ONe will be Xp with your drivers, tweeks and unattended install. That will make things TONS easier in your future. If you wanna make a new disk with more current updates, Pop in the first disk, fire up nlite download the updates, slipstream the updates, and your Xp disk is current. Make sense?? Are you ever gonna shut up and get this disk built. Yes here we go!! Just allow some time for the next steps to make your first disk. Say a hour or So. Make sure you have the time to get it done, and can concentrate on what your doing and the steps and choices. While This may seem overwelming, Once you make your first disk, Its really simple. Im just long winded and can talk a bit to much. 1.Right click on your desktop and make 3 seperate folders, Call one "Raw Xp" or whatever you want. Call the second one "MY Drivers" or whatever you want. Call the Third one "Finished Xp" Or whatever you want. 2. Now in your Nlite progam folder, open up "Double Driver" Click on "Actions" then Hit "Scan" Go to "select"....."Provider"....."non microsoft" Go to actions Backup, Hit the "browse" button and go to the folder I had you make on your desktop called "my drivers" Hit "ok" then The "ok"button bellow the "browse Button" A window will open showing it backing up your drivers to that folder. When its finsihed, close the windows, It will make a folder with a name Below it. My folder inside "my drivers" folder is called "tim". Yours will be called the name you used when you installed xp. Now your drivers are ready for nlite, Lets get this disk done shall we?? I will refer to the folders as the name I suggested you call them. The three I had you make on your desk top. 1.Now Put in your Xp Disk in your Cd drive. 2. Open up the prgram Nlite. 3.Hit the "next" button. 4. Hit the "browse" button and click on the little plus sign next to "my computer Icon" 5. Go down to your cd drive, May show a small Icon of Xp?? and Click on the little plus sign. 6. Single left click on "i386" folder. Should HIghlight it for ya. 7. While its still highlited, Click on the Ok button at the bottom, A pop up screen should show up and say "Select where to save the CD installation FIles for modification,Choose or create an empty folder" 8 Browse to the folder I had you made called "raw Xp" and put it there. Just use the Scroll button on the right and find your "raw xp" folder. You should now see the word "copying" and a progress bar moving while it copies the files from your disk to the "rawxp" folder. 9.Click Next. Ignore that screen for now, Click next again. Ok now see all thoes bars?? Click on "service pack" If you need to slipstreem sp 3., Then Leave "Hotfixes,add-ons and updates packHotfixes,add-ons and updates pack alone for now. DONT SELECT THAT ONE YET!! 10. Select "Drivers" "Componets,"Unattended","Options" "Tweeks" Bootable Iso. If you select Unattended and you get a "waring" pop up. Ignore it, Select it anyway. I promise it will be fine. The ones you selected Shold have green or yellow Lights on them now. Make sure "Hotfinxes and Addons and update packs" is still red before you select next. 11. First Screen may be your sp3 intergration. Just do what needs to be done. My disk allready has sp 3 on it 12. Next Screen is "Drivers. click on the "insert" tab. Select "multipul driver folders" 13. A pop up screen will show up. Go to the "My Driver" Folder. Simply Highlight the filder that has your name on it. I Highlited the folder "tim" It will show a bunch of folders below it. After I highlight the folder with the name "tim" on it, I click ok. 14. Lower left button Select "all". Dont worry about "careful" message. Cli k ok. Now you will see all your drivers in the window, DONT CHECK THE BOX DELTE AFTER INSTALL!! You will wanna back up thoes drivers to disk later "Just in case you need them later!! 15. Ok now you have the "componet" window. Now select whatever componets you want to remove by checking the box. No worries, It will be in red if you shold not remove them. Since I was putting my own drivers in I removed all the drivers in this section. The rest is up to you and your own choices. I suggest leaving the security center installed and dont remove it. Removing it may screw up being able to update xp. I wont tell you What goof ball did that and learned to leave it alone. But his name was tim. 16. Next screen is "unattended" This one is a bit tricky, I wanted a no touch install, This is how I did it. General tab, Unatteded Mode, "Fully automated" was selected, Put in your Product key if needed, Leave "computer type" on automatic. I check the box "Skip OOBE". Left everything else on default. The choices are yours. RunOnce tab, can be ignored . Users Tab, Just make sure in the autologon section on the right , You select "administrator" in the drop down box. That needs to be default but for whatever reason its not. Everything else is left at default, Owners and Network ID tab, Just put your name in both boxes, and in workgroup put none or whatever you want. Same with Full Name and Organization, Domain Name nothing gets put there. Probally greyed out after you put the word one in workgroup anyway. In regonal, At the very bottom, use the drop down box and put in the regon or timezone your in. Just scrol to it. The box is blank, but once you hit the arrow all the choices will be below. The Last tab you MAY want to mess with is "Automatic Updates". It will say default, Use the drop down menue to pick whatever you want. Nothing else needs to be done So lets hit the Next button at the bottom. Next screen, Leave the GENERAL tab alone and leave everything to default. You want the "Patches" tab, IN the Patches section, I changed the First drop down box to 1,000. Usb Port, Left alone!! Unsigned Themes, I selected "enable", SFC, I hit disabled, Really does speed up the install times. Choice is yours. Just make sure "disable" is in the box next to SFC to turn it off and speed up xp install. Does work great. Tweeks section, Leave the "service" tab alone, YOu can really mess xp up messing with that if you dont know what your doing. In the "General Tab" Well make your own choices, I will say i did select the box, "Do not parse auto exex bat." These tweeks are harmless, Just lets you select the way you want xp. Like for exapmle, When I open my destop folder I want to view it as "icons". Just Read and seclect what you want and what you like, You wont screw anything up. NExt screen, Do you want to start the process, Click yes. Let it go. May take some time,GO kiss the wife, Stretch you legs, We are getting close to getting your first disk done!!WHoooo Hoooooo. Will your friends be jelous you made your own Xp. ONce the process is done, click next, It will say how much your xp size was reduced to. My final I think was around 350 or so. Just took out the big stuff. Click on the button "make ISO" Put it in the folder you made on your desktop called "finished xp". Hit save, Now its makeing your first disk, putting it your "finished" folder, Its in iso format. Its bootable. DONT BURn IT YET. It needs to be tested. Drag the "iso" file from the finished folder and leave on your destop. Now Fire up "microsoft Virtual Pc" First screen hit Next, Hit next again, I left the next screen at default and hit next Operating system, selct xp from the drop down menue. I chose "adjustin the ram" and used 512 with the slider bar. Next screen select "A new virtual hard disk" hit next. Leave at default, hit next, Then finish You now have "Virtual Pc Console" on your desktop Hit Start Select Cd from the top, "select "capture iso image" You may have to go to "action" and reset and recaputure the iso image, You will have to browse to your desktop and point to the ISO we just made. May take a time or two. Microsoft Virtual Pc is kind of funny about it. Just keep trying and when you do it right, A black screen will show up, and Then Its booting from the iso image, THen you should get the Blue screen with "Loading Windows!! Just have to be kinda quick to find and load the iso image from your desktop. You will get it. Now its gonna take oh 30 min to load xp. Just watch it, make sure it acts the way you want. Installs the way you want. If your not happy, Delete the iso, Start the nlite process again with the changes you want. Oh When your done with virtual pc. Go to your document and settings folder and just delete the "virtual machine" folder. So when you run virtual pc again, Its a bit easier. If you are gonna try nlite again, Delete Everything in the "raw xp" folder, Leave your Drivers alone, and delete the iso you made. Just start all over again. Once your happy with the way xp loads and acts in virtual pc then Burn the iso to disk. BURN THE DISK AT THE SLOWEST SETTINGS POSSIBLE, OR THE DISK MAY NOT WORK THE WAY IT SHOULD. I burn mine at x8 which is the slowest settings nero allows. I would burn it at x2 if nero would allow. The slower the burn the better!! Now you have your first disk. Its all ready to go and just ready for some programs or Nlite addons. You may wanna test this disk on your pc first. I would suggest partition part of your disk, Say partition 20 megs and put your custom xp on that. Make sure it works ok before putting on your main drive. Choice is yours. If you decide to put it on your main drive, back up you main drive first just in case things turn bad. There are several ways to do this. I have a slave drive and use norton ghost 2003. If your feeling gutsy do so at your own risk. Just make sure you have disk 2 done, burned and tested. I wont tell you how to partion your disk. Your on your own. Ask in the forums, or a geek friend,or google "how to partion your harddrive" Its really simple. Or if you want. Just hang on to the disk, Wel will burn the second one with the programs, and Use the 2nd one tested in Virtual pc first,once the second one is tested, its ok, and you have it burned, Install it. Lable this first disk something like, Xp tweeked,drivers installed, just need addons nothing more!! Or whatever so you will know the fist disk is ready to use to make your 2nd disk and the only thing needed to do is install addons service packs updates and all that good stuff. Go to document and settings folder, DELTE the folder called virtual machine. Next time you use microsoft virtual machine it will be easier if you just delete tha folder in document and settings. Now We Have disk one, Lets burn Disk 2!!! So now your Disk one is ready lets get ready to burn the 2nd one shall we?? 1.Make sure everything is deleted in your "raw xp" folder or create a new folder if you deleted the old one allready and call it "raw xp. 2. I hope the drivers you backed up you save to a disk or someplace safe. Never know when you may need thoes again. That folder is no longer needed. Instead create a 2nd folder call it "NLITe Addons" Or whatever. Now the Third folder Will be called "Finished Xp" if you still have the iso from the first disk, Back that up to cd as well. Maybe with your drivers to. Just burn a "data disk" put the iso and the drivers on it. Your choice. Do as you want. I backed up all my nlite stuff, iso's and drivers to ONe dvd. 3. Now lets go get some free programs to add to your nlite. I forusre would NOT ADD SPYBOT SEARCH AND DESTROY as a add on to your disk. I made that mistake. Really slows down your install times. Just download it and add it later. I would not go to crazy on your addons, You wanna try to keep your install on one cd. I Have no idea how big your first disk was at the end. So kinda keep that in mind. The programs and stuff I put on my disk? All microsoft net framework 1.1 to 3.5, avast anti virus, Crapcleaner, Win roll, K-Lite Codec Pack, the latest verson, Windows update pack, Vlc Player, Tune Up utilities, hijack this, Explorer cp, Unlocker, Your Uninstaller, Winrar, Acrobat 9 reader the lite verson, Kals Sweet utilities pack, Power Iso,Nero 8.3, FireFox 3 and Flash Player for firefox, Opera (my main browser) and a Cool mouse cruser pack. Thats about it. The rest of my programs I have Backed up to disk and install thoes later. Ok, Now Lets Go get you some addons, Add what you want, Search around and look for stuff you really want installed with xp. Here are some cool links to find some addons, The addons are free programs or shareware, Nothing illegal or "cracked" Get what you want and Put the addons in the "Nlite addons" folder I had you made. LEAVE THE ADDONS JUST AS THEY ARE DO NOT UNZIP OR OPEN WITH WINRAR!!! You will add them to Nlite just the way they were when downloaded them!! http://www.wincert.net/forum/index.php?showforum=88 http://www.msfn.org/board/Index-of-ALL-my-addons-25-07-2008-t85566.html&p=579239#entry579239 http://www.msfn.org/board/TGUP-addons-t104080.html&pid=744541 http://www.ryanvm.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=7 http://tracker.ryanvm.net/ http://www.ryanvm.net/msfn/ http://integrator.siginetsoftware.com/index.php?addons http://www.winaddons.com/ http://www.msfn.org/board/Application-Add-Ons-f132.html Lots of links lots of looking around. Take your time, find what you want. Download them to that folder. In say 6 months or 1 year get more addons with updates, pop in disk one. Add your addons and your "custom xp install" is current once again. Pretty cool huh. Your welcome. Hope I helped. Now you have Disk one ready just the way you like it. its labled and ready to rock. Now your nlite addons are in that folder you made on your desktop right? Cool, this is simple, Put "DISK 1" in your cd drive. Open nlite and just like the first disk you made. 1.Now Put in your Xp Disk in your Cd drive. 2. Open up the prgram Nlite. 3.Hit the "next" button. 4. Hit the "browse" button and click on the little plus sign next to "my computer Icon" 5. Go down to your cd drive, May show a small Icon of Xp?? and Click on the little plus sign. 6. Single left click on "i386" folder. Should HIghlight it for ya. 7. While its still highlited, Click on the Ok button at the bottom, A pop up screen should show up and say "Select where to save the CD installation FIles for modification,Choose or create an empty folder" 8 Browse to the folder I had you made called "raw Xp" and put it there. Just use the Scroll button on the right and find your "raw xp" folder. You should now see the word "copying" and a progress bar moving while it copies the files from your disk to the "rawxp" folder. 9.Click Next. Ignore that screen for now, Click next again. Ok now see all thoes bars?? This time all you need to click is "Hotfixes,add-ons and updates packHotfixes,add-ons and updates pack" make sure the little green light. The other one you want is "make bootable iso". So lets review. You only want 2 green lights showing. Make bootable iso and "Hotfixes,add-ons and updates packHotfixes,add-ons and updates pack" Everything else stays red. Now hit next. Take all thoes add-ons you downloaded, and left just the way you downloaded them, and drag and drop them into that window. Next make your iso, save it to your "final xp" Folder. Test the iso in microsfot virtual pc. The same way you did with your first disk, Now everything ok and work fine and its just the way you want it? Good. Burn the iso to disk SLOWEST POSSIBLE SPEED. Install on a seperate partion or if your feeling gutsy install that bad boy to your main drive. There ya go. Now not only do you have your own custom xp, you have disk one and can in 6 months or a year update, change around your addons as you want and need and it can be done in under a hour ready to burn and install and enjoy. With the addons, the 2 iso files, one from disk one, one from disk 2, your drivers, maybe even the nlite programs, burn a "data disk" and back it all up to dvd. Now your coverd no worries. IN closeing, feel free to share, swear up and down you wrote it, and just impress the snot out of your friends and family. Your geek level has just jumped up a few notches!! I offer a few links now that may jump start your addon collection. Thank you for reading, sorry it was so "wordy" Just tried to make it simple. All microsoft net framework, just put it in your addon folder. I use this one. Works great http://www.ryanvm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5657 Only have and want sp 2 here are all the updates for that one http://www.ryanvm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6250 Have sp 3 and want all the udates for that one?? No problem, I use this one. Works great. http://www.ryanvm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5687 The rest Just poke around and search. Enjoy. FAQ (not really but sure sounds cool) 1. Can I do this for vista? Yes. Just google "nlite for vista" 2. Will you make a guide for vista? No way. I hate vista and refuse to put in on my machine. 3. I put my "custom xp disk" on my computer now its acting funny what did I do wrong?? Well you should of backed it up like I suggested several times, I have NO CLUE what you did. There are countless setting you can change with nlite. Best bet. Try makeing another disk and try to rember what changes you made and Dont make thoes changes anymore. 4. Your grammer and spelling is horrid did you go to school?? Well I did take some classes with Fred Flinstone and Barney Rubble, The candles I had to use were just not very good. I was to tired once I got to school. See in my day I had to walk to school, 10 miles one way, Up hill both ways to and from school. It was horrid. 5. Do you think your funny?? First time My wife and previous females in my life saw me in my birthday suit with the lights on they did tend to giggle, Think that was a bad thing?? THE END!!! GOOD LUCK!! ENJOY !! HELP OTHERS!!!

How messed up will it be if this turns out to be legit. All the people we swore were nuts will now get to say TOLD YA SO!! Time will tell, this should be fun and intresting.

I REALLY need someone that wants to make there own "custom xp restore disk". The guide is done I think. I just want you to really try it. See how it works out. Please don't be afraid to be honest. Was the guide simple to follow? Did I miss anything? What do you suggest I change? While th guide is a bit wordy, I believe it is done in such a way most average users can make there disk. Its a process that takes some time. So someone PLEASE speak up and give it a shot and see how it goes. Thank you.

Ok I will make up the guide for ya. See if you can follow it, if it makes sense. Once I have it done I will start a thead, Jump on it and remind me it was you that wanted to try it. Im off to get it done. See ya in about a week or so. EDIT: Fixed Quote

I myself have been concerned about the same issue. I to keep everything backed up, all my programs to disk, But still the thought of reloading xp Just made me wanna screem. Over the last couple of weeks I have been really into trying to figure out Nlite. How to use it, find the programs to install with it. I burned many a "coaster". Loaded microsoft virtural pc tons. I finally for the most part have it figured out. The thing with the forums for nlite, is they like lynix users tend to be a bit way to geeked out, make things harder than it needs to be. I now have my own restore disk for xp. Something I made by my little own self. Has service pack 3, Several programs already installed, like avast, and several others, I can make my own addons for it now. I keep One copy of of xp with my drivers already installed, tweeked, ready to install, all it needs is whatever addons I choose. I have considerd makeing a guide for nlite, put it in easy to use terms, Simple instructions. While my method may be a bit "backwards" by some methods it really works. Any one wanna be a Guinea pig? Give me a week or two, I will make the guide, you follow it and see if you can make your own custom xp install?? Any takers, I will pm you the guide, try it, point out any mistakes and offer suggestions, then post it for everyone else? Let me know.

Shade under a hour. Thats a fresh install of xp, sp3, My drivers, and all my programs. Xp up to date. That nlite is just amizing. Really saves time. My games are on my Slave drive. I Really dont mess with that one. Way to long to reinstall all thoes games. I ghost that one with nortons ghost.

Ok So I am getting ready to do a complete reinstall of xp on my C drive. I have about 30 programs to install. I nlited Xp and No I did not include my drivers. So whats your guess on how long It will take to do a complete reinstall, All my programs, Ready to use. Drivers Installed, Everything. I am trying to see how fast a xp reinstall can be done and ready to use. So any gusses. WIll be back in a day or 2 let you all know how long it took.

I thank you much. Its just so cool. About how I came across that picture. Well lets just say there is a dark side of me as well. If anyone really wants to know well send me a p.m and I will hook you up with the link to the site no problem.