Mr_Smartepants

ALL cases are silent! It's the fans and components that are not. If you like your current case, I would suggest disconnecting each fan (or disconnect them all and reconnect one at a time) until you find the loudest one. Then replace it with a more suitable one. I'd recommend visiting SilentPCReview since they have many recommended components (case, PSU, HDD, fans, etc.) and their testing methods are untainted by advertisers. I've learned much from them and my own (now long sold) silent PC is linked in their forums. My new PC makes less noise than my daughter's fish tank on the same table!

CAD2009 was updated to v1.6 Also a minor cosmetic bug with CAD2009 with the edition branding. On a high-res screen (1600x1200 or higher) the edition branding is ridiculously small. I don't know how best to fix that though.

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I got the same deal. Key for v10 but download links for v12. Will that work? *Edit From the v12 download page:

I just integrated on XP Home without errors. Did you get errors integrating into XP source or on a live system?

Realistically, you don't need to flash your firmware unless the default OEM firmware doesn't do what you want it to do.

Sorry I'm late to this party. I've only had experience with linksys and netgear routers and I'm sorry to say they both suck. IIRC, it's only the older linksys routers (prior to rev4) that are able to upgrade to the tomato or dd-wrt firmwares and I've had nothing but problems using netgear routers. The newer linksys (internal antenna) routers have heat problems. My current router is linksys (wrt54gs) but ver6 so it's unable to be upgraded. I wish you luck with the ASUS, and please keep us posted with your experiences!

Good news! Thank you for taking the time to update this. But don't let it interfere with your family obligations! Have a very merry Christmas!

WooHoo! That solved it! Great job! Successful test in MCE. *Edit Successful test in Home as well!

Yeah, disregard those errors. I must have had some rogue files in the temp dir. Cleaning everything out and a few restarts later it's all working again.

Also, the "Copy source files" checkbox can't be clicked with the mouse. I had to tab-spacebar to select it. 1MB of 1MB copied??? Then after the filecopy, I got this error. These are very odd errors. I've never seen them before. I even redownloaded the GUI and green theme and checked the MD5. All match. Very strange.

No, but I'll try it now and report back. *Edit, Yup. The 1.4.7.1 batch addon worked perfectly with the MCE version. And all the additional XPtsp apps worked too. I'll try the GUI again with stripped down options and report back. *Edit 2, Strange, now the GUI doesn't work at all, regardless of source folder used. :?

Nice! I'll give this a try. I still use Vier's CreateurSFX but it hasn't been updated in a few years. Thanks for the link!

Well, bad news I'm afraid. Home and Pro work fine now with the GUI, but my Pro-modified-to-MCE is still broken and I don't know why. I'm doing more tests, but this is time-consuming work. What's frustrating is bober's batch XPtsp works perfect on all three.

Well, good news! I just had a successful test using Home! I removed two theme addons and a sound addon I think was causing the .inf failure. I'll do more testing. But great job! I only have one other cosmetic flaw, but it affects the batch updater as well. Reported here.

I'll try this out right away. Love the "snow" effect on your homepage BTW.

Well, newegg has 7. Some starting at $60

Ooh, my old 30GB just died and my 160GB WD scorpio doesn't mount everytime I plug it in anymore. Sorry, I'm out of spares. I saw at my local shop that the external drives are now cheaper than the internal drives. Tis the silly season.

There is a method to install items. But it installs them after setup. You add the installers to setupcomplete.cmd in the folder "$OEM$\$$\SETUP\SCRIPTS\" Sorry for the translation, Google did it for me. Hay un m

I use a cleanup.cmd that I execute from runonceex for mine. It looks a little like this: net user aspnet /delete DEL "%AllUsersProfile%\Desktop\*.lnk" DEL "%AllUsersProfile%\Desktop\*.url" DEL "%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\*.lnk" DEL "%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\*.url" DEL "%AllUsersProfile%\Start Menu\Set Program Access and Defaults.lnk" DEL "%AllUsersProfile%\Start Menu\Windows Catalog.lnk" DEL /F /S /Q "%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Temp\*.*" RD /S /Q "%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Temp\" mkdir "%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Temp\" MOVE "%USERPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\LClock" "%AllUsersProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\Utilities\" MOVE "%USERPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\Other Tools" "%AllUsersProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\" MOVE "%AllUsersProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\Lavalys" "%AllUsersProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\Utilities\" MOVE "%AllUsersProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\Smart Defrag" "%AllUsersProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\Utilities\" shutdown.exe -r -f -t 240 -c "Windows XP will now restart in 4 minutes..." EXIT

Well I was wrong with my code adjustment above. The original line causes a "invalid parameter passed to xptsp.exe" error. REG ADD %KEY%\987 /V 1 /D "\"%PP%\XPtsp.exe\" LASTMIN:\"%1\"" /f My adjusted line doesn't make a reg entry at all. REG ADD %KEY%\987 /V 1 /D "\"%PP%\XPtsp.exe" LASTMIN:\"%1\"" /f

I'm running a test now with 2.0.1.3 on a bare Home SP3 using U_H updatepack, IE8 addon and WMP11 with no other addons and came across this error. :? Other than the above error, the install completed without issue. So my problem must be caused by something else. The bad news though is that the boot screen is unchanged from the original XP. During integration though I am getting this error after driver.cab is repacked.

Nope, I am never prompted for the location of that file. I only get the warning, then all subsequent .inf installs through GUIrunonce are broken. Oh, btw, the download speed is fixed now. *Edit, Found a bug. Causes a "invalid parameter passed to xptsp.exe" error. In XPtspCom.cab the addrunonceexe.bat has an extra trailing backslash. REG ADD %KEY%\987 /V 1 /D "\"%PP%\XPtsp.exe\" LASTMIN:\"%1\"" /f should be REG ADD %KEY%\987 /V 1 /D "\"%PP%\XPtsp.exe" LASTMIN:\"%1\"" /f

Ooh, is it at all related to my problem?

Yup, wmp11 slipstreamer is 1.4.2.0. What I don't understand is why I'm having the failure with Home/MCE but Pro works fine. :| I'll rebuild my source manually. Maybe AutoImage is introducing an error somewhere. My AutoImage config file: [Disc] SourcePath=C:\Tools\XP\Projects\XPHO DestinationPath=C:\Tools\XP\Projects\XPHO ApplyServicePack=False [Options] Uppercase=True [RyanVM] RVMUPD=C:\Tools\XP\AutoImage\UpdatePack\XPSP3_QFE_UpdatePack_1.1.4_20091125-ReCabbed.zip Optimize=True Cached=True WPI=Off [WMP] Installer=C:\Tools\XP\AutoImage\WMP11\wmp11-windowsxp-x86-enu.exe Output=Normal Icon=Boooggy [nLite] RunNlite=True Config=C:\Tools\XP\AutoImage\Config\Last Session(Home).ini [XPize] RunXPize=False RunOnceEx=False [DriverPacks] RunDPB=False Config= [iSO] GenerateFile=True Path=C:\Tools\XP\ISO Filename=GRTMP_EN.iso VolumeLabel=GRTMP_EN Options=-J -untranslated-filenames -no-iso-translate -D -no-emul-boot -b boot.bin -hide boot.bin -hide boot.catalog -hide-joliet boot.bin -hide-joliet boot.catalog EncodeDupOnce=False [RVMAddons] Kels_Runtimes_addon_v6.rar=C:\Tools\XP\AutoImage\RVM\Addons PatchAddon_HIVESYS_v13c.cab=C:\Tools\XP\AutoImage\RVM\Addons PatchAddon_SFC_OS_v14.7z=C:\Tools\XP\AutoImage\RVM\Addons PatchAddon_SYSSETUP_InfSkip_v14.7z=C:\Tools\XP\AutoImage\RVM\Addons PatchAddon_TCPIP_100_v14d.7z=C:\Tools\XP\AutoImage\RVM\Addons PatchAddon_UXTHEME_v14a.7z=C:\Tools\XP\AutoImage\RVM\Addons [WMPhotfixes] windowsmedia11-kb928788-x86-intl.exe=C:\Tools\XP\AutoImage\WMP11 windowsmedia11-kb929399-v2-x86-intl.exe=C:\Tools\XP\AutoImage\WMP11 windowsmedia11-kb929773-x86-intl.exe=C:\Tools\XP\AutoImage\WMP11 windowsmedia11-kb932390-x86-intl.exe=C:\Tools\XP\AutoImage\WMP11 windowsmedia11-kb933547-x86-intl.exe=C:\Tools\XP\AutoImage\WMP11 windowsmedia11-kb935551-x86-intl.exe=C:\Tools\XP\AutoImage\WMP11 windowsmedia11-kb935552-x86-intl.exe=C:\Tools\XP\AutoImage\WMP11 windowsmedia11-kb939209-x86-intl.exe=C:\Tools\XP\AutoImage\WMP11 WindowsMedia11-KB939683-x86-ENU.exe=C:\Tools\XP\AutoImage\WMP11 windowsmedia11-KB941569-x86-ENU.EXE=C:\Tools\XP\AutoImage\WMP11 windowsmedia11-kb944882-x86-intl.exe=C:\Tools\XP\AutoImage\WMP11 windowsmedia11-KB952069-x86-ENU.exe=C:\Tools\XP\AutoImage\WMP11 windowsmedia11-kb954067-x86-intl.exe=C:\Tools\XP\AutoImage\WMP11 windowsmedia11-kb954069-x86-intl.exe=C:\Tools\XP\AutoImage\WMP11 windowsmedia11-KB954154-x86-ENU.exe=C:\Tools\XP\AutoImage\WMP11 WindowsMedia11-KB954155-x86-ENU.exe=C:\Tools\XP\AutoImage\WMP11 WindowsMedia11-KB968816-x86-ENU.exe=C:\Tools\XP\AutoImage\WMP11 windowsmedia11-kb973442-x86-intl.exe=C:\Tools\XP\AutoImage\WMP11 windowsmedia11-KB973540-x86-ENU.exe=C:\Tools\XP\AutoImage\WMP11 [installers] dotnetfx.exe|-ai1=C:\Tools\XP\AutoImage\Installers