Mr_Smartepants

These are excellent! Again, can you translate the setup.ini into English please?

Oooh, very nice amnesia!

One thing I found with this addon during beta testing the RVMI, is that you use [editfile] to modify hivedef.inf when you should be using either [extrafileedits] or a combination of [keydelete] prior to [editfile]. The reason is because all three of your regedit entries are duplicated in hivedef.inf, they're just added to the end instead of replacing the existing lines. It shouldn't cause any problems, because the file is parsed in order (ie. change A to B, now change to C.) Not a bug, but could be cleaner.

The original addon I have was built by Mrs-P here: http://www.ryanvm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?...highlight=mario

Very nice. Can you post the .ini in English?

Oh WOW! Thank you! :thumbsup_anim:

LOL, I haven't seen those screens in a long time. My installs are automated. But go for it anyway!

LOL That's OK, Rick is nowhere near the UK. He doesn't understand what little sun we put up with up here! But he's right, as long as the liquids used don't leave a residue, they're fine. I myself fixed a buddy's notebook where his kid spilled a full glass of milk on it (while it was on!) Luckily, he managed to turn it off in time and the keyboard caught the majority of it. I bought two full bottles of isopropyl alcohol and submerged the whole thing (minus the drives/LCD) and you could see all the milk bubbling to the top. After drying, it was good as new (better actually, once I got the strawberry jam out of the keys!) Good luck mate!

Actually, unless the system was on at the time, you'd be surprised what abuse a notebook can take before it's a "goner". But because it's under warranty, you might be better off getting it serviced properly. This is one of the reasons I talk people into buying the 'accidental damage/extended warranty' on notebooks (and only notebooks!)

No problem. You may need some Torx (star) screwdrivers. Some HP are like that. Don't be afraid to use the alcohol liberally on non-moving parts (circuit cards, chassis, etc.). In some cases, you can submerge the parts (keyboard) in alcohol and soak them to get the really sticky stuff off (like chocolate or jam...don't ask!). Just be careful around things with bearings (fans, drives) or LCD screens or touchpads. They don't react to well to liquids. Any problems, just PM me.

snakecracker, your disassembly instructions are here (pdf) http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c01301275.pdf If you still are not comfortable with this, PM me and you can get the notebook to me and I'll fix it.

I live near Cambridge. All notebooks come apart. They're like jigsaw puzzles though. What make/model notebook? I'll send you disassembly instructions, if I can.

Well, you can bring it up to me and I'll fix it. Or, if you can take it apart, it's important to clean off the sugar residue (I assume she drinks 'proper' tea with milk & sugar). Get some isopropyl alcohol from a chemist and go over all the affected components with a soaked cotton cloth (old shirt), then dry with a hair dryer. It's vital that everything is DRY as well as clean before you turn it on.

You can't go wrong with Antec. Personally I would prefer the second link, mainly because the twin 120mm fans would be quieter (and move more air) than the other one with 80mm fans. Also, the extra HDD bay won't hurt either.

Thanks Amnesia, I'll give these a shot.

OK, maybe you guys can tell me what I'm doing wrong with V'ISO live. I cannot get it to work and I don't know why. 1) Extract XPtsp beta 17 to C:\XPtsp\ of test system 2) Extract V'ISO live batch files to C:\XPtsp\ of test system 3) Double click 1Copy.bat. 4) Copy portion works, three folders are created and populated with all the required files. 5) Patch portion works fine too. 6) Move portion fails with either "File not found" or "Access denied". Problem is in 3move.bat, but I can't figure out why.

Batch addon link in first post points to: http://www.hr-host.com/wincert/bober/XPtsp...batch_addon.exe (extra '_' and .exe) But should be: http://www.hr-host.com/wincert/bober/XPtsp...batch.addon.rar (changed '_' to '.' and extension to .rar)

OK, I'll try that out. But I had even tried logging in 'safe mode' as the administrator with no success. I'll report back my findings with the new batch.

I've been having a problem with the live patch. I tried V'ISO live versions 1.8 through 2.0, All fail during the 'Move' phase. All the files being moved fail with "Access denied" or "File not found". If I halt the 'Move' phase, I can see all the files were copied to the 'Patch' directory and successfully patched. They just can't get moved by the 3move.bat file. I can manually move some of the files to their directories (too many to do manually). One file that bugs me is the ntoskrnl.exe. The boot screen is modded, but after hitting WU/MU and downloading hotfixes, the boot screen reverts to the plain XP screen. V'ISO Live fails to repatch it.

Maybe, I'm taking a look at those. I'm already working on the registry entries needed to install these sounds. If Rick's done it already, awesome! Yeah, Rick beat me to it. I was working on installing the sounds to their own directories, then mapping the sound schemes to each one (none as default).

Any way to make this automated/unattended? With 'sound schemes'? Kind of like Ricktendo64's .inf method wrapped with a switchless installer. I don't know which registry entries to export for the sound scheme mapping. In Vista, these are placed in: %windir%\Media\Schemes\Glass %windir%\Media\Schemes\Pearl %windir%\Media\Schemes\Tinker Bug - Some of the files have double .wav extensions. (ie. Vista-Glass_tada.wav.wav)

Wow, that's a damn nice intro movie! Works perfect on my system.

Oh, now I get it. When the source is Pro, you get the Vista theme. When the source is Home, you get the Royal Inspirat theme with the "grass" wallpaper. Nice It would have been better with a screenie on the first post to distinguish that.

OK, I've confirmed the following code works perfectly for me :winntbbu title XPtsp script Progress 87%%%... set name=winntbbu set ext=dll set big=WINNTBBU set com=DL_ if exist "i386\%big%.%com%" %xp% "i386\%big%.%com%" "%tmp%\%name%.%ext%" >nul if exist "i386\%big%.%com%" Del "i386\%big%.%com%" >nul if not exist "i386\%big%.%com%" set com=DLL if exist "i386\%name%.%ext%" %cp% "i386\%name%.%ext%" "%tmp%\%name%.%ext%" >nul if not exist "%tmp%\%name%.%ext%" goto winntbba %rh% %del% "%tmp%\%name%.%ext%", "%tmp%\%name%.%ext%", stringtable,, %rh% %ao% "%tmp%\%name%.%ext%", "%tmp%\%name%.%ext%", "%res%\%name%.%ext%.res",,,&echo patching %name%.%ext% %pe% -c %tmp%\%name%.%ext% >nul %cp% /v /y "%tmp%\%name%.%ext%" "i386\%big%.%com%" >nul :winntbba set name=winntbba set ext=dll set big=WINNTBBA set com=DL_ if exist "i386\%big%.%com%" %xp% "i386\%big%.%com%" "%tmp%\%name%.%ext%" >nul if exist "i386\%big%.%com%" Del "i386\%big%.%com%" >nul if not exist "i386\%big%.%com%" set com=DLL if exist "i386\%name%.%ext%" %cp% "i386\%name%.%ext%" "%tmp%\%name%.%ext%" >nul if not exist "%tmp%\%name%.%ext%" goto winnt32a %rh% %del% "%tmp%\%name%.%ext%", "%tmp%\%name%.%ext%", stringtable,, %rh% %ao% "%tmp%\%name%.%ext%", "%tmp%\%name%.%ext%", "%res%\%name%.%ext%.res",,,&echo patching %name%.%ext% %pe% -c %tmp%\%name%.%ext% >nul %cp% /v /y "%tmp%\%name%.%ext%" "i386\%big%.%com%" >nul :winnt32a set name=winnt32a set ext=dll set big=WINNT32A set com=DL_ if exist "i386\%big%.%com%" %xp% "i386\%big%.%com%" "%tmp%\%name%.%ext%" >nul if exist "i386\%big%.%com%" Del "i386\%big%.%com%" >nul if not exist "i386\%big%.%com%" set com=DLL if exist "i386\%name%.%ext%" %cp% "i386\%name%.%ext%" "%tmp%\%name%.%ext%" >nul if not exist "%tmp%\%name%.%ext%" goto winnt32u %rh% %ao% "%tmp%\%name%.%ext%", "%tmp%\%name%.%ext%", "%res%\%name%.%ext%.res",,,&echo patching %name%.%ext% %pe% -c %tmp%\%name%.%ext% >nul %cp% /v /y "%tmp%\%name%.%ext%" "i386\%big%.%com%" >nul :winnt32u set name=winnt32u set ext=dll set big=WINNT32U set com=DL_ if exist "i386\%big%.%com%" %xp% "i386\%big%.%com%" "%tmp%\%name%.%ext%" >nul if exist "i386\%big%.%com%" Del "i386\%big%.%com%" >nul if not exist "i386\%big%.%com%" set com=DLL if exist "i386\%name%.%ext%" %cp% "i386\%name%.%ext%" "%tmp%\%name%.%ext%" >nul if not exist "%tmp%\%name%.%ext%" goto winsrv %rh% %ao% "%tmp%\%name%.%ext%", "%tmp%\%name%.%ext%", "%res%\%name%.%ext%.res",,,&echo patching %name%.%ext% %pe% -c %tmp%\%name%.%ext% >nul %cp% /v /y "%tmp%\%name%.%ext%" "i386\%big%.%com%" >nul There's some redundant code in there (set com=DLL), but the end result is perfection. Now I've got to figure out why my theme is changed to Royal Inspirat instead of Vista... :/

Didn't work in the batch addon. I watched the patching process in the cmd window and winntbbu.dll didn't even get patched (I copied it from the \temp\ dir before the patcher cleaned up). It got decompressed, then renamed to .dll, then got skipped over. In short, it didn't work. I think what's happening is meant to happen in the batch. :/ :winntbbu if not exist "i386\%big%.%com%" goto winntbba This line should be: if not exist "%tmp%\%big%.%com%" goto winntbba Here's my reasoning: 1a-if WINNTBBU.DL_ is present in i386 extract it to i386\temp. 2a-delete WINNTBBU.DL_ from i386 cause we only need the uncompressed version 3a-if WINNTBBU.DL_ dosent exist in i386 set com as dll to search for uncompressed version 4a-if WINNTBBU.dll exists in i386 copy it to i386\temp 5a-if WINNTBBU.dll dosent exist in i386/temp jump to next label (it should be sitting in i386\temp anyway because it was copied twice above, if it's not there now, it won't be) 6a-del specific objects in winntbbu.dll 7a-add resources over winntbbu.dll 8a-pe checksum winntbbu.dll 9a-copy back to i386 WINNTBBU.dll