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So far it seems it's just you. To find the tweak use basic troubleshooting techniques. They are a pain to do, but if you are organized it really shouldn't be too bad. You've tested not removing any components and doing all your tweaks and it still had the same error? If so, then it's probably a tweak. Then still don't remove any components, but take out half your tweaks. No error? Then put those tweaks back and take out the other half. Still error? Then it's one of the tweaks you are still applying. Keep taking out half of the remaining tweaks until you've narrowed it down and found which one is causing the problem. Tweak in = error. Tweak out = no error. Then go back remove all your components and put all your tweaks back in. Error? Remove the one tweak. No error? That's the tweak. Report back so the tweak can either be fixed or removed so others don't have the same problem. Please let us know what you find out. Cheers and Regards

As far as I know, the same key should work for any language version of the same level, starter Russian x86 == starter English x86, ultimate Russian x64 == ultimate English x64. I don't think a x86 key will work for a x64 version, but I could be wrong.

I can sympathize with your difficulties of understanding all the capabilities of a tool as complicated as W7T. And you are absolutely correct to ask for guidance. However, this is not the RT7Lite help forum. RT7Lite, as popular as it is, has not been updated in a long time and has many known bugs. Trying to intermingle the operations of the tools is asking for trouble and I doubt that will be supported by Legolash2o. I wouldn't if I were he. You can't find the option to integrate SP1 into Win7 using W7T because there is not one. Why do it? The Win7 disc with SP1 already integrated is available for download. See here - http://www.wincert.net/forum/index.php?/topic/8906-windows-7-sp1-disk/ As far as I understand, the mounted image folder is only used as a working location that is emptied when it is not needed or W7T is closed. There have been reports of problems when this location is changed, so I would not recommend changing it. I'm not sure I understand why you want to look at the mounted folders while they are being worked on. To better understand how the various parts of W7T work, I would suggest obtaining the correct Win7+SP1 source. Use W7T to add SoLoR's updates. Verify that worked the way you thought it should, using a VM or whatever way you are comfortable with. Now go back in and play with the removals if you like. Personally I wouldn't, I would just tweak the services or whatever to not run what I don't need, but I know some people like to remove what they're not going to need. Ask for specific guidance if a removal option does not make sense. WHAT are you trying to remove? If you insist on using RT7Lite for your removals, ask on their forums for help if the source is not reduced. Since removals should always be the last step in the source modification process, why are you needing to reload the image back into W7T? I could be wrong, but I believe going back and forth between the tools to edit your source is a process that is doomed to failure. Pick one and stick with it and live with the shortcomings of the tool you pick. If it doesn't do what you need, then help make the tool better with interaction with the developer by asking questions, submitting requests, testing, and providing feedback. [Lots of luck trying to do that with RT7Lite!] Keep us informed with your progress. Cheers and Regards

LOL, Requests go here - http://www.wincert.net/forum/index.php?/forum/191-windows-7-toolkit-requests/ Cheers and Regards

ROFL!!! Cheers and Regards

Yes, but do you have any reel's of tape you can't play anymore? - http://en.wikipedia...._tape_recording - I have an old Ampex unit that would work just fine if I could find a new belt for it and of course tape, which you can't find either. Because of the higher tape speed and the wider tape, Reel to reel recorders produced higher quality recordings than either 8-track or cassette tape. (Wider frequency range, higher signal-to-noise, increased dynamic range, and less distortion.) Editing with a razor blade was a real pain, however. Cheers and Regards

To get things back on the lovely technical history side of the discussion... Ah, the 1970's. Switching gears to home electronics, I'm sure there are folks that remember or have seen 8-track tapes, right? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8-track_tape They were popular about the same time that CB radios were in their heyday. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cb_radio (Breaker one nine, little buddy. Ya' got your ears on? LOL) Audio cassettes followed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_cassette CD's didn't come out until 1982. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_disc High end home stereos were vacuum tube based and favored for their "warmer" sound. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_tube_amplifier There are still people who feel that way. Does anyone remember Quadraphonic Sound? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadraphonic_sound And how about the first laser discs? They were 12" in diameter. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laserdisc Digital watches started in the 1970's - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watch Pulsar put out a 18 carat gold watch with a red LED display that sold for $2,100. When Texas Instruments came out with a plastic watch that originally cost $20, and was reduced in price a year later to $!0 Pulsar went out of business and sold the Pulsar brand name to Seiko. Pocket electronic calculators came out then, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculator with the main two suppliers being Hewlett Packard and Texas Instruments. Electronic Games began to be popular. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_games Games like Pong http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pong started out as an arcade game in 1972 and eventually was played at home and Pac-Man came out as an arcade game in 1980. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-man Cell phones, handheld mobile phones began then. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_phone And of course the Personal Computer began as a hobbyist machine then, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_personal_computers The IBM PC was introduced in 1981 after Apple had already put out the Apple I and Apple II. Ah, the nostalgic 1970's! (We won't talk about the clothes, hair styles, or Disco dancing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco_dancing LOL) Cheers and Regards

Yep. You ever drop a box of cards like I did? LOL If I remember right, a single 14" hard drive platter was ~3MBytes and a 3 platter stack was ~10MBytes. And these were vertically loaded, flat, in a small washing machine sized box. The disc cartridges were "sealed", but I think you could open them so you could clean the discs off with compressed air, but I could be wrong. I last used one in 1979-1981 hooked to a DEC PDP-11. (A 16 bit machine which originally came with only 32K BYTES of internal memory.) You had to start the machine by loading the boot instruction sequence manually with switches on the front panel. Lots of pretty blinking lights on the front panel, too! This pic, and the bottom box on the right: ---- is JUST the CPU if I remember right. The box is 19" wide and cost $20,000 in 1973. (Average US income in 1973 $12,900, average cost of a house #32,500, gas 40 cents/gallon) Here's a pic of Dennis M. Ritchie (standing) and Ken L. Thompson (seated), inventors of UNIX, at Bell Labs in front of a DEC PDP-11 computer, ca 1970. Courtesy, Computer History Museum. You notice there is no CRT screen. Today, the cheapest cell phone that is given away is probably faster, more powerful, and has more memory than that whole wall of equipment. An iPhone definitely is. Kids today have it made. And when 8 bit microcomputers came out, the above is a minicomputer LOL, bulk storage was paper tape, then cassette tape, then floppy discs. They were 8" in diameter, stored about a megabyte and really were "floppy" which is how they got their name. http://en.wikipedia....iki/Floppy_disk. 5 1/4" discs were developed because many of the computer applications of the day didn't need that much storage space. An entire megabyte? Who would ever use it all? OK, enough ancient history. Cheers and Regards

I think the reason for needing to take ownership is this. Just because you have write access to the mounted image might not mean you can then write that revised image back replacing the original. I could have misunderstood the situation, but it wouldn't hurt to try. Cheers and Regards

Ah, Kel, you're still just a beginner. (j/k) LOL I began with slide rules and punch cards on a mainframe in 1973. By this summer I'll have 39 years of computer experience. And yet I come across new things every day and feel like a noob all over again, especially compared to some of the experts here. But we've gotten WAY OT from the OP's original question. Can anyone give him anymore USEFUL advice? :please: Cheers and Regards

From my experience, it seems that the push to slim the OS install has waned in the last several years as CPU speed has increased, memory and disc drive size has increased, and price has decreased. As the parts of the OS have gotten more and more interwoven, the risk of taking something out now that you might find you want or need later, or having something break in an unexpected way has also increased. It is much safer, and I know that Kel agrees with me, to just disable the services you don't need to keep them from running. If you find you need it later, all you have to do is enable it again and you're in business. If you slim the install by taking things out, if you find you need it later, most of the time you CAN NOT just add it back in. You'll have to redo your build and start completely over from scratch with an untouched source. There are ways to silm the OS, and I'm sure there are specific instances where it might be of some benefit, but it is not for the faint of heart, nor for a first time builder. But if you have experience, it can be done. Others may disagree, but I personally do not recommend it. Cheers and Regards

I totally agree that this is the absolute best way to do things, especially while trying to fine tune or trouble shoot things. Takes more space but isolates issues and saves time in the long run. Sorry for misunderstanding. Cheers and Regards

I haven't seen anyone else post in any W7T thread that they were having any problems with Bitlocker, or even admit that they were using it. In my mind, the only way that removing the Bitlocker Drive Encryption System Driver, IF W7T removed it, would effect Windows ability to boot would be if your system drive was ALREADY encrypted and THEN you removed the driver. But since I'm assuming you're trying to install Win7 to an empty drive I don't see how that could be possible in this case. But I could be wrong in my understanding of how that works. Cheers and Regards

So Legolash2o and myselfidem, does this imply there is a bug that the Autounattend.xml is not being placed in the correct place, or was it user error and how can it be prevented? Cheers and Regards

The OP question still seems to be a valid one. Can anyone confirm that this happens, or not, and if it does how it can be prevented? Cheers and Regards

Are you talking about when you check things against an existing live system that is already up to date? I'm confused. Cheers and Regards

Check this out - http://www.wincert.net/forum/index.php?/topic/9217-proyecto-windows-7-sp1-actualizado/ - it's in Spanish, but Google translate does a pretty good job. Cheers and Regards

I don't think Current-User tweaks can be integrated in advance because Current-User is not defined until after boot to desktop, right? Cheers and Regards

I think you'll have to expand install.wim to get to the files you're looking for. Cheers and Regards

Though everyone is right that we should all be using the latest version of Windows 7, currently SP1, Legolash2o was NOT talking about versions of Windows 7. Unless I misunderstood, he was talking about versions of Windows7Toolkit! ALWAYS use the latest version of W7T unless there has been an announcement of a problem with a particular version. Cheers and Regards

Hey Lego! I hope you had a good holiday. Since you've split this thread, you might want to add a convenient link to find the download before the existing one scrolls down off the first page of the index (It's no longer stickied.). Cheers and Regards

I would think that suggested order, chipset -> graphics -> USB and other peripherals, would be the preferred install order for anyone's system, and would have thought that Windows would follow that. I don't know if there is a way to set the install order for drivers. Cheers and Regards

Yes, there is no need to worry. As Mona stated in the first post: Cheers and Regards

Oh yeah. And an ironic thing is that my wedding anniversary is Dec 21. LOL Cheers and Regards

I know it's been a rough year for you Kel, and there's not much we can do, but you are in our thoughts and prayers. It's lame to say, but it will get easier. Last one of what? Cheers and Regards my friend