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spystyle:

--- Quote from: spystyle on February 03, 2008, 04:11:40 pm ---...

Here is the Minlogon "hotfix" package (for slipstreaming with Nlite)**:

http://tinyurl.com/2kkdmu


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oops, I messed up on that, but I have re-uploaded it.

What you get should not be cab compressed. I tested the new version and it works.

Minlogon rocks!!!!

Cheers,
Craig

IG-88:
So what exactly does this minlogon do? Just speed up the boot process? What do you do with the manual package?

Also I thought I read, but now it's gone, that you were thinking about incorporating Mala and something else into Nlite. What going on with that?

spystyle:
What does MinLogon do? It makes Windows XP start up much faster! It's radical :)

The manual install comes with instructions.

As for Mala - I had a long post before where I mentioned that but it boring so I deleted it. I mentioned that I had the idea to make a stripped out XP that can only run MAME, MAME32, and MALA. "Bare essentials" and all that. I also listed all of their dependency files, but I was not able to cross-reference that with Nlite "removables".

As for Nlite:

I have made an Nlite'd XP I like very much!

It has SP3 and Minlogon integrated, only 6 services running, DirectX installs, and MAME32 runs. It uses only 51.08 MB RAM (out of 256 MB) - that's acceptable as far as I'm concerned - only a 64 MB DIMM is lost to the OS. The entire Windows CD, before I add driverpacks, is only 130 MB. The "Windows" directory is only 336 MB. and the PF use is about 30 MB.

Though it is stripped so much I am having trouble getting the driverpacks to install. Also taskman won't work so I have to use a 3rd party app.

Otherwise it is really sleek. I have attached my lastsession.ini if anyone cares to look at it.

What are the specs on the Nlite installs you guys are making?

Cheers,
Craig

gonzo90017:
If you're using it strictly for mame, wouldn't it be better to leave any service packs out? My Last Session.ini is posted on one of the previous posts. All works well even Task Manager. Only thing is you have to make all the registry changes manually for auto logon since TweakXP won't work on it. It also has around 4-6 services running. No sp's whatsoever. Haven't done much benchmarking but it's running Mamewah on a 400mhz pc with 256mb.

spystyle:
I have the idea that service pack 3 increases hardware compatibility for newer PCs, also speed and stability. If you think about it - XP without any service packs is old (2001) and they've had time to work out the bugs.

Just think of all the hardware that has gone mainstream since XP's first release, dual core CPU, 2 GB RAM is now the norm, SATA, ect. But if you are using a low tech computer I'm sure SP0 would be fine.

In my benchmarks I found that SP3 was faster than SP2, so that's what caught my attention initially.

As for taskman and tweakxp - they probably just need their dependencies to work. To discover a program's dependencies examine it's EXE in "Dependency Walker" - then verify those dependency files exists in the "Windows directory", if they do not, add them to the program's directory first and see if that works. If it does not you can register them with regsvr32.exe .

I'll use that to get taskman working when I have some time.

Cheers,
Craig

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