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TeutonicDarkness:
--- Quote from: spystyle on July 23, 2008, 12:10:24 am ---Interesting.. Did you integrate SP3 into your MAME-XP's ?
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No not yet... Been kind of scared too!
Everything has been working good just afraid something won't
work right, or I'll have driver issues, etc.
I will break down and try soon on a separate partition.
spystyle:
I see, that could be the difference.
OzStick:
--- Quote from: spystyle on July 21, 2008, 11:35:51 pm ---A theory!
I bet the power options that are in my MAME-XP and not in yours would have something to do with the difference between "XP home" and "XP Professional"
Mine was built from "WinXP Corporate Professional".
I take it you guys were using "Home" ?
I am using XP SP3 Home on my actual home PC and here is what my power options look like :
So ... we know how to fix the "it is now safe to turn off your computer" problem on "pro" versions of Windows. How do we fix it on "Home" versions of Windows ?
I will have to make a MAME-XP from a "Home" disk to replicate the problem then try to fix it...
Cheers,
Craig
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Hi again Craig,
I had a look at Power Options on my setup and that APM tab is not there. I'm running XP Pro SP3 on mine.
I've got another CD with my own stripped version of XP (before I read your tutorial and "knew" what I was doing) into which I have manually inserted Minlogon after the install and it shuts down fine, however the bootup process seems to take about the same amount of time as with the standard Winlogon.
I'd be happy to run with my version, but I now want to replace the bootup screen using BootSkin and it crashes when I do the swap!!
Any suggestions as to what I may be doing wrong?
Cheers,
Chris
spystyle:
It sounds like you should uninstall minlogon (use regular winlogon) and see if bootskin works.
As for the APM tab I have and no one else has - I am beginning to think it is a feature found only in "corporate" version of XP...
Cheers,
Craig
OzStick:
--- Quote from: spystyle on July 23, 2008, 10:26:28 pm ---It sounds like you should uninstall minlogon (use regular winlogon) and see if bootskin works.
As for the APM tab I have and no one else has - I am beginning to think it is a feature found only in "corporate" version of XP...
Cheers,
Craig
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Yup, already tried that and it made no difference!
I've just made a change to the BOOT.INI file via MSCONFIG to switch on the /NOGUIBOOT option and now all I get is a blank screen instead of the regular startup screen, which is a good compromise.
To be honest, the most "agreeable" stripped version of XP I've tried so far was MicroXP, as it is lightning fast to install, has only the necessities that I NEED and is very quick on startup and shutdown. However I don't like the "MicroXP by eXperience" splash screens it comes up with just prior to the desktop loading on startup and on shutting down. If I could get rid of them then I'd be a happy person!!!
Cheers,
Chris
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