Tested good nlite presets-184mb of 24/7 stable and compatable goodness.

[cirthix]

Here's an nlite preset which I use for my 24/7 os. It's fast and small, 184mb for the finished iso. iirc it starts with only 14 processes! I've had no problems with program incompatability and it's pretty quick. This has evolved after about 15 different nlite installs and I thought you guys might want to take a look at it:

The one thing I'm going to change next time I install is to let wmp stay.

Last Session.ini:

[Main]
Env = 1.0 RC6 - 2.0.50727.42.Microsoft Windows NT 5.1.2600 Service Pack 1
Target = Windows XP Professional Sp1 - build 1106 - English (United States)

[Tasks]
Remove Components
Unattended Setup
Patches
Tweaks
Create a Bootable ISO
Options

[Components]
;# Applications #
Accessibility Options
Briefcase
ClipBook Viewer
Internet Games
NT Backup
Screensavers
;# Drivers #
Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)
Display Adapters
InfraRed
ISDN
Modems
MultiFunctional
Sony Jog Dial
Tape drives
Toshiba DVD decoder card
;# Hardware Support #
ATM Support
Brother Devices
Modem Support
Multi-port serial adapters
Smart Cards
Sony Memory Stick
Teletext codec
Windows CE USB Host
;# Keyboards #
Albanian keyboard
Arabic (101) keyboard
Arabic (102) AZERTY keyboard
Arabic (102) keyboard
Armenian Eastern keyboard
Armenian Western keyboard
Azeri Cyrillic keyboard
Azeri Latin keyboard
Belarusian keyboard
Belgian (Comma) keyboard
Belgian (Period) keyboard
Belgian French keyboard
Bulgarian (Latin) keyboard
Bulgarian keyboard
Canadian French (Legacy) keyboard
Canadian French keyboard
Canadian Multilingual Standard keyboard
Chinese (Simplified) - Microsoft Pinyin IME 3.0 keyboard
Chinese (Simplified) - NeiMa keyboard
Chinese (Simplified) - QuanPin keyboard
Chinese (Simplified) - ShuangPin keyboard
Chinese (Simplified) - US Keyboard keyboard
Chinese (Simplified) - ZhengMa keyboard
Chinese (Traditional) - Alphanumeric keyboard
Chinese (Traditional) - Array keyboard
Chinese (Traditional) - Big5 Code keyboard
Chinese (Traditional) - ChangJie keyboard
Chinese (Traditional) - DaYi keyboard
Chinese (Traditional) - New ChangJie keyboard
Chinese (Traditional) - New Phonetic keyboard
Chinese (Traditional) - Phonetic keyboard
Chinese (Traditional) - Quick keyboard
Chinese (Traditional) - Unicode keyboard
Chinese (Traditional) - US Keyboard keyboard
Croatian keyboard
Czech (QWERTY) keyboard
Czech keyboard
Czech Programmers keyboard
Danish keyboard
Devanagari - INSCRIPT keyboard
Divehi Phonetic keyboard
Divehi Typewriter keyboard
Dutch keyboard
Estonian keyboard
Faeroese keyboard
Farsi keyboard
Finnish keyboard
French keyboard
FYRO Macedonian keyboard
Gaelic keyboard
Georgian keyboard
German (IBM) keyboard
German keyboard
Greek (220) keyboard
Greek (220) Latin keyboard
Greek (319) keyboard
Greek (319) Latin keyboard
Greek keyboard
Greek Latin keyboard
Greek Polytonic keyboard
Gujarati keyboard
Hebrew keyboard
Hindi Traditional keyboard
Hungarian 101-key keyboard
Hungarian keyboard
Icelandic keyboard
Irish keyboard
Italian (142) keyboard
Italian keyboard
Japanese Input System (MS-IME2002) keyboard
Japanese keyboard
Kannada keyboard
Kazakh keyboard
Korean Input System (IME 2000) keyboard
Korean keyboard
Kyrgyz Cyrillic keyboard
Latin American keyboard
Latvian (QWERTY) keyboard
Latvian keyboard
Lithuanian IBM keyboard
Lithuanian keyboard
Marathi keyboard
Mongolian Cyrillic keyboard
Norwegian keyboard
Polish (214) keyboard
Polish (Programmers) keyboard
Portuguese (Brazilian ABNT) keyboard
Portuguese (Brazilian ABNT2) keyboard
Portuguese keyboard
Punjabi keyboard
Romanian keyboard
Russian (Typewriter) keyboard
Russian keyboard
Serbian (Cyrillic) keyboard
Serbian (Latin) keyboard
Slovak (QWERTY) keyboard
Slovak keyboard
Slovenian keyboard
Spanish keyboard
Spanish Variation keyboard
Swedish keyboard
Swiss French keyboard
Swiss German keyboard
Syriac keyboard
Syriac Phonetic keyboard
Tamil keyboard
Tatar keyboard
Telugu keyboard
Thai Kedmanee (non-ShiftLock) keyboard
Thai Kedmanee keyboard
Thai Pattachote (non-ShiftLock) keyboard
Thai Pattachote keyboard
Turkish F keyboard
Turkish Q keyboard
Ukrainian keyboard
United Kingdom keyboard
United States-Dvorak for left hand keyboard
United States-Dvorak for right hand keyboard
United States-Dvorak keyboard
United States-International keyboard
Urdu keyboard
US English Table for IBM Arabic 238_L keyboard
Uzbek Cyrillic keyboard
Vietnamese keyboard
;# Languages #
;Arabic
Arabic (Algeria)
Arabic (Bahrain)
Arabic (Egypt)
Arabic (Iraq)
Arabic (Jordan)
Arabic (Kuwait)
Arabic (Lebanon)
Arabic (Libya)
Arabic (Morocco)
Arabic (Oman)
Arabic (Qatar)
Arabic (Saudi Arabia)
Arabic (Syria)
Arabic (Tunisia)
Arabic (U.A.E.)
Arabic (Yemen)
Divehi (Maldives)
Syriac (Syria)
Urdu
;Armenian
Armenian
;Baltic
Estonian
Latvian
Lithuanian
;Central Europe
Albanian
Croatian
Czech
Hungarian
Polish
Romanian
Serbian (Latin)
Slovak
Slovenian
;Cyrillic
Azeri (Cyrillic)
Belarusian
Bulgarian
FYRO Macedonian
Kazakh
Kyrgyz (Kyrgyzstan)
Mongolian (Mongolia)
Russian
Serbian (Cyrillic)
Tatar
Ukrainian
Uzbek (Cyrillic)
;Georgian
Georgian
;Greek
Greek
;Hebrew
Hebrew
;Indic
Gujarati (India)
Hindi
Kannada (India)
Konkani
Marathi
Punjabi (India)
Sanskrit
Tamil
Telugu (India)
;Japanese
Japanese
;Korean
Korean
;Simplified Chinese
Chinese (PRC)
Chinese (Singapore)
;Thai
Farsi
Thai
;Traditional Chinese
Chinese (Hong Kong S.A.R.)
Chinese (Macau S.A.R.)
Chinese (Taiwan)
;Turkic
Azeri (Latin)
Turkish
Uzbek (Latin)
;Vietnamese
Vietnamese
;Western Europe and United States
Afrikaans
Basque
Catalan
Danish
Dutch (Belgium)
Dutch (Netherlands)
English (Australia)
English (Belize)
English (Canada)
English (Caribbean)
English (Ireland)
English (Jamaica)
English (New Zealand)
English (Philippines)
English (South Africa)
English (Trinidad)
English (United Kingdom)
English (Zimbabwe)
Faeroese
Finnish
French (Belgium)
French (Canada)
French (France)
French (Luxembourg)
French (Monaco)
French (Switzerland)
Galician (Spain)
German (Austria)
German (Germany)
German (Liechtenstein)
German (Luxembourg)
German (Switzerland)
Icelandic
Indonesian
Italian (Italy)
Italian (Switzerland)
Malay (Brunei Darussalam)
Malay (Malaysia)
Norwegian (Bokmal)
Norwegian (Nynorsk)
Portuguese (Brazil)
Portuguese (Portugal)
Spanish (Argentina)
Spanish (Bolivia)
Spanish (Chile)
Spanish (Colombia)
Spanish (Costa Rica)
Spanish (Dominican Republic)
Spanish (Ecuador)
Spanish (El Salvador)
Spanish (Guatemala)
Spanish (Honduras)
Spanish (International Sort)
Spanish (Mexico)
Spanish (Nicaragua)
Spanish (Panama)
Spanish (Paraguay)
Spanish (Peru)
Spanish (Puerto Rico)
Spanish (Traditional Sort)
Spanish (Uruguay)
Spanish (Venezuela)
Swahili
Swedish
Swedish (Finland)
;# Multimedia #
AOL ART Image Format Support
Images and Backgrounds
Luna Theme
Media Center
Mouse Cursors
Movie Maker
Music Samples
Speech Support
Tablet PC
Windows Media Player
Windows Media Player 6.4
Windows Sounds
;# Network #
Client for Netware Networks
Communication tools
FrontPage Extensions
Internet Information Services (IIS)
IP Conferencing
Java Virtual Machine
MAC Bridge
MSMail and MAPI
MSN Explorer
Netmeeting
Outlook Express
Synchronization Manager
Web Folders
Windows Messenger
;# Operating System Options #
.NET Framework
Administrative Templates
Administrator VB scripts
Color Schemes
Command-Line tools
Desktop Cleanup Wizard
Disk and Profile Quota
Disk Cleanup
Document Templates
DR Watson
Extra Fonts
FAT to NTFS converter
File and Settings Wizard
Help
Manual Install and Upgrade
MS Agent
Out of Box Experience (OOBE)
Private Character Editor
Remote Installation Services (RIS)
Save Dump Utility
Search Assistant
Service Pack Messages
Shell Media Handler
Tour
User Account Pictures
Web View
;# Services #
Autoupdate
Error Reporting
Fax Services
Indexing Service
Messenger
Remote Registry
Secondary Logon
System Restore
Telnet Server
Uninterruptible Power Supply
Volume Shadow Copy
WebClient
;# Directories #
DOCS
SUPPORT
VALUEADD
;# Compatibility #
Compat01
Compat02
Compat06
Compat09

[KeepFiles]
msconfig.exe
ipconfig.exe
ping.exe
telnet.exe

[RemoveFiles]
blastcln.exe
clock.avi

[Options]
ClassicSetup
BlackSetupBack
DisableFreereq
DisableMinMem
GuestName = ""
AdminName = ""
ProfilesDir = "%SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings"
TargetPath = "Windows"
temp_dir = %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Temp
NoUpperCase
SrvpEnabled
NoKeepCp
isovol = WinLite
isoatt = -allow-multidot -relaxed-filenames -allow-leading-dots -N -l -d -D -joliet-long -duplicates-once -no-emul-boot -b boot.bin -hide boot.bin -hide boot.catalog

[Patches]
TcpIp = 10
UsbPoll = 500
DoUxTheme
DoSFC

[Services]
Alerter,4
ALG,3
AppMgmt,3
Browser,4
CryptSvc,2
DHCP,2
TrkWks,3
DNSCACHE,3
EventLog,2
HidServ,4
SharedAccess,4
IpInIp,3
IpNat,3
IpFilterDriver,3
PolicyAgent,4
NwlnkFlt,3
NwlnkFwd,3
NDProxy,3
NetLogon,4
Netman,3
NetDDE,4
NetDDEdsdm,4
NLA,4
NtLmSsp,4
SysmonLog,4
PlugPlay,2
ProtectedStorage,4
RasAuto,4
RasMan,4
RpcLocator,4
RemoteAccess,4
SamSs,4
LanmanServer,2
SENS,4
LMHosts,4
TapiSrv,3
Themes,2
AudioSrv,2
Wmi,3
W32Time,3
LanmanWorkstation,2

[Tweaks]
Desktop-Internet Explorer icon-Hide
Desktop-My Computer icon-Show
Desktop-My Documents icon-Hide
Desktop-My Network Places icon-Hide
Desktop-Recycle Bin icon-Hide
Disable Visual Effects-Disable animating windows when minimizing and maximizing
Disable Visual Effects-Disable background image for each folder type
Disable Visual Effects-Disable common tasks in folders
Disable Visual Effects-Disable slide taskbar buttons
Explorer-Add 'CMD Shell' to all Drives and Folders
Explorer-Advanced Search: preconfigure options
Explorer-Change Explorer Folder View to: details
Explorer-Classic Control Panel
Explorer-Disable Autorun
Explorer-Disable Prefix: Shortcut to
Explorer-Show all files and folders
Explorer-Show Drive Letters in front of Drive Names
Explorer-Show extensions of known file-types
Explorer-Use small icons in Explorer bar
File Open/Save Dialog-Preset Places Bar to: C: D: E: DESKTOP LAN
Internet Explorer-Disable Download Complete notification
Internet Explorer-Disable Go Button
Internet Explorer-Disable Internet Explorer link creation
Internet Explorer-Disable Market Place bookmark
Internet Explorer-Disable Media Player 6.4 created bookmarks
Internet Explorer-Disable Password-Caching
Internet Explorer-Keep IE URL-History for-0 Days
Internet Explorer-Set Homepage-www.google.com
Internet Explorer-Set IE-Cache limit to-20 MB
Internet Explorer-Set Internet Explorer to accept 10 connects at a time
My Computer-Add Control Panel to Context Menu
My Computer-Add Device Manager to Context Menu
My Computer-Add My Network Places
My Computer-Add Network Connections
My Computer-Add Printers and Faxes
My Computer-Add Recycle Bin
My Computer-Remove Shared Documents
My Computer-Show details in Device Manager
My Computer-Show non-present devices in Device Manager
Network-Disable administrative shares
Network-Disable restoring mapped network drives on logon
Privacy-Clear most recently opened documents list on logoff
Privacy-Disable and Remove Documents List from Start Menu
Privacy-Disable Last accessed Timestamp on files
Privacy-Remove Alexa Spyware
Speed-Disable Optimize harddisk when idle
Speed-Disable Warn on low disk space
Speed-Do not cache thumbnails
Speed-Use Windows classic folders / No Tasks Sidepanel
Start Menu-Add Printers and Faxes
Start Menu-Disable Highlight newly installed programs
Start Menu-Disable popup on first boot
Start Menu-Do not use Personalized Menus
Start Menu-Reduce popup delay
Start Menu-Remove Logoff User
Start Menu-Remove My Documents
Start Menu-Remove My Music
Start Menu-Remove My Pictures
Start Menu-Remove Search the Internet from Search
Start Menu-Remove Set Program Access and Defaults
Start Menu-Remove Username
Start Menu-Remove 'Windows Catalog' from Start Menu
Start Menu-Use small icons in Start Panel
Taskbar-Disable Balloon Tips
Taskbar-Disable Group similar Taskbar buttons
Taskbar-Disable Hide inactive icons
Taskbar-Disable Language-Bar
Taskbar-Hide Volume Control Icon in System Tray

[Unattended]
UnattendMode = ProvideDefault
DisableOem
ComputerType = Automatic
HibernationNo
AutoLogonYes
Resolution = 1024x768
BitsPerPel = 16 bit (High Color)
Vrefresh = 60 Hz
MaximumDataStorePercentOfDisk = 12
DefaultThemesOff
DefaultStartPanelOff
DataExecProt = 0
ProgFilesPath = "C:\Program Files"
CommFilesPath = "Common Files"

[GuiRunOnce]

[Drivers]

[Hotfixes]

[MaxxxRacer]

interesting.

So does it have all of those languages or are they disabled.

and does it have printing capabilities as well as full file sharing (windows networking) capabilities?

[introvert]

I did a build of this and installed, it worked well. Im still currently using it and havent ran into any compatability problems yet.

[icyroy05]

Same here. Tried it on vmware first and it worked well. Then took the plunge and installed for 24/7 use. Haven't had a problem yet.

Very good nlite setup. Stripped but not so stripped its useless.

Good job!

[EffeX]

How exactly do I use this??? Can someone walk me thru it?

[cirthix]

@maxxracer: languages are deleted, but can be installed as needed. it's fully functional, so network and printing work normally.

@introvert and icyroy05

@effex: copy paste the text into notepad, save it, and open it with nlite and feed it a cd. burn to a cdrw or cd and install

[Circaflex]

id like to try this, i have my desktop setup as a gaming rig only will possibly try this out. SATA installs fine?

[icyroy05]

id like to try this, i have my desktop setup as a gaming rig only will possibly try this out. SATA installs fine?

It worked fine for me. Seagate SATA drive here. No extra drivers needed.

[Lestat]

depending on what sata controller you have you can install the driver for that and you can tell it to use it as a standard driver or a boot up driver in the XP cd bootup process, ie; "Press F6 to install additional Storage Drivers"

if you normally have to use a floppy to install the SATA drivers then this will allow you to no longer use the floppy but you need to manually install it and manually tell it to use it as a bootup driver (it actually will give a pop-up asking what type of driver it is.)


i love nLite have been using it for a real long time and the crew over at the site only keeps making it better and better, and yes if they ever make it Vista compliant.. man what dream.

i have used it for 2000, XP Home and Pro, and Server 2003 installs.
all of which are lean and mean installs when im done.

too many people remove Windows update, i suggest you NOT do that, it removes any chances of you ever getting windows updates.
I have even manually installed Windows update V6 and it still wont work.
Windows update accessibility is a network/user security setting which cant be fixed by simply installing the Win Update V6 exe file.

go thru it step by step if you have never used it before. look at EVERYTHING!
there are little tweaks and things that can have a big impact.
and yes remove all keyboard layouts and languages you do not need. its just wasted space.
also be very mindful of the network stuff you jack with.
USB Polling. your ini lists 500... dont do that, its too much and doesnt play well with some wireless mice.

things like TCP Priority 1 and other little tweaks like that really help out.

One thing i have done, and its not good, and i cant figure out what it is, is that the last to rip's i did, and including the XS OS version, Is that when i go to shutdown or reboot my pc, it takes nearly 5 minutes for it to actually do anything.
it just sits and looks at you doing nothing.

my next nlite will be a totally stripped necessary items only install i really want to see what XP does.

[introvert]

Can anyone put up a stripped 2000 and 2003 server install that can be used for 24/7 purposes? Thanks.

[cirthix]

depending on what sata controller you have you can install the driver for that and you can tell it to use it as a standard driver or a boot up driver in the XP cd bootup process, ie; "Press F6 to install additional Storage Drivers"

if you normally have to use a floppy to install the SATA drivers then this will allow you to no longer use the floppy but you need to manually install it and manually tell it to use it as a bootup driver (it actually will give a pop-up asking what type of driver it is.)


i love nLite have been using it for a real long time and the crew over at the site only keeps making it better and better, and yes if they ever make it Vista compliant.. man what dream.

i have used it for 2000, XP Home and Pro, and Server 2003 installs.
all of which are lean and mean installs when im done.

too many people remove Windows update, i suggest you NOT do that, it removes any chances of you ever getting windows updates.
I have even manually installed Windows update V6 and it still wont work.
Windows update accessibility is a network/user security setting which cant be fixed by simply installing the Win Update V6 exe file.

go thru it step by step if you have never used it before. look at EVERYTHING!
there are little tweaks and things that can have a big impact.
and yes remove all keyboard layouts and languages you do not need. its just wasted space.
also be very mindful of the network stuff you jack with.
USB Polling. your ini lists 500... dont do that, its too much and doesnt play well with some wireless mice.

things like TCP Priority 1 and other little tweaks like that really help out.

One thing i have done, and its not good, and i cant figure out what it is, is that the last to rip's i did, and including the XS OS version, Is that when i go to shutdown or reboot my pc, it takes nearly 5 minutes for it to actually do anything.
it just sits and looks at you doing nothing.

my next nlite will be a totally stripped necessary items only install i really want to see what XP does.

sata drivers were untouched in this version, depends on the controller like you said.

i don't use windows update

i'd love to see an nlite for vista, then it might actually be good haha.

i think you told it to clear the page file on shutdown.

[Lestat]

nah no clear page file.
because it did it on the XS OS version also.

i think it was Kill all idle service and apps those 3 or 4 tweaks.

i redid another nlite and left those along and it runs just fine now.
those are really the only shut down tweaks i mess with and leaving them alone work.


but honestly. it is nice to see a stripped version of XP.
and honestly you can make it as stripped as the PE disks are.

i have played with things such as removing the cab files or whatever it is,, it claims it speeds up the install process, i have not noticed anything different.

i also ALWAYS tell it my cdkey, time cone, keyboard layout, etc etc and it always wants my kb layout, time zone and occassionally it still wants my cd key but not often.

the silent installer works almsot perfect, but as for it being unattended? no there is stilla few things it wants.
username is another one i ahve had it randomly as me for.

i truly didnt notice too much with Win2k for speed and such..

Server 2k3 thats another story a stripped version of 2k3 is on my lappy and its balzing fast and of course has better memory management among other things.

i do believe the guys at nlite are working on vista so hopefully we can see some alpha or beta tests for that coming up.

on the vista note, has anyone been able to find out what the F10 install commands are ?
when you isntall Vista start nailing F10 at the "loading files" screen right when you boot to the dvd and you get a command promt and thats it,, tis a manual installation process but i have yet to see anything on what the commands are and if it allows for any optional components.
Vista is bloated beyond anything i have ever seen and sucks for overclocked systems.
it just brutalizes your cpu so badly. and is very ram intensive. i can do anything i want with my system right now and never have a problem even pi and prime,, but boot up vista and she always bails,, i have to lower my overclock.

to be honest with you. my 955 XE and 2 gigs of ram overclocke4d to 4.5ghz and a raptor is slower than Vista installed on my laptop with a 2.13ghz 60gig and 1.5gigs of slow ass ddrII.
oh and i have a 256meg 7800 gTX and an x700 on the laptop and the laptop still handles vista better and is faster.

M$ has a long ways to go before Vista is a feasable OS for the public,, so until then i will keep working with nlite to make XP as bloody fast as possible.


p.s.

nlite XP is no faster for benching and gaming than the regular XP.
but it is faster for normal use.



p.s. p.s.

god i almost forgot.

if you do an nlite xp PLEASE for your own benefit use the programs on nlites website to integrate into the os. such as winrar, adobe, AVG, and a few others, along with the 100% MUST use RyanVM update pack.. jesus use that update pack. if you dont then your screwed and will be spending hours downloading and searching for the updates you need to keep XP up to date.
there is a new May Windows update roll-up autoinstaller that can be found at the usual places wink wink. i'd suggest using that after you instlal XP if you dont integrate RyanVM's update pack and if you ahve removed windows update.