@ sherpya

Thanks for the info. However, the build would not create the iso because of the following error:

Error: SetupDecompressOrCopyFile "H:\i386\comres.dll" to "E:\pebldr\i386\system32\comres.dll" returned error 2: The system cannot find the file specified.

Any ideas.........

Don

missing comres.dll?
very strange, are u sure you are using xp sp1 files ?
anyway comres.dll should be also in non sp1 xp

@dross

Possibly a scratch or something on CD preventing read as it is a file on both Standard XP and Slipstreamed CD.

@Pedro
.msc association should give right icon on each .msc file, anyway you don't need to extract icons, you can use:

where n is the icon position starting by 0

Here is a good one.

I have been having problems with shortcuts pointing to cmd files. I have also tried the many excellent suggestions from everybody. None of them work. I have tried using them with and without using xpeinit as a wrapper. Still no luck. I just tried using the XML Parser by CWP (I still have nu2menu on the image but have not been using it). All the cmd shortcuts work just fine. I'm not a programmer, but something smells funny to me. And yes, I do need a shower.

Things that make you go Hmmmmmm.

@ sherpya

I am using XP Pro slipstreamed with SP1 as source.

@ Pedro

I'll check the condition of the CD when get home from work. Thanks.......

Don

@CWP
I have it now. I used Opera to grab it. Thanks!

@All
I'll check for cmd shortcuts, never tried it... but I see there is a lot of "request"

nothing strange in cmd shortcuts



testmd.cmd:

@CWP
I've put your Nu2Parser to work and YES it worked right from the first boot !!

If I only knew how this thing works........

Great work "CWP" the Nu2Menu is fully integrated into the XPE menu-system.

I really don't have to have dots in my shortcuts but rather was just pointing it out in case you didn't know about that as being a possible issue.

Except for the problem with autoramsizer I now have everything running fine with 0.93.

As always thanks for your help.

sherpya

I lnow you are very busy, but there are a few things that I like to se if you can think of, are there any chance of put the network indicator on the tray? How could I put the keyboard indicator there too.

Thanks for an great job

@Svenska
do u use autoramresizer with xpe not in standalone mode? (nu2menu autostart)
if yes I've updated autoramresizer plugin to v1.2, the cmd was wrong, I was not using start /wait. For other problems the ony way to track down is use cmd.exe instead of autoramdisk resizer and look in ramdriv for suspect files

@juniorfga
Do you mean "show icon when connected" on tray?
If yes maybe, but I'm not so sure this would be so simple since
each network driver should have separate setting

Now I am confused. Stand Alone mode?

I run XPE as my only shell but somehow I don't think that's what you mean.

I would like to use XPE in Stand Alone but I've yet to get it to run with nu2menu plugin disabled so I've commented out the
; 0x1, "Setup", "CmdLine", "\Programs\Nu2Menu\nu2menu.exe"

If you can give me instruction on how I can disable nu2menu & get XPE to run I would greatly appreciate it. Every time I do a build that way I get BSODs about a registry error. Do I have something commented out in the xpe-custom.inf file that shouldn't be or vice a versa?

From the way you asked the question I assume that autorun plugins are no longer needed? I was hoping that but I've not been able to put anything on my startup menu & have them run successfully. I suppose it would be good if you posted with the next release a xpe-custom.inf file for those who are still running nu2menu & then another for those who are not. Just an idea but it might cut down on all the questions.

Apparently I was using version 1.1 & will download 1.2.

Thanks Again

BTW & FWIW I would rather NOT have a networking icon in the system tray.

@sherpya

First, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU for XPE--It's AWESOME. I know I've put a lot of hours in this trying to understand PE and get a working disk, and thanks to you (and everyone else in this forum), i'm almost where I want to be with everything. I can only imagine how much time you've dedicated to this yourself.

I did notice one issue with the AutoRamresizer. I booted into a server with 12GB of RAM and it hung on resizing. It seems to work fine in VMWare (my test environment), but i've actually only burned 2 cd's so far--the rest is in VMware. Do you know of any problems with servers with ALOT of RAM? I disabled it, reburned the CD and it worked fine. So, I think it's the resizing.

If this is new to you, i'll retry a few times and see if I can come up with a better diagnosis.

Thanks again to Sherpya and everyone else!!

Dave O.

@ Pedro

It was a smudge on the CD. After a good cleaning, the build was successful.

@ Sherpya

When booting xpe, 'autoram resize' executes without error. Network support loads OK. So far, so good. Then I receive an error: 'xpelogon window not found' <ok>. This message appears twice and everytime I just click OK. Every thing seems to completely load, ie: taskbar, start button, desktop etc. and the shortcuts work. Any ideas? I'd like to get a clean boot b4 I try and parse the N2U Menu

Don

@doslager
12gb of ram? I dunno if qsoft ramdisk support 12gb ram, Autoramresizer "rounds" values to 32bit, 32 bit can address max 1gb ram (if I remember right)

@Svenska
Standalone Mode: I mean starting XPELogon (in past version was directly explorer)
using this key in xpe-custom.inf

Autorun is handled by RunOnceEx Section of registry (explorer.exe process and execute runonce ex), autorun plugin doesn't start. Look for RunOnceEx keys in xpe-custom.inf
You don't need to comment shell in nu2menu since xpe comes after nu2menu (alphabetical order) and overwrites nu2menu regkey
Autoramdiskresizer before v1.2 was called without waiting process termination, interfering with other autorun scripts

@dross
you are not using XPELogon.exe as shell or just calling explorer.exe directly I must remove the messagebox and ignore it.

I have XPE-logon.exe line uncommented like you do here. Aparently Dross doesn't and that's why he's getting that error.

@sherpya

No problem. I understand. I figured it was a limitation of that kind somehow. I'm looking to use this for 2003 unattended builds and troubleshooting only (well, 99%). I'll just set the ram disk at 64 or 128 and call it a day. Most of the machines i'll be using this on will have >2GB of RAM.

I've had problems in the past with various boot disks (DOS based) that errored out on a machine with huge amounts of RAM.

I'll figure something out and try to let the forum know what I've found works best. But, if you happen to find a fix for that, please let me (or this forum) know, and i'll update my boot CD.

Thanks again Sherpya...you (and XPE) ROCK! If you ever make it to Chicago, lemme know...i'll buy you a beer (or, two, or three...).

BTW, Win2k Ent, and Win2K3 Std or Ent can address up to 4GB of ram, but after that, you have to modify the boot.ini with a "/PAE" switch to address more than 4GB of ram. I'm not sure what that limit is in WinXP--i've never installed that in a machine with > 4GB of ram!!



Thanks,

Dave O.

A simpler way to fix Programs - Administrative Tools shortcuts showing only default icons in 0.9.3

xpe-mmc.inf

[Software.AddReg]
; Start Menu Entries
0x2,"Sherpya\XPEinit\Programs","@shell32.dll,-21762\@mycomput.dll,-193","%SystemRoot%\System32\compmgmt.msc||%SystemRoot%\System32\mycomput.dll,0"
0x2,"Sherpya\XPEinit\Programs","@shell32.dll,-21762\@dfrgres.dll,-11","%SystemRoot%\System32\dfrg.msc||%SystemRoot%\System32\dfrgres.dll,0"
0x2,"Sherpya\XPEinit\Programs","@shell32.dll,-21762\@dmdskres.dll,-1003","%SystemRoot%\System32\diskmgmt.msc||%SystemRoot%\System32\dmdskres.dll,0"
0x2,"Sherpya\XPEinit\Programs","@shell32.dll,-21762\@filemgmt.dll,-5","%SystemRoot%\System32\services.msc||%SystemRoot%\System32\filemgmt.dll,0"
0x2,"Sherpya\XPEinit\Programs","@shell32.dll,-21762\@els.dll,-110","%SystemRoot%\System32\eventvwr.msc||%SystemRoot%\System32\els.dll,0"

thanks to sherpya

@ Sherpya
Where do you make this edit?

Also, 'autoramsize' will sometimes display 'Disabling RamDisk Code 126' and not re-enable. A immediate reboot corrects this. Sounds like a timing issue??
@Swenska

I've uncommented this line and the error still occurs.

Don

@CWP

I've dowloaded your Nu2parser but the zip file was missing nu2parser.htm. Is implementing it as simple as enabling the plugin and rebuilding? Will this automatically place the nu2 programs intp xpe programs, or do you still have to manually edit the Programs section in xpe-custom.inf?

Don

I've used the nu2parser plugin. Yeah, all you have to do is add it as a plugin and it will add all the nu2menu programs to the xpe start menu. Don't forget to enable nu2menu when you build using this, otherwise it won't work.

The only problem I ran into using nu2parser was with erd commander 2002. When it tries to set the target root I get an error message of file not found. Other than that things work like a charm.

Just a hint for others that might not know. Instead of putting all my start menu programs in xpe-custom.inf , I actually put them in my plugins inf file. That way when new versions of xpe come out you don't have to worry about entering in all your start menu programs again.

Thanks for all your work everyone!

It is a timing issue. If you are using 1.1 of the autoramresizer then it's a known issue & Sherpya has an update ver 1.2. I had the same problem & the update took care of it.

Do you have both uncommented like this?

[SetupReg.AddReg]
; Use explorer.exe as standalone shell
0x1,"Setup","CmdLine","Explorer.exe"
0x1,"Setup","CmdLine","XPELogon.exe"

Not only that but if you disable a plugin for whatever reason it won't show up on the menu like it would if you edit the xpe-custom.inf file.

Once you run nu2parser & put the lines in the appropriate plugin inf files why do you need it any more? When you add new plugins you should be able to just copy-n-paste from another inf & edit as required.

FWIW I wish nu2parser was available a month ago then I wouldn't have had to edit all the inf's by hand. :-( Oh well it's done now & I'm sure I can add further menu items to other plugins as I need.

@ dross
As shinomen said, put it in the plugins directory and enable it. It'll do the rest.


The set target root uses functions (SetEnvVar and GetFolderDialog) that has no meaning during startup (that's when nu2parser generates the registry entries for xpeinit to add) or generating the INF entries. I am thinking of something like a helper program so nu2parser will run that instead. However, I don't have the time until at least the 9th before I can implement this :/.
The workaround at this time are: Sherpya's erdroot.exe from the ERD Commander 2002 (XPE Edition) plugin, or manually setting the environment variable via MyComputer->Properties->Advanced->Environment Variables.

@ Svenska
Hmmm... Are you running the nu2parser individually in each plugin so that it'll generate the INF entries for you? It was designed to run in PE so that it can generate the registry entries on bootup, unless you've already removed most of the [Append] sections.

CWP

Bingo, give that person a doll. Not only did I move the lines from file_nu2menu.xml to nu2menu.xml but I blasted the [Append] section from each of the inf's & then blasted the xml files from the plugin folders over a month ago. When nu2menu stopped working and when it did it didn't stop working for only 1 or 2 plugins any that I added after those 2 weren't getting added to the nu2menu.xml either. While I worked around it by editing the nu2menu.xml directly it also meant I couldn't just uncheck a plugin when I ran PE Builder when I wanted a different compilation such as one for 5.25" CDRWs & one for 3.5" CDRWs.

Please forgive me but I'm not heart broken that I do not need nu2parser. It's just that I think plugins should be just that, plugins & by adding the

[Software.AddReg]
; add to Start Menu\Programs
0x2,"Sherpya\XPEinit\Programs".........

to the end restores them back to the way Bart had intended they work now if their nu2menu is still working great so they can have at the end of their inf's both the [Software.AddReg] & [Append] sections but they remain "plugins". Therefore I actually am philosophically opposed to the idea of nu2parser in that now people that run it won't bother adding [Software.AddReg] sections to the end of their plugins & it's my humble opinion they should.

@ Svenska

Just sent you PM

Don

ok i'm running the latest of everything.
XPE .9.3b
PEbuilder 3.22

but now the NU2Menu nolonger comes up.

Did i miss something i need to comment out or uncomment?

by the way very cool updates.

Also someone asked this earlier but i didn't see an answer.

What happened to the autorun stuff?????
i don't have my stuff converted over to your way yet and i lost this functionality in this version

(skiped from 9.1 to 9.3b because i just got back from vacation)

Sounds like you missed the autoramresizer update. Go to Sherpya's site & download the latest as that is a must otherwise much of your autorun doesn't appear to.

well actually i forgot to add the other unspeakable plugin.

once that was readded all autorun stuff fired off but nu2menu

so i'm still missing this.
any ideas.

if i go to the cd root and fire off numenu.exe it fires off and runs.
(only problem is it starts network and several other autoruns again)

also i added nu2parser but it doesn't seem to do anything.
What exactly is it suppose to be doing?

nu2parser converts you nu2menu.xml to add to the start menu\programs menu in xpe

Yes if you launch nu2menu it runs all the autorun plugins. You should edit your cpe-custom to handle your autoruns and then backup your nu2menu autoruns but otherwise disable them if you're going to run nu2menu from within your xpe shell.

when i run nu2parser
i get an error

it goes to fast for me to see exactly what it is but it looks like something is wrong with my XML code.

Any thoughts???

@FlukserCDS

Disable the Autorun plugin if you are using XPE for your primary shell. Then add this to nu2menu.inf:


@all
I was having problems with cmd shortcuts not working. What I did to fix them doesn't make sense but I thought I would pass it along.

does work, but

does not.

I know the only difference should be for the icon, but this was the only change I made and the shortcut now works. *shrug*

Case Sensitive ???

@sherpya

What in 0.9.3 added IE to the Quick Launch bar & Programs menu? I don't see anything anywhere that places them there and they weren't there in 0.9.2. I'd like to blast them out of there if that's possible.

TIA

svenska in the xpe-custume.inf

; Quick Launch
0x2,"Sherpya\XPEinit\QuickLaunch","Windows PE Media","%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe|%SystemDrive%|xpeinit.exe,0"


I believe this is where it is coming from

Nice try but that's Windows Explorer & what I'm want to get rid of is Internet explorer.

Thanks Anyway.

@Rickj
Shortcut for cmd must be:

or if you dont use xpeinit as silent runer:

version 0.9.4 is out, changes


@Svenska
I'm sorry, but I really dunno who creates internet explorer icon on quicklauch

Congratulation Sherpya !!! Great work !!!
No New Bugs in New Relise !!!
(Still 2 old bugs - iexplorer in quicklanch, refresh in my documents)

Did anyone try TweakUI? I think some dude must create a similear UI tool for XPE configuration! Yo all dudes realize how dizzy it looks for a first time users?? I played a lot with DOS but now, when pop into XPE and BartPE, My brain is having those MATRIX lines floating around my eyes

Other plug-ins are not that advanced as XPE! So common dudes!

@Sherpya

Great work. Ver 094 very good. BTW - this ver fixed the USB plugin and does auto refresh when USB device is plugged in. Thanks.

But some new problems:-

1. Explorer does not have menu View->List, View->Refresh... othe menu seems to be missing. If I load explorer plugin then everything is the way it should be. XPE 093 and prior works ok.

2. Unable to open multiple explorer windows. XPE 094 does not allow it. If explorer is loaded then I can open multiple windows.

3. Unable to right click on file and copy.

4. Unable to run 2 or more programs at same time - eg. open Winrar and then try to run nero, etc..... Again with explorer loaded it is ok.

5. Don't know if this is XPE or PEBuilder bug:-
Running Nero InfoTool.exe gives message "this is not a valid Win app" But it still runs ok though.

"Is not a valid win32 app" error is usualy a problem with winsxs dirs truncated.
Also it would be usefull to start a new thread for each version of XPE.

@mick
is not a xpe problem, you need winlogon resource patch, since
after 2-3 open windows each following CreateWindow fails (so you cannot launch appliacations that open windows)

Very good idea !

ok from next release I'll use new thread

I have tried to add a few things of my own to the Start menu. I have found that my start menu entries only show up if there are no subfolders. For example,
will correctly add an item to the start menu. But if I would like my own folder of programs, I thought I could just insert the folder name, so I tried:

This did not work. Must I somehow create that subfolder before I can use it? I'm sure I'm missing something simple.

Thanks for any help,
Tom

It should be:

0x2,"Sherpya\XPEinit\Programs","MyFolder\MySamplePgm","%SystemDrive%\Programs\myprog\myprog.exe||%SystemDrive%\Programs\myprog\myprog.exe"