My New GUI Setup

[LiTHiUM0XiD3]

the missus bought this laptop.. with vista home premium... a bogged down... crap ridden OS.... as many may know... and seeing as the specs aint all that amazing.. this rly didnt help... so i stripped a copy of vista ult down to basicaly nothing... and went to town setting up a very clean and appealing desktop... here it is...
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d35/sketchymodder/SYSSTAT.jpg

please comment... opinions.. questions.. all are welcome..

[BerticusPryme]

very clean man. looks great too. +rep for sure.

[crenn]

That's quite nice, you may need to make a guide on how you did it!

btw, Vista stock is bogged down.... I know because of when I installed stock Vista on a Virtual Machine.... I remembered why I wasn't a Vista fan until after SP1 :P

[simon275]

Did you use Rocket Dock (http://rocketdock.com/) for the doc at the top?

[LiTHiUM0XiD3]

objectdock plus

[Crazy Buddhist]

WOW JUST WOW great work. Beautiful. I want an .iso :(

EDIT: Or a detailed how to. Pretty please.

CrazyB

[XcOM]

as above,



PLEASE can i have a guide on what you used to do that?

[TheGreatSatan]

Me three! +Rep

[LiTHiUM0XiD3]

when i get the time tonight.. i'll put together a tutorial.. with pics and everything..

until then.. thank your for your comments.. and plz do share any more...
all r welcome..

[Indybird]

Are you still going to post the tutorial? I am terribly curious as to how you did all of this.

Thanks,
Indybird

[LiTHiUM0XiD3]

yes i will.. sorry for the huge delay... ive been busy with quite a bit of cleaning and other such things..

[Cymae]

Looks kinda like OSX.... :P

BTW: Am pretty sure it is illegal to do this, I know a few guys tried to release a stripped down version of vista as a 'plugin' for free on the net awhile back, and they got sued by microbutt.

[.Maleficus.]

It's definitely illegal to release licensed material for free, but it's not illegal to "clean" and "tweak" it.

I don't care anyways, I'm "certified" to do it.

[Indybird]

Hes not going to release any licensed software, or give us any microsoft code. I'm pretty sure these are all add-on programs and plugins.

-Indybird

[XcOM]

it is a breach of the eula to strip windows, and the select person that got sued bcasue he was selling his services to strip windows, but he was providing his own copy of windows which was illegal,

if microsoft really cared that much nlite would have been shut down a LONG time ago,

[LiTHiUM0XiD3]

i would not realse any micro**** code... for the simple fact that yes i would prolly get sued.. and as a second notion.. im a selfish lil bastard and im not givin up my custom work... all the addons r legit.... such things like object dock allow you to do this... so dont worry.. you wont get your hands on my stuff.. just what you need...

[Indybird]

so dont worry.. you wont get your hands on my stuff.. just what you need...

Wait what?

-Indybird

[AMD Killa]

if microsoft really cared that much nlite would have been shut down a LONG time ago

Not really, nLite and vLite were aimed at administrators with a very large amount of computers who wanted an unattended installation that can be fully customisable. It still requires you to have your windows CD/DVD, and you still have to activate the OS with your own license key. No changes have been made to the activation and licensing software.

I'm not sure, but I think the mstheme patch is illegal, but it is an option in the nLite and vLite programs, as a company might want a custom theme without going to Microsoft or Stardock.

It alows removal of un-needed drivers and services, and allows complete customisation, so that all the network settings can be configured at installation, including slipstreaming of programs and service packs.

Sure, you can ghost the hard-disk, but what if you have several different models of PC's, where some were upgraded and some were not. It's easier to have one disk for all than two or three. And the nLite/vLite media can be very easily changed after initial creation.

nLite is a brilliant program. I have used it to create a cut down version of XP professional in the past. I have the key and everything to it was legal. Ran great on an old fujitsu laptop (800MHz Pentium 3, 64MB RAM). But I then decided to use it in my server. Not a complete server, just basic stuff like file storage and an FTP server.

The vLite program works well with Vista, I had a Vista Ultimate 30 day trial running on 512MB of RAM and a 1.8GHz Pentium 4. 32MB graphics card (onboard), didnt get aero, but my mum wanted a machine so she could browse the internet and recieve emails. She also wanted the search features of Vista, and generally prefered it to XP. I know XP probably would have ran better on it, but she wanted Vista, so Vista is what she got.

I'm off to bed after this long rambling over nothing XD

[The boy 4rm oz]

If you want to mod out you copy of windows go to www.wincustomize.com. The site is managed by Stardock who have made all the utilities like object dock which CHIMAERA referred to before. All you need to do is create an account and you can start downloading skins, cursors, log ins, loading screens, icons the LOT. I have downloaded 400MB of stuff in just over a year lol.

[Indybird]

All I really want to know is how you got your whole start-bar like that. I'd like to have the little open window icons and separated start button.

Thanks,
Indybird

[xmastree]

That looks like linux!

[The boy 4rm oz]

It is called object dock. It can be found on www.wincustomize.com.

[Crazy Buddhist]

Well I just used vlite to produce a massively cut down version of vista. no idea if I will get a working machine from it yet as I haven't got anything to install it on lol planning to add firefox 2, objectdock, an old MSN messenger client, zonealarm and antivir to the machine.

I'm trying to install this on a pentium III 733Mhz. Currently can't do so as I'm 256M short on Ram. When I get that I expect an error message to pop up saying:


Error code 666: Who are you trying to fool?

CrazyB

[AMD Killa]

vLite allows you to remove the RAM limit.

[Crazy Buddhist]

vLite allows you to remove the RAM limit.

/me starts creating a new version

EDIT: Installing as we speak lol no errors yet ....

[Crazy Buddhist]

Ok I think I cut too much out lol ... Vista installs then comes back with a missing hal.dll file error every time. First I thought this was due to an error with the HDD but I did a zero sweep clean on it to mash the MBR (no OS was installling) and that solved that problem - I think there was a rootkit or virus hiding in the MBR.

Now have Ubuntu up and running nicely on it, going to install Vista with no tweaks except the aero and indexing services and 512M RAM limit removed and see how long it takes to boot.

CrazyB

[XcOM]

O...........see how long it takes to boot.

CrazyB

10YEARS.....


oh sorry, on that hardware, ok 20 years!

[Crazy Buddhist]

10YEARS.....


oh sorry, on that hardware, ok 20 years!

Right.

I'm gonna shrink the ubuntu partition, create a vista with only the ram and aero and indexing removed ... and time it, looool I'm looking forward to this.

Matthew

[AMD Killa]

hal.dll is to do with the hardware abstraction layer. If it is missing, windows doesnt have a chance of working. Try copying it from another windows installation, or from the source disk.