This news was posted on Jun 18, 2005 by Soft-Ideas.com in System Utilities category.
nLite 1.0 Beta 4 |
nLite 1.0 Beta 4 - new version of a very useful utility. nLite allows you to choose what components of OS you need to remove before installing WinXP or Win2003. nLite supports removing unnecessary compopents of almost any parts and services of a system. nLite is totally free and is only 1Mb.
Changelog:
- fix: Integrating hotfixes hangs
- suspended: DR Watson (under investigation)
- new: Azeri language
- fix: Non-English expanding bogus CAB corruption warning
- fix: Next-Back rarely disabled when shouldn't
- upg: Application Compatibility (more reg entries removed)
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From: anonymous
nLite is a GUI for permanent Windows component removal by your choice. After removal there is an option to make bootable image ready for burning on cd or testing in virtual machines.
With nLite you will be able to have Windows installation which on install doesn't include, or even contain on cd, unwanted components.
Mainly, it's a little bit of a slipstreamer, customizer, reducer and iso creator all in one package.
nLite Features:
- Service Pack Integration
- Component Removal
- Unattended Setup
- Driver Integration
- Hotfixes Integration
- Tweaks
- Patches
- Bootable ISO creation
It's written in C# (.NET) so you will need Framework to run it.
Quick overview :
1. Slipstream - After you extract it to any folder and ran it, you can browse and point to folder on hard drive which contains your Windows installation.
If you pointed to right folder with i386 in it and Windows id files, nLite will detect if you have already slipstreamed SP1 or SP2, and if not it will change Browse button to Slipstream, when pressed it asks for Service Pack installation file (or update.exe if you extracted it). Then it Slipstreams it passively. Or you can configure your existing version without slipstreaming.
2. Customize/Reduce - Choose which components to remove from your Windows installation permanently. It's version independent, it's possible because I'm not using filelists, well, allmost. There is only an inf-filelist which then gets parsed for used files, so ~95% of file names are automatically generated from your own inf's. The other 5% are manually added. Most likely nLite will work with future versions of Windows XP without any problem.
3. Advanced Options - Make sure to keep Data directory with nLite and all the files in it unrenamed. Added automatic hacking of syssetup.dll for OOBE disabling (if you choose to remove it, this will not crack Activation). SFC is entirely disabled too simply by copying hacked dll from Data and adjusting registry. Many options to add in the future, priority so far was on reduction issues.
4. Make ISO - This section is using external file datacdimage.exe which I believe don't need introducing. When reduction process finishes you can copy additional files to installation directory and then press Make ISO, it will ask you
for desired ISO name and location.
Then you can burn it and/or test it. (included boot sector is default from ms cd, if you are using, for example cdshell, you need to replace Databootsector.bin
Requirements:
· You need .NET Framework 1.1 in order to run it... Check if you have it already in Add/Remove programs, or on your CDs before downloading it.
Limitations:
· nLite is free for personal use only, you cannot use it for any company or business purposes without the author's permission.
What's New in This Release:
· fix: Integrating hotfixes hangs
· suspended: DR Watson (under investigation)
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