Using minLogon to speed up booting and decrease footprint - Page 18

jonessc · 02-11-2008, 08:40 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by blazini

I just had a hard drive crash on my carpc, so I had to go through all of this again. I had the Minlogin working before, but I had to follow this thread cuz I couldn't remember how I got it to work before. I have the same problem with winlogon.exe reappearing as others have. To make it easy for noobs in the future, here is the simplest way of getting just the minlogon working:

1)Download this minlogon.cab file from here: (other links in this thread seem to be dead)
http://thuun.boot-land.net/index.html

2)double click the minlogon.cab file and copy the minlogon.exe file to your desktop, rename it to winlogon.exe

3)Open notepad, copy the text this text to the notepad, then save the file as "minlogon.reg":

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
"Config"=dword:00000017

4)Restart the system, tapping F8 to bring up the safe mode list, start in safe mode

5)go to \Windows\System32 and rename winlogon.exe to winlogon.exe.bak
and place the winlogon.exe file you renamed on your desktop into this folder

6)double click the minlogon.reg file to update the registry (if you don't do this you will fark your system.

7) restart and it should start with no login screen, but you will be logged in as system rather than administrator or whatever.

8)get your ctrl-alt-del working http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/winn...-minlogon.html

Followed these instructions to the letter, now i get a bluescreen saying 'thw windows logon process system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of oxc0000034, the system has been shutdown'

Could it have anything to do with Nlite? i set autologin as the Admin account when I did my last stripped XP disk.

Cant even get in with safe mode

jonessc · 02-11-2008, 03:40 PM

OK ive used the winlogin.exe from my repr directory.

Its now working a treat.

Thanks for the guide.

Custommx3 · 05-12-2008, 09:49 AM

Just an FYI for those curious..
if you slipstream Xp SP3 into your nlite install, you can still use the minlogin from Sp2.

Im using it.

plouche · 06-08-2008, 07:20 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by blazini

1)Download this minlogon.cab file from here: (other links in this thread seem to be dead)
http://thuun.boot-land.net/index.html

The link is dead please reup this.

Thanks

Ces///M3 · 06-24-2008, 05:13 AM

is anyone else getting an error message when shutting down RoadRunner now that they are using minlogon? Whenever I shut down I get the error "Roadrunner.dll failed to initialize" or something to that effect? And the chase for perfection continues.....

AllShowNoGo · 07-25-2008, 02:55 AM

Simply using minlogon decreased my boot time from 45 sec to 30 sec. This is from cold boot to the time the hour glass dissapears and the hard drive stops churning.

An easy way to get around the Windows File Protection is to boot into safe mode. The only drawback is that it doesnt allow you to delete files.

I found a copy of minlogon.exe using this site: http://www.GreenMonkies.com/

smp4488 · 10-12-2008, 08:07 PM

I used minlogon before my pc crashed and i had to reinstall, but it worked great. After the reinstall i put off installing minlogon. I had a problem with accessing vista network shares before the crash but after the re-install it worked. I installed minlogon today and now i cant access my vista share. I think i have narrowed it down to minlogon. Anyone else having this problem?

smp4488 · 10-12-2008, 09:06 PM

Ok so i think i have found a way to get this working. Open a command prompt and use the "net" command. Mine looked like this: "C:\> net use \\pc1\Shared" i then get promped for a user and pass. On my share on pc1 i have guest access so i used Guest with no pass. Go to my network places and view workgroup computers. Your network computer should be there and you should be able to browse the shares.