Using minLogon to speed up booting and decrease footprint - Page 5

Motoko · 12-12-2004, 08:11 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by Maukio

Hmmm, I'm having problems similar to the earlier dude. I followed the instructions exactly. I ran into a problem with Windows File Protection. I didn't get any kind of message or pop-up that alerted me about Windows File Protection (no window to hit cancel on). But I noticed that when I came back to the System32 directory, after going to where I had minlogin stored to copy it, winlogon.exe, which had been deleted, was back. I found a place online that showed me how to disable Windows File Protection, I tested it out and it worked. Then I continued with the minlogon instructions. I checked to make sure and it was 17KBs. I imported the registry key after deleting everything. Once I finished all that I rebooted and the classic login screen popped up. I tried logging in with my user name (no password) and it the screen would go away and just have a blue background, it would wait a few seconds, then the login screen would pop back up. After that I tried using my Administrator account and password, this produced a bit different results. The login screen disappeared, I got the blue background again, but this time the Windows login sound played (which I previously had disabled), but about 2 seconds after it finished, the shutdown song played and the login screen popped backup. Anybody have any ideas?

Exactly what i got. I think that guy left an instruction out, beause i swear i followed what he said.

knubile · 12-12-2004, 08:34 AM

Quote:

I tried replacing winlogon.ex_ in the i386 folder

Wouldn't you also need all the registry entries? Is there a way to customize the registry with nLite preinstall?

mpattonm · 12-12-2004, 11:19 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by Motoko

Exactly what i got. I think that guy left an instruction out, beause i swear i followed what he said.

Well it works for me. I did nothing else but what SFiorito instructed us to do.

knubile · 12-12-2004, 12:07 PM

Same here. I followed the instructions and it worked well. I had windows file protection disable right from the install though. It's an option in nLite.

Maukio · 12-12-2004, 12:13 PM

Are you all running SP2? There's gotta be some difference in me and Motoko's setup from you all's b/c I was super careful at following the instructions. It sucked to fix it too.

rando · 12-12-2004, 02:05 PM

I'm running SP2 and followed the OPs instructions and it worked the first time.

HoSS · 12-12-2004, 02:31 PM

I got that restart problem. It's because the winlogon file didnt copy properly (WFP or whatever)
I booted in recovery console and copied the file over winlogon again.
Then it works fine.

Motoko · 12-12-2004, 02:53 PM

how do u turn the system file protection off?

FetLyd · 12-12-2004, 03:08 PM

I used SP1. I forgot to mention it in my earlier post, but i also added the reg values.. To add this into an nlite'd version, you have to follow these steps:
By the way, this is done BEFORE building the image with nlite..

1. Create a new folder called " $OEM$ " in the root folder of your nlite project (same folder as i386)
2. Create a new file inside "$OEM$", and name it cmdlines.txt .
3. Copy the filed called" winlogon.reg " into the $OEM$ folder.

Content of cmdlines.txt :

[COMMANDS]
"REGEDIT /S winlogon.reg"

That's it!

Also, if you want some files copyed to the root of C:\, follow these steps:

1. Create a sub-folder in "$OEM$", called " $1 " .. All files/folders in here will be copied to C:\ during installation.. This will come in handy for EWF!

To copy files into windows/system32/etc. folder:

1. Create a sub-folder in "$OEM$", called " $$ " .. All files/folders in here will be copied to C:\windows.. To copy files into system32 folder, simply create another folder in "$$", called system32..

Sorry for the long and messy post!

SFiorito · 12-12-2004, 04:00 PM

Good job FetLyd, that's a great tip! As far as those of you having problems with WFP and copying minlogon: I don't know what to tell you. Every machine I've tried (including a default SP2 install) I got a warning dialog from WFP which I was able to cancel. It looks like most other people got the same thing as well. The problem is that the file and registry entries go hand-in-hand, so if one is screwed up the whole logon process gets screwed up!

SFiorito · 12-12-2004, 04:07 PM

Regardig bootvis: doesn't that just layout boot files on the hard drive to minimize seek time? I've run it a few times, but saw no difference at all on the CF card. I wouldn't expect to since the CF card has such small seek times. You guys all disabled the auto chkdsk, too right? That was eating up at least a second on my system.

frodobaggins · 12-12-2004, 06:48 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by AlienEclipse

also did a little research and i can't find anyway of enabling CTRL+ALT+DEL with minlogon.

Solution:

http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=38179

rando · 12-12-2004, 09:29 PM

I didn't get a WFP pop-up or anything. Presumably my nLite install killed WFP. I just tried to do the minLogon again on a stock SP2 install (i.e. no nLite) and did run into the WFP problem. It never warned me -- just silently replaced the new file with the standard winlogon.

SFiorito · 12-12-2004, 09:33 PM

Hmmm... I wonder if it matters that (on the stock SP2 systems) I've always done it logged in as Administrator??

*EDIT*: I double-checked, and I have WFP enabled, so I don't know what it could be.

knubile · 12-12-2004, 10:21 PM

hmm. I just ran into the problem with my last attempt. nLite. Checked the disable protection checkbox that worked for me before.
This time it didn't work. I wonder if its something else. I wonder if there's a component that nLite removes that results in the file protection not working.