Thread: Using minLogon to speed up booting and decrease footprint

Thanks.
Was just going back through the posts then realised I had done anything before building the image, other than unzipping your $OEM$ folder, left it doing an unattended install on my test VMware this morning before I left for work. Damn, how stupid. that's going to work well.

Good job, I can at least see how small the base Nlited install is, if the missing files haven't fubared the install.

I will do, because I have the XPe developer/trial/demo pack thing installed.

My computer that I have been testing this with has no password on startup before the changes. After running the Fetlyd.exe program (accidentally kind of) it now boots up with the w2k style login but hangs and asks for a username and password. I have tried everything but cant get past it. Is there password set during this install?

It isnt a huge deal, but would be nice if I could get back in to recover some stuff from the last few days

..nevermind...I guessed it

That'll teach me to set my machine to single click!

Originally Posted by FetLyd

Hehe! Please give me some feedback when you know how it works..

OK, minlogin worked sort of.
XP Pro Corp with a streamlined SP2 using Nlite.
Downloaded fetlyd.zip and EWF.zip

for the minlogin stuff,
put commandlines.txt and fetlyd.reg in $oem$
put fetlyd.exe minlogon.exe and minlogon.reg in $oem$/$$/system32

Then created and installed the Nlited ISO onto a VMWare virtual box.
It only installed XP as normal , and on a reboot carried on using winlogon.

I had a look through the registry for the fetlyd.exe in the runonce keys, and nothing there.

fetlyd.exe was in the system32 folder, so I ran it by hand and it over copied the winlogon correctly.

Rebooted and I now have a fairly quick minlogon booting into the system account.