[Release] Delete/Restauration Unneeded Windows Components

vier · Post by **vier** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 8:00 am

Hello, I create different addon for delete Unneeded Components in Windows with restauration addon. You found the restauration in root of CD after Delete addon !

Accessibility
MD5 : A65567F3B3786A2AA928356552E3A7A8

DOCS
MD5 : 12B5C9FB6FA5BE6209ACB7B77DCD709E

.net FrameWork (Pro and home)
MD5 : 5C03D8632DC6C78356B4E3B612ADF8F0

TabletPC
MD5 : EDA4909133B996129D5678AB49615B4A

Tools (on root CD)
MD5 : ABBC886894D7041C51A065404BBA7F56

Win9x Upgrade
MD5 : 76C220F8AB7CF34AA0BAF50023F4D74E

WinNT Upgrade
MD5 : BB21BF1791D9112813D3AC2A9F215C99

Disc Cleanup
MD5 : A3B4FC11DB23B8364616587A900AA8E6

Defrag
MD5 : FBD9EE5DB14360FBAD0EF390C91CDADA

Fax
MD5 : A5DD1008587CAF781E3D54B3AD30B8C9

Games
MD5 : 31E80DC4B61918E03A38C68709CD4C28

Games COntrolers Image
MD5 : 76CC433FE39C87184068AA0AF6B70F48

Help
MD5 : 881458A44D50F1B9D66A2F3733417080

Windows FireWall
MD5 : 881458A44D50F1B9D66A2F3733417080

Internet Connection Wizard
MD5 : E0F745B3937C7B670C94910FD174C01A

Internet Explorer
MD5 : FE7378480CD4954A424701D0D7F806F6

Internet Games
MD5 : D81DB5EBAA9C76D0BC4694CEC5594AF1

IIS
MD5 : B206A966F3CE3F4CD15F5A3AD41F5457

Utopia Sound
MD5 : 569767F2947CDB9BD6D37E257984A361

Movie Maker
MD5 : C0F4A9A39A8E26EF42B85E98248E706F

MS Agent
MD5 : AEB2A42D7D993316F848C403BDACC50F

Windows Messenger
MD5 : 8937F4B39C8A108E2E7BD2D8F0F07D5F

MSN Explorer
MD5 : BCB4AE2224D4F7F044601EFAFC9AE8EC

Netmeeting
MD5 : F36F899308D4942FBB9EF778B863C28C

Network Optionnal COmponents
MD5 : 5A38B37C6AAB2E02915A58CA110ECA20

Outlook Express
MD5 : A8A1064933573FC659EC55189658F087

Pinball
MD5 : 56CF0A284D4BAB019A944168AE30DCF7

Security Center
MD5 : EBE8EBB9029153FA237140DA0EC4C5AC

WallPaper
MD5 : 23B5F512FEEE89B1E4AA877A5B83DB7F

Windows Speech
MD5 : FA5801953C6DFC7FE3089F5ECA1256F8

Restauration System
MD5 : DDCA1FB1B9560026F293F0C1F485A57F

Search Assistant
MD5 : 59E7FD5C20D1F4C9B5ADF7F52C4A86C7

Lang
MD5 : B02A339046A04AB2EA742723CC2AF332

Windows Tour
MD5 : 16EDB2E5DCF2556DB4369FE59577C46F

Wizard Desktop Connetcion
MD5 : F3151AFE56D94ED5C7ABE26804D5673C

File and Transfer Wizard
MD5 : 209B5637DC2008C12FEB0DCED192A26E

WMP
MD5 : C47730224C8745D17992280164500D33

FlyingGleek · Post by **FlyingGleek** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 3:31 pm

vier,

you've been busy! Thank you very much for these removal addons.

Just a quick note; your post seems to be pasted twice (I think).

Could you please also provide the proper MD5 Hash for Windows FireWall (it's the same MD5 Hash as Help right now).

Thanking you in advance.

Now, I'm going to be busy trying out all these new addons... err, removals... err I mean suppressors.

BTW, thanks also for the new version of CreateurAddon (too many toys!!!).

Cheers,

FlyingGleek

Siginet · Post by **Siginet** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 4:31 pm

These addons strongly use new features of the integrator. They remove components and create an addon for you to restore those components later if you decide to.

Great job vier. These addons show the possibilities are endless with the integrator.

biatche · Post by **biatche** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 9:07 pm

i'd like to hear some feedback from users... wanna know if there are any issues with any of em.

ricktendo64 · Post by **ricktendo64** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 9:16 pm

WOW!

you guys are talented

Why are there two versions of each?

MrNxDmX · Post by **MrNxDmX** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 4:54 pm

ricktendo64 wrote:WOW! you guys are talented

Why are there two versions of each?

yeah, that man is very talented. came with addon creator...

to vier; Can you make them in an order (ascending/descending) please?
thank you for your hard work on these, and also thanx for direct links.

vier · Post by **vier** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 5:57 pm

I suppress double link !

The order is alphabetical order of AddOn

Siginet · Post by **Siginet** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 6:23 am

biatche wrote:i'd like to hear some feedback from users... wanna know if there are any issues with any of em.

If there are issues... you can easily put them back. Try them yourself and you will see.

vier · Post by **vier** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 7:17 am

Before, upload. I'm testing (and another persons) all pack and no issues know.

proximous · Post by **proximous** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 1:03 pm

When I use the Tour removal addon, I still get a pop-up balloon asking if I want to take a tour. I've searched around for a solution to this but can only find out-of-date links. Does anyone have a Tour removal that also eliminates the pop-up balloon?

Thanks.

proximous

ahmerkhan · Post by **ahmerkhan** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 2:22 pm

Now i realize how much difficult work Nuhi started....

Thanks for such a nice sharing....

vier · Post by **vier** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 4:39 am

Thanks at all,

For ballon, I don't know, sorry !

owikh84 · Post by **owikh84** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 5:35 pm

thank you so much.

RaGhul · Post by **RaGhul** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 11:22 pm

To those of you who have already downloaded:
How well does this work? Any conflicts with other programs?

I'd like to try this out, but I wonder if WMP11 or IE7 would still work afterwards. Usually, I remove with nLite, but sometimes I get problems.

Your comments would be greatly appreciated.

vier · Post by **vier** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 7:25 am

I'm using this addon, and I don't have any problem. If you want add WMP11 and suppress WMP9 : you will get problems.

Us2002 · Post by **Us2002** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 10:00 am

2vier

plz check ur md5:
Windows FireWall
MD5 : 881458A44D50F1B9D66A2F3733417080

mine is: 3848AE5265AFAF01D6C56E1F60C2DEA1

proximous · Post by **proximous** » Mon Dec 25, 2006 11:43 pm

I found the solution to the Tour Balloon. I found a REGEDIT that disabled it.

It can be merged into the Addon's INF file with the following:

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[Always.AddReg]
;no Tour
HKLM,"%Tour%","RunCount",0x10001,0
HKCU,"%Tour%","RunCount",0x10001,0

[Strings]
Tour="Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\Tour"

Post by **5eraph** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 1:29 am

Thank you, proximous.

Bhishmar · Post by **Bhishmar** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 11:10 pm

Hi everybody
I just hit on this thread. Many Thanks to vier for this.

How is this removal addons compared to the ones in the KTT thread?
I am not finding much user feedback here.

Proximus: Is your suggested change (regedit) for Tour balloon remove working good? How is your reg-edit method compared to the one suggested by ENU_user in the other thread ? : Remove Unneeded Windows Components-KTT

regards

ricktendo64 · Post by **ricktendo64** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 11:28 pm

These Removal Addons actually create Add-Ons inside your XP Source of the exact components you just removed so you can re-integrate them if you change your mind l8r

Bhishmar · Post by **Bhishmar** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 2:57 pm

ricktendo64 wrote:These Removal Addons actually create Add-Ons inside your XP Source of the exact components you just removed so you can re-integrate them if you change your mind l8r

Thanks for your response.
Does that mean there will not be any space savings in the CD?

Siginet · Post by **Siginet** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 4:39 pm

No it means it creates the Restore addons for you. You should move those addons somewhere else on your hard drive before you make your disk.

I have been thinking about making some sort of variable that can be used in the integrator so that things like this can be saved to the integratores directory and not someplace on your disk.

proximous · Post by **proximous** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 9:12 pm

Bhishmar wrote:Hi everybody
Proximus: Is your suggested change (regedit) for Tour balloon remove working good? How is your reg-edit method compared to the one suggested by ENU_user in the other thread ? : Remove Unneeded Windows Components-KTT

ENU_user's solution looks the same to me. There's more then one way to modify the registry. I had a tourballoon.reg file that I converted to a tourballoon.inf file for my approach. I personally understand that method better. The hive change seems the same. I don't know if there is any meaningful difference between the two methods, perhaps someone else can comment?

It does seem there are quite a bit of different threads doing almost the same thing in different ways.

proximous

Bhishmar · Post by **Bhishmar** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 11:42 pm

Siginet wrote:No it means it creates the Restore addons for you. You should move those addons somewhere else on your hard drive before you make your disk.

I am totally LOST here. Let me define some simple terminology (a), (b), (c) here.

As I understand, the terminology "Addon" is used for addon-packs which is meant to be integrated along with Windows-XP-Setup-CD(source) (a), to generate a modified Setup-CD (source) (b). The Addon is never meant to be integrated to an already installed Windows in a machine (c).

So the Resoration-Addons created by Viers-Removal addons, (in hard disk as u say) is meant for operating on WHAT?

(a), (b), or (c) ?

I assumed it is implied for (c), which seemed meaningless with Addon Terminology. If it is for (b), then also it is meaningless, because you could as well generate another (c) or (c') directly from (a) itself with simply NOT including Viers-Removal Addon in the first place.

Am I missing something here? Can somebody ENLIGTHEN me?

Regards

TechnoHunter · Post by **TechnoHunter** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 12:24 am

it means that you installed a removal addon to remove something.
and you now want to have that something back that you removed..
you take the addon made by this and use it to put back what you removed.

clear now?

logitechgamer · Post by **logitechgamer** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 1:43 pm

i am confused also; does this actually remove the programs off the cd cause i am trying to find update packs that remove the program and save space on the cd

TechnoHunter · Post by **TechnoHunter** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 6:57 am

yes.. if you want to completely remove all traces.. just remove the addon that gets created.. program gone and no way to put it back

make sense?

TechnoHunter

Bhishmar · Post by **Bhishmar** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 4:00 am

I am getting an error on the Windows Messenger Remove Addon, on the RVM Integrator log: - "No mmssetup.cab Found. Skipping Messenger".

This is immediately after "Entire .ini Processing Completed" & before "Moving Files"

It is intriguing- The file is there in the original source, and I have no other addon which refers to this file mmssetup.cab( I had a search). But this file is removed from the final source, after integration is over.
Anyone else face the same error?

vier · Post by **vier** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 6:00 am

You make it in same time that an UpdatePack ?

All addon are tested and works, but it's works after integration (or without) UpdatePack

Bhishmar · Post by **Bhishmar** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 9:58 am

vier wrote:You make it in same time that an UpdatePack ?
All addon are tested and works, but it's works after integration (or without) UpdatePack

Thanks vier for your reply.
Yes, I was integrating it along with the (simultaneously with) UpdatePack and other addons. I was doing this since somewhere in this forum i read that for RVM_integrator ver > 1.4, it permits simultaneous integration.

Are you confirming that it cannot be done so, & must be done in separate sessions?

@proximous: For Tour baloon delete you were suggesting some additional registry changes, to be done thru inf file. Can somebody confirm if the "TourDel.inf" file I have created is CORRECT?

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;Tour Baloon Del-v1.2 

[Version]
Signature=$Windows NT$

[Optional Components]
TourBaloon

[TourBaloon]
OptionDesc   = "Tour Baloon Del Addon"
Tip          = "Tour Baloon"
Modes        = 0,1,2,3
AddReg       = TourBaloon.AddReg

[TourBaloon.AddReg]
HKLM,"%Tour%","RunCount",0x10001,0
HKCU,"%Tour%","RunCount",0x10001,0

[Strings]
Tour="Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\Tour"

Also I have added into "Entries_tour.ini"

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[dosnet_files]
d1,TourDel.inf

[txtsetup_files]
TourDel.inf = 1,,,,,,,20,0,0

The addon now has two files (Entries_tour.ini, & TourDel.in_). I also deleted the restoration part from the vier addon.
Pls some expert clarify?
regards [/color]

vier · Post by **vier** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 10:54 am

My test is in separate sessions of integration !

The problem is during integration of the updatePack, the file mmsetup.cab is update, and my system doesn't works and in this case !

Bhishmar · Post by **Bhishmar** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 5:39 am

Can some expert comment on the correctness of the inf file I posted 1 post back?
This is for inserting registry entries to remove the annoying Tour Baloon Notification in system tray on bootup.

Post by **5eraph** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 7:06 am

Your INF is correct for Tour bypass, Bhishmar, but the HKLM registry entry doesn't seem to be needed for it to work.

Your Entries_tour.ini needs a little work, though. This is what you should have:

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[sysoc]
TourBaloon=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,TourDel.inf,HIDE,7

[dosnet_files]
d1,TourDel.inf

[txtsetup_files]
TourDel.inf = 100,,,,,,,20,0,0

[i386_compress]
rvmtemp\extracted\TourDel.inf

Bhishmar · Post by **Bhishmar** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 2:28 pm

Thanks 5eraph for your help.

To clarify:
1. The HKLM entry can be removed. BUT the HKCU entry must be there!

2. The [txtsetup_files] entry for TourDel.inf must be corrected from 1 to 100.

3. Now since you have introduced an [i386_compress] section in the ini, Do I have to include the TourDel.inf in uncompressed way OR Compressed as (TourDel.in_) ?

4. Also is the [sysoc] section MANDATORY even when i am not adding any exe/dll files to the setup-source? or it is only optional?

regards

the_guy · Post by **the_guy** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 3:51 pm

@Bhishmar: 1 or 100 in the txtsetup files work fine. In fact, if you want an addon to work with Windows 2000, you need 1 instead of 100. That's what I'm assuming vier's intentions are.

the_guy

Post by **5eraph** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 4:45 pm

@Bhishmar:

Correct, but using both won't hurt anything.
Works either way, but 100 is the common standard for XP addons.
Uncompressed. The Integrator or nLite will compress it for you.
Simple answer: It is mandatory for the way we use INFs in addons.

Bhishmar · Post by **Bhishmar** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 2:36 am

5eraph wrote:@Bhishmar:
3. Uncompressed. The Integrator or nLite will compress it for you.

Thanks very much 5eraph for your help, I could make it work.

Btw I am curious with the point-3. I think your understanding may be wrong there. Even though I have not read anything specifically, my observations based on testing is this:-

a. It works both ways, whether you place the inf file compressed or uncompressed, within the Addon.
b. RVM Integrator do not compress an uncompressed inf file, when it places it into the source-build. An example in point is "R_Addons.inf" from RVMAddons_1.8. I do not know about Nlite. ((EDIT: Retract this statement, since found to be incorrect later))
c. So I guess (surmise) compressing an inf file is better (optimum) from space saving point of view in the CD. But I think this is of benefit only when the inf file size is very large.

Can some experts here can comment whether this is the way it is intended or designed?
Thanks& regards

Post by **5eraph** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 3:51 am

The [i386_compress] section is intended to tell the Integrator or nLite to compress the files specified within it. Defining Entries.ini may not currently include this section, but you can find a good example of it in entries_addons.ini within RVMAddons_1.8.0.7z:

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;This section contains a list of files in i386 which should be compressed at the very beginning of the integration process
[i386_compress]

@Siginet: That sticky could use a considerable amount of updating. The release of v1.4.2 makes that post at least 3 months out of date.

At the risk of sounding too much like an expert, I'll shut up now.

Siginet · Post by **Siginet** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 5:07 am

Yeah I plan on updating it soon. Actually the Official Integrator website is gonna have it's own area soon for the entries.ini sections which will be much cleaner.

Then I will go through the integrator code and write out each section it contains.

Bhishmar · Post by **Bhishmar** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 6:34 am

5eraph wrote:The [i386_compress] section is intended to tell the Integrator or nLite to compress the files specified within it.

I am confused now. 5eraph, As you pointed out the entries_addons.ini file within RVMAddons_1.8.0.7z has the entry "rvmtemp\extracted\R_Addons.inf" within its [i386_compress] section.

But I am finding that the integrator has not compressed R_Addons.inf, in the build-source. When I see within the i386 folder of my iso, i can see the file:"R_Addons.inf" as such. NOT compressed.((EDIT: Retract this, since found to be incorrect later))

Can u tell me what I am missing in my understanding!!

Siginet · Post by **Siginet** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 6:54 am

Bhishmar wrote:
5eraph wrote:The [i386_compress] section is intended to tell the Integrator or nLite to compress the files specified within it.
I am confused now. 5eraph, As you pointed out the entries_addons.ini file within RVMAddons_1.8.0.7z has the entry "rvmtemp\extracted\R_Addons.inf" within its [i386_compress] section.

But I am finding that the integrator has not compressed R_Addons.inf, in the build-source. When I see within the i386 folder of my iso, i can see the file:"R_Addons.inf" as such. NOT compressed.

Can u tell me what I am missing in my understanding!!

Hmmm... that would be an issue we'll need to keep an eye on. I just tested and my R_Addons.inf is compressed to R_Addons.in_.

Can you post a log file from your history folder of the integration that failed to compress that file?

Bhishmar · Post by **Bhishmar** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 9:02 am

Siginet wrote:Hmmm... that would be an issue we'll need to keep an eye on. I just tested and my R_Addons.inf is compressed to R_Addons.in_.

Can you post a log file from your history folder of the integration that failed to compress that file?

@Siginet/ 5eraph
I did not realize this as an error till your post. So I went back & reviewed my earlier iso's. In these iso's this was ok, meaning the R_Addons.inf is compressed to R_Addons.in_ in these builds.

Then i realized i made some customizations on the "R_Addons.inf" file, for changing the Shortcut placement locations for TweakUI, in my latest build. This must have messed up the file. Sorry, my mistake.

Even though i could not locate the errors. I will get back after some more tests.
Meantime are you putting any checksum checks to avoid modifications of the inf?

EDIT:On second thoughts. I only modified R_Addons.inf, and recompressed the total addon into a rar instead of 7z, which are essentially the changes. As I understand, the RVMintegrator, has nothing to do with the contents of the inf file. So even if I make an error (in inf), it will only (supposed to) screw up the install. The source build must not be affected!! Any ideas?
regards

Bhishmar · Post by **Bhishmar** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 11:21 am

is there a problem if I put more than one entries.ini file into the same addon cab archive. This are simple removal addons which does not require to add any additional files, but only remove files.

Siginet · Post by **Siginet** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 2:06 pm

You can use multiple entrie files in your addons. I am not sure if multiple entrie files work with nlite though.

@Vier sorry for going a little off topic in your thread.

Bhishmar · Post by **Bhishmar** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 12:33 pm

Siginet wrote:@Vier sorry for going a little off topic in your thread.

I agree that I have ended up corrupting viers thread, by veering off topic with my latest issues. I will create a new post to air my rvm-integration & install issues. Sorry vier.

store88 · Post by **store88** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 1:07 am

Maybe I like this type of addon very much
thanks
and I download all

Kiki Burgh · Post by **Kiki Burgh** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 7:38 am

nice vier!

would it be possible to put all these addons together in 1 pack (with something like an option to include or exclude specific removal addon)? thanks!

PackerPC · Post by **PackerPC** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 9:25 am

In my testing of creating images for deployment, I have come accross a couple things I learned and would like to share my findings.

I deploy WINXP PRO for a 5000 + user company with RIS and SYSPREP CD's.
I love the add-ons and RYANVM for this as I can deploy smaller packages and cut huge amounts of time and bandwidth off.

In my Image building I ran across a couple things I would like to share.

1) CXP_AddOnSuppress_netoc.cab - Network Optionnal Components
This removal fromthe image will prevent SUS or WSUS or Windows update from working. It kills the "bits2.0" download service.

2) CXP_AddOnSuppress_sr.cab - Restauration System
This one (while it saved me 145 MB in final image size by using) it killed the ability to install software that registers itself properly with the OS by trying to make a restore point. For most software this is no issue, but for me I could no longer install Adobe Creator 6.0

3) CXP_AddOnSuppress_tsoc.cab - Wizard Desktop Connetcion
I found that this one will make Microsoft Desktop Search uninstallable

Again, this is not a list of gripes. Just some things to be aware of if you are going to use these Add/Remove add-ons

crashfly · Post by **crashfly** » Fri May 30, 2008 1:02 am

Are these removal packs compatible with SP3?

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