Stefan's Kanthak XP_FIXIT.INF in English

[travma]

This is my first try, so you have to check and correct me.

XP_FIXIT EN.INF

• https://mega.nz/#!ER1wQS6Y

mega's decryption key:

• !eBbIL2ekZdq5JBjS2h2sSz22lJClIuAO78R7Fk6NALA

[GH0st]

I was able to download it fine ... now, what do I do with it?

[GH0st]

I just did a fresh install of WinXP. Started with XP Pro (sp0), used nLite to slipstream official sp3, "XPSP3_QFE_UpdatePack_20151209", added drivers and some nLite tweaks selected, removed nothing. Nice install!

Upon first boot I right clicked this file, chose option "Installed", "XP_FIXIT EN.INF". it did it's thing, rebooted. All went flawlessly!!! Feels tight too!

[travma]

I didn't know if the translation to English is correct, that's why I put it here. Maybe someone more experience would check the value of this inf.

[GH0st]

I see, No, I did not evaluate this in that way. Just presumed it was correct and installed it. It did install, seems to be really nice. Not sure of translation. Hope someone can help with that question.

But My fresh install, just done few days ago, liked it alot!

Thanks for all the hard work!

[pasito]

yes thank you travma!!!

[avamk]

This is my first try, so you have to check and correct me.

XP_FIXIT EN.INF

• https://mega.nz/#!ER1wQS6Y

mega's decryption key:

• !eBbIL2ekZdq5JBjS2h2sSz22lJClIuAO78R7Fk6NALA

Thanks a bunch for posting this, been looking for it!

In the .inf, it says:

; Has to be placed as \XP_FIXIT.INF on a floppy disk in drive A:
; or as \$OEM$\$$\INF\XP_FIXIT.INF on the installation media.
;
; Needs the following entries in \WINNT.SIF on the floppy disk in drive A:
; or in \I386\WINNT.SIF on the installation media:

However, I can't seem to find those files and folders. How do I slipstream this .inf into my Windows XP SP3 ISO? Thanks!

[avamk]

I see, No, I did not evaluate this in that way. Just presumed it was correct and installed it. It did install, seems to be really nice. Not sure of translation. Hope someone can help with that question.

But My fresh install, just done few days ago, liked it alot!

Thanks for all the hard work!

Thanks a lot for your suggestions GH0st, I followed your tip in the other thread:

I have never done so ... but its too easy to just put it on the desktop, on first boot, right-click, INSTALL, reboot! So would take longer to do what you thinking ... so just manual install it.

I followed your suggestion and just did a clean install with XPSP3_QFE_UpdatePack and the IE8 addon integrated (no other tweaks or removals). After booting for the first time, I right clicked on and selected "Install" for XP_FIXIT EN.INF but it didn't seem to do anything. I rebooted, and randomly checked some registry entries referred to in the .INF but they weren't there!

So next I tried to integrate the .INF anyway via the instructions in it:

; Has to be placed as \XP_FIXIT.INF on a floppy disk in drive A:
; or as \$OEM$\$$\INF\XP_FIXIT.INF on the installation media.
;
; Needs the following entries in \WINNT.SIF on the floppy disk in drive A:
; or in \I386\WINNT.SIF on the installation media:
;
; [GUIRunOnce]
; Command = "%SystemRoot%\System32\RUNDLL32.EXE %SystemRoot%\System32\ADVPACK.DLL,LaunchINFSection %SystemRoot%\Inf\XP_FIXIT.INF,RunOnce.NTx86,,0,N"
;
; [GUIUnattended]
; Arguments = "%SystemRoot%\System32\ADVPACK.DLL,LaunchINFSection A:\XP_FIXIT.INF,Detached.NTx86,,0,N"
; AutoLogon = Yes
; AutoLogonCount = 1
; DetachedProgram = "%SystemRoot%\System32\RUNDLL32.EXE"
;
; [SetupParams]
; UserExecute = "%SystemRoot%\System32\RUNDLL32.EXE %SystemRoot%\System32\ADVPACK.DLL,LaunchINFSection %SystemRoot%\Inf\XP_FIXIT.INF,UserExec.NTx86,,0,N"
;
; [Unattended]
; OEMPreinstall = Yes
; UnattendSwitch = Yes

So I placed XP_FIXIT.INF in \$OEM$\$$\INF\XP_FIXIT.INF on the installation media, and added the following WINNT.SIF to \I386\:

[GUIRunOnce]
Command = "%SystemRoot%\System32\RUNDLL32.EXE %SystemRoot%\System32\ADVPACK.DLL,LaunchINFSection %SystemRoot%\Inf\XP_FIXIT.INF,RunOnce.NTx86,,0,N"

[GUIUnattended]
Arguments = "%SystemRoot%\System32\ADVPACK.DLL,LaunchINFSection A:\XP_FIXIT.INF,Detached.NTx86,,0,N"
AutoLogon = Yes
AutoLogonCount = 1
DetachedProgram = "%SystemRoot%\System32\RUNDLL32.EXE"

[SetupParams]
UserExecute = "%SystemRoot%\System32\RUNDLL32.EXE %SystemRoot%\System32\ADVPACK.DLL,LaunchINFSection %SystemRoot%\Inf\XP_FIXIT.INF,UserExec.NTx86,,0,N"

[Unattended]
OEMPreinstall = Yes
UnattendSwitch = Yes

But this time, during installation I get this "Fatal error":
(https://imgur.com/a/cP25X)
which says: "Internal Setup data structures are corrupted (phase 0)."

So what am I doing wrong??? Can anyone advise? Thanks!

[GH0st]

I right clicked on and selected "Install" for XP_FIXIT EN.INF but it didn't seem to do anything. I rebooted, and randomly checked some registry entries referred to in the .INF but they weren't there!

Now I must admit, I thought it did run and I was getting full benefit from the file, but ... now I'm suspecting not!

If you read the long threat about uSP4, you will see that Harkaz had to make a lot of modifications to get the XP_fixit file to work with issues. I suspect you have run into some of these issues.

With that said, only place you can get this working is with uSP4. So please reconsider installing a fresh copy of that OS, with no alterations to it.