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Wolf, your helping me find my new laptop this summer, cuz that thing is awsome :thumbsup_anim: Just realized this, you have the same gigantic red calculator my brother has Oh, and I updated the original picture of my laptop.

Thats twice now I've done that (check a topic, think about replying, get side tracked ) Anyway, thanks Rick. I gotta try this (hopefully tomorrow, it's late here and I'm tired). I will try this on a VPC, then I will burn a new nLite disc.

Ok, this is very strange. I have been running the computer for about 35 minutes now, and i charged it from Dead for about 5 minutes. I think its really out of calibration, so it needs more

I bet when Wolf posts his laptop, itll put all my computers (put together) to shame :lol:

Cool N1K, I see it now

Thats a good idea too. Put maybe: "Unattended Vista" "Unattended 2000/XP" "Unattended 9X" Than have an nLite/HFslip Section to perhaps.

I imagine that leaving your computer on AC power is OK for the battery. I don't think there would be much harm in doing that. I've got a Compaq Armada 1700 (8 or 9 years old now) with original batteries and they both still work just fine. I don't use that computer any longer so I leave it on AC power all the time to keep the batteries in good order. I boot it up and run it until they die every once in a while (1 month or so apart) and they both still provide the computer with about 2 hours each, so 4 collectively. I do imagine that Vista would drain more battery than XP because of how much more power than XP it uses (I'm unsure about the power reprocutions on it because I don't have a laptop powerful enough for Vista... yet ). I do know that XP doesn't last any longer on this computer than 98/2000 does though, I'm sure I would get better battery life, but I like XP so much now than I can't use anything else because I'm not use to it. Oh, and thanks for the compliment Oh, one question (to anyone), is there any good battery software out there that monitors battery life and puts an icon in the tray or something? Just to replace the Windows icon.

Maybe just have an Unattended category, then in that have: "Unattended Windows" "nLite Support" Then go from there, see what other people have to say, and then kinda combine them perhaps?

Welcome to the forum Stevie, I think you'll like it a lot here. Theres a lot of information on unattended installs and silent installers here. Trust me, I built up my unattended cd using this site

I just recently got a battery for my laptop (free) and I've noticed that it doesn't last nearly as long as my 3000 MaH battery for this laptop (I get about 3 - 3.5 hours depending on usage out of it). This new battery is 3800MaH and should last about 3.5 - 4 hours based on how much more capacity the battery has right? Wrong, this battery only lasts for about an hour and a half. Now, I have decided to recalibrate the battery. That means, turning off all power management options and running the computer untill it just shuts off, not suspends or hibernates as this defeats the purpose. I have done that with this battery once already and got an hour and a half out of it (it was roughly 45 minutes before it got to 8%, yes it ran for 45 extra minutes after dropping below 8%) But, even after doing this, the battery meter still drops very quickly from about 75% to 8%. Anyway, that's besides the point. I wanted to see how many people think a recalibration is a good thing, and how many think its a bad thing. I'm going to say its a good thing, because, Li-Ion Batteries do suffer from the memory effect (From what I have seen, its purely experience). After cycles of charging them up from 75% to 100%, they eventually only last about 40% of their total capacity. So, running the computers until they just shut off, really does help fix the calibration in the battery. I have taken a battery from lasting 30 minutes up to 3.5 hours. Also, some people say that deep discharging the battery isn't good for it, this may be true, but if you have to do it once or twice to get the battery back into calibration, whats 1 or 2 out of the projected 500 cycles it can handle? Anyway, let's see what you guys think. I think it works, just on some batteries though. I've only ever had 1 battery die on me for laptop/notebook computers. Thats out of about 10 I have had in the past. Important things to remember: The battery level will always drop faster on the top 30% of the battery or so, this is because the battery has a hard time maintaining a level of high charge. So the lower the battery level, the longer time you have between 1% increments. ie) A change from 95% to 94% could take 2 minutes, but from say, 50% to 49% could be 3 or 4 minutes. Also, battery conditions do change over time, but you should be able to get about 2 hours from a battery that use to give you 3 or 4 hours a year or two ago. You will lose capacity in a battery, but if you maintain them, and take care of them, they can give you years of faithful service. I have batteries that are 8 and 9 years old that still work just fine (1.5 hours to 2 hours of life). Safety: Do not short circuit a battery, this can cause a fire and it will reduce the life span of the battery drastically.

Already tried it. It does use less resources than ZoneAlarm, but it still killed my 366 performance wise. Boot up speed and program launching time drastically increased.

@Racker_CRO, I bet that system goes pretty good. Please post pics :dribble: I think I should put a pic up of the laptop I got for Christmas this year. This picture is better than the original one I had up, but still not great. :lol: It's a DELL Latitude CPi Pentium II 366Mhz 128MB Ram 40GB HDD 13.3' Display 2 Batteries Windows XP nLite Edition Very old, but very useful. I just noticed my theme keeps getting changed

Thanks, I'll take a look I've just downloaded Outpost, and I installed Ghostwall about 10 minutes ago. What are your thoughts on these two if you've had experience. Edit: Well, it looks as though AVG's Firewall is not free So that's out of the question (I don't buy things online). If there's any others that are worth mentioning, let me know. I might have to drop this machine back to Windows 2000 Pro, that way im only using 32MB of ram.

I'm currently looking into securing my laptop PC. I'd like to get a software firewall that uses less than 10mb of ram, and won't slow down my PC. I've tried Comodo and Zone Alarm Firewall, but they really slow down my start up speed (ZoneAlarm slowed down my system to about 30 seconds more than the already 45 seconds to boot up.) So, with a PII 366 and 128MB of ram, what firewall would be a good one for me? I'd rather not install a ton of different ones just to test because I finally have this system running the way I want it. If anyone knows a good one, lemme know

lol, glad to hear you got it :thumb_yello:

:crying_anim02: my upload limit here is 500kb, the file is 600kb. My website got shutdown, but h/o. I have an idea. I think. http://brian10161.no-ip.org/downloads/azure.rar

Working fine for me so far. Glad to see its being worked on though. Just in case

Sorry about that, I forgot photobucket put limits on files now, so it shrinks them to 1024 x 768 max :ranting: Anyway, I have rar'ed the file up. Linky

I have it in 1600 X 1200 Linky

:lol: I must admit, I really like this Luna Royale theme. It looks really nice on my laptop. I'm not running 32bit though, video card doesn't support it my other laptop does though

I think you'll be pleased Rick I finally changed my theme :bigeyed:

lol I should maybe read through the documentation again, maybe I can understand it a bit more. I'd just need to see an example of the line required, then I could get the rest of it done. I'v got something figured out, but I don't think I'll be able to get it working by myself lol All I need to do is execute a program based on the which installs the user wants, which for me, won't be easy. I have an example script on how to launch a program, but not how to have it launched based on the user's choices.

Thats weird, I thought I replied here O_o Anyway, I looked into NSIS, but, as I don't know enough, I can't really do it. Perhaps someone could assist me in it? I'm no good at scripting/programming at all.

Hopefully. I'll keep an eye on it. Thanks again

lol, good idea :lol: Oh, did you change the name of the option from "Manufacturer Link" to anything other than that? I did that on mine, and every once in a while, it will change back to the default. I wonder if theres a way to fix that. I'm going to keep an idea on it for now and see what happens. I'll let you know.