Our readers always come from the most varied demands of all we choose to meet the most interesting such as those of Leo and Funkmayer who ask us a good guide is installed as XP on a pen drive and create for ourselves as our operating system pocket. In fact, the request is legitimate especially if you do not have to always carry a notebook, which however will always resposibility to have to guard carefully to avoid damage or theft. Alternative? Certainly portiamoci behind our operating system installed in a pendrive to boot from any PC at our disposal. Comfortable, secure, legggero, in short, a gem!

WINDOWS IN MINIATURE:

The solution comes to us with the help of more free software. With a little patience can create a customized version of our operating system from so small that it can enter into a common USB stick. We then simply connect the key to any computer to get in a few seconds, a fully configured and ready to use with which to surf, watch movies on YouTube, connect to your webmail and view documents. Without spending a dollar in my pocket we can always have a work station in all respects similar to our beloved Windows XP. Later we will see what are the steps needed to achieve a bonsai that will go mad with envy our friends.

Dieting SYSTEM:

We will discover, so that the "superfluous fat" Windows were on the clock. Not always, in fact, all the software contained within the operating system of Uncle Bill are useful and not all the device drivers included will be exploited by users. Windows XP, however, overloads the system with a ballast often indigestible for many users. That's why the community of hackers Windows has decided to give a hand to the addicts 'diet' giving birth to nLite. With this tool you can choose which components of the system erase to make our version of XP as light as a feather: all this starting from the installation CD of Windows, without going to erode our hard drive and endanger the data stored therein. But if despite this we believe that the process of "slimming" is a task dedicated only to advanced users we mistaken. With the help of very simple and intuitive graphic interface anyone can create their own customized version of Windows, a kind of distribution to use the jargon of those who use Linux, adaptable to your needs. Of course the size of the containment system will help us in achieving an optimized version of the ideal operating system to be contained on a normal USB stick. But let's go with order and see in detail what steps needed to make the best use nLite a few megabytes of cutting too much. In our cleaning of Windows must always carefully evaluate the possibility of eliminating those components that we feel useless. Remove to plunder driver and libraries for hardware detection, in fact, may make difficult the use of our distribution in miniature on computers other than ours on which we have tested the quality. With kid gloves must also act on the options and network services to run at startup: Any mistakes at this stage could undermine the normal functioning of our system bonsai. Of course, if we're freaks streamlining at all costs, we can readily penetrate into the intricacies of Windows, but very carefully! System without major tool in the worst cases, may even refuse to leave. Anyway, if something does not work we can always repeat the whole procedure and create a new distribution!

1. Insert the installation CD into your Windows PC. Esploriamone contents, then right click the mouse all the files and folders contained in it, and from the context menu, click on Copy. Create a folder on the hard disk (giving it the name XP) and incolliamoci inside files copied (Ctrl + V).		2. We can now install nLite. NLite-1.4.9.1.installer.exe execute the file downloadable from here: From a simple wizard. Click Next on the screen that appears, check I accept the terms of the license agreement and continue with Next.
3. On the next screen of the wizard, if we do not have special needs, leaving unchanged the installation directory for nLite, C: \ Program Files \ nLite. Click Next to continue and even in the two following screens Next to start the installation of nLite. When finished, press Done.		4. After installation of nLite, it will automatically launch a handy wizard to configure the software. On the Welcome to nLite selected the Italian language from the pulldown menu. The interface will be immediately translated into our language. We continue with Next.
5. We will be asked to indicate the folder that contains files previously copied to the hard disk from the original CD of Windows. Click the Browse button is selected, the Browse for Folder screen, the directory C: \ XP. After a while, you can find some information on the system found by nLite.		6. Proceed with Next and skip the Setup screen always with Next. In Select operations click on Components. This enables the removal of unnecessary Windows tool for the realization of our mini el'alleggerimento distribution of the C: \ XP.
7. Click Next. Compatibility screen choose the functions to be preserved from a possible removal. Click the radio DHCP functionality (Ethernet and Wi-Fi), useful for obtaining an IP address automatically when you connect to the Internet using the pendrive. Then click OK.		8. Arrived in Firefox sbizzarriamoci elimination of the various features of Windows. Category Applications can be eliminated completely as long, however, to retain some components: Calculator, Paint, and Wordpad. For all other just a check mark to remove them permanently.
9. In entries sprouting Multimedia Windows Media Player, Speech, Images and Backgrounds Movie Maker, Sample music and Tablet PC. Click Next and start the removal of various components answering Yes when asked Apply the changes.		10. We expect nlite terms his work, in a few moments our Windows thumbnail will be ready!

To facilitate the process CHICCHEDICALA prepared the ARCHIVE PE-BUILDER.RAR, integrating PLUG-IN NEEDED DESCRIBED IN GUIDE.

(otherwise you'll have to download them separately). PeBuilder.rar Download

The next step is to integrate into the operating system all you need to surf the Internet. To do this, we can use BartPE. Here's how.

11. Unpack the archive pebuilder.rar and execute the file pebuilder3110a.exe to begin the simple installation of BartPE. When you first start the software originally specified the folder C: \ containing the version of Windows XP with nLite reduced.		12. Java installed on your PC (if we have not already done) initiating the file jre6u2-windows-i586-p.exe to this archive. We do the same thing with Foxit PDF Reader running the file foxitReader.exe also present in the archive pebuilder.rar.
13. In the archives are also compressed pebuilder.rar plug-in firefox-2.8.7z, java160-1.2.cab and pdfrd.cab useful to integrate the browser, Java and the PDF reader in the mini distribution. Scompattiamoli with WinRAR to a folder on your hard drive.		14. Following a similar procedure unpack the file regexpander-1.2.cab (found in the archive pebuilder.rar). This plug-in allows the operation of Java without problems, creating special temporary registry keys when running from pendrive of our distribution.
15. In so created folders, find files and configuration files directory (if not present, creiamole right-clicking with the mouse in an empty area of the Windows Explorer screen and select New / Folder from standby). Then, copy everything in C: \ pebuilder \ plugin.		16. Now we copy the folders bin and lib in C: \ Program Files \ Java \ jre1.6.0_02 in C: \ pebuilder \ plugin \ java \ NPSWF32.dll and flashplayer.xpt files and files from C: \ Program Files \ Mozilla Firefox \ plugins to C: \ pebuilder \ plugin \ firefox \ files \ plugins. If there are no other firefox see the notes infuse the guide.
17. We copy the executable FoxitReader.exe in C: \ pebuilder \ plugin \ pdfrd \ files renaming in PDFReader.exe. Posizioniamoci in the C: \ pebuilder \ pdfrd with Notepad open the file PDFReader.inf. In the [SourceDisksFiles] delete the line files \ preview2.dll = a,, 1 and save.		18. At this point we return the main interface of BartPE. Plugins and click on the button, the screen that appears, verify that the installed plugins are properly activated. Click the Enable / Disable to enable or disable the additional software included.
19. Close the plug-in and from the main set to Nobody BartPE as Media output. Then click the Create button to launch the procedure for implementing the LiveCD version of Windows.		20. Armiamoci of patience: the procedure may take several minutes. After we make sure everything is successful, if no errors were examining the log file and identify the problem, in my case the file was not present access.cpl solution? Download it here.
21. Download from here the Service Pack 1 of Windows Server 2003 contains the files that make the pendrive bootable. We start the command prompt (Start / Run / cmd), portiamoci in the folder where we saved the file and estraiamone content with WindowsServer2003-KB889101-SP1-x86-ENU.exe-x.		22. Choose a folder of our choice to save the extracted files. Then create a directory srsp1 within C: \ pebuilder3110a. Without this we get, from Windows Explorer, the folder where we extracted the service pack, portiamoci subdirectory i386, Setupldr.bin copy the file and paste it into C: \ pebuilder3110a \ srsp1.
23. The last step is the expansion of another file in the i386 directory. From the command prompt issue the command cd C: \ directory \ i386 followed by Enter and type the string ramdisk.sy_ expand-r C: \ pebuilder3110a \ srsp1 confirming with Enter. With just a few seconds to copy the files in the destination folder.		24. Download the tarball from USBDiskFormat.zip www.techportal.it. Execute the file that contains tools for installing the HP USB Disk Storage Format. Connect the key to your PC and start the software will recognize it automatically. Leave everything as is and click Start to format the pendrive.
25. We can now transfer the operating system on the stick (if we followed the steps seen so far, it just a 256-MB). We open the command prompt and portiamoci folder BartPE cd C: \ pebuilder3110a. Issue the command pe2usb L: where L: is the drive assigned to the pendrive, type Yes and press Enter.		26. After the transfer, restart the PC and enter the BIOS by pressing Delete key before the Windows logo appears. Set the primary boot USB-HDD-FDD FMD to restart the system from the pendrive! Loaded mini distribution, press Yes to configure the Network settings and verify that it has obtained a valid IP address.

NOTES TO THE POINT 16:

• Download the plugin xpi format (right click save target as from the link sootostante: http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/xpi/current/flashplayer-win.xpi
• Change the extension from. Xpi to. Zip in this way: flashplayer-win.zip
• Extract the files in the archive flashplayer.xpt and NPSWF32.dll