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In Reply to: RE: cPlay - the open source high-end audio player using ASIO posted by cics on May 05, 2008 at 12:31:58
Hello, everybody. This is an easy thing after tweaks part 5 but, unfortunately, it leads to an OBLIGATORY thing.
YOU SHOULD DO IT ONLY AFTER TWEAKS PART 5 !!!!!
OBLIGATORY THING is that to go on you have to PURCHASE or OBTAIN XPLITE (FULL VERSION!!!) a portable full version will do nicely. I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO CONNECTION TO XPLite AUTHORS or VENDORS!!! But I’d like to thank inmates for showing the way.
1. Recollect everything you did to perform minlogon tweak. Find your former real winlogon.exe file. It must be now winlogon.exe.bak. It should be in windows-system32, probably. Check its size (appr. 450-490 kb). Find Your minlogon.reg file
2. Check that windows file protection is DISABLED!!!.
Rename your current winlogon.exe (former minlogon.exe, size appr. 17-23 kb) back to minlogon.exe.
3. Rename winlogon.exe.bak (the original winlogon.exe) to winlogon.exe.
4. Reboot (You should see a user logon dialog.)
5. Install xplite (full version) and run it.
Folks! I type it from memory, I am not at home and cannot get inside xplite, but what I write is easy, you won't get lost.
6. Inside xplite click on the left (windows accessories and optional components). XPlite will check and say you've got smth. like 134 of 169)
Check to uninstall EVERYTHING. Only Notepad, and windows CORE system fonts should remain. Be thorough, get inside every item and, rather, untick everything manually. XPlite is a polite program. It will ask you if you REALLY want to remove system restore, Internet explorer and other funny things. Say YES. After that say ok,or go, or next, or whatever. Xplite will think a little and start working showing you 2 gears turning. Let it work and BE PATIENT. It takes more time than to smoke a cigarette. After everything is completed, say ok, reboot.
7. Now open xplite once again and check that wfp is disabled, go back to windows-system32 and rename winlogon.exe to winlogon.exe.bak, rename minlogon.exe to winlogon.exe, double click on minlogon.reg, apply it to the registry and reboot. If All went well, You will enter a “minloggedon” state again.
In OTHER WORDS, You should revert from minlogon to winlogon perform xplite manipulation and back to minlogon!!!
If You attempt to do xplite tweak in minlogon state, you will get a blue screen crash!
Reboot, listen to some music.
Serge.
P.S. Tweaks part 6 and 7 are ready, but I do not post them now, just to give you some time to assimilate with the new sound and because there is a “hydra” secret in registry that I haven’t solved yet. I personally recreated all cmp tweaks from windows installation to the end of part 6 in 18 hours, but 2 days. And also, folks, if you are reluctant to do all the tweaks with registry yourself, wait till part 6 and just ask somebody to help, as I myself did the first time. It is worth it.
Follow Ups:
Hi, I applied the Minlogon/ XPlite tweaks and while Windows and cPlay seem to work flawlessly after the changes, J. River Media Jukebox does not run anymore.
This is a pity, because I just like to listen to lots of different files, also ape and mp3 - and Media Jukebox sounds quite good and musical, and is my first choice for overviewing the music library and for casual listening. I also find cplay - as great as it sounds - a bit frustrating to operate, not very versatile, a universal program like Jukebox is just so much easier to use... But on opening it needs to read a index.html file, but this does not work any longer after the XPLite tweaks (no program associated with html files.
So, is there another recommended Music Playback Program as second Music player next to cplay? Otherwise I may just go back to Step 5 and try to change only the things that leave Media Jukebox functional...
Thank you
Bernie
Hi, I applied the Minlogon/ XPlite tweaks and while Windows and cPlay seem to work flawlessly after the changes, J. River Media Jukebox does not run anymore.
This is a pity, because I just like to listen to lots of different files, also ape and mp3 - and Media Jukebox sounds quite good and musical, and is my first choice for overviewing the music library and for casual listening. I also find cplay - as great as it sounds - a bit frustrating to operate, not very versatile, a universal program like Jukebox is just so much easier to use... But on opening it needs to read a index.html file, but this does not work any longer after the XPLite tweaks (no program associated with html files.
So, is there another recommended Music Playback Program as second Music player next to cplay? Otherwise I may just go back to Step 5 and try to change only the things that leave Media Jukebox functional...
Thank you
Bernie
.. simply return the file "nddeapi.dll" which you may removed in step 5 (if indeed correctly understood that Steppe's file "nddeap" refers to the file "nddeapi.dll" and removed it and as I did at first ;)).
Serge.
http://cmp2-mihaylov.narod.ru/
Hi Guys,
I need some help, I tryed to revert minlogon after step 5 but after reboot I got blue screen ( fatal error ) , any ideas ?
Thanks.
Alexandre
Hi Alexandre!
Try to return the file "nddeapi.dll" which you may removed in step 5 (if indeed correctly understood that Steppe's file "nddeap" refers to the file "nddeapi.dll" and removed it and as I did at first ;)).
Serge.
http://cmp2-mihaylov.narod.ru/
Hi Mihaylov,
Thanks a lot, it works finally.
There are two things I can think of for you to try before starting over:
1. Have you tried to start in safe mode? I don't know if you can, but...
2. If you can connect your cMP drive to another computer or start from another system partition
Either way: then you can change min- and win- back so you go back to the regular winlogon and try to figure out and fix what went wrong
I hope you copied an image of your Operating System prior to the change. If you did reload it. Otherwise you have a rebuild in front of you. The usual error is not unhiding the file extensions for minlogon and winlogon.
Hi Theob,
In fact I did, I'm using snapshot, but I'm stuck in part 5, to be honest it's fantastic, these guys are doing a great job, but I'm curious how could improve doing the other steps. I'm not sure if I get your comment about hiding extension, is it a trick ? because my folder is not hiding any extension, really sorry about my misunderstanding english is not my natural language.
Regards,
Alexandre.
If you are showing all extensions then just make sure you have no typo's when doing the minlogon/winlogon swap. Good thing you have snapshot. :).
Hi Theob,
I couldn´t agree more.
;)
Finished the XPlite mod. Big step forward. In my system, things are getting really good. I imagine the noise floor took a drop. Still more space around instruments. Close miked female singers are very natural. The breath between notes and during notes very real. You can sense a human with emotions. Quite seductive. Strings and piano took on a new level of realism. Time to listen to the entire collection over again.
First on to 6
After installing this I think I am getting a glimpse of what will be realized after all of the deletions are made.
Spaciousness! An almost incredible increase in space around instruments and voices. On pop records it is amazing how long you can hear the artificial ambiance as it decays, one can hear the separation of the voice (in the recordings I was listening to) and the effect. I am having trouble describing this artifact of multichannel recording but I use it as an illustration of the resolution.
Started doing some of the NUMBER SIX registry deletions and had some mysteries which I need to re-check before "complaining".
I am seeing the banks of the Rubicon with this latest change. I can't wait to reach the other side. (Do not fear, fellow Romans, I have not brought an army)
Thanks, Serge. This is getting really REALLY good!
Don't know what happened but I reinstalled winlogon, renamed minlogon rebooted and pc booted/wanted to install juli@ but couldn't (didn't like drivers I had) wanted to reinstall usb drivers but couldn't find them. So I am stopped at steppe 5.
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