RE: Longhorn Transformation Pack
- From: "Julian Lord [PROneTworks]" <thisisnotmyemail@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 16:35:07 -0700
I've heard nothing but bad things about this "Longhorn Transformation Pack"
It's a clever idea, but IMO it should be avoided like a plague.
"Paul Smith" wrote:
> A quick word of warning for anyone thinking about installing Longhorn
> Transformation Pack (available from Tech Connect Magazine)...
>
> I've had two people e-mail me about their computer refusing to boot after
> installing it. - Looks like the XP Resource managed to climb up onto the
> first page on Google for a lot of things...
>
> Anyway I took the plunge and went and downloaded it to see what it does,
> after it started going on about the Windows File Protection I knew I was in
> for some "fun". Anyway proceeded to install it and rebooted my machine,
> after logging on the machine immediately logged off and rebooted. Upon
> starting Windows I was presented with the ntoskrnl failed to load error.
> Not good.
>
> Luckily I had an RC of x64 on the machine so I could boot that to check out
> the system folder (without going into old school mode) and hunt down these
> missing files. Found them, luckily LTP backed up the files into
> system32\LHTrans so I copied them back. Success Windows booted! I logged
> on and was just presented with my wallpaper - ok so I fire up explorer
> through Task Manager and I get a barely usable desktop. I run System
> Restore and get the system back to normal.
>
> Anyway for those who have found themselves in the same situation - here's
> the quick run down on how to correct it.
> 1) Insert the Windows XP CD that came with your computer into your CD-ROM
> drive.
>
> 2) Either turn on or reboot your machine.
>
> 3) While booting you should get a message saying "Press any key to boot from
> the CD-ROM drive (or words to that effect), go ahead and press any key. (If
> you don't see below)
>
> 4) This will boot the machine up using the Windows XP CD-ROM, when it's
> finished loading press R to load the recovery console, you may have to
> select your OS (Windows XP....) and login using the administrator password.
>
> 5) You should now be presented with a command prompt, type in copy
> C:\WINDOWS\system32\LHTrans\ C:\WINDOWS\system32\ and press enter. This
> should now proceed and copy the files back into Windows' system directory.
>
> 6) Type Exit and/or reboot your machine.
>
> That's the hard bit out of the way.
>
> 7) Login as normal, you may now notice that you get your wallpaper but
> nothing else loads up. Press and hold CTRL+ALT then press DEL.
>
> 8) You should now get the Task Manager pop up, click on File then click on
> New Task (Run...)
>
> 9) Type in explorer and press enter. Your machine should now continue to
> finish loading up.
>
> 10) Go to System Restore (Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> System
> Tools -> System Restore) you'll want to now restore your computer to a point
> in time before Longhorn Transformation Pack 9.0. Your machine will now
> reboot and fingers crossed be back to normal.
>
> ---I'm not getting "Press any key to boot from the CD-ROM drive" this is
> likely due to the CD-ROM being after the HDD in the boot sequence, basically
> your computer has a boot order - if the HDD is before the CD-ROM drive then
> it will have priority over the CD-ROM drive and load first, you'll need to
> go into your computer's BIOS, typically by pressing DEL when prompted on the
> first or second screen after turning on, it may say something like 'Press
> DEL to enter setup' - consult your computer's manual for more help on this.
> Once in there you'll need to look for the boot order, it will typically be
> three options, first, second and third each with separate options such as
> Floppy (FDD), CD, Hard disk (HDD), you'll want to make sure that the CD-ROM
> drive is before the HDD. Once done save and reboot.
>
> For those of you that don't have System Restore enabled. I'm guessing this
> application changes a lot of system files - rather then actually using the
> built in theme system in XP, it goes over and hard writes the actual system
> files it also changes the system registry and puts a few .bat files into
> start-up. So your best bet would be to contact the author to see if they
> have the complete list of changes made.
>
> Life Lesson #7 - System Restore rocks.
>
> --
> Paul Smith,
> Yeovil, UK.
> http://www.dasmirnov.net/
> http://windows.dasmirnov.net/ Windows XP Resource Site.
>
> *Replace nospam with smirnov to reply by e-mail*
>
>
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