I am trying to uninstall Vista Transformation Pack. This is a UI pack that gives XP the appearance of Vista. When I first installed it everything was working fine except that I did not have all the themes to choose from that I was supposed to. I uninstalled it from Add and Remove Programs and rebooted into Safe Mode to reinstall. After the reinstall and rebooting into Windows, I did not see any difference from the last install... other than the fact that I am now unable to access the Internet and some features of the UI no longer work.

So, I am uninstalling it again, only this time I am telling it to restore files from my XP disc rather than from backup files. I am being ask to select the Windows setup files folder as a destination folder, but I can't locate it. Any folder I have chosen so far has resulted in a message "Your selected folder is not Windows setup files folder."

Where will I find the correct folder?

Thanks

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C:\WINDOWS is the default install path for XP.

Life is more painless for those who are brainless.

Yeah, that earned me the error message. Doesn't make any sense to me.

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Try reinstall Vista Transformation Pack in order to uninstall it.

i_XpUser

Read this it is short.
It may help.

http://www.computing.net/windowsxp/...

Windows setup file folder location is x:\i386 where x is the cd-rom drive letter.
the CD should be in the drive

XP User: I tried that... no go.

I got to the point where I was willing to get reckless. I deleted all folders associated with Vista Transformation Pack from Safe Mode, removed it from the Start up menu and reinstalled XP over the existing OS. So now, even though Vista still shows up in the Control Panel, everything looks normal (for the most part,) but still no Internet connectivity. I ran Winsock Repair and that did no good.

abdul_ahad: I had been trying to use a slipstreamed SP2 disc that I made, but it is just an .exe file so I could not browse to a folder. I dug out my real XP disc and browsed to the i386 folder, but I still got the same error message as stated above.

MeOnMine: Looks like I'll be doing as suggested in the thread you linked to. Like I said, I have a slipstreamed SP2 disc, so I guess I should be good to go after the repair.

I just don't know how much of my registry was screwed up by this program. I'm hoping a repair of XP will fix it. Still wondering why the Winsock repair didn't at least fix the Internet connectivity...

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So, I understand I am to post this here. I am attempting the XP repair and am to the point that I am required to enter the Product Key. I have checked the number three time, but I keep getting the "Invalid Key" error message. To things are out of the ordinary relating to this event:

1. I am attempting the repair with my OEM SP1 disc, but I have previously installed a slipstreamed SP2 disc which was made with the same OEM disc.

2. During the repair install, I was prompted to enter the path to the "smb.sys file from the SMBus disc." ????? I never found this file, so I skipped over this and the install continued.

Thanks.

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Looks like you should have done your homework before installing. The following are just a few user comments about Vista Transformation Pack 6.0:

"Has a MAJOR unistallation issue ...short of Reformatting or Repairing to a stable environment IF you are not prepared to do so you will be UNpleasantly surprised .. your system will NOT be the same when you TRY to uninstall this program...contrary to what is said on the messagebaords of the makes of the program."

"This thing is bad news."

"WILL NOT UNINSTALL...

Reinstalling to try to fix it, or fix the uninstall issues, does not work either.

Definitely not worth the trouble. You're pretty much looking at a reformat/reinstall to sort this all out correctly."

"It slows down the computer. It comes along with a trojan small horse virus. Spywares and adwares are also installed without your knowledge. So I am requesting you folks, not to download without knowing what actually you are doing. If you don't follow my review you may end up in undesirable results and may have to format your whole computer."

"After installing, the antivirus program bleeped that vimc.exe had a trojan. I deleted this... after installing and rebooting, the firewall app kept complaining sidebar.exe wanted to send out UDP packets.

THIS IS NOT GOOD.

Also, uninstalling is a pain - and I read the install instructions beforehand; it does not clean up after itself. (Well duh, this thing contains malware...)"

In other words, it sounds like the only way to "repair" the mess you've gotten yourself into would be to format the HDD & do a clean install of XP.

Thanks. Never hurts to clean up every few years anyway. It will give me the opportunity to deall with a few other minor issues I've been ignoring.

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From: 2old2soon

To: jam

I uninstalled and reinstalled VTP 6.0 using
"Add/Remove Programs" and installing without
going into Safe mode. Afterward, a scan using
TrojanHunter 4.6 found 2 files it identified
as Trojans - vimc.exe which is some kind of an
installer, and not really a Trojan, and another
called 'closeapp.exe' which was malware.
TrojanHunter removed both, and VTP 6.0 has been working OK since.