Yil,
I started certmgr.exe and found that no certificate, with any of the names i have tried, was installed. I also looked on my laptop and saw that there was certificate named kebabfabriken, hence confirming that the creation had succeeded on this machine. Both machines have the cryptographic services installed and running. I found however that this service has very little impact on the creation of the certificate. I could still create a certificate on my laptop if this service was stopped. I could
not however execute certmgr.exe and view certificates when this service was stopped.
I will do a more thorough comparison of services later today, but for now, that is the only one i have found that has some "crypto" affiliation.
I am running out of ideas, usually I would just re-install windows, since my xp install is pretty fresh and its running on a 2.0Ghz opteron, 2GB RAM, 4TB system it wouldn't take that long to do. However its not in my physical presence, its more like ~300km away, so im using remote desktop to connect to it every time i need to make changes. Could the fact that im connecting remotely have anything to do with it? As you see, my guesses are becoming pretty desperate, im running out of ideas
I don't know if this will help, but I thought i would give it a try, the following contains info about the version of xp that im using. I am aware that this kind of info is not very welcome in this forum, so feel free to modify my post if i violate any rule, sorry :/
Code:
This CD was made using nLite:
*********What is Remaining?*********
Applications:
Calculator
Defragmenter
Drivers:
Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)
Battery
Bluetooth Support
Brother Devices
Display Adapters
Display Adapters (old)
Ethernet (LAN)
Firewire (1394) Support
IBM Thinkpad
InfraRed
ISDN
MultiFunctional
Multi-port serial adapters
PCMCIA
Ports (COM & LPT)
SCSI/RAID
Sound Controllers
Toshiba DVD decoder card
Windows Image Acquisition (WIA)
Internet Utilities:
ATM Support
Client for Netware Networks
Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer Core
MAC Bridge
NetShell Cmd-Tool
Network Monitor Driver and Tools
NWLink IPX/SPX/NetBIOS Protocol
Outlook Express
Tcp/Ip Version 6
Operating System Options:
16-bit support
Administrator VB scripts
Application compatibility patch
Command-Line tools
Disk Cleanup
Extra Fonts
Floppy Support
Jet Database Engine
MDAC
Out of Box Experience (OOBE)
Printer Support
Web View
Services:
Application Layer Gateway
Background Intelligent Transfer
COM+
DHCP Client
Distributed Transaction Coordinator (DTC)
DNS Client
Event Log
Internet Authentication (IAS)
Logical Disk Manager
Management Instrumentation (WMI)
Message Queuing (MSMQ)
Network DDE
Performance Logs and Alerts
QoS RSVP
Quality of Service (QoS)
Service Advertising Protocol
Shell Services
SNMP
System Event Notification (SENS)
System Monitor
TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper
Terminal Services
Universal Plug and Play
Volume Shadow Copy
Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)
Windows Time
Wireless Zero Configuration
*Note:
Windows File protection is disabled. You can now delete that stupid Xerox folder inside your Program Files!
The Start Bar was tweaked for speed, too.
I was nice to remove the Alexa spyware for you. Alexa is spyware that Windows
XP ships out with. How nice of them. Alexa tracks your browsing habbits. I
thought spyware only came with crappy games and programs? Guess I was wrong.
Index Service is gone.
Prefetch folder in C:Windows is gone.
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Just to give you an idea about what was removed:
Themes (Classic Theme is only available)
Wallpaper
Windows Media Player
Windows Movie Maker
Animated Character for Search
Windows XP Tour
Screensavers
Games
Language Pack
Help
System Restore
Windows Update
If you don't see it in the long list, above - then it was probably ripped.
All help is appreciated