Seems perfectly fine to me, but I integrate the Ryan update packs instead of doing it the MS way as Ryan's method installs quicker and keeps the disk at about the same size, it good for my basic base disk. Just be sure your extra addons are able to be run from the svcpack folder some are not able to just so you know. As for making cab files that easy windows has a built in tool for doing that. It's called makecab a command line utility but easy to use none the less or you can make a cmd file like this and copy makecab.exe into the same folder as it. @echo off echo ================ echo Set File to compress echo ================ set /P file= makecab.exe %file% echo ================ echo Compressing File echo ================ echo. echo =============== echo File Compressed echo =============== pause So with that you put the file into the same folder as makecad.exe and this cmd run the cmd and type in the file including extension you wish to compress and it will do it, simple really.