crotale

I'm having constans issues with these three things, they just don't seem to stick. - Windows Update is set to Automatic, even though I set it to "Notify before..." in nLite - The time zone is "GMT +4.5h Kabul" when it's supposed to be "GMT + 1 Stockholm...", and that's what it's set to in nLite - Simple Folder View, where do I set this setting? The ISO is a clean XP SP2 Swedish, initially slipstreamed to SP3 and then run with all settings in nLite.

Don't waste time with re-copying the Windows CD and slipstreaming it each time, but instead just keep a pre-slipstreamed install-source on your harddrive and make a copy of it, for each new job. First copy your install-source to your harddrive: xcopy E: D:\Temp\XPCD\ /ehq Change 'E:' to your own actual CD drive and change 'D:\Temp\' to where you would like your 'XPCD' folder created... Then slipstream latest SP: wxpsp3.exe /integrate:D:\Temp\XPCD Then you keep the 'XPCD' folder as a backup and make a copy of it for each new job... Personally, then i preffer HFSLIP over nLite for the following reasons: Open-source and plain cmd-syntax, so i can see exactly what's done and how. Supports more patches than nLite for direct integration. Can be run completely unattended with an answer file. Dosen't need any bloated .NET framework runtimes installed to run. Then upon each new patch-tuesday, then i just download the new patches direct from MS and double-click a batchfile i have made, which will copy my archived install-source to a temp location and run HFSLIP on it and then make a bootable ISO which is archived for later use... Thanks for the input, I'll look into it. I guess I have to familiarize myself with the idea of always starting from a fresh backup every time.

The way I have updated my ISOs up until know is kind of painful, and somewhat random. And with SP3 available, it's not working very well, nor quick. This is how I have done so far: 1. Copy entire original SP2 ISO to harddrive 2. Load nLite and load the latest preset 3. Add SP3 4. Add the new hotfixes to the old ones and start the entire process (time consuming) 5. Save ISO, burn Occasionally, I tend to mix up the latest preset and instead of loading a clean SP2, a previous disc is loaded. This causes all kinds of strange behaviour. Firewall is not turned off, WU is set to automatic regardless of my setting in nLite, I have to run the "Welcome to XP"-guide, and it complains about missing files (NIC drivers) during the file copy process. How do you all do it? For example, I have a copy that works very well, non of the above issues. How do I just add the updates release during the last week? Without screwing up drivers, tweaks, patches, settings, etc.

Thanks, but not really what I was hoping to find. It might solve my problems though, so I'll have a look at it.

I have been searching the forum like mad but I can't find any info on how to change a registry value with a "run one time" feature. I want to manually force Windows Update to "Notify before download" with this reg tweak: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update] "AUOptions"=dword:00000002 Can someone please give me the heads up