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Thanks, mate. Just what I hoped for, a presise and complete, yet short, answer which invites to further understanding and experimentation.

I want to sort my start menu proggie shortcuts into categories like multimedia, internet, system etc. Firefox would thus be internet/Firefox/submenu instead of just Firefox/submenu Is there any (easy) way to customize this part of the install, preferably contained into the addon itself? Or (if I understand correctly) is it only the .msi ones, and then through "recording" your steps into an extra file which goes into the addon cab as well?

AH, there it was after all. Quite embarassing to miss it like that. Thanks a bunch for taking your time, sir. You understood me correctly, btw. Reason why I wanted to start install from within XP is that I'm quite sure that this presents the choice of setting up a dual boot. While booting from an install CD the partitions and station letters presented were entirely different from what it "should" be (wrong partition order, some of the partitions were seemingly unpartitioned) so I just didn't want to take the risk. Again, thanks!

I want my windows installation to be able to start from my current win xp, so that it creates a duo-boot. However, the test-isos I've made so far doesn't seem to have a setup.exe in the root. At first I thought that this is due to the type of windows installation, but I clearly remember that somewhere in Nlite there was a checkbox where you could decide to have it bootable directly from the os, or you could remove those files to save space, but only to be bootable from pre-windows. Since my grasp of english is a bit dodgy (not my first language) I didn't quite know what to search for either. Could anyone shed a light? Is there such an option in nlite, or is it just my fantasy?

Answering it myself: YES. Those drivers, as opposed to a couple of others*, aren't really vital for XP to get to the point where add-ons are installed. *mainboard and graphics, to name a few. Following that default drivers are ripped out with nLite. Feel free to correct.

Quickie for the informed ones: I only managed to make an add-on (my first, though! ) of my Logitech LX 700 drivers, would it be ok to put it with the addons and programs instead of among the drivers?

Thanks for the replies, guys! Really appreciate it. For the record, I wasn't thinking especially hard on using Wupdate. I mean, it's easy and somewhat comfortable, but windiz update and autopatcher goes a long way and without needing to fight WGA and compromise security.

I've come to the spot in the nLite experience where the services are evaluated. After consulting with Black Viper a.o. there is quite a bunch of services that at first glance seems to be ripe for deletion. Almost frighteningly many, I'd say! -Volume Shadow Copy (i have other means for backup) -UPS (never had any ups) -Text Services Framework (don't need the language bar or any acessibility stuff) -Terminal Services (never used any fast user switch or remote desktop) -Telnet (nay) -SNMP (bit of doubt here, what kind of network monitoring?) -Service Advertising Protocol (service nodes? advertising? doesn't seem that useful to me) -Secondary Logon (only one user around here) -Removable Storage (don't use autoplay or tape streamers) -Remote Registry (just not my cup of tea) -Messenger (nuff said) -Kerberos (bit unsure. could my wired network need this one?) -Indexing Service (hate it.) -Fax (soooo last century) -Error Reporting (I know an error when I see one, don't need it reported) My system is quite typical. XP pro, one-user system, sharing a adsl router-based internet with 3 mates as well as some local file sharing, used for gaming, surfing, graphics, 3d, music, the works. Guess I'm just looking for a bit of input here. What do you guys do with your services? Does any of the above affect other things which aren't obvious to the eye? What services are (reasonably) safe to delete? Any other service else than the ones I have mentioned? Could I really get away with removing all these services in nlite? Admittedly it is a lot bolder to chuck them away now instead of just opting to disable them after install. Is there really any noticeable advantage for security and/or performance that makes it worth the risk? As a bonus, here are some services I'm not sure of. Keep or delete? -Alerter ? -Internet Authentication? -Network Provisioning? -Net Logon? -QoS components? Thanks in advance!