Red Barchetta, could you tell in detail what issues you had both with slipstreamed and simply installed hotfixes? Arie, actually slipstreamed distribution takes more place as all of hotfixes still land to svcpack folder. I even had to throw away LANG folder to fit the integrated I386 and MUI. 500 of HDD space makes no point, just think about Vista. Uninstallation capability is even better as you can erase $NTUninstall folders at any time and besides you can also uninstall anything that could found to be problematic.