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It looks to me as though the only to remove the component cache is to uncheck" "Windows Update" in the first section. I woud sure like to reduce the size of the component cache, butnot at the cost of losing windows update. Am I missing something here?

I am using vlite final release v1.2. Where are you finding the "Component cache" removal tool? I would VERY much like to reduce my winxsx folder to the size you describe

Have downloaded it and will give it a try - thanks

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Microsoft Internet News Message\DefaultIcon\%ProgramFiles%\Windows Mail\WinMail.exe,-5 HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Microsoft Internet News Message\shell\Forward\command\"%ProgramFiles%\Windows Mail\WinMail.exe" /forwardnws:%1 HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Microsoft Internet News Message\shell\open\command\"%ProgramFiles%\Windows Mail\WinMail.exe" /nws:%1 HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Microsoft Internet News Message\shell\Reply\command\"%ProgramFiles%\Windows Mail\WinMail.exe" /replynws:%1 HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Microsoft Internet News Message\shell\ReplyAll\command\"%ProgramFiles%\Windows Mail\WinMail.exe" /replyallnws:%1 These same entries appear under HKLM.

Preset attached. Last_Session.ini

Open regedit and do an "edit - find" for Windows Mail. You will find 20 to 30 entries containing those words. Under several instances of "Microsoft Internet Message" there will be 4 separate command entries to open Windows Mail.

Although vlite successfully removes components for a reduced install, the registry entries for the components are installed. Windows mail is an example. Vista won't let delete them. And it won't let me change the permissions on the entry so that I can. I have tried changing permissions for the entire key, which is allowed, but still am not allowed to get rid of the entries. Has anyone figured a way around this???

Thanks NUHI - that worked. Vlited install disk with SP1-RC working. I realize this is not the final SP1, but I went through this for the learning experience. And it sure was. I learned somegthing about the WAIK apps, how to make a PE Boot disk, something about how to use imagex, some understanding about images, and more. I haved fooled with computers for more than 30 years, and consider myself reasonably knowledgeable, but I had not gone into this end of them. Fascinating. By the way, when duing the imagex command with the home premium version the flags portion of the conmmnad must use "HOMEPREMIUM" as one word - learned the hard way. /flags "HOMEPREMIUM"

I personally boot back into my XP install to capture the drive Vista is installed on. 1. Install Vista to a secondary partition. (not the main boot partition) 2. At OOBE, don't do anything and type CTRL-SHIFT-F3 to get into Audit Mode (this is a must) 3. When in Audit Mode, don't close the Sysprep window and install SP1. Let it restart however many times and do its thing. 4. When SP1 is completely installed, in the Sysprep window select OOBE and Generalize and to shutdown the system and select to apply those. Vista should then start shutting down, cleaning out hardware data etc. 5. Restart into XP/another Vista install/WinPE (I really doubt it should make a difference which one you use but I booted back into XP) and run: imagex /compress maximum /flags "Business" /capture d: c:\install.wim "Windows Vista Business" replacing the drive letters etc. That, for me, works. That method has also worked for many other folks I know to get a slipped SP1 install. vLite against that new install.wim. Not as many have tried this one compared to just Reverse Integrating it and getting a full install.wim, but I have tested it with every build (except Beta 1, just didn't have the time) and have always had success. As I said though to MagicAndre1981 in a private message, this is a non-issue nevertheless, no one would want to use Reverse Integrated .wims over the actual slipstreamed SP1 media that MS will release and I'm sure obtaining those from MS or from your OEM or buying a $5 Vista disc update thing etc. won't be too difficult. Question: Does the above mean that, after copying the RTM Install disk to a temp file on the hard drive, you can simply delete the install.wim file from \spources and copy/paste the new one in; then run vilte??

"You can also rebuild the ISO using vLite by extracting the contents of the Vista RTM ISO to a temporary directory, replacing the install.wim and using vLite's Vista Burning/ISO creation features. One can also use vLite to remove unwanted features in Vista SP1 even though vLite was primarily designed/tested on Vista RTM." Does this mean that, after creating a new install.wim, and copying files from original install disk to a temp file, one can just delete the install.wim from the source folder and coopy/paste the new one in there - then vlite???