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I spent about 2 hours on it yesterday. I create several ISOs with various removals and installed them with Virtual PC 2007. It seems that vLite 1.1.1 is not fully compatible with Vista SP1 (I have the preintegrated DVD ISO). If I remove anything (even a single optional feature) in the 'System' section, it breaks the 'Windows feature on/off'. My latest Vlite image is fine, I did not remove much but I think that is the safe way until vLite is fully compatible with SP1 (see my lastsession.ini attached). Last_Session.ini

Well I am facing the same prob witth SP1 ISO. But I did not remove Remote Desktop. Here is what I removed: - Speech support - Tablet PC - Chinese/Japanese/Korean - all printer drivers but generic printer and HP printers - Music and Video samples - Inbox games - Manual Install (Setup.exe) - Tablet PC - Windows Easy Transfer Sorry my Lastsession.ini is at home where I have currently no internet. Please note I did not touch any service/tweak either in vlite or after Vista installation. I am a bit worried about having removed "manual install" actually. It may linked with the prob. of uninstalling Windows features on/off. A safe way would be to remove only languages and some drivers (not storage!) but leave tablet PC and manual install in the vlite image. A pity than MS does not propose the removal of such completely useless components for 95% of users... By the way Vista SP1 is faster than XP SP2 on my machine (at least with PCmark 05: it reports 7490 for Vista against 7440 for XP): Asus P5LD2 (Intel 945P) Core 2 Duo E6400 @ 2.67 Ghz 2 GB DDR2 Corsair XMS PC675 @ 4-4-4-12 Samsung Spinpoint 500 GB 16Mo cache Hitachi 160 GB (2nd hard disk for backup/pagefile/temp) MSI Geforce 7900 GTX 512 Mb

Same prob here. I've got a Intel P945/Core 2 Duo 6400 system. I only removed languages (Japanese, Chinese), speech support, tablet PC and natural language components. Windows search service is launched and no related error noted in Event Viewer. Besides this (very) annoying drawback, vLite is wonderful. I never suspected Vista being bloated with: - 900 MB of modem/printer drivers - 1.1 GB of Asian languages (why doesn't MS sell a separate Chinese or Japanese version like for French, German, etc) - 500 MB of speech recognition - 430 MB of Tablet PC add-ons - 580 MB of 'natural language' (don't ask what it is... but maybe this is the reason why search does not work if removed) Total= more than 3.5 GB of features used by % of users? MS would have been better advised to improve disk and memory management.