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I followed the guide to save space from here http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/57/ at the end it mentioned these files which I chose to delete: cliconfg.exe, cliconfg.dll - SQL Server Client Network Utility; I never even knew this existed iexpress.exe - very obsolete Microsoft sfx-archive maker tool So now when I install, setup stahls and complains that it can't find these files and you have to make selection to skip these files and keep going. In retrospect I wish I wouldn't have deleted the files, it saved less than 1 megabyte. But since I am here, where I would find the files to edit so they didn't point to these files during textsetup? And what changes would I make?

For now I use the RD command at the end of guirunonce.cmd to get rid of directories as a "cleanup" at the end of install. Maybe not as elegant as you want buy if you know the names of the directories you don't want, they can be gone in a flash.

Check your services. I have also been trying to use a Corporate VLK SP2 disk slipstreamed to SP3. I mainly use the RVM integrator, but I used nLite to add a SATA driver and then removed many of the keyboard profiles like in your list. My installation is totally hosed, with missing shortcuts, no IE7 or WMP11... I checked my services and noticed that many services that were set to Automatic were not started. Here are some of the services issues I have. set to automatic but are not started Computer Browser Cryptographic Services DCOM Server Process Launcher DHCP Client Distributed Link Tracking Client DNS Client Error Reporting Service Event Log IPSEC Services Logical Disk Manager NVIDIA Display Driver Service Print Spooler Protected Storage Secondary Logon Security Accounts Manager Security Center Shell Hardware Detection System Event Notification TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper Themes WebClient Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) Windows Management Instrumentation Windows Time The Following are disabled Alerter ClipBook Human Interface Device Access IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service Indexing Service Network DDE Network DDE DSDM Remote Registry Routing and Remote Access Telnet Some of the automatics will start quickly like DHCP which I then can get an IP address, others take forever and then error out stating they can't be started. If I log out and log back, some of the serviceces that would not start are now started, but if I reboot they are not started again. I'm about to give up on SP3 and just go back to SP2.