liebezeit

Such is the way of Windows, I suppose. The Mac and Linux users laugh at us for this reason. Of course, I'm impartial...everything sucks in its own special way.

It does slightly limit the point of vLite, but we can still automate the install. It wouldn't be useful to me, but it might to some people. Well, I still look forward to using vLite as soon as I get my SP1 RTM disk, and it appears to be a fantastic tool. I think though that maybe it should contain a disclaimer on the component-removal screen to warn people about this issue.

So we should expect this to be true in the future as well, I suppose. Any removal of components now means a complete re-install will be needed in the future. So if I remove components from a SP1 RTM disk, I won't be able to install some future SP2. Seems like this negates any utility that derives from component removal, eh?