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Yep... found OnePiece's (even includes IE7 and WMP11 - very nice!), and Stimpy's DotNet 3.5 Addon (MINUS 1.1 - yay!)... Now I'm off to have some fun... thanks!

Greetings, I finally got ahold of an official Microsoft Windows OEM Install disk with sp3 integrated... Is there a post sp3 update pack available anywhere? Thanks!

No one? Not even a guess as to why slipstreaming eliminated my 30 day window to activate?

Actually, if you do it right, the SP2 with SP3 integrated, makes for a smaller image than integrating to a XP Gold source. Care to elaborate on what you mean by 'do it right'? Will using nLite do it 'right'?

Hmmm... I have about 5 copies of XP Pro - but all are sp2 CDs... So how would I go about getting a 'gold' version of the CD?

I'm sure its something I did... I created a new CD, after slipstreaming the latest Ryan UPdate pack, and WMP 11 and IE 7 and updates... The CD installed perfectly except for a few minor WMP errors (at least I think they were minor), but after the install finished and subsequent reboot, I ran into an impossible problem... Apparently the NIC driver for the NIC card that was in this system was not included with Windows (I did NOT slipstream a driver pack, but that is next on my list)... When I tried to log into the system, it informed me that Windows would need to be activated before I could log in... and of course, since there was no internet (becasue there was no network), it silently failed activation and went back to the login screen... Is there a way to make this behave the same as an install from a normal CD - ie, you have 30 days to activate? Thanks for listening... Charles

Hi, I'm new to nLite and creating integrated/customized CDs with nLite, but have slipstreamed many a Service Pack... My question has to do with *when* to do certain things... For example... since XP sp3 will NOT include IE7, and when Service Packs are applied they update only EXISTING files: If I use nLite to integrate IE7, MP11 AND sp3, does nLite automatically know which order to do everything? Or do I need to first integrate IE7 and MP11 into my XP sources, then come back after that and slipstream sp3? What about hotfixes that have already been applied? Does nLite have some way of determining if my sources already have certain hotfixes, and will skip these? What if I make a mistake, and attempt to apply a hotfix that replaces files that have already been updated by a more recent hotfix? Thanks Charles