idyllhands

Hi. I just slimmed down my XP Home install with nLite, and installed it on my laptop. For some reason, it put a bunch of folders in my Program Files directory that cannot be deleted. The folders seems to be for components which I removed: IE, pinball, WMP, Frontpage, Movie Maker, NetMeeting, OE, etc. When I try to delete them it says It is being used by another person or program. Please close and try again. Any idea how to delete these?

Let me fully explain my situation here. I bought a "new" (to me) Toshiba laptop and deleted the restore partition before I knew that you can get the key off of it. I then got a hold of an old Dell OEM CD and managed to install it on the laptop using the key on a sticker on my laptop (I'm assuming it's OEM and not a Restore since it installed fully?) It activated just fine. Now I want to slim down my XP install to work better with the laptop and include all the SPs and hotfixes (since the Dell CD was ooooold: pre SP1). I started from scratch on my nLite and am no longer getting an invalid key error during install. I then added driver packs and got rid of IE and it activated just fine. My question for anyone who knows more than I do is this: will I have any trouble updating this install of Windows in the future?

I built the ISO in XP 32 bit with a new version of nlite, and the key is def. valid. But I was not aware that I could go directly from SP0 (or whatever you call pre-SP1) to SP3, maybe that is the issue? One thing maybe I should mention is that I have an OEM version of XP Home. I will try to delete my XP folder and start from scratch and go straight to SP3. Lastly, I am using Virtual Box, but my laptop only has 512MB of RAM and XP takes too much memory to run itself within itself, so I have to boot to my Ubuntu partition (thankfully Ubuntu uses less RAM) to try it out. So I am actually copying the ISO from a NTFS to an ext3 Filesystem and then running it in VB. But you say that it's only the OS that it's actually created in? Or could you run VB in say Vista or Ubuntu and install XP? Thanks for the quick responses, will report back once I get home and grab my XP CD

I'm having the same problem, except my OEM copy was really old. These are my steps - Copy Windows XP Home Edition (pre-SP1) OEM CD to desktop - Start nLite and use copied files as base - Add SP2 to nLite build - Restart nLite - Add SP3 to nLite build - Add RyanVM hotfixes to build - Create ISO from nLite build - Boot ISO into VirtualBox in Ubuntu Hardy Heron The installation goes fine until it gets to asking for a key. It already had the key entered, but it says "The product ID you have entered is invalid"