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TranceEnergy all I can say is wow !!! And thanks for all your feedback. Although I believe you are correct in all your points you have left me more bewildered than my original post lol. I am not looking for a hand out was just wondering if someone might have an answer on what I could still safely remove. I know that’s a per user and application question as we are all looking for different things. I started out to just remove the bloat in vista then got the bug to get it down to a full functioning program in my thoughts. That being said I guess all I am looking for is the most functional lite version that I can burn to a 700mb cd. If I cant get there from here may as well just stick to a full dvd version. Although I don’t believe that to be the case since I am so close even though I had to get rid of Windows Media player. As you might tell my lite version still works with MS Office lol.

TranceEnergy point well taken I will do some looking on features that xp has since I don't have a copy. I guess there is no point in keeping the "network and file sharing" or "diagnostics" if I have to do them manually. Seeings how the WLAN is already in there I will just configure it manually. Thanks for the reply.

Any one have any ideas on why the wireless diagnostic doesn’t work. That’s the only reason I kept the “diagnostic” and “network and file sharing” features. The error just comes up “Windows can’t resolve the problem please contact your network admin or ISP”. No option to reset the network or any other options that used to come up. Thanks in advance.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Below is a list of components I have left in my build of vista sp1. I have also included a few notes. I slip streamed sp1 and upon doing that a few of the options to remove things disappeared. WLAN and FIREWALL are no longer on the remove list. Not a bad thing I wanted to keep them anyhow. I wanted to keep network and sharing center because I have wireless. You need to keep printer and file sharing (server) to make it work on my computer. I don’t believe it’s listed as a being needed on the compatibility list for it. I ended up loading my slipstream DVD to make sure it worked on there and it did. I have been reading and experimenting with combinations for days and have ran out of DVDs. My goal was to get a close to full functional copy of vista on a cd-rom. I am close my copy is down to 715mb. I was hoping someone could look over what I have left and recommend what would be safe to remove without losing any real functionality. When I look at the compatibility and comments I can’t figure out what’s still safe to remove. I am close and have a full functioning copy working now. I traded windows media player for vlc. Not that I wanted to just that I couldn’t figure out any other way to get close to 700mb without dumping it. One last note not sure what I have deleted but diagnostics don’t work like it should when I try and repair my wireless network it just says see admin windows can’t repair. Well if nothing else hopefully a few of these notes might help someone. Sorry I got carried away but I would like to say thanks in advance for any help. As a note the things with an asterisk I would like to try and keep. If anyone has any ideas please fill free to chime in. and please let me know what your suggestions would do since I am not clear on the things left on the list. They all seem to be needed. *Disk Cleanup *Notepad *Paint *Ethernet network adapters *Floppy Disk Support *Modem Support *Printer Support *Windows Image Acquisition *WLAN Support "option not removeable after slip streaming sp1" *Firewall "same as above option to remove gone" *Media Metadata Handler *Shell event sounds *Windows Aero Theme *Windows Photo Viewer *File and printer sharing (Server) "needed for network and sharing center" *Internet Explorer Link-Layer Topology Discovery (LLTD) *Network and Sharing Center Network Explorer Quality of Service (QoS) *Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) "needed for netstat and other tools" Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) Computer Browser *Desktop Window Manager "aero desktop didnt work right without it" DHCP *Diagnostics "not sure what is missing but diagnose and repair network dont work like it should" DNS Client Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) Interactive Services Detection Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) IP Helper IPsec Policy Agent Multimedia Class Scheduler Network Access Protection Agent Network List Service Network Location Awareness (NLA) Quality Windows Audio Video Experience ReadyBoost Remote Access Auto Connection Manager Remote Access Connection Manager SSDP Discovery SuperFetch Task Scheduler TCP/IP NetBios Helper Telephony TPM Base Services Universal Plug and Play (UPNP) User-mode Driver Framework Windows Color System (WCS/ICM) Windows Connect Now Windows Event Log Windows Remote Management Windows Time Windows Update *Beep Component Cache (winsxs) *Disk Defragmenter *IMAPIv2 Burning Support *Jet Database Engine "office 2000 wouldnt install right without it" MDAC Microsoft HTML engine Microsoft Message Queue (MSMQ) Remote Differential Compression Removable Storage Management *Run a legacy CPL elevated Software Quality Management (SQM) *User Account Control (UAC) *Windows Picture and Fax Viewer (Shimgvw) Again thanks for any help or comments.