swiftson

Does it help if they're schools? Apologies if I broke the EULA - I'll pack it in and stick with the original discs. Thanks for the help. Edit: I'm an id*** who can apparently type long strings of characters accurately, but can't read the right line of them. The discs work fine - well, the ones with nLite. The HFSlip ones don't, but that's another story. For the record, Office keys don't work on XP.

I've run into a problem that probably has a fairly simple fix, but I'm not sure how to take care of it. I work for two different companies, both of which have volume licenses of Windows XP Pro. It's occasionally a part of my job to reformat machines at both places, and I thought "Hey - what a great time to play with and get to know this whole slipstreaming thing!" I essentially started the process on both discs - adding SP2, then SP3, then WMP 11. I didn't have much luck adding IE7, so I tried HFSlip for that particular step. I kept each step in a different directory, labeling them every step of the way. I hit the last process with the disc from company 1, and I tried it out on a company 1 computer - no luck. The key didn't work. On a whim, I tried the key from company 2 - bingo! By guess is that I just got my directories confused somewhere down the line, but I'm not sure where. These processes have taken quite a long time, and I'd hate to have to redo it all. To make a long story short, is there any way to test out a key without installing the disc? I doubt it's an actual issue with nLite, but on the off chance that it was I thought I'd post here. Thanks, in advance, for whatever help you can give.