This is the preset I used on both installations. I triple checked that both installations had the same components removed. With sp1a it works, with Sp2 not. [Main] Env = 1.0 beta 5 - 1.1.4322.573.Microsoft Windows NT 5.1.2600.0 Target = Windows XP Professional Sp1 - build 1106 - English (United States) [Tasks] Remove Components Tweaks Create a Bootable ISO [Components] ;# Applications # Accessibility Options Briefcase ClipBook Viewer Games Internet Games NT Backup Paint Pinball Screensavers ;# Drivers # Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Cameras and Camcorders IBM Thinkpad InfraRed ISDN Modems MultiFunctional Portable Audio Printers Scanners SCSI/RAID Smartcards Sony Jog Dial Tape drives Toshiba DVD decoder card Wireless Ethernet (WLAN) ;# Hardware Support # Brother Devices Multi-port serial adapters ;# Languages # ;Arabic Arabic (Algeria) Arabic (Bahrain) Arabic (Egypt) Arabic (Iraq) Arabic (Jordan) Arabic (Kuwait) Arabic (Lebanon) Arabic (Libya) Arabic (Morocco) Arabic (Oman) Arabic (Qatar) Arabic (Saudi Arabia) Arabic (Syria) Arabic (Tunisia) Arabic (U.A.E.) Arabic (Yemen) Divehi (Maldives) Syriac (Syria) Urdu ;Armenian Armenian ;Baltic Estonian Latvian Lithuanian ;Central Europe Albanian Croatian Czech Hungarian Polish Romanian Serbian (Latin) Slovak Slovenian ;Cyrillic Azeri (Cyrillic) Belarusian Bulgarian FYRO Macedonian Kazakh Kyrgyz (Kyrgyzstan) Mongolian (Mongolia) Russian Serbian (Cyrillic) Tatar Ukrainian Uzbek (Cyrillic) ;Georgian Georgian ;Greek Greek ;Hebrew Hebrew ;Indic Gujarati (India) Hindi Kannada (India) Konkani Marathi Punjabi (India) Sanskrit Tamil Telugu (India) ;Japanese Japanese ;Korean Korean ;Simplified Chinese Chinese (PRC) Chinese (Singapore) ;Thai Farsi Thai ;Traditional Chinese Chinese (Hong Kong S.A.R.) Chinese (Macau S.A.R.) Chinese (Taiwan) ;Turkic Azeri (Latin) Turkish Uzbek (Latin) ;Vietnamese Vietnamese ;Western Europe and United States ;# Multimedia # AOL ART Image Format Support DirectX Diagnostic Tool Images and Backgrounds Media Center Mouse Cursors Music Samples Old CDPlayer and Sound Recorder Speech Support Tablet PC ;# Network # Active Directory service Client for Netware Networks Communication tools FrontPage Extensions Internet Explorer Internet Information Services (IIS) MSN Explorer Netmeeting NetShell Cmd-Tool Outlook Express Synchronization Manager TAPI Application Support Vector Graphics Rendering (VML) Web Folders Windows Messenger ;# Operating System Options # Administrative Templates Administrator VB scripts Color Schemes Desktop Cleanup Wizard Disk and Profile Quota Document Templates File and Settings Wizard Framework Manual Install and Upgrade MS Agent Out of Box Experience (OOBE) Private Character Editor Search Assistant Service Pack Messages Task Scheduler Tour Web View ;# Services # Alerter Application Layer Gateway Autoupdate Background Intelligent Transfer Distributed Link Tracking Client Distributed Transaction Coordinator (DTC) Error Reporting Fax Services Imapi Indexing Service IPSEC Policy Agent Messenger Performance Logs and Alerts QoS RSVP Quality of Service (QoS) Remote Registry Secondary Logon Telnet Server Terminal Services Uninterruptible Power Supply Volume Shadow Copy WebClient Windows Time ;# Directories # support valueadd ;# Compatibility # Compat1 Compat2 [KeepFiles] msconfig.exe [RemoveFiles] blastcln.exe clock.avi [Options] DisableFreereq DisableMinMem ProfilesDir = "%SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings" KeepCp ;#ISO maker# isovol = WinLite isoatt = -allow-multidot -relaxed-filenames -allow-leading-dots -N -l -d -D -joliet-long -duplicates-once -no-emul-boot -b boot.bin -hide boot.bin -hide boot.catalog [Patches] TcpIp = 10 UsbPoll = 125 [Services] Themes,2 AppMgmt,3 AudioSrv,2 CryptSvc,2 EventLog,2 HidServ,4 NDProxy,3 NetDDE,4 NetDDEdsdm,4 Netman,3 PlugPlay,2 ProtectedStorage,2 SamSs,2 SENS,4 TapiSrv,3 Wmi,3 LanmanWorkstation,2 RasAuto,3 RasMan,3 RemoteAccess,4 IpFilterDriver,3 IpInIp,3 IpNat,3 NwlnkFlt,3 NwlnkFwd,3 SharedAccess,3 DHCP,2 DNSCACHE,2 NLA,3 LMHosts,2 Browser,2 NetLogon,3 RpcLocator,3 NtLmSsp,3 LanmanServer,2 Srv,3 [Tweaks] ;# Boot & Shutdown # Disable Prefetch-Cache Do not Parse Autoexec.bat ;# Desktop,Taskbar & Startmenu # Remove Internet Explorer icon Remove My Documents icon Remove My Network Places icon ;# Explorer # Disable Autorun Disable Prefix: Shortcut to Recycle Bin: delete files directly Remove Send To on context menu Show Drive Letters in front of Drive Names Show extensions of known file-types ;# File Open/Save Dialog # Disable File MRU-List ;# My Computer # Remove Shared Documents ;# Network # Disable automatic search for network folders and printers Disable restoring mapped network drives on logon Disable Simple File Sharing ;# Privacy # Clear most recently opened documents list on logoff Disable Logging of executed programs Disable User Process Tracking Remove Alexa Spyware ;# Speed # Classic Control Panel Disable Tracking of Broken Shortcut Links Do not cache thumbnails ;# Start Menu # Disable popup on first boot Remove Logoff User Remove My Documents Remove My Music Remove My Pictures Remove Search the Internet from Search Remove Set Program Access and Defaults Remove Username Remove Windows Catalog from Start Menu ;# Taskbar # Disable Hide inactive icons Disable Language-Bar ;# Visual Effects # Disable: Show windows contents while dragging Disable: Use a background image for each folder type ;# Windows Media Player # Disable auto-add music to library Disable automatic codec download Disable MRU Disable silent acqusition Disable starting with Media Guide Disable WMP auto-update No visualization Remove all context menu entries [Drivers] [Hotfixes]