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Oh, no, I don't feel like you are giving me a hard time, I'm learning from this, which is a good thing. And seeing -X-'s reply there seems to be a chance I may have discovered something (totally by accident) that might be helpful as well...so it's win-win for all. I appreciate the time you guys have taken to help/educate me to this point. It's a rare thing these days, by now I'd usually be told to get lost and receive nothing but sarcasm. You guys have been very professional.

John, All I can tell you is the disk I made from those sessions loads and runs fine. I have had no errors. In fact, the system I am typing on right now was loaded from that disk. All my apps are on the machine and I've been using them without any issues.

So far the runonce is processing in the exact order that I entered them. I experimented with this order to get them run the way I wanted them to and it is working.

And part 2 nlite.inf_Part2.txt

-X-, Attached is my nlite.inf part 1. nlite.inf_Part1.txt

-X-, I'll have to break the nlite.inf up into parts as it exceeds the max file size limit for uploads. BTW John, I did in fact click the wrong file. I opened the SVCPACK.IN_ and it does have the .inf in it.

Checked again and apparently I did click the wrong file. I opened SVCPACK.IN_ with 7-zip and it was indeed an .inf file.

The only errors I am having are the integration of dotnet and a few of the updates, and that happens regardless of how many runs I make on the source, even with just one run. The current disk I have (after 5 runs) is working exactly as it should based on what I did in nlite. I'm not trying to argue that multiple runs are OK, just that with the 5 runs on this disk, it works as set. I'll follow John's advice and try to do it all in one run, but not sure how I can process all the hotfixes under the default settings and then run the single time zone update in standardhotfix mode in one run as that requires changing the settings for hotfixes under advanced tab (which will affect all hotfixes).

John, I got the SVCPACK.IN_ in the i386 folder from the source. I used "Universal Expander" to expand it (I was looking for and downloading/trying a few expanders), but yes, when I expanded it what I got was SVCPACK.dll I've tried the ryanvm packs and can't get them to work. I've tried practically every "do this to integrate dotnet" posts I've found and nothing has worked. Speaking of expanders, I found a link to Xpero's eXPander in his post, however it appears the file is no longer there (404 error). Looking in the downloads folder on his page, it is definitely not there. Anyone know where I can get eXPander? I already have jcarle's Compressionbin.

I will attach the sessions as requested after this post. -X-, yes, I ran it 5 times, heck when I first started I ran it a lot more than that against the same source and I've never had anyhthing error out as a result. I have to run it against the same source at least 3 times. I have to integrate SP3 first, then run the WMP11 integrator, then all the hotfixes (that work), then again for the time update in order to set it to standardhotfix mode (otherwise it causes a problem with the region/time settings). I can then add the runonce, tweaks, options and burn the ISO in this last session.

It means the updates that wouldn't process through hotfixes and addons within nlite (and what I mean by "not process" is when I burn the disk, load Windows and go to the Win updates site these updates show up as needed) were added in runonce in the unattended section. Since I have wasted a ton of dvd's trying in vain to integrate the dotnet packages according to various how-to's, posts, ryanvm packs, etc, I also added them in runonce. Having those dotnet packages and updates intall as part of the windows load does increase the time it takes for Windows to complete loading, but when I go to Windows update site there are no updates pending (or at least none that I want). I don't see any option in the Desktop Theme tab in Unattended that allows me to have no background. Yes, I read the little blue circle/question mark, it didn't help, but as I said, it's not a critical tweak. I'll paste my last session(s) and steps of how I arrived where I am with my most current disk below (seperate sessions needed for end result): Step #1: First nlite session: - integration of SP3 only, nothing else changed. Successful, no problems. Step #2: Integrate WMP11 using the WMP11 Integrater tool. After experimenting I discovered that if I integrate SP3 first, then run the WMP11 Integrater I don't get the WMDRMSDK.DLL missing error as Windows is starting up/and or during logon. No issues with WMP11 either. Step #3: Second nlite session - Integration of all the hotfixes. After earlier runs I stopped integrating the updates that would show up in Win Updates site even after being integrated, and those were added to the Runonce in unattended. Step #4: Another nlite session to integrate the Timezone update in StandardHotFixing mode in order to avoid having the region/time set to Kabul instead of my local time zone when selected in the unattended. Step #5: Last session to add the updates not processing and the dotnet packages to the runonce in unattended. Step #6: First 5 steps were done yesterday, but this morning I wanted to look at tweaks, so I went back in and ran another session: And this is the disk I now have. It loads without issue and everything works. No updates for Windows needed from Windows Update site and the Adobe Reader, Flash Player, Shockwave and Java all integrated without issue. LAST_SESSION__205507.28_13.59.40_.INI LAST_SESSION__205507.28_14.11.21_.INI LAST_SESSION__205507.28_14.55.07_.INI LAST_SESSION.INI

Don't want to sound stupid, but when you expanded SVCPACK.IN_ did you mean the file that is in the i386 folder by that name? If so, I used "universal extractor" to expand that file and the file is a .dll Can you be more specific about what you mean when you say you expanded SVCPACK.IN_ to add the dotnet stuff and how/where you did that? I'd really like to try this to see if I can actually get the dotnet stuff to integrate so I don't have to have them in the runonce. I've tried the RyanVM packs and can never get them to integrate correctly.

I've solved the problem, more or less, by adding all the updates that won't integrate and the dotnet packages as runonce before burning the ISO (I tried multiple ways of integrating them, including the RyanVM dotnet packs, etc and never could get them to work right). Adds some time to the load process, but I just can't keep spending time on this thing to try to get everything to integrate correctly. As it stands, practically every single update gets integrated/loaded with the exception if 3 or 4 I don't want and the winupdate site doesn't show any updates that I need once I load from this disk, so overall, it's good. The only thing I do want to do is learn how to tweak desktop settings, etc (setting background, etc). I don't seem to be able to find where I can do that (unless it has to be done in an ini file manually or something), it's not however a big deal.

I've been using nLite now for a while (about a year I guess). I just went through building a new disk so I could include some drivers for multiple machines as a folder on the disk. Problem now is there are six KB's that don't seem to be slipstreaming successfully. They run fine in the process but when I load windows from the burned disk and go to MS updates these KB's are popping up: KB973346 - Active X Kill bits KB905474 - WGA KB954154 - WinXP Security update KB923789 - Flash Player update KB931125 - Root Certificates update KB943729 - Group Policy update Also, I am using the RyanVM dotnet pack and it appears to process properly, however I still get prompted for the dotnet 3.5 and Family update on MS update site. When I try to install some programs the system says I need dotnet 2.0 installed and it wants to run through the set up. When I try to find the dotnet 3.5 and Family update it says I need to install three patches (NDP20SP2, NDP30SP2, and NDP35SP2) as the family updates. I ran them as service packs and everything ran ok in the processing but apparently it didn't slipstream right. I've successfully built disks prior so not sure why this is happening now. Does someone have a link to good dotnet package that will slipstream properly?

I downloaded the all_in_one pack from Ryanvm and ran it as a servicepack in nLite. It processed (although twice a pop-up appeared about switches and command line usage). By all accounts it processed correctly with no errors produced. I burned my disk and installed Windows without issue, yet when I go to windows updates it still shows the .net 3.5 SP1 and family update (231MB) and I have to sit through that excruciatingly slow download and update. I thought the all_in_one pack was supposed to include this update as well? I've read other methods and frankly I don't understand all the hoops I have to jump through to get this to work. Is there a dummies guide to doing this, somehting in plain, step by step English so I can get all the .NET packs slipstreamed in?