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I'm sorry, I can't find anywhere on the nLite site or in the EULA where it says schools can't use it and/or are considered commercial. Google can't find anything either. If it's not explicitly in the EULA (or website) then I don't believe you can make that insistence. Are schools legally defined as businesses or corporation in the (undefined?) country where nLite is developed? I strongly disagree with your "consideration". Businesses and corporations exist to make a profit, I can assure you these two schools would never be able to achieve that even if they tried. Everyone here - teachers, support staff, parents, and the community - puts in a lot of unpaid time and effort for these kids. We are a state-funded non-profit organisation. Nevertheless... May I politely suggest that you mention in a prominent place on the nlite website that schools cannot use this, or at least put the licensing rules in the site FAQ. Mentioning it in the EULA wouldn't go amiss either, infact I would think that the EULA might be a rather important place to mention it. Currently nLite is only partially deployed at one of these two schools I work at, it has only been so during the current month (Jan 2010) and its deployment is incomplete. I'll ensure it'll be off the affected school's images within a week (by Jan 29), and off all workstations within another week or two (by Feb 13). I will post a follow-up to confirm when this is done. A shame really, nLite is a fantastic piece of software.

Hi all, For a couple of school networks I manage, I've tried using a Windows XP install that I've customized with nLite and DriverPacks. The resulting DVD has all of DP's extra drivers, and no System Restore nor Automatic Updates. Instead, I'm using an update manager I've written myself alongside the FOG open source deployment system. But I've hit a problem. Trying to distribute Internet Explorer 8 to clients that were previously built using the nLite'd install CD (with Automatic Updates removed) fails. The two relevant lines from %windir%\ie8_main.log (the IE8 setup log) are: Setup then aborts (annoyingly with errorlevel 0). This behaviour is irrelevant of the /update-no switch for IE8 setup. Anyone know of a way around this? Is it possible to deploy IE8 to existing clients that have Automatic Updates (and System Restore) removed by nLite? The alternative is rebuilding deployment images for a dozen types of PC and redeploying 60+ machines and I'm hoping to avoid having to do that!! Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks, Andrew