[Vista Stuff]

mount install.wim, go to mount location\windows\system32\imageres.dll

open with restuner or reshacker

open folder image

I changed all of these images to the one I wanted. I just saved them as different sizes as needed. Use photoshop or gimp or whatever to edit your images. Also, not sure if it's necessary, but I named my edited images the same as the originals, 5031.bmp, 5032.bmp, and so on.

edit: images are .jpg not .bmp

[Ripped AERO from build; now want it back]

I did the same thing. I just opened vista in a virtual machine in vmware, and copied it from the resources folder on that to my own machine. No problems. Aero works just fine.

[IE 7 - Breaks RunOnceEx?]

Good news. Until the hotfix is available, I've just moved IE7 down to the bottom of my RunOnceEx.cmd file with the /forcereboot switch, so that the other stuff I want to install via RunOnceEx installs properly. After IE7 installs, the system gets rebooted, but there are no more RunOnceEx things for the new dll to mess up.

I put it just before the cleanup.cmd line in RunOnceEx.cmd and used /quiet /update-no /no-default /norestart

and used the cleanup to reboot.

seems to work just fine

edit: seems I was a bit premature

It works, but only after rebooting the second time.