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The topic says it all: Is there a problem in using HFSLIP (or nlite) to integrate a hotfix that supercedes a hotfix already integrated using these tools (i.e. a "hotfix update" in the windows image), or it´s best to use a "clean" windows version and start from scratch?

I have an original Win XP PRO SP2 (Brazilian Portuguese) version - in an agreement between my university and Microsoft I could download the install disk and received the key. But I messed up with this install disk and thought I could use my key with a SP3 VL install disk that I got from the internet. After doing some research, I´ve tried to replace the setupp.ini from the SP3 disk with the one that came from my SP2 disk, without success. Is there a way for the SP3 disk to accept my key? Thanks for the help.

Guys, I really want to thank all your support on this matter. Before I begin, i must quote Guns ´n Roses Civil War: "What we´ve got here is failure to communicate..." I can only blame that on my rough knowledge of English. So sorry for that too. I must make myself clear on some topics: 1) I´ve NEVER used HFSLIP or RyanVM. As I said in the first post, only have used nLite and I´m doing some research on these two tools before using it for the first time. 2) The sentence that got fdv to become so upset, "If that´s true, I guess my days with HFSLIP are over even before the beginning...", never was meant as a disappointment with the tool, because I´ve never used it, like I said above. Let´s explain what happened: bhlpt is right in his understanding of what I´m doing with my install disk. I´ve been applying SP3 and all hotfixes after that using the /integrate switch - so, using tommyp terminology, i guess SP3 was slipstreamed and all hotfixes were just integrated (so they are all residing in the svcfolder inside I386). I´ve wrote the dreaded sentence because fdv said that to undo that (so i could get back to a install disk only with SP3, i would have to do more than deleting the svcpack folder and replacing svcpack.inf (He talked about some dlls being changed and other stuff). Then i realised i don´t have time/patience/expertise to do that and told him i would not use the tool, but somehow he got that as a harsh critic. Believe me, it was not. tommyp also got it wrong, so I guess that´s my bad - Sorry again for that, tommyp and fdv. If fvd really is serious, he will not come back here to read this, so if somebody could explain that to him, I will be very grateful. Now I´ve found an easy solution: I have an original key, so i´ve donwloaded a fresh new XP SP3 from a torrent site (don´t worry, i´ve done a sha1 check). I´m working on this iso from now on. I just have one more question: what method do you recommend for me to download and keep only the needed hotfixes (because as bphlpt said, some hotfixes become superseded by new ones). If you could indicate some tool that download them and can do that kind of work, it will be very nice. As always, I want to thank all support and leave my sincere apologies to the admins. Thank you all!

So you are saying that if I get a new, clean Windows XP install disk and integrate even only one hotfix (like in KBxxxx.exe /integrate d:\winxp) this will mess with some DLLs and INF files already on the install disk? If that´s true, I guess my days with HFSLIP are over even before the beginning...

Thanks for your reply. Sorry if i was misleading in my post - I was talking only about the install disk, not the OS installation. As I said, I have a XP SP2 install disk that I´ve downloaded from the internet legally (I don´t have a CD), but I did the SP3 + hotfixes integration on it WITHOUT keeping a backup of the original disk (I never thought i would need it, since having it updated is better, isn´t it? ), so unfortunately now my only start point to work is this disk with SP3 and hotfixes integrated, all with the /integrate switch. I got from the first reply that I can use HFSLIP in this install disk normally, but the problem is that the SETUP routine (whenever i use it to install windows again) will try to install the hotfixes in the svcpack folder unnecessarily (cause i´ve already done it through HFSLIP), so i need to know if there is some way to remove these integrated patches, keeping only SP3 on the install disk (I guess the SP3 integration is done the "right" way, replacing the files insides the CAB files and whatever, is it?)

But I´m interested exactly in leaving no clutter on the install disk, so if I´m doing a real integration of the hotfixes I don´t want to keep the "unused" patches in a folder, and even more, I don´t want the setup process to install the hotfixes since I´ve already done that previously! Sorry to insist, but why the manual deletion of these files is forbidden? I´m sure I can handle that, if someone guide me about the process. Or if there´s another way to do it, I´m willing to know. Thanks for your help.

Good evening, That´s my first post in this community and I hope I´ll be writing many more in the coming years, trying to help and being helped as well. In my quest for a slim Windows XP i´ve used some tools like Nlite, but recently heard about HFSLIP and RyanVM, and i´m thrilled about what this tools can do. I have an original Windows XP PRO SP2 X86 install disk downloaded from microsoft(they have an agreement with my university here in Brazil), but in my naivety i´ve been keeping it updated by slipstreaming SP3 and all hotfixes using the /integrate switch. So now, doing some research about these tools that do a "real integration", i´ve learned that it´s not recommended to use them in a install disk with hotfixes integrated the way I did. Therefore i am here asking for your help in this issue - How can I UNDO the integration of hotfixes? I´m assuming that the SP3 integration would not be a problem, only the hotfixes. If I delete all the cab files in the svcpack folder and the svcpack.inf file, the problem would be solved? I appreciate any help you can give me on this matter. Thank you.