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Of COURSE I was kidding! NO-ONE could be that lame! Nice talking to you'all. I have to go change my name now.

Mr. Jinje: The whole problem I have been having is how to stuff these modified folders back into a .wim image file. I don't remember where I read this, but on my way here, I seem to recall reading that having/using Dism meant that you did not have to install the Waik. From my experience so far, I haven't found any alternative yet to downloading and installing the Waik. Since I have been working on this since LAST Saturday, I guess waiting a couple more days won't matter. I do appreciate the DISM Tool™, so thanks for that.

I guess there is no way around downloading the WAIK. Although PowerISO will let you open a .wim and extract the contents, there is no option to save in .wim format.

Somehow . . . thru this thread . . . I have entered an alternate universe

Oh great!. First Greek, now Italian.

I guess I am at square one. How to make a new install disc with the updates and drivers. I thought I could use Dism.

Sorry to be dense, but what I was expecting (apparently unjustifiably) was to see in the Mount folder something very similar to the source [folders: boot, efi, sources, support] with which I could use to make a new install disk. I originally found links to this thread after finding out that Vlite doesn't work for Windows 7. I thought Dism would be an alternative to Vlite. [ What you can do with them is Copy/Paste any files you want into the system. Any changes you make in the mount will be a part of the next install. (after you commit changes) ] In the context of what I was expecting/trying to do, I have no idea what this means. I guess I was expecting a vlite apple and got a C: drive orange.

OK, everything was going along swimmingly. I mounted the source that was on a bootable flash drive. I added drivers and updates (packages). I committed the changes. I went to the mount folder, expecting to see the modified installation files/folders, and instead saw what appeared to be an installation of Windows [folders: Perflogs, Program Files, Windows] What do I do with THAT?