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Thank you for the link - I had not seen this before. Very strange then that doing the slipstream manually on a Windows 7 machine worked for me - despite Microsoft saying that it wouldn't work with Vista/Server 2008, which would probably also mean Windows 7 too. Maybe nLite uses a different method to slipstream than the method I used. Anyway, I've got a working CD now with SP3 included, so all is good - thanks for your help

Hi John Yep - I agree the red banner is a bit restrictive in the wording And yes - I really did remove nothing. Simply wanted to integrate XP SP3 into an install disk that only had SP1 - for less bloat and downloading time when rebuilding a PC. I've used nLite before to achieve this, and it's worked, but this is the first attempt with Windows 7. I'm surprised the host platform affects nLite in this way, but have been able to achieve what I was looking to do - the hard (manual) way. I followed this guide: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2325399,00.asp Just using ImgBurn and the SP3 exe I now have a working ISO, which accepts the product key like it should. This might help others facing the same problem. Thanks again for your help

Thanks for the quick reply As the red text said 'If you are having issues with Windows after removing components', and I wasn't removing components (simply slipstreaming), I didn't think the Last Session.ini was relevant. As stated in my original post, I'm adding SP3 using nLite. I wasn't aware this was a known issue - are the known issues listed somewhere on the website? I can use a virtual machine if I have to - is there no way of working around this in W7 without resorting to a virtual machine?

I've used nLite under Windows 7 to slipstream SP3 into an original XP Home disc (nothing else added), then burnt to ISO. The resulting CD starts to install Windows, and works up until the point of entering the product key. I know the product key is genuine (it's on a Microsoft COA that has been used before). Everything that is entered is rejected as invalid, and the option to skip entering a product key just loops - failing to skip the step. Something seems to be up with the files relating to the key authorisation since nLite. I can see there was a bug very similar to this resolved some time ago, but judging by another recent post, it is still there somewhere. On another similar post, someone asked for the contents of SETUPP.INI. On the post-nLite version I have, this contains: [Pid] ExtraData=786F687170637175716954806365EF Pid=55277OEM Hopefully someone can help me get round/fix this bug