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My bad. That thing I did is not called "slipstreaming" it is a t-13 thingy. But I do it this way: I put vcredist into a 7z archive, add entries_cmdopen.ini file with the following content: [General] Title=vcredist_x64_2008 Version= BuildDate= [EditFile] I386\SVCPACK.INF,SetupHotfixesToRun,AddProgram AMD64\SVCPACK.INF,SetupHotfixesToRun,AddProgram [AddProgram] vcredist_x64_2008.exe /Q And add this 7z archive in nLite along with hotfixes. I install it after Windows has been installed. Just checked mine - it is 2,91 GB now (Net 4.0 not installed though). I can swear it was almost 5gbs before. Net folder is 303 mb. LAST SESSION.INI

Hi all. Sorry if asking in the wrong section. I have nLited WinXPSP2PRO 64-bit Edition. After a fresh installation my Windows folder is hardly ~900 megs. I install a bunch of standard apps like WinRar, 7-Zip, Daemon Tools, K-Lite Codec Pack, Office 2003, Firefox, Winamp and so on (I don't like that stuff slipstreamed. I'd rather install it manually, since I don't reinstall windows that often and most of that software is updated regularly). So, my Windows folder would be around 950 megs then. But when I install some stupid app, that requires the BS called Net Framework, my win folder size jumps to ridiculous 4.5GB. Is that normal? Will it grow forever with subsequent releases of Net 5.0, 6.0 and so on? Is it going to end some day? Why does the software framework takes up more space than the OS itself? Also what's with the vcredist? I slipstream every necessary version of it (vcredist_2005_x86, vcredist_2008_x86 vcredist_2005_x64 vcredist_2008_x64) into my Windows installation. But still some crappy installer forcibly manages to slip in some other version of vcredist. 3ds max 2009 installation, for example. I now have 6 vcredist items in Add or Remove Programs utility. What's to be done with all this mess?