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Sorry Guys, getting truly confused here. Memory playing tricks. I did do an Office SP2 slipstream a couple of years ago, but it was done completely manually using instructions I found by Googling. Nothing to do with nLite which I did use to slipstream WinXP SP2 hence the confusion. NigelS

Well I successfully used nLite to slipstream SP2 into Office 2003 a year or so ago..... NigelS

Does nLite support the stream-lining of recently released Office 2003 SP3 ?? NigelS

I should add that between the two runs (successful & unsuccesful) I deleted all the last_session files, and reimported a fresh source of Vista files from my RTM Vista DVD. Thus ensuring I was starting from the same place each time. Also, I watched whilst the hotfix integration was taking place, so I know that page was enabled, also the hotfixes were ordered with oldest first in list on both build attempts. NigelS

Just did a test and integrated 41 hotfixes into Vista Ultimate, and built an ISO. Didn't remove any components. Then I installed from the ISO into MS Virtual PC 2007. All went smoothly. Afterwards I ran Windows Update in the virtual vista image, it upgraded itself to Windows Update v7, and it told me there was only 1 update available (for defender) and a whole host of Ultimate Extras (language packs etc). All this was as I expected. Very pleased, I went back to square one with a fresh Vista source image, and did exactly the same as before, but this time I removed a moderate amount of components (nothing much, language packs, Welcome Center & MSN Install). But this time, after installing from the ISO and running the Windows Update, I was told there were 42 updates available. Some twenty of these were critical & recommended hotfixes which were supposedly already integrated into the Install image. So what went wrong? Did I do something different or did removing some components break the hotfix slipstreaming? Advice please? NigelS

I am testing vLite 1.1beta and have downloaded Autopatcher to get easy access to all the currently released hotfixes for Vista32. All the *.msu based hotfixes were imported and integrated correctly, but I can't seem to be able to integrate the following updates which are *.exe based. Is there a special way of importing these, or is their integration not possible at present? NDP1.1sp1-KB929729-X86.exe KB890830.exe netfxsp1-enu.exe Thanks NigelS

Thanks. I probably won't need this feature until SP1 arrives anyway. Nigel

Can vLite be used to slipstream Vista Updates (and in due course the SP1 service pack) in a similar way that nLite did for WinXP ? If so, is there a web-site keeping track of the Vista releases as they arrive? Thanks Nigel

I'd rather not disable UAC completely. Other programs when I run them do not trigger UAC, only vLite presumably because it is an "unidentified program" by an "unidentified publisher". I assume this can be fixed by nuhi. Thanks Nigel

How to stop UAC dialog popping up everytime I launch vLite? I make the shortcut Run As Administrator, but still I get the UAC dialog everytime. Thanks Nigel

I had a dualboot scenario on my laptop: WinXP on C; User data on D; and Vista installed on E. Because I installed Vista fom within WinXP, I got the Boot Manager deposited on the C Drive. Now I have deleted WinXP and reorganised so that Vista has the entire drive to itself. I had to boot from the Vista DVD to do a "Start-up Repair" but it worked OK, and I now have the laptop booting OK straight into Vista. The partition uses the whole drive (55MB). However, after booting the system drive is STILL labelled E: (I expected it would have shifted it down to C: which is what I want). I have tried everything I can thing of but nothing works. How to I force the partiton to become C: again?? Thanks Nigel

Is it possible for vLite to remove the mostly unneeded foreign language support from Vista? This results in loads of folders in the form \windows\system32\xx-xx (eg. CS-CZ) They can be removed after installation by fiddling with ownership & permissions, but it would be nice to not install them in the first place. Thanks Nigel