Hi all, I see this thread has not being updated in a while but I need some help here I'm trying to get this to work with method 3: I installed Windows 7 Pro x64 on a virtual machine, ran all the updates and installed sp1, sysprepped it and captured the image with Gimagex. When I try to remove winsxs with vlite it always crashed after the "preparing" step. I used a volume license iso, I already tried with a retail one but no luck. I'm using this method because I wanted all the updates to work correctly, if I remove winsxs from the iso before installing the os I get all kind of errors updating the system and sysprep is kind of broken. So what am I doing wrong? Any clue or help? Thanks Shanti