I do export the image. I have a scripting system in place that automates the entire customization process. The only thing I'm changing is replacing remove.exe. I'm using XMLs from the v0.9 zip. When looking at your git hub, version 73b2d4 on date 2013-01-23 and all previous versions work as expected. http://sourceforge.net/p/w7cr/git/ci/820b07d62b7ea3cbac16a2d1611f33031bafe939/log/?path=/remove/bin/remove.exe Without running remove.exe, the ISO size is 5,153,614 KB. Using remove.exe from the v0.9 zip, the size is 5,148,822 KB Using remove.exe from tree 73b2d4, the size is 4,299,794 KB. I didn't thoroughly test it in VirtualBox; but at a glance, wordpad and some other things were still there.