Thanks for your answer, The services disappearing may be because of you altering the services settings => I thought the same before, so i've build a new version with no customisation option (only with sp2 and hotfixes) Trying setting them all to default and see if they come back => I've also tried this, no change You may also want to check your files you put in the remove list => No files in remove list (other than default nlite files) You also may want to check your source =>Source is OK (Xp Cd + sp2 + microsofts hotfixes) Also your SP2 update pack is one I've never heard of this may also be your problem, Use RyanVM's => It's only a group of microsoft hotfixes (I can't use RyanVM's because there no french version ) This behavior is very strange, it seems to be a pb link with hotfixes direct intégration (i'm trying to use alternate integration methode now, but it's too long, 2 hours and itsn't finshed Derni_re_session__2007.04.30_16.53.45_.ini