First of all, thanks for your willingness to help. is there a way how can i rollback my xp installer to remove the drivers or i need to restore the original xpfiles and update it? my current xp installer has the following. slipsteamed to sp2 slipsteamed to WindowsXP-KB890859-x86-ENU.exe slipsteamed to WindowsXP-KB890923-x86-ENU.exe slipsteamed to WindowsXP-KB893086-x86-ENU.exe slipsteamed to WindowsXP-KB891781-x86-ENU.exe slipsteamed to WindowsXP-KB893066-x86-ENU.exe slipsteamed to WindowsInstaller-KB893803-x86.exe slipsteamed to DriverPack_Chipset_V5041.7z slipsteamed to DriverPack_Graphics_A_V5043.7z slipsteamed to DriverPack_Graphics_B_V5041.7z slipsteamed to DriverPack_LAN_V5043.7z slipsteamed to DriverPack_Sound_A_V5042.7z slipsteamed to DriverPack_Sound_B_V5043.7z slipsteamed to DriverPack_WLAN_V5044.7z the resulting size of xp piles after slipsteamed is 790 MB after removing the folder which is not needed (docs, value add, support, win9xmig, win9xupg,winntupg), i manage to fre up almost 50 MB. still need around 50 MB... thanks in advance for those who will help me... thanks.. thanks.. thanks...