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I've gotten my server install even smaller but breaking under 700mb may be impossible while keeping add/ remove feature from breaking. my latest size is 746mb. ; vLite preset file ; ;#Environment: ; vLite v1.1.6 ; Framework 2.0.50727.1434 ; Microsoft Windows NT 6.0.6001 Service Pack 1 32-bit ; ;#Target: ; Windows Longhorn SERVERENTERPRISE 32-bit Service Pack 1 ; Version 6.0.6001.18000 English (United States) ; [Compatibility] DriveimageXML DVD Treasury Halo 2 Hauppauge WinTV KMPlayer Aero Glass File and printer sharing (Server) Internet Explorer Internet Information Services (IIS) Recommended Windows Fax and Scan [CustomHide] [Components] ;# Accessories # Accessibility Speech Support ;# Drivers # Display adapters-Ati Display adapters-Intel Display adapters-nVidia Display adapters-S3 Display adapters-SiS Diva Server Modems Printers-Apollo Printers-Brother Printers-Canon Printers-Citizen Printers-Dell Printers-Diconix Printers-Epson Printers-Fuji Xerox Printers-Fujitsu Printers-Generic printer Printers-Gestetner Printers-HP Printers-IBM Printers-Infotec Printers-Konica Printers-Konica Minolta Printers-Kyocera Mita Printers-Lanier Printers-Lexmark Printers-Minolta Printers-Minolta-QMS Printers-NEC Printers-NRG Printers-Oce Printers-Oki Printers-Okidata Printers-Olivetti Printers-Panasonic Printers-QMS Printers-Ricoh Printers-Samsung Printers-Savin Printers-Seikosha Printers-Sharp Printers-Sony Printers-Star Printers-Tally Printers-Tektronix Printers-Wipro ePeripherals Printers-Xerox QLogic Fibre Channel Adapter Scanners TV Tuners-ADS Technologies TV Tuners-ASUSTeK Computer Inc. TV Tuners-AVerMedia Technologies, Inc. TV Tuners-Compro Technology Inc. TV Tuners-Conexant Systems, Inc. TV Tuners-Creatix TV Tuners-Hauppauge TV Tuners-KNC ONE GmbH TV Tuners-KWorld TV Tuners-Lumanate, Inc. TV Tuners-Philips Semiconductors TV Tuners-Pinnacle Systems TV Tuners-TerraTec Electronic GmbH TV Tuners-VidzMedia Pte Ltd. TV Tuners-ViXS Systems Inc. ;# Languages # Arabic Brazillian Bulgarian Croatian Czech Danish Dutch Estonian Finnish French German Greek Hebrew Hungarian Italian Japanese Korean Latvian Lithuanian Norwegian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Serbian Simplified Chinese Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swedish Table Driven Text Input Processor Thai Traditional Chinese Turkish Ukrainian ;# Multimedia # Music and Video samples Sample Pictures Shell event sounds ;# System # Manual Install (Setup.exe) Natural Language Windows Easy Transfer [Options] DEP (Data Execution Prevention) = Default User Account Control (UAC) = Enabled AntiSpyware Realtime Protection = Default AutoPlay = Enabled Paging Executive = Enabled Power scheme = Balanced Power button = Shutdown Sleep button = Do nothing Hibernation = Default Memory requirement = 256MB Control Panel - Classic View = Default Show hidden files and folders = No Show protected operating system files = No Show extensions for known file types = No IE Phishing Filter = Default IE Phishing Verification Ballon Tips = Default [Protection] [Drivers] [Unattended] [Hotfixes] [LanguagePacks]

It is easy with this tool HERE this tool makes imagex alot easier if you're not into command lines.

How about using imagex to export the wim you want, then use vlite to rebuild iso. the gimagex tool makes exporting images a breeze.

I know but when i tried to it broke add remove feature. I think it still need "Help" thats the only really large file left. what else can be removed that you know of?

Here's my Last Session.ini file. final iso size is 788mb. All server features work that i'm aware of. Edit: check my later post for revised ini

Maybe you can use this utility: Offline Sysprep It's called offlie sysprep and it should work fine if you mount the WIM in R/W. Hopefully this helps you out.

when i do sysprep in VMware i remove the scsi and video driver before running sysprep and it works fine. i'm having problem getting sysprep to finish when i add all the massstorage drivers to sysprep.inf. it just runs for an infinite amount of time. i also found a nice trick from another forum, you can add drivers to an offline image using PEIMG tool from WAIK just make sure you have a folder called USERS on the root of the system drive. let me know if you manage to get all the massstorage drivers working. Edit: it seems when you use PEIMG to inject drivers into your image you don't need to add the Hardware IDs into your sysprep.inf file. i just made an image in VMWare and tranfered it to HP laptop with Sata ACHI enabled in the bios and i didn't add any hardware ids to sysprep.

Thanks Kick...

Where is that option?

I also have an HP laptop and when i hibernate the screen goes immediately black and then harddrive grinds for about 2 minutes. there's no progress bar like in xp.

i can confirm i'm having the problem too. i thought that was how vista hibernated.

sorry to bring up an old topic but I just wanted to let Nuhi know that this is still problem. here's a screenshot:

i found that when i disable UAC all my errors go away, when i enable it they all come back. maybe thats why most people aren't having problems cause they disable UAC.

i too have noticed some bugs with functionality. like snipping tool not running unless right click on and ran as administrator. there are other but this one is real pain for me. i dont remove alot either, i only remove languages, media center, tablet pc, help, and speech which by the way removes over 4gigs. i feel like permissions gets screwed somehow as this doesn't happen if i logon in true admin account.

vLite does this already. it uses the generic key that vista uses when you install without a key. i wont post the key but you can download vlite and make unattended to see the key vlite uses.

thanks jaclaz, i give those sites a whirl.

DEL del ? Semi-random hints: What happens on a normally booted Vista if you open a command prompt and simply give the command? DEL del /f /a /q "%SYSTEMDRIVE%\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\StartVista.lnk" opps thats one problem. even after i remove the double "del" and run the command from a normally booted vista i get "could not find". even if i run prompt as admin. i'm kinda new with scripting as you can tell.

I'm having a problem with my CMD file. I'm using $OEM$ folder to place a shortcut in my startup folder to run a cmd file that applys my regtweaks and then deletes its own shortcut from startup folder and reboots. unfortunately it doesn't work and after reboot the shortcut is still there starting the whole cycle again. TITLE Registry Tweaks COLOR 0F CLS ECHO. ECHO Applying Registry Tweaks... REGEDIT /S %WINDIR%\INSTALL\Tweak.reg ECHO. ECHO All done! Now Windows Vista will reboot one last time... ECHO. ECHO ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SLEEP 5 DEL del /f /a /q "%SYSTEMDRIVE%\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\StartVista.lnk" SHUTDOWN.EXE -R -F -T 5 EXIT any help would be greatly appreciated.

Well, my snipping tool works just fine - as evidenced by the image of the error in the first post. I did remove "Secondary Logon" from the installation - the description of that entry in Vlite reads that Run As Administrator still works even if it is removed, but perhaps he is mistaken? Perhaps this is why the option is greyed out in the compatibility tab under file properties? I don't have a "normal" install of Vista handy to compare to. I don't recall ever using that option from the properties window - only from the right-click context menu. are you running as built in admin? my snip tools worked fine when i ran as that admin. also remove "Secondary Logon". i'll create a vlite cd later leaving in "Secondary Logon" and see if problems go away.

see, i think there is a problem with programs needing admin priviledges. even the snipping tool wont run unless you run as admin.

i've seen this problem too. i solved it by running the program as administrator. i think vlite changes something with users that some programs run like this unless run as administrator.

it doesn't work right, I tried. It works untill it hits configuring updates then it errors and needs to restart. my XP booted up stating that boot.ini was missing or corupt.

yes its called windows media lite. it allows you to play wmv files without having media player or its codec installed.

i did the the same thing slipstreaming all those hotfixes. its not worth it really. you lose 60 megs of space that could other wise be used for features. once u lose a feature its gone and hotfixes get replaced every month anyway, so next month your up to date cd will be out dated. also i don't know if its been mentioned here but if you don't run the install from windows you can delete all files in the sources folder except both .wim files and that will save you an additional 70+ megs.

he's not using areo glass thats why he doen't have all aero features.