I have Automatic Updates set to 'notify mode'. When new hotfixes become available, I'm able to select the ones I want to download. However, they are never downloaded and the little golden shield icon in systray just disappears, appearing only when new updates are found (ie the ones i haven't selected to download, yet). This happens on both machines I used nLite on. I didn't remove ANY component - I just used nLite to integrate some update packs and hotfixes, to create winnt.sif file for unattended install and to apply some patches+tweaks. Deleting SoftwareDistribution folder didn't help... I'm attaching only one .ini file, it is very similar to the one of the other machine. EDIT: Oh, and I used Booogy's WMP11 integrator to integrate windows media player 11 (tweaked version) on the first machine, and Booogy's vanilla wmp11 addon on teh second one. I doubt that this had any impact, however... LAST_SESSION.INI