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Just did....Thanks for the tip

I removed the modem support for a few pc's and now when I try to connect a cell phone to any of them to transfer files, XP complains of having no "modem support". Is there a way to add back drivers, files, reg entries, etc?? I thought I remember seeing a few threads on this but could not find them.

It looks like he only removes a few "components". I guess the add features still works with this config?

I have recently vlite win2k8 x64 and yes it works. However with removing a few components the Add Features feature does not work that well, if at all for some components. Still trying to figure it out....

Has anything changed with the Add features working in Server 2008?

Yes, the integrated worked and after using Windows Update it successfully downloaded and installed 2-3 updates automatically!! Yes, all updates seem good now, but not the add features: Pic

You should not break it by just adding stuff. I know removing winsxs can cause issues and removing other components as well can break it. Add a couple things at a time and see how it works.

vLite preset file ; ;#Environment: ; vLite v1.1.6 ; Framework 2.0.50727.1434 ; Microsoft Windows NT 6.0.6001 Service Pack 1 64-bit ; ;#Target: ; Windows Longhorn SERVERSTANDARD 64-bit Service Pack 1 ; Version 6.0.6001.18000 English (United States) ; [Compatibility] [CustomHide] [Components] ;# Accessories # Accessibility Speech Support ;# Drivers # Display adapters-Ati Display adapters-Intel Display adapters-nVidia 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 Sound controllers 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. ;# Hardware Support # Floppy Disk Support Infrared Support Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) Modem Support ;# 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 ;# Network # File and printer sharing (Server) Internet Explorer Internet Information Services (IIS) Network and Sharing Center Windows Firewall ;# Services # Application Experience Computer Browser Distributed Link Tracking Client Distributed Transaction Coordinator (DTC) Error Reporting Interactive Services Detection Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) Multimedia Class Scheduler Network List Service Network Location Awareness (NLA) Offline Files SuperFetch Universal Plug and Play (UPNP) ;# System # Disk Quota Guided Help Help Jet Database Engine Malicious Software Removal Tool Manual Install (Setup.exe) MDAC Microsoft Agent Microsoft HTML engine Natural Language Run a legacy CPL elevated User Account Control (UAC) Windows Easy Transfer [Options] DEP (Data Execution Prevention) = Disabled (AlwaysOff) User Account Control (UAC) = Enabled AntiSpyware Realtime Protection = Default AutoPlay = Enabled Paging Executive = Disabled Power scheme = High performance Power button = Shutdown Sleep button = Sleep Hibernation = Default Control Panel - Classic View = Enabled Show hidden files and folders = Yes Show protected operating system files = Yes Show extensions for known file types = Yes IE Phishing Filter = Default IE Phishing Verification Ballon Tips = Default [Protection] [Drivers] [Unattended] SpecRegional AcceptEULA SkipNewUser SkipAutoActivation [Hotfixes] F:\Downloads\Windows6.0-KB941693-x64.msu F:\Downloads\Windows6.0-KB947562-x64.msu F:\Downloads\Windows6.0-KB948590-x64.msu F:\Downloads\Windows6.0-KB948881-x64.msu F:\Downloads\Windows6.0-KB949219-x64.msu F:\Downloads\Windows6.0-KB950917-v2-x64.msu [LanguagePacks]

Removing winsxs doesn't break Windows Update. You'll be always notified that new updates are available but some of them (most of them) won't install. You'll get an error Yea I made a new image and left in winsxs and Wu seems to work and install updates fine. However now my installed image is twice as large! I guess thats about as good as we can get for now.... ** the only thing I see wrong now is that add windows features (i tried to add deasktop exp) starts to install and gets to the end and always says element not found... Any ideas? I guess this feature is broken since I removed too many comps?? LOL

So your saying that even if you manually download the updates they still wont install if WU is removed, right?

Ok, I am trying to keep windows update so I can continue to get automatic updates on my Server 2008 build. However I am trying to remove as much as possible by removing the Component cache winsxs! However Windows Update needs the winsxs. Is there anyway around this or any other options?

Well I did some further testing: I created a new iso and left in the HTML engine and got the same error. So then I left in HTML and .NET. Now its working fine! So I guess .NET is needed for this mmc to work? Gonna mess with it now to see if there are any other issues.

I guess I removed too much...Any idea which one of these items made this break? I think it must be one of these: ** Actually these are 2 separate errors. oobe occurs on bootup and the other opening comp mgmgt. Multimedia Class Scheduler Windows Update .NET Framework Component Cache (winsxs) Microsoft HTML engine ; vLite preset file ; ;#Environment: ; vLite v1.1.6 ; Framework 2.0.50727.1434 ; Microsoft Windows NT 6.0.6001 Service Pack 1 64-bit ; ;#Target: ; Windows Longhorn SERVERSTANDARD 64-bit Service Pack 1 ; Version 6.0.6001.18000 English (United States) ; vLited with v1.1.6 (5/13/2008 9:33:20 PM) ; [Compatibility] [CustomHide] [Components] ;# Hardware Support # Infrared Support Windows Mobile Device Center ;# Network # Internet Explorer Network Explorer ;# Services # Multimedia Class Scheduler Windows Update ;# System # .NET Framework Component Cache (winsxs) Disk Defragmenter Microsoft HTML engine [Options] DEP (Data Execution Prevention) = Disabled (AlwaysOff) User Account Control (UAC) = Enabled AntiSpyware Realtime Protection = Default AutoPlay = Enabled Paging Executive = Disabled Power scheme = High performance Power button = Shutdown Sleep button = Do nothing Hibernation = Default Control Panel - Classic View = Enabled Show hidden files and folders = Yes Show protected operating system files = Yes Show extensions for known file types = Yes IE Phishing Filter = Disabled IE Phishing Verification Ballon Tips = Disabled [Protection] [Drivers] [Unattended] AcceptEULA SkipNewUser SkipAutoActivation [Hotfixes] [LanguagePacks]

Hey nuhi, I must have had a bad iso or something because now I have a known good one and its WORKING GREAT THANKS....Looking forward to the newest version to add some more tweaks, hotfixes, etc ...!!!

have you installed the new iso yet?