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I found the INF for your device but no driver yet http://contents.driverguide.com/content.php?id=108456&path=H215DT2.inf

Post your device HARDWARE ID Example: http://www.askdrtech.com/solutions/image.axd?picture=2010%2F3%2FYellow+exclamation+mark.jpg

Rebuilding your wim will only save you a few MB's

85-90% of installers can be installed silently and some even have options, for those few that dont is when you resort to autoit It would help if you posted a list of programs so people can advise you of the best way to go about installing each one

Rebuilding/Re-exporting your wim will make it slightly smaller (use * instead of a image number if you want to rebuild all) imagex /export /compress maximum "<path _to >\install.wim" * "<path_to_different_place>\install.wim"

They most all have GDR (General Distribution Release) and LDR (Limited Distribution Release) branches, the only ones that dont have two versions are the hotfixes (they are LDR only) Only components like IE9, VirtualPC, etc. dont contain LDR files

Did you dl packages.xls to tell you what packages are related? It also has info on if its recommended to use dism or vlite to remove X package As for what is safe to remove you are going to have to go through allot of tests to see what is safe for you

Mirror

I already posted a link in your other topic and I dont think you need a specific one for x64, I think its compatible w/ all

From here You will also want to dl packages.xls to know what packages are related Edit: original install_wim_tweak link

Do all these laptops have the EXACT same hardware?

Watch the OPK videos I link to in my video post, they show how to create a bootable disk with imagex to capture or apply a wim (I have never tried it myself, I use the setup DVD) OH that reminds me, did you save space by removing the uneeded files/folders from your DVD? You can delete these from the root \support \upgrade autorun.inf setup.exe And you can delete EVERYTHING EXCEPT these files in \sources (very important to keep setup.exe in \sources) boot.wim install.wim *.clg setup.exe

What doesn't work, install_wim_tweak.exe or pkgmgr? install_wim_tweak /p <path_to_mount_folder> /m After you run that you can then use /get-packages to see what was unhidden and able to be removed like this (read packages.xls to see what is related) dism /image:\mount /remove-package /packagename:Microsoft-Windows-Example-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.1.7601.17514

Its in system32 so you dont have to specify path

Use install_wim_tweak.exe to unhide packages, I dont think it can do it to your current install only offline image

Install waik, it has pkgmgr

Dont reboot after you generalize, choose instead to shutdown, then boot into your primary OS, mount your vhd and capture it

Post the command line you are using

If you want to enumerate and uninstall drivers you dont need you can use pnputil.exe commandline tool

Yes, UAC is always off

I also get the error, I think you may have to take ownership of the mum file (might also have to do it to a reg entry or two) InstallWimTweak.exe can do this but it does all packages, not just IE8 If anybody knew exactly what InstallWimTweak.exe does it could possibly be done manually just for IE8 package

I think you need Microsoft Agent (KB969168) for it to work (I dont think its related to your error)

What I do and what you can do is add your oem stuff into your wim (rt7 lite can do this I think) and use your autounattend.xml to add the path to the bitmaps and the text you want displayed...heres an example <settings pass="oobeSystem"> <component name="Microsoft-Windows-ehome-reg-inf" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <OEMLogoUri>file://c:\windows\system32\oobe\info\vaio_mce_logo.png</OEMLogoUri> <OEMName>Sony</OEMName> <OEMName2>VAIO</OEMName2> <WorkOffline>true</WorkOffline> </component> <component name="Microsoft-Windows-PerfCenterCPL" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <WindowsExperienceIndexOemInfo> <Logo>c:\windows\system32\oobe\info\vaio_badge.bmp</Logo> </WindowsExperienceIndexOemInfo> </component> <OEMInformation> <Logo>c:\windows\system32\oobe\info\vaio_badge.bmp</Logo> <Manufacturer>Sony Electronics Inc.</Manufacturer> <Model>VAIO® Computer</Model> <SupportHours>24 hours, 7 days support</SupportHours> <SupportPhone>1-888-4SONYPC</SupportPhone> <SupportURL>http://esupport.sony.com/EN/VAIO/</SupportURL> </OEMInformation> </settings>

If you do a VMware install you can convert the vmdk to whd, then you can mount the vhd in windows so it will act like another hdd (just watch out with vmware snapshots) BTW did you not see my video, I show how if you dont have or want other partitions you can create and install to a vhd

imagex.exe is all you need, and you have to generalize the image and capture it from another boot I also post links to some OPK videos that show how to create a bootable PE disk, mount and add imagex.exe to system32 folder for capturing if you did not dual boot