I see through Google that there have been many people have had this error with different Windows sources and different versions of nLite over the past 3-4 years. Might as well throw my hat into the ring.

I'm using a method to install XP MCE 2005 without .NET 1.0 (using .NET 1.1 SP1 instead). This method requires removing MCE out of the Windows source and then manually installing it after Windows is done. Below is a screenshot taken from VMWare Workstation of this error at T15. I've tried adding "icfgnt.dll" as a file for nLite to keep, but I still get the same problem. I don't get the error if I don't remove MCE (but removed everything else I already had selected). If I run the same nLite profile again, but additionally select to remove MCE, then the error comes back.

Also, I used this method with nLite v1.3.0.4 back in April and it worked just perfect. I may test soon to see if the problem still happens with nlite 1.3.5 and then fall back to 1.3.0.4 to verify that it still won't happen.

Any ideas anyone?

hi roirraW,

you can ask nlite to keep any particular file,

on the step where you choose components to remove.

Try to keep the "icfgnt.dll" file ...

hi roirraW,

you can ask nlite to keep any particular file,

on the step where you choose components to remove.

Try to keep the "icfgnt.dll" file ...

Thanks for the reply, but I already tried that. The problem is that the icfgnt.dll file apparently doesn't exist in the first place. It's actually something like icfgnt5.dll, but somehow something gets messed up and the Windows installation asks for icfgnt.dll instead, which of course isn't there to begin with.

Thanks for trying!

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