vlite won't work after uninstalling waik

[randavis]

I installed vlite and waik, then copied wimgapi.dll to the vlite folder. vlite ran fine and I slipstreamed sp1 into Vista Ultimate.

Later, I uninstalled waik and tried to run vlite. I got the window that says to install waik, even though the required dll was in the vlite folder.

Is it not possible to remove waik?

[MagicAndre1981]

if you removed the WAIK the WIM Filterdriver (sys) was removed and this driver is needed to see the mounted WIM inside the Explorer.