vLite SP1 Integration Kills Windows Update and SP2 RTM Upgrade?

[cyclosarin]

Hello,

I haven't seen this issue brought up on here but I could be wrong. Anyways, I keep noticing that in different forums people are talking about staying away from vLite because it ruins Windows Update and kills your ability to upgrade to Service Pack 2 RTM for Vista. I hadn't known this was an issue until I run into it today. I had slipstreamed SP1 with vLite but did NOT remove any features and kept everything intact. The only purpose for vLite was to integrate SP1 and IE8. The machines that went through a fresh install of Vista without SP1 can run SP2 RTM normally. The ones where I used the vLite SP1 DVD of Vista will always error out when running Windows Update and will come up error code 8024402C. Microsoft's solutions do not fix this issue whatsoever. I said to myself "Screw Windows Updates.. I will just try to install SP2 RTM." and when I got to that point the installer fails and says a component is missing and cannot update the SP1 machine to SP2.

I'm hoping some of you guys are already aware of this issue.. has anyone been able to come up with a fix or am I screwed and need to rebuild the HD with a DVD not created by vLite?

The installer points me to: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968279

What caught my eye was the following line:

"This problem occurs because system components that are required to install Windows Vista SP2 are not present on your computer.

However, a common reason for this problem is that the vLite software was used to customize the Windows Vista installation and some required system components were removed. "

Not understanding why this is an issue when I didn't remove anything from the slipstream.

Any feedback/guidance is appreciated.

Edit: Oh BTW, the version of Windows that I was working with was a fresh image of Vista Enterprise x86 from MSDN.

Edited April 29, 2009 by cyclosarin

[steven4554]

Microsoft does not support vlited windows vista install images, which is why you are getting the errors for sp2. You have to use a fresh clean copy of vista enterprise that has not been vlited, and has sp1 installed (because sp1 is a requirement to installing sp2). Hope this helps.

[cyclosarin]

Microsoft does not support vlited windows vista install images, which is why you are getting the errors for sp2. You have to use a fresh clean copy of vista enterprise that has not been vlited, and has sp1 installed (because sp1 is a requirement to installing sp2). Hope this helps.

I understand what you mean but what makes no sense to me is how there's so many tutorials/questions around here about slipstreaming SP1 into fresh Vista images via vLite yet no one seems to have the problems I mentioned. At least, that's the impression I get due to the lack of replies to my topic. I know Microsoft doesn't support this but how can no one around here not consider just running the regular SP2 update? Is it that most people are just doing 'clean' installs from their vLited SP2 DVD instead of just getting the windows update. Maybe this will considered more of an issue when SP2 is released to the general public but I think it's just as important now. I guess I will have to wait this out.

Edited April 30, 2009 by cyclosarin

[hclarkjr]

i did the same thing as you and ran into the same exact problem. you can either hope for nuhi to come back or somebody else makes a slipstream utility or download a full retail version with service pack 2 already integrated.

[JackieKu]

I used vLite to create slipstream Vista Ultimate SP1 (x86) without any extra modifications. I can update to from the fresh installation to SP2 RTM using the EXE installer. Perhaps integrated IE8 causes this problem?