Configuring XP for nLite to work through a virtual environment

[Rhetro]

Ah. I see..

So I'm better off installing this within the VM on the machine that I will be using for this purpose.

I'm going to attempt this today; carefully following all instructions ..

Thanks Jaclaz! And everyone else !!

[Rhetro]

Hello

I'm sure everyone here is burned out on my ramblings....

This doesn't look that complicated. However...I've been coming across some problems with the windows update feature. Namely with a certain error code --Error number: 0x8024D001--that won't let me update in internet explorer. I'm researching this issue. I guess there's no point in really taking this further until this gets resolved..

I'll report back once I do..

thanks

[jaclaz]

That is a "known" issue, in some cases installing the whole mass of bloat that Internet Explorer 8 represents is needed, in some cases it is just a matter of updating the updater utility.

Some useful links here:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/95b492d1-26e2-41bb-a7e5-86bb938997a1/xp-sp3-windows-update-error-number-0x8024d001?forum=itproxpsp

It is one of those thing that noone actually managed to get the actual reason why (and proper fix) AFAIK.

This one should be the "official" method :

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968002/en-us

jaclaz

[Rhetro]

Wow. Finally, I almost said screw it, and thought about upgrading to Windows 7. But it finally took with the IE 8 bloat install. Right now, my Parallels VHD is at at whopping 8.12 G.. included with AVG, and Office XP

So, I guess I'm ready to begin..

[Loaded4th]

I'm trying to configure an old XP Pro SP1a CD to include SP3 but any changes I make using nLite seems to cause problems when installing under Oracle's Virtualbox. Specifically I cannot install the Guest Extensions. If I use a later CD that already has SP3 included, the Extensions will install. I don't know if this is specific to the old XP CD, but the problem seems to be registry specific. I tried all sorts of customizing including just adding SP3, any thoughts:

I've attached my latest ini configuration...

LAST SESSION.INI

[Ponch]

The site says that for XP, "All versions, editions and service packs are fully supported". Is your SP1a cd an original ? ANd the obvious... why don't you use your SP3 cd ...as it works?