Im a newcomer in slimming down SP2 and made my first bootable ISO with all hotfixes.

I downloaded all hotfixes on a stickied thread here and i included them all in the unattended setup. And after making an image and installing it on a virtual machine it shows only 7 installed hotfixes.

When I browse on the image i see in the folder SVCPACK i see indeed the 7 hotfixes as EXE files but the rest with a "CA_" extension..

Am i doing something wrong or are the "CA_" hotfixes installed in the background and dont come back in the add/remove program list?

Btw Great work on nLite!! its awesome

What method did you use to integrate them? I used the manual method ie

hotfix.exe /integrate full path to CD source.

In my svcpack are to files for each hotfix I integrated.

hotfix1.exe hotfix1.cat

hotfix2.exe hotfix2.cat

etc.

you .ca_ are compressed cat files but I have no idea why your missing

the exe files.

I dont use manual integration, i add them through the nLite wizard.

My SVCPACK folder consists of:

- 29 CA_ files

- 7 EXE files

- HFINT.DAT

- BRANCHES.INF

I dont use manual integration, i add them through the nLite wizard.

My SVCPACK folder consists of:

- 29 CA_ files

- 7 EXE files

- HFINT.DAT

- BRANCHES.INF

I should have known that from the title of your post.

If I'm not mistaken nlite integrates the files directly into

the windows install where the /integrate method runs each exe

using svcpack.inf. What does your svcpack.inf file look like,

if you have one?

What does the windows update site show?

Thanks for replying

I have in the root the file "svcpack.in_" but its compressed so not sure my next step. I think i need to do the tedious job of seeing what the 7 hotfixes has which the other 29 hasnt.

I haven't used nlite myself to integrate hotfixes. Only know

from reading other posts. So hopfully someone else will step in

if you need more help.

Did you try the windows update site after the install to see what

it said you still needed. Because I believe if nlite integrates

them into the install they won't show up in add remove programs.