REBOL, thank you for your post. I respect and understand that you prefer to keep those settings a secret. 
Itāll surely be interesting to see how nLite can be improved, but maybe vLite is a competitor?
/LA
Must because I used nLite 1.4 instead of the latest 1.4.1 that fixed the related bug of not saving some settings ???.
Yeah, those ones. What are they for? I donāt recall such settings during the nLite config.
Hmmā¦may be it was because I selectively downloaded ones that I deemed importanted to my PC and I didnāt use the website (just the built-in Automatic Updates from the System Properties), so no āOptional Updatesā. Iām not click-happy to just blindly install any update M$ throws out there (:TNG). Sometimes updates causes problems rather than solve them.
Nothing changed since my last post on it: ~ 265 MB
I guess they are stored as a backup of your nLite session, since youāll lose it (the .ini files) when reinstalling Windows (unless you make a backup yourself of course, which I do). There is an option quite late in the wizard, you wonāt find it unless you check carefully - I missed it probably five times before I finally saw it and got rid of nLiteās .ini files on my brand new XP CD. Canāt tell from my memory exactly where it is.
As for hotfixes, I havenāt yet come to the point where I decide whether to install them or not. I know nothing about security holes in Windows, so I just happily (well, no) install them all. :-X
LA
Well, Iām not hurt by 2 small files from the program in question that has granted us this blessing. But, being a clean-freak-beyond-a-clean-freak, I can see how the situation affects you, LA. Such irony, for a program that helped you that you have to delete part of its children (:NRD).
As for Windows Updates and what to install, I click on the urlās and read them at the M$ sites as well as google for more info. Some of them I base on common sense like āa vulnerability exists in xx that can be remotely exploited xxā. If there is no specific M$ component or service, then I assume they are a given and should be installed.
LOL, I actually salute nLite by having a disc label of something like WinXP_nLite
You have a good approach for the updates, I think. Maybe I should try it. This reminds me of the completely unnecessary tool of Windows Malicious Software remover (or whatever itās called). I always thought it did something automatically as I got it from MS Update. As late as yesterday though, I found out that you have to run the program and click āscanā (or likewise) to let it do its thingā¦ I donāt need it.
Itāll be nice when SP3 comes and we can integrate it. (:AGL)
LA
You donāt know how many times Iāve been fooled by the āMalicious Software Removal Toolā. It took me long enough to figure itās malware itself (:TNG) and it leaves a copy of itself even after it supposedly self-deletes after running it just once. How do I know? Thatās according to the maker itself: M$ (:TNG). If you searched your computer, youāll notice the remnants are always there. But Iāll (try to) not get involved with that topic here.
SP3 - I recommend waiting some months after its release to see reviews of it. Itās an extension of an OS, so itāll be BIG. Since Rebol states nLite is still developing on SP2, it could take a long while before they are experienced in stripping SP3.
Soya, thereās not much new in SP3, mostly all updates since SP2 until the release of SP3. From what Iāve heard, thereās only small fixes that no one probably will notice. 1073 fixes in total. Anyways, you can find out about everything new from <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=68c48dad-bc34-40be-8d85-6bb4f56f5110&DisplayLang=en>Microsoft Download Center, thereās a pdf-file there that you can download.
Cheers,
Ragwing
1073 is not a small number 
If itās really composed of just bug fixes, why the need to nLite it?
Doh! I found out what the nlite.ini file is for: Add/Remove Windows Components. Without it, you canāt open it (:AGY). Oh well. If nLite is truly legendary as they say, I shouldnāt have to peek into that thing.
What file are you talking about? ???
Add/Remove Windows Components?
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Make that six times.
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LOL, now I understand. But still not, because Iāve never referred to any file called nlite.ini, I always meant the Last Session.ini and Last Session_u.ini . They are stored directly in your setup CD unless you chose not to keep them. Where did you find nlite.ini? I donāt receive such an error message, it works fine here. ;D
Thatās because you probably didnāt delete it like I did. Search your PC for nlite*
OK, there are two files, nlite.pnf and nlite.inf in Windows\INF. If you wish, I can upload my nlite.inf and you can try it. Itās surely different from yours, though.
Sure, thanks. If itās different I promise I wonāt kill you (:WIN)
LOL, here it is, hope it works (donāt forget to rename it! 8)).
LA
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(:SHY). I forgot where it was stored. C:\WINDOWS\system32?
(:TNG)
Same result. Now whereās my trusty knife so I can prepare polishing it?
Wait. There was supposed to be another nlite fileā¦
Try to put this file (itās not the same) in the same folder and rename it as nlite.pnf
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