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nLite 1.4 Tutorial

This tutorial will guide you through the process of creating an unattended Windows installation CD
with the latest hotfixes, drivers, DirectX, IE7, WMP11, Office 2007 and any other software that you
would like to include on the CD. Remove useless components, apply tweaks and system hacks for the
highest possible performance and productivity.
Dont miss the video version of this tutorial where you can actually see the whole process of creating a
fully customized, unattended installation CD and the result tested and running in VMware Machine.
Requirements:
- nLite 1.4
- Net Framework 2.0
- WinXP CD
1. Copy the entire content of your WinXP CD in some local folder.
2. Install .Net Framework 2.0 and nLite.
3. Choose your preferred language on the first screen.
4. Tell nLite where are your WinXP files. Select Browse and navigate to the local folder you created
in step 1.
5. Choose what you want to do. You can choose only one operation, all of them, or any combination.
For example, you can choose to create an ISO and skip the rest.
6. Service Pack: Slipstream a Service Pack into the installation. Just download SP2 for WinXP and
nLite will do the rest. If you integrate SP2 you will not need SP1 because SP2 supersedes it.
7. Hotfixes, Addons and Update Packs: Add hotfixes and/or update packs to your installation. Any
addons for nLite that you add here will be installed silently during Windows Setup also.
How to get all hotfixes after SP2:
Use RyanVM Post SP2 Update Pack.
Install WinXP. Run Windows Update and write down all the required hotfixes. Download them
manually from www.microsoft.com.
Windows Updates Downloader - let this program download all hotfixes for you.
Information about the hotfix releases could be found here: MSFN, TheHotfixShare and
SoftwarePatch

 Windows Media Player 11: Download WMP11 Integrator and the WMP11 installer. Use WMP11
Integrator to slipstream WMP11 into your WinXP CD before making any changes with nLite. Once
WMP11 is slipstreamed you can proceed with nLite.
Internet Explorer 7.0: Just download IE7 and slipstream the .exe with nLite.
Office 2007: Work in progress!
Addons: Download more than 330 addons for nLite from WinAddons. These .cab addons will be
installed silently during Windows Setup.
Video tutorial: Slipstream Windows Media Player 11
Video tutorial: Slipstream Internet Explorer 7 with nLite
Video tutorial: Integrate addons with nLite
8. Drivers: Integrate drivers into the installation. Browse to some .inf files and nLite will do the rest.
Thanks to http://driverpacks.net/ you can create an installation CD with drivers for almost any piece of
hardware. During setup Windows will only use the drivers required and will ignore completely the
others. Unused drivers wont be copied on your hard drive.
Video tutorial: Integrate drivers with nLite
9. Components: Select the components you want to remove from the installation. Make sure to read the
short info before removing components especially those in red. Check the Components Removal
Example to get an idea about the most important components you should not remove.
By clicking on Advanced you will be given the opportunity to keep some specific files. For example
you can remove Command Line Tools but you can preserve ping.exe, ipconfig.exe, etc. which are
part of this component by adding them to the Keep Box:
Power users could ignore the Compatibility Wizard:
10. Unattended: Set personal settings in advance so you dont have to during the installation like Users,
CD-Key, Regional settings, etc. Here you can also add Windows themes.
Video tutorial: Unattended installation CD with nLite
Adding themes: youre using some neat Windows theme and want it on your CD as well? Here is an
example how to slipstream Luna Element 4 and set it as a default theme:
Video tutorial: Integrate themes with nLite
11. Options: You can pretty much ignore the General tab and go directly to Patches.
Maximum unfinished simultaneous connections (TCP/IP patch): Set it to 100 or 1000 for max P2P
performance.

 USB Port Polling Frequency (Hz): Increase for smoother USB mouse movement. Not for wireless
mice or any other USB device, use with caution! Works on Logitech MX, MS IntelliMouse Explorer 3,
Razer Viper and possibly others.
Unsigned Themes Support (Uxtheme Patch): Set it to enable and you will be able to use a 3rd party
themes (from DeviantArt for example).
SFC (Windows File Protection): Set it to disable to stop the automatic recovery of replaced or deleted
system files and folders. Although it might sounds like a useful feature, its highly recommended to
disable it. The duration of your installation will be reduced drastically.

Video tutorial: Patch Windows with nLite

12. Tweaks: this is pretty much self-explanatory. Apply your favorite registry tweaks and configure
Windows Services. Once Windows is installed all your tweaks will be applied, no need of post-install
tuning.
Its possible to configure the services as well.
Here you will find an excellent Windows Services Guide.
13. Bootable ISO: were almost ready. Once created just burn on CD the ISO or test it in a virtual
machine. You can burn the ISO with nLite or your favorite CD/DVD burner like Nero for example. Its
recommended to use rewritable media (CD-RW or DVD-RW) to avoid media loss in case youre not
happy with your WinXP copy and want to create another one.
Video tutorial: Create a Bootable CD with nLite
Video tutorial: Burn ISO files with Nero
Video tutorial: Test ISO in VMware Machine 5.5 shareware
Video tutorial: Test ISO in Virtual PC 2004 freeware
Video tutorial: Test ISO in VirtualBox 1.5 freeware

nLite 1.4 Components Removal Example

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nLite 1.4 Components Removal Example
These are the components I DONT remove with nLite (140MB ISO).
Im running this setup on my Toshiba notebook.
When in doubt, dont remove these components, most of them are critical for Windows, no matter what
your hardware or software needs are.
nLite 1.4 Final
Applications (2):
Calculator 60kb
WordPad 350kb
Drivers (removed all)
Hardware Support (15):
Battery 80kb
CPU Intel 40kb
IEEE 1284.4 Devices 500kb
Logical Disk Manager 710kb
Microsoft Color Management (ICM) 80kb
Modem Support 380kb
Multi-Processor Support 1,23MB
PCMCIA 100kb
Ports (COM & LPT) 200kb
Printer Support 1,6MB
Sony Memory Stick 10kb
Toshiba PCI IDE Controller 10kb
USB Video Capture Devices
Video Capture 740kb
Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) 1,15MB
Multimedia (8):
Acm Core Codecs - 40
ActiveX for Streaming Video 400kb
DirectX 5,75MB
DirectX Diagnostic Tool 240kb
Luna Desktop Theme 610kb
OpenGL Support 350kb
Windows Media Player 14,61MB
Windows Media Player 6.4
Network (8):
Active Directory Service 400kb
Connection Manager 300kb

Dial-up and VPN Support 1,09MB

Internet Explorer 4,02MB
MSMail and MAPI 30kb (only for Live Messenger)
Network Monitor Driver and Tools 80kb
Vector Graphics Rendering (VML) 300kb
Web Folders 1,05MB
Operating System Options (15):
16-bit Support 2MB
Application Compatibility Patch 1,21MB
Auditing Source DLLs
File System Filter Manager 70kb
Group Policy Management Console
Help Engine
Input Method Editor 300kb
Internet Explorer Core 1,74MB
Jet Database Engine 2,84MB
Local Security Settings 250kb
Logon Notifications 40kb
MDAC 2,81MB
Visual Basic 5 Runtime 550kb
Visual Basic 6 Runtime 560kb
Visual Basic Scripting Support 200kb
Services (21):
Application Layer Gateway 20kb
Automatic Updates 920kb
Background Intelligent Transfer (BITS) 150kb
Beep Driver 2kb
COM+ - 1,99MB
DHCP Client 120kb
DNS Client 20kb
Event Log 140kb
Internet Authentication (IAS) 300kb
Kerberos Key Distribution Center 120kb
Network Location Awareness (NLA)
Network Provisioning 80kb
Shell Services 60kb
System Event Notification (SENS) 10kb
System Monitor 400kb
Task Scheduler 250kb
Terminal Services 1,53MB
Text Services Framework 300kb
Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) 400kb
Windows Managment Instrumentation (WMI) 4,35MB
Wireless Configuration 10kb
Directories (removed all)