Just recently I had some clients show up with Windows Vista computers and had to perform clean installations from Windows Vista SP0 to fully patched Vista SP2. This took quite a while to perform on these lower end laptops that had Celeron 540 single-core processors. I figured that if I could install clean with a slipstream that I could save a good amount of time on rebuilds of Vista.

I have used nLite before to make Windows XP slipstreams and nLite worked perfect for XP, however to create a Vista slip stream I was directed via google to vLite. I then installed vLite and it complained that I needed to install WAIK for drivers. I downloaded WAIK for Windows XP, Vista, Server 2003 and burned the ISO to a DVD. Then attempted to install the required driver that vLite requires, but this driver is nowhere to be found on this DVD, or it is hidden under an installer executable that doesnt stand out as being the driver that is needed.

I attempted to first do this through my Windows 7 system, but found out that this can not be DONE. I saw references to people using Windows XP SP2 with vLite and being able to create a Vista Slipstream, but there was no good step by step guide on how to make it work.

So I fired up my Windows XP Pro SP3 laptop which is a Pentium III 600Mhz with 512MB RAM, which ALSO has a DVD/CD-RW drive to be able to burn a CD slipstream if it will fit on 700MB, or I could always move the ISO to a better computer with a DVD Burner to burn a DVD if slipstream is in excess of 700MB, and I installed vLite. I then attempted to install WAIK off of the DVD and I attempted installing features off of the DVD just to see if one of them had this driver bundled with them for creating the virtual environment that vLite needs to function. Even attempted to install the Windows Server 2003 utility to see if that was XP supported but not indicated in the GUI of the menu screen, but it stated that it was for Win server 2003 when I tried to execute it.

Looking deeper online I found many people then running into issues trying to get WAIK to work with vLite and I was hoping I'd find a link to this driver on one of the pages which would make vLite function under Windows XP on this old laptop so I could move forward into making the Vista slip stream for Vista 32 SP2 and Vista 64 SP2 since I have both Discs.

Has anyone here created a Vista Slipstream and if so, how did you make it, what was needed etc?

ThanksPerhaps the WAIK DLoad in This Link... will produce better results...Thanks for the very helpful link Patio.... one thing that jumped out at me is this...

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MSDN and TechNet Plus members can download a pre-integrated ISO image of Windows Vista SP1 and SP2. Just download this file and burn your “slipstreamed” Vista SP2 install disk.

•3+ hours to integrate SP1 and SP2 into Windows Vista x86 and 4+ hours to integrate SP1 and SP2 into Windows Vista x64