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I heard about nLite<\/a> whilst I was listening the episode 41 of the This Week in Tech podcast<\/a>. I haven’t used it yet, but it sounds like a great freeware tool for customising a Windows installations right up to creating a bootable ISO image, including slipstreaming service packs, hotfixes and drivers – it sure beats Microsoft’s Setup Manager.<\/p>\n

nLite has a dependency on the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0<\/a> but also has a selection of popular packages ready for integration into the Windows source as add-ons<\/a> (Firefox 1.5, Adobe Reader, AVG AntiVirus, etc.). If I hadn’t already put a lot of effort into an unattended XP build and didn’t already use WSUS for windows updates I’d be seriously tempted to give it a go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I heard about nLite whilst I was listening the episode 41 of the This Week in Tech podcast. 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