XP Pro without SP2

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I wouldn't mind. I had played with XPlite in the past (a commercial product) which strips out unwanted portions of Windows. Then I heard about nLite and it being free intrigued me. (cool thing w/ XPLite it is it does it after OS install. nLite does it when you create your install cd)

Eventually I wondered if it would strip out the OS install from a bundled manufacturer disk and tried it to find that it worked.

1) create a folder on your hard drive named temp or something
2) run nLite. when prompted for XP cd put it in and browse to it
3) choose to save the extracted files to your temp directory
4) takes a while to extract all of it
5) after you get the basic install files move over it will have a bunch of other options (add/remove components, hotfixes, tweaks, create bootable iso)
6) only pick create bootable iso (mess with the other stuff if you want to make a lite version of windows, but that's not what we're doing here)
7) once the iso gets created burn it to disk

If you want I can write up some visual instructions. PM me if anyone wants me to.