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The office integrator forums (http://cpu.reboot.pro/ ) appear to have been abandoned to Russian spammers. Just a few months ago, the links to various hotpacks of office updates maintained by TwoJ were live, but now they are all dead, as are the links to the "office updates downloader". Since I stupidly managed to delete the hotpacks for Office 2003 during a spring cleaning of my hard disk, It would be very helpful if I could download them again.

Yes, the problem appears to have finally been solved by doing the SP3 slipstream under XP instead of 2k. However, I very much appreciate your reply because now I know how to fix it manually -- thanks!

It's a customized winnt.sif - nlite doesn't have the ability to set some allowed and documented settings in winnt.sif, so I put it together myself by hand. I was just drag/dropping it into the 1386 folder before hitting the "make ISO" button. I'll try running Nlite under VPC later today or tomorrow, once I get a working XP installation (which may take a while).

ETA2: The problem was not with my winnt.sif - Evidently Nlite is not able to handle integrating XP SP3 under Win2k, and the only indication of a problem is that the updated source will throw these file missing errors after install completes. I created a slipstream inside a VPC running XP and it worked correctly. Edited to add: Have now tried a virgin copy of XP SP2 with no updates and no alterations except for the winnt.sif file - still got the error. This makes no !@# sense. I've rolled back to virtualpc 2004 and am trying it again. If that doesn't fix this problem, my next recourse is to try it without an unattended file and see what happens then. @#$%^&*! Arrgh! I've been getting the framedyn/srclient not found error. I've been paring back the things I've added/changed from the base install in an effort to figure out what is causing it, to no avail. Latest attempt: I told nlite to integrate SP3 into a clean copy of XP Pro SP2, then dropped my winnt.sif into i386 and told nlite to make an ISO. I did NOT use any of the other options - no tweaks, no reducing, no switchless installers, nothing. Installing from ISO under virtualPC 2007 on a computer running windows 2000, I got the dreaded Framedyn/srclient error. Google tells me that this error was cropping up a lot a few years ago, but mostly for people using RyanVM or doing other complicated stuff. I haven't done any of that - the only thing I can think of that's causing it is either a) trying to do the slipstream for XP on a computer running windows 2000, or B) using virtualpc 2007 instead of an older version (up until now VPC2007 has run fine for me, but you have to hack the installer to get it to run under win2k). Was the source of this !@#$% annoying issue ever found? Is there a fix? Attaching my session.ini file and my winnt.sif Last Session.ini winnt.sif

Some of the hfcleanup file names are a bit cryptic, and Google has not always come through for me. 1. What does "osoptions_spmessages.rem" remove? 2. How about "driver_portableaudio.rdv" - is that sound drivers for laptops, or something else entirely? Also, I'm thinking of hacking the english-only files. I do want to be able to see Russian/Hebrew/Chinese/etc fonts correctly, but I don't want or need keyboard support or anything else for languages other than the default. Besides keeping the .tt_ files for the languages I want to be able to see, are there any other files normally removed by the english-only reducers that I need to keep to ensure that codepages will display correctly in Firefox?

Seconded. Lack of Fisher-Price icons is nice, but far more annoying, for me, are all the various training wheels that are turned on by default and which I have to switch off every time I reinstall.