KB314106 fixes did not work. Note that my work system is a vanilla WinXP with SP3 installed so there's no issue with Sound Blaster cards, etc. I cannot make heads or tails of your "bad download "autofixed" by some AV utility" reference My top question is, why in the hell is nLite installer using NTDOS at all nLite is for WinXP, so why not a standard 32bit MSI or Setup.exe type installer?