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Vista SP2 Install “Missing Components”

Published on May 1, 2009 in Computers, Windows Software Releases and Windows Tips. 21 Comments Tags: .
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So here I am trying to install my fresh copy of Vista SP2 x64 on my system and I am coming across an error. Problem is that when you try to run the service pack install files it says that there are components missing from the install that the service pack will need to continue, well sure that “COULD” be the case if I used vLite to strip things out of Windows.

Well in short, I sort of did with my current install but all I did was put some drivers in and integrate service pack 1 into the install so everything that came with windows is still there. The problem seems to be that if you have used vLite on the install or had customized your install with vLite it creates a registry key in the system. So if you are having this error “one or more system components that the service pack requires are missing. For more information, click the link below.” all you have to do is is start regedit, navigate to this registry value below.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\vLite

Then delete the entire vLite key from the registry. When you do this it should allow for the service pack to continue to install.

Vista, Network Drive Password

Published on April 27, 2009 in Computers and Windows Tips. 0 Comments Tags: , , .
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Well I was having some minor issues with Windows Vista remembering the mapped network drive password that I had set since the machine that I am trying to connect to is now a Windows Server 2003 R2 machine that is set up to do all my seeding and file sharing within the household. I know I know, some of you might be thinking that I am selling out on the Linux stuff, well you are all partially right. My server upgrade did not go as well as I would have liked it to have and since I still have a Windows Server 2003 R2 key that is valid I decided that it might be nice to get things working via that route, well I will say that as far as simple file sharing and torrent seeding is concerned it was a much easier way to go although I still miss my SSH sessions.

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