nLite is fun......particularly when 'excluding' bits of XP that you don't want to install/use.....I did it on Terry's machine ages ago....worked just fine....

On my machine I have Drive Image doing an auto image once a week.....[does it natively in Windows]....and the only thing to keep an eye on is 'space usage'....each image is around 6 gig....[20 gig OS partition].....but you just delete various older/unwanted images.

It's a bit like having rather 'extensive' system restores.  Then all you need is a second physical HD...with same size OS part...and Image to that drive....put both in caddies and you have an instant OS backup that need not be any 'older' than a week....time to switch?....the time it takes to shutdown, swap, and reboot.

Works a charm...

I should add since then I've set one of my SyncBack Outlook back-ups to run in the background every 30mins and not to alert me if there's an error (Outlook in use). It does only copy if there's a change to the Outlook data file, so running in the background won't impact any other running program as it goes by changes to the file date which will be the last time Outlook updated.

Now, to clear out all those unwanted e-mails - see you in a couple of hours...