http://www.nliteos.com/

Nlite lets you customize your OS install. I've used it a few times and its well thought out and very intuitive.

Try extracting explorer.exe from your setup disk cabs. Re-name existing explorer.exe > explorer.old. Replace explorer.exe with extracted one.

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