How to install Windows unattended

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How to install Windows unattended

by Jordan Running Jan 6th 2006

Over at MSFN they've got a Difinitive How-To Guide to Unatteded Windows. But unattended, of course, they mean installing Windows XP without hanging around to click Next... Next........ Next. It covers how to create an install CD that includes all the latest service packs, hotfixes, security patches, libraries, and even apps and which will install all by itself without you having to babysit it. There are three versions of the guide for Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced users. Especially useful for admins who don't have time to kill and also for those of us with lives to get on with.

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Tags: install, unattended, windows, xp

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Jamesey said 11:47AM on 1-11-2006

nLite is so much easier and automatic.

http://www.nliteos.com/nlite.html

and you can get patches and service packs here

http://www.softwarepatch.com/windows/

Azazello said 8:58AM on 9-27-2006

nLite might be easier but it requires .NET Framework 2.0. Sorry, I don't plan on doing software development anytime soon; and I don't need extra software, which I'm gonna use maybe twice, sitting on my PC.

I'll stick to the instructions given above.

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