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Installing Windows with Recent Updates?

Posted by Cliff on from the a-tailor-for-mine-emperor dept.

MoJo asks: "As a computer technician, I have to re-install Windows often. It takes three attempts to complete Windows Update (get latest update software, validate Windows, download updates). It seems like all this clicking could be scripted somehow, but I can find no-one who has found a way of reducing the whole painful affair to just one or two clicks." Is there a way to build a Windows installation CD that includes the most recent set of updates?

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  1. Terminal Server? by matth · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Screw windows... install a Linux Terminal Server.. if a machine blows up.. you simply stick another cheap machine on the network and it's up in 30 seconds...

    Install Cross-Over Office or WINE if you need to and your Windows applications work..

    No more issues.

  2. Ever hear of Terminal Server? by matth · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    TO THE MOD WHO MODDED THIS FLAIMBATE. THIS IS NOT A TROLL OR A FLAIM. IT IS THE TRUTH. IF YOU WANT TO RUN A NETWORK OF LOTS OF MACHINES USE TERMINAL SERVICES. A LINUX TERMINAL SERVER APPLICATION WORKS VERY WELL.

    Screw windows... install a Linux Terminal Server.. if a machine blows up.. you simply stick another cheap machine on the network and it's up in 30 seconds...

    Install Cross-Over Office or WINE if you need to and your Windows applications work..

    No more issues.

    1. Re:Ever hear of Terminal Server? by matth · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      That's odd... so you can't backup files from someone's desktop in Linux while they are using them? I've never had that issue. Oh, you must be talking about Windows.. yeah you can't do that you are right... Even if the person is just reading the file, you often can't open it for backup.. yeah sorry forgot you weren't talking about a LINUX Terminal Server.

      Yeah it would be almost impossible to backup a WINDOWS TS with user's settings... Linux on the other hand writes them to files which you can easily backup.

      Performance isn't too bad. We have about 50 stations on a quad 450mhz with 2 gigs of ram.

  3. Skillz by Ratbert42 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    As a computer technician, I'd never hire you.