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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. Google is your friend by MeanMF · · Score: 4, Insightful

    http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie =UTF-8&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2005-09,GGLD:en&q=windows+ins tallation+cd+with+recent+updates

    1. Re:Google is your friend by Achromatic1978 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      You did notice that the search terms he fed into Google didn't include 'slipstreaming', but only a couple of keywords the questioner asked in the article?

  2. Re:Are the systems identical? by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Welcome to the world of site licenses and concurrent use licenses.

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    This guy's the limit!
  3. Re:Are the systems identical? by toadlife · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Even if you do have a license for each computer, as far as I know, there's no way to change the registration number of a Windows install once it's been installed and a ghost image has been made."

    Got sysprep?

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  4. The ISO files don't help you at all. by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    My understanding is that the ISO files don't help you at all. They are huge because they include all languages. Each ISO file includes only the critical updates for ONE month. I know of no way to integrate them into a single CD image containing Windows XP SP2 and all the critical updates.

    It is possible to download all the separate critical updates, and run them from a batch file. But that's a hassle; Microsoft does not make that easy. This is another way that Microsoft is adversarial towards customers; they waste the time of some of the best-educated people in the world.

  5. Re:Slipstreaming by Karma+Farmer · · Score: 3, Insightful
    now go fix/explain American political "rhetoric" please.

    Public rhetoric in American politics has two parts:
    1. Cynical politicians pushing wedge issues to raise money for 527 / 501c4 organizations, and
    2. Cynical talking heads on 24-hour news stations yelling at each other about wedge issues to raise money for 527 / 501c4 organizations.
    Most of the public face of politics looks like a Jerry Springer show (and is about as real as the Jerry Springer show was) because our politicians find it immensely profitable. Divisive policies (like gay marriage or abortion) and divisive nominations (like Alito) are pushed by both sides because they're very successful fund raising mechanisms, not for ideological reasons.

    But frankly, I think we have to worry a lot more about the parts we don't see. The part of the iceberg above the water didn't sink the Titanic.