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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

  2. 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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  3. 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.