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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. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FP

  2. YOU SUCCEED IT!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    slashdot is gay

  3. Re:Not just for servicepacks I might add by ericdano · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Funny, Apple has been doing that for a LONG TIME...........Since, um, OS X came out? Actually, before that, with System 9 updates.....

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  4. A healthy solution by eyepeepackets · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Use this:

    http://www.slackware.com/

    It will solve the root of your problem. Every other solution offered here is a bandaid which will fall off shortly, will surely get infected, will probably leave scars and will cost a lot of time and money for a temporary "cure."

    Oh yes, I almost forgot, the fee for the fix: Gratis.

    Cheers.

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  5. the answer is free, but you probably don't want it by twitter · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I suppose I should blame myself for trying to ask a sensible question on Slashdot. Is it me, or is this place being dumbed down to an idiots guide these days?

    You want to use non free software and you want it to be easy. Ultimately, you must do as the owners say. If there really was an answer, you would have found it already. If you want things to be easy, give your customers Mepis, it's not entirely free but none of the owners are as dumb as M$.

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  6. Twenty percent (20%) have barely enough to eat. by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    There are 6,000,000,000 people. Twenty percent (20%) have barely enough to eat. A huge number have no access to education. We are, in fact, way ahead of them.

    A large percentage are very old, or young.

    We may not think of ourselves as intelligent and educated, but we are some of the best, and it is people like ourselves that the world needs if it is to be improved.

    That statement is still true even though there may be 100,000,000 people as educated as we are.