Windows 7 x64

[mars83]

Hello guys!

My first post on this forum and it's already crazy ! My problem is that I'm kinda lazy when I have to reinstall all crap with Windows such as drivers, apps and God knows what else. Well I read about silent installs, unattended installation etc. But now I don't know where to start. I'd like to make kind of install like OEM does: preinstalled drivers + soft to them (like CCC in AMD, whole suite to X-Fi Extreme Music), preinstalled apps etc. Here is the problem: tutorials here and google don't show how to do it in simple way (I don't know maybe it's my English ).

Then also I'd like to have automatically have configured some apps (copied FF profile, copied WinRar key into it's folder etc) I know I need .bat file for that.

So is that possible to do? And would someone help me to do it? If someone would help me I will do some kind of tutorial how to make that kind of Unattended+Configured Windows.

ps. I know I can make something like that by installing Windows, installing everything configuring it and then make copy of partition by Ghost or Acronis but it's way longer than my idea. (or maybe that's the better way?)

Edited December 22, 2010 by mars83

[maxXPsoft]

I do exactly all that with my application in stickies including Inject SP1 and all updates. It is constructed to be like a tutorial showing file structure needed like an OEM. I install all my applications and then capture an image with acronis before adding Applications and then 1 after with Apps. If I want to revert back and update applications I can do that easily. I copy FF/Tbird profile. Office 2007 with all updates and many more.

[johnhc]

mars83, welcome, here is a good place to start. I would also suggest you DL the latest copy of WAIK from MS DL Center and spend some time looking at unattend.chm. I suspect that most of the things you would like to do have been done before and discussed here. Please do some searching on specific questions and then ask in a thread when you are not successful. A virtual system is a great learning and test tool. VMware Player, VirtualPC and VirtualBox are all free. I use VMware Player and know it supports W7 but am not familiar with the others. Enjoy, John.