Newbie Unattended Question

[bds42]

Hi There-

I've been searching and can't find this answer so I thought I'd ask...

What I want is to create a CD that I can pop in to a machine running XP and it will install several apps, remove some apps, and change some other settings. I *don't* want to install the whole os...just some apps. Is "Unatended XP" something I should be looking at for this? If so.. is there a guide do doing this type of setup? If not... does anyone have suggestions for a tool I should use for this?

Thanks!

Bill

[tjhart85]

You can do all of this using the methods you learn here. You may want to look into the program known as WIHU (Windows Installation Helper Utility). This program offers you a nice pretty GUI interface that allows you to select what software you want to install. You can also have default settings which will automatically be installed.

Basically, the things that you would be most interested in are the Application Switches for the silent installs so that the software won't bother the user once you tell it all the pieces of software you want to be installed.

All you would do then, is make an AUTORUN that calls WIHU and the rest is history.