Best to Use...?

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Well, I'm looking to find a nice XP Pro SP1 or SP2 Unattended install or to make my own.

I've had trouble in the past, so I decided to post asking for help.

Here's common programs i use that i need to be available.

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mIRC

Steam - Counter-Strike 1.6 and Condition Zero

HLSW

GAIM

Firefox

CCleaner

TeamSpeak

Ventrilo

**Kaspersky Antivirus

WinRAR

SpyBot

Ad-Aware

PhotoShop

Command Prompt (Pinging Etc.)

ESEA Client (Counter-Strike)

MS Office 2003

Skype

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**Current Antivirus that I find good. If you know any better, let me know

Current Hardware:

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IDE Operated 120GB Hard Drive

Onboard 10/100/1000 LAN

Linksys WMP11 Wireless B Card

Logitech MX518 + Drivers

SteelSound 5H (USB SOUND CARD) + drivers

Chaintech NVIDIA GeForce 5700 + NVIDIA Drivers (If any more efficient, please post)

USB 2.0

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Well, please post as to what would be the best decision. To make my own... Services to delete, etc. Or are there any premade ones that can do this.

Thanks.

[jonathan_314]

funny, you want to do it yourself, but in your question I can read that you don't want to do too much of it.

Read this guide here you can find it all. It will take some reading time.

http://unattended.msfn.org/

and I would use the nlite software to help you. (look here to download it)

http://www.nliteos.com/

To add your progs use the runonceex.cmd method. I started with that and it is quite simple.

But I think nobody will make the unattended cd/dvd for you

The fun is, I think to do your own research, to find new stuff. And to cross your own limits. Then you will taste the fruits of your succes.

Greetz

Jonathan Vanpeteghem

P.S. I don't like kaspersky and moved on to EZ antivirus. It is simple and better.

Edited July 4, 2006 by jonathan_314

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there is a runonceex creator (that has a grafical interface to make it easy to ya....id also recomend enabling cmdow (its a feature of that app)...

links to:

• Runonceex-creator
  
• CMDOW
  

[1-Hit]

No, I want to do it, but I was unsure if one similar to this was premade. I was just worried about deleting the wrong services and such.

[P51D Mustang]

Virtual PC is a handy tool when building your unattended install. Some folks like VM ware but I don't know if they have a free trial.

Uncle Bill will let you use it for 45 days. Virtual PC 2004

[T D]

VMware has a free trial but it's an 100mb download! Whereas Virtual PC is like 20mb or something! Kaspersky has a more robust antivirus and firewall engine. I didn't like EZ antivirus because it's the kind of thing for novices (no offence but you can't configure it too much).