-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Slipstreaming and cloning WAS: Re: Email Clients . . . 2 at once?

Don,
    If you know where to look, there are literally thousands of things that 
can be added or slipstreamed into an installation.  There are also utilities 
that let you bring up menus so you can choose which of a set of apps you 
wish to employ on a given Win installation (WPI, for example).  Nearly every 
viable tool for doing these things has a related forum and/or repository for 
many of the add-ons that can be used with them.  I will one day get around 
to searching through at least some of these for possible inclusion in my own 
project.  I know we've discussed some of these over the list before, so I'm 
not going into heavy details here.       lol

    I recall seeing something about slipstreaming Office into a Windows 
disk.  I'll send in a link if I come across it again.

    Test your creation in a VM before committing it to a blank.  Chances are 
good that this advice will prevent you from creating at least a few 
coasters.  There are several approaches for maintaining your own copy of 
relevant Windows Updates so that you won't need to put your system online 
until after they have all been installed.  Again, I'm not up to that point 
in my own project, so I don't have enough details to provide here.

    I have not used ATI's sandbox and probably never will since VPC does 
pretty much everything I need.  I will be testing out VMWare's offering 
eventually though, just to keep MS honest.     :O)

Peace,
Gman

"The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask"

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don101" <don101@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 12:33 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Slipstreaming and cloning WAS: Re: Email Clients . . 
. 2 at once?


>I started by gathering the various programs I want to use in one
> convenient location sorted by Windows install on hard drive, portable
> install on hard drive and portable install on thumb drive.
>
> I also have set up a new folder with subfolders for nLite, XP Pro, SP3
> and the one nLite add-on I can find.  I thought there was a WMP 11
> add-on but I can't find it.  Would prefer that to getting it via Win
> Update.  I can't think of anything else I can slipstream that I really
> need.  Can you?
>
> Some stuff, unfortunately can not be slipstreamed (as far as I
> know)... CA Security Suite, MS Office, Snag-it, my attachment
> extractor and dupe picture detector etc.
>
> I will slip stream everything I can, create an ISO, burn to a bootable
> CD and then install it.  Next I'll install security software and
> everything else that needs a Windows install and then everything that
> gets a portable install.
>
> Then I will run Windows Update and Security Suite update.  Then update
> everything else.
>
> By then I hope I have ATI 11 and can make a clone.
>
> Have you used the sandbox in ATI 11 yet?  Is it better than MS VPC
> 2007?
>
> Once that is all done and I am happy, Can I use the clone to create a
> dual boot on a second hard drive or do I need to use the CD and
> install it?  The Disk Director Suite has a boot manager, if the
> Windows boot manager doesn't like the clone will the DD manager?
>
> I'm gonna try to do the slipstreaming Monday before I go to work.
>
> I've read a lot of portable app descriptions and many noted that some
> things were written to the registry.  I don't think I picked any of
> those.  But I will watch as I progress.
>
> Don 

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