Create a universal Windows Packaging package

For those computer geeks who often need to save their friends or reinstall their operating systems, the long wait for each installation of Windows is a torment. Although there are ghost such as partition mirroring software, but each computer configuration caused by Windows for hardware detection is not the same, coupled with the Windows xp/2003 unique activation strategy, which seems to make ghost useless. In fact, these are not the solution, as long as the automatic answer file and ghost organically combined, we can also create a suitable for all computers Windows packaging package, so it takes only 10 minutes to complete the tedious installation of the previous few hours.

First, uninstall the driver

As you all know, when you first install Windows, the system detects the current computer hardware and installs the appropriate drivers, so you need to uninstall a variety of drivers before you have a normal Windows packet. This is also necessary for the eventual package to be used in other computers.

1. Uninstall the hardware driver

Uninstall the hardware driver is not in the Device Manager at random Uninstall, must be in a certain order, usually we can refer to the network card, USB devices, sound cards, video cards, monitors and other steps. When uninstalling the driver, first select a device from Device Manager, then right-click and choose Uninstall from the pop-up menu.

2. Change the ACPI property

ACPI is the meaning of advanced power management, although most computers today support ACPI features, but different ACPI types of motherboards, if you and others use the computer is not ACPI, then the computer can not be soft shutdown failure, you must change the ACPI properties. When you change the ACPI property, select "Computer →acpi uniprocessor PC" from the Explorer, then select "Update Driver" from the right mouse menu, and in the Driver Update Wizard that appears, select "Install from list or specified location → do not search." I want to choose the program I want to install ", change the ACPI type to" Standard PC ".

3. Change Drive Properties

It is important to change the properties of a disk drive during the creation of the Windows Encapsulation package, and if you omit this step, other computers will have trouble booting the computer after installing Windows with this package, and restarting it continuously. Therefore, we need to change the IDE controller to a standard dual-channel PCI IDE controller, so that it can be applied to various types of motherboards today. First locate the IDE controller that is currently in use from the IDE ATA/ATAPI controller in Explorer, right-click the mouse, select Change Driver from the pop-up menu, and then select Install from list or specified location → do not search in the Driver Update Wizard that appears. I'm going to choose the program I want to install, and finally choose the standard dual-channel PCI IDE controller from the window.

After you have uninstalled the drivers for these three areas, you can basically use Windows automated answer files to create packages. Note, however, that regardless of whether you uninstall the hardware driver or change the related properties, the system prompts you to restart the computer when you are done, so remember not to restart the computer, but to automatically shut down the computer in the following encapsulation process. Otherwise, you will be prompted to discover new hardware after you restart your computer, and you need to install a new driver.

Ii. Creating an automatic answer file

Friends familiar with Windows 9x/2000 know that the system provides a hidden automatic answer file program, and Windows XP has this file, with which it is easy to complete the creation of an automated answer file. To start by finding the file named Deploy.cab from the "SupportTools" Directory of the Windows XP installation CD, after extracting it to the hard disk, running the Setupmgr.exe file activates the Setup Manager wizard, so let's try it together.

The first step when you run Setup Manager, the program asks you to create a new file or modify a saved answer file, and generally choose Create a new file.

The second step is to provide three types of installation, in which no ginseng-installed answer file is generally Unattend.txt; The Sysprep installation allows you to select an answer file, which is typically used for automatic installation mode; Remote Installation Services allow us to install Windows from a remotely installed server, where we choose the "Sysprep" type to continue.

The third step is to select the corresponding Windows version of the answer file, at this time according to your own actual choice, such as the author selected "Windows XP Professional".

The fourth step in the pop-up window can choose whether to fully automatic installation, generally recommended to choose "Yes, fully automatic installation", otherwise use this package package CD-ROM installation system is still relatively troublesome.

Step Fifth Click the "Next" button to enter the Installation Manager interface, a closer look at it is not difficult to find this is our normal installation of Windows XP in the process of the need to manually input a variety of information, so we have to set each parameter after the unattended fully automated installation. But this information is not all to enter, just the name and unit, time zone, product key, computer name, and so on several parameters set, but the language must choose "Chinese (Simplified)", otherwise installed Windows XP may affect your normal use Oh!

The sixth step finally can see a result window, here provides the answer file to save the path information, after confirmation can complete the automatic answer file creation operation.

Third, re-encapsulation

After you have done this, you will need to encapsulate the system again. In this case, just double-click the Sysprep.exe file from the Windows XP installation CD, and then click OK to prepare the package.

There are several buttons in the new window, where the audit startup and factory buttons are of little use, but the following options are more important, briefly.

1. PnP: Used to detect Plug and Play hardware, generally check this, so that the system at the time of installation of the computer is not Plug and Play hardware testing, you can some antique level of hardware can be used normally.

2. MiniSetup: Minimize the installation, it is generally recommended to check this option.

3. Nosidgen: Do not generate security identifiers, so you can avoid annoying Windows XP activation detection, so you need to check.

4. Active activation: Checking this means that the Windows XP system has been activated by default, in order to facilitate the use of recommended tick.

After the setup is complete, click on the "Re-encapsulation" button at the top, when the Windows system automatically encapsulates the operation and automatically shuts down the computer when it is finished. At this time the original installation of Windows XP partition is a clean package system disk, and finally through the floppy disk or CD-ROM boot computer into DOS mode, with Ghost to clone it after the image is burned as a CD-ROM, so that it can be used to quickly install Windows on other computers XP anymore.

Iv. Matters of note

Although you can create a new Windows XP package in this way, there are a few notable areas throughout the process and in use to remind you of this.

1. The package can be cleaned before the garbage files in the system, and disk defragmentation operations to optimize the Windows system, so as to ensure that the package file is the smallest and most stable.

2. When you create an automatic answer file, the computer name and the installation sequence number must be entered correctly, because the system has not found the mouse and keyboard drivers when the ghost recovery is complete, they are all in an unusable state, so they cannot enter any characters and rely entirely on automatic answer files for automatic input.

3. When you burn ghost image files, you might as well make them as system boot discs while adding ghost programs to the batch process, which can simplify the trouble of manually inputting various instructions.

4. After the installation of Windows XP system through the package package, there are also targeted installation of various hardware drivers. However, if you are only using a quick recovery installation for your computer, you can ignore the start uninstall driver step.

5. Interested friends can also calculate the size of ghost mirror files, using the extra space to install some system patches, necessary software and so on, which makes it more convenient for us to use the computer directly.

How, the original Windows XP can also be quickly installed in this way, if you also want to experience the convenience of rapid recovery system, may wish to try it, I believe this package installation method will make your friends around you to be impressed!