CyberWare: Create An Unattended Windows Installation Using nLite
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We all know what a pain it is to reformat a computer but there is a way that you can make the whole process much simpler. The solution is called nLite and it will make all of your future Windows setups a breeze. With nLite you can create an unattended installation of your Windows which means you won’t have to enter in the product key and other information halfway through the Windows installation process because nLite will have it entered in for you.
It doesn’t just stop there though! nLite also has the ability to slipstream hotfixes and service packs right into the installation. You will no longer have to install Windows, then update to Service Pack 2, and then install another 60 Windows Updates! You can download the hotfixes that have been released since SP2 and simply add the 7-zip file into nLite without ever extracting it.
Why not have it install some software for you as well…like Firefox? Checkout the add-ons page for a full list of software that they have already prepared to install automatically. Just choose which ones you want to add, download the file, and integrate it into nLite. Everything is really that easy and the only thing you need before hand is your existing Windows CD. After you create your new Windows CD from nLite you will never know how you survived without it 
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Have been using nlite for a long time now. Agree perfectly with you on this statement
BTW, quote this comment gives me a 404
Hmmm, don’t know why you are getting an error. It works for me.
If you have JavaScript enabled it will be able to do it without refreshing the page otherwise it will have to refresh the page in order to quote the comment.
Does it still not work?
-Ryan
nLite isn’t really responsible for much of the customization possible - it just makes it really easy. Slipstreaming service packs, and hotfixes and registry tweaks and such are all part of the design of Windows Installation. Billy put this in there for OEM’s and network installs, but we can conveniently benefit because of this easy to use software.
http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/
has more interesting stuff on customizing installs including drivers, etc. That’s the site I originally found nLite at.
Yep, you’re right. Before I found nLite I had messed around with doing it myself using an unattend.txt file which worked fine. Then when I found nLite I was so amazed and how much it would “code” for you and all of the different options it gave me.
-Ryan