Tuesday, October 17, 2006

How to Install Windows Xp With Updates?

If you want to install Windows XP Professional on the Windows 2000 Professional computers with all updates, its possible. You have to copy the installation files from the Windows XP Professional CD-Rom to a network shared folder named \\FileSrv01\WinXP.

Next, you download updates from the Windows Update Web site to \\FileSrv01\XPUpdates using your ISP connetion. If you wantto use the least possible WAN bandwidth while performing the installations and if You also want downloaded updates to be applied to the computers with the least possible administrative effort, simply follow the steps. Now, you need to install Windows XP Professional and all the updates on all Windows 2000 Professional computer.

You can Run this command to insta Windows Xp with updates. Run the \\FileSrv01\WinXP\Winnt32/duprepare:\\FileSrv01\XPUpdates command. Then, run the \\FileSrv01\WinXP\Winnt32/dushare:\\FileSrv01\XPUpdates command.

The /duprepare switch prepares the downloaded update files to be used during an installation with the /dushare switch. When you run Winnt32.exe with the /DUShare switch, the Dynamic Update wizard is not displayed to the user and no attempt is made to connect to Windows Update.

And If you run this command /dudisable switch disables the dynamic update wizard but the installation will only use the original installation files without the downloaded updates.
 
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