Tag: INSTALL

Not familiar with nLite? Well, let me enlighten you. nLite is a great free utility for Windows that lets you configure a Windows installation to your liking before you install it. Its main use is to remove features you don't need to save disk space and improve performance, but it can also be used to add features and even entire third-party programs and create an unattended install CD. If you ...

InstallPad is a brilliant open source app for Windows that lets you automate the download and installation of entire suites of programs. InstallPad relies on "application lists," which are XML files that tell it where to download the programs and how to install them. It has a built-in GUI for building and editing an application list (or you can edit XML by hand if you like), and you can select ...

AOL has been blacklisted on StopBadware.org due to the main fact that it installs additional software with AOL 9.0 without telling the user. The test of the free AOL 9.0 that StopBadware.org tested, reportedly got the bad grade because AOL did not live up to their "rich legacy" as stated by StopBadware.org co-director John Palfrey. Palfrey says this was the only reason why AOL had got dumped into ...

Have you ever wondered why Firefox makes you wait three seconds before you can click on the Install button when you want to install an extension? Most users (self included) assume that it's just to make users read the dialog. It turns out that's not the case--Jesse Ruderman explains that it's actually a security feature to keep people from unwittingly installing malicious code. He describes an ...

Too lazy to make an unattended XP install disc but don't want to stare at nothing but progress bars while it installs? Turns out it's easy to run Pinball, Minesweeper, or Solitaire while the Windows XP setup grinds along. User Boofis on the Whirlpool forums explains: "You just have to wait until the right moment the pinball files are copied. Sometime after where it asks you for the product ...

I have to wonder what it's like at Apple right now, what with everybody and their grandma installing Windows XP on their Intel Macs. Are heads rolling? Are doves being released into the sky? Do they even care? Well, if one thing's sure, it's that installing XP on your Mac is only going to get easier, ergo this video tutorial from UNEASYsilence, which donated $500 to the cause. The tutorial is ...

Today is three-for-one day on Windows Vista screenshot galleries. First up is ZDNet Australia which has documented the entire Vista install process from DVD boot to the desktop. Not exactly stirring, but a step up in terms of looks if not in speed. Next up is ExtremeTech that has a short tour of Vista Media Center side-by-side with Media Center 2005. Once again, if nothing else, it's prettier. And ...

Over at MSFN they've got a Difinitive How-To Guide to Unatteded Windows. But unattended, of course, they mean installing Windows XP without hanging around to click Next... Next........ Next. It covers how to create an install CD that includes all the latest service packs, hotfixes, security patches, libraries, and even apps and which will install all by itself without you having to babysit it. ...

Last week I installed a fresh, clean, virgin version of Windows XP. The point? I'm going to add applications, in small batches, to see what horrible things happen when innocent downloads go terribly wrong (RealPlayer I'm looking in your direction). Well thus far my C drive looks positively sparse. There are four, yes ONLY four folders in there!I am not slipstreaming anything in or including any ...