Windows 10: What do you guys think of installable desktops for windows 10?

Sounds egoistic but can't help it *Wink, start with two of my tutorials:

• Windows 10 Image - Customize in Audit Mode with Sysprep - Windows 10 Forums
• PowerShell OneGet - Install Apps from Command Line - Windows 10 Forums

And, although written two years ago for Windows 7, still valid overview of the process:

• An Old School Geek’s approach to Installing Setting Up a Windows PC - Windows 7 Help Forums

 

Thanks Kari. I will start doing this tonight (still at work right now *Smile ) and hopefully use it on the next build.

 

If you check that image customization tut, please read carefully the warning in the beginning of it regarding Build 10041. It also applies to Build 10049.

 

@badrobot, one more thing that might be some tips.

I removed this video from the customization tutorial because with the new 10K builds it needs to be redone, but it can still be used to show how the whole process works. Too much has changed in the 10K builds for this to be used as it is, even the reboot to Audit Mode needs now to be done already from the first OOBE dialog (Custom or Express Settings dialog).

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I will wait the next build before making a new video. I will most definitely do it but not now.

 

@Kari,
Are you saying you can add customizing programs and/or drivers to the windows install? Would this work for a windows 7 oemslip pre-installed and pre-activated system? I have the re-installation dvd for windows, I got legally from dell.

One issue I had in making an new iso from the DVD is making the new iso bootable. I am using an old version of imgburn.

 

Have you tried using USB instead of DVD? USB is much faster.
But with regards to your DVD issue, always use the slowest burn speed (x6). Faster burn speeds is prone to errors.

 

Many thanks Kari.

 

I am working on a few tutorials at the moment, one will be about including the driver packages in this process. The existing customization tutorial at the moment is based on a generalized image (sysprep /generalize) which will remove all hardware drivers and make the image totally hardware independent so it can be installed on any machine, real or virtual, capable of running Windows 10.

Part Eight in the tut shows how to create the image for deployment. I simply use Macrium, meaning that my reinstalls or installs on a new machine will be done by booting the machine with Macrium boot disk and then simply restoring the image.

For Windows 7 see this walkthrough I have made: Windows 7 Image - Customize in Audit Mode with Sysprep - Windows 7 Help Forums

 

Is it technically create an Image? Isn't this a violation of licensing outside the enterprise versions? The virgin image is the violation of the license agreement isn't it.

 

Please educate, enlighten me! How on earth you can find an EULA violation in this? Creating a system image before entering the product key? or are you saying creating the image is already an EULA violation?

I have every right to customize my Windows install image as I see fit, doing it in my way it's done before any product key is used.

When restored / deployed to other machines I then activate the Windows with proper, valid and legal product key.

What a funny and completely invalid comment!

 

The core system is an API, and there is a command line. GUI's can and will be built, you can be certain. But its still in development.

 

@badrobot

I think you misunderstood me. I already have the dell re-installation dvd legal got from dell. What I was wanting to do is create a custom windows 7 iso from the windows 7 re-installation dvd. When I create an windows 7 iso from the dvd it is not copying the boot sector of the dvd, I am using an old imgburn. I was asking Kari, if it is possible to add stuff that you want like drivers, programs, wallpaper, to the windows 7 installation.

 

@Kari

I agree.
If you published your custom images on the web then it would violate the EULA, using your own custom images wouldn't if not published. You are using the images on your own computers that you bought. I see that as legal. Instead of having to install the image one at a time on each computer.

 

You can publish the image online and it would still won't violate anything (if anyone can find it useful). If you make it pre-activated or provided a key for it, then that's another story.