Rick Altman wrote:
I have four legal copies of Windows XP, two Home and two Professional.
Whenever I need to reinstall onto a new computer or a repaired
system, it is now a two-step process that takes almost three hours:
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- Perform the reinstall
- Apply the patch to SP2
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Microsoft Support wants $30 + tax/shipping to send me replacement CDs
that have SP2 on them, and before I bite that bullet, I am wondering
if there is a more creative solution. Is there any way to create an
SP2 CD from the combined components of an original CD and the
components of the downloaded patch? Any other solutions or paths to
take to resolve this? I imagine this has been a source of discussion
for some time, although a Google search did not turn up anything,
perhaps owing to my uncertainty over which keywords to use.
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Thanks in advance for any direction that you can provide...
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Rick Altman
Pleasanton, CA

Rick

There are many different ways to accomplish creating a bootable XP CD =
with SP2 slipstreamed. Here are a couple of sites that have information. =


AutoStreamer
http://tinyurl.com/6p6ch

Universal Windows Slipstreaming and Bootable CD Guide:=20
http://www.msfn.org/articles.php?act...owarticle=3D49


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Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/