Quickly install Windows operating system exclusive cheats

On the rookie or the old bird, after using the computer, the new operating system installed or reinstalled is the thing that can't be done. Although the process of installing an operating system is not too complicated, it is indeed a laborious and laborious task.

1. Main steps of reinstalling the system

First adjust the system boot order. Generally, at boot time, press the DEL key to enter the BIOS setup interface, and change the setting in the system boot sequence to “CD-ROM” (optical drive priority boot).

Then, reformat the hard drive. In order to make the newly installed operating system have an "absolutely pure" environment, many people are accustomed to re-formatting the system partition before reinstalling to eliminate the possible impact of the original system.

It should be noted that if you have installed other operating systems in a partition of the hard disk, then the new operating system should not be installed in the same partition, which is conducive to the coexistence of multiple systems. Strengthen the stability of each system.

Next install a new operating system. Boot the system with the Windows installation CD and follow the prompts of the installation wizard. This process is the longest, and the computer will take a problem every time, such as "Where are you going to put the system?", "What is your serial number?", "What is the name of your computer?" If you don't answer in time, it will stop the entire installation process waiting for you, very annoying.

Finally, install various drivers. In most cases, although the system will pre-set some basic drivers, in order to better play the hardware performance, we should manually install some more suitable drivers.

If you go online often, installing the latest patches or patches is also a necessary step. Connected to the Internet, you can go to Microsoft's update site to download key updates and service packs, windows xp, driver updates and other different types of updates, and in order to save trouble, we can download and install the packaged package, save one by one Trouble with installation one by one. After the update, it can provide security and stability of the system, as well as some better new features.

2. Using the installation script

Generally speaking, it takes 1 to 2 hours to successfully install the operating system. If the system configuration is slightly lower, the time required will be It’s longer.

As mentioned earlier, during the installation process, although most of the operations are performed automatically by the installer, there are still many steps that require the user to select the relevant options or enter some information (serial number, region and language, After the computer name, administrator password, date and time settings, network settings, etc., the installation can proceed. In this way, we have to stay in front of the computer and wait to answer the questions raised by the computer. Many people "reload the system is tired", in fact, "tired" here.

So, some masters found a way to be lazy. They save some fixed selection operations and setup information as a script file, and put all the answers that are ready to answer the computer. In this way, when the installer wants to ask questions, it can find the answer directly in the script to achieve unattended automatic installation, and the masters can comfortably leave the computer to do other things. Below, we take the current mainstream Windows XP as an example, how to create an installation script for windows xp, to achieve an unattended automatic installation method.

There is a "DEPLOY.CAB" file in the "SUPPORTTOOLS" directory of the windows xp installation CD. Open the file with WinRAR decompression software and extract the setupmgr.exe program. It is the legendary "Windows." Installation Manager."

Double-click the setupmgr.exe program to start the Windows Installation Manager. At the same time, the "Windows Installation Manager Wizard" dialog box will pop up. Through this wizard, we can create the required installation script.

To create an unattended installation script, first select "Automatically" in the "User Interaction Level" dialog box of the Windows Installation Manager Wizard. In this way, the installer will not prompt the user to make any answer, and the relevant answer information is set in the script file.

In addition, under normal circumstances, we use Windows XP installation CD to install Windows, so in the "Distribution Folder" dialog box, select "No, this answer file will be used to install from CD ".

Then, click "Next", check I accept the license agreement, click "Next", "Windows Installation Manager Wizard" closes, "Windows Installation Manager" becomes the active window

In the following content, we can see that the option settings and user information collected by the Windows installation wizard can be found in the Windows Installation Manager. Set the default name and unit, product key as needed. After the (sequence number), computer name, administrator password, network component, workgroup or domain, installation folder, etc., execute the "File" "Save" command in the menu bar to save.

Note that the answer file for the installer is usually Unattend.txt (except for network pre-installation), we can name the file at will. However, because we selected "No" in the "Windows Installation Manager Wizard", this answer file will Used to install from CD, so be sure to save the answer file as "Winnt.sif" here.

Copy the "Winnt.sif" file to a formatted blank floppy disk. When you need to reinstall Windows XP, set the boot mode in the BIOS to boot from the CD-ROM first, then insert the floppy disk and the windows xp installation CD, you can safely leave the computer to do other things, no need to worry about the system installation process.