Release) and copy the contents of the CD to your hard drive. Version including Full and Upgrade versions XP Home or Pro 'gold' You need to find your Windows XP CD-ROM (any bootable and/or retail Step 1: Copy your XP CD-ROM contents to the hard drive Now, I've tossed that CD aside for one that includes XP SP2 instead. Security Rollup 1 update, all meshed together into a single install. Included the original 'gold' version of XP, Service Pack 1a, and the Previous to the release of SP2, I created a bootable XP CD that And slipstreaming isn't limited to service packs, either: You canĪlso slipstream in various product updates, including hot-fixes. That's the process we're going to examine Giving you a bootable copy of the XP setup disk that includes SP2 right

Installation directory, and than write it back to a recordable CD, It just wasn't elegant, but Windows 2000įixed all that, and in XP the slipstreaming process is largelyįor end users, slipstreaming can also be useful.įor example, you can copy the installation directory from your XPĬD-ROM to the hard drive, slipstream the XP SP2 files into that Service pack installs often required users to reinstall components that In the NT days, this process was convoluted at best, and Latest version of Windows, ready to be installed at any time on new That enterprise customers could always maintain an install set of the Integrating service packs and other fixes back into the core OS, so Windows 2000, the company decided to create up a more elegant way of

Initial XP version first, and then applying SP2 after the fact.īut what, exactly, is slipstreaming, you ask? Back when Microsoft was Skip the time-consuming and potentially insecure step of installing the Want to install XP SP2 directly the next time they install Windows, and

For this reason, many people are going to Version of XP, offering as many new features and capabilities as a That's because XP SP2 is a huge change from the original shipping Technologies (hereafter referred to as SP2) warrants some discussion. Pack into Windows, but the release of Windows XP Service Pack with It's been a while since I've covered slipstreaming, or combining, a service Slipstreaming Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2)

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