My personal blog about pre-installation and other topics

Driver installation and updating made easy: DPInst.exe

Installing or updating drivers on a system does always take a long time since you need to run many different driver installers to get all the devices in a system running. How about just running one installer and all your drivers are installed afterwards?

A guide to use WDS for OEM pre-installations… not really, but some good tips and samples

This is not a complete WDS guide as the title already indicates, but I want to share some examples and best practices. The generic WDS install guide can be found here: http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/library/7d837d88-6d8e-420c-b68f-a5b4baeb52481033.mspx?mfr=true

Windows Vista: Start Windows Update via script in Audit Mode

Windows Update is not enabled by default in Audit Mode. This CMD script will enable it and check for updates: NET STOP "Windows Update" REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update" /v AUOptions