My personal blog about pre-installation and other topics

Running Windows Vista on a PC with an Intel Atom processor

Many reviews are claiming that Windows Vista does not run well on a PC with an Intel Atom processor. I had to try this for myself… I am not going to post benchmark results, but can tell you that the performance is fine for Office applications (tested

WDS for cross-platform (32 bit WinPE to install a 64 bit OS) deployments

Having a WDS server running already? How about using it to deploy 64 bit versions of Windows Vista and Server 2008 as well? The 64 bit versions of Windows Vista SP1 and Server 2008 can be deployed using a 32 bit WinPE. This means that you only need to

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?

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