useful util for new installs of windows? I think so

I stumbled accross this utility called nlite, maybe some of you have
heard of it, I think there are some others out there that do similar
jobs but nlite seems to have a large support base and lots of addons for it.

Anyway what is basically does is lets you preconfigure an installation
of windows 2000,xp or 2003. You just need your original Windows CD and
then you can start changing things.

Some of the things you can change..

The timezone, region settings etc so you don't have to keep selecting
NZ. You can preconfigure network settings, your windows key, the users
for the system etc etc etc. You can slipstream Service packs in and all
the latest hotfixes, you can add the latest nvidia drivers etc and xvid
codecs, people have added things like firefox and thunderbird into the
installs. Also tons of registry settings, tweaks etc.

Almost anything you can imagine can be changed, then when you run the
ISO, windows won't even ask you the questions for which you have already
configured answers, it will ask you for any that you didn't setup however.

it is great installing on a new machine and everything is there that you
need straight out of the box with the latest drivers, codecs, and all
the little things in widnows that you always have to change to suit
yourself.

Maybe old news for some but just incase some didn't know like me

google for nlite

 

Correct.
Old news but thanks for pointing it out

Old news to oldies, new news to us young people I guess

Yeah i was more after using it for adding things I guess, its great not
having to install the latest nvidia drivers, codecs to watch movies,
hotfixes etc. I wish someone else had posted about it earlier .