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User Interaction during Windows Setup:
Fully automated - This option will not prompt you for any information.
Provide defaults - This option will fill in the info you supply but you will be able to change it if you choose to.
Hide pages - This option does pretty much the same thing as the fully automated with the exception of letting you see the Setup Wizard.
Read only - This option does pretty much the same thing as the “Provide defaults” option with the exception that you would not be able to change any of the settings.
GUI attended - This option only allows the text portion of the Setup to be automated.
For this article, let’s stick with the “Fully automated” option.
Distribution Folder - Select “No” because we will be installing from a CD. Once again, after you have got this down you can play with the other options. If you wanted to install from a network share, you would choose to create a distribution folder. The distribution folder option gives you the flexibility to add other files as well, such as drivers not found on the Windows XP CD.
License Agreement - We obviously can not forget about the License Agreement. We have to check this now because we will not be seeing it during the install.
Customize Software - Now it’s time to input your personal information. I’m sure most of you recognize this from all the previous Windows installs that you have done before.
Display Settings - Everyone is different when choosing display settings. Put in what you most commonly use here. If you’re not sure what your video card and monitor supports, just choose Windows default. If you try to over do it you may run into problems later. Remember that running a monitor at a refresh frequency that it does not support can damage the monitor. Once again, if you’re not sure just set it to Default.
Time Zone - This one is simple enough. What time zone do you live in?
Product Key - This is a handy one. Put your Product Key here. Have you ever lost your Product Key? You can't install without one. Saving it to the answer file will automatically put it in for you. Just don’t lose the floppy that you are putting it on. I’m not showing mine here for obvious reasons.
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