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Prince · 08-17-2003, 11:42 PM

I've been using XP Pro for a while, and while I consider it to be a pretty good OS for a home user, I have begun to have my doubts about how good it is for _me_. My main concern is performance. This is a new DELL, bought early this year, with P4 @ 1.6 GHz and almost 400 megs of RAM. A decent 40+ gig HD and a simple but sufficient ATI's 16 meg video card. It's all decent, and applications launch quickly enough...but as soon as more than a couple of apps are running, the performance decreases severely.

I've disabled all the candy crap I do not need, but I feel that for a system with these specs I ought to be getting a lot more from my system than I am. I find myself unhappier with the performance of this setup than I was when I ran W2k on a Celeron 600 MHz and 128 megs of RAM.

That being the concern, here comes the question: is there an easy way to prepare an unattended Windows installation? Or even not so easy? I find myself reformatting and reinstalling every few months, because of the exhausting use of my computer and the fact that I prefer a clean slate to giving CPR. I'd like to be able to set up my system so that I could store a copy of Windows on a partition of its own, maybe, and run the whole installation unattended from it when need be. I am sick and tired of going through all my cd-r's, looking for DirectX updates, WM9, etc.

08-17-2003, 11:42 PM	#1 (permalink)
Prince /nɑndəsˈkrɪpt/ Location: LV-426	Question about unattended installation I've been using XP Pro for a while, and while I consider it to be a pretty good OS for a home user, I have begun to have my doubts about how good it is for _me_. My main concern is performance. This is a new DELL, bought early this year, with P4 @ 1.6 GHz and almost 400 megs of RAM. A decent 40+ gig HD and a simple but sufficient ATI's 16 meg video card. It's all decent, and applications launch quickly enough...but as soon as more than a couple of apps are running, the performance decreases severely. I've disabled all the candy crap I do not need, but I feel that for a system with these specs I ought to be getting a lot more from my system than I am. I find myself unhappier with the performance of this setup than I was when I ran W2k on a Celeron 600 MHz and 128 megs of RAM. That being the concern, here comes the question: is there an easy way to prepare an unattended Windows installation? Or even not so easy? I find myself reformatting and reinstalling every few months, because of the exhausting use of my computer and the fact that I prefer a clean slate to giving CPR. I'd like to be able to set up my system so that I could store a copy of Windows on a partition of its own, maybe, and run the whole installation unattended from it when need be. I am sick and tired of going through all my cd-r's, looking for DirectX updates, WM9, etc. __________________ Who is John Galt?