Custom Windows 7 Installation.

I recently started a course at the YrkesHögskolan here in Falun and I have been learning quite a bit. Among other things I learned about answer files to automate a windows installation, I decided today to reinstall my desktop computer and use a custom made Windows 7 Installation image. After some reading I feel like I will have more success using a method other then the one outlined in my book tho and I wanted to document what I was doing. So first things first I downloaded a software called RT Seven Lite (which can be found here, http://www.rt7lite.com/) after a few rough attempts at installing and launching I got this window:

After my laptop was finally done copying over a Windows 7 ISO to my desktop I clicked browse and selected the ISO and the output folder for the CD to be extracted to. The extracting phase seemed to take forever, but when I saw the text change to Loading Image I knew there was progress! (note that this is a lot faster on the normal priority then the high..) Since I wanted to include the latest service pack I told it to use windows 7 ultimate and to slipstream it.

After it took quite some time to actually slipstream the SP1 install file into the image it once again began to extract the image and I was presented with:

And since I was gonna customize it as much as I could I pressed select all. First tab in the list was "Integration" which itself had 4 tabs. For my plan tho only the applications tab was of interest. I added a single installer I had made using and added the /silent switch so it would run in the background without any user interface and set the mode to automatic so I didnt need to do anything. (note the silent flag can differ depending on the installer you are using!)