Tariq Jaber

You can use Files and Settings Transfer (FAST) wizard to transfer your files, folders, and settings to a new computer when you decide to upgrade or perform a new installation of Windows XP Professional on the computer

You can also use the Files and Settings Transfer wizard to create a backup copy of your files and settings, which you can then use to restore your files and configuration data if you ever need to reinstall Windows XP.

How to start the FAST Wizard in Windows XP:
On the Start menu, click Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Files and Settings Transfer Wizard.
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Windows XP is designed to help with your computing. One of its main features is its ability to automatically download updates (service packs, security patches, etc.) and store them or automatically apply them.

The Automatic Updates service gives you three options:

1. Automatically download updates and notify you to install them.
2. Notify you to download updates and notify you to selectively install them. (Recommended)
3. Do not automatically download updates.

In this post I’ll learn you about how to perform an unattended installation for Windows XP Professional. This installation is a hands-free way to install Windows XP, it supplies the setup with the information needed during the typical setup in a file called “Answer File”.

Browse to your Windows XP CD, open the “Support” folder then the “Tools” folder. Extract the file “DEPLOY.CAB” to a folder in your PC, double click on “setupmgr.exe”, this will open the Windows Setup Manager Wizard, click next.

New or Existing Answer File - select “Create a new answer file” then click next.
Product to install - select the “Windows Unattended Installation” option then click next.
Platform - select “Windows XP Professional” then click next.
User Interaction Level - Now select the “Fully automated” option in which we will fill in the information needed during the setup and click next.
Distribution Folder – select “No” to install windows from Windows XP Professional CD.
License Agreement – Accept.

Now it is your turn to input your information to customize you’re the installation. When you finish, the wizard will ask you to save this answer file, save it on a formatted disk with the name “winnt.sif”.

It is almost done, if you want to install Windows XP again, just insert the floppy disk in your floppy disk drive and Windows XP Professional CD in your CD-ROM drive, let the setup start and go to do whatever you want.

In this post I’ll talk about how to install Windows XP Professional manually.

One may wonder what does “manually” here mean?! We are using this word because there is another Automated installation in which you don’t need to set in front of the PC waiting for each dialog that appears during the installation and filling in the data! This, Automated, can be done using something called “Answer File”, I’ll talk about it in the next few posts.

Visit Install Windows XP link to help you learn more about how to install Windows XP Professional .

You need to be a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) if you are working or planning to work on the Microsoft applications as :

• Network Administrators.
• Network Engineers.
• System Engineers.
• Security Analysts.
• E-mail Administrators.
• Windows System Administrators
• Microsoft Website Administrator / Web masters

Hello all,
I’m Tariq Jaber, a computer engineer, I’ve been dealing with computers since 1998 when I bought my first PC.
I studied computer engineering because I LOVE computer it helps you do what ever you want and learn about every thing in this world.
This is not my first created blog, but it is the first that I think I’ll continue writing on it.

I decided to start this blog to write about MCSE course, which I’m attending right now.
I hope I will learn from this certificate and let you learn the information I’m getting every day from my studying and my work experiences,
I’ll write about all the problems I faced in my daily work and the way I tried to solve it.

I hope this blog be informative and attractive to you

Thank you for your time to read my words and I hope I read your comments on my posts.

Thanks,
Tariq