[Capitalism2003]

Google "Slipstreaming XP" and "Unattended XP format". It takes a lot of work to get set up (took me around 2 hours to find necessary programs online and to finish the process), but afterwards, you will have a fresh XP disk with service pack 2 and all of your windows updates integrated. Just pop it in and everything will be installed. You can even include your favorite programs on the disk (the .exe installation files), and they will be loaded automatically with the format.

[chuckles]

Slipstreaming almost cost me a format c: weekend. I made some kind of mistake and it ruined my XP. After several hours of fighting I was able to uninstall the SP2 and then re install later. I was trying to make a slipstream CD in a folder to burn and it actually changed my files in my wnnt\i386 folder.

I know trying this stuff is dangerous, I just want to recover more easily.