Jeffrey Vanneste

I have some what of a disease about formatting my computer. I pretty much refuse to ever uninstall any application. What I do instead is quite often (once a month or so) is format my machine. Now if I wasn't so cheap I would get Norton ghost but my big complaint about using ghost is that from what I understand the image will only work on the same hardware that it was created on. Enter the Unattended Windows XP Install. I'm so glad that I found this guide. I didn't even know that you could do stuff like this.
Since I only have DVD drives in all my computers I figured it would be awesome to make a unattended XP install with all patches installed, office, and all the applications that I use all the time. Configure the start menu, registry hacks and so much more. Now it takes me under 2 hours format and get back up to a state to continue working on the computer.
As a side note, I created an unattended windows xp install for work and what a great time saver. We have to install XP on machines quite often and previously it was taking half days or more to format a machine and get it back in a state ready to install our software. Now I just throw in the XP boot CD and come back in 30 minutes and it's all ready to go.