I'm new to this and to Win7, my terminology may not be accurate. For the first time, yesterday I created custom media for installing Win7 and used it successfully. It was really easy.
Essentially, I created and executed a slip.cmd file. The file contained various dism commands. My approach was similar to/ adopted from Winaero. I started withen_windows_7_professional_with_sp1_x64_dvd_u_676939.iso downloaded from some website that I partially trusted. The sha1 hash matched the one I found on the Microsoft site, so I proceeded under the assumption that the iso was identical to Microsoft's. Thus my 1st question: are there any reports of nefarious Win7 iso's with the correct hash?
After dism'ing the preliminary updates/rollups, I continued with the Jul, Aug, Sept and Oct rollups mentioned on Microsoft's update history page. It seemed some of those contained previous ones. Even though I wasn't sure if duplications would cause problems, I went ahead and added them one by one in chronological order. Thus my 2nd question: will my negligence in attention to duplicates cause problems down the road?
I used my customized install media to do a fresh install on a disk, deleting all the partitions as one of the preliminary installer steps. The install proceeded without issues. I installed some hardware drivers, etc, then ran WindowsUpdate, which finished in short time. Windows Update found 58 additional updates and was successful in installing 57. The computer is now waiting to be rebooted. Here is my main question: how can I added those 57 updates to my custom install media? Are the msu's in some folder somewhere? If not, is there some list of the update numbers somewhere (to manually download the 57 msu's)? (fwiw, the windows-7-sp1-x64-enu.ulz xml file does not contain any 2016 dates, so it does not have what I am after). I expect there are programs that I can download and run that will do this for me, but I am stubborn about adding them with dism commands that I will write into a slip.cmd file.
My last question: I activated Win7 OEM with slmgr commands. How can this step be added to my custom install media?
Essentially, I created and executed a slip.cmd file. The file contained various dism commands. My approach was similar to/ adopted from Winaero. I started withen_windows_7_professional_with_sp1_x64_dvd_u_676939.iso downloaded from some website that I partially trusted. The sha1 hash matched the one I found on the Microsoft site, so I proceeded under the assumption that the iso was identical to Microsoft's. Thus my 1st question: are there any reports of nefarious Win7 iso's with the correct hash?
After dism'ing the preliminary updates/rollups, I continued with the Jul, Aug, Sept and Oct rollups mentioned on Microsoft's update history page. It seemed some of those contained previous ones. Even though I wasn't sure if duplications would cause problems, I went ahead and added them one by one in chronological order. Thus my 2nd question: will my negligence in attention to duplicates cause problems down the road?
I used my customized install media to do a fresh install on a disk, deleting all the partitions as one of the preliminary installer steps. The install proceeded without issues. I installed some hardware drivers, etc, then ran WindowsUpdate, which finished in short time. Windows Update found 58 additional updates and was successful in installing 57. The computer is now waiting to be rebooted. Here is my main question: how can I added those 57 updates to my custom install media? Are the msu's in some folder somewhere? If not, is there some list of the update numbers somewhere (to manually download the 57 msu's)? (fwiw, the windows-7-sp1-x64-enu.ulz xml file does not contain any 2016 dates, so it does not have what I am after). I expect there are programs that I can download and run that will do this for me, but I am stubborn about adding them with dism commands that I will write into a slip.cmd file.
My last question: I activated Win7 OEM with slmgr commands. How can this step be added to my custom install media?
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