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Is slipstreaming worth it, really to reinstall Windows 7?
Up to now my one cherished adviser/consultant here has been Gregrocker-whose advice over and over again has been a godsend. And so the last time I updated my Win 7 I used his tutorial.
Having said this, the installation process is overwhelmingly long once you take into account all the updates that must be done later.
And so I thought of slip-streaming from the old days of Windows XP. And in doing research I realized that either I have forgotten what it was like in the XP days or for Win 7 the process seems useless (unless I read the wrong articles).
Some of them only add SP1 to the process (doesn't the downloadable ISO already include SP1?) which to me seems not worth the effort. Others require you to download this software and that software and then do process A then B then C, which got me thinking: Really? Isn't slip-streaming supposed to make the whole thing faster and easier?
My idea of slip-streaming entails most updates since my original CD, including updated drivers (and hell, if I could add the Office Suite [and Adobe suite '] to the process so much the better. Any views on this?
One way or another it is time for me to reinstall W7.