Had installed my first Windows 7 program on a school computer last week. The process was pretty fast, but so many programs had to be installed, such as Office 2010, then all the layers, Adobe, etc,....

I've got all programs, but it's time wasting to install one after the other. How could I make a DVD with all the needed programs I want to install, which would a sort of self extract?

I've got too many programs that takes a long time to put on. Any idea would be deeply appreciated. I'd assume it has to be a DVD, guess 4.4 GB would be enough.

Any advice would be deeply appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Have a look at those webpages (for instance):

http://lifehacker.com/5793427/how-to-create-a-custom-windows-installation-dvd-or-usb-install

http://unattended.sourceforge.net/installers.php

Set up one computer with all the apps you need

The run System Image

That should create the disk you need

and also gives you a way to clean the computers later

RT7lite

Go to any of these places that sell Software and they have most of what you need on 1x DVD... many people use these

Myself use a USB 1 TB My Passport small portable hard drive, have a folder with all my programs on it, + other Folders eg: Photos, Documents etc, as well as an image backup of my PC and of laptop.

Maybe just me, do not trust some of these things so also have a HDD Docking station so have all the above on yet another hard drive. in theory anyway if something happens to my hard drive, just pop in the spare that has the same on, back in business in minutes .. and how long do/will a DVD work/last ? nothing more annoying that popping in a DVD and it states cannot read or maybe corrupt.

Here is a program that will do it all:

Available for free here:

http://ninite.com/

Had installed my first Windows 7 program on a school computer last week. The process was pretty fast, but so many programs had to be installed, such as Office 2010, then all the layers, Adobe, etc,....

I've got all programs, but it's time wasting to install one after the other. How could I make a DVD with all the needed programs I want to install, which would a sort of self extract?

I've got too many programs that takes a long time to put on. Any idea would be deeply appreciated. I'd assume it has to be a DVD, guess 4.4 GB would be enough.

Any advice would be deeply appreciated. Thanks in advance.

You know the title of this thread? You could've typed that into Google and gotten the answer.

Apologies, I thought reading from people who made their own experiences might be more useful.

You know the title of this thread? You could've typed that into Google and gotten the answer.

Apologies, I thought reading from people who made their own experiences might be more useful.

That's what google would have given you, especially If you added the word "Review" or "Forum".

While ThaiVisa is a great place, it is heavily biased toward life and death in Thailand (and the experiences in between), and the subset of members who have experience creating custom bulk-install DVDs is probably similar to finding an honest bar girl who can tell you how to create bulk-install DVDs. So not impossible, as you have found, but if you want to get useful experience...

Take my solution, then you get a clean version of win7

plus all you apps to re-install and clean the computers later

Essential in a school or computer shop.

But actually what you do is, you spend all the time setting up ONE Computer. Then you clone that hard drive to the other ones.

Look that up in Google. Disk cloning computer lab. Something like that.

Read.

http://www.techsoup.org/support/articles-and-how-tos/configure-and-setup-multiple-computers