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A breakdown of the Windows installation process?

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Posted 02 March 2012 - 05:58 PM

Anyone know it? What files it references, how it builds directories, what packages it installs? Where does it get all this info?


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Posted 03 March 2012 - 06:45 AM

setup expands the complete WIM (which is a kind of Zip file and already contains the complete folder structure ), reboots and next it installs the drivers.

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Posted 03 March 2012 - 06:53 PM

I kind of knew that much already just wondered if setup referenced any particular files besides unattend and extraction of the wim. Isn't there a file that references what packages are staged for install, installed, and not installed?

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Posted 04 March 2012 - 07:01 AM

the state of the packages is stored in the registry.

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Posted 04 March 2012 - 08:29 PM

View PostMagicAndre1981, on 04 March 2012 - 07:01 AM, said:

the state of the packages is stored in the registry.


How do I find that?

Would it be the files in the windows/system32/config directory?

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Posted 05 March 2012 - 01:04 PM

Here:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Component Based Servicing



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