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Details required : characters remaining Cancel Submit 1 person found this comment helpful. I was able to verify windows 7 OEM. I was able to access to the download after the verification. I select the language without any issues. RT7Lite covers both Windows 7 and Vista, bit and bit editions. In fact, creating a customized Windows 7 installation medium, with service packs already installed and unnecessary elements removed, is a good way to replace XP, or Vista, with Windows 7.
Head over to RT7Lite's homepage and hit the Downloads section. The layout doesn't make it quite clear which links correspond to which versions, and the big Download "buttons" are just images that don't offer clicks. Look for the text links below each Download image. If you're looking to integrate Windows 7's Service Pack into your disc, you'll want to scroll down to the beta releases. That service pack includes all the patches, security fixes, and other updates from its first year and a half of existence, so I'd recommend snagging the beta.
Download the appropriate bit or bit dowload for your system the system you're working on, not the Windows disc you intend to create , install RT7Lite, and launch it. When you first start RT7Lite, you'll see a shiny Windows icon and lots of grayed-out buttons—so, not many options. The first step is to look in the middle of the window for the "Browse" button. Assuming you don't have a Windows 7 disk already copied, click that button, then choose "Select OS Path" from the small box that drops down.
Insert your Windows 7 DVD and select the drive letter—or, if your system came pre-loaded with a Windows 7 "recovery" section, point RT7Lite to that directory. If you've already copied your Windows 7 DVD to a folder on your hard drive, you can point to that folder. Finally, if you have an ISO image of a Windows 7 installation disk, you can choose "Select ISO file" from the initial drop-down and then select that for your source.
Hi Jean, 1. Multisessions approach can make the iso problematic. Obviously not with these update lists, but if you download all the required 8. Thanks for this useful tutorials, i did follow every step. Do i need to download those or ignore it. KB should not be needed as it was superseded by KB, which is included in the updates list.
Does this update list apply to Windows 7 in Spanish as well? No, this only applies to the English language. For Spanish or any other language, you would have to find the correct equivalent update patch.
Where it says. Seems so. BUT, when I attempt to load it, I get the following error:. No clue what the problem or the solution to this issue is, appreciate any and all help you can offer.
I have limited access at the moment, and if you could respond to my private email it would be helpful. There is a new version of NTLite released the 21st of August so it might be worth getting that and retrying.
Sorry about that, my fault. The WUD file has been updated with the latest updates but I forgot to change the date inside the. HAL, thanks so much for this! I love that you are providing us an almost up to date ULZ file for Windows 7. There is a problem with this method though because some updates require others to be installed to work properly, so you have to be sure of this first. I am tempted to ask two Qs : 1. Framework 4. Adding updates during install is safe as long as you integrate the right updates in the right order.
NTLite is good at handling update order. If you only ever plan to use the disc once though, the saving hours of update installs is offset by the amount of time it takes to integrate the updates in the first place. I see, sorry to have misunderstood you. Going online and getting updates during an upgrade is again using Windows update anyway, so no real benefit.
RAY : Sir, thanks for the response , perhaps you are right , it has been quite a while since i made a clean install, again sorry to confuse, but i think i will be back here soon! So, integrating is more recommended, more useful and could potentially be safer because the system is fully up to date before you even go online. They are listed in a separate category in Windows Updates Downloader so you can easily exclude them if you want. Thanks for this tutorial.
I like to mention that something changed with last version of ntlite 1. There is no export to untick and I have to run integration process for each version Pro, Home and Ultimate. Then, setup is failing and hangs on last stage. How can one integrate the OEM versions of Win7? Yes, NTLite backs up the settings so they can be used again later on. This increases the download times and the time it takes to integrate the updates, most of which are not needed.
Would you kindly explain further why we would not want all the updates available? Windows Hotfix Downloader downloads several sets of updates, one is to slipstream with the Convenience Rollup and another without. None of it is required to get a standard home PC up to date. WHD will download over updates if you let it while with our WUD list you only download around Many many thanks HAL, nice toturial,, I m in the process of creating one, appreciate ur work..
On my pc it took me 10 hours to insert the updates on the Windows ISO file. The bit file works fine. Regards, Joe. Thanks for the report Joe, the. ULZ file is quite picky and has to be compressed using an old Zip method. The new files are 5. But every other updates seems okay….. There seems to be a slight issue with our CDN still delivering the older file to some people even though the server has the new one. The link for the WHdownloader NO longer has a link to download the program.
How long should this take. Thank you Hal for continuing to keep this tutorial updated, Your time and effort is sincerely appreciated. Does this mean this method is no longer viable for obtaining updates?
If so, is there a 2nd way to go about integrating updates into the Windows ISO. The WUD method will not get your computer up to date fully as the last pack update it had was March You can still use it to get your computer updated to that point, so it still works but leaves a couple of years of updates, better than nothing but certainly not ideal. Thanks for your reply Working to build this right so I can excise a Few limbs from this Orwellian beast.
Dave likes his liberty…. I have a basic understanding excuse my ignorance if my questions seem outlandish…. I am using win7 Sp1 Thanks. MSU update patches. The issue with the rollup is dozens of patches have been merged together, trying to separate them again into individual patches would probably be impossible. You will also need: Windows6. NET Framework 4. Considering the above, it appears there is no mention of how IE11 is to be processed as that is also an exe not an msu.
Same goes for the Windows Update Agent. Both of these are in Optional Updates. Do they need similar processing as is carried out for. IE11 can be added along with all the other patches because it will integrate correctly, something like. NET cannot be integrated so needs to be installed separately on first boot.
Anyway, as there is no contact info on the Windows Updates Downloader website to let them know, just thought to let you know. The latest one is Windows-KBxV5. No matter what I do it still takes Windows hours to search for and find updates. If the old version was installed, WU offers it v2 again. Is there anyway to check to see if the files you are downloading are already in the service pack 1 iso? Thanks for the reply Hal! As mentioned by another poster.
This includes a slew of kb updates from MS. We are asking if it could possibly work to integrate all Updates onto those without needing to download the updates to every single OS Windows 7 Professional and Windows 7 Home Premium. We are really needing this as this would spare us a hell lot of working hours. Your article was the first time I attempted slipstream updates into anything or make custom installs and I have since learned some really advanced forms of customization. Thank you for your articles!
You probably can but it depends how the AIO disk was put together and whether it uses bit or bit boot files etc. In reality it would be easier and faster just to download a clean ISO from Microsoft. It all seems way to complicated for me. A simple step-by-step instruction without assuming everyone is a computer genius would have been preferred.
Instead of being time savers, usually, they are time wasters. If there is a better way of downloading an OS on you PC, why does Microsoft not offer it, use it, or even tell you about it?
No one is going to hold your hand and baby you through this process. I understand that there are readers out there with different levels of experience, and that you may be a novice. Your reply was not only unhelpful, but more importantly it shows your ignorance and laziness. I personally found this guide incredibly helpful and time saving. Next time before posting useless comments, maybe you should think twice before publicly embarrassing yourself. The text file seems to be a description of the KB updates.
Thank You. Firstly you have to actually install WUD not try to use a portable version , then the ULZ filetype will be applied and the file will be imported once double clicked. I tried reinstall of WUD and I keep getting an open text file. Any other things to try??? If you still have trouble rename the. Ok Got it now, when downloading updates, make sure that that are going into WUD directory, not the default directory that shows up on WUD when you first open it.
Hope this might help others having this problem. Thanks for your help Mr HAL Can i use whatever windows 7 iso? Use windows new convenience rollup update which will mean you only have two add two updates to the update list. A I opened the Windows 7 Ultimate x ISO image in 7Zip and extracted it all to a folder.
B I installed nLite v1. D Navigating to the root of the folder where the extracted ISO files were deposited was not successful. Is this an atypical DVD image? It did come directly from Microsoft TechNet.
Many thanks to Raymond. CC for the help so far. I think you have got confused somewhere, you are talking about using nLite which is the slipstreaming tool for Windows XP.
The tool and method we are talking about here is NTLite which is why you are being asked for the i directory, XP has that directory, Windows 7 has a Sources folder.
That and KB are both recommended to install if you are having this issue although they are by no means a magic bullet and you can still have the same problem with them installed.
These files are cml where as the orginal uls format is bnary. ULZ file you download is a renamed Zip file which contains a. UL file, this in turn is a renamed XML file that contains the updates data. If you have installed Windows Updates Downloader correctly it will recognise the ULZ file type and automatically extract and import the.
UL file on double click. If you installed WUD and get this problem try reinstalling. I also got a zip as I used Internet Explorer 8 to download the file.
But thanks to HAL for clarifying, just rename the. Worked brilliantly for me. Added bonus; no need to cope with Windows Update Errors. Plus I now have install media that can be used on any machine. Next project is to integrate USB3 drivers to speed up the install process even more. I believe that NTLite will do that if it is paid for, but I suspect there will be a manual method that would work. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Hi all here is what I did to shorten the update process.
It searches for updates within in about 5 min now where as before would take for ever. Only trouble is that this disk is around 4. This is ok if your computer supports usb boot function. It has to crunch numbers checking KB signatures from the bottom up and there is no way to pre-cache this step. Your machine will seem slow for a looooong time due to windows update running in the background. Took another 2 hours to download and process. NET patches are compiled on the fly so they take a long time.
The only way around this is to take a test machine and do a fresh install. Apply patches, updates, and base software. Sysprep, image, and pack it into an ISO……Have fun everyone! Would really like to try this.
The only problem I now have is Windows Update just hangs. The issue you are having is becoming more and more common recently but there could be a few missing updates that might help cure the problem, and WSUS will install them for you. This is a known but poorly documented issue. The fix is to manually install KB, available from support. Hope this information saves some headaches!
KB is also recommended when you have this problem because it installs the latest Windows Update Client version. Well, whenever I go to shutdown after running Windows Update there always seems to be an exclamation on the shut down button and some updates are installed before the computer fully shuts down.
Just for some reason it never shows that is has found and downloaded updates in the Windows Update page. The only exceptions could be something like the updates to Windows update that could get installed automatically as prerequisites.
Last couple of days I have been working on the same issue with Windows Update. Made sure to let it check for updates when it asked. Then I went to bed as it was about 1am already. Got up pretty early and came down to the computer. Moved the window to the side and seen the Windows Update found updates as well. I did the new install only because I was not able to get updates working in the old install. So now I have fully updated my new Windows 7 and will have a bunch of apps to install, but first I did a full backup of this current install.
Hi, Great tutorial, just created a fully updated self installing AIO for win7, also made 8. I do have some questions if someone could please help. What is the difference between 8. If a laptop has 8 on it, can I put 8. Also the iso I created here for 8. Can I just go ahead and put 8.
Hello, great manual, but for some reason it did not work for me : I have done everything step by step and final iso file was around 3. Any idea why? Did you install the same version of Windows you ran the updates for? For instance, if you integrate the updates for Professional there will be none for Home Premium, Ultimate etc….
I have found iso of the win 7 with SP1 and it worked with that one. Thanks for your help :. Hi, Hal2k! Download NTLite Free and install it. Thanks for your quick reply! Sounds like it might work? Slipstream disks become more valuable the more they are used to install Windows, for one install they are not really worth the time. Home Premium etc. That belief makes two of us — and I do hope so, too. It runs all of the updates for you. If you did that you would still only have an updated Ultimate.
All the different versions of 7 are stored in the WIM file and need to be updated separately, removing the ei. The tool is named autopatcher and it separates 32 bit and 64 bit updates validates check sums and includes windows 8 as well. The download link is in there support forum. Unlike so many so call guides all they want people click on there site with tons unhelpful info small pictures and full of adverts. Hi, I followed your guide and it was very useful.
However, after that I made the new ISO with all updated suggested by your link, at the end of the installation, there are still more than updates to do. How can I integrate also them? Sadly it appears the author of WUD is not keeping his lists up to date, the last one is from March Ntlite will report the hotfixes that are not compatible after you add them. You can remove the ones that are in conflict, etc. There is a similar guide but manual here sysadminlab.
If your DVD has been custom made and includes other patches since SP1, there is no way to tell what has already been integrated into the disk. If I may… I have and use what I believe is a faster solution to setting up a new pc, updates, 3rd party apps and all…. Do not let it reboot if it asks to do so. I boot these every 2 weeks to update them, then run steps again [steps can be made into a batch file]. Once you have this under your belt, you can get a new PC ready far less time. I also use this to update clients apps the supported ones anyway automatically, by scripting the file to run every 2 weeks.
IMHO this should have been introduced in Vista already. Wintoolkit is much better than nlite. It can slipstream all the updates and create a bootable iso using microsoft tools. I have used WinToolkit several times over the years but believe NTLite is better and an easier product to use. Landon, are you using a mobo with UEFI bios? I had exactly the same problem when using a new Asus motherboard. Reboot and the install should pick up where it left off, but your keyboard will now work.
At this rate I should have just installed Windows 7 Home premium like normal, and let it gather updates itself in 24 hours. Where the original updates are located during installation process, then just recompile the ISO again. After doing WUD, I just merged the updates for WIndows 7 into one folder, while putting the installer updates into another folder, adding those to post-setup.
For some reason though after merging updates non-installers and ones downloaded from your WUD List, it overwrote some that were downloaded from WUD.. So apparently WUD and your list grab same named updates, just put into their respective folders?
Been easier to just put updates on target computer, slap a batch file script to run into each folder, letting it install the updates via batch file. The last time I tried this, which was a few months back, the install took about 5 minutes longer than it would from an untouched install disk under 30 mins. You definitely have a problem somewhere and probably the only fix would be some testing in batches to see where the problem is. Any ideas where to get the most recent update list from as obviously i want to make the most up to date ISO image.
I downloaded windows 7 x86 using windows hotfix downloader since it founds more updates. Then i used ntlite to try to integrate them on the windows 7 installation dvd but ntlite jumped the integration of all the updates!! The same hapened using the update files downloaded by windows update downloader. What should be the cause of this behavior? Hi Raymond. So this single folder would then contain all updates.
NTLite will load everything from inside whichever folder you tell it.
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