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how to store cab files on disk

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Tash

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I used to know how to do this, but I forgot. How to get Win XP to store all its cab files on disk so it never asks you to insert the Windows CD in the CD drive.

Win XP Pro.

Thanks in advance.

UPDATE:

I guess I wasn't clear. I have already installed Windows. It's working just fine. But occasionaly when it needs to install a language font or to recover corrupted files, windows will ask for the install CD. I'm trying to eliminate that.
 
If you're starting from within windows and you pop the disk in there is an option in the setup. You have to click advanced or something like that to get to the option, it's not on the main menus.
 
It stores them then installs windows... not sure how it goes after that.

the option was just something like "copy files to hard drive" or something like that...

After that it rebooted and I took the disk out and it installed everything without the disk.
 
gotcha... well just install everything.. then if you decide you need it, it's there. And if you don't need it... then it's there incase you do!
 
copy the I386 forlder to the harddrive from your cd and the modify the
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup
and doubleclick on "SourcePath" and put the location of where you copied the i386 folder to

ie if i copied it to windows\options\i386 then set it to c:\windows\options\i386
 
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