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Windows XP Installation

It is VERY IMPORTANT TO DISCONNECT THE NETWORK CABLE before doing anything else. (CNS continuously scans all networks on campus, and if it detects a Windows XP computer that does not have SP2-- like an XP install that is only part-way done-- they might shut down Internet connectivity for the whole building.)

Windows Setup

You will need a copy of the Libraries' "Windows XP SP2 Setup CD". (Do not use one of the Dell Reinstallation CD's: you may have license key problems later on.) If you do not have one, burn the contents of this folder (not the folder itself) to CD-ROM: \\Smathersnt2r\departments\ReadOnly\WindowsXP-SP2.

After you have disconnected the network cable, insert the disk, and wait for autorun to start the setup routine, or run the SETUP.EXE file on the root of the disk.

Select Perform a new installation of Windows XP.

When it prompts for the license key, use the one given in the file named Windows XP Professional License Code.txt, also on the root of the disk.

At the "Welcome" prompt, press "ENTER to setup Windows XP".

At the "Setup Options" prompt, click "Advanced Options", and check "Copy all installation files from the Setup CD".

At the "Get Updated Setup Files" prompt, choose "No", because you are still offline.

At the license agreement prompt, press F8.

Delete all the existing partitions, including the little FAT one, leaving just one big unpartitioned space.

Then press ENTER to set up Windows XP on the selected item.

Select Format the partition using the NTFS file system (the default), not "Quick" option.

Windows Setup then goes through a long process of formatting, then a long process of copying, and then it restarts itself and performs some more tasks on its own.

Here are some prompts that the installer will give you, and their proper responses, AFAIK.
(This is not an exhaustive list, so if a prompt isn't listed here, just accept the default.)

Under Personalize your software,

  1. For the user and business names, enter something like "George A. Smathers" and "UF Libraries".
  2. For the computer name, enter its WSID, including the "WSID" part.
  3. Enter the administrator password. Getting this part wrong could force a do-over later on.

Then comes another long stretch of automatic installation and configuration.

You may or may not see these next two steps (it depends on which install disk you are using):

Under Network settings, select Typical settings then Workgroup (the default). These configurations will be updated later while joining the domain.

After a while, there will be another restart.

In the Welcome to Microsoft Windows section,

  1. Under "Help protect your PC", choose "Not right now".
  2. Under "How will this computer connect to the Internet", choose "Skip". (Because the cable is disconnected.)
  3. For "Ready to register with Microsoft?", choose "No, not at this time." (Because the network cable is still disconnected, right?)
  4. For "Who will use this computer?", enter any name. It doesn't matter: this name will get deleted later.

When all that installation is done, open the Windows Device Manager:
Right click My Computer, select Properties, Manage, then click on Device Manager.
If there are any yellow exclamation marks, it means that the computer is missing drivers or that the drivers are not configured properly. Troubleshoot. Try the Resource CD that came with the computer, or go to ww.dell.com and feed it the computer's service tag number to get drivers for devices that the Device Manager complains about.

You should now have a basic XP installation. Joy.

Remove the installation disk.

The Domain

Administrator Tasks

Restart the computer, and login as administrator (not as yourself) to the WSID (not the domain), and do the following:

As Administrator: Updating the Network Settings

Click Start, Control Panel, Security Center.

  1. Click Windows Firewall and select OFF.
  2. Click Automatic Updates and select OFF.

As Administrator: Local Users and Groups

Certain permissions groups need to have other groups as members. This affects whether users have the rights they need, and whether the workstation stays on the domain.

  1. Select Start | Control Panel | User Accounts.
  2. If you see any names other than administrator (like the user name you installed XP under), remove them, otherwise the network may bounce this workstation as a security risk.
  3. Select the Advanced tab.
  4. Select the Advanced button.

You should now see the Local Users and Groups dialog box.

To update the Administrators list:

  1. In the left pane, select the Groups folder.
  2. Double click Administrators.
  3. Select the Add button.
  4. Type in systems liaisons (all lower case), and click Check Names.
  5. A dialog box may ask for a user name and password to log onto the network.
  6. System Liaisons should appear in the bottom panel, underlined and with a capital S and L.
  7. Close that dialog box, and now Administrators should exactly include:
    1. Administrator
    2. SMATHERSLIB\Domain Admins
    3. SMATHERSLIB\Systems Liaisons

To update the Real Users list:

  1. Double click Power Users.
  2. Click the Add button.
  3. Type in real users (all lower case), and click Check Names.
  4. A dialog box may ask for a user name and password to log onto the network.
  5. Real Users should appear in the bottom panel, underlined and with a capital R and U.
  6. Close that dialog box, and now Power Users should exactly include Real Users, and noone else.

As Administrator: Setting the Power Options

Click Start | Control Panel | Performance and Maintenance | Power Options.

  1. Under the Power Schemes tab, select Home/Office Desk (the default), and set each option to Never then click Apply.
  2. Under the Hibernate tab, uncheck the Enable Hiberation box.

As Administrator: Setting the Windows Services

Select Start | Control Panel | Performance and Maintenance | Administrative Tools | Services.

Look down the list of services, and for each of the following, make sure it reads started and automatic. If not, then double click it, and make it so.

Each of the following should read disabled. If not, then double click it, click Stop, wait for it..., then select Disable from the pulldown list. (Don't worry if any of these are not shown. It's probably better if they're not.)

The Window Time service also needs to be "started" and "automatic", but it's a little trickier:

  1. Double click Windows Time back on the Services window.
  2. Under the General tab, click Stop.
  3. Navigate to Smathersnt2\ReadOnly\D4\.
    At the login prompt, prefix your user name with smatherslib\.
  4. Double click W32TimeXP.reg (not W32Time.reg).
  5. Click Yes then OK.
  6. Back in Services, click Start to start Windows Time again.
  7. Make sure that it reads "started" and "automatic".

You are now done being the Administrator.

Restart the computer (don't just logoff), and logon this time as your liaison self to smatherslib.

Virus Protection, etc.

Now do what it says on the Virus Protection page.

Restart.

Point a web browser to download.com and download and install both "Ad-Aware SE Personal Edition" and "Spybot - Search & Destroy" \ (use their search box to find the latest releases).

For Spybot,

  1. Do not get the Tea Timer.
  2. Always start by clicking the Update button in the left panel.
  3. The important update to get is Detection Rules.
  4. Then click the Immunize button on the left.
  5. If it reports "Please immunize" then click the other Immunize button, the one with the green plus-sign.
  6. Then click the Search & Destroy button in the left panel, then the Check for Problems button.
  7. If it finds problems then click the Fix Selected Problems button.

For Ad-Aware,

  1. Click the checkbox for whatever if finds and click the Quarantine button.
  2. Also click on the Critical tab (if one appears), click those checkboxes too, and click the Quarantine button.

Windows Updates

Go to Windows Update and download all Express updates, restart the computer, and repeat this nightmare until there are no more Express updates.

Try to get the Custom update for the .NET Framework 1.1 at the same time. If you can't then you'll need to get it on another pass.
But do not select .NET 1.0 or 2.0: they are different creatures and our in-house software will not run on them.

Now having installed .NET creates the need for a security update, so go back to the updates site for another Express update.
Restart.

Now having installed that security update creates the need for yet another security update, so go back and you will find another Express update.
Restart.

Add/Remove Windows Components

There are some Windows components that come by default but that we remove for security or productivity reasons.

  1. From the Control Panel, select Add or Remove Programs, then click on Add/Remove Windows Components on the left side.
  2. When the Windows Components Wizard opens, uncheck the following:
    • MSN Explorer
    • Outlook Express
    • Windows Messenger
  3. Next, OK, etc.

Note: I removed Outlook Express from a computer that already had Outlook on it, and that removal does not seem to have harmed Outlook at all. Gus, 2006-03-07.

Perl

The Perl interpreter must be installed on all DLC workstations. To do so, navigate to \\Smathersnt12\DLC\Software\Perl, and double click the ActivePerl MSI file.

Click through the all the defaults, etc.

Firefox

The Mozilla Firefox browser must be used instead of the Microsoft Internet Explorer, unless a web site insists on it.

To install it, navigate to \\Smathersnt12\DLC\Software\Firefox, and double click the Firefox EXE file.

Click through the all the defaults, etc.

Browser Plug-ins

After Mozilla is installed, then install three Adobe browser plugins, all available at their downloads page.

Install Shockwave after Flash, as the Shockwave installer takes you to a web page that completes installation and tests them both. (That web page seems to work better in Internet Explorer.)

DLC Applications

Every workstation in the DLC must have Screen Saver Secure. The rest is at the discretion of the local supervisor, though anyone who deals with METS files should have the Base Metadata Template.

Please see this file for information on our in-house computer applications.

Other Programs

Then install whatever else the local supervisor needs.

Don't forget the burning software if the computer has a burner: Roxio Creator Classic 7 or Sonic RecordNow.

After installing a program, make sure that the desktop icon is available to everyone, not just you. Right click, select Properties, and then inspect the path. You may have to change "gusclif" (or whatever) to "All Users".

Some program installers don't make a desktop icon. What's up with that? In that case, I open Windows Explorer, navigate to C:\Documents and Settings\All Users, right click in the right-hand panel, choose New -> Shortcut and Browse to the EXE file. I think you may have to do that for Photoshop. There are other ways to do it, but by starting from "All Users" I know that everybody will be able to get to it.

Microsoft Office

Systems advises that we start using the Office 2003 products. You can pick and choose which particular programs to install from here: \\Smathersnt2r\Departments\ReadOnly\Office2003\Microsoft Office 2003.

Just double click the Setup.exe in its subfolder and follow the prompts.

The license key is in that main folder too.

After each install, check Delete installation files, but uncheck Look for updates (you'll get all the updates for all of the programs afterward).

Once you have finished installing them, point Internet Explorer (no other browser) to the Office Update site.

Click Check for updates, and download everything it suggests: there will more than likely be some security updates in there.

Restart the computer, and then look for more updates until it tells you that there are no more (there are usually a couple of rounds).

Think you're done? At this juncture, I would run Disk Cleanup first and then Disk Defragmenter.

You can find them at Start | All Programs | Accessories |System Tools.

 

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