The ISO image made as per instructions in this tutorial will be based on an existing Windows 10 installation. Tutorial shows you three alternative methods to create an ISO image, depending on your needs:
- Part One: Standard Windows 10 ISO install media
- An "Out of the box" ISO, as any standard Windows 10 ISO image you can download from Microsoft. Alternative for ESD to ISO and UUP to ISO methods
- This ISO will be generalized meaning it is hardware independent and can be used to install Windows on any computer capable of running Windows 10, regardless if the machine is a legacy BIOS machine with MBR partitioning, or a UEFI machine with GPT partitioning
- Part Two: Custom ISO with pre-installed software & pre-set user accounts
- This option creates a Windows 10 ISO which already contains your preferred user accounts with all their settings, customisations and personalisations, preferred pre-installed software and so on
- Using this ISO to install Windows is much faster than installing with standard ISO, at the same time making installing your standard software unnecessary as it's already pre-installed
- Clean install will skip OOBE (Windows Setup) because user accounts and settings already exist
- As the ISO is not generalized and it contains all existing user accounts and data it should only be used to install Windows on your home computers
- Part Three: Custom ISO with pre-installed software, no user accounts
- As in Part Two but a generalized ISO image without any pre-set user accounts, with pre-installed software, desktop, File Explorer and Start customisations
- All customisations and personalisations will automatically be applied to all new user accounts
- Clean install will perform a normal OOBE, asking for regional settings, initial user and so on
- This ISO will be generalized meaning it is hardware independent and can be used to install Windows on any computer capable of running Windows 10, regardless if the machine is a legacy BIOS machine with MBR partitioning, or a UEFI machine with GPT partitioning
Select
Part One,
Two or
Three to prepare Windows for image capture according to your needs, continue from
Part Four to capture Windows install image and create the ISO image.
ISO images will be bootable on both BIOS / MBR and UEFI / GPT systems.