Windows Xp Wim

Elias was a sysadmin, a creature of habit and logic. He knew what a WIM file was—Windows Imaging Format. It was a disk image, a snapshot of an operating system frozen in carbonite. Usually, these were sterile, corporate builds of Windows, pre-loaded with drivers and Office 2003, ready to be cloned onto a fleet of beige Dell OptiPlexes.

XP WIMs became the source for deploying XP VMs on Hyper-V and VMware. With a single master WIM and an answer file, you could spin up isolated test environments for old Access runtimes or VB6 apps. windows xp wim

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