Windows slipstreaming enables service packs to be incorporated into the Windows setup files, allowing the updates to be installed alongside Windows this is particularly useful when a Network Administrator must undertake large deployments of the operating system.

For this article I will use Windows XP with Service Pack 2

First extract all the files from the existing Windows Installation CDROM into a distribution share held on the server (for example C:\WINXPCD), and then extract the latest service pack into a separate location (for example C:\XPSP2.EXE)

To combine the service pack and the Windows setup files from a command line type

C:\XPSP2.EXE -S:C:\WINXPCD
The following screen shot shows the integration update screen

On completion the integrated installation completed successfully screen will be displayed

All new installations of the Operating System can now be deployed with the integrated service pack from the distribution share point, in this example the C:\WINXPCD shared folder

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