Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education

COMPUTER SYSTEM SERVICING

Learner's Information:

Grade Level: 11

Name of Teacher: HARVEY BRYAN S. ROSERO

Learning Area: COMPUTER SYSTEM SERVICING NC II

Address: Rodeo Road, Brgy. Centro, Masbate City

Telephone No.: (056) 578-2544
Website: http://depedmasbate.ph
 LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET
(Quarter 2 – Week 3)

Learning Area: Computer System Servicing

Grade Level: Grade 11
Date: ______________________

I. Introductory Concept

Creating a Custom Windows Installations

Installing an operating system is a time consuming process. Having control over what goes with
your Windows installer, like the necessary drives, updates, and apps, can save much time during
installation and can save space on your computer’s hard drive.

In this lesson, you will walk through the procedures in customizing Windows image that will
include any required updates and drivers and allow for full customization of the Windows 7

Windows operating system comes with programs, features, and services that take up
unnecessary space which can slow down your computer. If you want a lighter version of Windows,
you can create and customize your own installer using RT Seven Lite.

RT Seven Lite is a configuration tool that lets you edit your Windows install disc. . You can
remove Windows features you don’t want, add drivers you know you’ll need, add or remove items
from the Control Panel and right-click menu, and more.

Advantages of using RT Seven Lite

1. It cuts installation time in half.

2. It cuts out all the unnecessary apps and services and makes the computer run faster—
perfect for old or low-powered hardware.
3. It saves space by removing apps and services that are not needed.
4. It adds drivers such as Ethernet and Wi-Fi drivers to the install disc.
5. It can set default themes, fonts, wallpapers, logon screen, system sounds, screensavers to
be included in the customized operating system.

Requirements for Creating a Customized Operating System

1. RT Seven Lite software

2. Windows 7 operating system installer ISO or DVD (x86 or x64)

Procedures:
A. Getting Started

1. Insert the Windows 7 DVD installer

in the DVD drive. If you have an ISO
file, make sure it is in the local hard
disk.
2. Launch RT Seven Lite. (Figure 1)
 3. Select the ISO. RT Seven Lite will
start to extract the ISO image and
starts loading your Windows 7
operating system to start
customization. Once the image is
loaded, you will see the list of
operating system images present.
Select the image you want to
customize and click OK button.
(Figure 2)

4. See the Task section. It should be

enabled once the image is loaded.
(Figure 3)

5. Select the Task section and you can

see options that you can do with RT
Seven Lite. RT Seven Lite provides
some ready-made preset setting
which you can simply select (Safe or
Tweaked or Advanced) option and
commit the action as below. (Figure 4)

B. Integrate Windows 7 Updates

1. Download the Windows updates and
put it in a folder. There are different
ways that you can download Windows
7 updates on your PC.
a. Use a 3rd Party tool called
AutoPatcher to download
Microsoft Updates. (Figure 5)
 b. Use a 3rd party tool called
WSUS Offline Update to
download Microsoft updates.
(Figure 6)

c. Use a 3rd party tool called

Windows Updates
Downloader to download all
Windows 7 updates in .msu
format. (Figure 7)

2. Enable Integration task in RT Seven

Lite as you see in Figure 8.

3. Select the Updates tab under Integration section and click Multiple Updates button and select
the folder where you saved the updates (Figure 9). RT Seven Lite will now retrieve all the updates
from the folder you selected and asks you to select the list of updates to be integrated. Just use the
mouse to select updates or press CTRL + A in keyboard to select all. Click the Apply button. (Figure
10)
C. INTEGRATE DRIVERS INTO WINDOWS 7 SETUP
You can integrate drivers for your PC into Windows 7 setup. Download driver collection from the internet
and put the drivers in a folder
1. Enable Integration task in RT Seven Lite as
you see in Figure 11.

Figure 11

2. Select the Drivers tab under Integration

section. Click “Select Multiple drivers” button and select the folder where you saved the drivers as
you see in Figure 12. RT Seven Lite will now retrieve all the drivers from the folder you selected and
asks you to select the list of drivers to be integrated. Just use the mouse to select updates or press
CTRL + A in keyboard to select all. Click Apply. (Figure 13).

Figure 12 Figure 13

D. REMOVE UNNECESSARY COMPONENTS FROM WINDOWS 7

Not all the components in Windows 7 are necessary for everyone. You can remove these unnecessary
components.

1. Enable Components task in RT Seven Lite

as you see in Figure 14.

Figure 14
 2. Go to Features removal section and you can see
two sections as shown in Figure 15.

Figure 15

Permanent Removal: You can see 7 Major nodes in tree

structure namely Accessories, Drivers, Language packs, Multimedia, Network, Services and System.

Default Features: Right side section shows you the complete list of windows default features which you
can see after windows installation from Control Panel. You can either Enable or Disable a windows feature
but this will not remove permanently from windows.

If you want a windows feature to be removed permanently then select it in left side which is labelled as
Permanent Removal. If you just want to enable or disable a windows feature then select it in right side
which is labelled as Default Features

3. Expand each major nodes by clicking the “+” symbol. (Figure16) Once you finished the selection,
click Apply button and commit in log section to start Removing Windows applications or Enabling
and disabling Windows features. (Figure 17)

Figure 16 Figure 17

E. APPLY TWEAKS TO WINDOWS 7

1. Enable Tweaks task in RT Seven Lite.

(Figure 18)

2. Select those tweaks which you want by

clicking on each tab. Click on Apply button after you are done with Custom Registry.
The Tweaks section contains 10 different tabs, all of which contain different types of changes you can make
to your system. (Figure 19) Here are a few:
  Control Panel: You can remove shortcuts
from the Control Panel, as well as add a few
other useful ones, like a shortcut to the
Registry, Group Policy Editor, and more.

 Desktop: This tab tweaks specific parts of

the Windows desktop and taskbar, such as
changing how fast menus open and close,
what the taskbar buttons look like, and what
the Shut Down button does in the Start
menu.
Figure 19
 Explorer: This section deals with adding and
removing shortcuts to My Computer, the
context menu, and tweaking Explorer’s display view. There are a lot of shortcuts enabled in this
section so disable the ones you don’t want.

F. MAKE YOUR WINDOWS 7 INSTALLATION UNATTENDED

RT Seven Lite has the ability to make Windows 7 installation unattended. All the settings and inputs
required will be done ahead in the Unattended task.

1. Enable Unattended task in RT Seven Lite.

(Figure 20)

2. Go to Unattended section and you can see “General, OOBE, Regional, Runonce and Hard Disk
configurations” tabs. Go through each tab thoroughly and enter the necessary inputs.

Here are a few things you can do in the Unattended section:

 Enter the Windows 7 Product key or skip otherwise
 “Accept EULA” License agreement between you and Microsoft
 Choose Windows setup language
 Set Computer Name, Full Name, Organization Name
 Create user accounts and set them as Administrator or Guest accounts
 Set Display resolution, Refresh rate and Color depth:
 You can set Network location (Home, Work and Public)
 Set Windows updates settings (Recommended Settings, Install Selective (or) important
updates only, Do not install updates)

G. CREATE AND BURN YOUR DISC IMAGE

1. Go to the Log section and click the Commit button. It will make all your changes in the temporary
folder you created on the desktop. This could take some time depending on the number of settings
and customizations you have done.

2. Go to the ISO-Bootable section to create your disc.

Modes:
a. Direct Burn – burns a disc
b. Create Image – makes an ISO
c. USB Bootable - creates a bootable flash drive

3. Give the volume a name, and tweak your burn settings, if applicable.
4. Click the Make ISO button in the bottom left-hand corner. When it’s done, you’re ready to install
your custom version of Windows.
 Figure 21

H. TEST YOUR WINDOWS 7 CUSTOMIZED SETUP DISC

The last step is to test your customized Windows 7 Installation Disc or bootable USB Flash drive in
a virtual environment such as VirtualBox or VMware Player to make sure everything works.

II. Learning Skills from the MELCs

At the end of this module, the learners shall be able to:

1. Carry out installation of portable applications in accordance with software user guide and software
license.

III. Activities

ACTIVITY 1

Direction: Answer the following questions. Write your answers on your answer sheet.

1 – 5. What are the settings you can set ahead in the Unattended section of RT Seven Lite? List five(5).
2. What tab tweaks specific parts of the Windows desktop and taskbar, such as changing how fast menus
open and close?
3. What mode in ISO-Bootable section makes an ISO?
4 – 6. What are the third party tools that can be used to download Windows updates?
7 – 13. What are the seven (7) major nodes under Permanent Removal?
14. What configuration tool lets you edit your Windows install disc?
15. Aside from the RT Seven Lite software, what else is needed to create a customized operating system?

IV. Answer Key

See attach page.

V. References

BOOKS:
Daleon, M. (2020). Computer Systems Servicing (1st ed.). Philippines: Department of Education

WEBSITES:
Buckey, Ian 2019, MakeUseOf, accessed 29 August 2020, <https://tinyurl.com/ycdqtylr>
Acronis 2020, accessed 29 August 2020, <https://tinyurl.com/y5njruau>

Prepared by:

Harvey Bryan S. Rosero

Subject Teacher

Noted by:

Janice A. Martin
Asst. School Principal II
ANSWER KEY

1 – 5. Any of the following:

 Enter the Windows 7 Product key or skip otherwise

 “Accept EULA” License agreement between you and Microsoft
 Choose Windows setup language
 Set Computer Name, Full Name, Organization Name
 Create user accounts and set them as Administrator or Guest accounts
 Set Display resolution, Refresh rate and Color depth:
 You can set Network location (Home, Work and Public)
 Set Windows updates settings (Recommended Settings, Install Selective (or) important
updates only, Do not install updates)

2. Desktop

3. Create Image

4 – 6. Autopatcher, WSUS Offline Update, Windows Updates Downloader

7–13. Accessories, Drivers, Language packs, Multimedia, Network, Services and System

14. RT Seven Lite

15. Windows 7 operating system installer ISO or DVD