Microsoft® Windows® Desktop Deployment Resource Kit

Running Winnt32.exe

Winnt32.exe is the 32-bit version of Windows XP Setup. You can start it on computers running Windows 95, Windows 98, Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition, Microsoft Windows NT with Service Pack 5 or later, Windows 2000, Windows XP Professional, and Windows PE. You can use Winnt32.exe for clean installations or upgrades. Not all of these Windows versions are on the upgrade path for Windows XP Professional, however, so you can only use Winnt32.exe for clean installations on those versions. Review Chapter 1 for the Windows XP Professional upgrade paths. The following describes the syntax of Winnt32.exe, and Table 13-2 describes each command-line option that Winnt32.exe supports:

winnt32 [/checkupgradeonly] [/cmd:command_line] [/cmdcons] ...