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  1. Prepare the computer to boot to the Windows installation CD
  2. Power on the the computer
  3. Press the key to display the boot menu as soon as the computer's POST screen is displayed (usually F12 for bare metal or ESC for VMware) 
  4. Boot from the CD-ROM drive
  5. Press a key to boot from the CD (this may be displayed at bottom of screen as soon as the computer begins to boot)
  6. Proceed to answer the Windows XP installation questions:
    1. Press Enter to setup up Windows XP now 
    2. Press F8 to agree to the license agreement 
    3. Configure the Windows partition 
      1. Press Enter to set up Windows XP on the selected item (should be called "Unpartitioned space")
      2. Format the partition using the NTFS file system (Quick)
    4. Region and Language Options - click Next
    5. Name: VCL
      Organization: Apache.org
    6. Enter your Windows XP product key 
    7. Computer name: vcl-winxp
      Administrator password: choose a password
    8. Select the timezone
    9. Networking settings: Typical
    10. Member of a domain: No, leave default workgroup settings
    11. Automatic updates: Not right now
    12. Connect to Internet: Skip
    13. Register: no
    14. Enter "root" as the user name (this generates the local root account and automatically adds root to the Administrators group)
      <Installation should complete and the root user should automatically log on>
    15. Set the root account password by executing the following command from a command prompt (the Windows user management GUI can also be used):
      net user root <PASSWORD>
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