Windows XP with the latest drivers, KB fix, updates, service packs, and Office, IM, games, tools, packed into a 300MB Norton Ghost image, boot from a USB disk (the USB disk can even act as an USB-CDROM device), everything is automated, the image-to-disk copy takes about 10 minutes. Then you have everything ready.
In China this is how Windows was installed:
Windows XP with the latest drivers, KB fix, updates, service packs, and Office, IM, games, tools, packed into a 300MB Norton Ghost image, boot from a USB disk (the USB disk can even act as an USB-CDROM device), everything is automated, the image-to-disk copy takes about 10 minutes. Then you have everything ready.
IE6 was installed like this like 10 years ago.