image deployment

Flyoobe’s latest shift from a narrow bypass utility into a full Out‑of‑Box Experience (OOBE) suite crystallizes a broader community trend: taking back control of Windows 11 installation and first‑boot behavior while accepting the trade‑offs that come with running unsupported configurations. The...

Flyoobe’s latest update widens the tool’s ambitions from a niche installer bypass into a full-blown Out‑Of‑Box Experience (OOBE) surgeon’s kit: starting with version 1.7 (hotfixed to 1.7.284), the popular Flyby11 / Flyoobe project now ships an OOBE page that searches for and disables Copilot and...

Microsoft quietly published two targeted Dynamic Update packages for Windows 11, version 24H2 (and Windows Server 2025) — KB5065378 (a Setup Dynamic Update) and KB5064097 (a Safe OS / WinRE Dynamic Update) — on August 29, 2025, delivering refreshed setup binaries and a new Windows Recovery...

Hi, What is the BEST way to preform: 1. Installation of Win7 Pro on 50 NEW computers? Create one image? Use sysprep? Ghost manager to develop the image on several computer at the same time? 2. What is the best way to Upgrade from XP pro to Win7 Pro? Thanks...

Our organization has recently received a number of Tablet devices (over 100) which we require a standardized image to be deployed to them all, the obvious thing to this was to create a standard image using sysprep however when i run sysprep I get the message 'Sysprep was not able to validate...

Hi, Posted this in the Installation & Upgrade forum but might be better here. My company has about 10 new HP 2570p laptops. These have 128GB SSD. I have set up two of these laptops in audit mode with all drivers, updates and software configured. I then went to sysprep, selected OOBE -...

Hi, My company has about 10 new HP 2570p laptops. These have 128GB SSD. I have set up two of these laptops in audit mode with all drivers, updates and software configured. I then went to sysprep, selected OOBE - generalise and shutdown. The first laptop gave me a BSOD preventing Windows...

When deploying a Windows 7 image using System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (ConfigMgr 2007)/ Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 (MDT 2010), if the default system Locale setting is changed, the localename (e.g. sv-SE) is set correctly but the locale... Link Removed

Fixes an issue in which a Windows 7 or a Windows Server 2008 R2 image deployment process may stop immediately when you try to deploy the image on the other computer. More...

Hey guys, I have managed to get our image working flawless except for one point during the windows installation. The issue is that during the setup, windows try's to login as .\administrator. For whatever reason it gets stuck and says the password is incorrect. The password is the same as our...

Hi guys, we are building out our image for Windows 7 on Latitude XT2 tablets and noticed something when a standard user logs in. In Control Panel-->Tablet PC settings there is an option to configure your pen and touch to the screen. This is the windows utility, not the third party dell...

I am having problems with running sysprep on some new Windows 7 64-bit machines that we just got in. Here is what I have: Dell Optiplex 780, Windows 7 64-bit operating system. We do not have a volume license; we just use the product key that is on the machine. Here is what I want to do...

Help with Windows 7 Deployment - Best method to take and deploy an image I am hoping someone can steer me in the right direction. I apologize if its lengthy. For the last few years I have used the following for creating images and deployments. 1. install XP and the custom software needed...

The short of this post is that Windows 7 Enterprise updates by default expecting a KMS server. I don't have one. I had to go through Microsoft Tech Support to change the key from KMS to MAK and then I could activate my copy of Windows 7. I am glad I didn't reinstall. My installation disk...

I am trying to install Windows 7 on an older laptop, which does meet the minimum requirements. The problem is that the laptop cannot boot from DVD. I have tried a few things thus far, like: 1. Connected an external DVD drive via USB only to find that the laptop is not able to boot from USB...