sysprep

Describes how to work around the issue that may occur if the Windows Software Licensing Rearm program has run more than three times in a single Windows Vista image. Link Removed

Discusses Sysprep functions, known issues that occur when you use Sysprep, and settings that are restored to their default settings when you deploy a computer by running Sysprep. Link Removed

When trying to deploy Windows 7 using SysPrep, with CopyProfile=true in the Answer file and applying the image using imagex by booting to WinPE, during mini-setup the setup fails with the following error message: "Windows could not parse or process the... Link Removed

Fixes an issue in which Windows crashes and does not restart after you run the "mountvol /n" command and then try to run the "sysprep /generalize" command. This issue occurs on a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. More...

After changing out my MB, Windows 7 Home Premium would not boot so I ran Sysprep which I got to finish. After booting, the system went through the Starting System Services, etc. process one time and rebooted now when I start up I get the Starting System Services message and then an error window...

I have 15 new computer all the same running windows 7 64bit I have generated the system image out to an external USB drive and created rescue CD Can I now just restore this image on all the rest ? to, in effect, clone the 1st one? If so do I sitll have to run sysprep? is there a...

I could use some advice on using preparing a Windows 7 Pro image using Ghost GSS 2.5. I have downloaded a demo of GSS 2.5 to test. I have used BartPE and Ghost 8.3 to image hundreds of machines running XP Pro for years without fail, but this Windows 7 process has my head spinning. Am I forced...

Context I work for a lab at a university. We reimage 30 Windows 7 machines each semester. We use HP LP1965 widescreen monitors and Nvidia Quadro NVS 290 video cards. These monitors can rotate to profile, which is the way they are in the lab. Each machine has two monitors. We use WAIK...

Hi Everyone, Im hoping someone can help me here. Im currently a system builder and ive just got into using the windows 7 opk for installing customized versions of windows 7 on my customers pc's. I would like to have a recovery system in place similar to the big brands such as Dell and Acer...

Hi, I need a script to automatically; 1) add Quick Launch on the Toolbar and 2) set the desired Default format, Default input language, and the desired Input languages and keyboard services in Region and Language (Control Panel). The reason for this is because these settings are lost when you...

Hello all, pardon the long explanation, I formerly used a lot of the 'copy to' functionality on XP to overwrite the default profile with a new one (for our staff computers, which used a local profile). I understand that this functionality no longer exists and they expect you to use sysprep...

Is it possible to have the system automatically restart after the oobeSystem pass is completed? Alternatively, is there a way for a service to tell when oobeSystem pass has completed? Is there a file or a registry entry that can be monitored that will change in some way when the system...

I've created a reference win7 pro pc with all applications and settings configured for our company. I need to capture it as a .wim image so I can create an answer file for it in wsim. Should I capture it with imagex before or after I sysprep it with sysprep /oobe /generalize? All I need is for...

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...

I'm an admin on a Windows 7 PRO 64 bit Problem is I can't set an image for my wallpaper or I can't change my wallpaper I did a sysprep on a ref machine and since reloading the image(with imagex) I can't change the background, it's black and there is no way to set an image as a background...

Following a massive headache with the many failed attempts of figuring out this same issue with Vista, I'm back again with Windows 7. We pulled our Vista attempts with the 1,100 new computers we got and dumped XP Pro on them which has worked great. Windows 7 is looking to be very attractive...

I am planning to build a new rig and enpower it with Windows 7 , professional version . I know that Windows 7 provides a WinXP mode to users, which can be ran seamlessly in Win7's VHD. Microsoft also provides a pre-built WinXP image [ WindowsXPMode_xxx.exe ] to users . However, can i...

Has anyone built a successful unattend.xml answer file yet using Windows System Image Manager? By successful I mean run all the way through the oobe, installing drivers per machine… I cannot get past the "Set NetworkLocation", it stops here every time. I tried using all three options, and...