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This is a step by step guide on Sysprepping a Windows 7 machine from start to finish. I cannot take full credit on this because my first article had so many helpful comments and discussions that this is simply a combination of all the good advice written into a working guide. I would especially like to thank George for his input on Cscript for auto activation and Nathan for input on Sysprep Audit Mode. This will guide you through the following Audit Mode. Building the unattend. WSIMcopyprofiletrue command to copy the default profile no manual copyPrompt for a computer name. Enable Administrator account. ISO%209001_2008.eng.jpg' alt='Index Of Parent Directory Windows Iso To Usb' title='Index Of Parent Directory Windows Iso To Usb' />Were looking at rolling out a large ammount of tablets on our network. We are currently trialling SCCM 2012 sp1 to see if this is the way forwards for doing this. AT. A stolen smartphone can ruin anyones day, though our smartphones builtin antitheft software seems to be working, according to San Francisco District Attorney. DISM can preload Windows Update packages into your images. This guide will show you how to use DISM to load updates and includes a nearly automated way to. Administrator account logs in first time automatically. Activate windows automatically with Cscript Successfully copy over taskbar icons Delete unattend. Tip. In case you want to sysprep Windows 1. Here is a list of what you will need First we are going to walk through building the unattend. Windows 7 imaging process. PART 1 XML FILE CREATIONStep 1. If you have a Windows 7 installation DVD, insert it now. Or if you have an ISO of 7, go ahead and extract it to a folder on your desktop. I recommend 7 Step 2. Launch Windows System Image Manager. Your start menu should look like the image below Step 3. Under the Windows Image header, right click and select new image. Step 4. You will now want to browse to the. CLG file in your Windows 7 installation I am using Windows 7 Enterprise x. It is located in the sources folder. See Image below. You can select either the. Both will have the same result. Sara Lark Epub. Step 5. Now we need to create a new answer file. Go to the file menu and select Create New Answer File. Right after creating one, go ahead and simply go to file menu and select Save Answer File. This will give your XML file a name and save location. I chose to name mine unattend. Now you see we have two category folders, Components and Packages. Eset Fix 2.2. Under the Components folder you see that we have 7 options 1 windows. PE2 offline. Servicing. System. 6 audit. User. System. Step 6. These are very important as these are the steps in which the unattend. The next part is a little confusing. You are going to add components, from under the Windows Image section on the bottom left hand side to the passes on your Answer File. To add a component, you can right click on them and select add to pass. There are many different options you can add, but they have to be done in a certain order and pass otherwise your sysprep might fail. I am simply going to use the one I created as the example. Here is more information about adding options under the passes 1 windows. PENothing required in my example. Servicing. Nothing required in my example. Microsoft Windows Security SPP6. Set 1 for Skip. Rearm to allow up to 8 rearms. Microsoft Windows Deployment6. Order 1path net user administrator active yes. Will. Reboot Never. Run. Synchronous. CommandOrder1Run. Synchronousamd. 64Microsoft Windows Security SPP UX6. Skip. Auto. Activation trueamd. Microsoft Windows Shell Setup6. Computer Name Leave blank we will deal with this at the endCopy. Profile true. Registered Organization Microsoft you must leave this in this sectionRegistered Owner Auto. BVT you must leave this in this sectionShow. Windows. Live false. Time. Zone Pacific Standard TimePlease view Time. Zone settings here http technet. WS. 1. 02. 9. aspxYou can delete other sub header components if you dont need them. System. Nothing required in my example. User. Nothing required in my example. Systemamd. 64Microsoft Windows International Core6. Input. Locale en us. System. Locale en us. UILanguage en us. User. Locale en usamd. Microsoft Windows Shell Setup6. Registered. Organization Your Company Name. Registered. Owner Your Name. Auto. Logon. Password Administrator Password. Enabled true. Logon. Count 5. Username administrator. First. Logon. Commands. Command. Line cscript b c windowssystem. XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX windows 7 license keyOrder 1. Requires. User. Input false. Command. Line cscript b c windowssystem. Order 2. Requires. User. Input false. Synchronous. CommandOrder1Synchronous. CommandOrder2OOBEHide. EULAPage true. Network. Location Home. Protect. Original W3m Maps Warcraft 3'>Original W3m Maps Warcraft 3. Your. PC 1. User. Accounts. Password Administrator Password. Action Add. List. Item. Description Local Administrator. Display. Name Administrator. Group Administrators. Name Administrator. Local. AccountNameAdministratorAdministrator. Password Administrator Password. Local. Accounts. If you have questions, look at my image above to see full layout of components, it should help. Step 7. K, now go ahead and save your answer file as unattend. Step 8. If you want the sysprep to prompt for a computer name you need to remove a line from your XML file. Open up your XML file you saved with notepad and remove the following line PART 2 IMAGING PROCESS RUNNING SYSPREPStep 9. Install Windows 7 Enterprise from CD or USB flash drive, when you arrive at the welcome screen and it asks you to create a username, hit ctrlshiftf. This will reboot your machine and put your windows build in audit mode. Step 1. 0On reboot, youll automatically be logged in under the built in Administrator account. A sysprep GUI box will appear, but you can close it and NOW begin to customize your profile. Step 1. 1Install any softwaredrivers, make any profile customizations, etc. If you need to reboot, the computer will boot you back into the Administrator account. You will be stuck in this audit mode until you run sysprep with the oobe parameter. After doing so, sysprep will deleteclean up the Administrator account, but if you have copyprofiletrue in your unattended answer file, it will copy the customized Admin account to the default profile before deleting it. Step 1. 2On the PC you are going to be running sysprep on, you need to create a folder called scripts in this directory WINDIRSetup. Now you are going to create a CMD file within the WINDIRSetupScripts directory. Right click and make a new text file called Setup. Complete. txt. Remove the. You now have a Setup. Complete. cmd file which windows will read the first time it boots up from the sysprep. We need to place a script inside the CMD file. Edit the cmd file with notepad and insert this line del Q F c windowssystem. This script will delete your unattend. The unattend. xml file is also copied to the C WindowsPanther directory, so you will want to add a second line to the CMD file, del Q F c windowspantherunattend. If you have passwords or cd keys stored in that xml file you dont have to worry about it being left on the computer. UPDATE AS OF JUNE 1. TH Read my Taskbar Icons Tutorial before continuing. Step 1. 3Once you have everything configured correctly, Copy or move your unattend. C windowssystem. Now to run sysprep, navigate to that sysprep folder, hold SHIFT and right click and select Open New Command Windows Here. Next, input the following commands sysprep generalize oobe shutdown unattend unattend. Step 1. 4Turn the computer back on and boot to Win.