Sysprep a Windows 7 Machine – Start to Finish V2. This is version 2 of 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). ![]() Note – I highly recommend creating a boot or rescue disk before starting any windows 7 technical projects. There are many tools in the market and I use Spotmau Boot. Suite rescue software and boot disk utility because of it’s versatile features and top notch performance. Last Updated on 0. Proud to announce, this tutorial has been translated to Serbo- Croatian language by WHGeeks This will guide you through the following: Audit Mode. Building the unattend. WSIMcopyprofile=true command to copy the default profile (no manual copy)Prompt for a computer name. Enable Administrator account. Administrator account logs in first time automatically. Activate windows automatically with Cscript; Successfully copy over taskbar icons; Delete unattend. Primo PDF, How to export QTP reports/ results in pdf format? The Control Port (base address + 2) in intended as a write only port. When a printer is attached to the Parallel Port, four "controls" are used. 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- zip). The place to find Clarion Resources in one page. Just use the "Edit Find" feature of your browser to search for whatever you're interested in. 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. 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. 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- SPP_6. Set 1 for Skip. Rearm to allow up to 8 rearms. Microsoft- Windows- Deployment_6. Order: 1path: net user administrator /active: yes. Will. Reboot: Never. Run. Synchronous. Command[Order=”1″]Run. Synchronousamd. 64_Microsoft- Windows- Security- SPP- UX_6. Skip. Auto. Activation: trueamd. Microsoft- Windows- Shell- Setup_6. Computer Name: Leave blank (we will deal with this at the end)Copy. Profile: true. Registered Organization: Microsoft (you must leave this in this section)Registered Owner: Auto. BVT (you must leave this in this section)Show. Windows. Live: false. Time. Zone: Pacific Standard Time(Please view Time. Zone settings here - > http: //technet. WS. 1. 0%2. 9. aspx)You can delete other sub- header components if you don’t need them. System. Nothing required in my example. User. Nothing required in my example. Systemamd. 64_Microsoft- Windows- International- Core_6. Input. Locale: en- us. System. Locale: en- us. UILanguage: en- us. User. Locale: en- usamd. Microsoft- Windows- Shell- Setup_6. Registered. Organization: Your Company Name. Registered. Owner: Your Name. Auto. Logon. 1. Password: Administrator Password. Enabled: true. Logon. Count: 5. Username: administrator. First. Logon. Commands. Command. Line: cscript /b c: \windows\system. XXXXX- XXXXX- XXXXX- XXXXX- XXXXX (windows 7 license key)Order 1. Requires. User. Input: false. Command. Line: cscript /b c: \windows\system. Order 2. Requires. User. Input: false. Synchronous. Command[Order=”1″]Synchronous. Command[Order=”2″]OOBEHide. EULAPage: true. Network. Location: Home. Protect. Your. PC: 1. User. Accounts. 1. Password: Administrator Password. Action: Add. List. Item. Description: Local Administrator. Display. Name: Administrator. Group: Administrators. Name: Administrator. Local. Account[Name=”Administrator”]Administrator. 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 ctrl+shift+f. This will reboot your machine and put your windows build in ‘audit’ mode. Step 1. 0On reboot, you’ll 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 software/drivers, 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 delete/clean up the Administrator account, but if you have copyprofile=true 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: %WINDIR%\Setup\. Now you are going to create a CMD file within the %WINDIR%\Setup\Scripts 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: \windows\system. This script will delete your unattend. The unattend. xml file is also copied to the C: \Windows\Panther directory, so you will want to add a second line to the CMD file, del /Q /F c: \windows\panther\unattend. If you have passwords or cd keys stored in that xml file you don’t have to worry about it being left on the computer. UPDATE AS OF FEBRUARY 2. Read my Taskbar Icons Tutorial before continuing. Step 1. 3Once you have everything configured correctly, Copy or move your unattend. C: \windows\system. Now to run sysprep you need to launch Command Prompt as an administrator. To do this press start, and type into the search CMD then right click on CMD and select run as Administrator. Next navigate to the sysprep folder by typing: cd sysprep and pressing enter. Next, input the following commands: [vb]sysprep /generalize /oobe /unattend: unattend. Step 1. 4Turn the computer back on and boot to Win. PE 3. 0 environment (USB stick or CD/DVD). You can use our The. ITBros Win. PE3. 1 Boot. Loader to boot up from USB or CD and capture your image. Capture image and save image to network location. A Dell 9. 60 or GX7. Might require injecting additional drivers for 3rd party brands, HP, etc. Most should work though right out of the box. Step 1. 5On reboot, Windows will run out of the box, as the /oobe is intended. As long as you put your cd key into the unattend. You are now ready to use the computer or join it to the domain. Enjoy! Additional. In case you want to sysprep Windows 1. TIP #1. Thanks T8. Apparently I had to stop ‘Windows Media Player Network Sharing’ service before I could run /oobe /generalize, otherwise it gave me a fatal error.”Dan Wright also mentioned that you need to set the network location to “Public” and/or delete some files and registry keys. RIP, Microsoft Paint. MS Paint, the first app you used for editing images, will probably be killed off in future updates of Windows 1. Paint 3. D. Microsoft lists the 3. Windows 1. 0’s next autumn update, a little X marking the end of an era. The app is certainly a relic, from a time when the casual computer user couldn’t crack open Photoshop or Skitch or Pixelmator or thousands of web apps. MS Paint can’t save image components as layers or vectors; it’s for making flat static images only. It doesn’t smooth lines or guess at your best intentions. It does what you tell it and nothing more, faithfully representing the herky- jerky motion of drawing freehand with a computer mouse. It’s from a time before touch, a time before trackpads. As more sophisticated options appeared, Paint’s janky aesthetic became a conscious choice. Paint” became the metonym for that aesthetic, even if an image was actually created in another app. TV Tropes lists major limitations that came to define a certain look: the wobbly freehand lines, awkward color handling, and inappropriate export settings that give Paint its distinctive look. In 2. 01. 4, Gawker’s Sam Biddle noted Paint’s influence on conspiracy theory images, calling the form “Chart Brut.” In amateur detectives’ attempts at identifying the Boston Marathon bombers, the simplicity and jaggedness of Paint evokes the “crazy wall” aesthetic of red string and scribbled notes, apparently without irony. The same year, internet historian Patrick Davison explored Paint’s influence on the last decade of meme culture, particularly Rage Comics. The outsider- art aesthetic feels appropriate to the relatable everyday content, and makes the art form unthreatening. Of course, Paint offered a few features to smooth things out, like the circle and line tools and the “fill” tool, all used in the stoner comics of the early 1. Crucially, those circles still had jagged curves. The bright colors of stoner comics are flat, as MS Paint didn’t support gradients (without an elaborate hack). Contrast those pixellated lines with the slick, stylish face from this art tutorial: This slickness is built into Paint’s successor, Paint 3. D. From the moment you start sketching, Paint 3. D smooths out your art. It also supports automatic selection tools and content- aware fill to rival Photoshop’s.)By automatically improving art, Paint 3. D hides the process behind the image. Paint’s sloppiness is probably why rage comics got so popular. Looking at a rage comic, you can tell exactly how it was drawn, and how you might draw one yourself. By delivering exactly what the artist draws, MS Paint forms an image that the viewer can mentally reverse- engineer and imitate. Unless you go absolutely nuts with it. Reddit user Toweringhorizon painstakingly assembled the drawing “To a Little Radio” using MS Paint tools like the oil brush, stretching the medium while maintaining a pixelated look. It’s one of the top submissions to MS Paint subreddit, a beautiful collaborative art gallery. Scrolling through this art feels like flipping through the sketchbook of the most artistic kid in high school. There’s an accepted roughness, a desired minimalism. For example, the exquisite raindrops in the work above are reflected in a flat, featureless tabletop. Like a transistor radio, Paint might be showing its age, but this tenacious little gadget should not be underestimated.“To a Little Radio” doesn’t even come close to testing Paint’s limits. As we say goodbye to the app that shaped an era, let us watch this bizarrely soundtracked time lapse of drawing Santa Claus in MS Paint on Windows 7 over the course of 5. We can only believe this is real because faking it would be even harder.
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