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SYSPREP on an XP home

  • 28-06-2008 2:08am
    #1
    conceited
    Closed Accounts Posts: 891 ✭✭✭


    What is the correct method of launching SYSPREP on an XP home machine?
    If you run it from the temporary account setup to install programs/drivers etc,then the account remains after SYSPREP

    You can't remove this account and run SYSPREP from the local administrator account like on XP Pro. However because it is only available in Safemode (and SYSPREP will not run in Safemode) Can Anybody with the knowledge point me in the right direction?
    Thank You.

    Just so you know i have used sysprep before.


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  • #2
    conceited
    Closed Accounts Posts: 891 ✭✭✭conceited


    bump


  • #3
    goodlad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,224 ✭✭✭goodlad


    This post has been doin my nut, haha!
    Ive been googling it for a little while now and cant find anything to help.
    As far as im reading online it should run from any account that is an admin :confused:


  • #4
    cance
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,562 ✭✭✭cance


    why cant you log in as the admin account?

    if you press ctrl-alt-del twice on the xp login screen you should get the classic login.


  • #5
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    cance wrote: »
    why cant you log in as the admin account?

    if you press ctrl-alt-del twice on the xp login screen you should get the classic login.

    XP Home doesn't allow you to use the default admin account except in Safe Mode.


  • #6
    goodlad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,224 ✭✭✭goodlad


    But any account set as an admin can use sysprep. While in safemode as the default admin just create a new user and make that user an admin.

    Then reboot and login as the admin you created?


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  • #7
    conceited
    Closed Accounts Posts: 891 ✭✭✭conceited


    This issue has been doin my nut.
    I take it none of you have used sysprep before ?
    The problem was user acounts were left behind after i sysrprepped it for the end users.I solved this by using this program which was told to run by using the sysyprep.inf

    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=901A9B95-6063-4462-8150-360394E98E1E&displaylang=en

    Brief Description

    Delprof.exe is a command-line utility that you can use to delete user profiles on a local or remote computers running Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003.



    Was a good learning experience.


  • #8
    Bebop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 327 ✭✭Bebop


    Microsoft designed Sysprep as an aid to deploying OS'es over networks; they intended it for Volume licence operating systems and put some bugs in it to prevent it from being used to clone OEM or single licence versions like XP home, one of these limitations allows you to run sysprep only 4 times on any one system, I would use sysprep at work with XP pro and never have a problem but I have heard about undocumented issues like this with XP home
    see http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-631082.php


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