Systems Deployment

Are you installing other applications as post-install tasks?

I wonder if these are writing to all the all users folder.

No all applications have already been installed, its a rather specific lab image, and no post-install tasks are in use. The problem seems to be with sysprep and not the imaging.

In sysprep try going into audit mode and testing to see if the icons are there.

If they are you should be able to delete them from the image, and reseal like normal.

ORIGINAL: cserrins

By default sysprep will add back items to your start menu, the only way to remove them would be a post installation task.

Corey


How disappointing. I don't really feel like making a post install task to alter all the images I have because each start menu is generally unique. However if I could put it in as a setup script on the image itself like you can do with Win 7 @ "C:\Windows\setup\scripts\" that would be ideal. Does XP have a setup\scripts folder? I'll need to look into that.

I take it you are building your image from an installation of Windows XP Service Pack 3? MSFT changed the way the default user profile was applied between SP2 and SP3. You used to be able to configure your default user provide and overwrite the existing default user profile, but even if this is done now all of those settings are wiped out.

You need to use the UpdateServerProfileDirectory=1 entry in Sysprep under the [UNATTENDED] section. This ensures that any settings configured from the administrator account are used as the default user profile settings. The following article provides more information: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959753

I found an easier solution. I also ran into the problem of google chrome not staying configured when a new profile was created and a working profile was correctly copied onto Default User. It seems that using system properties' copy profile did not copy the hidden folder Local settings which has a second Application Data folder. It is this folder that has data for such things as how Chrome is configured and how the start menu looks. I simply manually copied this folder into Default User and now all is right with the world.

Yep, I had the very same problem with Chrome... It did not copy the hidden folder local settings when a new profile was created... Any ideas what the best solution would be as I don't want to have to manually copy the folder each time...