I am currently using sysprep 2.0 on Windows XP Professional
and was wondering if there are any potential problems running sysprep
on an installation many times. I recently ran sysprep on a newly installed
Windows XP box and the process lasted a few minutes. I used the mini setup
opton and told sysprep to shut the machine down after it was done.
After rebooting and running through the setup etc, I ran sysprep again
with the
same options. This time the process lasted only a few seconds before
the machine
shutdown. I am just curious why such a difference in time between the two
sysprep runs. Any ideas? Thanks.

I have run sysprep multiple times on the same image and have never
noticed any ill effect. The first version of Sysprep to ship with
Windows 2000 would often fail to shut the computer down at all. It
would simply hang with a blank blue background. Even then, the
solution was to manually shut off the power and there was no ill effect
from it that I ever observed.

Kevin Mattson
www.deploy-tech.net


Sean Godel wrote:
>
> I am currently using sysprep 2.0 on Windows XP Professional
> and was wondering if there are any potential problems running sysprep
> on an installation many times. I recently ran sysprep on a newly
> installed Windows XP box and the process lasted a few minutes. I
> used the mini setup opton and told sysprep to shut the machine down
> after it was done. After rebooting and running through the setup etc,
> I ran sysprep again with the
> same options. This time the process lasted only a few seconds before
> the machine
> shutdown. I am just curious why such a difference in time between
> the two sysprep runs. Any ideas? Thanks.