Imaging an install of XP - activation problems???

[Guest]

Hey,

For ease of deployment I'd like to image an XP machine that's been set to my
company's needs . However, the company only has single-license copies of XP.
My question is, if I try to create an image of a machine with a
single-license copy of XP on it won't that create a problem whenever I copy
that image, since it will see the product key associated with that copy of XP
has already been activated on another machine? ...was that a good run-on
sentence?

Seriously, won't this create a problem unless I make the image of a
multi-license copy of XP? Thanks in advance...

 

[R. McCarty]

Read up on a Microsoft deployment tool, called SysPrep.
It also helps avoid the issues of matching SIDs on cloned PCs.