winXP sp1 runs slower after reseal?

[bcb]

Hi there.

Has anyone noticed that WinXP sp1(fully patched) may run slower after a
sysprep reseal?

I have 2 pc's that have been resealed and 2 that haven't,
all have the same specs. The 2 pc's that have been resealed run annoyingly
slower than those that haven't. The command prompt defrag for example takes
at least 1/2 hour on a 40gb drive, and it's less than 2% fragemented. All
four 4 pc's have freshly installed Windows OS, and have not been connected
to the internet, so it's not spyware or any other malicious programs that
may be causing the problem. A reseal does defualt the lan settings so
perhaps it changes other settings that may cause this slowdown.

Any ideas/suggestions would be very much appreciated.

Thanks.

 

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| Hi there.
|
| Has anyone noticed that WinXP sp1(fully patched) may run slower after a
| sysprep reseal?
|
| I have 2 pc's that have been resealed and 2 that haven't,
| all have the same specs. The 2 pc's that have been resealed run annoyingly
| slower than those that haven't. The command prompt defrag for example takes
| at least 1/2 hour on a 40gb drive, and it's less than 2% fragemented. All
| four 4 pc's have freshly installed Windows OS, and have not been connected
| to the internet, so it's not spyware or any other malicious programs that
| may be causing the problem. A reseal does defualt the lan settings so
| perhaps it changes other settings that may cause this slowdown.
|
| Any ideas/suggestions would be very much appreciated.
|
| Thanks.

 

[bcb]

Thanks for replying I'll try your suggestion.

We use Norton Ghost to image a drive after installing winxp and applying all
the needed updates/patches. Then copy the image to a new drive, then use
sysreps(the gui version) re-seal to assign the new pc the new serial and
then activate XP. Run scandisk and defrag, so the last step which we have
net yet done, is to run "sysprep -nosidgen", is that step absolutely
necessary? not doing so will cost system performance?

Microsoft's site mentions:
"Runs Sysprep without regenerating SIDs that are already on the system. This
is useful if you do not intend to duplicate the computer on which you are
running Sysprep."