I am having issues when deploying a XP image over a network, this issue arises because of the Auto Negotiation of the Network Link & Duplex settings is causing an unexpectedly huge amounts of traffic. Does anyone know a way to save the link speed & Duplex into a syspreped image, the changes are there before the sysprep but after deploying the image they disappear back to default settings. Is there a WSH script or Reg Hack that can be run to change these settings at logon or grouppolicy. I have had very little luck finding any solutions so far appart from this one. Workaround: Manualy change the speed on the Local Area Connection Properties\Advanced tab, Link Speed & Duplex change from Auto to 100Mbps/Full Duplex then reboot the pc. NIC is Intel Pro 100 VM. Thanks.