Keep Desktop Folder/Icon After Sysprep?

[shadymg]

I've been reading up on Sysprep for a couple months now, just trying to get acclimated as much as possible, and these forums have been great.

So i tried searching for this, but i can't find the answer.

I'm looking to be able to add a special Folder on my desktop which will remain there after the sysprep, but unfortunately the only solutions i found were for XP and didn't work for me.

Any ideas? I'd imagine it's something in the registry or unattend file?

[MAVERICKS CHOICE]

Why not try putting the folder in the OEM directories inside Sources while unattending.

eg.

Vista\sources\$OEM$\$$

[shadymg]

thanks for the reply...and excuse this next question....but is there any guide to that? I'm not at all familiar with the \Sources?

[MAVERICKS CHOICE]

thanks for the reply...and excuse this next question....but is there any guide to that? I'm not at all familiar with the \Sources?

The oem directory as explained here is basically the same as we used in xp except now instead of placing in the i386 Dir we place it in the Vista Source Dir. One thing to remember is some of the placement of Vista window folders do differ from previous MS versions. Best way is to navigate around your running Vista setup & get used to the new structure then do many tests in a free Virtual machine.

Another way you can save/move your files is with a sfx archive triggered from within the xml ans file using setupcomplete.cmd.

Everything I suggested here can be found on this board. Many UA guides have been supplied for your use.