CogitoErgoSum Posted October 18, 2006 Share Posted October 18, 2006 Here in the office, I have the joy of maintaining 100 dell computers for the use of teenagers. Even through my best efforts, windows needs to be reinstalled more often than I would like.Queue nLite...which I thought would be the solution to all of my woes.I used one of my OEM dell Windows XP with SP2 CDs to make the nLite CD. Customized it a bit, integrated drivers and service packs and burnt the ISO. It boots just fine, does a WONDERFUL unattended install...and then reboots. The loading windows screen comes up, tries to load, locks up and dies a painful death.Anyone got any hint or tips as to what I might be doing wrong? This happens with or without tweaks..so I am fairly certain that I havent f***ed up windows that bad....Any help would be appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZcWorld Posted October 18, 2006 Share Posted October 18, 2006 (edited) may way of dealing with xx amount of the same hardware type of pcs would be ghost install / update / patch so on on one box image it than roll it out when a pc goes down no need to do 7 hrs of work on the box if you got the right license of windows your usingbut you can remove any of the license keys that you used on the install box and replace them with each pc license keys for the OS and softwareif you got like office anti-virus updates and other stuff to install i dont see the point and installing them 10 times a month when one goes down its a waste of time the pc is out of use and a waste of your time when you could be doing other stuff Edited October 18, 2006 by ZcWorld Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tijuana Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 I agree... windows, then antivirus, then office, then sysprep (with uattended options), then ghost, then RIS the ghost image, then ghost again (save on a different partition on the same computer), then disable teen access to ghost partition, then configure ghost to run every day at 8 AM (or maybe 9, or maybe in the middle of the night, your choice )If you need to know anything about how to do what I described above, feel free to pm me Greetz! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powaking Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 You should take a look at Microsofts Shared Computer solution for WinXPhttp://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sharedaccess/default.mspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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