As far as the sysprep answer file for Windows XP is concerned, It is possible to edit the answer file and even use it  to copy the user profile as such. From Ghost point of View, The user is able to keep the "computer name" field blank so that he gets a prompt for name after each image deployment. But in case of the Windows 7 Sysprep answer file, It forces the user to add the computer name rather than keeping it blank. And my understanding is that it is not possible to copy the user profile too. Sysprep ,as you know, is a microsoft utility to automate the installation process. Hence it reduces the work of system administrator when used with ghost while deploying the master image to large number of computers. Ghost has a user friendly sysprep answer file where the user needs to just fill in the required fields. And this works fine with the XP answer file. But in case of WIN 7 answer file, you will have to fill all the fields with data even if they look irrelevant...

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With the current large disks it is a huge task if you need to find something. I found a very cool tool that really helps.

"Everything" is an administrative tool that locates files and folders by filename instantly for Windows.
Unlike Windows search "Everything" initially displays every file and folder on your computer (hence the name "Everything").
You type in a search filter to limit what files and folders are displayed.

"Everything" only uses file and folder names and generally takes a few seconds to build it's database.
A fresh install of Windows XP SP2 (about 20,000 files) will take about 1 second to index.
1,000,000 files will take about 1 minute.
 

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 For the last many months, we've been looking into reports of Dell Optiplex 755 computers spontaneously rebooting. The reboots are random, and we've never found a way to force the behavior on demand. In parallel we've had another issue of the 755s hanging on login with a specific image. The image is hardware independent, and only hangs (although not reproducibly) on the 755s.

Because of the reproducibility issue, its been a long road to troubleshoot. We have a test network, and the problems have not manifested there. What we've found is,

• For the computer hangs on login we've discovered the problem vanishes if the Intel disk controller is configured from AHCI to 'Legacy IDE'
• If we disconnect the DVD drive with the controller in AHCI mode the issue vanishes

So, degrading the controller to 'Legacy IDE' seemed to be good resolution/workaround at least for the hanging issue, so we were going to proceed by...