[wds] PersistAllDeviceInstalls

[szachara]

Is anyone who uses WDS familiar with this tweak? It basically tells Windows during the mini-setup of a systm to keep the drivers that were installed on the system instead of Windows looking for and installing its own drivers?

 

We started using this to fix issues with our display drivers on our computers, but it seems to break the touchpad utility that gets installed when installing the mouse driver on a windows 7 computer. to explain further, when you install the mouse driver on a laptop, the dell Tpad utility is loaded when windows starts up into the taskbar, so users can click there and tweak their settings for their mouse.

 

wwe tie up our image and use the switch in our sysprep file, and then when we deploy our image, and the while the driver for the mouse stays, the utility never loads. the only way to get it to load properly is the reinstall the driver.

 

i have found limited info on this so i am coming to the experts for help.

 

thanks,

steve