SysPrep - Windows XP + Internet Explorer browser choice

[SteveB_NI]

I'm using SysPrep to prepare an image for deployment over WDS - it's currently Windows XP.

 

Can anyone advise me about something I noticed - I set up a workstation perfectly, and added all required software, followed by running SysPrep & capturing the image. I then deployed this image on a few workstations to test & joined the domain. Everything worked fine until I logged in as anyone & the Windows settings I had configured, such as desktop resolution etc hadn't transferred across.

 

Another thing that hadn't set was the browser choice within Windows when you first log in - I had already set this for Windows Internet Explorer to be the default choice. Is there something else I need to do to stop this question being asked after SysPrep?

 

Thanks in advance

[sted]

those sound like per user settings rather per machine settings iirc with xp unless you set them as the user administrator (before you sysprep make all changes as adminiostrator as iirc that user gets copied to default user as part of sysprep but not myadminuser or whatever user you created)it wont carry them forwards and some settings wont survive whatever you do

[Arthur]

Is there something else I need to do to stop this question being asked after SysPrep?

I think you need to create the following registry entry.

 

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\BrowserChoice]
"Enable"=dword:00000000

 

or

 

REG ADD HKLM\Software\BrowserChoice /v Enable /t REG_DWORD /d 0x00000000 /f

 

or

 

Set-ItemProperty -path 'HKLM:\Software\BrowserChoice' -name 'Enable' -type 'DWord' -value '0'