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How to Create a New Image

  1. After keying in the application, clear cookies and cache (Start, Settings, Taskbar and Start Menu, Start Menu, Customize, Clear)
  2. Log off, Log back in as bob on local domain.
  3. Change configuration (eg. Turn off auto-update, etc.)
  4. Reboot the computer
  5. Log on as labuser on local domain.
  6. Right click My Computer, Properties, Advanced, User Profiles, Settings.
  7. Highlight Bob's profile and click Copy To. Browse the directory to C:\Documents and Settings\Default User. Click OK.
  8. Under the Browse field there is another category, Permitted to Use, click the Change button. Click Locations button. You will get a dialogue box asking for credentials. Click Cancel. Highlight the local machine (top choice in the window). Click OK.
  9. 9. Under the Enter object name to select field, type 'Everyone' (omit the quotation marks). Click Check Names.
  10. 10. Click OK. Yes/OK to everything.
  11. 11. Go to Paint application, open C:\windows\imgdate.bmp. Change the date on the top right corner to today's date. File - Save.
  12. 12. Clear cache/cookies again. Log off and log back in as labuser.
  13. 13. Right click on My Computer and choose Manage.
  14. 14. Expand 'Services and Applications' in left window. Highlight Services. On the right window, choose Labstats. Click the Stop Service toolbar at the top.
  15. 15. On left window, go to Event Viewer. There will be 3 items (Application, Security & System) in it. Right click and Clear All Events for each of them. Close window.
  16. 16. Right click on Start menu, click Explorer.
  17. 17. Go to C: Windows directory and look for a file called labstats.conf. Double-click on the file. Change the last two / three digits to -1. Save. Close all windows.
  18. 18. Right click on My Computer, Map Network Drive. Connect to Z:\\dragon\ITSHome. Username: wesleyan\vspiars, enter password.
  19. 19. Go to 'vspiars' folder, UIU2, Sysprep.
  20. 20. Copy the 'sysprep' folder to C: drive.
  21. 21. Run regedit. Find Map Network Drive (MRU) or Edit, Find \\dragon\ITSHome. Right click and delete a.
  22. 22. Right click on My Computer, Disconnect Network Drive.
  23. 23. Right click on My Computer, go to UIU2 disc, copy automate.cfg, UIU.dat, UIU.exe, UIU.ICO, UIUHelp.chm to C:sysprep.
  24. 23a. Right click on My Computer, select Manage. Click Services. Find LabStats, right click and stop that service only.
  25. 23b. Right click Start Menu, choose Explore. Go to C:\Windows\ and open labstats.conf - Edit the last set of digits to read -1. Save and close.
  26. 24. Clear cache/cookies again.
  27. 25. Go to C:sysprep, double-click UIU.exe, allow program to run. Be sure to close all windows and applications before allowing UIU to proceed to the shutdown step.
  28. 26. The computer will shut-down. Afterwards, insert floppy disk into A: drive, power up the computer. Enter password.
  29. 27. Once Ghost has launched and begun running and the floppy disk light is off, take out floppy disk.
  30. 28. Image will be dumped to the server to the backup location of \\Bigbird\backup.
  31. 29. To use this new image you will need to copy the production image files to a dated directory you will create in \\Bigbird\2000\oldimage\. Once copied you can now delete the original production files out of \\Bigbird\2000. The reason for copy and not Move is that if a failure happens when you are moving you lose everything. With a copy you can recover if there is an issue.
  32. 30. Now that \\Bigbird\2000 is clear you can now copy over the freshly uploaded image from \\Bigbird\backup to \\bigbird\2000.