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Consensus in my shop is that you must use the latest version of Sysprep that works with XP. Denyson Figueiredo is the Ghost image expert. He's been rolling out XP for sometime now. ([log in to unmask]) Margaret -- Margaret Wilson, MCSE Manager College of Human Medicine Information Systems Michigan State University 517.355.1839 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Wolf" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 11:36 AM Subject: Problem with Profiles on Cloned Computer > We have been using Ghost for years to clone Windows master-setup images > onto other identical hardware. In the last month we've started to run into > a problem we haven't seen before, and I'm hoping someone can shed some > light on this. > > When we put one of our master images onto a new machine, we use Ghost > Walker to change the SID. We do not use SYSPREP. This used to work fine, > with no glitches. Now after we run Ghost Walker and then restart Windows > and log on as administrator, Windows seems to lose track of the profile for > the administrator and creates a new one (C:\Documents and > Settings\administrator.computername). Similarly, when we log on as a > domain user that already has a profile on that computer, it creates a new > profile (C:\Documents and Settings\domainuser.domain) instead of using the > existing one. > > We've tried all sorts of different sequences and ways of changing the SID, > changing the computer name, changing domain membership, etc., and we cannot > get it to not create a new profile. This has happened with two different > Windows XP images now, even though we know that we have successfully used > one of those exact images previously on identical hardware without getting > the extra profiles. > > Can anyone tell me why this is happening and how to avoid it? Thanks. > > --Chris > ============================================== > Chris Wolf Computer Service Manager > Agricultural Economics [log in to unmask] > Michigan State University 517 353-5017 >