Need help (Sysprep)

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Ok im totally pissed off right now

I have formated my Asus M60 laptop and reinstalled everything, included drivers and some utilities on the Asus driver CD. One of them was sysprep because i thought that was probably something cool and awesome that i needed. WRONG!
Now when i restart or start up my machine the screen displays some message about me starting up the machine for the first time and im greeted with System preperation tool on my desktop every fu***** time.

I have looked through program and features to see if i can find it there, but no. I have tried google it but have not find anything valuable, only nerds talking about how awesome it is etc etc etc.

So now im stuck, stuck in my own anger and cannot find any solution to this annoying BS!

Anyone here who knows how to delete it to hell and back? I`d appriciate it

 

Either reformat again or disable that feature via "msconfig" in the run command without the quotes if its listed. Your best option is to reformat and not install that software.

 

No way! It took me like 3-4 hours today to reformat, reinstall OS, drivers, update SSD firmware etc etc. I do not wanna go through that route again

How do i disable it in msconfig? Did not find it.

Come on people. There has to be a solution without going through the reformat solution... Asus can`t be that stupid to put a software on their driver cd that screw up your computer?!

 

Sysprep should be one-shot program. It runs only once, as the name suggests it prepares computer for new user.

Something has gone wrong but I do not know what, I haven't seen that happen before.

 

So where did i get that program from?? Sysprep is not listed on Asus driver page, and i think that the program i was thinking about which i thought was sysprep was something from Intel..

 

have you googled sysprep? You're pretty much hosed.

and why on earth would someone install something they knew nothing about? Malware writers love people like that.

 

Asus should not put any programs on a driver cd they ship out to an end-user that is impossible or very difficult to remove. On the driver cd it is either "driver" or "recommended application" which again leaves me to think that i got that program from elsewhere. But i have just installed my ususal programs and drivers and updates from Windows, so i am a little bit confused here

 

Have you tried running sysprep from inside windows, sounds like its continually running the oobe command

 

"Restarts the computer into Windows Welcome mode. Windows Welcome enables end users to customize their Windows operating system, create user accounts, name the computer, and other tasks. Any settings in the oobeSystem configuration pass in an answer file are processed immediately before Windows Welcome starts."

All i get is the booting up for the first time message, but no time/date etc etc. I did not however get the ususal option to do that either when i booted up for the first time after reinstalling OS. I had to go in control panel and select piece for piece.
Sysprep is only a part of more problems i got when i did this operation today too. You can read about it here http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus/533110-big-asus-software-problems-halp.html

Im really confused now.

 

Try going into control panel=> user accounts and family safety=> add or remove user accounts, then create a new account with system administrator rights, use that account and delete the others...

 

sysPrep is a tool that you use when you image many computers with the same image. This will reset the system id placed on every files and folders, so that you don't have a networking issue by having 2 or more computers on the system with the same ID. Basically the network computer name is just for you. The server that a company uses (usually uses a domain setup), uses the system ID of each system to identify itself.

It's really not a tool for & giggles. You really harm your Windows, if you don't know how EXACTLY you use that tool. In you case you probably pick an options or method that said to Windows NOT to generate a new system ID. As Windows files/folder permissions also uses systemID, as you don't have one, the OS gets lost.

 

Ok.

I tried to run it one time though "Out-of-box-experience OOBE" and "Reboot" but a popup came and said "FATAL ERROR".
So i figured i should just leave it alone. But hey that is me, i like to tamper around with things. Even stuff i dont know what is

But im going to start reformating my computer again since no person here or google have a solution on how to remove it. If the same problem occur, this laptop is going out the window. Mark my words thy evil program

 

Ok wow. Just an update here after i am now finished with the whole process.

I did the exact thing this time, formated, installed OS and turned of my computer when it asked for driver cd. I rebooted it, and then cmd came up with some sort of Windows program running in a cmd window. Lots of messages came up, like CPU apply etc etc etc. And at the very last second before the laptop restarted again, a message said "Exit audit mode" or something like that. I guess that has to do with the sysprep program, because after my laptop restarted, i got to chose language, time etc, and the "first time booting" message only came up one time, and now it is gone.
And now i have a normal account without password, and best of all my Windows 7 key is valid and i was able to register it. HALLELUJA. Crazy to think about that one utility can screw so much up lol

I remember i started up with installing drivers when the cmd and windows program was running the last time when it all went wrong. I probably screwed the sysprep up when i did that.

So lesson learned here: DO NOT INTERUPT THE SYSPREP AND THE CMD PROCESS WHEN BOOTING UP THE MACHINE FOR THE FIRST TIME.

Cheers

 

Another lesson, DON'T USE SYSPREP AGAIN UNLESS YOU HAVE SPECIFIC REASON TO USE IT.

 

So your best option was to format , beside not interrupting the CMD/Driver's CD process of course. Any reason why you are using the driver's cd beside the drivers on asus's support site? Unless you do not have anyway to access the internet after a clean install I would understand.

Note: I understand not everyone is tech savvy but if OP can format his computer, he should be able to download file(s) on the internet. The only issue I can see downloading from asus is knowing which driver to download specifically the wireless card and acpi drivers.

 

This whole thread is more an lesson in DO NOT than anything else.....

Know the limitations of your expertise/experience and know your software.

 

I think you and some people here misunderstand me. I did not install or USE sysprep. Period.
I think there is some sort of process that is hidden inside the system recovery file that is kept in the partision when you choose to reinstall with the system recovery disk. And that sysprep automaticly start when you boot up the machine after reinstall to make everything correct again, or some sort of mirror of the correct and previous version of the system that was setup by Asus or OEM.

Once again, i have not installed sysprep or used sysprep. Well i did try to use sysprep when i couldnt uninstall it, but the sysprep was already in full use.

 

Well I could download from the support site, but I think it is much easier to just insert the driver CD and let it install all the drivers at the same time
If Asus had more updated drivers compared to my driver cd though, then i would use the drivers on the asus site. But most of them are the same

 

Sysprep is the System Preperation Tool...it is used in by OEM and Enterprise customers to create standard images. There are 7 passes that it does...this Technet Site explains it best:

How Configuration Passes Work