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36 lines
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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
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<!DOCTYPE topic PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN" "topic.dtd">
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<topic xml:lang="en-us" id="sysprep">
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<title>Automated Windows System Preparation</title>
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<body>
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<p>Microsoft offers a system preparation tool called Sysprep, to prepare a Windows system for deployment or
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redistribution. Some Windows releases include Sysprep on the installation medium, but the tool is also available
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for download from the Microsoft website. In a standard For most Windows versions, Sysprep is included in a default
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installation. Sysprep mainly consists of an executable called <userinput>sysprep.exe</userinput> which is invoked
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by the user to put the Windows installation into preparation mode. </p>
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<p>The Guest Additions offer a way to launch a system preparation on the guest operating system in an automated way,
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controlled from the host system. See <xref href="guestadd-guestcontrol.dita">Guest Control of Applications</xref>
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for details of how to use this feature with the special identifier <codeph>sysprep</codeph> as the program to
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execute, along with the user name <codeph>sysprep</codeph> and password <codeph>sysprep</codeph> for the
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credentials. Sysprep is then started with the required system rights. </p>
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<note>
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<p>Specifying the location of <userinput>sysprep.exe</userinput> is <b outputclass="bold">not possible</b>.
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Instead the following paths are used, based on the Windows release: </p>
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<ul>
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<li>
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<p><filepath>C:\sysprep\sysprep.exe</filepath> for Windows XP
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and earlier
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</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p><filepath>%WINDIR%\System32\sysprep\sysprep.exe</filepath>
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for Windows Vista and later
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</p>
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</li>
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</ul>
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<p>The Guest Additions will automatically use the appropriate path to execute the system preparation tool. </p>
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</note>
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</body>
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</topic>
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