Best Method to prep 14 new XP Machines?

[Courtney R]

Hi All

Never had to prepare 14 PC's all at once.

Will be getting 14 brand new Dell desktop PC's. All will have XP Pro w/ SP2
installed already. What I'd like to do is to remove all of the junk apps that
dell puts on and then install necessary apps. Make an image of that drive,
then take that image, less SID and copy it to a network share. Then use
utility X to copy that image to the other 13 PC's.

I could use the SysPrep tool to do this, but is there a program that is more
user friendly? As I've never done this, the easier the better. Wizards
galore.

So if you can recommend something, please do.

[Yves Leclerc]

Consider getting a Volume License version of the Microsoft softwares you
wish to use. You can then set up the first system and copy to the rest The
greatest thing that this does: does not really need to do the Product
Activation.


"Courtney R" > wrote in message
...
> Hi All
>
> Never had to prepare 14 PC's all at once.
>
> Will be getting 14 brand new Dell desktop PC's. All will have XP Pro w/
> SP2
> installed already. What I'd like to do is to remove all of the junk apps
> that
> dell puts on and then install necessary apps. Make an image of that
> drive,
> then take that image, less SID and copy it to a network share. Then use
> utility X to copy that image to the other 13 PC's.
>
> I could use the SysPrep tool to do this, but is there a program that is
> more
> user friendly? As I've never done this, the easier the better. Wizards
> galore.
>
> So if you can recommend something, please do.