Our company builds an alerting system that amounts to a small network of several computers. One is a Dell Dimension 8300 (Windows XP Pro) that runs the Administration software for the system, the only machine that a person sits in front of (and then only occasionally, the system is all automatic).
I write the software for the Admin Station. One of my tasks is to set up new ones when we sell a system. So I go open one of the Dell boxes from the stockroom, set it up and turn it on and go through all the startup, out-of-the-box welcome screens, giving the machine a name, all that stuff. Always hated all that Dell desktop junk, had to go through it and delete a bunch of nonsense, put our own graphic on the desktop, etc. Discovered at one point that the Operating System CD in the software kit, used for reinstalling Windows, restores everything but without all the crap on the desktop. Good improvement, so now I open a box and start right in with a reinstall.
After the basics there's still a good half a day of setup to do before sending it out, and today someone said, Hey why not get it all set up and Ghost the whole damn thing and then the job is just open the box and get the Ghost disk.
But am I right, that even though we have licenses for Windows XP for each of the Dells in their boxes, that the activation stuff would be on the Ghost image, and in effect it would scream and object as the image was loading, or would come up and not work because it found itself on a machine it was not originally installed to?
I write software, I'm not that great at hardware and OS stuff
I write the software for the Admin Station. One of my tasks is to set up new ones when we sell a system. So I go open one of the Dell boxes from the stockroom, set it up and turn it on and go through all the startup, out-of-the-box welcome screens, giving the machine a name, all that stuff. Always hated all that Dell desktop junk, had to go through it and delete a bunch of nonsense, put our own graphic on the desktop, etc. Discovered at one point that the Operating System CD in the software kit, used for reinstalling Windows, restores everything but without all the crap on the desktop. Good improvement, so now I open a box and start right in with a reinstall.
After the basics there's still a good half a day of setup to do before sending it out, and today someone said, Hey why not get it all set up and Ghost the whole damn thing and then the job is just open the box and get the Ghost disk.
But am I right, that even though we have licenses for Windows XP for each of the Dells in their boxes, that the activation stuff would be on the Ghost image, and in effect it would scream and object as the image was loading, or would come up and not work because it found itself on a machine it was not originally installed to?
I write software, I'm not that great at hardware and OS stuff
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