If you’re like most people, you probably don’t want to watch the “while you’re waiting” screen every time a new system is deployed with MDT or SCCM. Good news: it’s easily disabled. You can create a Group Policy object to completely skip this welcome screen for systems on your domain. You can find that setting here: Computer …
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I like to use Audit Mode for all of my Windows image builds. It’s clean, doesn’t create necessary accounts, and specifically exists for capturing images. I’ve used this in Windows 7 for years. Windows 8 also has an Audit Mode that works in the same way. When you get prompted to customize your desktop and create …
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Announced today: Microsoft will re-introduce the Start Menu in a future update of Windows 8.1. Here’s a screenshot from the demo today: More on the story here.
