Andrew 
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Registered: 5th May 04
 Location: Skoda Octavia Estate, Ford Puma 
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Anyone used any registry repair programs.  Fed up of formatting PCs at work just because they are slow   
 
99% of our customers are on XP.
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richardworrall 
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Registered: 20th Sep 05
 Location: Derby 
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CCleaner does a similar thing, ive used it loads of times. 
www.ccleaner.com
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Dan Lewis 
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Registered: 31st Jan 05
 Location: Leicestershire 
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are they similar machines? if so create a master disc. im in the process of doing it now. 
 
have dell laptops dell desktops and a range of HP's and can be rebuilt with one disc all drivers are on it. can even run a script that once its done it renames it and adds it to a domian. saves soooo much time. just put the disk in boot it up done. will be implementing it via pxe soon also. 
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Aaron 
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Registered: 9th Aug 04
 Location: Cottingham, East Riding 
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3 words... 
 
Remote Installation Services (or the latter Windows Deployment Services if on Server2k3SP2)
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Andrew 
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Registered: 5th May 04
 Location: Skoda Octavia Estate, Ford Puma 
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The PCs are generally different.
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Andrew 
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Aaron making out he knows his stuuf  
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Aaron 
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u2u'd 
 
I use RIS all the time. we have about 20 images on our RIS server. Every 3 months or so we format every PC in the school (about 350 of them) All our software is installed via .Msi, so the images are simply Windows XP and the required drivers. 
 
Booshank  
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Andrew 
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Dan Lewis 
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Also you could use, netrunna, acronis, ghost but they are cost options. RIS is free.
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Aaron 
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Theres an open source product called "Fog", someone i know uses it and thinks its great. Personally, RIS works for my setup
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Sunz 
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
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quote: Originally posted by richardworrall 
CCleaner does a similar thing, ive used it loads of times. 
www.ccleaner.com 
   
 
 
Thanks man, this worked well for me  
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Richie 
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Registered: 3rd Dec 02
 Location: Newport, Wales 
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Microsoft Deployment  
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Richie 
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Registered: 3rd Dec 02
 Location: Newport, Wales 
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quote: Originally posted by Dan Lewis 
Also you could use, netrunna, acronis, ghost but they are cost options. RIS is free. 
   
 
I've had Allan from NetRunna come here and set it up in the lab, bloody works well   
 
However our company is going Vista and they are quite a way from getting it right yet. Also they werent very clear on costs.
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