sysprep pnp speed up ?

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Hi all,

We use in our company windows XP as OS, to deploy it in fast way, we
use the SYSPREP.
I run the sysprep with the -pnp switch because I need to have some
"non-standard" devices detected such as a SERIAL CARD.
But then with the pnp switch activated, we have to wait the OS to
redetect everything before being able to fully use the computer.
One way to speed up that process, is to go to the device manager and
hit "scan for hardware changes", then the detection goes faster. But

since we have to deploy the image from remote we'll not be able to do
that ...

So my question is: anybody have a solution to speed up that process? I
heard about the devcon command. But it seems to not be the solution.

Thanks for help.

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.setup_deployment (More info?)

I think I've found a solution. I'm busy with testing it with most of
model from our company, everything ok uptil now.

What I did:

autologin as adminstrator with auto reboot after 10 minutes.
during those 10 minutes, computer is being locked, and a VBS script
will start refreshing hardware (does: scan for hardware changes in the
device manager)
By refreshing many times the hardware device, detection goes faster.
And the computer is ready to use after 10 minutes !


Seems good :-)

Thx for help anyway