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About the system images, I wholeheartedly recommend you to try this:
- Install Windows 10 normally until it after last reboot stops to ask if you want to use Express Settings or Customized Settings
- At this point press CTRL+SHIFT+F3 to reboot Audit Mode
- Install all your software
- Sysprep the Windows with /OOBE and /SHUTDOWN switches
- Boot with the boot disk of your preferred imaging program, I use Macrium Free and its boot disk
- Create the system image
- Shutdown, remove the boot disk of the imaging program
- Boot Windows 10 normally, it will now resume the OOBE boot phase which you interrupted to access Audit Mode in step 1
You will now have a complete Windows 10 image to be used instead of reinstall when needed. If you you used the /GENERALIZE switch together with /OOBE and /SHUTDOWN switches (step 4 above), this image is also hardware independent and can be restored to any machine, real or virtual instead of performing a normal clean install.
Your image contains the Windows 10 plus all your software preinstalled but has not yet a single user profile; it is like a clean install media with preinstalled software. Using this image, restoring it to a computer, is faster needing less time than a clean install so your future installs will be not only be faster but also already contain all your software.
- The above as tutorial: Windows 10 Image - Customize in Audit Mode with Sysprep - Windows 10 Forums
- In Step 3 on the above list you might want to try OneGet to install your software: PowerShell OneGet - Install Apps from Command Line - Windows 10 Forums
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