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applications” option and accept the default prompts. The “HP Backup and Recovery Manager” PC

Recovery will restore the factory preinstalled image to the system.

If the factory preinstalled image has already been removed from the hard drive, you can restore that

image using the System Recovery Restore DVD created from the Recovery Manager / Recovery Disk

Creation application on a system with the preinstalled image or from HP technical support.

Another option is to perform a clean installation directly from operating system media. Reference the

Microsoft Corporate Deployment documentation in order to build the base image, and then continue

with the next section of this document to build a common image.

Customizing the Image

There are several actions you can take to customize an operating system image before capturing and

deploying that image:

• Removing preinstalled software

• Adding software

• Adding hardware/drivers

• Additional customization

Removing Preinstalled Software

HP pre-installs several applications and software packages that provide additional value to customers. If

you do not want to include these applications in the common image, they can be removed by using the

Add or Remove Programs utility, located in the Control Panel.

Note

Software marked as a “Hotfix” should be removed. Your system

ships with fixes and security updates from Microsoft. HP recommends

that you do not uninstall these updates. In addition, any operating

system Service Packs preinstalled by HP cannot be removed.

Adding software

Please refer to the documentation provided by software vendors on a case-by-case basis for installing

additional, non-HP provided software on the image.

Adding Hardware/Drivers

The addition of peripheral hardware devices can necessitate the installation of associated drivers.

These drivers can be downloaded using HP SoftPaq Download Manager (available from

www.hp.com/go/sdm); alternatively, you can download individual SoftPaqs from the HP website.

For more information, refer to Appendix A: Using HP SoftPaq Download Manager.