Ghost Images

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Ghost images are files used to restore the software on a particular partition of your harddrive or on the entire hard drive itself. Norton Ghost is a powerful program for backing up important operating system software, and can be particular useful if many of your computers share the exact some hardware configuration. If your computers have the same hardware, you can effectively make a ghost image of one working computer and cloan that image onto another computer. This can be particular useful when a computer is affected with a virus, is bloated with too much software, or is otherwise in need of cleaning. Effective administration of lab computers can be carried out by having several different ghost images availabe to bring back a machine to a desired state.

How to Use Ghost Images

Ghost Images Inventory

Fangzhen Computers (TU provided computers)

Filename: FZ01.gho
- Date created: 2007-09-14
- Summary: Fresh Install of XP SP2 (with drivers and updated XP patches)
  - XP SP2 freshly installed
  - effected drive: C: drive (also with boot sector defined therein)
  - Realtek audio driver added (other devices automatically detected)
  - computer name: THL-NONAME (this should be modified afterwards for each machine)
  - anti-virus security requirement turned off in security settings
  - complex script support added to language and regional settings
  - screensaver disabled
  - updated all XP patches from Windows Update (including Windows Media Player 11 and IE7)
  - changed the default homepage of IE7 to www.thdl.org
  - time synchronization not successfully completed

Filename: FZ02.gho
- Date Created: 2007-09-15
- Based on: FZ01.gho
- Summary: Addition of Chinese Interface to English XP
  - Installed Chinese XP MUI (Multi User Interface)
  - Added Chinese language pack to Windows Media Player 11
  - Added the general MUI pack to IE7
  - Turned on automatic updates to engage everyday at 3am.

Filename: FZ03.gho
- Date Created: 2007-09-19
- Based on: FZ02.gho
- Summary: Added Nero 7, Partition Magic, 7-zip, VLC, Office 2003, fonts, iTunes & Quicktime, Quilldriver March 2006
  - Added Chinese keyboards (Pinyin)
    - selected "turn off additional icons in taskbar"
    - added keyboard shortcuts (ctrl-9 for English, ctrl-0 for Chinese)
  - Turned off System restore option
  - added icons to Quicklaunch bar
  - Installed iTunes and Quicktime 7.2 (has chinese language support built in) (chose no automatic update during install)
  - Dechecked highligt newly installed programs
  - Dechecked hide inactive icons
  - Installed Nero 7 (added also Chinese support)
    - no mediahome, no startsmart, no nerohome, no inCD… got rid of search box
  - Non-Unicode program encoding set to Chinese PRC (Regional and Language Options)
  - Installed Partition Magic (English only)
  - Rolled back audio driver… do not use Windows Update to replace Reatek audio driver!
  - Installed 7-zip (has Chinese support)
  - Install VLC (has Chinese support)
  - Installed Office 2003 (added Chinse MUI)
  - Installed fonts (Ten Tibetan Unicode fonts, and TM, and TMW)

Filename: FZ04.gho
- Date Created: 2007-09-20
- Based on: FZ03.gho
- Summary: Updated Office 2003 to sp3, installed Foxit 2.1 with Chinese language, turned off language and spelling check in Office 2003

Filename: FZ05.gho
- Date Created: 2007-09-21
- Based on: FZ04.gho
- Summary: Upgraded system Uniscribe to Vista version (Better Tibetan Unicode text layout). Updated Java to ver. 6 update 2

Laptops

Filename: GA01.gho
- Date created: 2007-10-03
- Summary: Fresh Install of XP SP2 (with drivers and updated XP patches)
  - XP SP2 freshly installed
  - effected drive: C: drive (also with boot sector defined therein)
  - most drivers recognized automatically (tv out not recognized, not installed?)
  - computer name: GATEWAY
  - anti-virus security requirement turned off in security settings
  - complex script support and east asian added to language and regional settings
  - screensaver disabled
  - updated all XP patches from Windows Update (including Windows Media Player 11 and IE7)
  - changed the default homepage of IE7 to www.thdl.org
  - time synchronization not successfully completed
  - Installed Chinese XP MUI (Multi User Interface)
  - Added Chinese language pack to Windows Media Player 11
  - Added the general MUI pack to IE7
  - Turned on automatic updates to engage everyday at 3am.

Filename: to01.gho
- Date Created:

summary:win xp fresh, on D, don't format c (boot.ini there), updated all patches, ie7 wmp11, no applications, drivers fine. to reinstall: boot windows floppy. in c:hard drive -> support/ghost. restore d:. complex script added. quick bar. Chinese MUI to Windows. (Forget to specify Chinese for non-unicode programs)

Filename: h601.gho (for hp6000 laptop)
- Date Created:

summary:win xp fresh, on c, don't format c: updated all patches, ie7 wmp11, no applications, drivers fine. turned on automatic updates, changes no virus protection alert. no screensaver