In article <318301c36c4b$3ada5500$>,
says...
> Our corporate is current using XP professional as
> standard OS, We recently are evlauating tabletPCs for new
> deployment. Question, since we have already had Corporate
> Load of image in Windows XP professional, can we drop
> current XP professional image onto tablet PCs and let PnP
> take care most of generic drivers and copy over other
> some specific tablet drivers such as WACOM digitizer
> driver (.inf) from original OEM XP tablet load.
> This will save us lots of time to build new images amount
> different brand of TabletPCs during this evaluation
> process? Thanks !
>
I would never do that even from one model of motherboard to the next
within the same brand, let alone from a desktop PC of one brand to a
Tablet PC of another brand. I have learned from cleaning up far too many
other people's PC's that this will always come back to bite you later.
There are just too many old .DLL's and drivers left laying around. I
don't care what Microsoft says, the old drivers are NOT completely
removed. And removing them in device manager doesn't completely do it
either.
You should plan to build a whole new set of images. If you use a
deployment tool that applies only the changes and you have DEPLOYMENT
packages prepared then you should be able to use them. In other words, if
you have deployment packages prepared to apply your standard changes to
Windows settings or to install something like MS Office then they will
probably work. But trying to blast a complete hard disk image onto an
entirely new machine and expecting Plug-n-Pray to take care of the
differences is just asking too much.
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