Windows Vista
"Today is a victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men."
-Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings: Water Book

sysprep, kms, winpe, and imagex info - here

min. hardware requirements
Min. 800Mhz CPU
Rec. 1Ghz CPU
Min. 512MB RAM
Rec. 1GB RAM

Min. HDD Space 20GB
Rec. HDD Space 40GB

Aero
DirectX9 Card
128MB RAM

logos
capable - meets min. requirements
ready - meets rec. requirements

versions
starter
home basic
home premium
business - kms
enterprise - kms
ultimate - individually keyed

30 days to activate vista after initial install. vista is allowed to be reinstalled/reactivated on the same computer once..additional activation requires a call to microsoft. installing multiple hardware components will cause the computer to be identified as a new/different computer.

Administrator account is disabled by default

stock install of Vista (no SPs) on a Dell Optiplex 755
NIC, video, and chipset drivers are missing

vista base image contents:
novell client
symantec endpoint
sun jre
adobe reader
adobe flash & shockwave player
powershell
apple quicktime player
roxio media creator
cyberlink powerdvd
print drivers

other info:
automatic updates off
firewall off
aero on/default vista theme on
uac off?
ie7+ ssl 2.0
dns search suffix - dbc.edu X
windows defender off X
disable changing wallpaper
disable changing homepage
do not display welcome center X
disable desktop cleanup wizard (doesnt exist on vista)
reg hack security center to off
remove games link from start menu
sidebar?
disabling aero on machines with <1GB of RAM

module apps:
microsoft office 2007 (word, excel, powerpoint)
cognos impromptu 6
quickmate
k-scope 2/openlink odbc
novell groupwise
novell groupwise messenger

uncompressed size: 22GB, will use optimize for speed imaging (vistabase1.zmg....)