Once you have created a base or add-on image as explained in the previous sections, you can customize it using the Image Explorer utility. Specifically, you can:

• Exclude individual files and folders from the image

  In doing this, you create variants of the image by specifying which of ten possible filesets (variants) to exclude a given file or folder from. The variants exist merely as internal attributes of the same image archive.

  WARNING:  Do not exclude .BPB files from a base image or the workstation won't be able to boot the new operating system after receiving the image.

• Add files and folders to the image

  By default, any file or folder you add is included in all variants. To change this, you must explicitly exclude the file or folder from one or more variants.

• Add Windows registry (.REG) files

  The registry settings contained in the .REG files that you add are applied after the image is laid down and the target computer reboots to Windows, if the imaging agent has been installed on the computer.

  As with any other file or folder that you add, a .REG file is included in all variants of the image unless you explicitly exclude it from one or more variants.