1. Disable Automatic update of Windows Store apps

Open ‘Windows Store’

Click ‘Windows Start Button > Store’

For build 1703 click on the three horizontal lines in the upper left hand corner

For build 1709 click on the person icon

Click ‘Settings’

Move slider on setting ‘Update apps automatically’ from ‘on’ to ‘off’


2. Use ‘Windows update’ to install latest patches to the system

Delay Feature Updates (Build 1703/1709 steps)

Click ‘Windows Start Button > Settings > Update and security > Windows Update’

On the right side click ‘Advanced Options’

Click on the drop down box under ‘A feature update includes new capabilities and improvements.  It can be deferred for this many days:

Select ‘8’

Install Updates

Click ‘Windows Start Button > Settings > Update and security > Windows Update’

Click ‘Check for updates’

Make sure that all reboots are completed after patches are applied

Login back into the system as the recently created local Administrator Account

Verify system has not been upgraded to a new version of the OS


3. Disable User Access Control (UAC)

Open Regedit.exe

Check for the following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System.  

Set EnableLUA to '0'

Reboot the computer    

Login as the local Administrator created during installation


Open Power Shell & Remove Apps.

Get-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online | Select-Object PackageName
Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online -PackageName <package name>
Get-AppxPackage | Select-Object Name
Get-AppxPackage *name* | Remove-AppxPackage

https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/171149/preparing-windows-10-to-run-sysprep-thro.html

http://techgenix.com/windows-10-sysprep/


WINDOWS 8.1 Only

https://www.experts-exchange.com/articles/12635/Windows-8-and-8-1-Sysprep-Guide.html

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