Admin Tips
- Windows Server 2008/2003/2000/XP/NT Administrator Knowledge Base
  - Windows Vista
    - Admin Tips
      - Deployment
        Where is Sysprep in Vista?

Section(s): Deployment
Created on Jan 21, 2008.
Last Modified on Apr 15, 2008.
Last Modified by Mitch Tulloch.
Rated 5 out of 5 based on 1 votes.

Where can you find the Sysprep.exe utility in Vista?

In previous versions of Microsoft Windows, the System Preparation Tool (sysprep.exe) was found in the Deployment.cab file on your product CD. If you’ve examined the Vista DVD however, there’s no such cabinet file present.

So where can you find sysprep now? Turns out, it’s included in the operating system itself now at the following location:

%windir%\system32\sysprep\sysprep.exe

You can run the tool either from the command line using various switches (type sysprep /? to learn more about these) or you can double-click on the executable and run the GUI version of the tool.

Article not looking right or info is missing? Let us know so that we can fix it: .