After 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:
You can compress an image (including images created by previous versions of ZfD) by 40-60% of the original file size. There are three compression options. Optimize for Speed takes the least amount of time but creates the largest compressed image file. This option is used by default when an image is created. Optimize for Space creates the smallest image file but may take a significant amount of time. Balanced is a compromise between compression time and image file size.
(You can also use the options on the ZENworks Imaging Configuration property page for the workstation object in ConsoleOne to specify compression options if you do not want the default, Optimize for Speed.)
Excluded or hidden files and folders can be completely removed from an open image. This saves space in the image if you no longer want to include the files.
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.
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.
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.
For information on starting Image Explorer, see Image Explorer (IMGEXP.EXE) . For information on how to complete the above tasks after you have started the utility, see the online help in the utility.