Customizing installation media?

Hi All,
Does anyone know if its possible to customize the Lenovo WinXP installation media that comes with desktops or laptops?
Looking for some way to customize which 3rd party applications are installed (ie remove some of the bundled apps and add some of our own).
Cheers,
Max
www.intellectit.com.au

Hi Max,
In terms of customizing, the only help I can reference you to is our deployment guides which you can customize to run the ThinkVantage applications. Take a look at the following link to see if this will help you any.
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/TVAN-ADMIN.html
If you need more assistance you're more than welcome to follow up with me
Regards,
Mark
Do NOT PM me with technical issues. Post in the forum for assistance. Thanks

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