Sounds like a plan. Just to be clear, after the sysprep I started in normal mode,
then safe mode, then normal. No idea if that sequence makes a difference, but that's what worked for me.
If you're getting an error-free sysprep that then shuts down the PC, you've won that battle. Good luck with the anti-virus uninstall, and good idea.
I really hope you're successful, so people can have some comfort that sysprep actually works in all cases. It's supposed to.
now done ... in my case i was receiving error during the sysprep setting up my computer i searched for the logfile and boom i found that avast has some corrupted registry keys and that was easy to remove from my system but i also found a service named sptd was causing the same problem i realized it's a kind of service that been added to my system by 3rdparty application ( deamon tool , alcohol 120 ) or any other virtual cd software might install this driver with its own service so it took a while to get red of it . after removing both the antivirus and the sptd i used sysprep to generalizes my system and this time when my computer started up no error and worked great .
thanks for your time .
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