The only two options available in the sysprep utility are: The out-of-box experience: this will reinitialize the screens that you will usually see when you first start a new computer.

There are several ways to boot to audit mode:

1. For attended installations, from Windows Welcome screen, press SHIFT+CTRL+F3.
2. In unattended installations, configure the Microsoft-Windows-Deployment | Reseal | Mode setting to audit.
3. Run sysprep/audit to configure the system to boot to audit mode on the next reboot.

Boot manually into audit mode (on a new or existing installation) At the OOBE screen, press CTRL+SHIFT+F3. Windows reboots the computer into audit mode, and the System Preparation (Sysprep) Tool appears.

Reputable

1. Go Windows+R or regedit.exe on start menu.
2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/Setup/Status/Auditboot and make sure its set to zero.
3. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/Setup/Status/SysprepStatus/Cleanupstate and change value to 7 as well as GeneralizationState to 7.
4. Reboot.

Audit Mode is a special way to boot directly to the desktop before you get to the Windows Welcome screen. This gives administrators or OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) the opportunity to install Windows Updates, drivers, and other software. Audit Mode is completed when SYSPREP is run again.

Oobekeyboard-page. js is a javascript file that is associated with the Windows OS. If something’s wrong with this file, error messages often appear during the startup phase, or while an app or program is running.

Windows does not need to be activated when preparing it in Audit Mode. When install image has been prepared and sysprepped, capture the image and deploy it.

How to exit System Audit Mode WITHOUT CMD or Logging in

1. Run C:/Windows/System32/sysprep/sysprep.exe.
2. Change “System Cleanup Action” to “Enter System Audit Mode”
3. Click OK to reboot.

To get into audit mode, press control + shift + F3 all at the same time, like the three-finger salute (control + alt + delete). Windows will reboot, and automatically log in as the built-in administrator account, and will continue to do so, no matter how many times you reboot, until sysprep is run.

RE: What’s the point of audit mode (with sysprep)? You do this before you create your WIM, ghost or any other image file. Audit mode is also where you install applications that need to be installed for users to do their job before you capture the image as well as after the image has been laid down if needed.

How To Enable Account Auditing Settings. Click Start and type secpol.msc, then hit Enter, the Local Security Policy window will be displayed, now navigate to Local Policy > Audit Policy and right click the Audit account logon events policy option and choose Properties.

Boot Windows to Audit Mode or OOBE. You can use audit mode to customize your computer, add applications and device drivers, and test your computer in a Windows environment. Booting to audit mode starts the computer in the built-in administrator account. Windows® removes this account automatically during the generalize configuration pass.

Click Start and type secpol.msc, then hit Enter, the Local Security Policy window will be displayed, now navigate to Local Policy > Audit Policy and right click the Audit account logon events policy option and choose Properties.

However, this time we have some real work to do including installing software which might need Windows Update (WU does not always like Sysprep), so we quit Sysprep: select System Cleanup Action: Enter Audit Mode and Shutdown Options: Quit, click OK to exit.