Desktop Image Creation and Deployment

This is assuming your Desktop already has all the software you want on the Desktop image and your computer has "Microsoft Deployment Toolkit(MDT)".

It's common practice to "Clean" the computer before creating a image. This isn't needed if the image creation is being done on a brand new computer, however if it's not done on a new computer, a few major things to clean up are:

Shadow copies, downloaded software updates, hidden install files, Windows prefetch files, event logs. then flush the DNS cache, run disk cleanup and finally defragment the C:\ drive. If you aren't sure how to do any of those, click the relevant a bit of documentation on doing that will open in another tab.

Now that the computer is completely clean,