Thank you for your insight. Again, I don't wish to cause any problems. I'm a self-taught support person here and if it helps, these pc's will be given to employees, first-come-first-served, no profit to store/company. We had to upgrade our system to Win7 because of software security since xp won't be supported. The pc's are old (7 - 10 years) and rather than e-waste, the decision was to do a clean reinstall for the give-away. The disks I can find are Dell reinstallation with a P/N (a couple had "factory refurbished" with Product Key), not a Product Key. My thought was to give the recipient a xp sp3 reinstall disk and basic driver disk Re the sysprep/replication....i like that idea but I'm not sure it will work on the different dells (GL170, GX330, GX380 - 790). I'll also look into a WPI disk. Believe me, there are other things I'd rather be doing. So....am I inappropriate in what I am doing? If so, I'll find another way.