Reinstalling Vista - when to create image file?

[Urban Reflex]

Yo folks. Gonna be reinstalling Vista in the next couple of days and then taking an image file with Acronis True Image 11 (Ordered 1:42pm, shipping email 3:38pm: OCUK rule!).

What I want to know is when is the best time to make the image file? At the moment my plan is to install in the following order:

Windows Vista
Motherboard driver
Graphics driver
Monitor driver
Sound card driver
Capture card driver
Office 2007

then run Windows Update, then create the image file. Is this the right way to go about it? Anything else I need to install / run before imaging?

 

[Urban Reflex]

Aye, my Vista disc is Home Premium SP1 OEM. Doing an image after installing Windows sounds like a good idea. I might install Office aswell, just so I don't have to mess around reactivating that too. As for a second image, that's also a good idea. Time to have a think about what I really want from an image file I guess.