|  | Preparing a Reference Computer Preserving Custom User Settings
| When you log on and create an image, changes to the image are contained within the profile for the user account that is logged on. Some of the changes that you make to the image may require administrative user rights. Therefore, to create an image, you must log on to the reference computer as an account with administrator privileges. It is easiest to use the built-in Administrator account, which is referred to throughout the remainder of this section; however, you can use any account that has administrative privileges. Any configuration changes that you make to the reference computer will be stored in the Administrator profile. As a result, after the image is deployed on a target computer, the custom settings will apply only to users who log on to the target computer as the administrator. To make the custom settings available to anyone who uses the image, you will need to copy the Administrator profile to the Default User profile before creating the image.