Guest operating system not customizable at the cloning

Hello

I am trying to clone an existing virtual machine (win2k3) and to customize the operating system i.e. sysprep by using the wizard.

I placed and a ran/extract the files of microsoft in C:\ALLUSERSPROFILE\...sysprep\1.1 etc., but still the wizard is grayed.

Is there some post installation task that must be completed? or a clue as to where to look for the answer

Thank you

Glenn

This will sound like a stupid question, but are you sure that the guest virtual machine OS is set correctly on Windows 2003?

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