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Originally Posted by BetterRed
Good point 
The reason I didn't suggest Recimg was that people tend not to keep the image up to date, especially as more and more programs are implementing fast-and-furious update regimes, and some programs don't take kindly to leapfrogging over releases... |
Yes I agree. The main reason I mentioned it was because the OP said they had been a "tech" so I assumed they would be at home with the command line, up and downsides, etc.
From my own usage point of view I like to keep an image or two anyway; but like many, as you say, I do not keep them up to date.
However, ordinarily, I run Secunia PSI from time to time, mainly to pick up and install all the updates for the applications on the PCs that don't automatically notify updates and which I have missed. It seems to do that reliably. So, for myself, I anticipate that if I ever had to restore an image Secunia should identify, download and install any updates not in the image, rather than having to hunt them out, download and install them myself.
I would still be short of any new applications installed since the image was made, so would have to reinstall those. But for my own case I have a pretty stable collection of applications so not really an issue for me. And the repair method does not restore Windows updates, it being reliant as to what is on the Windows install disc, which as time goes by means a large download and install of those. As far as I know, and I have had no need to test, recimg.exe does.
So pluses and minuses all around as to what to do.