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I'm saying that the presence of qchain.exe in svcpack.inf caused it. See the end of this post for the reason why. It looks like there is no reason to argue with those guys anymore. My problem was that I failed to follow the instructions carefully. Indeed. I thought I followed that step from the guide, but I didn't. That was the problem the whole time!

Removing qchain.exe from svcpack.inf and deleting the executable from the SVCPACK folder remove that popup.

My next chance to play with my UACD will be on Tuesday, so it will be a while before then. However, since I just started working with this, I really don't know what problems to look for. The good thing is I am working on my UACD in a Subversion repository so I know exactly what changed at each step of my progress. I have a revision that only has the SP2 integrated into the UACD, and that one installed without interruptions. When Tuesday comes, I'll use the svn tool to check exactly what has been changed to that revision to get the Hotfixes to install. If the request to update the guide was simply ingored, without any reason, then you should keep bugging them. It is unnaceptable keep outdated information in the guide, which so many people read. I thought the guide was a wiki, so people with access to it could edit it... If in my investigation, I find out that qchain is causing that popup it will be even more reason to update the guide.

No, I'm not sure that the hotfixes are causing it. Like I said, I just tried to see if they did, and apparently they don't. I didn't read the forums, but I read the Unattended guide on this site, and it didn't mention that, or maybe I missed it. Maybe the guide should be updated to make this clear. I'll try without qchain next time.

I got my svcpack.inf down to this, and I still get that popup: ;Windows XP [Version] Signature="$Windows NT$" MajorVersion=5 MinorVersion=1 BuildNumber=2600 [setupData] CatalogSubDir="\i386\SVCPACK" [ProductCatalogsToInstall] [setupHotfixesToRun] KB873339.exe /Q /O /N /Z qchain.exe (I was testing this only by editing svcpack.inf, I did not delete the actual files from i386\SVCPACK folder)

I tried to see if any of the hotfixes cause this problem, and I had time to narrow down to these, but I still get the popup: KB873339.exe /Q /O /N /Z KB885626.exe /Q /O /N /Z KB885835.exe /Q /O /N /Z KB885836.exe /Q /O /N /Z KB886185.exe /Q /O /N /Z KB887742.exe /Q /O /N /Z KB888113.exe /Q /O /N /Z KB888302.exe /Q /O /N /Z KB890046.exe /Q /O /N /Z KB890830.exe /Q KB890859.exe /Q /O /N /Z KB891781.exe /Q /O /N /Z

Why would IIS be installed on Windows XP? Get the same issue, and I as far as I know, I'm not installing IIS. I also checked my personal Windows XP Pro station and all it has in C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv is smtpsnap.dll By the way, I get exactly the same error, and my SVCPACK.inf only differs because I don't have "/O /N /Z" switches for KB890830.exe. Otherwise, I got the same hotfixes and in the same order. Oh, and my headers are ordered a little different, but I don't think that matters.

Please rename this thread to: "Popup "choose directory for extracted files' during 13m of unattended install" in order to make it easier for other people to find this. I was searching for a thread about this problem myself and the search button was useless because all the info was in the screenshot.