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Excellent problem description

you said I will copy the ISO of my XP CD and after extract the files to make any changes? (winnt.sif for exemple). I think what Takeshi meant was: when you have finished creating your new unattended installation CD, do not actually burn it to CD, but create an ISO image of it. You can mount the image as a virtual CD in Virtual PC. This saves a lot of CD-R's while testing and customizing the installation.

Have a look at the Windows Post-Install Wizard. .bat is the old MS-DOS batch file extension; .cmd was introduced with Windows NT. Back then you couldn't use the same commands in DOS batch files as in NT command files, because they were using different command interpreters (command.com in DOS, cmd.exe in NT). Nowadays they're basically the same. Lines beginning with a colon in a batch or command file define a label that can be jumped to from elsewhere in the script using a GOTO command. If you don't use the label for anything else, you could use it for inserting comments. The official comment statement in batch/command files is REM (remark). For instance: @echo off rem This file demonstrates the use of labels and the GOTO command echo This is the first output line goto End echo This line will be skipped :End echo This is the last output line . Is there a way to change something that will make appear a progress bar window when wmp 10 is installing? Try replacing the "/Q" after "setup_wm.exe" with "/Q:U" (quiet user mode).

You probably screwed up Try getting it back: open "Taskbar and Start Menu Properties", select the "Start Menu" tab, select "Start Menu" and click the "Customize" button. In the "Customize Start Menu" window, select the "Advanced" tab, find "Control Panel" under "Start menu items" and select the "Display as a link" option.

I see that you have OemPreInstall set to "No", so your "drivers" folder structure probably will not be copied. This will probably result in a number of devices that can't be installed, right? Have you checked the Device Manager after an unattended installation? I wouldn't be surprised if, for instance, the network adapter not being installed would result in the DHCP service not being started...

Don't know the answer to your first question, but T-12 means "T minus 12", which is the point where setup says it will take approximately 12 more minutes. The entire timeline can be found *here*.

OEMPreInstall should be set to "Yes" for the $OEM$ folder structure to be copied.

Let me guess: by adding an ASCII 255 character to the name?

Looks like a function called "GetProductID" fails with error code 0x80004005, which usually means "unspecified error" (pretty useful error description, huh ) It might be caused by an antivirus program. Do you have one running? If yes, try unloading/disabling it during the SP2 installation.

Could you post your WINNT.SIF so we can have a look at it? Don't forget to remove any sensitive information!

If you don't get a reaction in 16 minutes after opening a topic, there's no reason to panic... Anyway: could you provide a little more information? Don't you get an error number or something like that? Your SP2 installation may be corrupted; have you tried another CD or downloaded the installation again?

Make sure the drivers for these devices are signed and pre-installed. Then it should be possible to have them installed automatically when needed. See *this KB article* for details.

Then it's probably due to another program overwriting one of your MSVC*.DLL files... When did this problem start occurring? Was it right after you installed some new application?

Access to the New Connection Wizard can be restricted through Group Policy: User Configuration / Administrative Templates / Network / Network Connections / Prohibit access to the New Connection Wizard (corresponding registry key: HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Network Connections, value name: NC_NewConnectionWizard, DWORD 0 or 1). Not sure if this will disable the Network Setup Wizard as well, but there's probably another GP to take care of that (just can't find one right now)...

You mean you tried all suggested solutions (17,900 hits)? I didn't mean it to sound like that, so if I did, I'm sorry! What I do mean is that it's sometimes better to search the Web before posting here... There's an enormous amount of information to be found on this subject. The solution is most likely in there somewhere.

Google is your friend

Google is your friend

A firewall port? Read Using Netsh with Windows Firewall and/or Deploying Windows Firewall Settings for Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=82897#

Does his browser have a proxy server configured? In Internet Explorer: Tools / Internet Options / Connections tab / LAN Settings.

Service Control Manager Event 7024 (2550) The Computer Browser service does not start and event ID 7024 is logged when you restart your Windows XP Service Pack 2-based computer Just two links I found after Googling for "browser service error 2550". I'm sure there's more...

As long as your installation files are on the PC's hard disk, you can use the AutoLogon setting in your answer file to have the local Administrator account logon automatically. That way, the RunOnce commands can be executed without the need to logon manually.

Nope, Cmdlines.txt is executed automatically during Windows setup when found in the correct location (the $OEM$ folder). So you only need to include a command line to execute RunOnceEx.cmd in your Cmdlines.txt.