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That's not exactly a child domain... But as long as there's a trust relation between the domains, you're OK. Edit the Default Domain Policy (or another appropiate GPO) of the "child" domain. Navigate to Computer Configuration / Windows Settings / Security Settings / Restricted Groups. Select the Administrators group and add the "primary" domain Administrator account. That should do the trick!

If it would BSOD/crash/hang, I'd say it could be a software problem, but if it's just turned off, I'd concentrate on hardware (power supply?) if I were you.

Once you've done that, you'll probably get a NO_ACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE error. I don't even think you'll be able to install the Intel SATA driver and application with SATA disabled in the BIOS... It will probably say it can't find a SATA controller and abort.

I've tried both; neither worked

Check the contents of your %USERPROFILE%\SendTo folder for unneccesary shortcuts.

Thanks for the suggestion! However all they do is unpack the original setup, change the install command to: setup_wm.exe /DisallowSystemRestore /Q:A /R:N ... and then repack the setup using IExpress. All this can be done in one line without un- and repacking: MP10Setup.exe /Q:A /R:N /C:"setup_wm.exe /DisallowSystemRestore /Q:A /R:N" ... which is exactly what I'm doing! According to the article the registry tweaks aren't going to help because they get applied after the installation. I thing I'm going to try installing WMP10 from cmdlines.txt and see what happens...

OEMPreinstall! Forgot to ask about that one Put the command to display the readme in the [GuiRunOnce] section and it will run, ehm, just once

Have you tried switching off System Restore?

Right-click the Recycle Bin and click Properties. As dirtwarrior suggested the maximum size may be too small to hold all deleted files. The default setting is 10% of the disk size. This would explain why a reinstall didn't help: the disk size didn't change.

Of course... This folder only serves as the driver source. From there, they get copied to the correct locations during installation. The .inf files should be in C:\WINDOWS\inf; the .cat files can be found in C:\WINDOWS\system32\CatRoot.

Strange... We have 4000 PC's running Office 2003 over here and we have never experienced anything like this

I don't think so... The dot should have been there; no idea how/why it disappeared.

So you have your $OEM$ folder next to your i386 folder, not inside it? That's the RIS folder structure. For other unattended setup types, the $OEM$ folder should be inside the i386 folder. Check How to Add OEM Plug and Play Drivers to Windows XP for details.

Glad to hear it's resolved. Unfortunately I don't understand what your question is...

Sorry, but I don't understand... Is the problem solved or not?

Since you mentioned changing setupp.ini, I thought you'd already done that Anyway: Unlocking WinXP's setupp.ini. Hope this helps!

AFAIK, yes. I'm sorry, but I have no other ideas Anyone?

It should be: [.ShellClassInfo] LocalizedResourceName=@shell32.dll,-21785 Note the dot in [.ShellClassInfo]. Also, the file needs to be marked System and Hidden.

Hmmm, I'm running out of ideas... Have you got the correct DistFolder and DistShare entries in your new answer file? What do the contents of the $OEM$ folder look like?

Thanks for the suggestion; I will look into that if all else fails At first glance this appears to be a bit overkill, but I'll give it a go We set that one through Group Policy B)

What is the exact location of your $OEM$ folder? For an unattended installation, it needs to be a subfolder of the i386 folder; except when using RIS: then it needs to be on the same level as the i386 folder.

Any idea what files it's unable to copy? What does your new answer file look like?

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You can only set environment variables to a string value, a numerical expression (using "set /a") or a user provided input string (using "set /p"). What you are doing here is setting the variable VERSION to the command text string. In other words, the reg query command is never evaluated. Try the following: for /f "skip=4 tokens=3" %V in ('reg query HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{98EC8E7A-161A-455B-8B31-1E88C1CDFA6B} /v DisplayVersion') do set VERSION=%V This will evaluate the reg query command, skip the first four lines of output and then assign the third token on the next line to the variable %V (case sensitive!), which is then assigned to the VERSION environment variable. Remember to use %%V instead of %V in a batch file. Type "for /?" in a command window for details.

Can you browse to the system sharing the printer from the other XP machines? If not the firewall on the shared printer system may be enabled. Error messages are always helpful What messages are you getting?