Sgt_Strider

I followed the method that you provided and it doesn't work . The notebook would just crash as it's loading the drivers. I did everything that you said including adding the entries to txtsetup.sif. I don't know if you would call it a marker, but there was an arrow at the end of the page. I went up a few lines and copy and paste what you provided and it doesn't work. Is it possible that I didn't put the sata drivers as the first entry in the winnt.sif file? For the OEM drivers path, I placed my chipset drivers and several other drivers ahead of the sata drivers.

I just tried using the latest drivers from the latest version of Intel's utility. It still doesn't work. I'm getting very annoyed as I can't install Windows XP. I'm hoping someone here can solve this issue soon!

Are you telling me that I have a different version of iastor.sys? If so, do you have newer version? My motherboard is base on the i945 chipset.

Ok, I decided to test this method out by following the instructions on the first page. Everything went well until Windows finished installing. For some odd reasons, Windows can't boot to the desktop. It just crashes everytime it attempts to boot up Windows. I can't get to the desktop even via safemode. I feel like I'm extremely close to getting this done and I hope someone here knows!

So has anyone here got Vista up and running unattended?

Why am I getting the error, "Unable to execute the specified command as I try to exact the file? Btw, I'm using the latest setpoint 3.10.

I have KB901190 in my list for me ... The list on the first page of this thread doesn't list that update as a required critical update. Are you sure you got it right? Maybe the_guy left it out then since Windows Update says that I'm missing that update.

I notice that Windows will not install the default theme after WM11 is installed. Is it because this update isn't installed? WindowsXP-KB898543-v3-x86-ENU.exe

This is really stupid, why is MS asking me to install KB901190 even though it's no longer on this list?

How can I use my cleanup.cmd file to delete the Online Services folder inside the Program Files folder. Does anyone here know? Thanks.

Do you really need to add all of those settings to make Google the default search engine?

Nice post and I'm surprised it didn't get more attention. I think we need to figure out which registry settings are worthless and should be excluded from an unattended setup.

Thanks for the information. Are there any other registry tweaks that are myths and should be removed?

Can someone please answer my question?

I have a quick question. Are you saying that I should copy those examples into notepad and save it under those file names right?

How do you do it via the registry?

It would be nice to have a list of registry settings that does work in IE7.

bump!

I agree, this file needs to be reformatted.

Can someone please answer my questions?

Actually Anderz already mentioned it here: 3. Copy only the .SYS file (iastor.sys) to the C:\XPCD\I386 folder. Keep the other files - you'll need some information from them a little later. Note that it's important that the .SYS file is uncompressed. Keep in mind this method only works for simple drivers that only comes with a SYS file. For more complex drivers in which it comes with its own GUI for configuring the controller in Windows, you will need to slipstream/integrate the DLL and other files that come with the driver as well. It gets complicated in these cases. He only said that I need the information from the other files, but what do I do with them after I use those information? Do those files go into a folder inside the $OEM$\$1\drivers directory or what? That is what I have been asking.

Just the ones in my first post. Since they said it works, I guess you don't need to worry much.

I would like to know too.

I have the following entries in my winnt.sif file: [WindowsFirewall] Profiles = WindowsFirewall.TurnOffFirewall [WindowsFirewall.TurnOffFirewall] Mode = 0 The thing is that everything else in the winnt.sif were applied and yet the Windows Security Center icon is still in the taskbar. For the registry, I can't seem to disable the screensaver and make sure that in the power setup menu, everything stays on regardless of how long the computer remained idle. I used the following entries: ; Disable screensavers [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop] "ScreenSaveActive"="0" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop] "SCRNSAVE.EXE"="" [HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop] "ScreenSaveActive"="0" [HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop] "SCRNSAVE.EXE"="" To sum it all up again, can someone tell me how to disable the Windows Security Center, the screensaver, and turn off all power saving features? Thanks!

I installed all of the listed updates for Windows XP SP2. Yet, when I go into Windows Update to do a check, it list the following required updates: KB923689 KB890830 KB917734 KB901190 Also, is the flash hotfix required even if I install Adobe Flash 9? Thanks.