crobe

I would love to be corrected if this is wrong, but I believe if you want to install XP in the way you want you have to use RIS or WDS in mixed or legacy mode, which is the same as RIS. it sounds like server 2008 will not support these WDS modes so it looks like companies deploying XP using risetup vs riprep for the foreseeable future will have a 2k3 server for the foreseeable future. again I would love to be corrected if there is a way for regular WDS to set up a cd based install of XP.

A quicker and dirtier method is to RIS a PC and login as administrator. Configure all the settings you'd like to change and then reboot. Log in as a different user and navigate to C:\documents and settings\administrator and grab the file NTUSER.DAT (it is a hidden file so you need to enable viewing hidden files to see it) NTUSER.DAT contains all of the registry settings in HKEY_CURRENT_USER. If you put it in "$oem$\$Docs\Default User" in your image it will be the default user settings for everyone that logs into the next PC you RIS.