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Thanks for the reply. I have thought of doing this as a last resort - I am testing now to make sure that I can change the registry to tile the image. I was hoping for a way of making the background that specific colour, rather than modifying the image, as you must agree it is a bit of a bodge job - especially for our customer’s machines. I can't believe that Microsoft would have limited the ability of changing this during setup.

Hi Guys, I have got quite far in my quest for an unattended network build of vista, but I have got to the point of configuring bits for the desktop and come across this issue. I have seen a lot of issues with backgrounds being reset to black etc, but nothing this specific. Just a note which may affect the below: I noticed when I was installing Vista manually from the CD, on changing the background from the standard image to a specific color (10 59 118), it changes OK until you reboot. It then set it black. If you change it again and then reboot it is OK from then on. OK, setting the color during the Vista Setup... I started by entering in the autoaunattend.xml file under the FirstLogonCommands entering registry entries which I have copied into the WIM, eg: regedit /s c:\source\reg\Background.reg The background.reg file consisted of (which was taken by comparing before and after registery exports for changes): [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Colors] "Background"="10 59 118" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop] "WallPaper"="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Desktop\General] "Wallpaper"="" "BackupWallpaper"="" This didn't work, even after a reboot. Other registry imports worked OK using the same method. I have also tried directly editing the NTUSER.DAT in the Default User profile in the WIM image and making the above changes, and this also didn't work. In both cases, the normal background picture stays intact. Does anyone know if there is a way of changing the background during the unattended setup??

Hi Guys I have a script that I wish to run to copy the Administrator profile to the Default user as I wish every new user login to take on the Administrator profile settings. I have created the scripts to create a 'copy' user, reboot and login as copy and then reboot and login as administrator again once the profile is copied. To normally copy the profile you would goto System Properties, Advanced Tab, User Profiles Settings. Select the Administrator profile and then select Copy To and enter c:\documents and settings\default user. I have found a Microsoft CopyProfile utility (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ed182a96-f3a6-4fdd-862b-1ae03dc130c1&displaylang=en) which you are able to perform this operation at the command-line or in a script. In the readme it states the following commandline: CopyProfile.exe administrator “C:\Documents and Settings\Default User” Everyone. When trying to run this it gives the following error message: Invalid permitted-to-use account name. This to do with 'Everyone'. I have tried Administrator, omitting it and also changing the path - but I always get the same error. I have also tried to rebuild the PC. I have got this to work on a PC that is connected to a Domain. Has anyone else used this and encountered the error. Could someone else try this utility on a non-domained PC and see if it works. Thank in adv Adam.