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So I have been using this guide and have just made my answer file. The program that it uses to get the file started also made a .bat file which was never mentioned. I renamed the .txt file to winnt.sif and placed it in the I386 folder. I then went through the ref.chm file and added all the entries that I wanted changed from default. However, when I run the unattended installation, I still have to answer every question by hand once I get to automatic updates. Do I have some answer incorrect or do I need to do something with the .bat file? I also noticed that on the ref.chm file, all of the example answers had spaces around the "=", but the provided program did not put them in, also the example sections were not indented with 4 spaces like the program did. Would these changes solve the problem? Thanks for the help ;SetupMgrTag [Data] AutoPartition=0 MsDosInitiated="0" UnattendedInstall="Yes" AutomaticUpdates=yes [unattended] UnattendMode=FullUnattended OemSkipEula=Yes OemPreinstall=No TargetPath=\WINDOWS Repartition=No FileSystem=NTFS UnattendedSwitch="yes" WaitForReboot="No" AutoActivate = No KeyboardLayout="US" CrashDumpSetting=0 DUDisable=Yes DUStopOnError=Yes DriverSigningPolicy=Warn ExtendOemPartition=0 Hibernation=No NTUpgrade=No Win9xUpgrade=No [GuiUnattended] AdminPassword=* AutoLogon=Yes AutoLogonCount=99999999999 EncryptedAdminPassword=No OEMSkipRegional=1 TimeZone=35 OemSkipWelcome=1 [userData] ProductKey=**************** FullName="*******" OrgName="Home" ComputerName=ARMOR [TapiLocation] CountryCode=1 [RegionalSettings] LanguageGroup=1 [Components] AccessOpt=Off clipbook=Off deskpaper=Off dialer=Off media_clips=Off mousepoint=Off msnexplr=Off OEAccess=Off paint=Off pinball=Off Pop3Service=Off Pop3Srv=Off WMAccess=Off WMPOCM=Off zonegames=Off [identification] JoinWorkgroup=MSHOME [Networking] InstallDefaultComponents=Yes [shell] DefaultThemesOff=Yes [systemRestore] MaximumDataStorePecentOfDisk=0 [uninstall] DisableCompression=No EnableBackup=No Home_Page="http://www.google.com/" [WindowsFirewall] Profiles=WindowsFirewall./TurnOffFirewall [WindowsFirewall.TurnOffFirewall] Mode=0

I am getting very frustrated trying to integrate office 2003 sp3. I worked on it until 4am last night and have been working on it for 5 hours today only to get error messages. I have a retail version that was a free distribution from Microsoft. All of the guides I see point to a file called PRO11N.MSI, but I only have a PROI11N.MSI. I have been following this guide to allow for administrative installation points and silent install, but have never gotten anywhere to know if it works. What makes this very frustrating is that many of the sub-guides (.htm) that are reference with in the general gudes refuse to come up. The pages just come up blank (I am signed in, so that should not be the problem), and when I go to look for a similar guide on the web, I always end up creating something that does not work. I am also trying to get rid of various parts of Office such as Outlook and Infopath, as I never use them and if I have to go through all of the trouble of dealing with all the little stuff afterwards, I might as well just install then too. My goal is to basically make a disk that I can pop in and provide myself with a fresh copy of everything in the case of a crash without having any user input. The last time I crashed my computer (yes, it was my fault, but not intentional), I had a large project due for school the next day which made for a very interesting evening as I fumbled through stacks of disks trying to find the ones I needed to get back up an running. First, I have been slipstreaming SP3 and giving my product key in Office Slipstreamer. Then this guide is what I have been basing my efforts to simplify Office off of. If I understand correctly, once I do that, I can follow this guide to create my .cab file which will then accomplish my goal. Is there any guide that give me some unified direction as some of the guides seem to have steps that involve different programs to provide similar tasks, overlap some steps, and provide completely different ways of doing the same thing worded slightly differently. I have also noticed that many of the guides offer boxes filled with code that is supposed to do what I need done; however, as I have absolutely no programing experience, I do not know what do do with this information. Thanks.

How do you integrate updates? I though that you just inserted the .exe file into nlite add-ons page, but once I get to the windows log on screen where it normal asks you for SN and other info, it restarts saying that there is not enough virtual memory. I upped my virtual memory to 4gb, so that cant be the problem. What am I doing wrong? I can integrate all of the program add-ons. So do I need to get the windows add-ons into .cab fomat?

I got most of the readers and freeware programs through the add-ons, but how do I integrate purchased programs? Specifically nero, abbyy finereader, and office? Is there After I integrate through RVM, can I then go through nlite to do all of the windows specific stuff? I tried to open the file that RVM created with nlite so I could add sp3, drivers, and apply all of the other tweaks that I wanted, but it said that it wanted to remove the hotfixes.

Is it possible to integrate programs to install on their own once windows is done installing? Specific programs include, but are not limited to: various media readers(adobe, ac3, divx, scorch, quicktime, shockwave, flash player, java, real, viewpoint) ,wrar, office 2003 (i have seen mention that this is possible, but could not figure out how), firefox, audacity, ccleaner, yahoo Norton antivirus, nero If you have a link to a guide that would be great if the process is more in depth than just sticking the .exe file into nlite somewhere. Thanks

I checked it and it is set to 0 so that should not be a problem. However, when I try to boot from the disk, I end up in command promt. Is this normal, or did I delete something that I needed?

So I made an unattended boot disk, but since I have 2 partitions on my drive, will it ask me where to install and if I want to format like is done with the full windows version? I would try it, but if it automatically reformats my D partition, I would be a very unhappy person. Thanks