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Nice. Thanks Johnhc. Does your solution work if i don't want all the users to have a password? I don't want one of the users to have a password. I've trawled the board and also found this from dll32: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...08&hl=login Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 ; Automatic logon for Windows. ; Replace InsertName value with the Username you want to autologin with. ; Replace InsertPassword value with the password corresponding to the Username specified. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon] "DefaultUserName"="InsertName" "DefaultPassword"="InsertPassword" "AutoAdminLogon"="1" I tested this regedit fix and it worked, that is, the PC now prompts for the user selection at the welcome screen (i just replaced the "1" with a "0" - i didn't touch the default name/password).

you should contribute that information for the benefit of others. I agree, as i have a similar issue. My PC always auto logs in as the same user, either the administrator or a user i set up with admin access (if i disabled the administrator user). Other users have no opportunity to login in, unless i log out - then the welcome screen works. During initial boot - neither the welcome screen or using the alternative old style 'control-alt-del' screen makes any difference. Any ideas?

...and after i click "make bootable" i must navigate through the various other screens for it to complete and actually make an ISO. One of those screens is the "components" section and i didn't understand why my selections were missing - now i do understand. My frustration was borne from my laptop being a bugger (sorry, is that a swear word? ) and my own limited understanding of selections, not the nLite tool. You can be a little less sensitive now. Thanks again for everyone's help to this point - especially as it may have seemed liked stating the obvious to some of the veterans here.

As i go through the "components" - that's the section where i may choose to remove something like the calculator or whatever. But it makes sense now, because the source was not the original XP disc - it was my 'streamlined' version - it didn't have the components to remove that were already removed (!). Better to ask a stupid question than not to ask i say. ps. The most recent attempt worked, burned fine and booted. Now to play more with the actual settings. Thanks all.

Thanks for your comments guys. I'm happy to click the ISO button (found it, i was blind in my frustration), but as i go through, i have lost all my selections for the components. Should this happen? Is it a graphical glitch or has it genuinely lost my selections? (obviously, if this isn't a known issue then you cannot answer and i'll have to find out the long way). Also, any idea why it worked the first time (nLite did the burning for me) but the second time it didn't even ask to burn? Neither attempt was using an ISO. I had read numerous posts, and they all refered to ISOs. As the whole gig worked perfectly well the first time for me, i didn't see any benefit in changing what i did. Does nLite need a 3rd party burner, or did i just madly click past the screen accidently? Sorry if i seemed a bit of a arse, i was just so annoyed with it and this **** laptop's keyboard (i don't normally use a lappy). ps, why is d.a.m.n. considered a swearword?

FOR THE THIRD TIME (NEVER use a laptop keyboard when typing something long - the slightest misplaced finger and - boom - all gone. I'm very, very angry right now. I've grabbed my keyboard from the computer so that annoyance won't happen again. I'll summarise to prevent a vein pop. 1. Tried once - worked fine, disc booted - rebuilt PC. (nLite burnt the disc) Didn't use ISO. 2. Tried again - won't boot. not using ISO - nLite didn't burn the disc (freshly built PC.. no 3rd party burning software - is this why nLite didn't do the job for me? - it didn't even ask, it just said it was finished) 3. Installed burning software ("CDBurnerXP" - I will /not/ use Nero so please don't suggest it) - burns fine - but not bootable (nLite didn't ask). I think i've tried every **** variable in this FAQ: http://cdburnerxp.se/help/Data/bootdisc 4. Tried CDBurnerXP's boot.img - didn't work.. loads into Win98 DOS, but can't see the CD drives, so i cannot kick off setup. God knows how it figures this, i mean, it booted off the CD drive in the first place. 5. Tried this neato program: http://www.nu2.nu/bbie/ - that image (taken from XP without any SP) didn't get it working either - can't boot from disc. I'm sure i've overlooked some simple step somewhere, but i've given up. I've wasted 5 discs and typed most of this question twice already - so i'm a little p***y right now. Can someone please tell me exactly what to do with my \XP_SP2+\ directory so i don't kill someone? I've looked at going back into nLite (loading the .ini file from my saved folder) but when i do - it has lost all the ticks in the section where you choose what components /won't/ be installed (is that a bug?). So i either have to go through all that crap again (which may not fix my issue anyway) - or fix this existing boot problem. Maybe going through the crap again won't even fix the actual issue anyway *shrug* .ini attached. Please note that the PC is running SP3, while the install i'm trying to create is SP2 (the source is XP without any SP) - this is intentional while i continue to experiment with the program. I hope i've covered everything, thanks for any help offered Last_Session.ini