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Thanks for the suggestion but we don't have a domain for our classroom pc's and we have about 25 different accounts (1 for each course) that we create on all pc's.

I am quite new into unattended installs and wasn't planning to spend much time at it. However, it seems that I'll have to dig deeper into this stuff to make it work.

Thanks for your reply. D is indeed formatted NTFS and has no other OS. It is on a dual boot / triple partition system, though (XP installed on partition 1 with Documents ad settings on partition 3, now installing Vista on partition 2 with Users on partition 3). The line to change the location of the Programs folder was just added for testing purposes (to see if any of the FolderLocations was changed); I don't intend to do that in my final xml file. I am aware of the possible issues when changing the profiles path. But for our class rooms we are desperately seeking for a system where we can easily restore OS partitions from an image without losing the profiles. chris

Hello, I'm trying to change some default folder locations. So I created an AutoUnattend.xml that I put on a usb flash disk. The xml file is parsed because when I leave out e.g. the last line I get an error during the installation. However, it doesn't seem to have any effect. After the installation, neither of both folder locations have changed. What am I doing wrong? Note: the D-partition exists and it has a folder named Users. tia chris <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <unattend xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend"> <settings pass="oobeSystem"> <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <FolderLocations> <ProfilesDirectory>D:\Users</ProfilesDirectory> <ProgramData>C:\progjes</ProgramData> </FolderLocations> </component> </settings> <cpi:offlineImage cpi:source="wim:d:/install.wim#Windows Vista ENTERPRISE" xmlns:cpi="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:cpi" /> </unattend>