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ok thanks guys. I changed it to automatic, for the PC type, and also made sure the Username and PC name were different, and now it appears to be working correctly.

yes it is for home use One of my friends has had a virus on their PC, and needs to reinstall windows, so I thought I'd be nice and provide them with a custom XP CD with all the drivers and applications integrated, so all she needs do is input her XP CD Key, and away she goes. I'm rebuilding the package right now, and will take pictures of the various screens you mentioned and also make the changes, and let you know what happened.

yes it's certainly legal. It came off the MSDN DVD's that we own here at the company I work for. it's plain Vanilla XP Home (no service pack) and had SP3 slipstreamed in by me using Nlite. this is the 2nd clean build of XP home I've tried. Did one yesterday with the same results, then cleared it out to make way to this one today attached is my Last Seesion_U.ini none of the accounts had passwords set, so there's no need to XXX anything out. is that though the problem? LAST_SESSION_U.INI LAST_SESSION.INI

I've got a vanilla windows XP install off the MSDN DVD's, slipstreamed XP SP3 into that, and various other things that I've done 100 times before. However I've created a user during the nlite setup process, set them as being in the administrator group, but after XP installs, that user is a 'limited' user. also I can't seem to login as administrator either. It basically acts like the password I set is incorrect. Am I missing something? Is there something I may have removed that would cause this? or is this just a 'feature' of XP SP3.?