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Why doesn't he have a purchase link or something? I'm sure many would like to have the commercial version. I have contacted him, but because of my institution (university) if I can't pay with a CC or PO, then I'd have to buy it myself.

If I wanted to add a shortcut to the ALL USERS desktop, would I put it in $oem\$docs\all users\desktop?

My 2000 source CD is at base level (no SPs). When I run XPCREATE, it doesn't detect that there is an SP4. It looks like it only downloaded IE6. I blanked my XPCREATE directory and started again, but same result. I have attached my log files. Is this a known issue that I missed? I know the hotfix lists were in a state of flux for awhile and I hadn't heard whether or not they were back up. Also GM- I'd be happy to help you test the new version. LOGFILES.CAB

Anyone else getting an application error when update.exe runs to do the slipstream? I get it whether through XPCREATE or if I try to slipstream manually. For now, I am just forgetting about SP2. Just wondering if anyone else ran into this.

Wouldn't that be cool?! If you had a nickel for every post you made...lol It's strange how people can completely ignore the fact that hard work goes into tools like this. Once I show my department how much time this saves, I'm going to try and lobby for a payment to GM to support his efforts.

lol, yes I am trying that now.

Yes, I read the license. I work in a university environment (University of Florida actually), which is a state educational institution.

My original CD says not for retail or OEM distribution. So, I figured by trying to do the OEM stuff in the winnt.sif file, perhaps it wouldn't accept a non-OEM product id. I am testing this now, but does anyone have the answer?

I understand. And thank you very much for XPCREATE. I estimate that this tool, combined with unattended installs, will save my department around 300 man hours this year! What an awesome thing indeed!

GM- Do you have a problem with modifying XPCREATE.CMD for the purpose of debugging? I have added pause statements in the past to stop execution so I can look at the directories at certain times. However, if you don't want us to do that, then I will stop. I just like to try and figure out what I'm doing wrong myself so I don't have to bombard the forum with messages. Thanks

Ok, so after hours of digging I found that the media I have was bought before we got the Select license. Any chance that using the OEMPreinstall stuff is causing this since it's possible that the the Product ID is not and OEM product id? I just started trying to use the $OEM$ folder when I started getting this message. Thanks.

Ok, I'll test. If so, then I'll have to start from scratch. Thanks for your replies.

I think you are confusing product id's and activation. You always need a product id to install Windows. However, select licenses don't require activation. Windows 2000 didn't have activation anyway. The product id used to work, then I started tweaking winnt.sif and XPCREATE. My last two CD's have given that error. Manually entering doesn't work. Just wanted to know if anyone else has had this problem or knows what could cause it.

No, it's our Select License Product Id. They would have told me if they blacklisted it. I work for a University, and our keys are valid. We don't do the piracy thing. The key is valid, as I've used it before. Besides, this is Windows 2000, which requires no activation.

Anyone ever encounter this before? You use XPCREATE to make a Win2K CD. After the hardware discovery process, it pops up a 'Your Product ID is invalid' error. When it shows the product id from the winnt.sif file, it is the correct one! Re-entering it gives me the same message. I have installed 2K from the source before, so I know it's valid. Any chance there's an option either in XPCREATE or the winnt.sif that could cause this? Thanks

I prefer n-Lite to the setup manager included on the CD. You can download it here: n-Lite It creates a winnt.sif file that you can put in your i386 folder. Then, when you burn the CD, you have a bootable setup for Windows XP.

Alanoll- I apologize if my lack of knowledge frustrates you. This is the first time I am attempting to do this. I didn't want the answer hand fed to me, I asked for links to info/tutorials. I have nothing against learning, but the forums are here to help. I am an extremely busy Net Admin trying to cut our installation times down through automation. I've read some of your other posts and I've found them to be very informative. I will try to be more diligent before posting questions, however sometimes my lack of time gets the better of me. Thanks for all the help!

If I have a folder of applications that I want to install through RunOnceEx, where do I put them in XPCREATE to make sure they make it over to the CD and get copied to c:\install? Thanks!

What I'm looking to do is make it so that when you put the CD in and turn on the computer, it will boot from the CD and run winnt.exe /u:unattend.txt (example). If this is possible, could someone point me to some step by step tutorial or something?

Has anyone found a way to change the BOOTCD behavior so you can run an unattended installation when you boot from the CD?