[Guide For Compressed Drivers Unattended Install]

I too have XP SP2 french version and this time, with the updated files, there was not even a DRIVERZ folder on my root drive. I had tried with the new files, and I did not forget to update the txtsomething.sif I had to change. I really don't know what is going on but we took a step back, not forth.

Need help here I guess

[Guide For Compressed Drivers Unattended Install]

I am currently trying using the new 7za and the other files from the updated version. But with the older one I get no drivers in C:\DRIVERZ but 1 file (I forgot the name but there is a 1 in it... somebody already reported this error. I used 7zip to compress my drivers. I test my installations with VirtualPC from Microsoft, not VMWare. Hope the updated files will solve the problem, will report on this in about an hour or so

[Guide For Compressed Drivers Unattended Install]

Just wondering, I have to keep old win9x drivers for my printer since I put it on a LAN with other nonXP systems. If I install my drivers your way, 1- where will they be on my HD after installation if I need to browse the driver wizard so he could find them when I will share my printer? and 2- if they are not on the c:, are they reachable on the cd or the wizard wont find em if they are .7z files?

Thanks.

[Why Aren't My Reg Tweaks Working?]

I got the same problem using those tweaks...

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

;Ajoute les icones Poste de Travail, Favoris Reseau et Mes Documents sur le Bureau

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel]"{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}"=dword:00000000

"{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}"=dword:00000000

"{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}"=dword:00000000

;Afficher les fichiers et dossiers caches

HKEY_USERS.Default\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\Hidden: 0x00000001

;Affiche Windows Update dans le menu demarer

HKEY_USERS.Default\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache\@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-22580: "Offre les mises à jour critiques de sécurité les plus récentes, des pilotes de périphériques, et d'autres fonctionnalités disponibles pour votre ordinateur Windows."

HKEY_USERS.Default\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StartPage\FavoritesResolve: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 BC 02 00 00 4C 00 00 00 01 14 02 00 00 00 00 00 C0 00 00 00 00 00 00 46 83 00 00 00 20 00 00 00 70 6F 28 CD 2A 7C C4 01 D0 D8 72 9E 31 83 C4 01 D0 D8 72 9E 31 83 C4 01 E7 05 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 83 01 14 00 1F 50 E0 4F D0 20 EA 3A 69 10 A2 D8 08 00 2B 30 30 9D 19 00 2F 43 3A 5C 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 5C 00 31 00 00 00 00 00 07 31 8F 1D 10 00 44 4F 43 55 4D 45 7E 31 00 00 44 00 03 00 04 00 EF BE 06 31 4C AB 10 31 A4 0C 14 00 00 00 44 00 6F 00 63 00 75 00 6D 00 65 00 6E 00 74 00 73 00 20 00 61 00 6E 00 64 00 20 00 53 00 65 00 74 00 74 00 69 00 6E 00 67 00 73 00 00 00 18 00 42 00 31 00 00 00 00 00 07 31 08 18 10 00 41 4C 4C 55 53 45 7E 31 00 00 2A 00 03 00 04 00 EF BE 06 31 4C AB 10 31 B1 0C 14 00 00 00 41 00 6C 00 6C 00 20 00 55 00 73 00 65 00 72 00 73 00 00 00 18 00 5E 00 31 00 00 00 00 00 07 31 19 1F 11 00 4D 45 4E 55 44 4D 7E 31 00 00 46 00 03 00 04 00 EF BE 06 31 61 AB 10 31 E0 04 14 00 30 00 4D 00 65 00 6E 00 75 00 20 00 44 00 E9 00 6D 00 61 00 72 00 72 00 65 00 72 00 00 00 40 73 68 65 6C 6C 33 32 2E 64 6C 6C 2C 2D 32 31 37 38 36 00 18 00 58 00 32 00 E3 05 00 00 07 31 B1 1D 20 00 57 49 4E 44 4F 57 7E 31 2E 4C 4E 4B 00 00 3C 00 03 00 04 00 EF BE 07 31 28 18 10 31 E2 04 14 00 00 00 57 00 69 00 6E 00 64 00 6F 00 77 00 73 00 20 00 55 00 70 00 64 00 61 00 74 00 65 00 2E 00 6C 00 6E 00 6B 00 00 00 1C 00 00 00 77 00 00 00 1C 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 1C 00 00 00 31 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 76 00 00 00 15 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 F5 2B 3E A0 10 00 00 00 43 4F 52 45 00 43 3A 5C 44 6F 63 75 6D 65 6E 74 73 20 61 6E 64 20 53 65 74 74 69 6E 67 73 5C 41 6C 6C 20 55 73 65 72 73 5C 4D 65 6E 75 20 44 E9 6D 61 72 72 65 72 5C 57 69 6E 64 6F 77 73 20 55 70 64 61 74 65 2E 6C 6E 6B 00 00 10 00 00 00 05 00 00 A0 16 00 00 00 29 01 00 00 60 00 00 00 03 00 00 A0 58 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 70 61 6E 7A 65 72 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 86 35 25 51 CB E3 77 46 8B 59 CD 81 BF EC 2D D7 3C 03 C6 1C DA EE D8 11 92 1D 00 D0 09 E7 C9 A7 86 35 25 51 CB E3 77 46 8B 59 CD 81 BF EC 2D D7 3C 03 C6 1C DA EE D8 11 92 1D 00 D0 09 E7 C9 A7 00 00 00 00

HKEY_USERS.Default\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StartPage\Favorites: 00 16 00 00 00 14 00 1F 80 F4 A1 59 25 D7 21 D4 11 BD AF 00 C0 4F 60 B9 F0 00 00 00 16 00 00 00 14 00 1F 80 F5 A1 59 25 D7 21 D4 11 BD AF 00 C0 4F 60 B9 F0 00 00 17 C0 00 00 00 BE 00 32 00 82 07 00 00 07 31 1C 17 20 00 4D 53 4E 45 58 50 7E 31 2E 4C 4E 4B 00 00 38 00 03 00 04 00 EF BE 07 31 1C 17 0F 31 51 B6 14 00 00 00 4D 00 53 00 4E 00 20 00 45 00 78 00 70 00 6C 00 6F 00 72 00 65 00 72 00 2E 00 6C 00 6E 00 6B 00 00 00 1C 00 6A 00 00 00 0B 00 EF BE 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 43 00 3A 00 5C 00 50 00 72 00 6F 00 67 00 72 00 61 00 6D 00 20 00 46 00 69 00 6C 00 65 00 73 00 5C 00 4D 00 53 00 4E 00 5C 00 4D 00 53 00 4E 00 43 00 6F 00 72 00 65 00 46 00 69 00 6C 00 65 00 73 00 5C 00 6D 00 73 00 6E 00 36 00 2E 00 65 00 78 00 65 00 00 00 00 00 1C 00 00 00 16 5A 00 00 00 58 00 32 00 E7 05 00 00 10 31 B5 0C 20 00 57 49 4E 44 4F 57 7E 31 2E 4C 4E 4B 00 00 3C 00 03 00 04 00 EF BE 07 31 28 18 11 31 CC 02 14 00 00 00 57 00 69 00 6E 00 64 00 6F 00 77 00 73 00 20 00 55 00 70 00 64 00 61 00 74 00 65 00 2E 00 6C 00 6E 00 6B 00 00 00 1C 00 00 00 FF

HKEY_USERS.Default\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StartPage\FavoritesChanges: 0x00000006

;Right-Click Copy-To

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFilesystemObjects\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFilesystemObjects\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Copy To]

@="{C2FBB630-2971-11D1-A18C-00C04FD75D13}"

;Right-Click Move-To

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFilesystemObjects\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Move To]

@="{C2FBB631-2971-11D1-A18C-00C04FD75D13}"

;This adds the "Open Command Window Here" on the right-click menu for folders

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\cmd]

@="Open Command Window Here"

Why would it not install itself in the right S-1-... folder in the registry, does HKEY_USER.Default\ works or what? And wha'ts the alphanumerical things between { }, does this have to me set for a variable?

I've been testing this for 2 days and still can't find out why it doesn't work. I used regshot and found the other keys on this site but maybe some are for win2k? Anyway, if any good person can help me, I want to: add windows update to start menu, get the quicklaunch bar on the start bar, add My Computer, Network... and My Documents on the desktop, show hidden folders and finaly add Copy-To, Move-To and Open Command Window Here in r-click contextual menu.

Thanks a lot, after that I'm done with that Unattended XP cd...

[Winamp 5.0.4 MSI release]

Yeah, I got the msi yesterday morning (so I do not have the most recent version I guess now...) but anyway, it works great! That INI thing was the greatest idea ever!

[A few registry tweaks needed]

I tried that but there is always about 72 changes done to registry by programs that I don't know so I'm a bit confused... Unchecking the box in Screen Saver to disable the return to user menu is surely not changing 72 registry keys...

I narrowed the possibilities to those 6 but are they all necessary to disable that anoying check box?

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography\RNG\Seed: 8A 2E 76 BF B6 1C A8 FA 45 43 1B 79 92 70 E0 85 44 FF C7 21 D1 62 2E 12 D2 00 3C 62 0D 1A 87 80 7F 82 AB DA 77 15 A3 3E 23 E7 C5 8A 84 85 1F 45 BA 92 BC 34 46 83 F0 77 A1 66 20 CB 40 3D 7F 8E 4A 2F 6C 2B 45 98 1E C5 F0 25 5A 3E C1 51 89 50

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography\RNG\Seed: 9B 1F 73 03 80 33 E2 15 B5 B5 D1 09 72 89 42 0F 4A BC ED 34 89 6D 6A CA CB 2A 31 81 F8 91 CC F2 F5 08 C6 1D BD 88 D1 72 DC 8E 51 6A C7 58 23 26 B7 DC AF 48 1F 74 B0 B6 06 15 C2 B4 61 21 E1 64 23 F8 25 A5 49 99 53 EC BE 08 B7 0A 3B 60 BE FB

HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-484763869-2147186959-854245398-1003\Control Panel\Desktop\ScreenSaverIsSecure: "1"

HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-484763869-2147186959-854245398-1003\Control Panel\Desktop\ScreenSaverIsSecure: "0"

HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-484763869-2147186959-854245398-1003\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Desktop\General\WallpaperFileTime: 00 0A 94 F3 CF 82 C4 01

HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-484763869-2147186959-854245398-1003\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Desktop\General\WallpaperFileTime: 10 31 6B 2B D0 82 C4 01

HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-484763869-2147186959-854245398-1003\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Desktop\General\WallpaperLocalFileTime: 00 6A 82 6C AE 82 C4 01

HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-484763869-2147186959-854245398-1003\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Desktop\General\WallpaperLocalFileTime: 10 91 59 A4 AE 82 C4 01

HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-484763869-2147186959-854245398-1003\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\UserAssist\{75048700-EF1F-11D0-9888-006097DEACF9}\Count\HRZR_EHAPCY: 06 00 00 00 0C 00 00 00 B0 ED A1 ED CF 82 C4 01

HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-484763869-2147186959-854245398-1003\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\UserAssist\{75048700-EF1F-11D0-9888-006097DEACF9}\Count\HRZR_EHAPCY: 06 00 00 00 0D 00 00 00 00 B6 D1 27 D0 82 C4 01

HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-484763869-2147186959-854245398-1003\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\UserAssist\{75048700-EF1F-11D0-9888-006097DEACF9}\Count\HRZR_EHAPCY:qrfx.pcy: 06 00 00 00 09 00 00 00 B0 ED A1 ED CF 82 C4 01

HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-484763869-2147186959-854245398-1003\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\UserAssist\{75048700-EF1F-11D0-9888-006097DEACF9}\Count\HRZR_EHAPCY:qrfx.pcy: 06 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 B6 D1 27 D0 82 C4 01

Reading registry keys for me is like learning chineese with an arabic dictionnary for a 92 years old Dutch..

I also tried to redirect the My Documents and all it's folders to another location

those are the line I thought where useful

HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-484763869-2147186959-854245398-1003\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders\Personal: "D:\Mes documents"

HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-484763869-2147186959-854245398-1003\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders\My Pictures: "D:\Mes documents\Mes images"

HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-484763869-2147186959-854245398-1003\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders\My Music: "D:\Mes documents\Ma musique"

HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-484763869-2147186959-854245398-1003\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders\New\My Video: "D:\Mes documents"

HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-484763869-2147186959-854245398-1003\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CopyMoveTo\LastFolder: 2F 00 14 00 1F 50 E0 4F D0 20 EA 3A 69 10 A2 D8 08 00 2B 30 30 9D 19 00 2F 44 3A 5C 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

Again, there was so many other lines speaking of ShellNoRoam and BagsMRU and stuff like that, it that usefull too to redirect a folder or just the result of windows transfering the initial files to the new folder? Also, to do that, maybe not everyone stores his my documents in D:\my documents so is there a way to add a variable where the user could enter the path where he wants the My Documents folder to go? Thanks a lot.

[Universal guide to solve most of the problems]

I looked at all the steps, spent hours on the net looking and can't find what's the trouble. After successfull unattended installation of windows XP pro, on the first run and during my application installation, but even on the second run, XP keeps finding new hardware and installing drivers for them, great, but it keeps asking me about ignoring the driver signing policy. Don't tell me to add DriverSigning=Ignore or something like that, it's done, done too for the non-driver signing policy, but even then it stills warns me. I looked in the registry and the values are correctly set for Ignore... So what's XP's thing about warning me then? And how do I disable that! I don't want to click "continue" for nothing if it can install silently

Thanks for any help

[User Accounts]

Thanks, I knew it was useless but I tried it anyway... and thanks for solving this, since XP seamed to be built in english to avoid old win98 problems of having 2 desktop and bureau folders, a my documents and mes documents, etc. So since it was still documents and settings and that adding a user was not adding a usager, I thought that the code for admin group would still be administrators. I'll try it in french right away!

[User Accounts]

I can't get the user accounts to be right!! It creates a user Thauzar, than adds it to administrator group like it says on the tutorial here, but then at logon Thauzar logs in automatically but is not an administrator... here is my code for useraccount.cmd and autologon.reg

@echo off

CLS

ECHO.

ECHO Création de l'utilisateur...

net user "Thauzar" 28465 /add

PAUSE

ECHO.

ECHO Enregistrement de l'usager dans le registry...

REGEDIT /S autologon.reg

PAUSE

ECHO.

ECHO Création du groupe Administrateur

net localgroup Administrators /add

PAUSE

ECHO.

ECHO Mise en place de l'accès administrateur...

net localgroup Administrators "Thauzar" /add

PAUSE

ECHO.

ECHO Enlève l'expiration du mot de passe...

net accounts /maxpwage:unlimited

PAUSE

ECHO.

ECHO Ajoute les modifications du registre à l'utilisateur en cours

REGEDIT /S regtweaks.reg

EXIT

I added PAUSE here just to troubleshoot and be sure every line was completed successfully, which is the case. In this version I tried with the registry settings after the creation of the user, just for a change cause I had the exact copy of this site's tutorial and it did not work.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]

"DefaultUserName"="Thauzar"

"DefaultPassword"="28465"

"AutoAdminLogon"="1"

I tried with or withouth "AutoAdminLogon"="1", and I am going to try adding a "DefaultLocalGroup"="Administrators" but not sure if it will works. So if you have any idea how to fix my user accound login to be an administrator, thanks a lot! Else if you can tell me how to remove the ASP.net useraccount then I'll add it to my code even if it doesn't fix my initial problem.