aboyd710

Thanks for your input. What I have ended up doing is using the key from I386\pid.inf in my unattend.txt file; the installation now completes succesfully without requesting a key. When I do my deploy windows mini-setup lauches and asks for the COA label product key as I have not entered this in sysprep.inf file. Following this I checked my Windows key using MagicJellyBean keyfinder and the key is the one entered at Mini-setup which is what I would expect. This process meets my requiements although I thought there would have been a more well known way to do it

The situation is that I have an (almost) unattended installation installing XP and a host of applications. When this is complete I run sysprep and then create an image of the system that is deployed to multiple systems. When the image is deployed Windows Mini-Setup runs and asks for the Windows Key from the COA on each of the final targets. This is how I want things to happen. If I do not place a Windows Key in unattend.txt then I am asked to enter a key when Windows is installaling. I do not want to do this as then my installation is not unattended. Is there some default key I can enter in unattend.txt or another option so that a key is not requested? Any help is much appreciated. Note: XP SP3 (slimstreamed) and its not a VLK.