crabdance

I just now saw your earlier post. When I left out the autounattend, I was using my HIGHLY modified version. I will try it with the plain vanilla MS one and let you know how that goes. That will be a good test.

ok... sorry this is taking a bit. I have a 6 year old computer 2 gig of ram. And installing Win7 with VMWare is SLOW! Well, I did another install and things were the same, but I realized that I forgot to take out "network location" from the autounattend (causing myself more work). So I'm doing another install. Will attach the new autoattend which does not have "Display" splattered everywhere. Thanks to Tripredacus. Autounattend.xml

I'm sorry. I did not mean to cause confusion. The reason that I said what I did about the Network dialog box coming up is that it comes up after the desktop comes up and I'm really looking for these things to come up during the oobe pass, before the desktop comes up. That way the desktop will come up immediately after these dialog boxes. If you have ever installed Win7 on your machine by double clicking setup.exe in the root directory, it does exactly what I want it to do. Following the SetupComplete.cmd file, all the dialog boxes come up that I want, and when you are through with those, the desktop comes up. The reason that I don't want the network dialog box to come up with the desktop is that I have an install program that I wrote with InstallShield that installs all the third party software onto the system. I only load a few items with the SetupComplete.cmd file. It is mostly for REG tweaks. Once again, sorry for the confusion.

Ok... I tried the plain install and the only that came up is the one thing I DON"T want to come up. The Network dialog box/window. I'm going to try again with a modified autounattend and see what happens. I will attach the file, run another test, then get back with you. Autounattend.xml I have another question I would like to ask. Where does the "Display" section go in the autounattend? I have it "splattered" in every section but it doesn't seem to work. The only time it "seems" to work is on the last pass, but it does that without an autounattend.

Ok sure. I will use a clean Install.wim and make the suggested changes. I will get back to you as soon as I have done a test. thanks. edit: I did try the install without an autounattend and it worked just like it does when it has an autounattend??? Can't figure that one out!

I am NOT getting prompted for username and password or Timezone either. The network location section is not supposed to work (MS bug) but it may have some effect so I will remove it. Where language is concerned, I'm not talking about the language of the install, but the language and keyboard settings the end user selects before the dialog box to create their username and password comes up. Hope this helps narrow it down. Edit: I just made an ISO without an autounattend and just now loaded it into VM. I will see how it does without a xml all together.

Thanks so much for your response. I understand what you are saying about not wanting people being at the computer, but in this case, I do need it. It would be something if just removing the xml file would accomplish everything I needed. I'm attaching my autounattend so you can see what it's like. I have the "Display" section everywhere because the only time it seems to work is on the final completion part of setup. here it is... Autounattend_.xml As I said before, I really appreciate any help. edit: I have a section in the oobe pass that tries to set the network value to "Home" but as I'm sure you know, it doesn't work.

Well, I guess this is kind of a bump, but it seems like I should be able to accomplish what I need with just the autounattend and not another piece of software. And to try and make my issue more clear, I will state it again. On the oobe pass, I need the dialog boxes to come up that allow the end user to: 1. select language and keyboard settings 2. create user name and password 3. select time zone settings 4. select network settings It seems like this would be a common issue but I haven't found anything on a search. Most likely because I'm not sure what keywords to use. PLEASE.. I need some help on this. Your help is GREATLY appreciated.

Good idea. I'll try that with notepad next time. Thanks.

Thanks everyone. I searched a lot before I finally broke down and made a post. Sorry I missed the post 2 weeks earlier. Thank you so much for the help. The script file should be a great help. Plus I will check out the other thread as well. Also, I will remember from now on to "attach" my xml files instead of putting them in quotes. Sorry. I have been looking for an answer to this for weeks. Now I might have finally found an answer to my problem. And... thanks for your patience and help.

I'm trying to prevent the Network location dialog box from showing up when the desktop comes up for the first time following an installation. I would like to be able to set these parameters in the autounattend (if possible). I have tried putting this in the oobe pass: but with no luck. I have also tried the same code in the "specialize" pass, with no luck also. Can anyone out there please help? I have searched many forums and cannot find an answer to this problem. I appreciate any help.

Ok.. thanks for the help. Here's the whole log file. I tried moving my Win7 folder to c:\ and even renamed them to c:\mount\dvd but that didn't seem to help. Hope this helps. I'm not using the standard naming convention on my directories, but I did try to use mount/dvd on my last test. Please tell me if you need more info or if I can try something another way. thanks. edit: I have 10+ years behind me as a software test engineer. If I can be of any help, please let me know. I knew that anyone close to the project needed all the info but I didn't think that Bob did

I have all the files located in directories that have no spaces. Plus, I looked in the 7Customizer thread and there were other people with the same problem and the developer's comment was "wait for the next version". Don't know what else I can do from here? I will just have to keep looking for an answer.

Ok... here's what I get. "Unexpected Error: Check your Log". And when I check the log file, this is what I get. This is a program error. I tried installing .NET and Visual Basic runtimes but I still got the error. Any ideas on what to do? Any help is appreciated!

Thanks for the help. You are the only one who has tried to help me I will install AIK again and try it again and see if I can get it to work. Will let you know what happens.