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I know it has something to do with audit mode. I have installed Win7 when the computer restarts i press ctl shift F3 and the computer reboots in Audit mode, then i sysprep after making my customization running sysprep /oobe /generalize /unattend:Unattend.xml /shutdown Should i also use the /audit switch?

Well,...i tried your suggestion and it worked! Thanks I have 2 remaining issues with my sysprep. 1- After sysprep finishes and the computer reboots, i have to click next for locales and time Zone,...i dont get it since it is set in my sysprep 2- my drivers path option doesnt seem to work (i put the correct path and the local admin credentials) but still the device manager shows the devices without drivers <DriverPaths> <PathAndCredentials wcm:action="add" wcm:keyValue="1"> <Credentials> <Domain></Domain> <Password>password</Password> <Username>Administrator</Username> </Credentials> <Path>C:\Drivers\1ChipSet</Path> </PathAndCredentials> <PathAndCredentials wcm:action="add" wcm:keyValue="2"> <Credentials> <Domain></Domain> <Password>password</Password> <Username>Administrator</Username> </Credentials> <Path>C:\Drivers\2Net</Path> </PathAndCredentials> <PathAndCredentials wcm:action="add" wcm:keyValue="3"> <Credentials> <Domain></Domain> <Password>password</Password> <Username>Administrator</Username> </Credentials> <Path>C:\Drivers\3Display</Path> </PathAndCredentials> <PathAndCredentials wcm:action="add" wcm:keyValue="4"> <Credentials> <Password>password</Password> <Username>Administrator</Username> </Credentials> <Path>C:\Drivers\4Video</Path> </PathAndCredentials> <PathAndCredentials wcm:action="add" wcm:keyValue="5"> <Credentials> <Password>Dwerge!1</Password> <Username>Administrator</Username> </Credentials> <Path>C:\Drivers\5Audio</Path> </PathAndCredentials> <PathAndCredentials wcm:action="add" wcm:keyValue="6"> <Credentials> <Password>password</Password> <Username>Administrator</Username> </Credentials> <Path>C:\Drivers\6Modem</Path> </PathAndCredentials> <PathAndCredentials wcm:action="add" wcm:keyValue="7"> <Credentials> <Password>password</Password> <Username>Administrator</Username> </Credentials> <Path>C:\Drivers\7Misc</Path> </PathAndCredentials> </DriverPaths>

Input_locale can be one of two values: To use the default input locale for a language, you can specify the language identifier. For example, to use the default keyboard for English (United States) that corresponds with the QWERTY keyboard, you can specify the value en-US. Specify the locale ID and keyboard layout hexadecimal values. For example, for en-US, use 0409:00000409. The first value (0409) is the locale ID that represents the input language and the second value (00000409) is the keyboard layout value. So en-US should be OK...

Hi Everyone! I just created a xml unattend file to deploy our windows 7 64 bits computers, the sysprep file validates fine without any errors nor warnings using Windows System Image Manager. However when i deploy my image, i get the following error: Windows could not parse or process the unattend answer file for pass [specialize]. A component or setting specified in the answer file does not exist. I attach the xml file to this post and i hope some of you could help with this as i am getting frustrated reimaging without luck.. Thank you. Here is the specialize section <settings pass="specialize"> <component name="Microsoft-Windows-International-Core" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <InputLocale>en-us</InputLocale> <SystemLocale>en-us</SystemLocale> <UILanguage>en-us</UILanguage> <UILanguageFallback>en-us</UILanguageFallback> <UserLocale>en-us</UserLocale> </component> <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Security-SPP-UX" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <SkipAutoActivation>true</SkipAutoActivation> </component> <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Deployment" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <RunSynchronous> <RunSynchronousCommand wcm:action="modify"> <Path>net user administrator /active:yes</Path> <Order>1</Order> </RunSynchronousCommand> </RunSynchronous> </component> </settings> Unattend.xml