Aaron

you will need Repartition=No as well. The bottom of this page says: If you prefer to manually choose a partition during text-mode setup with full control on filesystems, then make sure you have these lines under the [Data] and [unattended] sections in winnt.sif: [Data] AutoPartition=0 [unattended] Repartition=No Then, when setup asks you to choose a disk/partition to install to, make sure you delete the partition and re-create it so that you are prompted for a choice of file system to install. If you don't, then setup will proceed to install Windows XP, regardless of whatever filesystem there currently is.

Winnt.sif: [GuiUnattended] AdminPassword="password" EncryptedAdminPassword=NO AutoLogon=Yes Add AutoLogonCount=x if you want it to autologon a couple of times before creating your own account. Where x is a number.

MD is a DOS command, short for Make Directory. MD MyThemes will create a directory called MyThemes

cyclad-z.inf & cyclom-y.inf No idea... those files might be part of your updated drivers rather than the original XP disc. Run a search on the whole $OEM$ directory for it. None of the regtweaks have any effect on System Restore, nor does System Restore has any part in my guide so I can't help you there either. But has this been happening since you started making this kind of CD? if not, then think back to what you've added that may be causing that message to appear. If the Omega drivers don't install as part of OemPnPDrivers, then consider doing a silent install of them during batch run. Admin Account: AdminPassword="password" EncryptedAdminPassword=NO AutoLogon=Yes Remove AutoLogoncount if you want it to log in indefinitely. RADCLOCKER1800.msi RADTABS0908.msi - These are MSI files, simply use /QB or /QN switch.

Sometimes the Windows XP CD will act like a 2nd DLLCACHE. It helps to take the CD out during batch run.

Adobe Reader 6 is the updated Acrobat Reader 5, instructions are on site as well as WinRAR 3.20 for NAV 2003, its NAV.msi /QB (or /QN). Systemworks and Personal firewall should be the same as they use MSI files too. ISObuster doesn't have any silent install switches, but try using an app like Auto-It or AI Snapshot (part of Symantec Ghost Corp.) to take a snapshot of your system before and after installation, so it knows what files and registry entries to put in.

It would be less hassle just to create 2 CDs with different winnt.sif files on either one. I don't have the Windows Journal Viewer, but see if you can take a screenshot of the file itself (with file extensions enabled), and see if the file can be extracted with a tool like WinRAR, again take a screenshot of the extracted directory.

Was installing Office this simple?!! I thought there was a lot to do, like creating an administration point and going through Setup as normal to choose what you want installed, then using switches

Sorry, Corporate Windows Update link fixed: http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/d...?corporate=true You might have also got the wrong cumulative patches for IE6 and OE6. There's serveral for different versions so make sure you get the ones for IE6SP1. This also happened to me when I installed XP's IE6SP1 patch on Windows Server 2003. XP IE6SP1: http://download.microsoft.com/download/E/E...0D3/q818529.exe XP OE6SP1: http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/5...218/q330994.exe If you ran the batch then accessed WindowsUpdate straight after, its bound to report incorrect information because most of the hotfixes don't load properly until the system's been rebooted.

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It seems extractable to me: But if you'd rather not extract it, the mm20enu.exe /Q:N /R:A switch should work.

That's OK, it will still work perfectly I use 3 so I can easily find what I'm looking for and edit/update them.

DelUser will delete a user account. I use it to delete the ASP.NET account in Windows XP, which I don't need. PSShutdown will automatically reboot or shutdown the computer. I use this tool so that Pre-SP2 updates finish installing on the next restart.

yup! You probably missed this bit (at the bottom) http://www.MSFN.org/unattended/xp/winnt_sif.htm

You have done it correctly. The main purpose of the $OEM$\$1\ folders is that the contents of them get copied over to the systemdrive during setup (that would be C:\ if Windows XP is being installed on that drive) e.g. X:\$OEM$\$1\install\ will become C:\install\ when setup finishes. if these files didn't get copied over then you need to add this line to the [unattended] section in winnt.sif: OemPreinstall=Yes That will instruct setup that there is an OEM distribution to be copied over. Hope that helps!

Using something similar to what's shown on the UXTheme page, you can use those commands to copy your visual style theme files into C:\Windows\Resources\Themes\ (you will need to use MD first to make a directory for the custom theme name). Same goes for shell32.dll and msgina.dll and any other types. You can set the default theme from: [shell] CustomDefaultThemeFile = "%WinDir%\Resources\Themes\MyTheme.theme" But I haven't tested to see if it works with msstyles files.

1. Yeah, getting those kind of problems are common. I had to do 15 attempts to get my CD perfect 2 months back. 2. Have you read the bottom of the page at Finishing Off? This will show you how you can choose your own filesystem. 3. Watch the errors that appear in the Command Window, most will usually say "The specified file cannot be found, or specified directory cannot be found". This should be enough so you can inspect your batch commands and see where you went wrong. Most, if not all errors are due to misplaced files/folders, typos and incorrect paths. 4. I will have to look into this one, because Luna only has one theme file with all three msstyles in it. Might use a registry monitor to see what happens when I try to change to Silver. 5. This could possibly be a graphics driver limitation?

That depends on what you really want one for. Most shell32.dll files are resource-edited to display custom themed icons in Internet Explorer's toolbar and most of the system's main icons. There are many different created icon themes you can get from theme sites.

I had no problems installing SAV 8.1, it might be that there are different compiled client installs made by the Symantec Packager. VirtualPC shouldn't take 7 hours. On this 1.4GHz it takes about an hour and a half, try going into the Virtual PC preferences and set this: Divide Time equally, and Run at Maximum speed.

You can create an account at the Welcome to Windows XP screen (this is in-between WinXP setup and the batch). Then it will log you in with the username created and run the batch. To enable Welcome to Windows XP, this value should be used in [unattended]: UnattendSwitch="no" If you use Yes, then it will skip that part and use the default Admin account instead. I know the in-between bit is a bit of a stop gap and defeats the whole point of it being unattended, but I'm still looking into ways of getting it to create my own user account and run the batch once its logged in.

Tried them already, I think they disabled those switches.

Thanks, adding that too! As well as O&O Defrag Pro I've emailed the author of ISOBuster to ask about a silent install function.

I can't understand why it won't work. is winnt.sif in X:\i386\winnt.sif? Have you checked to see if you might have saved it as winnt.sif.txt by accident? What kind of Windows XP CD are you using? (Pro, Home, Corp, OEM, etc)

Which 2 applications were they? I will try them out for you. Coming up on the site later: Adobe Reader 6.0 ZoneAlarm Free 3.7 Norton AV 2003 DivX 5.0.5 AIM 5.2 Sun Java VM 1.4.1 Nero 6 and maybe WinRAR 3.20 (need to do another test just to be sure about something) No go: Trillian

You've done a good job! I can't really tell if you're using the correct switches for the applications I haven't used before, so you will have to test it. You've also copied the tools over twice (deluser and psshutdown) in main batch and applications. You only need to do it once. Again, avoid using characters such as dots and `