Takeshi

In XP HE, the built-in Administrator acc can be found in Safe Mode. It's not clear what exactly you did (created a new acc?) but you can logon as the Administrator and create another account.

The usual things to check/exclude would include: firewall correct IP address and subnet file and printer sharing

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It would of course take extra time to install SP2 after SP1.

Just do a run without nLite, start from scratch and you'll find it IS perfectly possible to have only Administrator with blank pw. What I'm not clear from reading your description, is whether your nLited unattended install has somehow changed the Administrator name to *. When program setup runs it checks in the registry for the default user name.

You still haven't exactly said HOW you made the bootable CD in detail. There're certain settings in Nero which you must select to make a bootable CD bootable. If done correctly the CD would boot within 3 seconds of the message. And please use a meaningful topic title.

Mine says: Show_StatusBar REG_SZ = yes rather than StatusBarOther (which I don't have). Note this is for IE. Where do you get these tweaks from? They are incorrect.

I don't know if it's related to nLite but if you don't use nLite then AdminPassword = * should work for a blank password and you won't have to bother with the AdminName entry at all.

Add a Win98 or WinME boot floppy image to your multi-boot CD.

I'm not surprised as the key is incorrect with two software entries.

It might be in the comdlg32.dll. There was a thread on it (but I can't remember if it's about the same dialog box).

Some of the tweaks supposedly for XP are actually legacies from the old Win9x but people just assume they work the same way. A lot of people blindly follow them without actually thinking critically about what they do and unfortunately these get circulated and perpetuated on the internet.

You cannot edit the image directly but once restored to a partition you can then easily edit the registry by loading the appropriate hive.

It's certainly possible to have Windows XP/2k on multiple adjacent (up to 3) primary partitions on one HD, as in my setup. But this may only apply to installation in sequence. My setup: HD 1: │---C (XP, primary)--│--XP (prim)--│--Win2k (prim)--│--Extended--│ Having said that, in the 2nd HD, I installed a prev build of Longhorn (replacing XP on the first primary) and had no problems. HD 2: │--LH (primary)--│--XP (prim)--│--data (prim)--│--Ext.---│ I've not tried reinstalling XP in the 1st primary partition on HD1. Maybe the odd behaviour you've described only applies in this scenario. I suppose a workaround for you would be to temporarily convert your D partition to an extended before re-installing XP and re-convert it back to primary afterwards.

I tried the first version and successfully generated the iso (but not yet installed XP using it - need to make a new VM guest). If you can, I'd like the main DVD Generator window to be made resizeable. it fills most of the desktop. Also, on my 1280x1024 screen with 144 dpi, the fonts on the main window do not display correctly, with the top part of the progress text window partly obscured by one of the yellow bars near the top L corner. The X button doesn't respond but the [quit it] does.

This is my correction (content and formatting) for the "System Performance" section. I've removed: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer] "NoSaveSettings"=dword:00000000 as I don't think it's anything to do with "Speed up opening of My Computer and Explorer" and this Group Policy is absent by default anyway. These I've left them in but do have some concerns. The "Force DLL To Unload From Memory" is of doubtful benefit in XP (Cluberti explained it in a thread in WinXP forum). The "Optimize System Cache Size" tweak is really for server only. The "Optimize Core System Performance" tweak is to disable kernel paging. I'm not sure if it does "Optimize Core System Performance". The "Increase IoPageLockLimit (disk cache)" tweak is, if I remember correctly, misleading - I'll look into it.

I don't think it'd be really helpful to include the whole list of system services, because some are best left to automatic (default), some depends on individual circumstances. Only select a few really important ones (for security purpose). What services are needed have been discussed many times and there's no single list that suits everyone. It'd be quite a task (if that's possible) to include every tweak that is available so we should aim to include only the most useful ones. Aim for quality not quantity. I've only listed the services that should be corrected (from auto to disabled) and those whose descriptions I've amended. The others I'd leave the start value blank for the user to fill in.

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?s=&sho...ndpost&p=343801 Despite what I said before for pt. 3, the system services are still using 00000002 = Automatic when they mostly should be 00000004 = Disabled. And I'd have thought the comments I made before would deserve an acknowledgement. Now the Security Center under services have no reg entry but is duplicated later under SP2. There're quite a few items (too many to list) where the reg entries follow the dotted line when a new line is needed.

system32\config\SYSTEM is part of the registry. See: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545/

3. Do all of the following: turn off system restore via system properties Set SR service to disabled Run sysprep

I've said this before. Trimming system services is not going to save a lot of RAM. The most compelling reason to do so is for security. By all means consult the guides but you have to decide what can be turned off for your own particular PC. Blindly following what other people say might (and often) lead to problems. And don't change anything without a backup or at least write down what you change.

Well, it does get a mention here: http://www.netdesk.com/articles_itpro/diagnostics.asp I can't find it either in XP or 2000 Server, nor in 2000 Res Kit or XP Support Tools.

Unless you provide the actual evidence to back it up, the allegation is unfounded. VMWare does connect to the net when it starts up, for VNet's IPs and connecting to VMWare homepage. It even saves a cookie.

Do you have setupcl.exe in the sysprep dir also? This is probably not directly relevant to your query, but I notice there're entries in [unattended] which are not part of sysprep.inf, but only belong to unattend.txt, e.g. TargetPath=\WINDOWS. Please consult ref.chm.

I tried it out with interest but it had an error: Can't load DLL: MSJTER35.DLL. Text copied to the prog are all combined on the right and nothing shows up on the L pane, i.e. there's no listing shown. When the Text or Image button is clicked, a pop-up windows says: Object variable or With block variable not set. I don't know if it's relevant: during install, it says comdlg32.ocx in my OS (XP SP2) is newer than the version it tries to copy to. I chose to keep my version. The forum address as given in the documentation does not exist.