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Have you installed any software that has protection in it (ie Macrovision)? I've seen macrovision specifically break the IDE driver in Windows, and new drives won't be recognized. Just a thought...

Try disabling everything you can (as far as onboard devices) in the BIOS. Usually when Windows XP setup hangs here, it's a USB issue, but disabling other things (if disabling USB entirely doesn't work) won't hurt either.

Have you considered extracting the driver to $oem$\$1\Drivers\Audio, then pointing your OemPnPDriversPath to include "drivers\audio" (like so: OemPnPDriversPath = drivers\audio)? Assuming you extract the driver here, and use OemPreinstall = YES, this should install the drivers during the GUI portion of setup without issue.

Note that the article is for Windows Server 2003, but it will work with any NT-based OS (NT4 and up): http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...kb;en-us;816299 This should make things work for you.

Part of the problem is that it's not a dahotfix.exe hotfix . If you extract it, it's an update.exe hotfix. So, you can call it by "msxml4sp2-kb887606-x86-enu.exe /passive /norestart", or you can integrate it via "msxml4sp2-kb887606-x86-enu.exe /integrate:<path to xp source>". DAHOTFIX won't work for this hotfix, because it's an update.exe hotfix.

Part of the problem is that it's not a dahotfix.exe hotfix . If you extract it, it's an update.exe hotfix. So, you can call it by "msxml4sp2-kb887606-x86-enu.exe /passive /norestart", or you can integrate it via "msxml4sp2-kb887606-x86-enu.exe /integrate:<path to xp source>". DAHOTFIX won't work for this hotfix, because it's an update.exe hotfix.

Not any Microsoft-supported way .

The Mozilla suite of apps run completely on their own, without using any built-in MS OS functions or API's (well, not entirely, but I won't bore you with the file API's and such). That's why those work fine - they aren't using anything in the OS to display menus or HTML, etc.

Powerpoint (any version) does not support the shw format. It does allow you to save in the PowerPoint Show format (pps), but as faras I know, that's it. Perhaps there's a converter or something out there, but I've never seen one.

It does (and it's pretty cool too), but I was posting for knowledge's sake. Having a tool is great, but knowing exactly what it does is nice too.

Just a note - you CAN slipstream and integrate hotfixes into a RIS flat-file source. So if you have an XP SP2 source, when SP3 comes out you can simply slipstream your RIS source and viola, SP3. This doesn't affect RIPrep'ed images, obviously - they stay at whatever SP they were created on. And WDS is much more admin-friendly than RIS is, as some of you have already found .

I was going to point you to the MS article on integrating Mass Storage drivers in unattended setup, but it looks like you figured it out.

In your unattend.txt or WINNT.SIF file, the following [Components] section should remove everything you don't need. Do some googling on these if you think you may use some of these, but I use these settings all the time without issue: [Components] Accessopt = Off CertSrv = Off CertSrv_Client = Off CertSrv_Server = Off Chat = Off Deskpaper = Off Dialer = Off Fax = Off Fp_extensions = Off FP_Vdir_Deploy = Off Freecell = Off Hearts = Off IIS_Common = Off IIS_Doc = Off IIS_FTP = Off IIS_HTMLa = Off IIS_Inetmgr = Off IIS_NNTP = Off IIS_NNTP_Docs = Off IIS_Pwmgr = Off IIS_SMTP = Off IIS_SMTP_Docs = Off IIS_WWW = Off IIS_WWW_Vdir_Printers = Off IIS_WWW_Vdir_TerminalServices = Off IISDbg = Off Indexsrv_system = Off LicenseServer = Off Media_utopia = Off Minesweeper = Off Mousepoint = Off Msmsgs = Off MSMQ_ADIntegrated = Off MSMQ_Core = Off MSMQ_HTTPSupport = Off MSMQ_LocalStorage = Off MSMQ_MQDSService = Off MSMQ_RoutingSupport = Off MSMQ_TriggersService = Off Msnexplr = Off Netoc = Off Pinball = Off Solitaire = Off Spider = Off WMAccess = Off zonegames = Off

Perhaps the logical disk manager service?

Most menu functions in applications are actually called using the MSV*.* files in system32. Run an sfc /scannow or (at worst) a repair installation. What you're seeing isn't a driver issue, it's file corruption (thankfully, they're most likely MS Windows files, so an sfc will fix them).

The DetachedProgram variable is called under the [GuiUnattended] section, and is of the form DetachedProgram = <path to application> There's not much more to it, really. Just make sure it's a standalone application.

In the services key, find the service in question that you'd like to remove. Within the service's key, there should be a value (ImagePath) pointing to the application or file that the service loads - either uninstall that application from add/remove programs, or manually remove that application's program files and service key. You may also want to search the registry to make sure any other references to the application are removed, just to be safe.

That's a pretty generic error, but it usually points to a permissions or firewall problem. Since I'm assuming it's not a firewall problem, have you checked to make sure that the spooler service really did restart? What about the RPC services - are they all running?

The question then becomes, what did you do to the disk? Since you've used nLite and modified the disk, you may have broken the WINNT.SIF checking routine in setup. I just tried this on a retail and an OEM XP SP2 CD, and both used my WINNT.SIF just fine.

CoolSights, there is no real way around this in non-interactive mode. The setting in gpedit no longer applies to non-interactive driver installations, and thus you must approve the driver from the console or it won't install. There is no way around it, at least in 2003. If you had an XP machine in a Windows 2000 or mixed-mode 2000/2003 domain, you could still set the driver signing policy to ignore and it would apply to both interactive and non-interactive installations, but 2003 Server no longer allows this, as it is a security risk. What drivers are you attempting to install non-interactively? And have you contacted the driver manufacturer to see if they have signed drivers, or have any in the works? If you had signed drivers, your problem would be solved.

Yes, it removes them from the list. Obviously it doesn't remove the program the service references, but they do get removed from the list (and won't start, of course). As for the Control Sets, those are the last x good boots that you've had, x being the number of ControlSet00x keys. These are used when you try booting from Last Known Good in the F8 boot menu.

Windows setup will ALWAYS check the floppy drive for a WINNT.SIF file upon starting - remove the WINNT.SIF file from the i386 folder if you have one there, and make sure the PC will boot from CD first. Put the XP CD in the CD drive, and your floppy with your WINNT.SIF in the floppy drive. Press a key to start the Windows setup when prompted, and it will read your WINNT.SIF from the floppy.

Have [DetachedProgram] launch something like solitare.exe - note that the game will have to be very basic and completely standalone, with no registry or video acceleration needed.

A 7022 error in a service is very vague, but it usually means that there was an internal error on processing some particular bit of code. More than likely this is a corrupted file or registry entry issue - try using sfc /scannow or a repair installation to fix this one.

All services are listed in HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services