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The book I have "Windows XP inside and out" says that XP HOME only allows logon of the administrator account in safe mode. So I thought that might be the problem. I guess that still doesn't answer why you can't create a password for the admin account during setup. And it appears that home only allows logon of the admin account in safe mode unless it has a password. I'm going totry this on vmware with xp home to see what happens I'm not going to be much help. Tried creating an unattended install of XP Home and keep getting the following error Installation failed E:\I386\asms Parameters incorrect Solved the above error but still don't have an answer When I set the administrator account to autolog on I get an error could not log you on check your password. This is in safemode and normal mode. No matter what I tried I couldn't get runonceex to work. The only way I could install programs unattendly is through a batch file called from cmdlines.txt And setting auto logon for another account in the admin group still wouldn't run installs using runonceex.

What happens when you go into safe mode and try to log on the administrator account. I believe XP home will only allow logon of the administrator account in safe mode. Or create another account in the administrator group and set that to auto logon.

I had the same problem with a different nvidia card same driver. Have tried restarting your computer after changing to 32bits BP. If I remember right when I first started my computer it came up in 640x480 32BP I was able to change to 800x600 32BP any hi res would be 16BP. Anyway after changing to 800x600 and restarting I was able to change to higher res with 32BP

For My Computer top level view its Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 ;MYcomputer Details mask [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\DUIBags\ShellFolders\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}] "ExpandDetailsTasks"=dword:00000001 You'll find this same key under other class ID's in the ShellFolders. It looks like its for different drives. I found this using NTregmon.

It's controller by a bit mask Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 ;slide open combo box disabled [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop] "UserPreferencesMask"=hex:ba,3e,07,80 ;slide open combo box enabled [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop] "UserPreferencesMask"=hex:be,3e,07,80 The only bit that changes here is the one that controls slide open combo box. All other bits are set to enable what ever they control so you should compare these with your own registry.

I could be wrong but it might be because you have too many 0's in your language parameter, I think it should be 0809

I can't see the problem, but you should remove the product key before posting your winnt.sif

First make sure there is a XP driver for it. Uninstall the ME driver and disable or remove the device. Run XP upgrade and reinstall or enable and let XP find it and install the driver. Or for less problems later on format and do a clean install. If you have the upgrade version of XP make sure you have a qualifying CD like an ME install CD. I don't think a restore disk will work, if that's what HP gave you.

Have you tried opening a command prompt and typeing displaydriver.exe /? or what ever the name of the file is? Thats how I figured out the chipset drivers. Maybe it will work with the display drivers.

looking at the netsh.exe command witha hex editor I can see it depends on about 10 .dll files. Maybe one of them was removed with nlite.

Each application is different, check in the application installs forum. Also you could open a command prompt and type yoursetupprog /? sometimes that will give you the info you need. Also check the sticky thread in unattended windows titled [Tools]Unatended programs for Universal Switch Finder.

Here's what worked for me. Copy all the driver files into one folder, I used drivers\chipset\nvidia. There should be no sub directories all files should be in this folder. Except I did keep the SATA drivers in a seperate folder drivers\hddrives\nvidia but I'm not sure if thats neccessary.

I noticed this to and found this on the MS web site. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...kb;en-us;232509 This doesn't mention XP but I tried setting the bits to create a .err and a .log file but no files were created.

Yes, Thanks guys I've learned something today. I wonder where I got the idea that the commands had to be in the same folder.

I thought that all the files that cmdlines.txt ran had to be in the same folder as cmdlines.txt. I run two files in mine, regfile.bat and install.bat plus about 6 others. Are you saying instead of putting "regfile.bat" I could put "regedit /s changes.reg" But what about the requirement stated above? Or am I missing something?

cmdlines.txt is not a batch file. You list files that you want to run for example if you have to batch files install.bat and fix.bat then your cmdlines text would look like [COMMANDS] "install.bat" "fix.bat" you can allso include exe files this is all in the guide Jim M

From the ref.chm AutoPArtition Installs Windows to the first available partition that has adequate space for a Windows installation and does not already contain an installed version of Windows. I think you want Repartion under Unattended Specifies whether to delete all partitions on the first drive of the client computer and to reformat the drive with the NTFS file system. At least thats what worked for me

Thanks gunsmokingman and Incroyable HULK I ended up using AutoIT, when I tried to use Reshacker it said my .bat file was not a 32bit executable and wouldn't open it. P.S I bunged up my iexplorer icon and others using a program called reseditor I found in this forum. Don't know if its something I did wrong or not. But searching the registry showed about 150 places where defaulticon points to where reseditor is installed. Tried a repair install but that didn't fix it. Oh well I need to really test my unattended CD.

I was able to change the icon in a copy of cmd.exe to the one I want using resedit and an icon editor. But if I replace the original cmd.exe with that one all bat files will show that icon right? So how do I make one bat file display a different icon than others. Is this possible.

Thanks for the reply. So now I need to extract the icon from the exe than add it to a cmd.exe using the one of the tools on this site. Looks like its time for me to do some more searching.

I have a shortcut that runs a .cmd file that runs and .exe file with some command line options. The icon shows the normal icon for .cmd files. I can right click on it and choose change icons and browse to the .exe file and change to the icon in that .exe file. Is there any way I can do this during an unattended setup? I've tried using regmon, setting the include string to different values but didn't see anything helpful.

It will if you setup your winnt.sif or unattened.txt file properly. Have you read the guide?

The xxx is because setup searches the oem driver directory alpabetically. Drivers that should be installed first go in 000somedir next is 001somedir and so on.

Your missing closing quotation marks on you guirunonce entries.

I think he means he can't install Virtual PC on an XP Home machine.