llloyd

thanks everyone for the suggestions. Unattended looks interesting so I shall check that out, otherwise RIS it is.

I have a large number of computers that I need to perform unattended installs on that unfortunately do not have cd-rom drives. The machines are old and are in very small cases that unfortunately do not have room for an internal cd-rom drive so I've been removing the case, hooking up a cdrom, installing windows, then removing the cdrom and putting it back together. It works, but its far from efficient. I'm wondering if it would work to have a boot disk (they do have floppy drives) with usb drivers on it and then run the install from a click drive? Title Edited - Please follow new posting rules from now on. --Zxian

I need to get a bunch of registry keys into HKCU for all users. From what I've been able to find through google/searching this board my understanding is that if I get my keys into HKCU early enough in the installation process they will be applied to all users. Last night I tried to use runonceex and unfortunately only the administrator user and no subsequently added users got the keys, so apparently that first logon is too late. So when is the correct time? If I put the registry keys directly into my RunOnceEx.cmd (executed at T12 correct?) will that be early enough? PS how come in the RunOnceEx.cmd samples it uses the reg add command, wouldnt it be easier to just regedit /s a .reg file at that point? or have the files not been copied off the cd yet.

hopefully i am understanding you, you mean in the t12 step just directly add my registry keys at that point from the runonceex.cmd rather than the runonceex registry values created by the .cmd file?

I have been reading up on Gosh's RunOnceEx procedures and noticed: Does this mean that if I have removed msoe5 with nlite that this process won't work? My current cd uses GuiRunOnce but I'm annoyed with having to add the HKCU registry tweaks for each new user so I was trying this out. If this won't work without msoe5 then will the RunOnceEx / CmdLines.txt on the unattended site work? I haven't had much luck figuring out if registry keys from the first log on get written to the default registry hive or if thats too late.. Thanks, hope that made sense.