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Hi guys, have just installed my Vista Beta. Looking pretty sharp, I must say! They seem to have done a good job, although the navigation will take some getting used to. But everything looks so pretty! Even progress bars become almost nice to watch! I'm just wondering, though, whether any of the 3D desktop stuff has been implemented in this release, coz that'd be quite cool to watch. Let me know if anyone's found it!

Hi, I'm making a custom XP install on a DVD and I want to include a folder of installers of programs which I can have copied over to the new setup and then install at my leisure. I'm not looking to have these install silently with the rest of the unattended programs, I just want the installer files on the DVD to copy over, but when I've tried to include them within one of the folders that gets copied over to silently install some applications, it comes up with a fatal error in the windows setup procedure and won't continue to install. Any ideas?

I downloaded an unattended Windows XP setup DVD that someone had made, along with a load of programs etc. Was just wondering what the best way to further modify this version with my own drivers/programs would be. Like, where do I have to put installs, where do i then have to reference those and in which commands file, and where would I have to put any drivers that I'd like installing, for my Sony Network Walkman, for instance? Many thanks!

Ok, much thanks for the suggestions! Right, I'm gonna try to integrate the SATA drivers (altho I don't really remember which one my computer needs, it's an Abit NF7-S v2 motherboard? Any ideas?!). As for the product key, sorry, I left a line off when I printed it into here by accident, but it's in full in the main file and it wouldn't accept it. the only thing I can think of is that...it's one of those keys that starts with FCKGW? Would the fact that I've integrated SP2 make Windows cotton on to this? How could I check it? And for the AutoPartition bit, I purposefully left that as '0' as i want to set up my partitions each time. Unless there's a way I could write something which would auto set the partitions based on what I wrote in a seprate file? Let me know! Thanks SO much for the newbie help, guys!

Ok, so I'm a first time poster and first time unnatended-windows-xp-installer. I've created a simple version of what I want to achieve in the end and have just used nLite to rip my XP CD, streamline SP2 into it (sans hotfixes) and apply a bunch of tweaks to it. I also went thru the processes described on here and made my own WINNT.SIF file (shown below). Now it was only after getting through ALL that that i remembered (or was reminded, rather, by nLite) that I couldn't use the 'unattended' part of its creation tools as I have a SATA hard drive and needed to 'F6' at the beginning of setup. So I left that part deselected in nLite but then, some way into the setup procedure carried out on a VM, i got a message: "setup cannot continue until you enter your name." It also said something like 'Administrator and Guest is not allowable'. Now I've set my name in the SIF file to be 'PeanuT', but it won't let me have that either. So I changed it to 'Pea' and we're on our way again, The next screen asked for my reg key... Now I had typed it into the SIF file already in the hopes that I wouldn't have to enter it here ever again. Still, I entered it in, but it kept coming up with 'key you have entered is invalid'... I'm just wondering, is the fact that I apparently can't get an unattended setup to work something to do with the fact that I chose not to have 'unattended' in the nLite settings (so as I could 'F6' for my SATA driver installs), even though I have added all the necessary lines to my SIF file to enable an unattended install? ;SetupMgrTag [Data] AutoPartition=0 MsDosInitiated="0" UnattendedInstall="Yes" [Unattended] UnattendMode=FullUnattended OemSkipEula=Yes OemPreinstall=Yes UnattendSwitch="yes" TargetPath=\WINDOWS FileSystem=* ProgramFilesDir="D:\Program Files" CommonProgramFilesDir="D:\Program Files\Common Files" KeyboardLayout="United Kingdom" [GuiUnattended] AdminPassword=* EncryptedAdminPassword=NO OEMSkipRegional=1 TimeZone=85 OemSkipWelcome=1 ProfilesDir="D:\Documents and Settings\" [UserData] ProductKey=XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX FullName="PeanuT" OrgName="PeaTV" ComputerName="PeaTV" [Display] BitsPerPel=32 Xresolution=1280 YResolution=1024 [TapiLocation] CountryCode=44 Dialing=Tone AreaCode=0191 [RegionalSettings] LanguageGroup=1 Language=00000809 [Identification] JoinWorkgroup=HOME [Networking] InstallDefaultComponents=Yes [Components] msmsgs=off msnexplr=off freecell=off hearts=off media_clips=off minesweeper=off pinball=off solitaire=off spider=off zonegames=off [Shell] DefaultThemesOff = Yes DefaultStartPanelOff = Yes

Ok, so I'm a first time poster and first time unnatended-windows-xp-installer. I've created a simple version of what I want to achieve in the end and have just used nLite to rip my XP CD, streamline SP2 into it (sans hotfixes) and apply a bunch of tweaks to it. I also went thru the processes described on here and made my own WINNT.SIF file (shown below). Now it was only after getting through ALL that that i remembered (or was reminded, rather, by nLite) that I couldn't use the 'unattended' part of its creation tools as I have a SATA hard drive and needed to 'F6' at the beginning of setup. So I left that part deselected in nLite but then, some way into the setup procedure carried out on a VM, i got a message: "setup cannot continue until you enter your name." It also said something like 'Administrator and Guest is not allowable'. Now I've set my name in the SIF file to be 'PeanuT', but it won't let me have that either. So I changed it to 'Pea' and we're on our way again, The next screen asked for my reg key... Now I had typed it into the SIF file already in the hopes that I wouldn't have to enter it here ever again. Still, I entered it in, but it kept coming up with 'key you have entered is invalid'... I'm just wondering, is the fact that I apparently can't get an unattended setup to work something to do with the fact that I chose not to have 'unattended' in the nLite settings (so as I could 'F6' for my SATA driver installs), even though I have added all the necessary lines to my SIF file to enable an unattended install? ;SetupMgrTag [Data] AutoPartition=0 MsDosInitiated="0" UnattendedInstall="Yes" [Unattended] UnattendMode=FullUnattended OemSkipEula=Yes OemPreinstall=Yes UnattendSwitch="yes" TargetPath=\WINDOWS FileSystem=* ProgramFilesDir="D:\Program Files" CommonProgramFilesDir="D:\Program Files\Common Files" KeyboardLayout="United Kingdom" [GuiUnattended] AdminPassword=* EncryptedAdminPassword=NO OEMSkipRegional=1 TimeZone=85 OemSkipWelcome=1 ProfilesDir="D:\Documents and Settings\" [UserData] ProductKey=XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX FullName="PeanuT" OrgName="PeaTV" ComputerName="PeaTV" [Display] BitsPerPel=32 Xresolution=1280 YResolution=1024 [TapiLocation] CountryCode=44 Dialing=Tone AreaCode=0191 [RegionalSettings] LanguageGroup=1 Language=00000809 [Identification] JoinWorkgroup=HOME [Networking] InstallDefaultComponents=Yes [Components] msmsgs=off msnexplr=off freecell=off hearts=off media_clips=off minesweeper=off pinball=off solitaire=off spider=off zonegames=off [Shell] DefaultThemesOff = Yes DefaultStartPanelOff = Yes