JonnyThunder

Thats really great - thanks for the detailed reply. I'll look into that and see how I go.

Hello, A long time back I was a regular visitor to these forums. With lots of help, I managed to create an unattended Windows XP installation for all of my companies different PC hardware, using WINNT.SIF and lots of drivers! We used this disk to install the various different builds of PC, and then SYSPrepped them and took an image. There was a different image for each type of PC. Now im wondering if there is a way I can make a SysPrepped image which will install driver sets for any of the machines we have. So instead of having an image per machine, is it possible to have one image which installs the appropriate drivers for any of our possible machines?? Any pointers in the right direction would be great, JT

Hello, Some of you may have seen the problem with unattended installs, that if you make the average user a poweruser they cannot install printers without the wizard (which means no unattended install of printers). This is a problem for lots of reasons, but it's unfortunately by Micro$oft design. Anyway, I trawled through pages here on MSFN for a solution and although I did see some ideas - none of them were really a clean way to do things. I've finally found a way of doing it nice and clean - you'll forgive me if it's already been posted before. OK, so here's what I did.... 1. Download and install this package from Micro$oft website (it's admin tools for Win2003 server) 2. Copy the file ntrights.exe to a folder on your unattended CD. I put mine in %windir%. 3. Use either a firstrun reg key or cmd file to do the following.... %windir%\ntrights.exe -u "Power Users" +r SeLoadDriverPrivilege This will add the power users group for the Load / Unload Drivers local security property. And thats all you gotta do. Like I said, I saw lots of reg hacks and suchlike, but was never sure if they were 100%. We've tested this solution and it works perfectly (even with Novells NDPS which also failed due to rights). Hope this helps someone, JT

Hi there, Is there a way to adjust virtual memory during an unattended installation, or after with a reg change or some sort? Thanks, JT

Great, found it. Thanks for that. In future, i'll RTFM!!

Hi there, Is there a complete list of parameters that can be used in the WINNT.SIF file? I generated one with setupmgr and one with nlite - which non-surprisingly are different in a few ways. has a guide been published on here, or on the Micros*it website? Cheers, JT