Yazoo

Why don't you just come out and tell us what you did? I don't see the point in keeping this to yourself :/

I haven't got the UXTheme.dll to work yet, my last attempt failed at the GUI with an internal structure error. Also I am tired of erasing and then burning to CDR-W. I'm gonna get Virtual PC and then start again. @AaronXP: I guess the way to find out is to compress the DLL with Cabpack and see if the installer excepts it. I will give this a go later today after I get VPC.

Hello I Yazoo, I was enticed to this forum for its wealth of info on creating an Un-attended XP install CD. good stuff.

I think when you do a setup straight from the CD you will use the winntbu.dll file. But when you boot from the CD it will uncompress the winntbu.dl_ and use that. Thats why you did not see the tweaked screen at first.

well I'm about to burn another CDR-W then install it on my test bed machine. Moved themes to $$\Resources\Themes Cursors to $$\Cursors and psshutdown.exe to $$\system32 I also copied the UXTHEME.DL_ from this thread to the i386 folder again.

if I copy my themes into $OEM$/$$/Themes will the setup copy thefiles into C:\windows\resoureces\themes

DefaultThemesOff = no in your winnt.sif is causing Windows to use the Classic Theme by default. However, you should download and install a visual style from www.themexp.org to test if the uxtheme.dl_ hack was successful. I have tried it with a Visual Style and it didn't work.

I am soooo new to this unattened install business, as of this morning I knew nothing. Thanks for that info Paul. It will make the batch file a little smoother now. But I am still perplexed as to why the UXTHEME.DL_ doesn't work?

Hello, I am having a few problems with this uxtheme.dl_ I copied it to the i386 folder, overwriting the old one, but when I install it doesn't work. I get the classic style only. Also the control panel for ATI catalyst 3.7 doesn't install, but the drivers do. Also the restarting bit at the end doesn't work either Everything else in the batch file works too. Can someone look at my batch and winnt.sif file: winnt.sif main_batch.cmd