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You can try renaming the folder name before you do the move.

yoz7120, good for you for voluntarily admitting to using warez.

But given what jdgordon said, RunOnceEx will work its way through a given list and refresh that list visually in real-time. A batch file doesn't give you those nice headings and the arrow pointing to what its currently doing, does it?

Can you confirm that this files exists? %WinDir%\Resources\Themes\MyTheme.theme Also, do you have MyTheme.theme in your $OEM$\$$\Resources\Themes folder on your CD?

Oh, I didn't know that that list can be updated in real-time.

When you go to Display Properties, is the theme that you want listed as the current theme?

I've never used RunOnceEx before and have only skimmed that part of the guide. But to the best of my knowledge, those registry entries are removed after they are used on a reboot. The remaining entries (if any) will still be run in sequence when you next login. So, just put a shutdown command in your list of entries.

Does your [GuiRunOnce] section look like: [GuiRunOnce] Command0 = "%systemdrive%\HP_Proliant\bp000232.cmd" ?

Well, what I had was a SP2 update CD with the post-SP2 updates on them for a few home users that had computers. I did a fresh install of a XP with SP1 in VMware so that I could test it out before I rolled out the CDs to the home users. The batch files seemed fine.

I've used %CDROM% successfully in VMware before.

Press the Windows Key + Pause/Break and then click on the Advanced tab. Under the Performance section, click on Settings. Click on the Advanced tab again. Under Virtual Memory at the bottom, click on Change. Select a Custom size of 1536 (initial) to 1536 (maximum). Click on Set > OK > OK > OK. Try installing Windows on your virtual machine again. If this does not work, then your virtual machine's hard drive is too small. Either increase the size to something comfortable, like 4 GBs, or recreate it with 4 GBs. Note: increasing the page file size to 1,536 MBs above requires anywhere between 512 MB - 1 GB more free space. Similarly with the new virtual machine drive size, but for 4 GBs.

Change it to Command0 = "I386\K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 1_37\klmcp.bat"

If the power light is blinking on and off, then it's possible that your computer is in Standby mode. You may have inadvertantly set some sort of keyboard shortcut somewhere that tells your system to standby on that keystroke.

In your winnt.sif file, have a section called [GuiRunOnce] and then have the property: Command0 = "PATH" Replace PATH with the path to the batch file.

Just a minor correction. Anything in $OEM$ is not copied to your hard drive unless you have OemPreinstall = Yes under the [unattended] section of Unattend.txt or winnt.sif. And no, the $OEM$ folder is not required for your CD to work correctly. It is required however for many, many of the customizations found in the above linked guide. Get deploy.cab from here and use WinRAR or something similar to extract the files to your hard drive. You will find something called setupmgr.exe. Use that to create an unattended installation file that will at first be called unattend.txt. Then you'll have to rename it like orion2 said. Can't help you with #3. I would imagine that regular DOS commands would work there.

If you intend on installing a different default theme file, then you can simply add the .scr file to your Windows directory and create a new .theme file. The .scr file can be found when you view 3DWindowsXP.exe using WinRAR.

I can't seem to find the [DiskConfig] section in ref.chm.

I know that, but is the group name Administradores?

Is "Administradores" a valid group name in your version of Windows? That is, are you using some sort of localized version of Windows?

Why before?

OEM and VLK/Corporate do not require activation. (That assumes that the OEM version comes with its own installation disc.) Retail will always require activation. VLK or Volume Licensing Program (forgot what the 'K' stands for) is the same as a Corporate version I believe. A Corporate version is basically just using one product key for all copies of Windows XP that are installed. Sometimes this is called a Site License. The Volume Licensing Program gives companies a bunch of CDs all at once along with the product keys. Whenever an installation occurs, the license needs to be bought. With the Corporate version, I think that there are an unlimited number of installations allowed. OEM versions usually skip the entering of the product key for XP Home, but not Professional. Given this, there is a product key of some sort that is on the CD which is different than the one on the license sticker on your computer. They do this because making thousands of CDs with different data on each of them isn't practical. You usually don't need activation with OEM versions. OEM versions also tend to come with their own branded software among other things. There should be a lot more functionality in an OEM version. Retail's the same as an OEM version except that nothing is unattended, including the activation process.

In the [unattended] section of your winnt.sif, add the following property: DriverSigningPolicy = Ignore

Having commands directly in [GuiRunOnce] usually doesn't work. It's better to put the command in to a batch file and then call the batch file in [GuiRunOnce].

The icons look somewhat like the ones from ObjectDock.

Not Auto-Activating Windows shouldn't be anymore invasive than seeing a popup asking you to activate and seeing a little icon with the Windows logo and a set of keys in the system tray beside the clock. What you're seeing is more commonly known as the Welcome screen setup phase. It's not skipped unless you have UnattendMode = FullUnattended and UnattendSwitch = Yes in the [unattended] section of winnt.sif.