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In your GuiRunOnce section, just have a batch file run the command: format D: /FS:NTFS /V:APPS or something similar. At the command prompt, type "format /?" (without the quotes) for more information.

In what way did it not work?

Just click on the 0 New Messages link at the top-right of the forums to go to your Inbox. Whatever's in there is all that you have access to.

In what way is the Windows XP box that you have and the Windows XP disc that you have access to different in terms of version? If they're the same, just simply copy all the files from disc that you have access to to a folder on your hard drive, for example, C:\XPCD. Then, use Nero Burning ROM to burn a bootable disc with the files in C:\XPCD to the root of the CD. (When you open Nero Burning ROM, you'll see a wizard kind of thing. Select CD (ISO) from the drop down menu to the top left of the wizard and then select Bootable CD from the icons below.) Alternatively, use CDIMAGE GUI to put the required boot image onto an ISO image of a CD ready for you to burn. Just point it to the C:\XPCD directory and let it do its thing. After that, just burn the image.

Have a copy of the .theme file in $OEM$\$$\Resources\Themes, then make sure that you have the following property in the [shell] section of winnt.sif: CustomDefaultThemeFile = "%WINDIR%\Resources\Themes\MyTheme.theme" If you put the background image in the %WINDIR%\Resources\Themes folder, and then make the .theme file and save it in the same place, then it usually works for the background among other things.

Oh, so I guess that you can't get passed the Automatic Updates section where Windows configures the network settings and adds users? You'll need to set UnattendMode = FullUnattended and UnattendSwitch = Yes.

What settings exactly aren't taking effect? I can tell you this much though, your drivers won't be installed since you don't have an OemPnPDriversPath property in your [unattended] section. Any drivers that are install will be inbox Windows XP drivers.

Put all the updates in a folder and create a batch file in that folder. Each time there's a new update, just add a few lines to the batch file. In that batch file, have commands like this: start /wait KB######.exe /quiet /norestart

Make sure that you have the following properties in the given sections: [Data]UnattendedInstall = Yes Automatic Updates = Yes [Unattended] UnattendSwitch = Yes Especially the last one. If UnattendSwitch isn't there, then I'm sure that it won't work. But if it is there, I don't know if you need the other stuff above it for it to work.

Is there a password on the account? How many accounts are there?

Assuming that Belgian Dutch is a valid value, try using an underscore instead of a space: "Belgian_Dutch". Otherwise, try putting a semicolon at the end of your OemPnPDriversPath after XPRS like this: "...\XPRS;".

Are you sure that your computer isn't set to some sort of hibernate or sleep mode when you turn off your computer? Unplug the power cord from the back of the computer and open up the computer case. Try reseating the video card and RAM chips.

You don't, you use the shutdown -r -f command.

Oh, sorry. I never actually looked at it. I just knew that there was an Internet Explorer entry there and assumed that it did uninstall the program. I'm pretty sure that I've read that you can get rid of it somehow, just don't know how.

Interesting one isn't it? Apparently the boys at Yahoo! think that having more than one instance of Internet Explorer isn't cool.

Remove the lines with "....." agonified only put those there to signify the other commands in your AutocEXE.bat file. Remove all the newly added lines and add only these two lines to that file at the end: ECHO The image is successfully restored! PAUSE EDIT: agonified beat me to it.

Go to Start > Run and type in "services.msc" without the quotes. Make sure that the "Automatic Updates" and "Background Intelligent Transfer Service" services are started and set to Automatic Startup Type. I downgraded to SP1, so I don't know what the Security Center service is called. But if you see Windows Security Center or Security center in that list, set it to Manual Startup Type. Log off and log back in to make these changes take effect.

For the record, Windows XP requires 64 MB of RAM just to install. Anyways, this guide might help you to speed up a 2000 installation: http://www.nexle.dk/daniel/win2000-32mb/

If you have the Yahoo! Toolbar, uninstall it. Otherwise, go to Start > Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs > Add/Remove Windows Components and remove Internet Explorer. Run a full system spyware scan using Spybot: Search & Destroy and Ad-Aware Personal Edition (make sure that you update the definitions first). Then use Windows Update to reinstall Internet Explorer or look for an Administrative installation file.

Same here. What's great is that you can save it in JPEG format in the end.

The $OEM$ contents will be copied to the hard drive if you have the OemPreinstall = Yes property in the [unattended] section of winnt.sif. The files in $OEM$ are never cleaned up by the Windows installer. They will remain on the hard drive until you delete them.

When you go to Start > Control Panel > Phone and Modem Options, is there a profile set up (that is, location, area code, tone/pulse dialing, etc...)?

The only thing that I can think of at this time is using custom and non-standard regional settings which would require access to the i386\lang folder. Things like using Canadian English as opposed to US English. Although it doesn't work, I still like changing it just for the hell of it. I guess that I could always remove the CD and see what happens, but I don't know much and only recently started doing unattended installations, so I try and not waste anymore time if I'm reinstalling Windows by playing around with the installer.

I've never used nLite myself as I like to do things on my own. But from the screenshots, what I can tell is that nLite is a user-friendly interface for beginners that would prefer not to sift through craploads of documentation just to get things right. It allows for the beginner or even intermediate and advanced users to use just one program, to learn just one program, and to do pretty much everything that they can do with Windows XP with just one program.

You can put it anywhere that you want. Although, if you wish to use the GuiRunOnce section to run this file after the first login, it would be better to have some file on the hard drive first. That is, you need to put this in the $OEM$\$1 or $OEM$\$$ folder on your CD. The $1 folder is preferable since $$ means your Windows root directory. In this file, you can have it call two other batch files, or just put all the commands in the one file.