IcemanND

You can mount the boot.wim file in read/write mode, mount the offline registry in the mounted image and make the changes then unmount the offline registry and unmount and commit the changes to the wim file.

Unfortunately no, it fixed itself on its own. But I have heard reports of McAfee Site Advisor causing this issue.

Is this XP pro or Home?

Or create OU's for each grouping of computers and apply separate policies to each OU.

The Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) is a hardware mechanism that allows software to communicate with Serial ATA (SATA) devices (such as host bus adapters) that are designed to offer features not offered by Parallel ATA (PATA) controllers, such as hot-plugging and native command queuing. Compatibility or IDE mode makes the system present the SATA controller to the OS as a standard IDE controller.

What drivers are you trying to slipstream?

Run as a user login script: strComputer = "." Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2") set objNewPort = objWMIService.get("Win32_TCPIPPrinterPort").SpawnInstance_ Set objPrinter = objWMIService.Get("Win32_Printer").SpawnInstance_ objWMIService.Security_.Privileges.AddAsString "SeLoadDriverPrivilege", True Set objDriver = objWMIService.Get("Win32_PrinterDriver") 'Replace FRIENDLYNAME with the Friendly name or Display name of your printer Set colInstalledPrinters = objWMIService.ExecQuery ("Select * from Win32_Printer Where Name = 'FRIENDLYNAME'") For Each objPrinter in colInstalledPrinters objPrinter.SetDefaultPrinter() Next Installing IP printers: strComputer = "." Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2") set objNewPort = objWMIService.get("Win32_TCPIPPrinterPort").SpawnInstance_ Set objPrinter = objWMIService.Get("Win32_Printer").SpawnInstance_ objWMIService.Security_.Privileges.AddAsString "SeLoadDriverPrivilege", True Set objDriver = objWMIService.Get("Win32_PrinterDriver") 'Install printer where driver is already installed on system 'Laserjet 4200 'Installs Printer Driver objDriver.Name = "HP LaserJet 4200 PS" ' Name as displayed in the driver INF objDriver.SupportedPlatform = "Windows NT x86" objDriver.Version = "3" intResult = objDriver.AddPrinterDriver(objDriver) 'Installs Printer Port objNewPort.Name = "IPADDRESSorFQDNofPRINTER" 'Replace with the FQDN or IP address to the printer objNewPort.Protocol = 1 objNewPort.HostAddress = "IPADDRESSorFQDNofPRINTER" 'Replace with the FQDN or IP address to the printer objNewPort.PortNumber = 9100 ' replace with appropriate port number 9100 seems to be default objNewPort.SNMPEnabled = True objNewPort.Put_ 'Install Printer objPrinter.DriverName = "HP LaserJet 4200 PS" ' Name as displayed in the driver INF objPrinter.PortName = "IPADDRESSorFQDNofPRINTER" ' Replace with the FQDN or IP address to the printer objPrinter.DeviceID = "FRIENDLYNAME" ' Replace with the name you want displayed in the control panel objPrinter.Location = "" objPrinter.Network = True objPrinter.Put_ 'Laserjet 4250 'Installs Printer Driver for printer with driver not already installed objDriver.Name = "HP LaserJet 4250 PS" ' Name as displayed in the driver INF objDriver.SupportedPlatform = "Windows NT x86" objDriver.Version = "3" intResult = objDriver.AddPrinterDriver(objDriver) 'Installs Printer Port objNewPort.Name = "IPADDRESSorFQDNofPRINTER" ' Replace with the FQDN or IP address to the printer objNewPort.Protocol = 1 objNewPort.HostAddress = "IPADDRESSorFQDNofPRINTER" ' Replace with the FQDN or IP address to the printer objNewPort.PortNumber = 9100 '' replace with appropriate port number 9100 seems to be default objNewPort.SNMPEnabled = True objNewPort.Put_ 'Install Printer objPrinter.DriverName = "HP LaserJet 4250 PS" ' Name as displayed in the driver INF objPrinter.PortName = "IPADDRESSorFQDNofPRINTER" ' Replace with the FQDN or IP address to the printer objPrinter.DeviceID = "FRIENDLYNAME" ' Replace with the name you want displayed in the control panel objPrinter.Location = "" objPrinter.Network = True objPrinter.Put_ objPrinter.SetDefaultPrinter()

You can set a locally installed printer as default via a login script, no need to have it set up as a shared printer.

There is a third possible option though not available on all systems. In the BIOS check for a setting for the SATA controller to change it from AHCI to Compatibility mode. Otherwise add SATA drivers to the textmode portion of your CD.

Mines not a vb script. it's a compiled command line vb6 app. you can call it from a bat, vbs, etc.

wrote it from the ground up

Files to be exact, but you only need one. c:\windows\system32\config\software then mount that hive in regedit and extract software\microsoft\windows nt\currentversion\digitalproductid

Don't know of a way to script the change, might be able to do it via GPO but I seem to recall coming up blank on that also which is why I wrote a command line app to do it.

What kind of media did you use to do the initial install? A UA cd, nLite'd CD, etc. Usually when these messages come up they say in them what file(s) is needed, if that is the case some more details may be helpful. The other thing you can do is to copy i386 folder to sysprep\i386 then if sysprep needs a file it can find it there and the folder is removed upon completion of sysprep.

use imagex with the /mountrw switch

If you can extract the registry and etract the digital productid you can use my keydecoder tool to decode the key. http://www.msfn.org/board/Decoding-Microso...775#entry383775

I don't know the specs on your machine but I would suspect that you have a SATA drive which under most circumstances is not seen during installation by a standard XP install cd. You either need to add the sata to you install cd, or F6 and a floppy (probably not), or you can check your system bios and see if there is an option to change the SATA controller from AHCI mode to compatibility mode. If compatibility mode exists it usually allows the XP install to detect the controller and drive and is faked into think it is a standard ATA controller.

press ctrl-alt-delete twice to get the classic login screen

Welcome to the forums. Search is your friend. http://www.msfn.org/board/installation-music-t36866.html

copper is probably the easiest, or aluminum, at least for at home. But it also depends upon what tools you have and how you want to join it.

Here's one way, and free: http://www.msfn.org/board/GUIDE-Creating-W...st&p=674778 Or any number of other imaging applications: http://www.msfn.org/board/Disk-Imaging-Sof...ml&hl=image

Have you tried the driverpacks and one of the driver installers like driverforge?

Well the WAIK, won't help you with the number of XP images you have. Well possibly, depends upon why you have 12 images, and what else you have avaiulable for your use. you can check out my guide on using imagex to capture and deploy XP, http://www.msfn.org/board/GUIDE-Creating-W...st&p=674778

You have a link to a download for the driver?

You need a copy of comdlg32.ocx on your machine usually end sup on your system from some other software install. It's not a redistributable file so I can't include it with the executable but you can find it on the web for download, just put it in the same folder as the exe or in the system32 directory.