Ponch

Just make it simple please. As requested by original poster. Start nLite, select integration of service pack and iso creation as tasks to be performed. When requested, point to your XP original source folder (or CD then a HDD folder where to copy it), then when requested, point to your SP3 exe file, and when requested give a label and a name to your iso file. Try it and come with next question if any.

As for your other related thread, you can't integrate IE7 then SP3, you need to restart from fresh XP, integrate SP3 then IE7.

Very few words to begin with: 1) there are threads about auto partition/auto format that pop up regularly on ths very forum, I'm sure there was one this week. 2) you can manually edit the winnt.sif when nLite stops and asks you for the iso name and lable, thus BEFORE the iso is actually built and WITHOUT needing an iso editor. I think these answer your main questions, allowing you to make one big step and ask the next ones.

You mean like a forum that would say "Install XP from USB" ?

I once solved this by starting in Safe Mode. If not, backup your profile and create a new one.

You gave the answer.

This would be much better posted in the hardware forum than nLite. But I think even with (basic) info on your hardware and OS, there is no way to do what you ask without additional hardware (if any).

Providing you start from a complete bootable XP disc (or Win2k), nLite creates the boot disc for you. The iso file is an image of the boot disk. You burn it "as image", not as a file that you put on the cd. How far have you got till now ?

Didn't you create your DVD starting from a "XP only CD" ?

Does your Dell have a recovery partition as 1st hidden partition ?

Right, it sure won't mess with your registry. Anybody cares to actually compare more products rather than just voting for the one he/she uses ?

They are not, they are fastened by a tape. A standard, removable, replaceable bit of tape like you have in your drawer.

Do you have SP3 or at least SP2 installed ? I think that problem was fixed that way.

Don't forget the EULA you agreed to installing the program: 5. nLite is free for personal use only, you cannot use it for any company or business purposes at this time.

Those connectors are usually fastened by tapes and are not moving parts.I've never seen one loose (I've seen bad contacts on the VGA bord end). But if it is, why not try to verrify it? Acer screens are quite easy to open.

When you first start nLite, you either point to your cd or to a directory on the HDD. If you point to the cd, files are copied to a directory of your choice on the HDD. If you point to the HDD, there is no copy.

Ok. Then you mean the message should only appear if OOBE was removed or "skip OOBE" was ticked. That makes sense and apparently the program doesn't make the link as such. Still your statement "The Administrator account works when created in OOBE" was not exact.

Search in this thread, there are links to a beta "SP3" and a stable "sp2.1a" both in english and in french. I'm sure people will come with further fine tuning.

Yes you DO HAVE to create an other account for it to work, and that's exactly what you do with OOBE, so I don't get your point. OOBE is not the workaround, it's the default way to install XP. Using OOBE, you do not "create and auto-logon the administrator account", you create an other account with admin rights. The administrator account is already built in and sort of hided in XP Home, that's why you auto logon the 2nd account if it's the only one you create.

Funny what you get typing VX2P... in Yahoo!

That's because you always boot from your install CD or DVD. Either you don't have the "Press any key" message or you have it but you do press the key, which you should not. You need to boot from the install CD ONCE. After that, the partition is created, formatted, and files are copied, you need to boot from the hard drive toi continue the installation process and not restatrt the install from point 1. You can try changing the boot order in the BIOS or taking the cd out while the PC boots and put it back in after 30 seconds.

Point 5. in the license agreement states you can't use nLite in a corporate environnement. Sorry mate.

Please rephrase your question so we can understand it, that will help you get an answer.

The unattended settings are not "cumulated"like the rest of the modifications. If you create a user then rerun nLite on the same files without creating the user in "Unattended", then the user is not created in the result. So, if only one user exists (Administrator) and the password is blank, XP will always autologon, as there is nothing else to do. Maybe this is your case.

Yes, you are reintegrating everythings. For a same session, if the source is different, the output is different as well.