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It wouldn't work in the normal course of things. Try it during an install (using the cmdlines method above) - it should work then.

Yes of course, if you are going to change all the text - home or pro (winntbbu.dll) makes no difference.

*bangs head on wall* @wokkeltje Doing it in the way you've quoted above will have it applied for all users. Do try it and if you have any problems, we're willing to help you. Please see the official MSFN guide for more details on how cmdlines.txt works, if you want to know more about it.

No talk of cracking please. Rules of MSFN forum:

buletov and mazin, please take the time to understand what each other has posted in his reply. From where I see it, both of you are stating the same point and mis-understanding what the other person is trying to say. And make it "court adjourned" and knock it off dudes, before it goes too much off-topic and this thread needs to be closed!

Hey, won't deleting this file make windows XP think that it needs activation? C:\windows\system32\wpa.dbl jquintino, test it and do post back on whether that's what you needed.

yshimizu, if what you are looking for is a way to make setup unattended for the key alone (that is, it should ask you for everything else, but not for key), then see this topic: winnt.sif for only key @others I suppose the words in his post led you to mis-understand what he was saying.

Alanoll, I'm not aware of whether there's a difference between spanish and english versions of the file, but if there is, then the one we're using can't be used for spanish WXP. I suppose that's why simonsays has edited it himself above.

You did notice the: "Windows XP home edition is good for your games..... blah-blah" 'Windows XP Professional is the best choice for your business..... blah-blah" (just an example of what text is varying from one to the other - there's more screens that vary as well).

well, that's MS - we aren't fanatics against open source, and we don't bad-mouth them.MSFN just has a different "area of focus" which happens to NOT be linux, that's all. We have no special enmity towards it. @Astalavista If this is for RedHat or Fedora distributions (of linux), then you can do it unattended by using what is called "kick-start" configuration. And then you specify that file to be used from floppy to the anaconda setup routine (ks=/dev/flp0/config.ks). Or, you can go the whole hog, and pick-up the Anaconda installer's sources (on the CD4 of fedora Core 2) and modify to suit your settings and add/remove packages - and make it fully silent - and compile it. But one thing to consider is - if you're not familiar with linux and its setup, its going to be fruit-less to try this (not trying to dis-courage you, just giving a caution to save you weeks of time). BTW, this topic does not belong in"Unattended Windows"! *moved to general discussion

You have registry settings for this, details available in the thread linked to below: Registry Tweaks

Done.Description added. As for the list.... There's no listing right here - but the link below is for all updates to 32-bit WS2k3: All updates Hoping this helps...

It will work fine, without any errors - but it will be funny - because the text shown (in the bill-board screens during setup) will be the ones for home edition than Pro.

The betas can't be obtained in the normal and legal means. Also, its better to not use a beta, coz its being modified a lot now to support 64-bit and the AMD64 NX-instructions, and the updates in XPSP2. The requirement of releasing XPSP2 seems to have delayed WS2k3 SP1. It might hold out till 2005 beginning! So don't worry about it until then - WS2k3 is pretty good/secure with its patches even right now.

Its completely and totally the same method! Just remember to download the SP3 for publisher XP.

@McoreD Install MSN Messenger using the "/QN" switch if you don't want it to show a bar while installing. If it is starting up after install, have this line as the next after the line that installs MSN messenger (of course, modify it to suit your RunOnce method): taskkill /F /IM msnmsgr.exe @Alpheratz This code in your regtweaks will stop MSN messenger starting up automatically at every boot-up: ;remove MSN Messenger from start-up [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] "MsnMsgr"=-

Hey there.... What seems to be happening, is that it might be creating a user called "Kai password" instead of "Kai". Try just adding user alone, without specifying password, and then specify password in the next line net user Kai your_password

Acrobat: The switch that _might_ work: "/QB PIDKEY=xxxxxxxxxx" (where pidkey is your serial key without the dashes)

That's enough - simple solution too.Of course, you can modify the infs if you want - But I don't, coz its too much of bother for nothing!

Hey, that's nice browningh! Useful in public i-net access centres.

Well, the process is quite similar for Pro and Security Suite, I suppose. Anyways, something is better than nothing.... Do try it and if there's any changes to the process, tell us as well.

@JohnnyDo Once you've added the tweaks/corrections in this (Part-2) thread as well, please drop me a PM and I'll update the link on first page. We'll update the link on first page once your 1.3 version comes!

Its recommended to read the official guide here - http://unattended.msfn.org from head to toe, since that is the base on which the unattended forum builds upon. Simple things already mentioned in the guide, will not be again found in the forums. As for this topic: This is what you need to be present in your winnt.sif: [Unattended] UnattendSwitch="yes"quoting from http://unattended.msfn.org/xp/reference.htm

You should have saved it, and you know where it got saved (if not, then see where it saves the _NEXT_ regshot you save!). So, just load (you get that option when you click the button, as in screenshot attached) the 1st shot, and load the 2nd, and click compare to see a text file of differences. You will know which ones are obviously unrelated to what you're trying, and which keys look like they are the correct ones.

Post in the correct section of forums please! Also, re-size your screen-shots using IrfanView or something, to cut down the size of the file! The "search" button is a great help! Next time please search before posting. It threw up this topic - ZoneAlarm silent. Its possible to have ZoneAlarm fully registered and pre-configured, unattended.