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Just add it to startnet.cmd if you want it to run on every boot. That what you're after?

I forget where this space is taken up, but this is standard though. The best way is to script the PE build and after you've decided what changes you want to make, run the build again which will keep the size to a minimum.

Try using the attached script for doing it fully automated in PE. It works fine for me, if you are still having problems then let us know Just rename to a .VBS ZTIHalDetect.txt

Use diskpart to create a C and a D before you kick off the Windows build.

A couple of ways to add the drivers... The way I do it is to have a scripted PE builder, so I can just click "create" and it makes it for me with whatever drivers I want. This would allow you to add them offline and re-create PE whenever you need. Or you could take your created image, mount the WIM, add the driver files, add Drvload to startnet and install the drivers when PE boots. User interface, take a look on these forums for the ImageX GUI, never used it myself but it does look like a very nice tool. And something else that will speed up your deployment, I notice you copy the WIM down to the PC before applying it. I just apply straight from the mapped drive, effectively halving the time... I've noticed that SCCM seems to copy the WIM then apply it too so there might be a good reason for doing this, however I've never had a problem yet applying an XP image straight from a mapped drive. Hope that helps, even a little

Hi, When the WIM is mounted (before or after adding WMI or HTA etc) open up regedit (start > run > regedit) Click HKEY_Local_machine Click File > Load hive Point it to c:\winpe_x86\mount\windows\system32\config\systemprofile\ntuser.dat Name it something useful make the changes to the key you have created then when you're done just unload the hive. Interesting you mention installing apps there, after my previous post I did some experimenting and installed the MS RDP Client into PE. I was surprised when the installation went through fine to be honest. Any app installs would have to be done within PE I imagine unless you capture all the registry settings associated with it and do it offline. No reason why you couldnt run a silent install as a part of the PE boot process. All takes time but it would work. Having said all that, installing the RDP client still wouldn't let me connect from my PC to PE. As you know, going from PE to a session works fine and I've use that at the moment. In theory the client is meant to be installed on Win 98 and allow XP to remote to it so it must contain all the TS components somewhere The next thing I'm going to experiment with is a chat app and see if I can get talk going over the network to try and work out where the whole incoming vs outgoing connections. Might not lead anywhere but it has to be worth trying. Quite agree with you about it being an interesting way of working so lets hope that someone get it working

The RegisteredName field just stamps the registry. There's no reason that you couldn't make an app/script that runs at CMD lines stage It prompts the user to select from the dropdown list which in turn modifies the registry. Also at this stage you could modify the registry settings for the auto logon. I've never tried to do this before but it's how I'd go about getting it to work though, just saying there's no guarentee's

Sorry I cant be of help to your main problem but I thought I'd join in regarding updating the registry. When offline and you have the WIM mounted you should be able to load the reg hive Windows\system32\config\systemprofile\ntuser.dat and make changes. What I do for my PE though to give me flexibility, is to just create a .reg file and add a "reg import" to my startnet.cmd I've added the remote desktop client to my PE but have only experimented with outgoing connections...you have me interested now though I'll see if I can work out anything and will be keeping an eye on this topic. Unfortunately for us though, Jazkal seems to know his stuff which means that incoming connections will be very hard or impossible.

I'd be tempted to use goto's rather than error levels. Something like this might be what you're looking for if exist D:\Isos\Test.iso goto :exists goto :notexists :exists DEL D:\Isos\Test.iso goto finish :notexists echo File already deleted :finish

I haven't tried this myself yet so apologies if I'm wrong but I believe this should work. Expand your KB929777.msu package to get the cab file in the hotfix either mount your PE WIM or add the following to your PE creation process peimg /import=c:\KB929777.cab /image=c:\mount\windows Make sure that the package is there in PE by typing peimg /list /image=mount\windows install it peimg /install=*Package* mount\windows That should get the hotfix added to PE for you

Try disabling UAC and you should be good to go.

Assuming you don't mind the 24 hour limit then you could just use PE to boot up and load RDP automatically which would connect to a terminal server? If you're not going to have a hard drive then you'll either be limited to remote desktops of some description, or having lots of RAM in the boxes.

With regards to notepad, if you are having both on your build anyway, why not just leave notepad.exe named that and include Notepad 2 as notepad2.exe? Not sure about the Paint problem. It's a long shot, but how much free RAM have you got? All I can think of is that there isnt enough free to create a document?

wscript.sleep(30000) This might work for you.

We use Devcon to install certain drivers post-sysprep. Mainly things like TPM's, it's pretty easy to do, just need the device ID and away you go