Automating first boot screens

[Red Barchetta]

Can someone tell me how I can set my own defaults, and/or auto answer the stuff you get on the first boot of a clean install of WinXP Pro (SP2)?

Like automatically answer No to "Ready to register with Microsoft?" and on the question about if the system is directly connected to the Internet, or a LAN, have the default direct connection, but user can change to LAN.

[IcemanND]

see the unattended guide. http://unattended.msfn.org/ everything you are looking for is in there.

[gosh]

It sounds like you're talking about oobe, which you can customize using oobeinfo.ini i believe. Ref.chm included in the support tools documents all this.

-gosh

[Red Barchetta]

I got it, finally!

Main problem was, I kept seeing all the info, but somehow missed what file it should be in, and where it needs to be on the hard drive when first boot occurs. Add to that the fact that I also saw a lot of info on the oobeinfo.ini file that seemed to be setting a lot of the same things already done in WinNT.sif.

But since I am already using WinNT.sif to answer the questions while install is in progress - I only specified the stuff for the first boot screens, and copy the oobeinfo.ini file to the hard drive while OS setup is going on - works fine - just a bit confusing at first for some reason......