Ok so here's the deal. My unattended setup seems to work great. I have almost every winxp update integrated into it using ryanVM and some svcpack methods. The only problem i'm having is that once everything is installed, windows goes to the user select window and there are NO users there at all. This is WinXP Home. I'll post my info here in a sec. One weird thing is that on ONE and ONE ONLY computer it does create a user called Owner but on 2 others, it doesnt which I find very strange. anyways...here's my winnt.sif and other files.

;SetupMgrTag

[Data]

AutoPartition=1

MsDosInitiated="0"

UnattendedInstall="Yes"

AutomaticUpdates=1

[unattended]

UnattendMode=FullUnattended

OemSkipEula=Yes

OemPreinstall=No

TargetPath=\WINDOWS

UnattendSwitch=Yes

[GuiUnattended]

AdminPassword=*

EncryptedAdminPassword=NO

AutoLogon=No

OEMSkipRegional=1

TimeZone=10

OemSkipWelcome=1

AutoLogonCount=0

[userData]

ProductKey=

FullName="Owner"

OrgName=""

ComputerName=*

[TapiLocation]

CountryCode=107

Dialing=Tone

AreaCode=403

[RegionalSettings]

LanguageGroup=1

[branding]

BrandIEUsingUnattended=Yes

Home_Page=www.google.ca

[Proxy]

Proxy_Enable=0

Use_Same_Proxy=1

[identification]

JoinWorkgroup=WORKGROUP

[Networking]

InstallDefaultComponents=Yes

[Dispay]

AutoConfirm=1

[WindowsFirewall]

Profiles=WindowsFirewall.TurnOffFirewall

[WindowsFirewall.TurnOffFirewall]

Mode=0

cmdlines.txt

[Commands]

"useraccounts.cmd"

useraccounts.cmd

net user xp /add

net localgroup Administrators xp /add

and yeah...no user..i dont get it. i dont want it to have a password..autlogon would be nice but i can worry about that later. it just needs to be a regular ol administrator type user (the one user accounts lets you create in windows). I saw someones file that did the guirunonce but that requires a user to be logged in first and well...theres no user to login (other than Administrator which is not allowed in xp home under non-safe mode). So I've been pulling my hair out on this trying to figure it out. I hope someone can help and tell me what I'm doing wrong..

Thanks muchly.

net user xp /add

If you don't want a password set, you would have to use the following:

NET USER xp * /ADD

To have the account login automatically the first time, import the following into the Registry during installation:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
"DefaultUserName"="xp"
"DefaultPassword"=""
"AutoAdminLogon"="1"

Hope this helps.

net user xp /add

If you don't want a password set, you would have to use the following:

NET USER xp * /ADD

To have the account login automatically the first time, import the following into the Registry during installation:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
"DefaultUserName"="xp"
"DefaultPassword"=""
"AutoAdminLogon"="1"

Hope this helps.

Well I did find a method that works, using the OOBE method. It created the user as an administrator and autologged it in the first time..and everytime after that. I appreciate the help but i dont believe that would work since the net user whatever i did before does work just typing it in cmd while in windows so there isnt any reason i could think of that not setting a password wouldnt work...but I could be wrong. But it's solved anyways so thanks for the reply. Maybe next disc ill try that and see what happens.