Hello all!

I have been working on creating an unattended XP installation disc that will suite all my needs.

The installation disc I created was working OK.

Recently I stumbled upon a thread notifying that nLite installs hotfix updates in the order they were put in the program and not by their date.

So I took my installation source and reorganized the hotfix's in the right order (first installing WMP11 and IE7, and after that all the updates according to their build date).

I Created the image and gave it a try in VirtualBox.

The installation went well, after the installation I got to the post setup wizard (welcome to XP bl bla......create user accounts....register with Microsoft...), finished the post install screens and pressed "Finish".

Unexpectedly I got another reboot (not a BSOD) and XP loads ok.

Because of this reboot, all the entries that I created in the RunOnceEx were not implemented.

I know they are being inserted because in my CMDLINES I also insert registry tweaks which were implemented (they exist in the registry).

What could cause this behavior? Moreover, how can I make sure that all my RunOnceEx entries don't disappear?

Any help would be appreciated!

Edited May 1, 200818 yr by YMatrix

Do feel kind of silly...

I solved the problem.

After trying to remember what else I changed except for the installation order, I suddenly saw that I did do something.

I added another XP hotfix called KB942763. This fix is intended to fix day light saving times for 2008.

For some reason this caused the reboot (and somehow disrupted the windows time and location settings).

In the end all is well and the XP is back and running!