XP SP3 Setup pulling a username from nowhere.

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Well, OK, it must be getting it from somewhere and that is what I am here to find out.

Quick background. I made an unattended install for my son's computer from my XP disc. Lets call him Steve Strong (though that isn't his real name). I integrated SP3 and IE7. It worked great. I lent out some discs I had to a friend which included my xp disc. He managed to lose them all. Luckily I still have the folder where I made my son's disc.

I tested a disc made from that folder on Virtual PC. When it installed it asked me to create new users so I created one for myself but I saw that it also automatically set up a user Steve Strong. So, I got rid of that name from the previous ini files. Still a user Steve Strong and it never asks me during install to setup any other users. I went drastic and uninstalled and then reinstalled nlite. I also got rid of any .ini files and any.sif files (there were 2 winnt.sif and text-something-or-other??.sif). Still a user Steve Strong and it still doesn't ask me to setup any new users at install time.

I did a windows search for any files containing the words "Steve Strong" and none turn up. So I can't figure out where it is coming from!

Any ideas? I'm sure I've just done something stupid but the name isn't showing up anywhere in nlite (at the Users tab) so I don't know where it is coming from.

[g-force]

Welcome @ MSFN-Forums!

Talking about "some .ini-files" - I guess you worked with nLite.

There`s a special forum HERE (maybe some Mod moves this topic).

If you have once created an user with nLite on that XP working folder,

it won`t be deleted in another "run-against-the-same-source" (see my signatur).

If you`re unable to start with a fresh source, I would do the XP-Install

with that XPCD and delete User "Steve Strong" later.

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Well at least I know I'm not crazy now! I wonder where it stores this info.

[g-force]

It is stored in "I386\nlite.in_" - this file got to be expanded, try THIS to do it:

http://www.german-winlite.de/wbb/index.php...12571#post12571

You`ll find a key like this in it (this is from my own XPCD):

HKLM,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce","nlite_post_11",0x00000000,"nhelper net1 user """"Nicole"""" /add /fullname:""Nicole"" /comment:""Nicole"""

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Thanks a lot! Got it to expand. May be a couple days before I try a new build but that should hopefully do the trick.

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Thanks again. That worked for me. Used expand to make nlite.inf. Edited the user name out of the .inf and re compressed with makecab. Worked great.