restoring add username screen

[sugarglider]

Hello I'm in the business of selling used computers. I have bought 50 of the same model desktops but they came with no operating system installed so I have set one up as an image to ghost the others

Now the problem with that is all of the computers will have the same username Is there anyway after I've finished setting up the image computer I can delete the username so when I ghost the others it will give me that add a username screen the same as one as when first installing windows xp ??

[chrisoborski]

The Setup screen you see is run from "C:\WINDOWS\system32\oobe\msoobe.exe". I know this from having to "taskkill.exe" it through the cmd prompt. Basically when the gui mode of setup finishes it brings you to the "setup" where your supposed to fill out usernames for xp. I am working on an unattended cd and this page was not supposed to show per my settings in winnt.sif file. I presses SHIFT+F10 to get to the cmd prompt then i used "tasklist.exe" and all the usual programs were running except i noticed "msoobe.exe" was running. I then used "taskkill.exe /f /im msoobe.exe" and viola no setup screen.... Went straight to the default Administrator account.

Im not sure exactly how to make it come back but i hope ive pointed you in the right direction. Though the answer might be in the registry i would assume but still not sure.

This page might help http://www.msfn.org/board/windows-after-setup-t29908.html

[sugarglider]

thank you. it has pointed me in the right direction

[chrisoborski]

Very Good!

[chrisoborski]

Hey I found this by the way... I was curious how minisetup works

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321070

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/287506