Hi,

I want to disable the PCA Service.

The service handles these screens:

And in my FirstLogon script there are a couple of programs that make that screen popup. So I want to disable the service during Windows 7 Setup, if possible?

The regkey:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\PcaSvc]

"Start"=dword:00000004

I allready had this ones in one of my autounattend.xml files, but I cant find it anymore, I know its possible without creating a .reg and them importing it, should be possible to do it directly from command prompt.

Thanks in advance!

edit:

Think I found it:

    <settings pass="specialize">
        <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Deployment" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">           
            <RunSynchronous>
                <RunSynchronousCommand wcm:action="add">
                    <Order>1</Order>
                    <Path>cmd /c "cmdow @ /HID &  reg add HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\PcaSvc /v Start /t REG_DWORD /d 4 /f</Path>
                </RunSynchronousCommand>
            </RunSynchronous>
        </component>

Edited May 15, 201115 yr by Raoul90

Couldn't you, in your script first stop the service? If it is set to automatic, you won't need to re-enable it after running your programs, as it should start up by itself after the next reboot.