so i can't get my wallpaper to show up.

[Dollars22]

well first off, i got everything running perfect! because of this site!! thanks everyone.

now, just some fine tuning i can't get my wallpaper to showup on my background.

I have my wallpaper saved here: $OEM$\$1\Install\Applications\qube.jpg

then during my RunOnceEx.cmd I have it call to a file called wallpaper.cmd which does this:

COPY "\Install\Applications\qube.jpg" "\Windows\web\wallpaper\"

then in my RunOnceEx .cmd i have a lot of different tweaks because each one i used never worked so i kept adding them hopeing one would work. lol.

;Set Custom Wallpaper
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Desktop\General]
"BackupWallpaper"="c:\\windows\\web\\wallpaper\\qube.jpg"
"Wallpaper"="c:\\windows\\web\\wallpaper\\qube.jpg"

[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop]
"OriginalWallpaper"="c:\\windows\\web\\wallpaper\\qube.jpg"

[HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-18\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Themes\LastTheme]
"Wallpaper"="c:\\windows\\web\\wallpaper\\qube.jpg"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
"Wallpaper"="c:\\windows\\web\\wallpaper\\qube.jpg"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Desktop\General]
"Wallpaper"="c:\\windows\\web\\wallpaper\\qube.jpg"

now when i goto Display Properties, and hit the display tab. I have the qube.jpg wallpaper selected on strech, but my actual background is plain blue. :/

see my screen shot below.

[DarkBringer]

Do a search for wallpaper and see what comes up. Set the "Search posts from....." to "365 days ago and....".

If that's not enough, put your wallpaper in $OEM$\$$\Web\Wallpaper\.

[gosh]

It sounds like what you need to do is set everything up the way you want it, then use custom.theme in your unattended install. It should configure things such as the background colors.

Add this to hivexxx.inf:

[AddReg]

HKCU,"Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Themes\LastTheme","Wallpaper",0x00020000,"%SystemRoot%\web\wallpaper\cool.bmp"

where cool.bmp is your wallpaper

Add this to txtsetup.sif

[WinntDirectories]

321 = Web\Wallpaper

[sourceDisksFiles]

COOL.BMP = 200,,,,,,,321,0,0

Put cool.bmp in the i386 folder. Add cool.bmp to dosnet.inf if you want to instal from the GUI. If you want to use custom.theme add it using winnt.sif or my site gosh.msfnhosting.com/server2003.htm

-gosh

[Dollars22]

i have themes service disabled. I prefer a classic looking xp. will that still work?

[RayOK]

This works for me:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
"Wallpaper"="%systemroot%\\Leo.bmp"

[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop]
"Wallpaper"="%systemroot%\\Mushroom.bmp"

Except when I do that, my wallpaper on 1st boot is the Mushroom (Leo.bmp is ignored). Probably because I add the reg files first and then add the user in cmdlines.txt. It probably copies the HKEY_USERS into CURRENT_USER when the user is created.