I've searched every way I can imagine to find a forum post for this. I've absolutely seen the page, but forgot to bookmark or save it. Tried what I found for the Nero 6 registry file:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Ahead\Nero - Burning Rom\Info]
"User"="Basic-XP-Workstation"
"Company"="None"
"Serial5"="XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX"

Also tried specifying the SN on the cmd-line in my RUNONCE.CMD script, but no joy:

START /WAIT %PGMROOT%\NERO551056.EXE /SILENT /SN=XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX /WRITE_SN /NOCANCEL /NOLICENSE /NO_UI /SFX

One other thing, the Nero installer seems to break the cmd processing of the batch file. That is, nothing in RUNONCE, is executed after the Nero installer completes. Tried moving it to a separate batch script (w/ the same results) and will probably move this to a RunOnce registry key. But has anyone else seen this kind of behavior ? It's not a big deal, but I am curious.

TIA.....Jet

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One MUST include a Nero Burning ROM section in the HKCU tree in addition to the HKLM tree:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Ahead\Nero - Burning Rom\Info]
@=""
"User"="Unattended"
"Company"="Install"
"Serial5"="xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx"
"HaveReadSNFromFile"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Ahead\Nero - Burning Rom\Info]
@=""
"User"="Unattended"
"Company"="Install"
"Serial5"="xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx"
"HaveReadSNFromFile"=dword:00000000

Hmm, quite odd... good thing version 6 fixed this