How do I take out the "Welcome To Windows" etc.

[SiMoNsAyS]

@enuffsaid you must be mindless, do you want to grow your post talking or criticizing me?? i'm not going to enter the game, i'm not going to reply you again. you are only annoying the people who read this and please next time if you want to talk about me don't double post, edit the one before .

see you !

[enuffsaid]

i'm not going to enter the game, i'm not going to reply you again. you are only annoying the people who read this and please next time if you want to talk about me don't double post, edit the one before .

see you !

OMG! ROFL! Finally! Let me remind you that YOU started this... GUY! And where did you see me double post you freak?

I already noted that you add to your post count by adding no content what so ever. Nice try in turning that around on me. But no go for you.... GUY!

The only person I'm annoying is YOU, because YOU are annoying.

[ToBe]

M$ site says to add this in the WINNT.SIF:

[unattended]

UnattendSwitch=yes

Link:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=294801

Right on the spot!

This should be a locked topic now since the problem is solved and other things get out of hand. A few people in here needs to calm down a bit...

[enuffsaid]

who?

[redfive19]

So sorry for all of the crap I started!!!! Anyway, I haven't tried this yet, but will soon as I need to install WINXP on a laptop tonite. And yes, I just wanted to skip it not remove it. I didn't see the option to do that in nLite, sorry if the question was already asked. I did search before posting.

One more question pertaining to this....

If I run that autologon.reg, does that make it auto login EVERYtime or just the first time?

TIA

-redfive

[Got KarmA?]

In case that doesn't work, here's a copy of my SIF ... I ended up copying and pasting things between my 2K and XP sif's (I'm using RIS for this) and managed to get it to work ... not sure how now (lol)

;SetupMgrTag
[Data]
    AutoPartition=1
    MsDosInitiated="1"
    UnattendedInstall="Yes"
    floppyless="1"
    OriSrc="\\%SERVERNAME%\RemInst\%INSTALLPATH%"
    OriTyp="4"
    LocalSourceOnCD=1

[SetupData]
    OsLoadOptions="/noguiboot /fastdetect"
    SetupSourceDevice="\Device\LanmanRedirector\%SERVERNAME%\RemInst\%INSTALLPATH%"

[Unattended]
    UnattendMode=FullUnattended
    OemSkipEula=Yes
    OemPreinstall=Yes
    DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore
    TargetPath=\WINDOWS
    FileSystem=LeaveAlone
    NtUpgrade=No
    OverwriteOemFilesOnUpgrade=No
    OemPnPDriversPath="Drivers\Deskpro\Network;Drivers\Deskpro\Audio;Drivers\Deskpro\Video;Drivers\Gateway\Video;Drivers\IBM\Network;Drivers\IBM\Audio;Drivers\IBM\Video;Drivers\Dell\Audio;Drivers\Dell\Network;Drivers\Dell\Chipset;Drivers\Dell\Modem"

[GuiUnattended]
    AdminPassword=<removed>
    EncryptedAdminPassword=Yes
    OEMSkipRegional=1
    TimeZone=%TIMEZONE%
    OemSkipWelcome=1

[UserData]
    ProductKey=<removed>
    FullName=<removed>
    OrgName=<removed>
    ComputerName=%MACHINENAME%

[Display]
    BitsPerPel=32
    Xresolution=1024
    YResolution=768

[TapiLocation]
    CountryCode=1
    Dialing=Tone
    AreaCode=610

[SetupMgr]
    DistFolder=C:\windist
    DistShare=windist

[Branding]
    BrandIEUsingUnattended=Yes

[URL]
    Home_Page=<removed>

[Proxy]
    Proxy_Enable=0
    Use_Same_Proxy=1

[Identification]
    JoinDomain=%MACHINEDOMAIN%
    CreateComputerAccountInDomain=No
    DoOldStyleDomainJoin=Yes

[Networking]
    InstallDefaultComponents=Yes
    ProcessPageSections=Yes

[RemoteInstall]
    Repartition=Yes
    UseWholeDisk=Yes

[OSChooser]
    Description="Windows XP Professional - Standard Installation"
    Help="This will install Windows Professional in a standard configuration."
    LaunchFile="%INSTALLPATH%\%MACHINETYPE%\templates\startrom.com"
    ImageType=Flat

[SiMoNsAyS]

sorry for all you've read

[unattended]    UnattendSwitch="yes"

must work and the "welcome to windows" screen will be skipped

If I run that autologon.reg, does that make it auto login EVERYtime or just the first time?

the autologon will work EVERYTIME, if you just want to skip it and logon like other user you can just press the shift key and you won't be logged.

[Got KarmA?]

In case the point of my post wasn't obvious, there is some other trigger besides UnattendSwitch which manages to work for me. What that is, I don't know ... it may or may not have something to do with the fact that these machines are being joined to a domain.