My Unattended installation of SP2 (via RIS) is working perfectly! except for one small little thing...

Whenever a new user logs in for the first time, the screen found below appears. I'd like to automatically set the "Do not show this message again" checkbox.

This would make my XPSP2 RIS install identical to the current XPSP1 installation, Does anyone know where this setting might be, registry or otherwise.

Cheers.

Try this in winnt.sif

[IEPopupBlocker]
    ShowInformationBar = No

or this from a reg tweak

;Dont Show The Information Bar Dialog
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\InformationBar]
"FirstTime"=dword:00000000

Thanks for the reply, i'll give it a go.

Thanks, that worked a treat.

;Dont Show The Information Bar Dialog
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\InformationBar]
"FirstTime"=dword:00000000

Just so people know.

Putting:

[IEPopupBlocker]
   ShowInformationBar = No

in your WINNT.SIF file will disable the information bar completely.

Putting:

;Dont Show The Information Bar Dialog
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\InformationBar]
"FirstTime"=dword:00000000

into your registry entries will disable the PROMPT but still show the information bar.

For the less knowledgeable, how do you edit the WINNT.SIF file? I found the registry item with regedit, but don’t know how to change it. Thanks for your help.

For the less knowledgeable, how do you edit the WINNT.SIF file?  I found the registry item with regedit, but don’t know how to change it.  Thanks for your help.

Open it in Notepad.

Just so people know.

Putting:

[IEPopupBlocker]
   ShowInformationBar = No

in your WINNT.SIF file will disable the information bar completely.

Putting:

;Dont Show The Information Bar Dialog
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\InformationBar]
"FirstTime"=dword:00000000

into your registry entries will disable the PROMPT but still show the information bar.

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If you would actually like to disable the information bar rather than the prompt see my post here