Manipulating OOBE during WinXP+SP2 unattended

[nARkwS]

Thanks to everyone on this forum who's ever asked or answered a question that's helped me find the right solution.

An area which seemed to lack good information (anywhere) was the manipulation of the OOBE Wizard (XP first boot) . I've put together a pack which describes how to skip each page except User Creation. It's so far tested only on Corporate with SP2 integrated, but the OOBE seems to be generic. I've included an SFV of the original files I used to simplify verification.

NB: This prodedure isn't for anyone wishing to skip the wizard entirely, as that's possible within an unattended answer file.

enjoy...

-nARkwS-

Attachment reposted due to minor typos.

Edited October 5, 2004 by nARkwS

[Noise]

Intertesting

[nARkwS]

I never noticed that it'd lost the attachment when I did a preview! Lesson learned!

I've editted the post to include the attachment.

-nARkwS-

[Noise]

LOL - I got it. I edited my post too

[nARkwS]

Here's a slightly editted version. I keep falling into the old trap of re-reading it once it's been posted, and finding typos.

The fixes are just spelling, grammar and general file naming. I'm going to stop looking at it now (unless there's a tech issue of course).

-nARkwS-

oobepack.zip