Following the advice in the Unattended Windows CD guide:

I copied the WindowsXP disc to my HDD, patched it with SP2 and removed the extra folders to free up space. I created the winnt.sif file and put it into the ./i386 folder.

I used the $OEM$ folders to copy my applications and drives to the drive root and the oemlogo/oeminfo files to the windows/system directory.

Not all of my applications will silently install so I created two installation scripts.

The first is run using CMDLINES.TXT and the Second is run from the [guiRunOnce]

in winnt.sif. When windows boots, it skips the welcome screen and goes straight into the desktop. And nothing happens. No applications are being installed. Upon reboot a mixture of the two scripts ran. I noticed a mistake in the first script (all the reg keys were the same) After fixing this and trying again the problem has returned except this time the contents of the first script never run.

Long story short, Can you help me with this problem, I can accept that the system may not execute the scripts at first boot and I can just set the system to restart or start sysprep with the -factory option and on the next boot the scripts will start. But the problem with the second script is that the Mozilla firefox and thunderbird installers start at the same time.

post some files, your cmdlines.txt, your batch files, your winnt.sif

With out these, you will get very little comments from anyone...

R