Unnatended Install and System restore

[Lorithad]

First off, I hope I have this in the right forum

Alright, about a month ago, I did an unnatended installation of windows XP professional.

Everything works GREAT, except for one seemingly minor thing.

System restore is gone funky.

Before I get into the issue, let me show you the contents of my unnatend file. Just in case any of you are curious.

[Data]
    AutoPartition=0
    MsDosInitiated="0"
    UnattendedInstall="Yes"

[Unattended]
    UnattendMode=ProvideDefault
    OemPreinstall=No
    TargetPath=\WINDOWS
    FileSystem=*

[GuiUnattended]
    EncryptedAdminPassword=NO
    OEMSkipRegional=1
    ProfilesDir = F:\Documents and Settings

[UserData]
    ProductID=XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX
    FullName="ChapMan"
    OrgName=""

[RegionalSettings]
    LanguageGroup=13,17,3,2,5,16,4,12,15,7,8,10,11,9,6,14,1
    Language=00000409

[Branding]
    BrandIEUsingUnattended=Yes

[Proxy]
    Proxy_Enable=0
    Use_Same_Proxy=1

[Identification]
    JoinWorkgroup=WORKGROUP

[Networking]
    InstallDefaultComponents=Yes

So, As you can see, pretty much the only thing I changed, was the drive that the documents and settings folder is located on.

I'm not going to get into why I changed that, cause it's not really relevant.

Anyway, when I do a system restore to say today, it logs me into a seemingly brand new user account.

No icons, default theme, normal start music, the works.

Now, I've narrowed part of the problem through weeks of troubleshooting to a specific area of the registry.

Specificly: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

It seems to want to add .NT AUTHORITY to the end of a lot of things in there.

So if anyone has any input on this, please help. I've been researching this for a while, and if there's any additional information you want about it, reply and i will give it to you.

[Lorithad]

(i hate doing this, but its been almost a year with no reply.)

bump

[gunsmokingman]

Here is what I use to set my System Restore in my Winnt.sif

[systemRestore]CheckpointCalendarFrequency = 2

CheckpointSessionFrequency = 12

MaximumDataStorePercentOfDisk=4

Here is the basic meanings of each setting

CheckpointCalendarFrequency Specifies the calendar frequency with which Setup creates automatic system checkpoints or restore points.

CheckpointSessionFrequency Specifies the session length frequency after which Setup creates an automatic system checkpoint or restore point.

MaximumDataStorePercentOfDisk Specifies the maximum percentage of the hard disk to use for the System Restore datastore.

RestorePointLife Specifies the maximum age of a restore point before Setup automatically purges it from the datastore.