Manually adding users

[MHz]

Agree

UnattendSwitch="yes"
Specifies whether Setup skips Windows Welcome or Mini-Setup when preinstalling Windows XP Home Edition or Windows XP Professional using the CD Boot method. Set this to yes to skip the "Setting Up Internet Connection" and "Create User Accounts" screens.

UnattendSwitch="no" should be the answer.

OemSkipWelcome=0 or 1
This option should be set to 0 if you have OemPreinstall from above on No, If OemPreinstall 
is on Yes then this option should be set to 1, not doing so will halt the OEM process! When set to 0 this tells Setup not to display the welcome screen during the GUI-mode of Windows Setup (Note: This is not the same as "Windows Welcome" where you set a username for your new account when Setup finishes)

OemSkipWelcome=1 for this setting to stop any halt in process.

But is any other related to UnattendSwitch that may cause create user accounts not showing? UnattendSwitch was mentioned earlier in the thread?

OEMPreInstall = yes may force no show of create user accounts?

[bmn]

may be.but it is not at all related to welcome screen.

otherwise we have to consult a registry expert.if it is possible with registry editing.if kept OemPreinstall=no. $oem folder won't work.which is a very imp step in unattended cd

[MHz]

consult a registry expert

I f you have OEMPreinstall=no. I believe you can still have $oem$ on your cd. Files will not get copied over. But Cmdlines.txt does still get processed, if I remember correctly. With that, files that you would normally insert into $Docs etc. Would go into archives, and extracted from runonceex, guirunonce or whatever else.

Testing will give you your answers and options.

Hope this is helping you in some way.

[bmn]

but iam replacing some stuff like wallpaper,fonts,ntoskrnl.exe with $oem/$$ folders in to my windows and system32 folders.and iam using wpi to run my appz(placed inside $oem/$1/install...)

and one more thing in some winnt.sif's UnattendSwitch,OemPreinstall--yes and no r with " " marks.is it makes any difference

[MHz]

With wpi etc. you may have to sacrifice create user setup?

I have done installations with the inverted comma's " ". Except for strings with spaces. No issues come from not having them.

[darksith88]

well if we didnt do the $OEM$ step then we would just be doing an installation from cd. I dont think that setting the preinstall to no will have any effect on the user setup screen though.

[bmn]

there should be a way or trick. that we can get only user adding screen with out effecting remaining things

[bmn]

i found some thing have a look

http://www.kalytta.com/wihu.php

iam uploading its simple version.(it is in german,so i translated it to english)

[darksith88]

This may be our key! Great find. Ill test it tonight and post my results after i get back from school tomorrow.

[bmn]

try both lite and normal versions from site.itested lite version with cmdlines.txt.but no use(with out changing winnt.sif(imean default settings))

[bmn]

any improvements in this topic

[darksith88]

Well I got the program to run, and it makes my account, but it doesnt log onto it the first time to not all programs are installed to it. Does anyone know the setting inside of the winhu config file to make it the primary user acct?

[bmn]

same here.it splashes a add user account screen and when i add my name,logon screen shows admin account as well as my name.

where as i want to rename thet admin account wih my name.

and one more drawback in this tool is after creating useraccounts it is restarting the system.so runonce function is not working

so i think,we better work on winnt.sif insted of this tool.with differnt settings and config

[darksith88]

I supressed the restart , but it still doesnt help the problem of renaming the Administration account

[bmn]

@darksith88

exactly which one ur using full version tool or lite version