Problem with UA - T-12 (Registering Components)

[durex]

On my latest iteration of my UA install (XPSP2) I recently ran into a snag where it wont go any further than the T-12 portions of "Registering Components". The little progress thing in the bottom right hand corner (not the progress bar in the left hand pane), indicates that the installation isnt completely locked, but the CDROM doesnt should any activity and ive let it sit there in excess of 10 min with no progress...

The only thing Ive really changed since the last version that ran without issue are tweaks to my runonceex, some scripts it calls and the regtweaks. The only thing I touched with the actual i386 files was adding a [Display] section to my winnt.sif. I just removed it and Im reburning as we speak, but I cant imagine why this would have any effect on it...

Anyone know a bit more about what actually takes place at this step of the installation to have an idea as to what the issue may be?

Thanks as always gentlemen.

[durex]

Just remembered another thing I did... I implemented Felix's fix on how to get a 2 row taskbar by using the ntuser.dat file (found here). My previous versions didnt use this file at all... perhaps this may have something to do with it...

oh yea... any happy turkey day for you US folk....

::EDIT::

Update1:

Removed ntuser.dat and display entry and still occuring.... I also notice that the moment before it "locks up", a couple cmd prompt screens pop-up...

Update 2:

Looks like someone else had this problem as well...

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...ing++components

Im using an MSDN copy too... but again... Ive run the installer probably 10 times already without any issues....

Update 3:

It appears the nlite.inf is executed at this stage... not sure what implications that has, because again, I havent touched nLite since the last time it worked. **** this is annoying...

[durex]

Figured it out... one of my sections in the runonceex.cmd wasnt correct... I had multiple steps to one of my installations and didnt increment the /V for each line...