Managed to work my way through the process of creating unattended XP disc everything is running fine when run through Virtual PC apart from the auto logon process. i created a autologon.reg file as follows:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]

DefaultUserName=********

DefaultPassword=********

AutoAdminLogon=0

But when Xp is installed all i get is a logon for an Administrator and have to put in my administrator password to gain access.

My useraccount.cmd file reads as follows:

net user ******* ********** /add

net localgroup Administrators ******* /add

net accounts /maxpwage:unlimited

REGEDIT /S %cdrom%\install\autologon.reg

EXIT

Am i doing something wrong???? please help i'm a newbie and want to get this resolved before i attempt to add software & drivers to my unattended XP disc .

net user ******* ********** /add

net localgroup Administrators ******* /add

net accounts /maxpwage:unlimited

REGEDIT /S %cdrom%\install\autologon.reg

EXIT

From The Unatended XP CD Guide:

"You may want to take note of one thing: If you want to create a user name that has spacing, for example John Doe, you should surround them with quotes. It would be like so:

net user "John Doe" asdf1234 /add"

It seems that you're using a space in your net user name. Are you enclosing it in quotes?

The space he has there is (or should be!) between username and password, ie. the context is:

net user username  password /add

so my guess is that's actually correct.

The problem is AutoAdminLogon=0. Set this to "1" and you should be set.