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I myself use WPI.

It looks really professional, and it works great :thumbup .

With the newest release, it is also very easy to use. You now don't have to learn te language in order to use it (there is a config part inside")

Ofcourse taste is very personal.

On the screenshot below you can see my WPI

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i dont want to really sit 20mins in front of the box to see that screen

To the best of my knowledge there is no installer available that will let you select something such as what additional software to be installed any earlier than on the first boot up after Windows is installed (GuiRunOnce stage).

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you could also, Use unatend.txt (witch i prefer over guirunonce),

and just make it prepare a batchfile to do the actual installs at a later state..

example...

Unattend.txt

cmd1=Start /wait config.exe

and make this config tool write (add) its functions to.

%systemdrive%\oemtmp\installer.bat

"why not just wait for runonce... Well thats easy,

what if you wanted to add regtweaks to the system....

at unattend.txt you'd sti be able to include more hardcore tweaks to system default... in runonce you already have passed that state, and nead to aply those teaks to evry user you have specified.... and all future added users...

But if you want to use this stategy you still nead to find an ap that can write lines to a txt (*.bat) file...

and utils like WPI will not work at that state yet.. Any vb app probebly neither...

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WPI can be run however you want. Most people however do it via runonceex.cmd

I havnt tried out xplode yet but it seems to be more powerful then WPI (i havnt done much research on xplode yet) but harder to config and design your own look.

i'll prolly try out xplode next time i completely remake my UA cd

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