Unattended Install Setup For Desktop?

[EdwardQ]

I'm new to the unattended install, I have went though and created and tested the unstalled XP with slipstreaming sp2 and hotfixes and useing the RunOnceEx. I was wondering how I change the desktop settings (ex. Changing the Desktop from Start Menu to Classic start menu.)

Thanks..

Ed.

[angadsingh007]

Let me tell this to u straight ...

There are very few ppl on msfn which wud be able to answer such a stupid question 4 u ..

For ur kind information , this forum provides a search function too

[angadsingh007]

anyway, I SEARCHED THE FORUM and found this helpful

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...egistery+tweaks

[EdwardQ]

ok.. its a lot of reg tweaks..

ok.. I was doing searches for "unattended Desktop" Thought there maybe a setting like

Home_Page=xxxxxxx

Ok.. thanks

[IcemanND]

@angadsingh007 - easy on the noobs, noob.

@ EdwaqdQ - welcome to MSFN and yes its just a bunch of regtweaks to do what you are after. No one said Microsoft had to make life easy.

[prathapml]

Hi EdwardQ,

Many of what you're looking for can be done from winnt.sif (setting home page, classic start menu, etc.)

Its mostly difficult to get regtweaks working. So you might like to try settings from the answer-file first - http://unattended.msfn.org/global/reference.htm

[mjm1231]

@ EdwaqdQ - welcome to MSFN and yes its just a bunch of regtweaks to do what you are after.  No one said Microsoft had to make life easy.

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Actually, in my opinion they do make it easy. Just set up a desktop the way you want, then copy the NTUSER.DAT from the \Documents and Settings\User folder (the user whose desktop you just modified) and copy this to $OEM$\$Doc\Default User. If you need to make minor changes to this, you can use regedit32 to load the NTuser.dat hive, modify keys, then save it.

IMHO, this is much easier than maintaining a huge list of regtweaks, and also covers those huge multi-property hex reg keys that give everyone trouble, and gets applied to the administrator account. Why isn't this the preferred method for setting desktops?

[angadsingh007]

@angadsingh007 - easy on the noobs, noob.

I was just preparing the n00bs for what's there expected to get at msfn for these questions.

Im a n00b who knows this well...been around the whole forum and this is the general trend.

[prathapml]

No, that's not what's expected.

No, the general trend is not shooting down new-comers.

Do not take this thread off-topic.