A few little bugs

[SaxoVTR]

Hi everyone.

This is my first post so be gentle!

I am working on an unattended install of XP Pro for my work. I have got the basics done and got loads of programs to installed silently and slipstreamed but am having a few bugs with Windows.

It installs pretty much all of it without user interaction (except the hard drive set which I want to control) but when it's complete I still get the Welcome to Windows screen and it asks me for Auto Updates, prompts me to register and doesn't create the user 'Admin' i ask it to. is there a reason for this?

I also want to get rid of the windows tour prompt and remove the US keyboard layout. is this possible?

I've attached the WINNT.SIF file if someone was able to spare a few minutes to look at it and tell me why it doesn't work properly?

Many thanks.

Si

WINNT.SIF

[SaxoVTR]

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[DonDamm]

Just a quick look at it and it doesn't look too bad, but I'm curious about a couple of things.

First, I take care of the Windows Tour, and AutoUpdates in the registry tweak file which I apply near the end of my RunOnceEx.cmd. You can find those tweaks and variations here on the board.

Removing the US keyboard is a bit trickier. Usually it is put in there in addition to whatever locale you choose. This is true for German Windows which I install often enough. I noticed you put in the British locale, so the British keyboard and other settings do appear, yes?

Administrator is a default account built into windows. If you want to create a different account (recommended) there are two ways, but I use the tried and true CreateUser.cmd at T-12 in cmdlines.txt

CreateUser.cmd

@echo off

net user SaxoVTR mypassword /add
net localgroup Administrators SaxoVTR /add
net accounts /maxpwage:unlimited
REGEDIT /S autologon.reg
EXIT

AutoLogon.cmd

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
"DefaultUserName"="SaxoVTR"
"DefaultPassword"="mypassword"
"AutoAdminLogon"="1"

In [Gui Unattended] I have

....AutoLogonCount=3

You only have AutoLogon=1

Try upping that to 3.

There are other things you can do, but that should run fine like it is.

Edited July 4, 2005 by DonDamm

[Yzöwl]

Most obvious one

KeyboardLayout="United Kingdom"

If you are using an $OEM$ structure and trying to add stuff from cmdline.txt etc., you will also require

OemPreinstall=Yes

I think you may also have to use

AutomaticUpdates=Yes

and prevent the updates using a tweak later in your setup.