Hello,

Because I am testing my UA DVD on a virtual machine, I don't want activation to be enabled. If I don't put this option on the disc, would it be the cause of me having to enter my name, set auto-update preferences, etc.? I have all of the stuff set up to create a user, but I still have to enter a username after XP finishes installing.

I have:

useraccounts.cmd

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

autologon.reg

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 

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

cmdlines.txt

[COMMANDS]
"useraccounts.cmd"
"RunOnceEx.cmd"

all in the $OEM$ folder. Am I doing something wrong?

Not Auto-Activating Windows shouldn't be anymore invasive than seeing a popup asking you to activate and seeing a little icon with the Windows logo and a set of keys in the system tray beside the clock.

What you're seeing is more commonly known as the Welcome screen setup phase. It's not skipped unless you have UnattendMode = FullUnattended and UnattendSwitch = Yes in the [unattended] section of winnt.sif.

Thanks for the help, I really appreciate it!