Animated Welcome to Windows screen - Removal?

[TheWeave]

Hi,

I am trying to build a RIS image that will perform an unattended install of Windows XP with SP2 and a bunch of apps. I have the script sorted to install the apps and that appears to be working fine.

Windows on the other hand is a different matter, I can configure the unattended settings in ristndrd.sif and the installation will use these no problem, I have also included drivers for the hardware. The problem I am having is that after install (after the gui setup stage) the PC reboots and I am left at a Welcome to Windows animation, I'm sure your familiar with this, it is the white background animation, followed by the Welcome to Windows configuration screen that allows you to configure automatic updates, internet connectivity, register with microsoft and user configuration.

Despite my best efforts I have not found a way to prevent this page from loading, this prevents my script for installing apps from running until this has been completed and not the ideal unattended setup I required. I have tried using the useraccounts.cmd script and auto logon settings from the unattended site here and although that creates the user it does not avoid the screen.

Can someone please let me know how to prevent this page from showing preferably using config files etc and without the need for extra software/scripts such as nlite as I already have most of the work done for this I would prefer a little tweak of my current settings.

If anyone needs to see any of my config files please let me know and I'll post them

Thanks

James

[oioldman]

You need to add

OEMSkipWelcome = 1

to

[GuiUnattended]

and that should be it

if you download the supporttools, and read the ref.chm within deploy.cab it help with this sort of query

[TheWeave]

You need to add

OEMSkipWelcome = 1

to

[GuiUnattended]

and that should be it

if you download the supporttools, and read the ref.chm within deploy.cab it help with this sort of query

Hi,

Thanks for the comment, I already had that in and I thought that should have done it. I think there may have been some corruption with my image on the RIS server as I have rebuilt the i386 files recopied over my ristndrd.sif and $OEM$ files and this is now skipping the welcome screen as expected.

Thanks again for the help.

Regards

James