Hi all!

I have been stunned by the MSFN guide to make a self-installing all tweaked out XP-CD because I have always wanted something quite like that. I have made a couple of those CDs and it keeps on evolving nicely.

However, I still get the welcome-movie, user creation/checking internet ability/register with microsoft screens in between windows install and the cmd file start.

How can I bypass this?

Use UnattendSwitch="Yes" in your winnt.sif file to bypass the Welcome to Windows XP screens.

Welcome to MSFN

Use UnattendSwitch="Yes" in your winnt.sif file to bypass the Welcome to Windows XP screens.

Welcome to MSFN

Ahh thanx Aaron. I knew I missed something...

And thanx for the welcome. MSFN is amazing!

Aaron, sorry to bring up this topic again but it doesn't work. The user/internet/register dislogs are successfully skipped now BUT I am then prompted to logon. And that is BEFORE the registry tweaks & hotfixes are installed so I don't think the autologon will work. How can I fix this?

Would installing WITHOUT an admin password solve this issue?

BTW: How does one change the admin password afterwards? User config?

Use the CMDLINES.TXT trick to add the user beforehand. Something like...

ECHO Adding User "Valkyre"
net user Valkyre /add
net localgroup "administrators" Valkyre /add
net localgroup "users" Valkyre /delete
net user administrator /active:no
ECHO.

(taken from my own script, you would replace my name with yours)

Thanx valkyre. I will try that but I don't think it will work because it asks me to logon BEFORE cmdlines.txt is executed...

No it dosn't cmdlines.txt is executed after the 13 min section is done, well before the login routines.

Yes it does indeed work! As stated above cmdlines is executed at the 13 minute mark (one can see it very briefly). I am now happily auto-logged in!

I am a newbie with Cmdlines.txt. Where do you place them to execute as above, and do I need to reference it anywhere?

This seemed an ideal place to ask as its just what I need

cmdlines.txt needs to be put into the $OEM$ folder, and doesn't need to be specified anywhere else to tell Windows of the existance of a cmdlines.txt

Why do you need to make a username to be auto logged in? In win2k and XP you are auto logged in after setup completes. The only reason i see why you would need to make a username is if your installing in a corp environment.

-gosh

Cool - Thanks Aaronxp