The last couple of days I've been playing around with nLite to built an unattended XP installation CD with various registry tweaks applied. I then tested these CDs in a VM. Turns out, that some of the tweaks that I configured in nLite don't make it into the actual install. So I looked into the nLite.inf file in the \I386 directory and found some small discrepencies. Here's one example:

nLite inf file:

HKLM,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update","AUOptions",0x00010001,3

What's actually in the registry after the install:

AUOptions REG_DWORD 0x00000004 (4)

Apparently, there is a slight difference in the hex value format (0001000# vs. 0000000#), so because of that, the tweak might not get applied (?). Is that a bug in nLite, did I do something wrong or is it maybe caused by the fact, that I run nLite on Win2k?

Thx.

Just found out what e.g. the hex format 0x00010001 implies: apparently it defines the REG_DWORD type. With that question resolved, I still don't know why some of these tweaks don't get applied. Any hints? Thx

When I tested that Autoupdate setting it worked, did you change it somehow, did OOBE run for you, maybe attach the preset so that I don't need to ask too many questions.

Maybe that specific option doesn't work on Win2k, will check.

Also what other tweaks didn't work?