Yes and no. While you did create a user account in the winnt. Meaning that the programs will be installed for the default user the default Administrator and thus unavailable to all other users. You might consider putting a shortcut to Notepad on your desktop while you work on the balance of this project. Open Notepad again. A couple of items here bear mentioning:. If your user name is two words eg; John Doe and has a space between them, you must enclose the names with quotes, like this:.
This file useraccounts. This set the password for this account to never expire. But first;. If you look at the icon for this, you will see what looks like an application. To delete this account, if you do double click it , you must be logged in as an Administrator. Next, open Notepad again, and using your information in place of mine, create the following, save it as autologon. Open the winnt. The text above shows an asterisk for the AdminPassword.
It should already have a password from when you made the winnt. This one is different from the one in the winnt.
The one you created in the winnt. Anything defined in the useraccounts. This blip of the Command Prompt you see is the useraccounts. Well, its very simple to do and can be easily added to our install here. With the inclusion of a small image file and a small text file, you can add your own picture and information into the System Properties window. Next comes the image file. The image you use can be anything you like, but must be sized to x pixels maximum.
Smaller than x is OK. Create an image in these dimensions is width, is height , and save it as a bitmap named oemlogo. Put this onto your desktop as well. Now, these we can test out, using your current installation of Windows, to see how you like the way it looks. Now, right click My Computer , and you should get something like this with your info, of course :.
Play around with this and edit the two files in the System32 folder until you get them the way you like. This is what this folder was created for. With these files saved here, they will be installed automatically during your Unattended installation. With this folder, we can tailor the Unattended disk to a specific motherboard, graphics card, or whatever hardware you need drivers for.
If so, you might know from experience what drivers you need to install manually after Windows XP finishes installing. Plus, the drivers you install will likely even be newer than the ones that come on the Windows XP CD. One happy note; If your motherboard has USB 2. With the Service Pack 1a slipstreamed in, this will get done automatically now.
Onboard sound? Easy as pie. The real sweet part of this is: Windows XP will choose the correct drivers for the hardware. This means you can theoretically put several sets of drivers onto this Unattended disk and use it for multiple systems!
No sweat. Intel P here, and an nForce2 chipset there? Sure thing. Once again, looking here is a great place to start looking for that specific item you need help with. To get started, open your winnt. Drivers need to be installed in somewhat of a particular order, and installing the chipset drivers first usually is the best. Change them to reflect what you need to install for your system. For the list above, I would need six individual folders 3 was not used.
The winnt. Before attempting this, you might nay, should research this fully and thoroughly. Any mistakes made while editing the Registry can cause serious problems if done incorrectly. Even a slight typing error can cause Windows to fail to run. That said, those who wish to continue on with this will find amazing things can be done with a simple text file.
When I used to install WinXP Pro before making my first Unattended CD with a regedit file, I would have to go in and manually configure a great number of things to my liking. I prefer them separate, thank you very much. With the inclusion of a regedit file, we can automate all of this and have it done right from the moment we first log on after our Unattended install. I strongly recommend reading more on this at www.
Open up Notepad, and create your file. When you are done, save it as regtweaks. From here, you can do two things with it, by where you save the file to. If you decide on this, you need to also add one line to your cmdlines.
We will be creating another batch file later on that can reference the regtweak. Windows Registry Editor Version 5. Much more information on this can be found here , and here , and here. Plenty of room to add a few extra items. What I mean by this is, when you install, oh, say, Photoshop 7.
Name each folder to reflect what the program contained within it is. Keep right clicking the entire C:XPCD folder periodically as you do this, click Properties , and keep track of how big the folder is.
Next, you need to create a batch file. Name it start. The computer will restart automatically ECHO once the whole process has finished! When this file launches, it will open a Command Prompt window and execute the commands contained within the file from it.
The switches used for each program vary, not only from program to program, but often version to version of the same application. These user commands are executed after completion of XP setup during the first boot. The "Winnt. This file must be put inside "i" folder of the Installation DVD. The tested "Winnt. The commands put inside this text file will be executed during Registering components part of GUI portion of XP setup. The commands inside [commands] section of this file are:.
This command adds a registry info "RunOnce" entry that enables a call to a batch file after XP setup at the end of first boot from desktop. The "AutoInstall. This command executes a batch file that xcopy a directory named "XDrive" from "i" folder of DVD to "i" folder of system root directory. The folder XDrive will have a batch file named XDrive2.
Then create a few batch files such that each installing various system applications as per your need. The first batch file must be called after XP installation at the end of first boot from desktop and subsequent batch files shall be called from desktop after regular restarts by making "RunOnce" registry entry. The first batch file is the bridge between the normal XP setup and the installation of your user applications and drivers.
Make the system to restart after a set of Application installations with each batch file. Suppose if there are four hard disk drives that shall be named with drive letters from C through F, then leave a drive letter G and fix H as the DVD drive. I assume one optical drive in the system if there are 2 optical drives, two times shifting of drive letters must be done. So for the drive letter to change, put commands in [GuiRunOnce] section of Winnt.
Refer the above Winnt. The command inside XDrive2. This diskpart command will change the drive letter of your DVD drive to H as you fixed. So for the batch file XDrive2. Update the system drivers to the latest available online. About 20 mins. After the PC reboots, the local Administrator user will automatically login, and the final phase of the unattended install will start. Run the ofcxp.
You put cmdlines. The only drawback to using cmdlines is you can't see what is happening as the commands are run. If there is a problem, it is more difficult to ascertain the source of the problem. Also, I had problems modifying the registry and installing Office using cmdlines. It might be different for you, so it is worth testing if you would rather use it. The ofcxp.
Modify some registry settings on the target PC. This is done by the xpnew. This file copies the files then checks for success.
This is done by calling makedisk. The makedisk. Diskpart can create partitions from within Windows. It is essentially an automated Disk Manager. The file disk. A new partition - E: will be created and the remaining drive space will be used for the E: drive. This is done with a standard Office install command using a MST file to configure the Office installation. The reason for this step is to create a default user environment for each user that logs on to the PC. If you set up a reference PC to test your unattended install on, you can create a local account called Testuser, login as Testuser, configure the Desktop, Internet Explorer settings, Windows Explorer settings, Display settings and so on.
These settings, which are saved in the Testuser's profile, can be copied to other users by copying the Testuser profile to the Default User profile. Then, each time a new user logs in for the first time, they will get those settings from the Default User profile. For this install, once I configured my Testuser's settings and copied the Testuser profile to the Default User profile, I used a zip utility, Winzip, and zipped up the Default User profile directory.
I then copied that. During the unattended install of XP, that. In the ofcxp. Then, using an unzip program, unzip. Do a silent install of Recovery Console. This is fairly straight forward. The RC. Reboot the PC for a final time. User logs in. Finally, we are through with the Windows XP install. It is time to reboot the PC. You can do this with the MS Shutdown. During the unattended install, shutdown. It is called from the ofcxp.
Note: Although Shutdown.
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