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Introduction
Have you ever wanted a Windows XP CD that would install Windows XP by automatically putting in your name, product key, timezone and regional settings? Followed by silently installing all your favourite applications along with the latest DirectX, . Net Framework and then all the Windows Critical Updates, registry tweaks, updated drivers, and a readily patched UXTheme.dll without any user interaction whatsoever? Then this guide will show you how you can do just that! Target Audience: Home users - who are taking up a time-consuming process of re-installing Windows, manually installing essential applications, downloading windows updates, and tweaking their OS to perfection on every re-format. Difficulty: Requires intermediate experience on Microsoft Windows XP and a basic knowledge of how batch commands function. Go to: Getting Started Latest Site Updates 2nd April 2004: Fixed a problem where a User Account would expire after 14 days when using the Add Users & Autologon guide in an Unattended Windows XP CD. The solution is to add net accounts /maxpwage:unlimited to useraccounts.cmd. Thanks to GreenMachine for pointing this out! 8th March 2004: Office 2003 Slipstreaming and Unattended Guide added 5th March 2004: Revised RunOnceEx guide, added Running RunOnceEx from CD, and Windows XP Setup Timeline. Site Updates Archive Translations These translations are neither supported or maintained by MSFN. We cannot verify the integrity of these translations so please use at your own risk. Requesting help in your native language (with the exception of english) is not permitted on the MSFN forums. You can request permission to make a translation by sending a PM to me on the forums. Deutsch: Unbeaufsichtigte Windows XP CD Russian: Click here Italian: Click here

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MSFN's Unattended XP CD - Step 1 - Getting Started

Step 1 - Getting Started

What you will need to get started:
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Windows XP CD with Service Pack 1 Slipstreamed XP SP1 Deployment Tools CDImage for Windows XP Professional Edition / Home Edition A suitable CD Burning application

If you haven't made a slipstreamed SP1 CD yet then I'd suggest you do one now. You can use either of these resources to create your own: The Elder Geek | Windows Help.net Preparation 1. Create a directory called XPCD in the root of the C:\ Drive. This would be C:\XPCD 2. Copy the full contents of your Windows XP SP1 CD to C:\XPCD 3. In C:\XPCD create a folder called $OEM$, then create all the sub-folders as shown on this page: $OEM$ Distribution Folders. By using these folders, we can put our favourite software, drivers and registry tweaks in them. The next step is to create a winnt.sif answer file which gives instructions to Windows XP Setup to fill in all your information automatically. Go to: Step 2 - Creating an Answer File

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MSFN's Unattended XP CD - Step 2 - Creating an Answer File

Step 2 - Creating an Answer File

An answer file is a way to script the answers for a series of graphical user interface (GUI) dialog boxes. An answer file also tells Setup how to interact with the $OEM$ distribution folders and files you create, and supplies Setup with all of the information that the end user would provide during a typical Windows Setup. With the XP SP1 Deployment Tools you downloaded, simply extract them to a folder, or double click on the Cab file. The only files you will need is setupmgr.exe and ref.chm:

The Setup Manager (setupmgr.exe) is a wizard-based answer file creation utility, so you won't come across too much difficulty in using this application. To start you off, make the following choices: New or Existing Answer File: Create New Type of Setup: Unattended Setup Windows Product: Windows XP Home / Professional User Interaction: Fully Automated Distribution Share: Set up from CD (ignore the message about IE customizations, they work actually!) Having done that, accept the Licence Agreement, then fill in all the boxes as you would during Windows XP Setup. If you come across a section that you don't understand, then ignore it. Windows XP will use whatever default option there is for that section. When you've finished, it creates a file called unattend.txt. Since we are going to run Setup from a CD we need to rename this to winnt.sif. OEM Preinstallation As you read on the previous page, we're using the $OEM$ distribution folders to install our favourite software, drivers, and registry tweaks. But to make this work, we need to specify two values in the winnt.sif file under [Unattended]: [Unattended] OemPreinstall=Yes UnattendSwitch="yes" OemPreinstall=Yes instructs Windows XP Setup that there is an $OEM$ distribution share on the CD. This will tell setup to copy them over to the destination hard drive of where Windows is being installed. UnattendSwitch="yes" instructs Windows XP Setup to skip the "Welcome to Windows XP" screens, where user account and Internet setting-up takes place. If you didn't skip this then it wouldn't really be "unattended" would it? :-) (Although we'll worry about User Account creation by going to the Add Users & Auto Logon page later). I want to manually control my partitioning and formatting options... If you prefer to manually choose a partition during text-mode setup with full control on choice of filesystem, then make sure you have these lines set as they are under the [Data] and [Unattended] sections in winnt.sif: [Data] AutoPartition=0 [Unattended] FileSystem=* If you want to automate this process with exact specifics on drive letters, partition sizes and filesystems, you may want to consider using Bart's PE and diskpart. Where does the winnt.sif file go? Copy winnt.sif to C:\XPCD\I386\ Additional Information Refer to the Reference page, or read through ref.chm to see how you can add extra options to your winnt.sif file, such as asking Setup not to install Windows Messenger 4.7 and MSN Explorer 7.

Let's move on to see how we can use batch files in our Unattended XP CD to do tasks for us. Go to: Step 3 - An Overview of Batch Files

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MSFN's Unattended XP CD - Step 3 - An Overview of Batch Files

Step 3 - An Overview of Batch Files

Before we start on making batch files to install our applications and registry tweaks, you may want to find out what they do and to see how they are used: Batch files (*.cmd or *.bat, although *.cmd is recommended) can be executed in several areas of Windows XP's Setup process. Using batch files helps to automate several tasks at once without any interaction required. They can be executed from either cmdlines.txt, svcpack.inf, a RunOnceEx entry in the Registry, or from the [GuiRunOnce] section in winnt.sif. You will learn more about these as you go through this guide. Typical contents of a batch file Batch files supports all the commands that work as if you was using the Command Prompt. To see Windows XP's Command Prompt, go to Start > Run > and type cmd followed by enter. Let's try making a small batch file that does several things. Open Notepad and copy and paste the following: @echo off title Batch File Testing echo Hello World echo. echo Starting MS Paint start mspaint echo. echo Starting Wordpad start Wordpad echo. pause exit Save this as anything you like, as long as it has a .cmd extension. Now double-click on the file. You will find that it renames the Window title to "Batch File Testing", opens MSPaint and Wordpad, asks you to press any key to continue, and then it exits.

@echo off echo. echo message title start pause exit

Hides the C:\> Prompt and any commands shown in the batch file. Includes a line spacing. Prints "message" in a Command Prompt window, purely for commenting purposes. Sets the title of the window. Start an application, or an installation. Displays "Press any key to continue..." Exits the Command Prompt

Once you start adding software to your Unattended XP CD, you will find that most of the syntax on this site (in the Applications area) is shown as something like this: start /wait %systemdrive%\install\some_application\setup.exe /switch /anotherswitch start will start the software's Setup program, and /wait will wait for Setup to finish installing before proceeding to the next line in the batch. It's important that you use /wait so the rest of the batch doesn't get executed all at once, which will most likely cause conflicts in the number of setup applications running at the same time. Once you have a good understanding of using batch commands or want to find out more examples - check the Examples page. cmdlines.txt, svcpack.inf and [GuiRunOnce] Batch files can also be run from cmdlines.txt or svcpack.inf which runs at the T-13 / T-12 minute stage of Windows XP Setup. cmdlines.txt is useful for tasks such as Adding Users & Auto Logon, or importing your HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry tweaks to the Default profile. You will learn more about cmdlines.txt in their relevant pages, and svcpack.inf for installing the Pre-SP2 Hotfixes. An example of a batch running from [GuiRunOnce]: Screenshot As you can see in the screenshot, its using a combination of "ECHO." and "ECHO message". Its not a requirement to use those, but it lets you know how its progressing! [GuiRunOnce] is run on first logon. Where do I put the batch files? For [GuiRunOnce], you can place them in any folder in the $OEM$ Distribution folders. For example, if you place batch_file. cmd in C:\XPCD\$OEM$\$1\install\ then you would insert this path under [GuiRunOnce] in winnt.sif, like so: [GuiRunOnce] %systemdrive%\install\batch_file.cmd The Install folder specified at C:\XPCD\$OEM$\$1\Install\ is copied over to the systemdrive, so it turns out to be C:\install\ - More information on this can be found at An Overview of the $OEM$ Folders. For cmdlines.txt, it should be placed in the \$OEM$ folder, and does not need to be specified anywhere else to state its existence. Windows XP Setup automatically scans for a cmdlines.txt file. All batch files launched by cmdlines.txt should be put into the same folder. svcpack.inf should go into the C:\XPCD\I386\ folder (make sure svcpack.in_ is deleted). Any batch files launched by svcpack.inf should go into the C:\XPCD\I386\svcpack\ folder unless otherwise specified by the entries in svcpack.inf, but more info on this is in Installing Pre-SP2 Hotfixes. Next Step You have learnt quite a bit having reached this far. To summarise, we've copied the Windows XP SP1 CD to the hard disk, prepared the $OEM$ folders, created a winnt.sif answer file for Windows XP Setup, and gained a basic understand of batch commands. What you can do now is up to you: However you want to set up your CD - you can go and check out: Applications, Drivers, Pre-SP2 Hotfixes, Registry Tweaks, OfficeXP, and Additions. Once you have finished, go to: Finalising your CD.

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MSFN's Unattended XP CD - What are the $OEM$ Distribution Folders?

What are the $OEM$ Distribution Folders?

The purpose of these $OEM$ Folders is that anything you place into there will be automatically copied to the destination hard drive of where you're installing Windows. Once copied over, you can easily create batch commands to install and perform tasks using the %systemdrive% variable. For example: If Windows was installed to the D:\ drive, the environment variable "%systemdrive%" will resolve into D:\ You might ask, "why not run application installations from the CD itself?" This is because CD-ROM drive letters are bound to be different on every PC, which shows why there's no permanent "%CDROM%" environment variable. You could however create and run a script that checks for the existance of a particular file on the CD so it maps the correct drive letter to the %CDROM% variable, but we won't be covering that in this guide (although its been discussed often in the forums so it should turn up in a search). The $OEM$ Distribution Folders As you can see on the left, the $OEM$ folder stays parallel to the i386 folder, not inside it. Anything in $1 will be copied to the root of the hard drive of where Windows is installed to (C:\ for example). See the examples below on how it all works: In preparation, the layout is: C:\XPCD\$OEM$\$1\Install\ When burned to CD (X:\ being the CD-ROM Drive letter), the layout is: X:\$OEM$\$1\Install\ When the \$OEM$\$1\Install is copied over to the hard drive during Setup, the layout is: C:\Install\ Makes sense? This is why in certain parts of the site you will find commands such as: "start /wait %systemdrive%\install\MSN\msnmsgs.msi /qb" as this gives the same output as C:\Install\ when C:\ is the Windows drive. $$ - Anything in here will be copied to the Windows folder, no matter what its called (Windows, WINNT, WindowsXP). By using this method you can create additional folders within $$ such as Resources followed by a sub-folder called Themes and place your visual styles in here. It will then be copied to C:\WINDOWS\Resources\Themes automatically when running Windows Setup.

Now that you know how all this works, understanding the rest should be easy enough: $Docs - Documents and Settings $Progs - Program Files $$ - Windows Folder $1 - Root of hard drive where Windows is installed to This saves the effort of using COPY or XCOPY batch commands to copy certain files/folders over to the destination drive.

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MSFN's Unattended XP CD - Add Users & Auto Logon

Add Users & Auto Logon

One of the pitfalls of an unattended setup is that everything is run under the default Administrator account. This means programs you install will only be installed for the current logged in user (that would be the default Administrator) and won't be accessible for other users. The same applies for registry tweaks that use HKEY_CURRENT_USER, but we'll discuss that on a seperate page here. Most applications today will install for "All Users", but in case you have a favourite application that won't install for "All Users", and prefer to have it in your own custom user account, then this guide is for you! What we want to do is set up our own User Account during GUI-mode of Windows XP Setup (that's where you see the countdown). To do this, we need to use a file known as cmdlines.txt which will automatically run at the T-12 Minute stage of Windows XP Setup. By doing this, we can automate the first logon with your own user name. Instructions Open Notepad, and copy & paste in the following:

[COMMANDS] "useraccounts.cmd" Save this as cmdlines.txt in the C:\XPCD\$OEM$\ folder. Notice that we are trying to launch useraccounts.cmd from there. Again open Notepad and paste in the following: net user John asdf1234 /add net localgroup Administrators John /add net accounts /maxpwage:unlimited REGEDIT /S autologon.reg EXIT This adds the user John with a password of asdf1234, and adds John to the Administrators Group. net accounts / maxpwage:unlimited makes sure that the account password doesn't expire after 14 days (This is a system-wide setting). Replace with a username and password of your choice and then save this as useraccounts.cmd in the C:\XPCD\$OEM$\ folder. You may want to take note of one thing: If you want to create a user name that has spacing, for example John Doe, you should surround them with quotes. It would be like so: net user "John Doe" asdf1234 /add Next, we want to import the Auto Logon entry into the Registry (This is what the "REGEDIT /S autologon.reg" entry in useraccounts.cmd is for). Open Notepad and paste in the following: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon] "DefaultUserName"="John" "DefaultPassword"="asdf1234" "AutoAdminLogon"="1" Edit your Username & Password, then save this as autologon.reg in the C:\XPCD\$OEM$\ folder. By now, you should have all three files in the $OEM$ folder, which are: cmdlines.txt, useraccounts.cmd and autologon.reg. Final Steps To ensure this runs smoothly, make sure you only have 2 admin-related values under [GuiUnattended] in winnt.sif: AdminPassword=* EncryptedAdminPassword=No Remove anything else such as AutoLogon or AutoLogonCount. Replace the asterisk in AdminPassword with a password if you want to protect the Administrator account from unauthorised access. You can also encrypt the password using the Setup Manager included with the Deployment Tools - in which case EncryptedAdminPassword should be set to Yes. One last thing to remember - anything defined in winnt.sif such as the AdminPassword does not effect the user account "John" outlined in this guide. This only affects the default "Administrator" account. Once you have added this to your Unattended XP CD, you will notice a quick flash of a Command Prompt box at around the T-12 Minute stage, this is where useraccounts.cmd executes from cmdlines.txt

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MSFN's Unattended XP CD - Importing HKEY_CURRENT_USER Registry Tweaks

Importing HKEY_CURRENT_USER Registry Tweaks

You probably have noticed that importing registry tweaks that are for the HKEY_CURRENT_USER tree from either [GuiRunOnce] or RunOnceEx only applies to the current logged in user account. This means any further accounts you create in future doesn't inherit your custom tweaks. This guide will show you how you can get your HKEY_CURRENT_USER tweaks applied to all user accounts. For this, we'll be using a method known as cmdlines.txt which automatically runs at the T-12 minute stage of Windows XP Setup. Instructions Open Notepad, and copy & paste in the following: [COMMANDS] "REGEDIT /S regtweaks.reg" Save this as cmdlines.txt in the C:\XPCD\$OEM$\ folder. If you haven't created your regtweaks.reg file yet, check this page for a couple of examples. Below is an example of Registry Tweaks for HKEY Current User. Please do not use these examples if you are not sure what they do.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 ;Disable the Desktop Cleanup Wizard [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\CleanupWiz] "NoRun"=dword:00000001 ;Adds search keywords to Internet Explorer [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl\MSKB] @="http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=%s" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl\AV] @="http://www.altavista.com/sites/search/web?q=%s" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl\Ggl] @="http://www.google.com/search?q=%s" Simply place regtweaks.reg in the same folder Explorer\SearchUrl\MSN] [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet where cmdlines.txt exists. That would be: C:\XPCD\$OEM$\ @="http://search.msn.com/results.asp?q=%s" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl\FM] All HKEY_CURRENT_USER tweaks imported at this stage will be mapped to the Default User Profile, and any further @="http://www.filemirrors.com/search.src?file=%s" accounts you create in future will inherit them :-) ;Prevents Internet Explorer windows from being reused More Information [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main] "AllowWindowReuse"=dword:00000000 You can visit MSFN Member GreenMachine's page for(defaultinformation regarding Default User Profiles. ;Max your Internet Explorer's simultaneous downloads to 10 more was 2) [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings] "MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server"=dword:0000000a "MaxConnectionsPerServer"=dword:0000000a ;Change MenuShowDelay (Start Menu load speed) [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop] "MenuShowDelay"="2"

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;NoLowDiskSpaceChecks won't check if you are low on diskspace and pop up a balloon telling you. [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer] "NoLowDiskSpaceChecks"=dword:00000001 ;NoRecentDocsmenu removes the recent documents from the start menu. [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer] http://unattended.msfn.org/xp/hkcu_registry.htm08/07/2004 16:54:24

MSFN's Unattended XP CD - Silent Installation of your favourite Registry Tweaks

Silent Installation of your favourite Registry Tweaks

In this guide, we'll show you how you can put all your favourite registry tweaks into one single .reg file, and show you how you can import all the entries into the Windows Registry silently. Instructions Below, you'll find my personal favourite registry tweaks, but that's not all! You can check Kelly's XP Corner for hundreds more. It's a good idea to copy the contents of this and paste into Notepad so you can view them clearly in full screen and edit out the ones you don't want to use. Please do not use any of them if you're unsure what they do. Just because I use these tweaks doesn't mean you have to as well. There's probably hundreds and thousands of different tweaks you can put into the registry, you just have to pick out your favourite ones.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 ;Disable Automatic Restart in the event of a BSOD [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CrashControl] "AutoReboot"=dword:00000000 ;Speed up shutdown [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control] "WaitToKillServiceTimeout"="3000" ;Disable the Desktop Cleanup Wizard [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\CleanupWiz] "NoRun"=dword:00000001 ;Disables Error Reporting, but notifies when errors occur [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PCHealth\ErrorReporting] "DoReport"=dword:00000000 ;Disable Welcome Screen and uses Classic Logon [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon] "LogonType"=dword:00000000 Once you have finished putting in all your personal favourite registry tweaks in Notepad, save it as RegTweaks.reg in C: \XPCD\$OEM$\$1\install\ ;Disable Windows Picture and Fax Viewer [-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\image\ShellEx\ContextMenuHandlers\ShellImagePreview] Lastly, copy & paste these lines to one of your batch files: ;Do not use Simple File Sharing [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa] ECHO. "forceguest"=dword:00000000 ECHO Applying Registry Tweaks... REGEDIT /S %systemdrive%\install\RegTweaks.reg ;Speed up Network Browsing by removing Network Scheduled Tasks [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RemoteComputer\NameSpace\{D6277990-4C6A Important Information 11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}] ;Remove Shortcut Arrows As the guide above explains how to import your registry tweaks in [GuiRunOnce], you will probably find that all your [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile] tweaks for HKEY_CURRENT_USER only applied to the logged in account. If you want the tweaks to apply to all user "IsShortcut"=accounts you should follow this guide: Importing HKEY_CURRENT_USER Registry Tweaks ;Disables Windows Tour bubble popup [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\Tour] "RunCount"=dword:00000000 ;Disable Imapi CD-Burning Service [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ImapiService] Sponsored Links "Start"=dword:00000004 ;Disable Messenger Service (to stop spam. Does not affect MSN or Windows Messenger) [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Messenger] "Start"=dword:00000004 ;Disable Remote Registry Service [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\RemoteRegistry] http://unattended.msfn.org/xp/registrytweaks.htm08/07/2004 16:54:26

MSFN's Unattended XP CD - Reference - winnt.sif commands explained

Reference - winnt.sif commands explained

Jump to section: [Data] [UserData] [Networking] [Unattended] [TapiLocation] [Components] [GuiUnattended] [RegionalSettings] [Identification] [Shell] [Display] [GuiRunOnce]

[Data] AutoPartition=1 or 0 If you have the selection on 1 then Windows Setup will install the OS on any free partition that is available. If you remove this line or if you put AutoPartition=0 then setup will ask you on which partition you wish to install Windows onto and advises you what to do if your partition already contains an OS. MsDosInitiated = "0" or "1" If this setting is on "0" it will inform Setup that you are installing from CD, put a value of 1 if you use only diskettes to boot. UnattendedInstall = "Yes" If "Yes" is input, this will tell Setup you are running an installation of the Unattended type. ^Back to Top [Unattended] UnattendMode=FullUnattended Setting this option to FullUnattended will perform a fully unattended install, which uses the winnt.sif answer file to answer all the Setup questions, you will have no option to change these answers during setup. Other values can be found in the Ref.chm file that was mentioned on the Creating an Answer File page. OemSkipEula=Yes or No Setting this option to Yes will skip the EULA screen which you already read when you used Setup Manager. Setting this option to No will mean you have to press F8 on the keyboard to accept the license during text-mode Setup. OemPreinstall=No or Yes This option is default to No but if you are using the $OEM$ Distribution folders then it needs to be set to Yes, so that Setup regards this installation as a distribution and copies these files over to the system drive. This occurs at the end of Text-mode Setup. TargetPath=\WINDOWS This option tells Setup the directory path that Windows should install to. Repartition=No Specifies whether to delete all partitions on the first drive of the client computer and to reformat the drive with the NTFS file system automatically. UnattendSwitch="yes" Specifies whether Setup skips Windows Welcome or Mini-Setup when preinstalling Windows XP Home Edition or Windows XP Professional using the CD Boot method. Set this to yes to skip the "Setting Up Internet Connection" and "Create User Accounts" screens. WaitForReboot="No" Specifies whether the computer waits 15 seconds after GUI-mode Setup finishes. Choosing No will disable the 15 second wait. OemPnPDriversPath="Drivers\Catalyst3_6\2KXP_INF;Drivers\asus\sound\" This is where you can tell Setup to search your updated drivers directories to find a better match than what's in the existing drivers.cab on the XP CD. If it finds a better match it will install those instead. More is explained on the Drivers page. DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore This will force Setup to install drivers that may not be WHQL certified. This is used in conjunction with OemPnPDriversPath. AutoActivate = Yes This will auto-activate your copy of Windows XP. To automatically activate Windows XP, you must first establish an Internet connection. Please make sure your ProductKey is valid under [UserData] ProgramFilesDir="C:\My Program Files" You can change the default location of Program Files using this entry. Replace the drive letter and folder name as appropriate. CommonProgramFilesDir="C:\My Program Files\My Common Files" You can change the default location of Common Files in Program Files using this entry. Replace the drive letter and folder names as appropriate. KeyboardLayout="United Kingdom" By setting your Keyboard Layout, this prevents the Language icon appearing on the taskbar when you've logged on. A full list of values can be found here. ^Back to Top [GuiUnattended] AdminPassword=YourPassword or * This option sets the Administrator password for the Admin account in Windows XP. Setting this option to * means a blank password will be set. EncryptedAdminPassword=Yes or No This option tells Setup if your password is Encrypted or Not, Yes will tell setup it is encrypted and No will tell setup it is not. If you have no Admin password this option should be set to No. Setup Manager will also encrypt the password for you in your winnt.sif answer file if you chose to. OEMSkipRegional=0 or 1 This option when set to 0 will show the regional screen, if set to 1 then it will skip the screen. TimeZone=85 This option is tells Setup what timezone to choose, eg. GMT Meantime is 85. Each timezone has a different value - a full listing of these timezone values can be found in ref.chm in the Deployment Tools. OemSkipWelcome=0 or 1 This option should be set to 0 if you have OemPreinstall from above on No, If OemPreinstall is on Yes then this option should be set to 1, not doing so will halt the OEM process! When set to 0 this tells Setup not to display the welcome screen during the GUI-mode of Windows Setup (Note: This is not the same as "Windows Welcome" where you set a username for your new account when Setup finishes) ProfilesDir="C:\Documents and Settings\" You can change the default location of Documents and Settings using this entry. ^Back to Top [Display] BitsPerPel=32 This option sets the color quality in bits. Available values are: 32, 24, 16, and 8 (that's 256 colors!) Xresolution=1024 This options sets the screen resolution that windows will start up in by default. This setting is the X size. Yresolution=768 This options sets the screen resolution that windows will start up in by default. This setting is the Y size. Vrefresh=85 This options sets the display's refresh rate. Make sure you do not exceed a number considered unsafe beyond your monitor's specification, doing so may result in damaging your monitor. ^Back to Top [UserData] ProductKey=xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx This option is where you enter your cd-key for Setup to use. FullName="Insert Name" This option is where you can specify your own name, this is displayed under "Registered to:" in Windows XP's System Properties. OrgName="Insert Organisation Name" This option is where you can specify your organisation name, this is also displayed under "Registered to:" in Windows XP's System Properties. ComputerName=Insert Name This option is where you can specify a name for your Computer, which is used system and network-wide. This is displayed in the Computer Name tab in Windows XP's System Properties. ^Back to Top [TapiLocation] CountryCode=44 This is the option where you can specify your country code. For the UK its 44. Please refer to the ref.chm file in the Deployment Tools to get the correct values for other countries. Dialing=Tone This option sets the type of phone line you have. Available values are Tone, and Pulse ^Back to Top [RegionalSettings] LanguageGroup=1 This option sets the language group of your installation. Please refer to the ref.chm file in the Deployment Tools for more information. Language=00000809 This option sets the language of your installation. Please refer to the ref.chm file in the Deployment Tools for more information. 00000809 is for the UK ^Back to Top [Identification] JoinWorkgroup=WORKGROUP This option is specifies what workgroup you wish to join. If you don't use a network, then you can leave this part alone. ^Back to Top [Networking] InstallDefaultComponents=Yes or No This option tells Setup if you want to install the default components for networking. If you select Yes then the default will be installed, If you select No then you can specify what protocols, services and clients to install and what not to. The best way to configure this is via Setup Manager (setupmgr.exe) ^Back to Top [Components] msmsgs=off This option tells Setup not to install Windows Messenger 4.6 msnexplr=off This option tells Setup not to install MSN Explorer 7. freecell=off This option tells Setup not to install the FreeCell game. hearts=off This option tells Setup not to install the Hearts game. minesweeper=off This option tells Setup not to install the Minesweeper game. pinball=off This option tells Setup not to install the Pinball game. solitaire=off This option tells Setup not to install the Solitaire game. spider=off This option tells Setup not to install the Spider Solitaire Game. zonegames=off This option tells Setup not to install the MSN Zone Games. For a full list of components, you can view them here. (Thanks to DaveXP for putting this together) ^Back to Top [Shell] CustomDefaultThemeFile = "%WinDir%\Resources\Themes\MyTheme.theme" This option sets the default theme that windows will use, this can be a custom theme or another default theme included with Windows XP. This will mean that XP will not boot up using the default Luna theme, but with a theme you set in this option. DefaultStartPanelOff = Yes This tells Windows XP to use the Classic Start Menu, and displays the My Computer, My Documents icons as well as others on the Windows Desktop. If set to No, then the default Windows XP Start Menu is used. DefaultThemesOff = Yes This tells Windows XP to use the Classic Theme. Note: This option overrides CustomDefaultThemeFile option when set to Yes. ^Back to Top [GuiRunOnce] %systemdrive%\install\batch_file1.cmd The GuiRunOnce section is where you set the paths to batch files that run when Windows XP Setup has finished. These batch files run when the Admin account (or your own user account) is logged in. ^Back to Top You can check ref.chm in the Deployment Tools for many other values you might want to use that isn't covered on this page.

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MSFN's Unattended XP CD - Examples

Examples
On this page, you can see examples of the various files used in the making of my CD as well as the winnt.sif file, feel free to use snippets of these commands for your CD as well! Winnt.sif: [Data] AutoPartition=0 MsDosInitiated="0" UnattendedInstall="Yes" [Unattended] UnattendMode=FullUnattended OemSkipEula=Yes OemPreinstall=Yes TargetPath=\WINDOWS FileSystem=* UnattendSwitch="yes" WaitForReboot="No" DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore OemPnPDriversPath="Drivers\000_intel_INF;Drivers\001_gigabit_LAN;Drivers \002_monitor" KeyboardLayout="United Kingdom" [GuiUnattended] AdminPassword=* EncryptedAdminPassword=No svcpack.inf OEMSkipRegional=1 TimeZone=85 OemSkipWelcome=1 [Version] Signature="$Windows NT$" [UserData] MajorVersion=5 ProductKey=XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX MinorVersion=1 FullName="Aaron" BuildNumber=2600 OrgName="Home" ComputerName=COMPUTER1 [SetupData] CatalogSubDir="\i386\Update" [Display] BitsPerPel=32 [ProductCatalogsToInstall] Xresolution=1280 YResolution=1024 [SetupHotfixesToRun] Vrefresh=85 /Q:A /R:N Q330994.exe JS56NEN.exe /Q:A /R:N [TapiLocation] mdac.cmd CountryCode=44/N /Z /O Q823182.exe /Q Dialing=Tone /Q /N /Z /O Q824105.exe AreaCode=01379 /Z /O Q824141.exe /Q /N Q825119.exe /Q /N /Z /O [RegionalSettings] /Z /O Q826939.exe /Q /N LanguageGroup=1 Q828028.exe (before I start.cmd /Q /N /Z /O converted to the RunOnceEx method): Language=00000809 /O Q828035.exe /Q /N /Z Q832894.exe /Q:A /R:N [Identification] CLS WMP9MM2.exe JoinWorkgroup=MSHOME @echo off Q828026.exe /Q /N /Z /O TITLE Windows XP SP1 - Unattended Installation qchain.exe [Networking] DX9NTopk.exe InstallDefaultComponents=Yes ECHO. ECHO Over the next few minutes you will see automated installations [Branding] ECHO of various sofware applications, windows updates, and registry BrandIEUsingUnattended=Yes ECHO tweaks being implemented. The computer will restart automatically ECHO once the whole process has finished! [URL] Home_Page=http://www.msfn.org ECHO. ECHO Removing Wallpapers and Screensavers... [Components] DEL "%systemroot%\*.bmp" msmsgs=off DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\*.jpg" msnexplr=off DEL "%systemroot%\system32\dllcache\*.scr" freecell=off DEL "%systemroot%\system32\*.scr" hearts=off minesweeper=off ECHO. pinball=off ECHO Removing useless shortcuts... solitaire=off DEL "%systemdrive%\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Windows Update.lnk" spider=off DEL "%systemdrive%\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Set Program Access and Defaults.lnk" RunOnceEx.cmd: zonegames=off DEL "%systemdrive%\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Windows Catalog.lnk" [Shell] cmdow ECHO. @ /HID DefaultStartPanelOff =Messenger 6.0.0602 Final @echo off ECHO Installing MSN Yes DefaultThemesOff = Yes ECHO Please wait... SET KEY=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx start /wait %systemdrive%\install\MSN\MsnMsgs.msi /qn [GuiRunOnce] %systemdrive%\install\start.cmd "Installing Applications" /f REG ADD %KEY% /V TITLE /D ECHO. ECHO Installing TweakUI 2.10 Powertoy REG ADD %KEY%\001 /VE /D "Preparing Installation..." /f ECHO Please wait... REG ADD %KEY%\001 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\apps\prepare.cmd" /f start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Powertoys\TweakUI.msi /qn REG ADD %KEY%\005 /VE /D "Adobe Reader 6" /f ECHO. REG ADD %KEY%\005 /V 1 /D Powertoy ECHO Installing Task Switcher "%systemdrive%\apps\AdobeReader6\AR6.msi /qn" /f ECHO Please wait... REG /wait %systemdrive%\install\PowerToys\TaskswitchPowertoySetup.exe /s /v/qn start ADD %KEY%\015 /VE /D "Alcohol 120" /f REG ADD %KEY%\015 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\apps\alcohol\setup.exe /qn" /f REG ADD %KEY%\015 /V 2 /D "REGEDIT /S %systemdrive%\apps\alcohol\register.reg" /f ECHO. ECHO Applying Registry Tweaks... REG ADD %KEY%\025 /VE /D "Diskeeper 8" /f REGEDIT /S %systemdrive%\install\RegTweaks.reg REG ADD %KEY%\025 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\apps\DiskeeperPro_8.0.459.exe /s /v/qn" /f ECHO. REG ADD %KEY%\030 /VE /D Account created ECHO Deleting ASP.NET User "DU Meter 3" /f by prepare.cmd (used with RunOnceEx.cmd) .NET Framework 1.1... REG ADD %KEY%\030 net user aspnet /delete /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\apps\dumeter3.exe /VERYSILENT /SP-" /f REG ADD %KEY%\035 /VE /D "Flashget 1.4" /f ECHO. @ /HID cmdow REG ADD %KEY%\035 /V of /D "%systemdrive%\apps\flashget\fgf140.exe /S" /f ECHO Starting installation 1 Applications REG "%systemroot%\*.bmp" /D "REGEDIT /S %systemdrive%\apps\flashget\register.reg" /f DEL ADD %KEY%\035 /V 2 ECHO. DEL "%systemroot%\Web\Wallpaper\*.jpg" REG "%systemroot%\system32\dllcache\*.scr" /f ECHO Installing Diskeeper 7.0.428 DEL ADD %KEY%\037 /VE /D "IsoBuster 1.5" REG "%systemroot%\system32\*.scr" ECHO Please wait... DEL ADD %KEY%\037 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\apps\IsoBuster1.5.exe /VERYSILENT /SP-" /f REG ADD %KEY%\037 /V 2 /D "taskkill /F /IM isobuster.exe" /f start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Applications\diskeeper\Setup.exe /s /v/qn DEL "%AllUsersProfile%\Start Menu\Windows Update.lnk" REG "%AllUsersProfile%\Start Menu\Set Program Access and Defaults.lnk" ECHO. DEL ADD %KEY%\040 /VE /D "Kerio Personal Firewall 2.1.5" /f REG "%AllUsersProfile%\Start Menu\Windows Catalog.lnk" ECHO Installing Flashget 1.4/D "%systemdrive%\apps\KPF\Setup.exe -s" /f DEL ADD %KEY%\040 /V 1 ECHO Please wait... REG ADD %KEY%\042 /VE /D "MDAC 2.7 SP1 Hotfix" /f start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Applications\flashget\fgf140.exe /S EXIT REG ADD %KEY%\042 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\apps\mdac\mdac.cmd" /f ECHO. cleanup.cmd (used with RunOnceEx.cmd) REG ADD %KEY%\047 /VE /D "MSN Messenger 6.1" /f ECHO Registering Flashget 1.4... REG ADD %KEY%\047 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\apps\MSN_Messenger_6.1.0202.msi /qn" /f REGEDIT /S %systemdrive%\install\Applications\flashget\register.reg cmdow @ /HID REG ADD %KEY%\050-c "Windows XP will now restart in 1 minute..." ECHO. shutdown.exe -r -f -t 60 /VE /D "Nero Burning ROM 5.5" /f REG ADD %KEY%\050 /V 1 /D "REGEDIT /S %systemdrive%\apps\nero\register.reg" /f ECHO Installing /deletePersonal Firewall 2.1.5 net user aspnet Kerio REG ADD %KEY%\050 /V 2 /D "%systemdrive%\apps\Nero\Nero551054.exe /silent /noreboot" /f ECHO Please wait... start /wait"%AllUsersProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\PrintMe Internet Printing" RD /S /Q %systemdrive%\install\Applications\kpf\Setup.exe -s REG ADD %KEY%\053 /VE /D ".NET Framework 1.1" /f Web Start" RD /S /Q "%AllUsersProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\Java REG ADD %KEY%\053 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\apps\dotnetfw.exe" /f ECHO. ECHO Registering Nero Burning ROM... DEL "%UserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\Windows Media Player.lnk" REG "%UserProfile%\Desktop\Flashget.lnk" REGEDIT /S %systemdrive%\install\Applications\Nero\register.reg DEL ADD %KEY%\055 /VE /D "TweakUI Powertoy" /f REG "%AllUsersProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\Windows Movie Maker.lnk" DEL ADD %KEY%\055 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\apps\Powertoys\TweakUI.msi /qn" /f ECHO. DEL "%AllUsersProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\Adobe Reader 6.0.lnk" REG "%AllUsersProfile%\Desktop\Java Web Start.lnk" ECHO Installing Nero Burning ROM v5.5.10.42 Powertoy" /f DEL ADD %KEY%\060 /VE /D "Task Switcher REG "%AllUsersProfile%\Desktop\Adobe Reader 6.0.lnk" ECHO Please wait... DEL ADD %KEY%\060 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\apps\Powertoys\TaskswitchPowertoySetup.exe /s /v/qn" /f start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Applications\Nero\Nero551042.exe /silent /noreboot DEL "%AllUsersProfile%\Desktop\Alcohol 120%.lnk" REG ADD %KEY%\065 /VE /D "Sun Java 1.4.2" /f REG ADD %KEY%\065 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\apps\SunJava\j2re-1_4_2_01-windows-i586.exe /s /v/qn" /f ECHO. "%systemroot%\Cache\Adobe Reader 6\" RD /S /Q REG ADD %KEY%\065 /V 2 /D "REGEDIT /S 8.1 ECHO /Q %systemdrive%\drivers\ Corporate%systemdrive%\apps\SunJava\RemoveSunJavaUpdateCheck.reg" /f RD /S Installing Symantec Antivirus ECHO /Q %systemdrive%\apps\ RD /S Please wait... REG ADD %KEY%\070 /VE /D "Symantec AV Corp 8.1.1" /f start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Applications\sav\sav810b821.exe /qn REG ADD %KEY%\070 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\apps\SAVCorp8.1.1.314.exe /qn" /f EXIT ECHO. REG ADD %KEY%\075 /VE /D "WinRAR 3.20" /f ECHO Updating Symantec Antivirus Virus Definitions (May 14th 2003)... REG ADD %KEY%\075 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\apps\WinRAR320.exe /s" /f COPY "%systemdrive%\install\Applications\sav\vd155c08.xdb.xdb" "%systemdrive%\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Symantec\Norton AntiVirus Corporate Edition\7.5\" REG ADD %KEY%\080 /VE /D "Importing Registry Tweaks" /f Sponsored Links REG ADD %KEY%\080 /V 1 /D "REGEDIT /S %systemdrive%\apps\regtweaks.reg" /f ECHO. ECHO Restarting the PC in 1 minute... REG ADD %KEY%\085 /VE /D "Cleaning Up and Rebooting" /f shutdown.exe -r -f -t 60 -c "Windows XP will now restart in 1 minute, this will give enough time for the shortcuts to update and for the REG ADD %KEY%\085 /V ready to restart!" shell to fully load before its 1 /D "%systemdrive%\apps\cleanup.cmd" /f EXIT ECHO. ECHO Deleting Temp Installation Files... RD /S /Q %systemdrive%\Drivers http://unattended.msfn.org/xp/examples.htm08/07/2004 16:54:37 RD /S /Q %systemdrive%\install

MSFN's Unattended XP CD - Silent Installation of Pre-SP2 Hotfix Updates

Silent Installation of Pre-SP2 Hotfix Updates

At the time of making this guide, there's probably approx. 25-35 MB of critical updates on WindowsUpdate for Windows XP. Nobody likes to download them, especially if you're on 56K when you're eager to get all your essential apps installed and making a full backup before properly using your OS. Thanks to the silent install switches, we can now include 35 MB of hotfixes on the CD and get them installed all in one go. This section covers two parts - Getting the Hotfixes and Installing the Hotfixes. Getting the Hotfixes | Installing the Hotfixes

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MSFN's Unattended XP CD - Getting the Hotfixes

Getting the Hotfixes

You're probably wondering how to find out which exact hotfixes you need for Windows XP, there are 4 ways to do this: Method 1 - An up-to-date list for Windows XP Professional SP1 A full list of Critical Updates are available at this forum thread, please keep in mind this list is for Windows XP Professional Edition SP1 (32-bit). If you are using an edition other than Professional, please use one of the 3 other methods shown below. This list is kept up-to-date at all times. Method 2 - Windows Update Set up a base install of Windows XP SP1 (with no updates installed), and access WindowsUpdate. Take note of the 6 digit numbers on each Critical Update, e.g. "329441: Security Update for Microsoft Windows". After you have taken note of all the 6 digit numbers on every security update, you need to attach them to the end of this URL: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=xxxxxx replacing the xxxxxx with the numbers you wrote down. Then download from the link provided at the Knowledge Base Article (some articles will link to a Technet Security Bulletin). Repeat for the other updates shown on WindowsUpdate. Method 3 - Windows Update Catalog Set up a base install of Windows XP SP1 (with no updates installed), and access WindowsUpdate. Click on the "Personalize Windows Update" link on the left pane, Check the "Display the link to the Windows Update Catalog" under the "See Also" check-box under "Set options for Windows Update" list in the right pane, Click the "save settings" button in the top right of the right pane. Then click on the "Windows Update Catalog" link under the "See Also" list in the left pane, click "Find updates for Microsoft Windows operating systems" in the right pane, select OS (Windows XP SP1) in the Operating-system-list and your OS language in the Language-List, and then click search in bottom right of the right pane. You are now presented with links to "Critical Updates and Service Packs", "Multi-Language Features" and "Recommended Updates". Open each link and add what components/updates you want/need and click the "Go to Download Basket" link when you are done. Select the path to download the updates in (Must be an existing folder) and click on the "Download now" Button. The updates will now be downloaded and categorized in separate folders, automatically on your own harddrive. Method 4 - HFNetChk Instead of accessing WindowsUpdate, grab the freeware HFNetChk Utility. As it explains on its site: "HFNetChk.exe is the multi-threaded command-line tool you can use to assess a computer or selected group of computers for the absence of security patches.". Install HFNetChk and open up Command Prompt (Start > Run > CMD). Change to the directory where HFNetChk is installed (Usually C:\Program Files\Shavlik Technologies\HFNetChk\), and type: hfnetchk -v Make a note of the Knowledge Base Article numbers and look them up as explained in Method 2, or use the Technet Security Bulletin numbers (MSxx-xxx) and look them up using this URL: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MSxx-xxx.asp replacing the xx-xxx with the numbers shown in HFNetChk. Conclusion Its a lengthy process, but it certainly does pay off in the end. It will be much easier to maintain your hotfix list in future since only a hotfix or two is released every second tuesday of the month. (That's Microsoft Patch Day!). Hotfix updates will be announced on the frontpage of MSFN.org as soon as they are released. Once SP2 is officially released, you can scrap the lot and start collecting Pre-SP3 hotfixes... but that's some time off yet!

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MSFN's Unattended XP CD - Installing the Hotfixes

Installing the Hotfixes

In this section of the guide, we'll help you set up a hotfixes installation that will run in the GUI-mode part of Setup. The hotfixes installation will execute at the "13 minutes left" stage, which will take somewhere between 5-20 minutes to complete - depending on your system specifications. (I know this page seems very long, but it only takes 10 mins to do everything explained. Its just very detailed!) Setting up your Hotfixes and the svcpack.inf file Copy all your downloaded hotfix files into this directory: C:\XPCD\i386\Update\ All hotfixes must be renamed to an 8.3 naming format (no more than 8 characters in length). For example, filenames such as Q819696_WXP_SP2_x86_ENU.exe and WindowsXP-KB824146-x86-ENU.exe should be renamed to Q819696. exe and KB824146.exe in that order respectively. Open Notepad and copy and paste the following below: [Version] Signature="$Windows NT$" MajorVersion=5 MinorVersion=1 BuildNumber=2600 [SetupData] CatalogSubDir="\i386\Update" [ProductCatalogsToInstall] [SetupHotfixesToRun] Q330994.exe /Q:A /R:N Q819696.exe /Q /O /N /Z KB824146.exe /Q /O /N /Z qchain.exe Save this as svcpack.inf in C:\XPCD\I386\. You must delete svcpack.in_ in the I386 directory otherwise Windows XP Setup will not use the svcpack.inf file. The entries shown in [SetupHotfixesToRun] are just an example. All the hotfixes you have downloaded, renamed and copied to the Update folder should be added under this section in svcpack.inf in numerical order. The images below will help to know what syntax should be used:

Files that look like this should be installed using the /Q /O /N /Z switch. We'll call them Type 1 Hotfixes

Files that look like this should be installed using the /Q:A /R:N switch. We'll call them Type 2 Hotfixes

You can also check this page for an in-depth description of the Type 1 switches. Keep in mind that the MDAC update does not use any of those switches, please look here for the latest information on hotfixes and their switches. DOSNET.inf Open up DOSNET.inf in the i386 directory with Notepad and add the following text into the blank space you see in Notepad, (this can be put anywhere really): [OptionalSrcDirs] Update QCHAIN.exe Don't forget to add QCHAIN.exe to your Update folder. This utility will ensure that the highest file version is installed if there is a scenario where 2 hotfixes contain the same exe/dll file with different version numbers. Download and extract the file to get the actual QCHAIN.exe inside the compressed file. Copy QCHAIN.exe to the Update folder then add QCHAIN.exe to the very last line after all your hotfix entries in svcpack.inf. It does not require any switches. My svcpack.inf file For reference, you can download a copy of svcpack.inf that I use to get an idea of how it's done. This is up-to-date as of 11th February 2004 and is for SP1a only (this means the MS Java VM Update isn't included in svcpack.inf). Download: svcpack.inf

Installing hotfixes not supported by svcpack

There are three updates that cannot be processed by svcpack.inf (or uses a different command syntax) at the time of writing up this guide:
q q q

Q832483 - Buffer overrun in an MDAC function could allow code execution Q817787 - Flaw in Windows Media Player Skins Downloading Could Allow Code Execution (Only needed for WMP8) Q817778 - Advanced Networking Pack

View this forum thread for more information and updates when they become available as the list above may be out of date. Setting up hotfixes.cmd If you are not familiar with the $OEM$ distribution folder and the winnt.sif file, please read through the Getting Started and Creating an Answer File page. Create a folder called hotfixes in C:\XPCD\$OEM$\$1\install\ and copy all the hotfix files (which do not work in svcpack) to C:\XPCD\$OEM$\$1\install\hotfixes\ Open up Notepad and copy & paste the following: @echo off ECHO. ECHO Installing Q817787 for Windows Media Player 8 start /wait %systemdrive%\install\hotfixes\Q817787.EXE /Q:A /R:N ECHO. ECHO Installing Q832483 Buffer overrun in an MDAC function could allow code execution start /wait %systemdrive%\install\hotfixes\ENG_Q832483_MDAC_X86.EXE /C:"dahotfix.exe /q /n" /q ECHO. ECHO Installing Q817778 Advanced Networking Pack start /wait %systemdrive%\install\hotfixes\Q817778.exe /Q /O /N /Z EXIT Save this as hotfixes.cmd in C:\XPCD\$OEM$\$1\install\hotfixes\ If you do not already have a reboot command in one of your batch files, you may want to add this to the end of the hotfixes.cmd file: ECHO. ECHO Restarting the PC in 1 minute... shutdown.exe -r -f -t 60 -c "Windows XP will now restart in 1 minute" EXIT Setting up winnt.sif In your winnt.sif file, add the following text at the very bottom: [GuiRunOnce] %systemdrive%\install\hotfixes\hotfixes.cmd This will run the hotfixes.cmd file on first logon. Conclusion Burn all the files to CD, or use CDImage from this page to create a bootable ISO which you can test in VMWare or Virtual PC, or burn to CD. If you have done it all correctly, there should be no Critical Updates listed on Windows Update!

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MSFN's Unattended XP CD - Explaination of Hotfix Switches used

Explaination of Hotfix Switches used

There are 5 switches in total which we can use with the Type 1 Hotfixes (the other switches documented by Microsoft's Knowledge Base articles are irrelevant). Below you can find an explaination of them, and choose which ones you can use. /U - Unattended Mode. No user interaction is required to install a hotfix, but you will see progress bar windows. /Q - Quiet Mode. This functions exactly the same way as /U, but does not display any progress bar windows. You do not need to use /Q and /U together. /O - Overwrites OEM Files without prompting. Recent tests by several forums users have seen this to speed up hotfix installation very noticably, roughly shaving off one minute per hotfix. This is because each hotfix installation spends time searching for "third-party drivers" repeatly one after another. Using /O will prevent this. Please use this switch with caution as this may overwrite any driver files you choose to install. (although we've not heard any side effects from this since mentioning it here) /N - Do not back up files for removal. This won't create any backups of older system files, thus there won't be any Add/ Remove entries for the hotfixes. /Z - Do not restart when installation is complete.

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http://unattended.msfn.org/files/svcpack.inf

[Version] Signature="$Windows NT$" MajorVersion=5 MinorVersion=1 BuildNumber=2600 [SetupData] CatalogSubDir="\i386\Update" [ProductCatalogsToInstall] [SetupHotfixesToRun] Q330994.exe /Q:A /R:N JS56NEN.exe /Q:A /R:N mdac.cmd Q823182.exe /Q /N /Z /O Q824105.exe /Q /N /Z /O Q824141.exe /Q /N /Z /O Q825119.exe /Q /N /Z /O Q826939.exe /Q /N /Z /O Q828028.exe /Q /N /Z /O Q828035.exe /Q /N /Z /O Q832894.exe /Q:A /R:N WMP9MM2.exe Q828026.exe /Q /N /Z /O qchain.exe DX9NTopk.exe

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http://unattended.msfn.org/images/automatic_install.gif

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MSFN's Unattended XP CD - Unattended Installation of Applications

Unattended Installation of Applications

In this section, we'll be showing you how you can install applications silently without user interaction. Each application is listed in the navigation menu under Applications. Each page will show you the necessary batch commands you will need to use. You will need to add these commands to your own batch file which will run from [GuiRunOnce]. You can see how I've done mine by looking at start.cmd in the Examples page. Application not listed? Then find out what installer package it uses, and follow one of the links in the navigation menu under the Applications listing. If you're still not sure, you can search and then ask in the Application Switches forum. If you get no response, you may want to consider emailing the developer of the application to ask if it supports a silent installation or not. When all else fails... You can use an application that monitors your software installation, and then creates a silent-install package of the files and registry changes that occured during the installation. These types of applications are listed below: WinInstall LE 2003 (Freeware) Use the 'Discover' Wizard. InstallRite (Freeware) AutoIT (Freeware) Symantec AI Snapshot (Included in Symantec Ghost Corporate)

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MSFN's Unattended XP CD - Device Drivers

Silent Installation of Windows Device Drivers

If you ever had to update a lot of drivers after installing Windows, then this guide will show you how you can get Windows XP Setup to install your updated drivers rather than the ones from the drivers.cab file on the CD. It's not as difficult as you think! For those who have a SATA/Raid setup, you may want to read this page as the method outlined below cannot load your Hard drive controller drivers during Setup. Drivers in winnt.sif [Unattended] OemPnPDriversPath="Drivers\000_intel_INF;Drivers\001_gigabit_LAN;Drivers\002_monitor" This is where you can tell Setup to search your updated drivers folders to find a better match than what's in the existing drivers.cab on the XP CD. If it finds a better match it will install those instead. Note: Seperate different directories with a semi-colon ";" DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore This will force Setup to install drivers that may not be WHQL certified. This is used in conjunction with OemPnPDriversPath. (Feedback from the MSFN forums have said that this doesn't always work. Try to use WHQL certified drivers if you can!) You can add as many drivers as you want for several machines with different hardware specs. There is no risk of installing wrong drivers on a specific machine because Windows XP detects the best driver match for the hardware. How to prepare your drivers All drivers are packaged differently, which is why we can't make a guide for every driver. But most of them can be extracted using extraction software and will contain one, or several INF files inside. Extract your driver package to any folder, and examine the contents of it. Sometimes you will find several sub-folders containing the INF files in which case you need to make seperate direct paths to them in OemPnPDriversPath. This is because Windows XP Setup will not scan any sub-folders for any INF files. Name your folders starting with numbers, this ensures that specific drivers get installed in a numerical order. As you may already know, its important for chipset drivers to be installed before any other driver, this is why the chipset folder is given a number of 000, so its the first folder that Setup checks and installs. Here's an example below of how you can lay yours out: 000_chipset 001_network 002_graphics 003_tv_out 004_sound 005_monitor 006_keyboard 007_mouse 008_and_so_on So first, its the chipset drivers, then your network card, followed by graphics and sound (and tv out if you have one), then monitor drivers, and lastly any peripherals such as the keyboard, mouse, printer etc. Copy all your driver folders to C:\XPCD\$OEM$\$1\drivers\